Capítulo 642: Chapter 323: Armor Orders and Economic Pressure
“Devil?”
Upon hearing the keyword in Xia Nan’s words, Barn’s expression paused.
His gaze instinctively shifted from the bundle on the ground to the young man with black hair dressed in just a shirt.
“No wonder…”
No wonder on this trip back not only was his armor scrapped, but even his weapon was damaged.
However, he rembered when they first t last year, the other was just a struggling adventurer who couldn’t even afford equipnt. How long has it been, and he’s already able to seriously take on devils?
Barn was amazed at the other’s rapid improvent, but his professional integrity held back his curiosity, refraining from further questions.
With a glance, he sought Xia Nan’s permission and then bent down to pull a steel fork from the bundle and carefully examined it.
As a professional blacksmith born into a Dwarf Clan, and having run a shop in the adventurer’s frontline town for many years, his experience was abundantly rich, and handling weapons from the Purgatory Devils was not unfamiliar to him.
Barn clearly understood the characteristics of these purgatory weapons and knew how to maximize their value through proper treatnt.
His rough fingertips, hardened by the molten fire, lightly brushed over the steel fork reflecting the tallic cold light, the subtle sound resonating in the air.
He introduced to Xia Nan the relevant information about these Bator Nine Prisons equipnt in front of them:
“The second layer of Purgatory, ‘Dic,’ boasts extraordinarily rich mineral deposits that are among the top even in the entire Multiverse. The vast, unending mountain ranges, even just a random peak, contain ores enough to make a developer a rare millionaire.”
“To put it exaggeratedly, there’s no need to carefully select a location or conduct geophysical surveys. Just grab a shovel, dig a bit, and you might uncover hidden minerals.”
Saying this, a hint of longing appeared on Barn’s face.
Clearly, this “spectacle”-like unique geographical environnt is as attractive to dwarf blacksmiths, who regard forging and ores as life, as an oasis is to a lost wanderer in the desert.
“Of course, the quality of these ores from the Purgatory Mountain Range varies greatly and is not all suitable for high level enchanted equipnt crafting. So, if placed in the Material Realm, could be considered not even worth mining as they are of inferior type.”
“But for the second layer of Purgatory, ‘Dic,’ this does not pose a problem…”
To put it into words, it simply feels disconnected.
While ordinary peasants in remote areas of the Material Realm rely on barren lands to farm crops and struggle to have enough to eat, hitching a ride on passing rchants’ mule carts when traveling,
The second layer of Purgatory, ‘Dic,’ has ford a nearly complete industrial system, with large factories and workshops spread across nearly every street.
The entire process from mining, transportation, and slting an ore into shape, to processing and selling, is standardized.
Regarding high-end equipnt, it may not compare to the masters who spend years forging every piece by hand, hamr by hamr.
But in terms of production quantity and quality of low-level equipnt, it far surpasses the majority of countries in the Material Realm.
Take the steel fork in Barn’s hand as an example; saying its quality is superb would be unrealistic.
The most garbage weapons are naturally what the lowest-ranking grunts like Little Devils in the purgatory use.
However, the sturdiness of the steel fork still greatly exceeds the hoes and shovels used by farrs in the fields and even surpasses the weapons of so low level adventurers.
“These four steel forks must have been collected from Little Devils as spoils of war, right?”
Xia Nan nodded.
“You might not know this, but these weapons specially distributed to lower demons in the purgatory, despite being forged from very low-quality ores.”
“It’s just that the factories there have undergone special processing, giving them the current strength.”
“For ordinary adventurers with financial difficulties who can’t afford proper equipnt and have relevant weapon usage experience, they could keep and use them.”
“But for you, they are certainly useless.”
“Of course, lting them down and reforging is possible, but as I ntioned before, the material quality of these weapons is very average. If I personally forge them, they might recover to the current steel fork’s strength, but the ti and energy spent… It’s actually better to use regular materials for forging.”
“It can be said to be more trouble than it’s worth.”
Discussing professionally related topics, Barn’s expression appeared particularly serious and focused, his ticulous beard braiding swaying back and forth on his chest in rhythm with his deep voice resonating in the room.
“Therefore, I personally suggest that these four steel forks from the Little Devils should just be sold as spoils material, without expending additional ti and energy on any extra processing.”
Xia Nan didn’t have forging experience, but as an adventurer with keen perception ability, he could vaguely sense the material strength of the Little Devils’ steel forks.
If they were to clash with the [Ash Fall] longsword in his hand, it might be cut in half on the spot.
Listening to Barn, he was reassured.
Nodding slightly, he replied:
“Then let’s go with your suggestion, sell them directly.”
“But what about this long knife from the Beard Demon? In my personal opinion, its strength is quite decent, is there any other suitable treatnt thod?”
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