Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 177
"Wow—this place is too... amazing!" Marenia observed everything around her with sparkling eyes. After thinking about it, she felt that the word "magic" was the most appropriate way to describe her feelings.

"Lucia, how did you design such a workshop?"

Following her gaze, more than a dozen extremely large black steel furnaces are like huge pillars connecting the ground and the ceiling together, interspersed with dense pipes of various thicknesses to ensure sufficient oxygen supply in the furnaces. Under the premise, the waste heat is utilized to the extreme.

And around each furnace, there is a ring-shaped steel conveyor belt. The molten iron smelted in the furnace is poured into molds of various shapes by craftsmen. After cooling, it is stamped, forged, quenched, and polished to cast iron. into a complete weapon or armor.

This series of technological processes are distributed along each section of the conveyor belt, and the steps that consume a lot of manpower, such as stamping and grinding, are equipped with large-scale machinery driven by magic power, which is far more efficient than traditional manual work.

It only takes less than half an hour for a conveyor belt to go from the beginning to the end, and it can produce a high-quality weapon that takes a week or even half a month to create in an ordinary workshop.

On the whole, this huge workshop is like a behemoth devouring steel and minerals. The flames and thick smoke are its breath, and the sound of stamping hammer forging is its heartbeat. Turning around in the incomparably huge stomach, it turned into cold swords, guns, swords and halberds and spit them out.

"This is the design that Priest Lance had already completed when he was in the Ancient Dragon Temple," Lucia Mulu recalled. "I just extended on this basis and added some insignificant details."

Lani glanced at him indiscriminately, feeling somewhat disapproving. Of course she had heard of the temple workshop built by Lance Shanks in the past. It is said that many of the top craftsmanship of the three dynasties were used in it, and the production efficiency It is better than ordinary weapon workshops - but if you want to get to the bottom of it, it is just a manual workshop with a higher production capacity.

But at this time, the workshop in front of everyone has long been separated from the category of handicraft industry, but like other places outside that Lucia called "factories", it belongs to a completely new concept that transcends the current era. It is called a "workshop" only because there is still a special area for forging weapons by hand.

As for the "insignificant details" in Lucia's mouth, in her opinion, this guy is pretending to be modest, whether it is this brand-new model of large-scale assembly line mechanized production, or those pipe network arrangements that are confusing at first glance , as well as a special furnace for engraving magical runes, a stamping hammer driven by mana, and a grinding wheel. Every detail represents at least one wonderful innovation that is different from traditional workshops.

If this can still be called insignificant, then wouldn't the weapon craftsmen of the three dynasties be inferior to the apprentices who just started?

"The outer part is just an area for making ordinary weapons. With the current industrial level of the Gulong Dynasty, truly top-notch weapons can only be handed over to a handful of master craftsmen, and they will use some special methods to forge them by hand."

While introducing, Lucia led Lani and Marenia to the deepest area of ​​the workshop.

Passing through a huge round gate made of pure gold, the three of them came to the core area of ​​the whole workshop. There were no longer those huge furnaces and magic machines from the outside world. Instead, there were many seemingly Ordinary anvils and various forging tools.

Not far away, a tall dragon craftsman was wielding a hammer to strike a piece of steel blank in front of him. Every time the hammer surface came into contact with the steel surface, there would be a clear and loud buzzing sound, followed by a meteor-like explosion. firelight.

After noticing that Lucia and his party came in, the dragon craftsmen beat them dozens of times in a row, and bowed deeply to the three of them until they finished the work at hand. Your Highness—please forgive my rudeness, every step of the work here must be completed in one go, and I really have no time to be distracted just now."

"It's okay." Lucia raised her hand to signal the other party to flatten, and at the same time introduced to Marenia: "This is Master Sorens I invited from Fam Yazra, the most outstanding forging master of the Ancient Dragon Dynasty, and also The master of this workshop."

Marenia immediately nodded when she heard the words, and Lani came here when she and Lucia helped Malenia forge weapons, and she was already familiar with Saurons, so she also greeted with a smile.

"It seems that the knife has been completely finished?" Lucia asked.

"Yes," Solons said solemnly, "Please ask the three Highnesses to stay here later, and I will go get the knife right away."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked into the warehouse behind him. The space in the warehouse was very small, and even standing at the current position of the three of them, they could have a clear view.Most of the display shelves in the warehouse are empty, only a few wooden boxes are placed near the door, each of which faintly exudes a palpitating pressure.

This seemingly small area represents the highest level of the ancient dragon dynasty in the field of weapon forging. The weapons that are eligible to be stored in this warehouse are all top experts at the level of the two ancient dragon priests and even A real magical weapon prepared by a demigod.

Sorens came to the second display rack, took out a long and narrow golden wooden box made of golden tree trunks from it with an almost pious attitude, and carefully placed it in front of the three of them, until the wooden box came out of his hands suddenly. He breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "To tell you the truth, this knife can be regarded as the pinnacle work of my dynasty after the Forbidden War, and the power it contains is no longer something a mortal like me can bear."

"It's hard work, go down and rest first." Lucia ordered.

Then he pushed the wooden box towards Marenia, and said softly, "This is a gift from your brother, sister Lani, and me. Open it and have a look."

Marenia looked at him with wide eyes, and then looked at the sister beside her. After getting affirmative gaze, she put her slightly trembling palm on the surface of the wooden box, and there were waves of rough friction from the bark of the golden tree. Sensation, every uneven texture exudes a bright golden light after being stroked.

She took a deep breath, tried her best to soothe her beating heart, raised her hand and pulled the buckle on the side of the wooden box, and opened it.

His eyes fell into the box, and he saw a long knife with a vermilion sheath quietly lying on a layer of soft white satin.

She stretched out her still intact left hand to take out the knife, and held the pure white hilt with her right golden prosthetic hand. The moment she drew the knife out of its sheath, a hazy and brilliant light immediately illuminated the entire room.

It was an extremely narrow and long sharp sword, and the light golden blade was entwined with mysterious lines, which symbolized Lucia's ancient dragon power, Lani's ice magic, and Michaela's abandonment of the traditional gold Prayer, completely out of my own understanding and comprehension of the attached holy runes, under the joint action of the core power of the three demigods, this knife has both indestructible sharpness and almost eternal holy purification power.

"This knife was first forged in the ancient dragon dynasty, and it was integrated with the scale of the dragon king left by my father, and later it was tempered by the space-time storm in the center of Fam Yazra, so you just need to use it as you like—" Lu Xi Ya said softly, "Don't talk about the curse in your body, even if the god came in person, he still has no qualifications to corrode it."

(End of this chapter)