my age of magic

Chapter 63 64. Kurtz's Alloy Bow (2)

The four of us stood on the edge of the stone wall, looking up at the two bows hanging on the wall.

One is an iron-wooden bow with a slightly darker color. The whole iron-wooden bow is five centimeters shorter than normal iron-wooden bows, but there are two black iron steel bands inlaid on both sides of the back of the bow, engraved on the steel bands like There are magic runes about the word wind, and there is actually a magic crystal the size of a small fingernail inlaid in the middle of the steel belt. The other side of the bow is also engraved with wind runes, but there is no magic crystal inlaid.The whole bow string is made of a kind of red animal tendon. I can't tell what kind of material it is, but I can feel the magic breath left on it, but the magic spar seems to have lost its energy, and only emits a weak energy. The breath of magical elements.

The old orc reached out and took down the iron and wood bow on the stone wall, turned around in his hand, took out a feathered arrow from the nearby quiver, put it on the bow string and introduced to us: "This iron and wood bow was originally made by dwarves. It is the hand of a master bow maker in the country. Because the height of dwarves is much lower than that of us orcs, when they make bows and arrows, they always deliberately reduce the overall length of the bow for the convenience of use. This is a two- The iron-wooden bow with the magic pattern steel belt inlaid on the side, the two steel belts increase the shooting range of this iron-wooden bow by 30.00%. In addition, the rune engraved with the wind attribute just on the belt can make the feathered arrows shot out There is a certain chance of breaking the armor."

As soon as the words were finished, the old orc made a set of extremely smooth movements with his bow and arrow. He only heard a "boom", and the bowstring was vibrating slightly. I didn't even see the trajectory of the feathered arrow clearly. There is already a feathered arrow inserted into it, and more than half of the entire feathered arrow has been inserted into the target. This strength can be said to be very strong.

Just when Kurtz was amazed, the old orc also sighed, put the bow on the wooden table and said: "Although the designer of this bow wanted to use the steel belt to increase the range of the bow, but the design did not I did not consider that the inlaying of the steel belt on the back of the wooden bow will affect the overall strength of the wooden bow, so the original plan was to increase the shooting range by 50.00%, but because the inlaying of the steel belt damaged the bow itself, it barely increased by 30.00% However, the pulling force has been fully increased by half of the original pulling force, which is not worth the loss. But the engraved wind runes are the finishing touch. It gives this magic bow some value."

Holding it in his hand, Kurtz reluctantly tried to pull the bowstring, but he could only pull it more than halfway and couldn't pull it anymore.Kuz blushed with shame, lowered his head and said to me, "Jia, I can't pull this bow."

I comforted him and said, "This bow is not very good at first. Why do I think that if I have such arm strength, I should be able to draw the elf bow. This bow is not suitable for you, it is too old. You Don’t you think that magic crystal is covered with cracks? I don’t know how many times it can be used!”

Hearing what I said, Qige exhaled and said, "I just felt something was wrong, yes! This magic crystal has very little magic power left, so it's so dim."

Hearing what we said, the old orc sighed helplessly and said: "If it weren't for this, it can increase the range by 30.00%, which is comparable to ordinary elf bows. How can it be hidden in my crossbow shop? It was bought by our orc hunters. Do you think there are many magic weapons?"

Seeing that we didn't intend to buy it, the old orc took off the bowstring from this old iron and wood bow again, and hung it up carefully. Maybe we saw the flaws of this bow at a glance, and the old orc took down the second bow on the wall. At that time, I was not selling Guanzi. This is a neti bow made of neti green vines. The back of this bow is turquoise neti vine. I can even see the vines growing on the back of the bow Tender green shoots.

The old orc didn't show off his tricks this time, nor did he show us his superb skills. He just handed the bow to Kurtz and said to Kurtz: "This bow is from the country of Ze in the deep swamp in the southern part of the continent. The Neti bow made by the master bow maker in the lizard tribe of China is unique in that the bow and arrow are alive!"

"Ah!" It was the first time I heard that there were still living bows and arrows, which were beyond our usual cognitive range, which caused us all to exclaim. After careful observation, I found that the bow and arrows in Kurtz's hand So the old orc said it was alive, because the neti vine that made this bow still has a hint of green, and this vine is alive.

"The pulling force of this bow is smaller than that of the Neti bow, because when making this bow, the master bow maker made the bow a little smaller as a whole. He used the secret method of the swamp family. After becoming a bow, the vine is still alive. This bow has two major advantages. First, the neti vine is still growing, and with time, the attributes of the bow will increase. At that time, You won’t try to change your bow just because the bow you hold doesn’t match your own after your strength has improved. It can grow under special liquid medicine, which is the biggest feature of this bow. The second point is very insignificant compared to the first point. , but it has a very practical benefit, that is, this bow has the ability to repair itself, even if it suffers some damage, it can be fully restored overnight as long as it is soaked in special potion." The old orc said deeply It really touched me, such a bow is good.

I think one of the most troublesome things for archers is the maintenance of bows and arrows. To be honest, both the bowstring made of beef tendon and the wooden bow back are very delicate. Good bow ruined.In the wild, it is inevitable that there will be dangerous situations, and it is inevitable that you will encounter rainy days. After a wooden bow is burned or flooded, at worst it will be deformed, so the most difficult part of bow weapons is maintenance.

I asked Kurz with interest: "Az, what do you think of this one?"

Kurz stood aside, tried the bow and arrow's pulling force, but said with a bitter face: "This bow is too light, it is impossible to shoot the devil antelope. It is not as strong as the ordinary Neti."

I was a little unhappy, and thought that this old man surnamed Su had only two broken bows hanging on the wall, one was an old antique, and the other was tender cabbage. I bought it back and raised it at home for ten or eight years. It can be used again, these are some kind of rags, so it is said that good bows are hard to find.So I said to Kurtz: "These two bows are really not suitable for us. Otherwise, if we go to the stalls in the free market, we may meet the right one."

The old orc heard me say that he was going to leave, he pondered for a while before asking: "What kind of bow do you want to buy?"

Qige said directly from the side: "The best alloy bow!"

"Well, then you wait first."

After finishing speaking, the old orc called downstairs a few times, and called the orc girl up to sit with us for a while, but he was afraid to go upstairs from the stairs on one side.Only then did I know that the orc girl’s name was Sukamio, the daughter of an old orc named Su. The father and daughter had been running a crossbow shop in Yemen Town for more than ten years. The poorer the people, the more difficult the business of bows and crossbows, which was once booming, became more and more difficult. Many hunters would rather buy bow strings than replace bows easily, even if the performance of bows is inferior.According to Sukamio, this weapon store only sold three alloy bows this year. Three months ago, old man Su had to sell all the high-end bows and arrows in his inventory to a businessman from the Grimm Empire. There were only two unsellable bows left on Qiangshang. With blurred eyes, she gently stroked the vital Naiti bow, just like stroking her own child.

Suddenly a question popped up in my mind, and I blurted out and asked her: "Is this neti bow yours?"

"En?" Sukamio didn't understand my crappy orc language with Gludin's accent at first, he was stunned for a moment before he realized it, and said with a slight smile: "Yes, this is old man Su when I was 9 years old. At that time, this bow was not half as big as it is now, but now it is so thick, I think it will be a good bow in a few years."

I don't know what happened to this shop, but it seems that the business is very sluggish, and they actually put up their love bows for sale. Seeing my serious expression, Sukamio smiled and said to me: "There is another It doesn't matter, no one buys it anyway, does it?"

I asked Sukamiao strangely: "The orcs are hunting the magic antelope in the wasteland and collecting primary magic herbs. This place has a vast territory and rich products, so how come they become poorer and poorer?"

Because Sucamio often works in the shop, he has seen a lot of people and things, and listened to a lot, so he naturally knows some inside information, so he introduced: A few years ago, human caravans brought A large number of commodities exchanged the livestock and herbal ores of the orc tribe. The orcs began to abandon their leather armor and wear silk, smashed clay pots and replaced them with fine porcelain, and refused to eat raw cassava. Let the human nobles eat sweet bread baked from fermented wheat flour.But these things are not available on the Pai Plateau, and after being transported thousands of miles from the Green Empire, the things are frighteningly expensive.The output on the Pai Plateau is very single, relying on the vast wasteland for grazing, hunting, gathering herbs, mining, etc. to maintain the life of the orcs. In the past, the orcs were self-sufficient, eating cassava jerky and wearing leather armor War skirt, a large amount of animal hides and tendons and herbs are produced every year, which can be exchanged for a large amount of magic metals such as black iron, red copper, thorium, mithril, and fine gold, filling warehouses, but later these precious metals are all It has become a luxury item, such as magic-pattern carved tall candlesticks, exquisite and beautiful high-necked porcelain vases, carved ivory beds, and many other exquisite items.

Even so, the life of the orcs could still be maintained, but three years ago, the orc tribe alliance launched a war to encircle and suppress the gray dwarf bandits. This war completely collapsed the fragile economy of the orcs. Weapons and medicines have not been able to completely eradicate the gray dwarf robbers. Instead, wars have ignited everywhere in the Pai Plateau. Finally defeated the gray dwarf bandit group, but owed a huge debt because of it.

The upright temper of the orcs made them return every piece of animal skin, animal tendon, herb, ore, livestock, and precious monsters hunted on the wasteland to humans to repay the debts owed by the war. In this way, the entire orc tribe They have all become poor. If it weren't for the fact that humans don't want cassava, the orcs on the Pai Plateau would have to eat grass now.Because of this, the business in Yemen Town has also become bad, and it is difficult for merchants to sell some high-end weapons and armor, so over time, the stocks of these high-end items are not much, and some items have even been out of stock for a long time.

Not long after we chatted with Sukamio, we saw the tall figure of old man Su appearing from the entrance of the third floor. He was holding a long wooden box in his hand. I could even see that the wooden box was covered with The dust was just wiped carelessly by old man Su, which made the box with log wood grain even more dilapidated, and there were mud marks left after wiping the dust with a damp cloth on the wide wooden board.

Old man Su walked to the table, pushed away the tea set on the table, and put the long wooden box on the table.

The things inside didn't seem to be heavy, but they were extremely heavy in Old Man Su's hands. He was a little reluctant to say much, but opened the box silently. After opening the box, I saw a mummy-like strip It can be seen that its prototype should be a bow, which was tightly wrapped in oilcloth, lying quietly in a box filled with soft rushes, old man Su picked up the bow, and slowly untied the oilcloth .

"This alloy bow was used by my father. Since my father passed away, I wrapped it in the best oilcloth and kept it in this wooden box. My father once used this bow to hunt and kill a mutant hyena man. , and this crossbow shop was established by it, but it is useless now, and I can’t even remember his appearance..." Old man Su murmured in a low voice, and untied the oilcloth bag.

(End of this chapter)