Chapter 136 Clam Shell Shield

The Kokar centaur fled in panic. The fighting fishmen of Ratchet Village stopped chasing after hearing the horn, and all the fighting fishmen returned to the west gate of the village.

After driving away the centaur, the fishmen of Ratchet Village began to count the casualties, clean up the battlefield, and collect spoils.

The Kokar centaur is good at making bows and arrows. Almost every centaur carries this longbow, so a lot of longbows were collected on the battlefield. In addition to bows and arrows, the spoils also include huge and heavy wooden sticks, axes, and spears that the centaurs usually use. The largest number of them is the long spear that is suitable for the centaur's body structure.

"Lord, a total of 85 Kokar centaurs were killed and 78 were captured. Forty-two fishmen died in the village, and there are more than 40 lobster people." The old blind man reported to Yang Yi.

"We attacked the centaurs from both sides and had the upper hand, but we didn't expect so many murlocs to die. The centaurs' longbows have a long range and great power, and the murlocs in the village lack sufficient armor, especially the murlocs without large shields."

Yang Yi nodded after listening to the report of the old blind man. He was thinking about the configuration of the fighting murlocs in Ratchet Village.

The fighting murlocs without shields were at a great disadvantage when facing enemies like centaurs who were good at bow and arrow attacks. Before the two sides approached, the dense arrows had already caused heavy casualties to the murlocs.

"Although the murlocs are not good at bows and crossbows in long-range attacks, they still have a certain talent for throwing. Perhaps we can form a special murloc spear throwing unit like the troll spear throwers of the dark spear trolls of the tribe." Yang Yi thought.

Yang Yi learned about the casualties of this battle and then came to the side of the tauren Baine. "Thank you for your help. These centaurs are really hard to deal with."

"It's just a small favor. You and the murlocs in your village helped rescue Jerrick, and Bain hasn't repaid you yet." Bain stuck his halberd on the ground, and then he continued: "These centaurs will not give up. They will come again sooner or later."

"Even if the Kokar centaurs come again, the murlocs in our Ratchet Village will beat them and make them run away with their tails between their legs like today." Yang Yi said confidently.

"Well, your Ratchet Village is an unusual murloc village, not to mention you, the even more unusual murloc village chief. Bain believes you can do it." Bain said with a smile.

"Yes, Ratchet Village can do it. Let's go in. The battlefield will send murlocs to clean up."

Yang Yi and Bain walked into the west gate of Ratchet Village side by side.

There are usually adventurers staying in the west of Ratchet Village. These adventurers hid after seeing the aggressive centaur group coming.

After the centaurs escaped, adventurers emerged one after another, all of them excitedly talking about the battle just now.

A dozen adventurers emerged from a secret place outside the Ratchet Village, including Ouyang, Mu Xiaolan and Ajie.

"It seems that this Murloc Village has a very special relationship with Bain Bloodhoof. Bain Bloodhoof not only attacked the Centaur camp with these Murlocs at night, but also helped this Murloc Village to deal with the Centaurs." Mu Xiaolan looked at the direction of the Ratchet Village and said softly.

"The relationship is indeed special." Ouyang agreed.

"I heard that this Murloc Village is very willing to deal with us adventurers. Maybe we can come here often to have a look." Ajie suggested.

"Since we have to kill the Centaurs anyway, why not use this Murloc Village as a resting place? It's at least much closer than going back to the crossroads. And the Murlocs in this Murloc Village are indeed very different from the Murlocs in other places." Ouyang said. He had contact with the Murlocs in the Ratchet Village a long time ago, so he was impressed by this Murloc Village.

"Yeah." Mu Xiaolan nodded.

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Yang Yi and Bain returned to Ratchet Village. As soon as he separated from Bain, he got the news from the village's murlocs that the construction of the Sea Vow Altar was completed.

The village's Level 3 Murloc Sea Vow Altar took a total of nine days to build, and it was not completed until now. This construction time alone is basically equivalent to the ten-day deadline for the construction task.

Yang Yi came to the beach. The Sea Vow Altar was built on a wasteland east of Ratchet City. Few people usually come here.

The murlocs in Ratchet Village are busy healing the injured fighting murlocs or cleaning up the battlefield. Currently, there are only twenty or so construction murlocs responsible for construction on this beach.

"Village Chief, is the battle between the fighting murlocs and centaurs in the village over?"

Level 4 builder Gulu ran over immediately after seeing Yang Yi, and there was a murloc next to him. This murloc was a newly promoted Level 3 builder in the village.

Because this murloc is not only sleepy but also likes to snore, Yang Yi gave him a name after he was upgraded to an intermediate builder - Hulu Builder.

"It's over. Those centaurs were driven away by our fighting murlocs in Ratchet Village." Yang Yi announced loudly.

"The village chief is wise!"

"Long live the village chief!"

"The village chief is awesome!"

"Mula gaga gaga!"

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Gulu and other murlocs cheered when they heard the news that Ratchet Village drove away the centaurs. The murlocs directly drove away the invading centaurs. This is a great thing.

"Village chief, the murloc sea oath altar is built." Gulu said after cheering for a while.

"Very good, Gulu, Hulu, and the fishmen who participated in the construction, you have done a good job, and you will all be rewarded. Other fishmen must also work hard. As long as you become intermediate builders, I will give you names like Gulu and Hulu." Yang Yi said loudly to all the construction fishmen.

"Long live the village chief! Mula Gaga!"

...

The construction fishmen cheered loudly again, but unfortunately these fishmen had too poor vocabulary and repeated the same few sentences over and over again.

After another round of cheers, Yang Yi asked the construction fishmen who had worked hard for nearly ten days to go back to the village to rest. He walked forward to observe the newly built sea oath altar.

The appearance of the fishman sea oath altar is very different from the common fishman buildings.

A row of wooden arches built with large square wooden blocks, up to five or six meters high, are connected to form a large arc-shaped wooden formation, and the ground below the arc-shaped wooden formation is paved with flat stones. At the center of the arc-shaped wooden formation is a larger stone supported by three irregular boulders. The surface of the stone is as smooth as if it was cut by a knife or an axe. This is where the sea oath offerings will be placed in the future.

"This sea oath altar is well built. It is much better than the simple buildings in the unified fishman style in the fishman village. At least it looks unique." Yang Yi was very satisfied after seeing it.

"The fishmen in the village have completed the task of destroying the centaurs when fighting with the Kokar centaurs just now. You can choose rewards and continue to draw."

Yang Yi chose [Architecture Map: Patrol Fishman Training Camp (Village Level 3)] as a reward, and then he used a large disc to draw.

"I drew [Architecture Map: Pier (Village Level 3)], and the task is to leave two minotaurs behind..." Yang Yi looked at the task on the scroll and couldn't help cursing. He didn't need to look at the following task rewards.

Let's not talk about Jerick Gaoshan. Baine Bloodhoof is the son of Cain Bloodhoof, the Tauren Chieftain of Thunder Bluff. If he were in the human world, he would be a prince. Even if the Murloc Village Chief and he became sworn brothers, he would not be able to keep him.

"Let's upgrade the dock. It's much more reliable." Yang Yi put away the scroll.

Yang Yi left the Sea Oath Altar and walked along the beach towards the Ratchet Village Dock.

There are two buildings on the coast near the Ratchet Village Dock. One is a long-established shipyard, and the other has just been built. This is the water forging room used by the village's water forgers.

Now the buildings in Ratchet Village are slowly approaching the sea.

When Yang Yi passed the shipyard, he stood at the door and looked inside. A two-masted sailing ship was docked in the shipyard.

This two-masted sailing ship was salvaged from the sea. The evil fin fishman Mojitov and two undead jackals in the shipyard were repairing it with a group of fishmen.

Troll hunter Talley and his snap-jawed turtle were also staying in the shipyard at this time. The man and the beast were watching the busy murlocs and two undead gnolls with interest.

In order to salvage the sunken ship of the Theramore humans from the deep sea, the murlocs of Ratchet Village spent a lot of effort. Yang Yi expected from the beginning that it would not be easy to salvage the sunken ship, but he did not expect that the actual situation would be much more difficult than he expected.

At the beginning, Yang Yi took a slightly damaged three-masted sailing ship as the salvage target, but who knew that after spending a lot of energy, the murlocs of Ratchet Village still could not salvage the three-masted sailing ship. So Yang Yi could only settle for the second best and chose a two-masted sailing ship that was not too seriously damaged. It took Ratchet Village nearly a month to finally drag the sunken two-masted sailing ship to the shipyard in the village.

The people in the shipyard were busy, and Yang Yi did not go in to disturb them. He went to the water forging room in front.

This water forge was converted from a level 3 fishman hut in a village. The difference is that the hut in the water forge stands on the sea, and a wooden platform directly connects to the hut from the shore. There are many long wooden piles under the hut and the wooden platform like a dock.

When Yang Yi came to the water forge, he saw Kagumoji and several small fishmen studying something. They did not stay in the hut on the sea, but surrounded the shallow reefs under the hut.

When Kagumoji came to Ratchet Village, he was a fishman tide caller. This fishman likes forging and has two specialties suitable for water forgers, "forging armor" and "flowing water elements". After several months of hard work, he finally became a level 1 water forger.

Water forging is different from the common fire forging technology. Water forging relies on water pressure and the impact of water flow to change the shape of materials such as stone and metal. Magic professionals who are proficient in water spells can use spells to manipulate flowing water and use materials such as stone and metal to build buildings or forge equipment.

Kagumoji is now demonstrating to several murloc water forger apprentices how to use water forging. He placed a polished black stone on a reef exposed above the sea, his hands kept dancing, and white light was shining in his hands.

Kagumoji used magic to guide the sea water, and the sea water formed a water column that hit the surface of the black stone.

The sea water column kept hitting the black stone, and the impacted part of the stone slowly became smooth and tight at an undetectable speed. It takes a long time to completely water forge a stone equipment. Water forging is a technique that tests patience.

Kagumoji was demonstrating the principle of water forging to several murloc apprentices this time, so the seawater column soon dissipated, and the black stones on the reef were scrambled to watch by several murlocs.

After Kagumoji demonstrated the water forging method, he found Yang Yi standing in the water forging room. He climbed up the platform along a wooden stake in the seawater.

"Village chief, you are here. Kagumoji heard that the murlocs in the village defeated the centaurs." Kagumoji shouted happily.

"Yes, they defeated the centaurs." Yang Yi nodded and said.

"That's great. Kagumoji knows that the centaurs are a tough race. The bows and spears they forge are very good weapons."

"Yes, the centaurs are very powerful. Especially their longbows are very powerful. In this battle, many murlocs in the village were hit by the centaurs' sharp arrows and lost their lives."

"Village chief, Kagumoji learned to make clam shell shields using water forging. This shield may help the murlocs in the village resist the attacks of the centaurs' bows and arrows."

Kagumoji ran to the water forging room and took out a clam shell shield. The size of this clam shell shield is about the same as the standard shield commonly used by Theramore soldiers.

Yang Yi took the clam shell shield in his hand and found that the quality of this clam shell shield was not light, almost comparable to an iron shield of the same size.

"Is this clam shell shield forged with the clam shell of a hard-shell clam?" Yang Yi asked while looking at the clam shell shield. He found that this clam shell shield forged by water forging basically retained the original appearance of the hard-shell clam.

"Yes, village chief, this is indeed forged with the shells of hard-shell clams raised in the village farm."

"There are already several shellfish farms in the village that have begun to specialize in raising hard-shell clams. In this way, there is enough material source for mass production of this clam shell shield."

Yang Yi took a look with the Lord's Eye and found that this was a level 1 ordinary quality shield.

"This clam shell shield is very good. Kagumoji, how long will it take you to forge this clam shell shield?" Yang Yi asked immediately after looking at the clam shell shield.

"Village chief, because the hard-shell clams used are very strong, Kagumoji can forge such a clam shell shield with water forging within ten days. The clam shells of hard-shell clams are not considered high-quality materials for water forging. It would be better if there were turtle shells, but it would take more time." Kagumoji replied.

There is only one water forger in Ratchet Village, Kagumoji. The water forger can forge a level 1 ordinary quality shield with a useless sea clam shell. This kind of waste into treasure is already amazing.

Compared with traditional fire forging, the water satin method has an obvious disadvantage, that is, the water satin method is too time-consuming. It takes ten days to forge a level 1 ordinary quality shield, which is too slow. In this way, Kagumoji can only make more than 30 hard shell clam shields in a year of non-stop work.

Yang Yi nodded after listening to what Kagumoji said. He knew that the advantage of water forging is that the materials are easy to obtain, but water forging is like water grinding, which takes more time than ordinary forging.

"Kagumoji, the village is in short supply of shields now. We must forge more of these clam shell shields during this period. Also, you are the only water forger in the village. You must teach these little fish apprentices as soon as possible." Yang Yi explained.

"Don't worry, village chief, Kagumoji will definitely work hard." Kagumoji promised. .