The Steady Mage in the Pirate World

"Let me see, first of all, it's mithril powder. It doesn't matter. You can use a metal with better magic conductivity instead. Well," Kong Ming opened all his bags of casting materials and started picking through them. "This kind of metal Yes, it’s just a bit soft, but the magic power transmission should be a little worse than mithril. Let’s go with this one, although it’s a bit expensive.”

As he spoke, Kong Ming took out a small bag of blue metal powder from the bag and put it aside.

"Then there are magic sapphires, three."

Dangdang three sapphires shining with mysterious light were also taken out.

"Then there's the base. It's best to use real silver. Real silver is a bit expensive." Kong Ming muttered as he picked out a piece of silver metal about half the size of a fist from three pockets. "Just this little bit of real silver would require dozens of kilograms of silver to refine, which would be worth millions of Baileys."

"Then there are the drawings of the base and the transmission system. Fortunately, I brought it with me." As he said that, Kong Ming took off what looked like a box from the belt on his back. "The universal tool for engineering, and" Kong Ming added He rummaged through his bag and took out something that looked like a hookah. "The multi-functional spray gun is put together. This is an engineering artifact, a mini workbench."

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

It was obviously not the first time that Kong Ming used this mini workbench. He first softened the real silver with a spray gun, then used a small hammer to beat it, and soon forged the real silver into three identical pieces. Curved slices.

After putting the three pieces of silver aside to cool down, Kong Ming moved his fingers and took out a delicate and small carving knife from the box.

Making magic items and making ordinary items, such as making a flame-enchanted flaming sword and an ordinary long sword, both need to be forged. However, after the ordinary long sword is forged, it needs to be polished, accessories installed, and then basically Even if it's done. After the magic sword is forged and formed, it still needs to go through several tedious steps.

For example, rune carving is to use a special carving knife to carve unique runes on a forged instrument. This step is very critical. The smoothness of the rune carving directly affects the quality of the magic item after it is formed.

After the engraving is completed, the engraved runes must be filled with some good magic-guiding metal. This is called metal diversion. This step is also critical. If there are invisible breakpoints in some places during the metal filling process, the power of the magic item will be reduced or even unable to be activated at all.

The last step is to create the core. This core can be the holder himself or a medium containing magical power. At this step, the process is much simpler. The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is that the contact surface between the core of the magic item and the previously laid magic runes must be appropriate and cannot be too large or too small.

Although it was not Kong Ming's first time making magic items, he had never made this magic circle that specifically controlled magic nodes before. However, this was not a big problem. Anyway, if the drawing was wrong, he would just melt the materials and rework it.

"This is how many arts do not overwhelm the body." Kong Ming praised himself, "I learned engineering, enchanting, forging and alchemy, so I am really great."

"Book Projection" Kong Ming first cast a spell to project the design of the magic circle he copied onto his glasses. He held the frame of the glasses and fine-tuned the size of the design so that the design on the glasses would be the same as the one on the workbench. Several real silver flakes overlap. "True 3D projection carving technology"

More than an hour later, the three pieces of real silver that had been forged into thin sheets had turned into three pieces of art with mysterious patterns.

"I have only failed twice. I am really a genius." Kong Ming confidently placed three pieces of real silver with runes engraved on it on the mini workbench, and used a spray gun to spray the small bag of blue that he took out at the beginning. The metal powder turned into a blue solution. Carefully hold the crucible of this solution with the hand of the mage, and use the solution to fill all the areas that were emptied by yourself in the three pieces of real silver.

After it cools down, carefully polish it again and inject your own magic power to check it. There is nothing wrong. Inlay the three magic sapphires and test again. OK, you're done.

The next step is the on-site installation. This step is originally very risky, because the original magic tide emitted from the magic nodes is very violent, and you may be injured if you are not careful when installing the array. But now this step is risk-free for Kong Ming. Thanks to the ancient kingdom, this magic node has been bound by the ring. As long as there is no problem with the ring, the power in the magic node is It's impossible to explode.

This is like testing a new boat. The safety level is completely different when you test it on the sea and in a calm viewing lake.

"Now, the last step." According to the records in the notebook, Kong Ming used the hands of a mage to evenly arrange the three newly completed magic node control arrays around the magic nodes, and then lightly activated them with his mental power.

After Kong Ming issued the activation command, the three magic circles that originally needed Kong Ming's mage's hands to float around the magic nodes seemed to have their own souls. Blue light emitted from the magic circle. The three magic sapphires began to flash, and then began to spread out to both sides of the sapphires along the runes carved by Kong Ming.

Finally, the entire array began to shine with azure light, and rows of blue runes appeared in the sky. The formation base surrounding the three arrays began to expand in all directions. When these runes stopped, they were originally hidden in the In the sky, the magic node that cannot be seen by human eyes has turned into a ball of light flashing with blue runes.

"Perfect" Kong Ming gently stretched out his right hand, and after adjusting a few runes on the blue light ball, the lights in the entire room dimmed. "Sure enough, all the energy sources in this research institute are From this magic node, as long as I turn off the magic output of the node, this research institute will run out of power."

Before Kong Ming finished speaking, he heard the voice of the second-rate Arrita coming from behind him, "What's wrong? Why did this thing stop? Is this a trap?" As soon as he heard Arrita's voice , Kong Ming immediately unlocked the control of the magic node without hesitation and re-powered the research institute.

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"It's still a step too late." Kong Ming held his glasses with one hand and looked helplessly at the slightly deformed elevator door and Alita standing in the door holding an iron rod. He slapped his right hand hard with his left hand. For a moment, "I'll make your hands dirty"

"Boss, there must be a trap here." Arrita held her big iron rod and looked around alertly. "When I was just about to get down in this small room, it suddenly stopped moving. There must be bad guys. He wanted to lock me up and then attack each of us. Fortunately, I was smart and broke out, otherwise you might have been harmed, boss."

"Why should I have a power outage?" Kong Ming slapped his right hand again without hesitation.

"Wait, boss, what is that?" At this time, Arrita's vigilant eyes glanced at the water polo that had finished scrubbing the hall and was scrubbing the corridor. "If I'm not mistaken, that's Xiaoruan, right?"

"It seems so." Kong Ming swallowed quietly, "Look, Arrita, does this blue ball of light look good?"

"Boss" Arrita looked directly at Kong Ming with a serious look on her face, tapping her shoulders with the big iron rod in her hand, "Can you tell me why you brought a small soft bag specially used for cleaning? When you come here, do you still want me to take my brothers with rags and brooms to clean the place?"

"This and that." Kong Ming put his hands behind his back, his eyes wandering under the lens, "I must have been too excited at the time and forgot about it. Yes, that's it."

"Really, boss?" Arrita came over with a serious face and said fiercely, "Are you sure you forgot and didn't specifically plan to show me the joke while I was working?"

No, a certain Erha is getting harder and harder to deceive now.

"How could such a thing happen?" Kong Ming's eyes were still uncertain, "Arrita, you have to believe me, you are my most important partner. It is absolutely impossible for me to look like you said. It’s a joke.”

"Really?" Arrita took a step back in doubt, "Are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it is real, more real than gold"

"One million Baileys" Arrita spread her hands, "I believe you"

"Deal" Kong Ming immediately took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and slapped it into Arrita's hand.

"Okay, people believe you now." Arrita happily put away the big iron rod, then stuffed the newly obtained stack of banknotes from her chest, and clapped it twice with her hands.

rough waves

Kong Ming looked away from the wave curve in embarrassment. Really, I just wanted to analyze how such an unscientific thing was done from the perspective of magic research. I really didn't have any other meaning.

"Hey, why is there a big blue light ball here?" The blackmail was successful, and Arrita was in a good mood and finally discovered this eye-catching thing in the center of the hall. "This is what you have been working on down there for a long time, boss."

Alita, who was curious, jumped up and down around the magic node lively, poking a few spots with her hands, and poking a few spots with a stick. Finally, when she was about to swing the stick at it twice, Kong Ming quickly gave it to her. She called it off.

Of course, there is no problem if you don’t stop. Now the magic circle that controls the magic nodes has begun to operate normally. This magic circle will absorb energy from the magic nodes, thereby constructing a visible force field to bind the magic nodes. , that is to say, after this magic circle started running, this magic circle and the magic node were completely merged together.

The current magic circle of the big blue light ball will directly absorb the energy of the magic node when it is attacked, unless the top powerhouse in this world uses overwhelming power to crush the entire magic node with one blow. Self-healing. As for the power of crushing an entire magic node with one blow, Kong Ming roughly calculated that it would not be difficult. It is estimated that Whitebeard in his heyday would have been able to do this.

The current Arrita probably won't be able to open the door even if she is exhausted.

This is what happened, but Kong Ming couldn't tell Arrita like this, otherwise Arrita would really come into conflict with the magic node. If she used a stick to beat it every day, even if the magic node could hold it, Kong Ming felt that I can't bear it myself.

"By the way, Arrita, what do you want when you come down to see me?"

"Oh, oh, boss, I would have forgotten if you didn't tell me." Arrita finally remembered the business of coming down, "Actually, I just wanted to ask you about those strange animals we caught and that Mimic. How to deal with it.”

"Mimic" Kong Ming held his glasses in his hands and looked confused, "What kind of Mimic"