Chapter 366: Craftsman Type I Individual Armor

After ten years of training, Richard has not only improved his fighting skills. In these ten years, he also completely completed the observation of the heart of the mountain inside Changshan Temple.

The complete Heart of the Mountain rune was born.

This rune is the most complex rune that Richard has ever seen. Its complicated structure is like a meridian diagram of a living thing.

"Sister Anna, you are right. This is the complete Heart of the Mountain rune." Richard smiled, "I wonder if you still remember what I asked you to do."

On the eve of his expedition to the Red Sun World, Richard gave Anna the incomplete Heart of the Mountain rune and asked her to research elemental puppets that could automatically repair.

Now that hundreds of years have passed, I don't know if Anna still remembers this incident.

"Of course I remember!" Anna said angrily, "Am I like the kind of wizard who promises things to others and then forgets about them?"

Richard nodded slightly, and then asked: "Since you still remember Sister Anna, how is your progress?"

"Progress..." Anna suddenly became speechless and struggled for a long time before she whispered, "There is no progress. I have tried the request you gave me for a long time, but I have never found a suitable research direction."

"Huh?" Richard frowned slightly, "What went wrong?"

Anna sighed and took Richard to the study on the third floor.

There is a huge bookshelf in the study room, filled with Anna's collection of magic books and her research notes.

She rummaged through it for a while and handed a thick black notebook to Richard.

"Let's take a look. This is my experimental record from that year. Your idea seems feasible, but in actual operation, it is very problematic."

Richard took the notes, found a chair and began to read them carefully.

Anna's records were very detailed. The notes not only recorded her experimental process, but also recorded her experimental ideas at the time and the source of this idea.

This allowed Richard to easily understand Anna's thoughts when watching.

Soon, Richard read the entire notebook.

After reading it, Richard sighed slightly: "I didn't expect that this earth element core has so many doorways. It seems that I took it for granted."

His idea back then was to divide the golem into multiple parts, and then use the characteristics of the Mountain Heart rune to make all these parts have the ability to automatically recover.

But in practice, this line of thinking simply doesn't work.

Although the golem's requirements for materials are not high, ordinary rocks and soil cannot be used.

If you want to turn the puppet parts into earth elements, you must perform a very complex enchantment on them, which will make the golem's energy consumption very scary.

Moreover, even after enchantment, the strength of these earth element parts is not as good as serious metal parts or special material parts.

To sum up, this idea is wrong.

Richard rubbed his brows. This was his first failed idea in these years.

Sure enough, a whimsical idea without knowledge as a basis is just a black box drawing of cards, and whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on luck.

Richard returned the note to Anna: "Since this idea is a failure, sister Anna, you don't need to worry about it anymore.

Sister Anna, you don’t need to worry about the runes. Investing is risky, and I am prepared to fail.

As for this Mountain Heart Rune, if you want to study it, I can temporarily lend it to you. But you cannot pass this rune on to others, you can only pass it on to your own students. "

Anna waved her hands after hearing this: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Although this rune is very good, it has nothing to do with my research. This thing should be of interest to the wizards of the school of plasticity. You can let Ellie study it."

"Really?" Li looked at Anna and asked with some uncertainty, "There is no store like this after passing this village. Sister Anna, you have to think clearly."

"Of course I'm sure." Anna said with great certainty, "I know you do it for my own good, junior brother, but this rune really has nothing to do with my research.

If I use it for research, it will only distract my energy. "

When Richard saw this, he stopped trying to persuade her. He stood up and said goodbye to Anna: "In this case, junior brother, I will go back first."

…

After leaving the Tower of Truth, Richard took a trip to Paradise City and purchased a large amount of alchemy materials from the Nine Stars Chamber of Commerce.

There is no way, there is basically no airship fleet in the Far North, and most of the materials stored by the Wizards Chamber of Commerce are related to physical evolution.

Richard wanted to conduct research on alchemical machinery, and they probably couldn't get together the materials he needed.

So Richard simply bought it along the way.

After returning to the Wizard Tower with the materials, Richard plunged into the laboratory and began to make the first black crystal power furnace.

One month later.

On the test bench, a fist-sized metal sphere floated in the air.

This metal sphere is engraved with dense runes, and the runes are connected to each other like a cage, trapping the things inside the metal sphere.

This is the black crystal power furnace. It only requires a knuckle-sized Uris black crystal. This power furnace can provide the energy of more than ten magic spirits.

This number may not seem impressive, but if you convert it, this is ten thousand magic stones. As for a first-level wizard, even if his mental power reaches the extreme level, the reserve of magic return is only thirty-four magic stones.

The energy provided by a black crystal power furnace is comparable to the magic return energy storage of nearly three hundred first-ring wizards.

Moreover, the wizard's magic reflux is a more efficient way for living things to store energy. The energy storage capacity of ordinary indigenous creatures in their bodies is much lower than this value.

Unfortunately, when Richard was making the power furnace, he roughly estimated the cost of using this power furnace as the power source of his small floating city.

But the result made Richard directly reject this idea.

No way, it's too expensive.

The power furnace of this small floating city still depends on the Starr Wrathful Soul Power Furnace from the ghost world.

Speaking of which, his nightmare power should be almost accumulated. It won't be long before he can see through the secret of the power furnace.

Putting the black crystal power furnace into his pocket, Richard then opened the crack of the secret realm and entered the secret realm.

In the secret realm, there was a scene of birds singing and flowers blooming, and only a piece of stone wasteland in the corner kept the roar of machinery.

This stone wasteland was not formed naturally, but was hardened by fire lizards after Richard chose it as the location of the alchemy workshop.

The land in an area of ​​nearly a quarter of a square kilometer was hardened into hard stone by fire lizards.

In the alchemy workshop, fire lizard craftsmen gathered together to discuss the design drawings.

Although they had experience in designing the Mechanic Type I individual armor, they were also a little confused in the face of Richard's unreasonable requirement of "improving the performance of the armor while reducing the cost and production difficulty as much as possible."

This requirement was really too much. There was only a trade-off between the three, and how could they have both.

But Richard was their big boss, the sponsor, and the savior of the race. Even if this requirement was too much, they had to find a way to complete it.

"How is your research going?"

Hearing the voice from behind, many fire lizard craftsmen stood up and turned to Richard and bowed slightly.

As one of the leaders of the fire lizard craftsmen, Kallion spoke first. "Sir, you are just in time. How about this design?"

As he spoke, Carion came to Richard and handed him a dozen manuscripts.

"This is the result of our many discussions. We made some trade-offs in the performance of the armor. On this basis, we tried our best to reduce the cost and manufacturing difficulty."

Richard flipped through the manuscript. Indeed, these fire lizard craftsmen have reduced the cost and manufacturing difficulty of individual armor to a very low level.

This set of individual armor still uses an exoskeleton, and its external armor can defend against elemental attacks of 300 energy levels and physical attacks of 400 energy levels. In terms of auxiliary functions, this set of armor can make the user more agile, faster, and stronger. And its raw material cost has also been compressed to ten magic essences per set.

Except for its high energy consumption, this armor is a perfect mass product.

"Yes, this is it." Richard decided, "But this is just the main structure, I still need some weapons.

I am not very clear about your weapon requirements, so you still have to design them."

Seeing Richard agree, Kallion was slightly relieved. He said to Richard respectfully: "Sir, we have already designed the weapons."

After that, Sulina came to Richard with a dozen manuscripts.

Richard took the manuscripts and read them. These manuscripts drew many kinds of weapons, including but not limited to cold weapons such as scimitars, spears, bows and arrows, javelins, etc.

These cold weapons need to be made with dragon alchemy, and the cost has been kept very low.

"Okay," Richard nodded, "Thank you for your hard work during this period."

As he said, Richard took out the black crystal power reactor.

"This is the power furnace I made. You can adapt it and try to make a set of armor first. If there is no problem, the design of the armor will be finalized."

"Yes, sir."

After handing the materials to the fire lizard craftsman, Richard turned around and left the secret realm.

Half a month later, the first set of armor was successfully made.

Overall, this set of armor is a smaller version of the Mechanic Type I individual armor. The external armor plate of this set of armor is still made by dragon alchemy, but the internal structure has many more parts of wizard alchemy.

There is no way. In terms of the application of materials, wizard alchemy is much stronger than dragon alchemy.

The one who tested the performance of the armor was a fire lizard worker. This is a first-level fire lizard, and his body looks particularly strong.

Soon, the test began.

The first round of armor testing was a motion test. The fire lizard worker who was tested successfully completed many actions such as running, jumping, rolling, etc. according to the requirements.

Except for some restricted movements, most of his movements were no problem. And with the help of the armor, his movements became more labor-saving.

In addition to the action test, the armor was also tested for resistance, attack, energy consumption and destructiveness.

The final result also made Richard very satisfied.

These fire lizards wearing armor, if trained, have a great chance of winning even against ordinary first-ring wizards.

After the test, the fire lizard craftsmen stripped the armor off the test fire lizard, and with Richard's approval, the fire lizard was given a three-month vacation.

"Yes, this armor is well designed." Richard said to the fire lizard craftsmen, "Have you named it?"

"Yes, sir." A fire lizard craftsman smiled, "We call him 'craftsman'."