Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

——Squeak, the door of the blacksmith shop opened.

The dwarf Mir poked his head out of the door. When he saw who the guest was, the impatient expression on his face became even more wrinkled.

"May the Holy Light of God always shine upon you, Master Mir." Luo Xiu greeted with a smile.

"Tsk." The dwarf Mir tsk, "Why is it you..."

The dwarf forging master still remembered the experience of being bargained down by Luo Xiu.

However, although Mir was impatient with Luo Xiu's arrival, he still opened the door of the blacksmith shop and let Luo Xiu in.

...

"Go ahead." The dwarf Mir sat on a rattan recliner. He gave the recliner a slight push, allowing it to rock back and forth at a uniform speed. "What do you want to do this time?"

As the owner of the blacksmith shop, Mir almost looked at his guests with his nose, and his attitude was quite bad.

Mir regretted the stupid act of selling the "Moon Cutting Scythe" to Luo Xiu for only 60 gold coins. He regretted it very much.

He didn't know whether he had his head stuck in the door or something wrong, but he actually agreed to this deal!

This dwarf craftsman, who was not good at business, actually sold the goods to others at cost price just because someone "knew the goods" for some unknown reason!

As a result, almost a month later, this was the only order he sold!

"..."

Mil couldn't imagine that as a "rune forger" with "triple destiny" of [intelligence], he had to eat dirt and drink northwest wind for almost a month.

Fortunately, the storefront of the "authentic dwarf blacksmith shop" was owned by Mil instead of rented, otherwise he would have to close the shop this month and hide under the bridge.

Sometimes, Mil almost doubted whether he was a true believer of [intelligence].

In the past month, the painful experience brought to him by "poverty" even made Mil have the illusion that he was a believer of [bitter tea].

...

"I'm just an ordinary customer." Luo Xiu said with a smile.

"...You said the same thing last time."

The dwarf Mir blew his beard unhappily and said loudly, "I can't let you down like last time..."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Luo Xiu nodded and said seriously, "I understand, I'm really just an ordinary customer."

Mir: "..."

But Mir didn't say anything more. Anyway, the "preliminary statement" had been made. Then, no matter how much the Holy Judge on the other side bargained, he was determined not to be moved!

He Mir, a famous forger of the dwarves! He swore to stick to the price and not give up!

...

So, Mir led Luo Xiu to his underground storage room again.

Many extraordinary equipment and weapons, like last time, were still quietly placed on the wall shelves. Although the wall shelves and walls were covered with a thin layer of dust, the surface of those equipment and weapons was wiped quite clean, reflecting a hazy light.

Those equipment and weapons were well maintained.

Luo Xiu's sight passed over the equipment and weapons placed on the wall.

Although the dwarf Mir didn't clean his blacksmith shop very often, he took good care of the weapons and equipment forged by his hands.

Luo Xiu saw it, but didn't say much.

Luo Xiu walked past a glass display window, and his sight fell on a piece of soft scale armor through the glass window.

[Ghost Face Scale Armor (Blue Rare +)] is the name and quality of this inner armor.

It is a light armor with ghost face patterns on the armor surface. The material base used for forging is "Ghost Face King Snake Scale" - it is the material peeled off from the "Ghost Face King Snake", a race with a faint blood relationship with "dragon", a "mad evil level" monster.

As the main armor, [Ghost Face Scale Armor] can give a lot of "physique" and "resistance" attribute value bonus.

This piece of equipment forged from the "Ghost King Snake Scales" can also inherit some of the "Ghost King Snake"'s abilities and has a range of terrifying effects.

When Luo Xiu came to Mir's blacksmith shop before, he didn't see this equipment.

It should have been recently forged by Mir, and no rune engraving has been performed yet.

That is, it has not yet been finalized and is still just a semi-finished product.

Seeing that Luo Xiu's eyes seemed to linger on the "Ghost Face Scale Armor", Mir came over and said:

"... Do you like this?"

"I guess so." Luo Xiu said in a noncommittal tone.

"This is a good thing..."

The dwarf Mir suddenly introduced in a muffled voice:

"'Ghost King Snake', you should have heard of it, right? It is a monster of the 'Mad Evil' level. It takes hundreds of its scales to forge such a 'Ghost Face Scale Armor'..."

"Yeah." Luo Xiu nodded.

"In order to hunt such a 'mad evil' monster, it seems that quite a few of the gray-named adventurers of the Adventurer's Association were seriously injured..."

"Yes." Luo Xiu agreed.

"Those gray-named adventurers later gave me all the materials stripped from the 'Ghost Face King Snake'. I dare say that in the entire Sina City, only I can really handle its materials well..."

"Yes." Luo Xiu perfunctorily.

"And this 'Ghost Face Scale Armor' that you like is my masterpiece."

Mir's tone was a little proud, and he said to Luo Xiu passionately:

"You are a customer who knows the goods, so I won't talk too much with you. If you really want to buy this 'ghost face scale armor', I will only tell you a price."

As he spoke, Mir raised his hand and stretched out a finger in front of Luo Xiu.

"——One hundred gold coins, cash payment."

"Deal." Luo Xiu said calmly.

"It is definitely worth the price!" Mir began to argue according to the pre-prepared lines, blushing and arguing, "You can think about it again..."

"...Ah?"

There was no expected price-cutting.

There was no expected debate.

Mir always felt that something key was missing and that he seemed to have heard something wrong.

"What did you just say?" Mir asked in a somewhat suspicious tone.

"I say, deal."

Luo Xiu smiled and replied, "This is a reasonable price. The equipment forged from the materials of a monster of the 'Madness' level is indeed worth this price."

"In fact, I think the price you gave is too conservative."

Luo Xiu said seriously:

"I can advance you a platinum coin and pay you an additional 20 gold coins. However, I hope you can follow my instructions when drawing the runes for this 'Ghost Face Scale Armor'."

After saying that, Luo Xiu took out a small bag of money from his arms and handed it to Mir.

"..."

Mir was stunned.

He was sweating for no reason.

Mir recalled that just before he took the young Holy Judge into the underground storage, he had secretly decided to "absolutely stick to the price."

He never thought that the Holy Judge on the other side would not bargain against his usual behavior!

-He even raised the price!

"..."

Mir was shaken.

What "I must hold on to the price"...

——Mir now just feels that it's really good.

The young Holy Judge on the other side only made one request.

That is "Engrave the runes as he says".

How could a [Glorious] priest who doesn't even have the [Intellectual] destiny know the knowledge of runes?

Mir thought.

He could just "listen one thing" and "do another".

He wanted to give full play to his advantages as the second party!

Mir's confidence as a "Rune Forger" emerged from the bottom of his heart.

"...Okay." Mir nodded and took the purse from Luo Xiu.

Mir felt that he had made a lot of money.

...

Six hours later.

"Rune Forger" Mir lay on the ground exhausted.

He no longer had the strength to stand up and go to the bed to sleep.

"You...you..."

Mil's bloodshot eyes stared at the young Holy Judge who was stroking the "ghost face scales" above his head.

For the first time, he felt that he had never suffered such a big loss in his life!

In these six hours, under the "guidance" of this Holy Judge, the dwarf Mil actually overturned and redrawn the "rune engraving" eight times!

And the runes that this young Holy Judge asked Mil to try to engrave were actually very difficult rune types among the "senior rune warlocks" of the triple destiny of [intelligence]!

To complete any of the rune drawing, the price for the "rune master" is definitely more than Luo Xiu's increase!

And the rune drawing "guided" by Luo Xiu even mixed with a lot of rune craft knowledge that Mil had never heard of!

Under Luo Xiu's "guidance", Mil originally expected to have only "one grid" of rune slots, but Luo Xiu expanded it to "two and a half grids". Even the "half-grid" rune slots were filled with extremely strange rune styles, which made the quality of this "ghost face scale armor" rise from "rare" to "master"!

Mir felt that he seemed to be just a ruthless rune drawing tool.

He infused spirituality into the equipment and completed the rune drawing according to the requirements given by Luo Xiu. But he had no idea about "why it was like this", "what's the meaning", and "what's the principle".

Mir began to doubt his life inexplicably.

What he didn't know was.

Although Luo Xiu was a priest of [Glorious], he certainly didn't only know the skills and knowledge of [Glorious].

In his previous life, he also opened a trumpet of [Intelligence] and practiced the profession of "Rune Master" for a period of time.

Because the price of asking rune masters to help engrave runes on the market was too high. Therefore, Luo Xiu in his previous life simply opened a trumpet and "helped himself" to complete the rune engraving.

Therefore, Luo Xiu certainly knew what loopholes there were in the process of drawing "runes".

In the previous life, players of the "Rune Master" profession called this "Rune Slot Utilization".

It is to draw the "slot" as fully as possible to squeeze out more "slots"!

In the eyes of players, the process of drawing "runes" is like a different version of "Tetris".

However, the purpose of players is not to eliminate those "blocks", but to find ways to "fill" as much as possible.

This gave birth to many famous "Rune Combinations".

How to make full use of "Rune Chimera" to improve utilization is a very difficult and serious academic discussion for the natives of the Apocalypse World.

But it is easy to solve for players.

——Because players have such a thing as a "panel".

And what Mir is even less likely to know is.

Not long ago, Luo Xiu just got a copy of "Said's Notes".

Although the "Black Devouring Rune" technical knowledge recorded in it is "forbidden knowledge", there are still many places that can be learned and used!

For example, the "Black Devouring Rune - Alienation and Sublimation" which only occupies half of the slot!

That is a taboo rune that can be used to sacrifice part of the "equipment bonus" attributes to forcibly upgrade the quality of the equipment to obtain new rune skill slots.

And under the influence of "Black Devouring Rune - Alienation and Sublimation", the remaining rune slots of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor" have been increased from two to three!

Such a "Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)" equipment has three rune slots!

——It is equivalent to being able to "carry" three rune skills!

Looking at the finished product in his hands, which was finally completed under his "guidance", Luo Xiu showed a satisfied smile.

He gave the extra premium just to make the dwarf Mir willingly work for him.

The dwarf Mir will also be driven by a strong desire for knowledge.

Although he didn't know "why Luo Xiu gave such guidance", he would definitely try to review it afterwards to analyze the principles of rune knowledge applied by Luo Xiu.

This is also a mutually beneficial relationship.

Otherwise, even if Luo Xiu, who is not in the [Intellectual] destiny, can know these things, he will not be able to draw them himself.

This is the barrier between extraordinary professions.

At this time, the attribute panel of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor" was appearing in the panel in front of Luo Xiu.

[Equipment name: Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)]

[Equipment type: Armor/Supernatural Equipment/Rune Equipment]

[Equipment efficiency: 25% reduction in damage (except source damage)]

[Equipment bonus: Physical attribute +8 (-5), Resistance attribute +8 (-5)]

[Equipment requirements: any third level of fate, strength attribute 18+, constitution attribute 25+]

【Equipment Characteristics List】

[King Snake’s Fang (active skill/rune): Can be enchanted with the “poison” attribute on hand-held weapons, causing an additional “poison erosion” effect, and adding 10% of the “poison” attribute damage. 】

[Scale of the King Snake (passive skill/rune): Immune to "poison" attribute damage. At the same time, every 5 minutes, you can periodically obtain a shield with a value of 10% of the upper limit of your health. The shield lasts for 5 minutes. 】

[King Snake's Slough (Passive Skill/Rune): When receiving damage with a one-time damage greater than 50% of the upper limit of blood volume, you will be immune to this damage. Cooling time is 1 day. 】

[Ghost Faced Fear (Passive Skill/Inherent): Passively triggered, within 3 meters around you, creatures with intelligence that are lower than you in rank will be affected by the "slight fear" effect. 】

[Alienation and Sublimation (Equipment Characteristics/Black Devouring Rune): Forcibly improve the quality of the equipment, and at the same time forcibly reduce the attribute value of the equipment by 5 points. 】

【……】

After carefully browsing the panel of "Ghost Faced Scale Armor (Purple Master-)", Luo Xiu nodded with satisfaction.

Although it is a "Purple Master-" that is counterproductive, this is at least the first "Master" quality equipment that Luo Xiuxi has brought!

And Luo Xiu got this master equipment for only 120 gold coins, which made Luo Xiu feel inexplicably happy.

...just a bit useless.

Luo Xiu glanced at the dwarf Mir, who was lying on the ground with a hopeless expression on his face.

After the overloaded "rune drawing", the dwarf Mir was already in a state of collapse.

His spirituality was temporarily sealed, and he could no longer carry out new forging and rune drawing work within a few days.

The transaction he just completed with Luo Xiu is probably the largest transaction he has completed in recent times.

But this is also Luo Xiu's purpose.

In front of Mir who was "unable to work", Luo Xiu was ready to really start to dig out his old bottom.

——Coming from the "Hometown of Ancient Dragons - Broken Continent", the real secret treasure of Dwarf Mir!

"Master is indeed a master." Luo Xiu knelt down and praised Mir:

"Your forging craftsmanship is truly the best I have ever seen in Sina City..."

"...Come on." The dwarf Mir interrupted Luo Xiu's praise with an indifferent expression.

He just felt that these kind words that should have been pleasant to the ear now seemed extremely noisy.

"If you fart, hurry up." Mir remained indifferent.

"Okay then." Luo Xiu spread his hands.

"I want to buy two treasures from you. About the 'Dragon Flame Demonic Sword' and the 'Dragon Breath Scepter'."

Luo Xiu's tone was friendly and gentle, and he said with a smile:

"Don't worry, 'price' is not the issue."

I'm exhausted, sleep qvq