Chapter 43 Recruitment

What she wants is not red medicine but explosive medicine! After understanding the details, I realized that I seemed to have made a very failed decision! Crystal Chocolate's profession is an explosion expert. Like Rose's Resurrection Mage, this is a primary and secondary profession. Explosives experts can use explosives to carry out auxiliary work such as mining and smelting. Explosives are also very powerful killing weapons. According to her own words, she once used an explosive trap to defeat a level 650 boss. Although she used explosives worth 100 crystal coins, she was only over 300 levels at the time and was not much higher than her. Level assassins killed a level 650 boss together! Although the money the boss revealed was not enough for 100 crystal coins, a valuable piece of jewelry was released at that time, which was much more valuable than explosives. However, her profession is obviously opportunistic, because the synthetic materials for explosives are expensive, and not every monster has equipment, so she is generally at a loss. This is why she came out to make money.

"Should I follow you now or go to work directly?" After accepting her as a member, she began to rush to work.

"Follow me first! Even if I tell you the place, you may not be able to find it!"

"Oh! Then I'd better follow you!"

"Yang Kun, will you take us to find a craftsman?"

"Oh! Okay, come with me!"

Yang Kun specializes in this, and he is very familiar with the roads of the Craftsman City. After walking for a long time, we arrived in front of a row of low houses. Yang Kun said that this is the living area for dwarf craftsmen. Because no one among the dwarves is more than 1.6 meters tall, the house is only two meters high in total, which is enough for dwarves, but we felt a little uncomfortable when we entered! I won’t hit my head, I’m not that tall yet, I just feel depressed!

After entering the house, I found that the interior of the stone house can only be described as simple in two words! There are a lot of tables, chairs and benches, but there is nothing else! There was a circle of dwarves sitting around the table in the room. They all seemed to be NPCs because they were all wearing ridiculous chain armor.

Yang Kun whispered in my ear that these were the guards of the dwarf king, and then he walked over. Those dwarves all seemed to know Yang Kun, and one of them stood up. "Isn't this Yang Kun? Why are you here again? Is there a big business?"

Yang Kun casually took out a small gourd and put it on the table. The dwarf immediately grabbed it and pulled out the stopper and took a sip of the contents. "Elf wine! Good stuff! Tell me! What's the matter?"

"My client needs to build a huge city, and he likes your architectural style very much. I hope to see the king and ask him to send craftsmen!"

"I'm afraid this may be a bit difficult to handle!" The drunk dwarf thought for a moment and said, "Our annual Ore Festival will soon be here! As a rule, we don't accept business at this time!"

"Please give me a briefing!" I stepped forward and took out 5 rubies and gave one to each dwarf on the table!

The dwarf representative held the gem and looked at it excitedly for a long time. "Just wait!" After saying that, he quickly disappeared. It turns out that he has money and can do things easily! He ran back within 5 minutes. "The king happens to be free, come with me!" After taking the money, the efficiency of doing things has improved!

We were quickly taken to the palace at the back. The roof here was much higher and it felt much more comfortable! At the end of the huge hall is a throne studded with gems. A dwarf covered in gems from head to toe is sitting on the throne. It seems that he is the king!

"Are you the one who wants to hire craftsmen?" The king got to the point directly.

"Yes! We need to build a very huge city. Only dwarf craftsmen can complete such a huge project!" Yang Kun believes in the truth of saying more good words and spending less money. The flatterer is dizzy. !

"As you all know, the Ore Festival, the most important festival of our dwarves, is coming soon. This is our grandest festival, and it is really embarrassing for me to hire craftsmen at this time!"

I calmly poured out a third of the gems from the bracelet. "If you are willing to help me, I will never forget the dwarf's contribution. These will be given as a personal reward to you!"

The king's eyes widened when he saw the pile of gems, and it took him a while to regain his composure. "Ahem! This! We have had the Ore Festival once a year for thousands of years. It's not a big deal to stop once in a while, right? I agree to let the craftsmen help you build the city! But you must at least come up with this many gems again As a thank you gift to the workers, I believe they won’t care about a holiday after getting so many gems!”

I took out the remaining gems in one go. "Is this okay?"

Porphyrin! The king fell on his seat, and the minister next to him was so frightened that he shouted in panic: "Send the therapist! The king has another heart attack!"

faint! The dwarf king has a bad heart. If I had known better, I wouldn't have used so many gems to stimulate him! Fortunately, the situation is not too bad. The healer got up before the king himself could. "Take the guests to the VIP lounge, I'll be there in a moment."

We were taken into a very gorgeous room, at least by dwarf standards, this room was already extremely gorgeous! The king did not keep us waiting long, but it was not him who came. A dwarf like a minister appeared in the room. "I am the king's labor adviser, and the king has asked me to take full responsibility for your affairs."

"Excuse me, where is the king himself? There is nothing wrong with his heart, right?"

"The king is counting the gems in the back...!" He suddenly realized that he had slipped up. "Uh! No! I mean the king is resting in the back. You know it's easier for people to fall asleep quickly when counting sheep. Our King's habit is to fall asleep counting gems!"

"Oh!" I didn't expect the king to have this hobby! "So what's our employment agreement...?"

"There is no problem with this! The king has given me instructions! You can give as many laborers as you want, and the wages will be charged at half price! This is the agreement form, you just need to fill it out!"

I took the form and looked at it. Most of the things had been written on it. Only a few necessary names were left blank! The agreement itself was not long, and I read it in a while. I showed it to Yang Kun next to me, and he quickly read it and said to me: "No problem!"

I entrusted Yang Kun to fill in the remaining blanks, and then I confirmed the contract. According to the agreement, the dwarves gave me a mobile teleportation array, which can be folded. This thing is directly connected to the dwarf craftsman station. As long as I unfold it in my city, the dwarves will come out immediately. However, this thing can only be turned on twice. It must be turned off after the dwarves teleport to the city. After the work is completed, they use this thing to return to the City of Craftsmen, and then this thing will automatically destroy!

After leaving the dwarf's fortress, we arrived at the above-ground part of the Craftsman's City through a natural spiral staircase made of roots of a big tree. It is said that this is a city, but you can't tell at all. Although there are many artificially constructed buildings, they are basically covered by green plants, leaving only the doors, windows and other passages open. This place is different from the underground city. The flow of people on the streets is mainly elves, and dwarves generally don't like to see the sun.

"Need a craftsman?"

"Need a craftsman?"

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As soon as we came out, we were surrounded by more than thirty players, and they all said the same thing. "Quiet!" I shouted to stop the noisy crowd! "Don't argue. The number of craftsmen I need is huge, and the total number definitely exceeds the number of you. So as long as you have enough skills, you will definitely need it, so don't argue!"

Once they heard that a lot of people were needed, everyone immediately became quiet. I was rushing to get the job just now because I was afraid that only one or two people were needed, and if it was too late, I wouldn't be able to grab the job. Since there are definitely more positions than people now, why bother grabbing it?

Yang Kun stood up and said: "We will recruit people in the central square in half an hour. Because we are building a city, we need tens of thousands of craftsmen. There must be many positions. If you have any friends, please inform each other. We only need carpenters. , blacksmiths and stone carvers, carpenters need to be at least level 5, blacksmiths need to be at least level 10, and stone carvers only need to be level 15 or above. If there are any particularly high-level craftsmen, they can come and we will hire them with high salaries. Everyone, hurry up Go inform your friends!”

After hearing the news, everyone around them dispersed, and most of them went to find craftsman friends they knew. However, some people ran to the side in disinterest and continued to look at the customers. It seemed that these were not of the highest level or in the wrong industry. People!

After everyone dispersed, we hurried to the central square to wait for workers to sign up. In fact, the number of players was definitely not enough. In the end, we still had to find NPCs to fill in the numbers. There are two reasons why we recruit player craftsmen first. First, players are cheaper than NPCs. Players only charge a little more than half of NPC craftsmen for the same job. The second reason is that there is a lack of senior craftsmen among NPCs. The most skilled craftsmen among the NPC craftsmen that can be hired are only at the level of player skill level 15. Although super craftsmen like Clark are more powerful than players when their skills are fully trained, the number of such NPCs is so small that they can be counted on ten fingers. And those kind of craftsmen are specific NPCs. Unless they have money, they will definitely help you work! For example, Clark doesn't take business from ordinary people at all!

Not long after we arrived, people began to gather in the square. There was something like a podium with a magic amplification circle on it, which was specially used by customers for job fairs. However, this thing requires money to rent. We chose to rent for an indefinite period of time, just like at the bar, and the money will be calculated when we come down.

About forty minutes later, almost 3,000 people had gathered in this small square. I didn’t expect there to be so many people! Yang Kun cleared his throat and repeated his previous request, and then said: "Now if there are carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, stone carvers and other advanced skills above level 15, please come to the stage and we will sign the contract on the spot."

As soon as he finished speaking, more than 30 people jumped up, including men and women. After a brief inquiry, most of these people are stone carvers of level 16 to 18, a total of 22 people! Among the remaining eight people, there are three level 17 blacksmiths, three level 18 carpenters, and one level 17 stonemason. What particularly surprised us was that the last person was a top-level gem craftsman and a special profession. His ability is to inlay gems into the city. Most people inlay gems into equipment to add attributes, but he can inlay gems into city buildings to provide special attributes to the city. and function. Except for the jeweler, we all signed contracts with a salary of 2.5 crystal coins per hour. With the call of this high salary (25 yuan per hour, it should be considered a high salary), the people below became even more excited.

The next recruitment work was handed over to Yang Kun. They were all low-level jobs anyway, so I didn’t have to ask about them all! The salary given to Yang Kun is not free, he has to do things after receiving the money! I brought the crystal chocolate and took the special professional to a nearby tree house bar to talk about his profession in detail.

"Let me introduce first, my name is Ziri, I am the customer, and the city that needs to be built soon is mine. This beautiful lady is called Crystal Chocolate. Like you, she is a special professional, and she is also my employee."

"Hello!" The young man answered us politely. "My name is Chun Qing Han Shou Zi." He looked very shy, like a girl, maybe because of his young age! He seemed to be two or three years younger than me.

"Hello. Does your profession really allow you to inlay gems on the city?" Crystal Chocolate began to wonder about his profession.

"Really! I can indeed inlay gems into the city. In fact, this skill is not to inlay gems into the city, but to inlay gems into any solid surface that is hard enough, including of course the city walls and buildings!"

"Are you setting gems like mine?" I pointed to the black crystal above my head.

He seemed to have just noticed the crystal. "Oh! My God! Is that the ultimate black crystal you are pretending to be?"

"Yeah! Yes! But it was repaired once, so it's not sure whether it can be used now, and maybe it's a bomb now!" Deken said so uncertainly, and I couldn't help it!

"It's so beautiful!" He seemed to realize that it was rude to leave us alone like this, and quickly came to his senses. "I'm sorry, I'm so surprised. You have such a nice gem! Wait! Can you show me your hands?"

I saw that he noticed the gems on my hands and stretched out his hands. "The one on the right is a top-grade ice crystal, and the one on the left is a top-grade poison crystal. There is also a top-grade fire diamond on the belly, but it has been soaked in magic mercury and now it turns red and white!" With his skills, If a person doesn't let him study all the things he likes, you can't expect to be able to talk to him.

After looking at three gems, he said: "The gems I inlaid on different things are different. Generally speaking, there is no problem if any gem is inlaid on equipment, but only the lowest level gems are usually inlaid on things like buildings. gem."

"Can only the lowest grade gems be set?" I was slightly disappointed.

"It's not only possible, it's average. There is no problem in inlaying high-grade gems, but you don't necessarily have that many, right? Do you have the ability to let me inlaid the city with top-grade crystals?"

makes sense! I'm so lucky, I only got 4 top-quality crystals in total. Even if they can be set in the city, where can I find so many top-quality crystals? Low-level crystals are different. The lowest-level gemstones are called gemstones. These are basically the same as ordinary ores. Although they are more expensive than ordinary iron ore, you can get as much as you want by grabbing a handful. ! "Do you know what the effect of inlaying various gemstones on various buildings will be?"

"I know a little bit, but not completely. The main reason is that the past customers were reluctant to spend money. Although gemstones are not as expensive as pure gemstones, they are still very expensive compared to ordinary building materials, so most customers only let me work with them. Important parts of the city wall are decorated with a little bit of interest, so I only know the effects of a few combinations."

"Then what do you know?"

"Mainly the city wall! We have inlaid poison crystal ore on the city wall before, but as a result, the city wall has a slightly toxic surface, and it only works on the enemies. As soon as the enemies touch the city wall, they are poisoned! There is also a The walls of the city are inlaid with sunstone ore. As a result, the city walls will partially reflect light magic and can also absorb a certain amount of dark magic. Other gems have not been inlaid on the city walls. But another time, someone asked me to discuss politics There was an ice crystal embedded on the top of the hall door, and as a result, the city was covered in frost and it was so cold that I had to dig it out again!"

"That means you don't even know what problems will occur if you set the gems in, right?"

"I also just changed my job after training as a jeweler. I don't know any of these things. I will record the results of each inlay, but the opportunities for me to be able to inlay are too few! So until now I only I know a little bit about it. Oh, by the way, there is an interesting design. Just put a small amount of fire diamond ore in the pool to get an artificial hot spring!"

"Why do I need a hot spring! Don't worry, wait, maybe this plan is good! If you put more water, can you boil the water?"

"have no idea!"

"Let's try it later. Maybe we can create a boiling water waterfall on the city wall!"

"A boiling water waterfall?" The innocent and naive boy was confused by what I said.

"Nothing, I will tell you when I get back!" I was very interested in those water pumps when I saw the Temple of Light attacking Isinger last time. Those things can pump the lake water to other places through the teleportation array. What will happen if you turn that thing upside down? If a pool studded with fire diamonds could boil water, I'd have a great boiler. Then the water inlet of the teleportation array was placed in the pool, and the water outlet was designed in the city gate corridor ten meters above the ground. Essinger's city wall is thick and high. It is almost impossible to break through this kind of city wall. The only weakness is the passage through the city gate. But if there are water outlets on the top of the channel, as long as someone breaks into the channel, I will activate the teleportation array, and the boiling water will be transported into the channel and pour down. No matter what was in the passage at that time, being poured over by a flood of boiling water was definitely not a pleasant experience! Even if they are not afraid of hot water, as long as I install more water outlets, I can directly use floods to flush the enemies out of the passage. Anyway, Essinger is high in the middle and low on the four sides, so the water will only run out of the city. As for the water source of the hot pool, there is no need to worry. Essinger is close to the sea. Is there any place with more water than the sea? Just dig a channel and install a blocker. I don't want fish to run into the pond and make a pond of fish soup!

The result of discussing with the innocent and naive boy was that he was also recruited by me. I finally tricked him into the guild through coercion and inducements. This kind of talent cannot be let go! As for the salary for inlaying gems? We decided to calculate it based on working hours, 5 crystal coins per hour, which is a very high salary!

When we returned to the square, the recruitment had not ended, but there were not many people waiting. We helped Yang Kun quickly sign the remaining people, and then went directly to the Elf Craftsmen Guild to find NPCs to make up for the insufficient number of people. Since the Dragon King had greeted me in advance, I did not join the Elf Guild. Elves who love life and nature would not like me, a dark creature full of death!

Although Yang Kun looks like a treacherous businessman, he has to admit that he is still very good at doing things. After a while, he came out with the written contract. I read it one by one, and then chose to confirm. The contract disappeared in a white light and officially came into effect.

The personnel are all arranged, and I am taking Yang Kun and the others to go directly to Essinger. Because there is no teleportation array in the City of Craftsmen, we must return to the underground part through the spiral staircase formed by the tree roots, and then leave the city through the exit there! When we were passing the square at the beginning, we saw a large group of people standing in the square. These guys were obviously not craftsmen. They were all holding weapons. It seemed that they were a team of some guild looking for craftsmen.

A leader in the crowd was talking to the person next to him. The person pointed at us, and then the boss led his subordinates and walked straight towards us.