The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 145 Invincible Power (two chapters in one)

The next morning, when Ren woke up, the first thing he did was think about whether he had responded appropriately to the Iron Maiden puppet attack last night.

Ancestors from previous lives have a famous saying: 'I examine myself three times every day'.

Although the content of reflection is different, the principle is the same.

"First of all, what makes me stronger than last time is that this time I have the hammer technique as a means to fight against the enemy."

"So, after grasping the key to the enemy's resonance frequency, you can quickly use the super strong concussive force of the heavy hammer to cause strong damage to enemies with strong defenses like the Iron Maiden Doll!"

Ren's eyes flickered and he kept thinking.

"However, the shortcoming is still obvious, that is, the means of fighting the enemy are still limited to physical attacks."

"No, to be precise, it's a short-range physical attack."

"Because whether it's a big sword or a heavy hammer, it doesn't break away from this limitation."

"Three hundred gold? Don't worry, sir. At this price, you can buy almost the best house in Gold Town." Mateo patted his chest hard and assured.

"One more question is about the origin of the Iron Maiden doll that appeared last night."

"There are also some who have become the only survivors in their families. Considering safety issues, their houses are being put up for sale and plan to move to the county to live." Matteo explained.

"Well, Matteo, then help me find a ready-made house that can be moved in directly. The area should be larger. The total price should not exceed three hundred gold coins per empire." Renn thought for a while and said.

Sure enough, Matteo must be more familiar with these trivial matters than Hamilton, which is why Rennes did not find Hamilton, but the captain of the night watchman, Matteo.

"Okay, my lord!"

"But the fact that the other party almost directly targeted his home to launch the attack does not seem like an accidental mysterious incident. In terms of remoteness, Anna's house is further outside the town than her own home. It makes no sense. The enemy jumped over Anna Home, directly attack your own home.”

"Ren, it would be a good thing to move to the center of the town, but it should cost a lot of money to buy a house in the center of the town, right?" Mother Emma said with a frown.

In this case, at least the safety will be much better.

"Mother, you and your father don't have to worry about money. I have already made arrangements."

"But Renn, your income from the Night Watch is not that high, right? You have so much money." Her mother, Emma, ​​seemed to have thought of something and looked at Renn with a slightly serious face.

Just now, Ren was thinking about whether it would be better to move.

"However, if the Black Flame Cult targets me, then the safety of my family will be very problematic."

"I've asked Matteo to look for it. If everything goes well, we can move out in the afternoon. Father, mother, you pack your things in the morning. I'll go to the blacksmith shop later."

After finishing this matter, Ren returned home.

"Matteo, if you find a suitable house, you can go to Boris's blacksmith shop to find me."

After arriving home, Ren discussed the move with his parents.

"Then I will go check out all the vacant houses later. Sir, I will report to you later."

Ren was very doubtful about this.

"Adjutant!" Seeing Ren coming over, Mateo greeted with a smile.

After all, the area near the Administration Hall is already the safest area in Goldshire.

"Ren, your mother and I are at your mercy on this matter!" After listening for a long time, his father, Old Ren, choked out this sentence, but it was considered the final word.

"But in this extraordinary world, this is still not enough!"

Although he was tired for most of the night, Mateo was in great spirits. Perhaps because the night watchman was used to reversing day and night for a long time, he was not tired after a busy night.

"Mother, where did you want to go? These are my trophies and mission rewards. You should still remember the scene when I killed the cultists." Ren said looking at his mother Emma with a little helplessness.

"Hmm, then I will pick the winter rapeseed with sister Anna later. It's a pity that they haven't grown up yet." Mint thought of the winter rapeseed that Anna and she had planted in the yard before. Obviously, she was quite unhappy. Abandon.

As soon as he thought about this problem, Renn immediately went out and went to the town administration hall, where he found the captain of the night watchman, the little Mateo, who was still busy because of the attack.

Mother Emma was stunned for a moment, seeming to recall the scene at that time, and couldn't help but nodded.

Renn also smiled and nodded at this acquaintance, and said, "Matteo, do you know where there are vacant houses near the town administration hall?"

"The next step is to find as many ways to deal with the enemy as possible. For example, I will further study the only witchcraft currently mastered, 'Seering Touch', and collect as many witchcraft as possible."

"Of course, this is limited by the knight (extraordinary) profession itself. At most, you can practice throwing or improve your bow and arrow skills to gain long-range physical attack capabilities."

"Brother, when will we move?" My sister Bo Mint asked curiously.

"When I come back, we will move." Ren said, patting his sister Mint's head lovingly.

"Yeah! Last night's attack caused serious damage to the house. In addition, I think the location of my home is a bit remote and may not be safe. I plan to buy a ready-made house in the center of the town."

First, because the original house had been severely damaged due to the attack by the Iron Maiden Doll, and the second most important reason was safety issues, so Renn planned to buy a house near the Goldsmith Town Administration Hall.

After listening, Matteo nodded and said:
"What a coincidence, sir! After the last attack by cultists, several houses in the center of the town have been uninhabited. Some of them are because their family members died in the attack on the church. Empty out.”

The county town is obviously not suitable for the Wren family to go to now. After all, Wren's current position is the deputy security officer of Goldshire.

For children, moving to a new home is a happy thing as long as the family is together.

"In addition, the human skin hanging on the inner wall of the Iron Maiden doll always feels related to the Black Flame Church. For example, the human skin armor on the apostle."

"According to what Hamilton said, it seems that he intended to classify it as a mysterious event."

"Huh? Adjutant, are you moving?" Mateo asked curiously.

After discussing it with his family, Renn came to the second floor and mentioned the move to Anna and Lagret, and the two women readily agreed.

For Anna, being with Renne is naturally a good thing, and she has no reason to object.

And LaGrey
She didn't have a house in Goldshire, so naturally she could only follow Ren or Anna.

After contacting him about the moving matter, Ren called La Gray to go to Boris's blacksmith shop, and what he carried in his hand was a large bag of metal shell fragments from the Iron Maiden doll.

That's the very rare material that Lagre said - hardened fine gold.

However, as soon as the two of them took two steps, LaGelei stopped Ren and said with a frown: "Ren, I may have overlooked a problem, and this problem may not be easy to solve."

"This hardened fine gold is difficult to smelt, and the temperature required is very high. If it were the blacksmith shop in the small town last time, I don't think I would be able to smelt it."

"Huh?" Renn raised his eyebrows.

This is really a problem.

But the next second, a flash of light flashed in Ren's mind.

"Maybe I have a solution."

"I'll try it later. If it doesn't work, there's another place with a blast furnace. We can go there then." Ren said with a smile.

Lagree glanced at Renn and didn't question anything. Instead, she nodded trustingly.

It seems that what strong people say has higher credibility.

Soon, the two came to the blacksmith shop.

As soon as he walked into the blacksmith shop, Ren found that there were several less blacksmith apprentices who had not been here for a while.

When he saw Renne coming in, Boris showed a happy smile, but when he saw Lagret behind Renne, his expression changed and he said:
"Ren, long time no see! Are you here to borrow my blacksmith shop again today?"

"Uncle Boris, you guessed it right. I'm going to disturb you again today." Ren said with a smile.

Boris showed a wry smile, turned around and yelled at the blacksmith apprentices: "You brats, you should thank Ren, you can rest today again, let's all disperse!"

After driving away the blacksmith students, Boris walked to Renn and asked quietly: "Renn, I heard that there is a new deputy security officer in the town, and he said he looks a lot like you. How about this?" have you heard of it?"

Hearing what Boris said, Lagret couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Uncle Boris, that's none other than me!" Ren said slightly embarrassed.

"Huh? Is that you?" Boris looked at Renn suspiciously, patted Renn's shoulder, and said:

"Don't joke with uncle, but it's a good thing you have such ambition!"

Ren was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but shook his head helplessly.

At this time, Boris seemed to have thought of something, closed the door of the blacksmith shop, and hung a sign saying 'out of business'.

Immediately afterwards, he came back and looked at Renn, and said eagerly: "By the way, I can help with whatever you want to build today."

After saying that, he frequently glanced at Lagret next to Ren.

"Uncle Boris, I'm afraid I can't let you watch today's forging." Renn glanced at Lagre and said.

"Huh? Well, okay!" Boris saw Lagret who was silent and thought it was because of the other party, so he said with a slight regret.

However, when Ren handed Boris a small bag of gold coins, he suddenly smiled again.

After Boris left, only Lagret and Renn were left in the entire blacksmith shop.

"Ren, you just said there is a way to smelt this?" LaGrei pointed at the large bag of hardened adamantine fragments and asked curiously.

Ren nodded.

"Well, then you will be responsible for the smelting, and I will make a clay mold for the two-handed war hammer first."

"Well, let me try first."

"By the way, Ren, what style of war hammer do you want?" As if remembering something, LaGrei, who had just taken a step, turned around again and asked.

"What types of hammers are there generally?"

Ren suddenly thought that he did not need to make it according to the style of the previous bronze war hammer this time. His previous bronze war hammer had flat sides on both sides of the hammer head and mainly relied on huge impact to attack the enemy with concussive damage.

"Generally speaking, knights tend to use morning star hammers or spiked war hammers." Lagre said after thinking for a while.

"Morning Star Hammer?" Renn couldn't think of this style of hammer in his mind.

However, he still knew about the spiked war hammer. One side of the hammer's head had a flat bottom and the other side had spikes. The spikes were specially used to break armor. "Well, the hammer head is round, and there are multiple metal spikes on the surface, which is a bit like a mace." Lagre made a simple gesture.

This statement made Ren understand quickly!
I saw Renn thinking deeply.

He possesses the secret hammer technique 'Earth-Shattering Hammer'. Obviously, it is not very suitable to use the Morning Star Hammer to perform it.

In comparison, a pointed hammer with a flat head on one side is most suitable.

The pointed tip can exert the rotating power of the secret skill 'Rising Dragon Hammer' to strengthen armor breaking!
As for Flathead, you can use the secret skill 'Earth Cracking Hammer' to further intensify the shock damage!
"Lagre, let's stick with the spiked war hammer." Ren agreed.

"Ok!"

Just as Lagre turned to leave again, he was stopped by Ren.

"Wait!" Renn suddenly thought of something.

I saw him picking up the charcoal pen beside him and quickly making a few strokes on the parchment.

Immediately afterwards, Ren handed the parchment to Lagre and said, "Can you make this kind of war hammer? It can also be regarded as a modified form of the spiked war hammer."

"The flat side of the hammer head remains unchanged, and the pointed side is similar to the Morning Star Hammer, with multiple spikes installed." Lane explained.

"No problem, no problem, that's it." LaGrei glanced at Ren with a strange look.

"Don't you think the hammer head of this hammer looks like a boar's head?"

"On the pointed end, there are so many sharp thorns, which look like the bristles on the head of a wild boar."

Lagree expressed serious doubts about Lane's aesthetics.

Hey!

It seems that my sketching skills are pretty good.

Yes, this is the classic pig head hammer! Renxin said.

"Well, the pig-headed hammer is very vivid! The perfect combination of the morning star hammer and the spiked war hammer, isn't it?"

"However, I have a better name here, Indestructible Power! What do you think?" Renn said with a smile.

"Indestructible power, you. Well, as long as you are happy! Then I will go to the mold." LaGrei rolled her eyes at Ren and said helplessly.

At least, she couldn't understand Ren's aesthetics and this name.

When Lagret went to make the clay mold of the war hammer, Renn put these hardened adamantine fragments into the burning blacksmith's furnace.

But obviously, it is impossible to smelt hardened fine gold fragments with a blacksmith furnace that is very laborious to smelt ordinary iron ore.

Even if Ren pulled the blower up, it would be of no use.

Naturally, this was not the solution that Ren thought of.

I saw that he focused his attention on the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Extraordinary) panel and added a few skill points to the witchcraft 'Seering Touch'.

Although these two remaining skill points were originally reserved for increasing the limit value to deal with powerful enemies.

But Renn considered that once he successfully forged the warhammer, his blacksmith professional level would most likely be upgraded.

In this case, the remaining skill points after the upgrade can be restored to two points again without any impact.

Of course, the main purpose of adding points is to verify Ren's previous guess, which is that the power of the witchcraft 'Scorching Touch', in addition to being linked to mental power, does it have anything to do with skill level?

With the investment of this skill point, Renn's mind instantly had a lot of fragmented memories of practicing the witchcraft 'Scorching Touch'.

It seemed as if Renn had been practicing the witchcraft 'Seering Touch' day and night for several months.

Soon, Ren discovered that he seemed to be able to omit the pronunciation of several syllables in the original spell.

In other words, the speed of chanting the mantra has become faster!
After coming back to his senses, Ren once again focused his attention on the icon of the witchcraft 'Scorching Touch', and saw that the line of small words under the icon quietly changed.

Searing Touch lv2 (5/300)

Searing Touch lv2 effect: Consume a certain amount of mental power to induce surrounding fire energy particles with a specific witchcraft model, causing high temperature damage within a certain range in front of the host's palm.

(Note: The cast time is 2.4 seconds. The power is proportional to the duration and the host’s mental strength. The closer the contact distance, the greater the power. The current effective killing distance: 0~0.5 meters.)
Huh?
Lane was keenly aware of the changes in system expression.

The casting time has been shortened from the original 3 seconds to 2.4 seconds, which is a reduction of nearly 20%. This should be due to the effect of spell syllable compression.

However, what Ren was most concerned about, the expression of power, did not seem to have changed at all.

This can't help but make Ren a little depressed.

It seems that the power of witchcraft still depends on spiritual power, and proficiency affects the speed of performing witchcraft.

After thinking about it carefully, Ren thought it was quite reasonable.

Because the witchcraft model is fixed, how can the power of witchcraft increase as proficiency increases while the mental energy consumed remains unchanged.

If it can, then there will be a first-level wizard apprentice who has just started to have spiritual power. After a long period of practice, he can perform a very powerful witchcraft. This is obviously impossible.

Of course, there may be other ways to increase the power of witchcraft.

But for now, it seems that all Renn can do is to improve the power of witchcraft only by improving his spiritual power.

Sure enough, for a wizard or wizard apprentice, mental power is fundamental!

However, adding points can increase the speed of casting witchcraft, which is of great practical value.

What does witchcraft that is almost half a second faster mean in actual combat?
This goes without saying!

After thinking about it, Ren decided to first test whether the sorcery 'Scorching Touch' could be used with the blacksmith furnace to smelt and harden fine gold.

Renn was seen raising his hands, about thirty centimeters away from the blacksmith's furnace, holding them in the air, and then he softly chanted a spell.

The time for him to perform the witchcraft this time was obviously much faster than before. Just over two seconds later, a red light suddenly appeared on Ren's palm.

Ren can clearly feel that the free flame energy particles around him are quickly gathering in front of his palm.

Suddenly, the flames of the burning stove suddenly burst into flames!
Obviously, the temperature of the furnace is rising rapidly due to the blessing of Ren's witchcraft "Scorching Touch"!

It works!
Renn was overjoyed!
Since 'Seering Touch' is a guided witchcraft, by maintaining stable guidance, you can continue to gather the surrounding free flame energy particles.

Soon, the temperature in the blacksmith's furnace reached over two thousand degrees.

The hardened fine gold fragments gradually became brighter and softer from the initial red color, and then began to melt like a candle.

So, when Lagret came in with two clay molds, she saw a scene that shocked her.

However, at this time, Renne had also finished the use of the witchcraft 'Scorching Touch', so Lagree did not see the scene of Renne performing the witchcraft.

Of course, this was also done deliberately by Renne.

For now, it's better to keep his knowledge of witchcraft a secret.

"Ren you"

After Lagre came to her senses, she immediately placed the clay mold she had made under the liquid outlet of the blacksmith furnace.

When the smelted liquid gold slowly flows into the clay mold, Lagret covers it and waits for it to slowly solidify and cool.

Renn also took the time to glance at the system prompt:

[You have carried out the smelting work of hardened fine gold, and the related understanding has been improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - smelting and hardening fine gold]

[Your skill of smelting and hardening fine gold has been improved, and your experience value is +76]

[You focus on smelting and hardening fine gold, and the blacksmith professional experience value +48]

Sure enough, the experience rewards are generous!
Soon after, Lagret dismantled the clay brick, and a rough hardened adamantine war hammer came out.

However, the spikes on the pointed side of the hammer need to be reinstalled.

At this moment, the pointed side is full of holes, while the flat side only needs a little polishing to be finished.

Lagree also cooled these twenty- to thirty-centimeter-long metal spikes in another clay mold.

Lagree began to insert metal spikes one by one into the holes of the hammer head with metal pads, and then put them back into the blacksmith furnace for integrated smelting.

Next, there are some follow-up details.

For example, grinding, adding texture to the hammer handle, increasing friction when holding the handle, etc.

Generally speaking, if the user of the war hammer is an extraordinary person, then the combination of a wooden handle and a metal hammer head that is often used will be light enough and convenient for ordinary people to use.

As for the war hammer used by the knight (extraordinary), it is naturally an integrated metal handle and a metal hammer head. Although it increases the weight, the more important thing is to improve the durability and strength of the weapon.

[You have carried out the forging work of the two-handed war hammer, and the related understanding has been improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill—two-handed war hammer forging]

[Your skill Two-Handed Warhammer Forging is improved, experience value +1]

[You focus on two-handed war hammer forging, and the blacksmith professional experience value +2]

[Congratulations, your blacksmith career level has been improved! 】

Seeing that the blacksmith's professional level, which had not been improved for a long time, had been upgraded to blacksmith lv4 (0/1000), Renn couldn't help but smile.

The remaining attribute points and remaining skill points have both returned to a state of two points.

At this time, a familiar voice came from outside the blacksmith shop door.

"Adjutant, are you there?"

It's Matteo outside the door.

(End of this chapter)