Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 264 Forging (Transitional Chapter)
clang!clang!clang!
The collision between the huge hammer and the red-hot iron splashed dazzling sparks, and as the hammer continued to drop, the sparks bloomed like fireworks.

"call……"

Zheng Shu took a deep breath to recover some of his physical strength, then picked up the hammer again and continued to beat the metal in front of him.

Under the beating of his terrifying power, the metal that was fixed on the anvil was also taking shape little by little.Affected by the aftermath of the power released by Zheng Shu, hot magma was constantly splashed out from around the cracks in the ground.

"The effect is good, continue to beat about fifty times." Hephaestus, who was on the side, supported his detector and nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay!" Hearing this order, the corner of Zheng Shu's mouth twitched and he raised the huge hammer in his hand, and hit the red-hot metal in front of him again.

clang……

Another heavy hammer fell, and the magma pool next to him rioted again. Zheng Shu did not dodge or dodge, letting the hot magma splash directly on his body.

In addition to the fact that the magma could not break through his defense, another very important reason was that Zheng Shu was already close to exhaustion, and he even felt dizzy for a long time.

Bang!

The hammer slipped from Zheng Shu's hand and hit the ground heavily.Zheng Shu leaned weakly on the anvil beside him, feeling a little fuzzy in his consciousness.

"Not bad." When Zheng Shu's physical strength was exhausted, Hephaestus finally nodded with satisfaction and took over the subsequent processing.

Hephaestus picked up the hammered metal block and put it in the forging furnace to keep the temperature, Hephaestus nodded to Zheng Shu who was already tired like a dead dog: "Okay, let's have a rest! "

"I said... respected Lord Hephaestus, do I have to do this blacksmithing myself? Or if it really doesn't work, we can use another hammer." Zheng Shu didn't care about the hot environment around him, and sat down on the ground and gulped. Panting heavily.

In fact, Hephaestus' hammer is not that heavy. In other words, with Zheng Shu's current level of strength, the density of the hammer that makes him feel fatigued must be close to that of a neutron star.

The reason why Zheng Shu consumed so much physical strength was because the hammer did not rely purely on physical impact for metal forging.

Every time Zheng Shu uses this hammer to strike metal, the hammer will absorb part of his physical strength and magic power, and pour it into the metal for deeper strengthening.

The hammer's demand for energy is like a bottomless pit. Zheng Shu's almost inexhaustible physical strength finally found its limit after encountering this hammer after strengthening the strengthening template of Hercules. If he got this hammer, he might be drained by the hammer and die from exhaustion before he could even swing it.

"This is impossible. Ordinary metals cannot have the power of gods. Even if the materials you bring are good, they are just the base. Without enough tempering, they cannot be made into the arms of gods." Hephaestus Smiling, he picked up the hammer that fell beside Zheng Shu.

Swinging it around, feeling the weight of the hammer in his hand, Hephaestus showed a trace of nostalgia in his eyes: "This hammer has been with me since I was conscious, whether it is Zeus's lightning, Poseidon's trident The halberd, the helmet of Hades, and the chariot of Apollo. In this area, almost all the weapons of gods you can hear are made with this hammer.

As far as I know, it has been rumored among my believers that this is a hammer that only gods can swing, and that it is a kind of tempering for mortals to pick it up.Although the statement is a bit exaggerated, if you hold this hammer and consume your own strength for forging, you are indeed tempering yourself while swinging it. "

"Okay, thank you very much for your kindness, but do I really need to do it myself to build equipment? I have never learned the skill of blacksmithing before. During this period of time, just to let me Learning how to correctly forge metal blanks has already damaged a lot of materials, hasn't it?" Zheng Shu took a few breaths and turned his gaze to a corner next to him.

There are already piles of damaged metal embryos, these are the "tuition fees" that Zheng Shu knocked out during this period.

Because there is no concept of day and night in Hephaestus, Zheng Shu has forgotten how long he has been here, he only knows that every piece of metal embryo has to be hammered tens of thousands of times by himself, and in that corner, the damaged metal Embryos have piled up into a hill.

Recalling the life he experienced during this period of time, Zheng Shu couldn't help shivering: "And it seems that I should have been here for a long time. Although I have made a little progress now, it feels like a waste of time. I spent a lot of time with you, Lord Hephaestus."

"There is no need to worry about the loss of materials. Even if the metal embryos are damaged a little, they can be reused as long as they are re-smelted. And as the god of fire and forging, I can still afford this material loss. "

Hephaestus put his hammer on the anvil and squatted in front of Zheng Shu: "As for the time, you don't have to worry, as a god, this time is not as long as it takes me to take a nap. "

"Ahaha, alright..." Zheng Shu smiled awkwardly, and didn't dare to refute.

"Okay, I won't tease you." Hephaestus walked to the side seat and sat down, and immediately a large barrel of wine appeared out of nowhere on the table next to him and fell on his hand, "If you really want to count it, it should actually be Your own pot, because you want to make armor, so you can only choose this way."

Hephaestus took a few sips of wine heroically, wiped his lips and continued to explain: "If you choose a weapon, because the manufacturing process is not complicated, and you have already prepared the base material, So it's not very troublesome to make, and it doesn't need much energy. But the armor is different..."

Hephaestus shook his head and continued to take a sip of wine: "Especially, your armor needs to have protection against rule-based skills, so the energy consumed will increase significantly. If it was before It’s easy to say, with Chaos providing us collective strength, I don’t need to worry about energy issues. But in my current situation, it is still too difficult to manufacture the armor-like God’s Armament alone.”

"So that's how it is." Zheng Shu felt his physical strength recover after resting for a while, and struggled to get up from the ground, "So you need my energy as a subsidy..."

"That's right, it's not just you. When you helped Zeus and the others make weapons, you also used their energy." Hephaestus put down the empty wine barrel in his hand, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Especially The most important weapons on their bodies are the God Armaments that were made by combining the energies of several main gods."

"That sounds really exciting. Will my armor reach this level in the future?" Zheng Shu's face was full of excitement, and the fatigue he had been feeling all along was also swept away.

"Well...it shouldn't be too bad." Hephaestus touched his chin, "Although it is definitely not as good as Zeus's thunderbolt or Hades' helmet, but because of the The time is long enough, so the energy you put in is not too small, and the strength of the finished product should be much stronger than the ordinary armament of gods.

In addition, your God's Armament is a type that completely abandons other aspects of specialization, so in terms of targeted effect, it will definitely not be inferior to the top few God's Armament... It may even exceed it. "

Hephaestus, who usually seemed taciturn, was extremely talkative when he mentioned topics related to his priesthood, and even Zheng Shu had the illusion that the other party was a different person.

"In this case, let's continue forging!" Zheng Shu stretched his body, and his physical strength had almost recovered at this time.

The rapid recovery of the physique of the three generations of the dragon world made a great contribution in this process. In theory, as long as there are enough nutrients, Zheng Shu can continue to exercise like a machine.

In addition, the concentration of magic power in the temple of Hephaestus is far higher than that of the outside world. With his current magic power absorption rate, it is no exaggeration to say that Zheng Shu can live only by breathing in this place.

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Unknowingly, a long time passed.

Zheng Shu didn't know exactly how long it had been since he came to this temple. He only knew that his blacksmithing skills had cost almost a whole hill of metal materials from the beginning of rusty training to now.

After the blacksmithing skills reached a certain level, Hephaestus re-smelted the metal blocks that Zheng Shu had previously scrapped and asked him to forge them again.

So Zheng Shu spent a lot of time re-forging that hill-like metal scrap into the batch of shiny metal blocks in front of him.

So many metals plus the raw materials that Zheng Shu brought over at the beginning that were the size of a millstone, under the influence of magic, divine power, and Hephaestus' hammer, only ten pieces of metal that looked like they were only human heads were forged in the end. ingot.

"Ten pieces of God's metal, not bad! Although the quality may be a little inferior, the amount used has surpassed the materials used in forging Zeus's lightning." Hephaestus looked at the one who collapsed on the ground Zheng Shu, "Your perseverance is really beyond my imagination. I thought you would reach your limit by making five or six yuan at most."

Zheng Shu was already lying on the ground due to exhaustion and didn't want to speak at all. He just raised one of his arms tremblingly, and barely stretched out a thumb to make a gesture of praise.

"Take a good rest, the armor should be finished when you wake up." Hephaestus smiled.

Hearing the words of the God of Forging, Zheng Shu finally closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Huge magic power gathered around him to form a huge energy vortex, recovering Zheng Shu's nearly dry body.

Hephaestus waved his hand, and the ground in the temple moved automatically, moving Zheng Shu to a recliner next to him to rest.

Turning his head and looking at the ten pieces of divine metals floating on the magma pool, Hephaestus closed his eyes and adjusted his spirit.

When he opened his eyes again, huge divine power gushed out from his body, and the rules of the world changed according to his belief.

The lava in the magma suddenly erupted and wrapped the divine metal above, and the originally seemingly incomparably hard divine metal was instantly transformed into a flowing liquid under the action of divine power, turning into ten torrents of bright light from the eruption. Shot out of the magma, and gathered in the center of the temple in a vortex shape.

Looking at the undulating metal vortex above, Hephaestus opened his palm, and only a walnut-sized top-level god metal flew out of his palm and slowly merged into the undulating metal vortex.

With the incorporation of the last piece of top-level divine metal, the metal vortex above the temple also began to slowly condense, forming a group of energy light clusters exuding bright light.

Hephaestus opened his hands, and the entire temple resonated with his will. Countless rays of light of different colors shot out from all over the temple, hitting the energy light cluster directly above.

If the observer's eyesight is strong enough, through the bright light, they can see that these light rays are transforming every particle inside the energy cluster.

And with the passage of time, even Hephaestus felt tired, because a lot of computing power was consumed, and the detector on his eyes even began to show a red light representing high heat, which means The high power consumption has caused the instrument to overheat.

And this kind of high-power operation Hephaestus lasted for a long time, until the ground around him showed signs of melting due to the high temperature emitted by his body, Hephaestus slowly stopped.

The shrine, which had been resonating all the time, also fell into silence, leaving only the metal ball directly above the shrine that became like white jade, exuding a lustrous luster of warm divine power.

"The embryo is ready, you just need to fix the shape." Hephaestus looked at the weapon embryo above the temple and heaved a sigh of relief.

At this time, the detectors on his eyes suddenly burst into flames.

boom!
With a slight bang, the black detector suddenly exploded, revealing the covered eyes of Hephaestus.

"Exploded? It seems that the load this time is not small..." Hephaestus touched the broken detector on his eyes habitually, "It seems that it will take a lot of time to regenerate, just right , I can also take advantage of this time to rest."

At this time, his eyes were completely exposed, leaving only a black mechanical remnant that seemed to be fused with the skin next to the temple.

And with the passage of time, the mechanical remnant that was originally motionless suddenly shone with light, and it seemed that it was... growing.

(PS: there is another chapter)
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