Ryan stood at the highest point of the Iron Fist Castle. The top of the red-roofed magic tower looked down the mountain. In the past month, the Iron Fist Castle, which was destroyed by the war, has regained its vitality. In the endless green farmland in the distance, a large number of farmers Farming hard; in the open space not far outside the civilian area, Moses and others were training the 1,000 young warriors carefully selected by Vivian; while in the blacksmith shop at the foot of the mountain, there were rumors from time to time. Come the sound of hammer beating,
The entire Emilio family has started to operate again. This time, they want to unify the entire Cassano Plain for their lord and the lord's master. In order to boost morale, Vivian generously sprinkled a lot of Gold coins, the wealth accumulated by the Emilio family in 200 years is definitely a huge number, which is enough to drive the common people who can barely maintain food and clothing crazy,
During this month, both Vivian and Moses were very busy. As for the civilians, they were working hard every day. The most leisurely person in the entire Iron Fist Castle was probably Ryan himself. He only needed to do it from time to time. He would patrol around the castle, review the army's training, and occasionally go to the blacksmith shop to inquire about the forging of weapons. Even if he had fulfilled his duties as a master,
Ryan looked at the slightly hot sunshine outside. He calculated that the last time he went out was 3 days ago, so he put on a magician's robe and slowly walked out of the magic tower. His figure had just walked out. In the Magic Tower, a little girl's voice immediately rang: "Master, do you want to go out?"
When Ryan saw it, it turned out to be the little girl Barbara. He patted Barbara's head affectionately and said to her: "How many times have I told you, you don't have to wait on me here. If you have something to do, Just go and be busy. If you have nothing to do, just go and have fun."
Barbara shook her head and said: "No, this is not possible. My grandfather is now the supervisor of the entire Iron Fist Castle. How can I embarrass him? Besides, being able to serve a powerful magician is also my luck. , my grandfather said, if one day you are happy and teach me some magic, I won’t have to worry about others bullying me in this life."
"Hahahaha." Ryan was infected by Barbara's childishness. He laughed loudly. After laughing, Ryan said to Barbara: "This magic cannot be learned casually. It requires hardship. You still need to have perseverance, but if you like magic, I can teach you meditation first if I have the chance, which is the most basic thing for a magician."
"Yeah, Master promised to teach me magic. Master promised to teach me magic." Barbara was still a little girl after all. When she heard Ryan's promise, she immediately clapped her hands and jumped up.
Ryan saw that Barbara had misunderstood what he meant, but he didn't say anything. Anyway, it is very simple to teach a magician the basic knowledge. It can be said that if you put aside those theoretical things and don't talk about it, it only takes a few hours. It can teach the basics of meditation and understanding of magic power. Only when the learner truly feels the existence of magic power can he use his accumulated magic power to release magic. People who carry out this process are usually called "magic apprentices".
The inheritance of human magic may have a history of thousands or even tens of thousands of years, but over the past many years, it is considered good if 10 of the 1,000 magic apprentices are actually promoted to trainee magicians, and how can a trainee magician He is considered a master only if he can cast level 3 magic on his own, which means he has to be promoted to the level of a junior magician. At this level, at least half of the people will be stuck.
If Barbara can really be promoted to a junior magician, it is enough to show that her qualifications are one in a thousand. With Ryan's current strength, he can be her mentor; but if Barbara doesn't even have magical power, I don't realize that no matter how Ryan teaches her, even if he draws thousands of magic scrolls for her, what's the point
Ryan watched Barbara running away happily, and smiled in his heart. He identified the direction for a while, and then started walking down the mountain. Along the way, Ryan met many servants and guards of the Iron Fist Castle. They were all respectful. Standing by the roadside and saluting Ryan respectfully, he waited until Ryan was far away before getting busy again.
After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Ryan first chose to go to the blacksmith shop. There were originally many weapons stored in the Iron Fist Castle warehouse, but the armor was obviously insufficient. Therefore, at Vivian's request, Iron Fist Castle's Several blacksmith shops were working day and night to make armor, and they also spent huge sums of money to buy a batch of fine steel, which Vivian was going to use to make weapons and armor for her personal guards.
Seeing the master coming, the busy young men in the blacksmith shop just nodded slightly towards Ryan as a salute. This was something Ryan repeatedly requested. They couldn't be like the servants outside who lost their temper when they saw Ryan coming. He half-knelt down on the ground under the hot iron block. Ryan waved his hand casually, indicating that everyone should do their own business and not be distracted. Then he walked towards Martin, the owner of the blacksmith shop.
Martin is a middle-aged man about forty years old. He has his upper body exposed and is holding a giant hammer to pound large blocks of fine steel. He wants to slowly break the fine steel into thin slices. Then they were strung together with animal sinews and lined with animal skins. This was the simplest pair of scale armor.
Of course, if you just make ordinary scale armor, there is no need to use expensive fine steel. These 50 sets of scale armor are customized for Vivian's personal guards. Their biggest feature is that they have reserved a large area on the surface of the armor. , this is for Ryan to draw a simple magic circle on it,
Martin was concentrating on what he was doing, and he didn't even hear about Ryan's arrival behind him. It wasn't until Martin finished forging the entire piece of fine steel armor that he was satisfied and put down the giant hammer. The young apprentice standing next to him immediately gave it to him. He brought a large bucket of water and whispered in his master's ear: "The master is here."
Martin was stunned, holding the bucket in his hand, but he quickly turned around. When he saw Ryan standing behind him, Martin was about to step forward to greet him, but Ryan spoke before him: "I'm fine, you drink first." Water."
Only then did Martin feel that he was extremely thirsty. He held his breath and gulped down the water in the bucket. Then he burped with satisfaction, walked up to Ryan and said, "Master, you are here. "
Ryan nodded at Martin and asked, "Have the materials for these scale armors been prepared?"
Martin silently calculated in his mind and replied: "There are still a few pairs left. I'll catch up on the work tonight and it will be completed tomorrow morning."
"There's no need to worry. After all, you've all worked hard during this period. You should pay more attention and try to arrange for everyone to change shifts and rest. It won't be good if you collapse from exhaustion." Ryan said with a smile: "I still have ten useless scales on hand. As for the additional magic circle, it doesn't matter if the 20 on your side are a few days late. As for Vivian's side, they are pressing hard because their training is about to come to an end and they are going to teach those soldiers how to use and maintain weapons and equipment, and then We have to carry out actual combat training, this matter cannot be delayed, you should prioritize it."
"Okay." Martin said nothing more and agreed: "Lord, the things over there are almost ready. I just got 200 sets this morning, and it will take about half a month to get 400 sets left. This may be a bit troublesome. After all, we are not a large-scale place that specializes in making armors. We used to make only twenty sets per month. Although the armors we make now do not need to be polished. , carving a large number of decorative patterns and other techniques, but hammering and forging iron sheets is still a laborious job and cannot be rushed."
"Well, I understand. I'll go see them training new recruits later. I'll tell Vivian about this later and see if it's possible to send some more people over to help." Ryan said,
Martin opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he held it back. Ryan looked at Martin's hesitation and said with a smile, "What's the matter? Just say what you have to say, why hesitate."
"That, that... Master, don't you want to make magic items? I don't know, I don't know, can we..."
"Oh, I thought it was something." Ryan laughed immediately after hearing Martin's intermittent words. Before answering Martin's question, he looked around and found that almost everyone who heard Martin's words raised their eyebrows. In my ears, waiting for my answer,
Ryan waved his hand and said: "Do you want to see with your own eyes how magic items are made? Maybe there are people who want to learn magic, right? It's easy. Martin, please bring some smarter apprentices to my magic tower tonight. Go, I will make 5 sets of armors blessed with magic circles for you to watch. As for the others, when I have some free time in the future, I might as well teach you some basic knowledge of magic like Vivian did, such as meditation and understanding the power of magic. , and those magic theories, I think I can probably still be your teacher, but I can't guarantee whether you can learn them well, after all, I don't have the qualification of a magician from the Magic Guild."
Ryan's last words were completely ridiculing, but others did not pay attention to this. After listening to Ryan's affirmative answer, there were no loud cheers in the blacksmith shop, but everyone's face was full of enthusiasm. It was perfect. The hammer weighing dozens of kilograms seemed to have become a lot lighter, and the hot stove seemed not so unbearable. Seeing everyone working enthusiastically again, Ryan said hello and walked out slowly. blacksmith shop,
As soon as Ryan came out, he saw Old Bill and a large group of people waiting outside. After seeing Ryan coming out, Old Bill took the lead. The hundreds of people immediately knelt on the ground. This move made Ryan was startled. He quickly helped Old Bill up, and then shouted for everyone to stand up.
While waiting for others to stand up, Ryan asked Old Bill in a low voice: "What are you doing?"
Old Bill's answer was beyond Ryan's expectation: "Master, didn't you promise to teach my granddaughter Barbara magic? These people behind me all have children. They have the courage to ask me to ask you. Anyway, you are all If they want to be trained, why not let their children also participate, even just to observe."