met free Chapter 123 Deep Sea Sunken Silver
Chapter 123 Deep Sea Sunken Silver
Seeing that the other party wasn't beating around the bush, Xiao Yan immediately got straight to the point: "President Shi, I'd like to ask if you have any minerals or metals here that can help store soul power?"
Upon hearing Xiao Yan's question, President Shi replied with ease, "Storing soul power? That's easy. Look at the jewelry and armor in these display cases on my second floor. Each one is made of mithril, and mithril can easily preserve soul power. This will meet your needs."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan stood up and returned to the display case. He reached out and touched the armor, politely asking, "Is this alright, Chairman Shi?"
"It's alright. These armors of mine are all made for combat and self-defense. If they were ruined by a little kid like you touching them, then there would be no point in making them," Chairman Shi said readily.
Xiao Yan nodded and confidently poured his soul power into the armor as Chairman Shi had instructed. Immediately, he felt that the armor's luster was enhanced due to the activation of his soul power. If it weren't for the fact that this place was not suitable for unleashing his martial arts skills, the armor's hardness would probably have also increased.
"See? I told you, there's no iron block in our association that you can't find." Chairman Shi stroked his specially tied-up mustache with satisfaction.
"In that case, I need such raw stones, and then I can create the shape shown on the paper."
As Xiao Yan spoke, he took out paper and pen from his storage container and immediately began to scribble. He finished writing each stroke in a short time.
"Brother, I never knew you could draw such detailed sketches."
Along the way, Tang San had long been curious about the object that his elder brother Xiao Yan was going to create. Now that he saw that the other party had finished the sketch, he immediately went over to it. However, what happened next left him and Chairman Shi stunned.
What Xiao Yan drew was hardly a sketch. If Xiao Yan's theories and talent were a towering mountain in Tang San's heart, then Xiao Yan's drawing skills were nothing more than an inconspicuous stone at the foot of that mountain.
With a few crooked lines, it clearly resembled an object that looked like a necklace. Whether the original drawing was that simple or Xiao Yan, whose drawing skills were not great, managed to capture the essence of the object, both Chairman Shi and Tang San understood the drawing.
Xiao Yan even specifically required that the front part of the emblem be almost 100% transparent.
"Hmm... the drawing is passable, but if you want to refine it, Xiao San, you should tell him to draw several different perspectives. Otherwise, our blacksmith brothers here are all roughnecks and won't be able to bring themselves to do it."
Tang San nodded. He hadn't expected that what his elder brother had been longing for all along the way would be accomplished so quickly.
Both he and Xiao Yan were pleased about this.
After leaving the deposit, Xiao Yan planned to leave with Tang San. But just before leaving, he glanced at the armor he had just touched. The soul power he had left on the armor had dissipated.
"What's wrong, big brother?" Tang San asked, following behind him and seeing that Xiao Yan had stopped and was not moving.
Xiao Yan turned to look at President Shi, who was weighing the money pouch in his hand, and asked in confusion, "President Shi, can the soul power stored in this mithril armor not last long?"
"Otherwise what?" Chairman Shi said.
"That's not right, that's not what I need," Xiao Yan said, shaking his head.
"What I want is something that can be stored for a long time, or rather, something that can keep moving indefinitely thanks to the soul power I add." After all, according to Agumon, every time he dares to challenge someone, he feels an indescribable power within him. If he could store that power, he could definitely use it as a badge of courage.
However, if it's temporary, or the conversion rate is too low, I can't guarantee that Agumon will be able to sense this state every time, and such risks are too uncontrollable.
Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, Chairman Shi seemed troubled, his expression showing a struggle of thought, but not the kind of expression that suggested he had no answer.
"President Shi, please tell me what your solution is." Tang San had spent time with the other party before and knew his temperament. The other party's behavior didn't seem like he had no solution; he just seemed to have some unspeakable difficulties.
"There is a solution, but the price is too high." After all, Xiao Yan and Tang San should have the same status, both being students of Tiandou Academy, and students don't have much money on hand.
"President Shi, rest assured, as long as you can make the item I want, I can pay you whatever the material and processing costs are." Xiao Yan said this with confidence, and if all else fails, he could always ask Ning Fengzhi for a loan.
Chairman Shi nodded firmly when he saw that Tang San was very determined.
"Alright, come with me." Chairman Shi said, leading the two down the stairs with his hands behind his back, to the blacksmiths' break room. Everyone was working hard outside, and there wasn't a single person chatting in the break room.
Chairman Shi crouched down, opened the cellar door, and gestured for Xiao Yan and the others to follow.
After descending the stairs, Xiao Yan's first reaction was to marvel at how much larger the place was than he had imagined. Although the Blacksmiths' Association hadn't actually hidden a mine in the basement, it was far more extravagant than a mine. The extended tunnel was filled with densely packed metal ores. To put it bluntly, this place was simply a paradise for blacksmiths.
After wandering around, the ore along the road became increasingly scarce. Although Xiao Yan didn't understand, he could tell that the quality of the minerals in this area was getting better and better as they traveled.
Finally, Chairman Shi led Xiao Yan and the others to a piece of deep blue silver ore. This ore was actually as big as Chairman Shi himself, and given the high density of such a perfect piece of ore, its weight was self-evident.
"If you want to preserve it for a long time and make this accessory once and for all, I recommend using deep-sea smelting silver."
Chairman Shi reached out and stroked the stone in front of him, as if he were looking at a national treasure.
"This sunken silver comes from deep-sea mines, so don't complain about the high price. Not to mention the sea spirit masters who aren't particularly friendly to us mainlanders, there are also powerful, unexplored soul beasts in the sea. So, it took a lot of effort for our Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association to transport this piece over. It has a natural soul power storage capacity. If you can afford it, I suggest you buy the whole piece of deep-sea sunken silver."
"President Shi, how much does this entire piece of sunken silver cost?"
"One million, in gold soul coins." Chairman Shi held up his thumb, displaying a price that even made Xiao Yan, a wealthy young man, gasp in astonishment.
One million?
Xiao Yan had thought that he still had over 100,000 gold soul coins, which seemed to be enough, so how come this stone cost a million?
However, Tang San shook his head: "President Shi, my brother only needs to make a necklace-sized piece of jewelry. It's not worth buying the entire piece of sunken silver."
"Little San, it's not that I'm deliberately making things difficult. The conditions that Brother Xiao Yan mentioned are already very demanding. Even deep-sea sunken silver might not be able to meet them. It's just that I have an idea. What I really want him to buy is to gamble on whether there is a silver mother inside this piece of sunken silver. If it is a deep-sea silver mother, then it can bear an extremely large amount of soul power. Moreover, you are both soul masters. With accessories made of silver mother, I think these accessories will resonate with you."
Hearing this, Tang San stopped questioning. If it really was the Silver Mother, let alone a million, a stone of this size would be enough to make his older brother Xiao Yan break even if he crafted jewelry. If it were even larger, he would make a profit.
"President Shi, what you just said, a bet?" Although the other party kept mentioning the Deep Sea Silver Mother, Xiao Yan caught the key word.
"Yes, our association did not cut this piece of sunken silver. However, usually, a piece of ore of this size will inevitably contain silver mother material. Of course, since it has not been cut, we can assume that it is all silver mother material, or that it contains only a small piece, or even no silver mother material at all. It all depends on your luck," Chairman Shi told Xiao Yan truthfully.
"There's another difficulty: to forge such heavy silver, you need at least a master craftsman. Without forging skills at the Heavenly Forging level, it's very difficult to shape the ore into your desired form."