Chapter Eighty-one: Forging Battle Armor

  Back in the city, I couldn't hear Christina's calls at all. The carefree poor Taoist immediately summoned a team of hundreds to dissect, preparing all the utensils and knives. Then, under their expectant gaze, he took out Lai Si's headless corpse and placed it on the square of my private villa. With one order, the crowd began to dissect in an orderly manner. The dwarf tribe leader also came upon hearing the news, not even running!

  "Lord! You're really something else? Dare to slay a dragon?" He excitedly asked me: "Aren't you afraid of the dragon clan's revenge?"

  "She's a wanted fugitive of the Dragon Clan, and killing her would even bring me a reward?" The poor Daoist said with disdain.

  "How did you know?" he asked curiously

  "It's a secret!" I didn't want to reveal too much, so I just brushed it off.

  "Alright!" He excitedly said: "Since it's legitimate, you must give me some materials then?"

  "Hah! Do you know how great a temptation such precious materials are to an alchemist like me? How could I possibly give them away?" The poor Daoist pretended to be displeased, saying: "This request is too difficult for me!"

  "Oh no! I know you have uses for it too, but you can't possibly need this much, I just want a little, really, just a tiny bit!" The poor old dwarf's fervor for the forging materials had completely robbed him of his usual shrewdness.

  "Ah! Who made you my friend? Giving you some isn't impossible either! However..." The poor Daoist drew out a long tone, waiting for him to continue the conversation.

  "Go ahead! I'll agree to whatever you ask!" The old dwarf indeed cooperated and continued

  "It's like this, I want to create a full-body armor and give it to my father. This armor will have my new design ideas, but after all, I don't have any experience in crafting it. What do you think?" the poor Taoist asked with a smile.

  "We can guarantee to provide the best masters!" The clan leader responded with relish.

  "That's great! However, some rare metals are needed in the materials, but I don't have them all here?" The poor Taoist said with a worried tone.

  "The tribe leader hesitated for a moment before saying: 'As long as you can provide us with some materials from the dragon's body, we can provide you with any materials you need!'"

  "Alright! It's settled then!" The poor Daoist said excitedly: "I'll give you half of the dragon bones, and as for the dragon scales? My armor is made from leftovers, you can have half of that too! Isn't that enough?" The poor Daoist said generously.

  "Dragon's blood, the best material for dipping in fire, we also want some!" The tribe leader is really greedy!

  "Deal!" The poor Taoist said with a sinister smile. Haha! I'll make you pay for what you've done.

  I've been planning to make a suit of armor for a long time. Ever since the Stone family's rascal went abroad and robbed, the humiliated Kingdom of Kote has been causing trouble on the border, and it was the Dragon family's Qinglong Army that was responsible for guarding the Kote border. The Stone family must have deliberately chosen to rob Kote in order to provoke us, the Dragon family, after they were angry - what a vicious plan! And as things developed, it turned out that the Stone family got their way, and our king would not care about Kote's protests. Kote was also unwilling to suffer losses, and they continued to create trouble on the border. Now, there are almost constant small battles on the border, and a large-scale battle is about to break out. If it were in peacetime, I wouldn't be too worried about Father, relying on his sword saint skills and the Qinglong Iron Cavalry's might, the possibility of him getting injured is not great. However, this time Kote has sent someone with a big background to fight against Father - he is Feng*Xiūsī, the commander of the Snake Seal Army, ranked third among the four great generals on the mainland, an dark magic master, specializing in curses! My father, who knows nothing about magic, can only understand some common ones on the battlefield, and as for curse techniques, even professional mages don't know much about them. I am well aware of the horror and power of curse techniques - if one is hit by a powerful curse, having strong fighting spirit is useless, and even if you don't die, you will lose your combat effectiveness. In that case, the Qinglong Army may suffer a heavy blow. As it's my family's business, I couldn't just ignore it. That's why I had the idea of making armor for Father!

  In terms of crafting armor, the dwarves' skills are completely beneath me. However, their high-quality materials like Star Gold and Mithril Silver are not something I can easily obtain in large quantities. Take Star Gold for example, its annual production on the entire continent is less than one or two, you can imagine how precious it is! No matter how much money I have, I still can't collect them, as dwarves simply won't sell them to me.

  In the following days, I went into seclusion with the dwarven masters to forge my equipment. My goal this time was to prevent curses from harming my father, so I used only light magic arrays on my armor. The lining of my armor is made of nine-headed snake skin, which I chose for its flexibility and durability. Even ordinary swords and knives can't damage it, and I selected a piece of skin from the underside of one of the snake's heads that was densely imbued with light magic elements, making it very effective against curses.

  The middle layer of my armor is made of pure silver alloyed with mithril, which isn't extremely durable but allows for maximum amplification of light magic. The main purpose of this layer isn't to defend against physical attacks, but rather to inscribe magical arrays, with durability being secondary. On the front chest plate, I inscribed the "Hymn of Light" array, a 10th-level spell that can almost completely defend against curses and has many additional benefits. I've used it in battle before, and its effects are incredible, probably increasing my combat power by at least double.

  On my helmet, I inscribed the "Mind Shield" spell, as curse-wielding mages often also master mental magic, and my father is a bit of an idiot, so I have to be careful! On my gloves, I inscribed the "Giant Strength" spell, which can increase my father's strength by about double. This obscure spell was taught to me by my grandmother, and no human mage knows it - it's probably a natural magic spell! However, its effects are quite abnormal, with the side effect of doubling physical exhaustion, but with the "Hymn of Light" providing unlimited stamina boosts, it's like there's no side effect at all.

  Considering that the "Hymn of Light" doesn't have any defensive measures, I inscribed the "Protection of the Light God" spell on my greaves. This 9th-level spell has extremely strong physical and magical defense, is incredibly powerful, and its best feature is that it's an upgraded version of the "Group Light Shield" spell! It can instantly apply a shield to a group of people around me.

  I also need to add some spells to my boots, but what should I add? Most useful spells already have been used... Ah, got it! My father likes to charge forward and often gets his horse hurt in the process, so he fights on foot more often than on horseback. I'll inscribe the "Blessing of the Wind God" spell on my boots, a 7th-level spell that greatly increases agility, making the wearer light as a feather - it's a great spell!

  The outermost layer of the war armor is naturally the dragon scales, and I have picked the best combination. The defense of the dragon scales is extremely abnormal. Don't look down on it just because it's not a big deal, after all, it's a ninth-level upper-tier demon beast! Ordinary attacks, even Sword Saint Carlo needs to rely on his divine artifact to break through. Take Carlo beheading Lais as an example, if there weren't wounds on Lais' neck and most of the scales were weak reverse scales, plus it was a full-force strike after accumulating power for a long time, otherwise Carlo might not have been able to successfully behead him either?

  The entire set of armor shines with golden light, its appearance is extremely good, its shape is elegant and dignified, and it also has an aura of extreme power that makes anyone who sees it go crazy! It's just the final cost that makes me want to vomit blood. The level 10 spell "Glory of Light" requires a very rare and perverted light crystal, I had no choice but to search through my own golden lotus to find one, finally finding a piece of light jade that I got when I was doing the "Three Evils", this thing can only be obtained from the corpse of an angel with six wings or more, this should be from an eight-winged angel, specifically how it came about, I also don't remember. The level 9 spell "Protection of the Light God" uses a gemstone on the hilt of the "Golden Mountain" sword, the others are all level 7 spells or below, that kind of magic core I have plenty of. Nearly ten kilograms of secret silver were used, it's heartbreaking for the dwarf tribe leader! He almost died from the shock! But what's even more excessive is the pure gold, when the dwarf tribe leader found out that one kilogram of pure gold was used, he directly fainted!

  The magic arrays carved by the poor Taoist were all cast with refined financial liquid, which can greatly enhance the effect and range of the spell. With the powerful energy of 'Guangming Jade', the poor Taoist experimented and found that the range of 'Guangming Li Zan' was actually over 400 meters in radius, and could simultaneously bless several thousand people at once, terrifying! However, after seeing such an effect, the dwarf tribe leader became excited instead, tears streaming down his face, saying: "Divine artifact! This is absolutely a divine artifact!"

  "Hey! Is it really that serious?" The poor Taoist asked strangely

  "Do you know what? The lifelong wish of us dwarves is to be able to forge divine artifacts. Today, we finally succeeded!"

  "You can't bear to part with those materials?" The poor Taoist sneered.

  "It's not a waste! Even if it's doubled, it's still not a waste!" The tribe leader's words made me regretful. Why didn't I ask for more?

  "Great! Now that we have armor, let's get you some weapons too!" The poor monk decided to create another opportunity.

  "No problem! We'll all listen to you this time!"

  The guarantee of the clan leader is my motivation! I will immediately start working on making a big sword. My father's style is more like a warrior than a knight, and he rarely uses a knight's spear, so I'll just make him a pair of double-handed greatswords. The material is dragon horn, which was entrusted to the dwarf master; they almost fought over it, but in the end, the clan leader used his authority to obtain the right to forge it. My main task was to work on the sword after it took shape, using the Three Realms True Fire to temper it and make it more durable and battle-effective. I also took the opportunity to embezzle a lot of precious materials like gold, heh! The finished dragon horn sword is 1.5 meters long, as wide as a palm, and one inch thick; there's no magic inside, but its only outstanding feature is its solidity. When we tested it against Carlo's Flame Sword, Carlo was heartbroken - the Flame Sword was notched, while the dragon horn sword didn't even have a scratch! It's truly worthy of my Three Realms True Fire tempering!

  The clan leader is quite satisfied with its performance, although it's not too sharp, but to have such solidity, shouldn't be much different from a divine artifact? After I sent the armor and sword back, I quickly received a letter from my mom, "That deadbeat dad of yours is now wearing armor even when going upstairs! It's infuriating!"