Lu Yao sat down, took out a pen and paper, and analyzed the nail art style originally designed by Edward, writing notes next to it.
Edward and Ambrose didn't believe that Lu Yao could come up with a magical idea that they had racked their brains to realize but couldn't.
But he was unwilling to give up, so he simply hooked a chair over and sat aside, watching the owner do the whole process.
The manicure that Edward first designed for Mumu incorporated many of the gorgeous elements that vampires like.
Lu Yao took a look at it and had an idea. He suggested that they could try to integrate the magic of changing clothes to make the elements that Edward liked three-dimensional and make them into manicures that could be worn by Mumu.
Edward thought this was a great idea at the time, so he modified the design overnight, discussed it with Ambrose, and conducted a trial production.
In theory, this idea is not difficult to achieve.
There were already powerful weapon forgers in the Alexandria continent who could make disassembled and deformable magic weapons, such as the holy sword used by knights, which could be transformed into the dark wand of the necromancer by infusing magic power through chanting special spells.
Edward and the Necromancer developed in this direction, integrating the light and dark magic circles developed by Lu Yao specifically for magic nail art, thinking that they could easily complete this concept.
But that's not the case.
Manicures are too small. When the materials are shrunk and placed on the surface, they are limited to the viewing area and cannot achieve the effect of being worn by the wearer.
Edward had no choice but to simplify the design on the nails and try to inject magic to deform the nails.
After the deformation step is completed, further attempts get stuck.
They can't make the transition from manicure to full body armor, it's too difficult.
Lu Yao disassembled the elements of the manicure, redesigned it, drew a general diagram, and then went to the material room to select materials.
Ambrose and Edward came to the table to look at Lu Yao's decomposition diagram, extremely puzzled.
“What’s the point of breaking these little elements down?”
"It's pretty much the same as what we're doing, and it feels like there's not much progress."
Lu Yao came out with the materials and asked Pu Xiu to call Mumu in.
After a while, Mumu's little paws were held up by Pushu, and the two little cuties slowly moved in.
Mumu looked up at Lu Yao and said, "Ji."
Lu Yao said: "Momo, change into a human form, I want to measure your body data."
Slime is made of jelly, soft and elastic, without any hard protection and no nails.
If Mumu wants to wear nails, she can only use the wear-on nails like Ambrose.
Edward didn't know that Mumu had eaten Lu Yao's hair. He saw the round blue slime suddenly turned into a little human boy who looked 90% like Lu Yao.
Edward was horrified, "Mommy, why don't you look like your daddy?"
They had been together for so long, but Mum had never thought of eating a part of his body, which made the old father sad.
Mumu not only transformed into Lu Yao's appearance, but also spoke: "... Dad, stop acting like a spoiled child. I just like the way the shop owner looks."
Edward: “…”
The ancestor of the blood clan became autistic, and his beauty was even inferior to that of an ordinary human.
Ambrose stroked his chin and said, "Slimes can actually talk. Can't they just chirp?"
In fact, Mum had spoken to Ambrose the first time he came to the store, but he was so focused on his manicure at the time that he didn't notice it and still found it quite novel.
Edward, who was squatting in the corner, moved his ears, stood up, turned around, and picked up Mumu: "Sound, yes, son, can you speak?"
Mumu pointed at Lu Yao and said, "The owner spent 100,000 gold coins to get my voice from the gods."
Lu Yao spent 100,000 popularity points to change Mumu's voice. He didn't think much about it at the time and casually explained to Mumu that he paid money to ask God for the change, and he really believed it.
Edward put Mumu down and looked at Lu Yao again, his expression softened: "Shopkeeper, you are such a nice person."
Affirmation from the ancestor of the blood clan.
Lu Yao: “…Thank you.”
Pushu fell back onto the table and looked at Mumu, envy evident in his big lemon-yellow eyes.
Merulu came over and poked Pushu, "Don't forget our mission. You are always like this, you are bewitched by humans in just a few words and never learn your lesson."
Pushu lowered his head to his fingers and whispered back, "I think this place is great. I like the owner. Meruru, I want to stay here."
After saying that, he closed his eyes. Merulu would definitely scold him for being useless.
Fairies are powerful and small in size, but they are simple-minded and obedient by nature. They are often raised as dependents by humans and other powerful alien races.
Although they are called followers, they are actually more like humanoid weapons.
There was a long time when alien races were trapping fairies in the forest.
Some fairies will meet masters who cherish them, but more fairies are coaxed into signing subordinate contracts and eventually die on their adventures.
The number of goblins decreased greatly, and the surviving goblins hid deeper in the forest and rarely showed up in front of other races.
Pushu's personality is similar to that of most fairies, he is soft-hearted and amiable, serious and cute, and easily impressed.
When they were young, they lived in a secret place. When Pu Xiu went out to collect nectar, he was captured by the leader of the demons.
Merulu chased him out to save him, but was also caught.
A pair of twin fairies with light attributes, extremely precious in an age when fairies are gradually becoming extinct.
The leader of the demons originally planned to offer them to the Demon King, but met the Empire's high priest Carlos on the way.
Carlos was still very young at that time and was not blind. He killed the demon leader and saved the twin fairies.
Meruru and Pushu have been fascinated by Carlos ever since, and entered the temple for him and became holy-order Knights of Light.
Just over ten years ago, Carlos entered the palace to make secret medicine for His Majesty and injured his eyes.
When he returned to the temple, there was a different person in the shell. The gentle and kind Lord Carlos turned into the bloodthirsty and evil Carlos.
In the temple and the palace, only the twin fairies noticed something unusual.
But before they could expose their conspiracy, the evil Carlos tricked them into a golden bird cage with nectar and locked them in the temple for ten years.
Pu Xiu has been silly since he was a child, and he hasn't changed over the years.
But only this time, he spoke his true feelings boldly, and his heart was calm, without the slightest uneasiness.
After waiting for a long time and not hearing Merulu's curse, Pushu secretly opened his eyes.
There was no Merulu in front of her. She had already flown to the owner, lying on a piece of plastic nail, watching the owner draw.
Pushu walked over and sat down next to Merulu, hugged his knees with his little hands, and squeezed towards Merulu affectionately.
Merulu pursed her lips, raised her hand and touched the purple flower on Bao Bao's head, without saying a word.
Lu Yao had already measured Mumu's physical data and threw the materials and drawings to Edward and Ambrose.
The two had lived in the Iron Needle Forest Ridge for hundreds of years, spending their time studying magic, and they were also good at refining potions and some special items.
There was a refining table next to the laboratory. Lu Yao marked the requirements and dimensions very clearly. With their abilities, it was not difficult.
Ambrose and Edward were also very curious about how Lu Yao was going to integrate these scattered parts into what they wanted in the end. Without complaining, they took the things and got to work.
Lu Yao took advantage of this time to get his manicure done according to Edward's initial design.
Mumu stood aside, a little curious: "Owner, why did you do the manicure first? Aren't you going to add the things that dad did?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Add, but that is the second layer, the first layer needs to be painted first."
What second floor
Mumu doesn't quite understand.
What Lu Yao wanted was detailed and his requirements were very demanding, so he didn’t get it done that afternoon.
Ambrose and Edward stayed up all night in the laboratory and handed in all the work early the next morning.
Lu Yao and Meilulu helped Pu Xiu with his manicure, and then they adjusted the magic circle until dawn without returning to their residence.
Taking a large box of small parts from Edward, Lu Yao put them together and asked Mumu to try them on first.
Ambrose and Edward then realized that it was a black armor.
Ambrose's eyes flashed red: "You transformed the nails designed by Edward into a piece of armor, and you plan to disassemble them into parts and put them on the nails?"
Edward also found it incredible. The idea was too complicated, but it might succeed.
Only then did he realize that their previous conception had completely overlooked an important factor—reality.
While they were talking, Mumu had already put on his black armor.
It was tailor-made for him, so there would naturally be no mistakes.
Mumu drew a water curtain in the air and walked forward.
Mumu in the water curtain had a face that looked 90% like the owner's. He was wearing a domineering black armor, and his light blue eyes were full of disbelief.
This is exactly what Mumu had imagined herself to be, a soft body wrapped in hard armor, with sharp edges, cool and handsome.
No one knows that hidden in this armor is a weak slime.
Mumu turned around and hugged Lu Yao, "Mumu likes the owner the most."
"..." Edward covered his chest with his hands, his face full of grief, as if a big hole had been pierced by a silver needle in his heart.
Harold slept in the lounge last night and was awakened by the noise outside. He pushed open the door and saw the slime acting cute. He frowned and walked over quickly, tearing Mumu off Lu Yao, "Go away, your father is going to cry, this is so unfilial."
Lu Yao: “…”
The armor and the armor plates are all made, and finally it comes to the last step - fixing the armor to the armor plates.
This step itself is not difficult. You can use the magic circle that Lu Yao originally used to fix the gem to the dragon.
The most crucial point is that when Mumu chants special spells, the armor parts fixed on the armor plates can be worn on him accurately and intactly.
The original inspiration for this set of armor nail art came from the magical girl transformation animation that Lu Yao loved very much in his childhood.
When she saw Harold use the magic of changing clothes that day, the thoughts buried deep in her memory came back and occupied her mind.
Later, when he saw Edward stuffing some small cloaks and coffin elements into his manicure, Lu Yao casually mentioned the idea of cross-dressing manicure.
Just by looking at the solutions tested by Edward and Ambrose, she realized that magic alone could not make her dream come true, and the key to completing the magic manicure for disguise was actually the real thing.
It’s a big jump from manicure to armor, but fortunately, this is a world of magic, and anything is possible.
Lu Yao incorporated the disguise magic that Harold taught her into a new magic circle, and then used this magic circle to fix the armor parts on the wearable armor plates.
Each piece corresponds to a magic circle with special coordinates, and it takes a lot of time to weave it.
Because Lu Yao was the only one who knew the coordinates of the parts and no one else could help, she worked hard in the laboratory until noon and finally finished it.
Lu Yao walked out of the laboratory with the magic manicure he had just finished, and shouted, "I'm done!"
There were not many customers in the store at this time, but there were a few students from the magic academy, and my old acquaintance Annie was there too.
The centenary celebration of the school is about to begin. As an outstanding backbone student, Qiong Bei usually needs to assist the college teachers.
She waited for a long time before she finally found time to go to the nail salon to get the manicure she had postponed last time.
Because Lu Yao was busy, Edward and Ambrose told them not to disturb her, so Qiong Bei took the initiative to ask Tina to help her.
Anne and Audrey came with her. They had no intention of changing styles and sat in the leisure area reading comics and eating snacks.
Hearing the shop owner's excited voice, he stopped what he was doing and turned to look over.
Mumu was the first to react and walked towards Lu Yao.
Lu Yao handed over the nail plate box, Mumu took it and opened it.
The magic circle has been drawn on the bottom of the wearable nail plate in advance, so no glue is needed. It sticks to Mumu's chubby fingers one by one like a magnet.
He didn't transform, but the slime could be shaped at will, and his little claws could be covered with scales.
At first glance, it looks like a slightly weird dark armor with small coffins, small capes, small bats... all kinds of strange elements on the armor plates, but it can't be said to be ugly, it's just that the aesthetic level is a little high.
Mumu raised his finger and looked at it, then chanted a special spell, and the next second black mist enveloped Mumu's body.
The parts fixed on the armor plate flew out and attached to Mumu's body.
When the black fog dissipated, a blue-haired boy wearing handsome armor appeared.
The young boy had straight shoulders, his hair and eyes were a light sky blue, and he looked 90% like the store owner. He was wearing neatly fitted black armor and looked very high-spirited.
Edward ran over and hugged Mumu, "As expected of my son, he is so handsome!"
The design of the nail plates on Mumu's nails is still the same as before, and they have not become bare because the armor parts have been removed.
Because Lu Yao made two layers of design in advance, the magic transformation manicure is truly unified in terms of ornamental and practicality.
The other store employees and customers were all amazed by the manicure.
Harold was the first to come over. He looked at Lu Yao eagerly without saying a word. Four words were written in his eyes - "I want it too."
The shop assistants and customers gathered around Mumu and tapped his armor.
"Is it really transformed from a manicure? This armor is so strong."
"How did the owner come up with this idea? This manicure is more powerful than a magic weapon."
"Since we can have armor, can we also have offensive magic and weapons?"
…
Annie was also among the crowd. The owner really developed manicure to the extreme.
An idea suddenly popped up in her mind. She stepped out of the crowd and found Lu Yao. "Shopkeeper, I want to customize a pair of manicures. In ten days, I will participate in the Silver Rose Badge Competition for the Centennial Celebration of the school. Please design the most powerful magic manicure for me. These are the deposit."
Lu Yao didn't expect the business to come so quickly, so he invited Annie to the laboratory to discuss in detail.
Edward and Ambrose both noticed this and followed silently.
Such an interesting manicure can no longer be monopolized by the store owner.
Annie wants a set of combat magic nails, and requires the nails to have defensive and offensive means, as well as treatment and backup weapons.
It was a very demanding and greedy request, but Lu Yao agreed, took the deposit, and began to discuss the details with Annie.
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At the beach, Du Manning stretched out his blue fish tail and lay on the rocks to bask in the sun.
She used the gold coins given by Lu Yao to rent a carriage and returned safely to her hometown, the Mofu Sea.
Not far away, a group of young mermaids swam over and shouted that they wanted to go ashore.
Du Manning stopped them and asked them where they were going, as it was not fun at all on the shore.
The young mermaids chattered and told her that there was a magical nail salon on the shore that could make beautiful nails, and they all wanted to go there to get manicures.
Du Manning asked the name of the store and took out a scallop from under its tail.
There was a small piece of paper given to her by the humans in the scallop, and it seemed that the name written on it was the place the little mermaids were clamoring to go.
Du Manning jumped into the sea and swam towards the deep sea.
She had lost too much strength on the shore, so she decided to wait a little longer until her strength was restored before going out.
Lu Yao finished the manicure for Mumu, and there was only one unlit icon left on the illustration.
She asked the clerk and found out that the last race was mermaids.
Mermaids live in the deep sea and are good at divination.
Speaking of divination, she thought of the beautiful fortune teller she met in Onoton City.
Harold actually said that it was a mermaid.
When Lu Yao found out, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood and ignored Harold the whole night.
Harold looked innocent, totally unaware of how he had offended her.
As a result, the next day, four or five mermaids came to the store to get manicures.
Only after all the illustrations were lit up did Lu Yao calm down.
At this moment, the ultimate mission of the nail salon was unexpectedly launched.