Chapter Thirty-Four: Fighting Stone

  The blacksmith, it's one hammer strike after another, with time accumulating, little by little, forging.

  A second-rate blacksmith? Ha! If being able to forge second-rate steel makes one a second-rate blacksmith, then I am indeed a second-rate blacksmith. But if it also requires the ability to manufacture weapons and equipment, then I don't even qualify as an apprentice blacksmith.

  "What's so funny?"

  Two Lucas blacksmiths simultaneously frowned in dissatisfaction, with a dry smile that carried a hint of mockery, and this self-mocking tone seemed to others like Gian was mocking them.

  Listening to the malicious tone in the words of the two Lucas blacksmiths, I shrugged my shoulders indifferently. I'm not working for you, no need to look at your face to do things, if you're not satisfied, come and fight with me, see if I don't beat you until your eyes are full of golden stars.

  "Uncle Francis, what's going on?" Gan Jing looked around with his eyes and struggled out of the ironmaster uncle's arms, saying: "Why are there so many people today?"

  Francis looked at Francis and coughed twice, stretching out his hand to point at the middle-aged man of the two Lukas blacksmiths: "This is the owner of Lukas Blacksmith, Lukas. Second-class blacksmith."

  He looked at this man with a pair of narrow eyes, a slightly collapsed nose bridge, and a mouth with two golden whiskers. His thin black cheeks showed a faint sense of pride and self-esteem, his chest slightly puffed out, with an air of superiority.

  "This is Madlen Ironfist, a master blacksmith of Lucas' Forge."

  Compared to Lucas's high and mighty, Madeline still had a hint of respect in her eyes. Her thin figure slightly bowed as a courtesy. A piece of second-grade iron was still a very powerful object for a first-class blacksmith.

  Francis introduced the two blacksmiths, then turned around and pointed to the adventurers, saying: "These are the Flame Adventurer Team, and this is their captain, Xiao Chang Lei Ming."

  Among the crowd, Xiao Chang's thunderous voice rang out as he wore a suit of soft armor, his robust physique and facial features exuding an air of heroic elegance. He held up a four-finger-wide great sword and gave Qian Jin a warrior's salute with a clenched fist, his face wearing a courteous smile. It was best not to offend someone who might be a second-rate blacksmith in this city of Oakland.

  He nodded slightly, not bothering to remember the name of this adventurer team. There were too many teams on the continent with names like Flame and Frostbite. His gaze passed over Xiao Chang Lei Ming and landed on a female swordsman standing behind him, also wearing a large sword hanging from her waist, about four fingers wide. Her deep blue long hair was tied high on her head, and a red leather armor wrapped around her body, outlining her beautiful curves. Her pale face had a pair of light blue pupils, and her long eyelashes made her eyes seem like they were speaking. She exuded an air of elegance all over.

  Qianjin saw her appearance and his heart slightly shook: the two people looked nothing alike, why did she remind him of her? Was it because of her spirit?

  The female warrior felt the piercing gaze of Gan Jing's straight eyes, her eyes added a few points of doubt, and she smiled slightly and nodded lightly in response.

  "It's like this," Francis said in a low voice: "These friends of the Flame Adventurer's Guild, who were adventuring in the Sunset Mountains a few days ago, encountered something. Their weapons suffered varying degrees of damage, but they can't leave immediately and must re-enter the mountains..."

  Qian Jin nodded lightly, although he was only on his second day of working at the blacksmith's shop, he still knew that weapons often get damaged during adventures and need to be repaired or replaced with new ones.

  "Because of the adventurers, they didn't have much money left." Francis spread his hands: "So, they had to take out the items they got from the adventure as exchange."

  Bartering, in the city of Oakland, is not a strange thing. Often adventurers with insufficient money on them use items to barter with shops, and the shops are happy to do so because each time they barter is an opportunity to lower prices, and the value obtained from bartering is often much higher than the money itself, and selling it to passing merchant teams can earn even more.

  Xiao Chang nodded and continued Fran's words, "We know that exchange requires some sacrifice. We've thought about this too, but we must re-enter the mountains, so we're already prepared to make sacrifices. However..."

  Xiao Chang Lei Meng and several companions all looked at Lucas with a difficult expression, while Gan Jing showed an understanding expression.

  This is the best blacksmith in Oakland, not Franlin Blacksmith, but Lucas Blacksmith. Xiao Chang Lei Meng naturally wants to supplement the best weapon, so he goes to find Lucas Blacksmith, I guess this time Lucas Blacksmith's price is too high when starting from a low price?

  "What is your exchange?" Qian Jin's eyes glanced at the red soft armor female warrior again.

  Xiao's large hand reached into the leather pouch at his waist, rummaged around for a moment, and slowly pulled out an object. A faint hint of reluctance appeared on his face as he said, "Dòu shí..."

  Fighting stone! His sturdy body trembled slightly, and he took two steps forward to look at the fist-sized, pale gray stone in Xiao Chang's hand, slowly raising his hand to caress this gray fighting stone.

  Doushi! A special stone that contains Douneng, for warriors. If you carry a Doushi and cultivate your Doujin, absorbing the Douneng from the Doushi into your body to refine it, then your progress will be absolutely faster than without a Doushi.

  The Douling Great Array is most important besides that strange array method, is the Dou Stone! If there is no Dou Stone, even if there is an array method, it will not be able to activate the Douling Great Array.

  If the person with Dou Shi enters the Dou Ling Great Array, they will have an advantage over those who enter without Dou Shi. They can gain greater improvements in a short period of time and their foundation will be more solid.

  Qianjin still remembers that in books, there were records of adding Dou Shi to weapon equipment as materials to manufacture even more excellent weapons!

  Qian Jin did not expect that he would actually meet Dou Shi here, and it was a warrior who was selling Dou Shi! For warriors, the value of Dou Shi is not ordinary at all!

  The silk thread was rolling in the gray stone, and Qian Jin could feel the Dou Qi in the stone. The corner of his eyebrow slightly raised as he looked at Xiao Chang Lei Meng: "This seems to be a four-product Dou Stone?"

  Xiao Chang's eyes widened in surprise as he stared at Qian Jin, never expecting that this young-looking warrior would have such keen eyesight. Simply by placing his palm on the Dou Shi, in such a short period of time, he could tell that this was not a first-rate or second-rate Dou Shi, but rather a fourth-rate Dou Shi with a decent quality.