Ranch Story: Start Over

Feng Ling took the rune stone excitedly. Is this a success?

"Ares, can I use this rune stone?"

"No."

The reason why Ares was excited was Feng Ling's success, so he kept writing and recording something.

I thought it was a successful work, but I didn't expect Ares' reaction to make Feng Ling a little sad.

After finishing recording, Ares closed his notebook and looked up and said:

"Brother Feng, this is just a sample. The real rune stone requires 500g of secret realm powder to refine. If there is no rune workshop, the failure rate will be even lower."

"500g of secret realm powder? How about you teach me? I want to try it."

Feng Ling showed a longing look. He really didn't understand why Ares said that this sample stone was not good. Wasn't it successful?

Ares looked around and suddenly his eyes lit up. He saw a small teapot and then trotted over to get it.

"Brother Feng, let me show you why the sample cannot be used as a regular rune stone."

Ares was a man of action. He took the small teapot and then pulled out a carving knife. He then carved a groove on the teapot with some effort. The shape was just right for inlaying the diamond-shaped rune stone refined by Feng Ling on it.

Then he used his magic power to carefully install the rune stone with irrigation effect.

"Brother, the grooves carved by Ares don't quite match, will there be a problem?"

One of Hua Xiaoling's talents is compound eyes, which are like a high-precision microscope. Therefore, she spotted the flaws in Ares's carving at a glance and reminded him quietly:

"? May I ask?"

"Ares, my sister said that the slot you carved is too bad. Will it affect the rune stone?"

Ares was concentrating and gathering his energy, but he stopped immediately when he heard Feng Ling say that. He was just about to finish, but now he had no choice but to believe it rather than not.

"Brother Feng, how did your sister know?"

"I have the gift of compound eyes, and can capture details up to billions."

Ares was a little confused for a moment. This! Is she not a human? No, this is someone's sister, I can't talk nonsense.

Ares, who didn't know Hua Xiaoling's identity, took what Hua Xiaoling said as true, scratched his head helplessly and explained:

"Brother Feng, Hua Xiaoling, carving will affect the inlay effect. My carving skills are average. If it doesn't work, let's find someone else. Don't waste this pure rune stone sample."

"Let me do it."

"You come?"

"Well, I can carve, and my tools are more specialized."

In order to learn the power of runes well, Feng Ling had already done his homework. In the afternoon, he spent 10,000 system merit points to buy a carving tool kit, which was hidden in the storage space.

As Feng Ling took out the carving tool kit, Ares, who had been skeptical just now, now remained silent. This set looked too exquisite. The chisels, the knives, the milling cutters, what materials were they made of? As an amateur, he had never seen them before.

As Feng Ling began to repair, Ares didn't know what Feng Ling did. He only saw the last hair-thin carving knife being held by Feng Ling's magic power. Looking at the fallen debris, it was almost as fine as the powder in the secret realm.

Ten minutes later, Hua Xiaoling wiped the sweat from Feng Ling's forehead.

"Okay, it's done. It's indeed a big problem. I used magic scanning to observe that the flatness is irregular. I made this rune stone with very high precision when I refined it. Now you can set it while I learn on the side."

Ares looked at Hua Xiaoling again.

"That's all right. See? My brother is really good. You can try inlaying it and see how it works."

Although he didn't know how to refute it appropriately, there was a special testing instrument in Ares' storage space, which was used to test the effect of rune ore after being attached to equipment. He watched Ares take out an exquisite magic device and then explain the inlay techniques to Feng Ling.

After listening to it, Feng Ling felt that there was nothing to pay attention to, so he tentatively pushed the rune stone in.

"Click!"

A crisp sound.

"? It's already been set? It's very simple."

"..."

Ares looked at Feng Ling and Hua Xiaoling with an expression that he didn't know how to describe. The three of them looked at each other, and the scene was very quiet for a while.

After a long while, Hua Xiaoling broke the silence:

"What's wrong, brother, Ares. Are you guys in a daze?"

Ares said blankly:

"I finally understand why I have to use magic to install my rune stones every time. A real rune stone should be inlaid like yours, which is a seamless whole. It seems that I need to focus on practicing carving techniques."

"Hahahaha, but you don't have the talent like my sister."

Feng Ling expressed his sympathy. Seeing Ares take out the testing props, he put the small teapot in it, filled the teapot with water, and a dim blue light shone on the teapot.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!"

There was a sound coming from the machine, and Feng Ling looked at the LCD screen. This was a magic liquid crystal stone, which was considered a standard feature of high-precision testing equipment.

The above data is similar to the detection results of my own system.

Props: Ordinary teapot

Inlay method: Master-level engraving technology increases the effect by 5%

Rune Stone: Magic irrigation effect 3%

Teapot medium: plain water

Overall evaluation: It is natural, but unfortunately it is just an ordinary teapot. The magic irrigation effect is increased by 10%, and it seems that it can be used to water flowers.

"This thing detects very accurately. No matter how much it costs, I'll buy one too."

"1000."

"Huh? Hahaha! Never mind, just pretend I never asked."

It’s ridiculous. People who work in science and technology are all rich people, not as poor as me. Feng Ling muttered to himself with frustration.

“Brother Feng, this time I assume that this rune stone is inlaid on the barrel.”

"?"

Ares brought over a large wooden barrel, filled it with water, and then threw the teapot in.

Feng Ling, who was watching, was still curious about how Ares would put such a large wooden barrel into the testing equipment. He saw Ares start to inject magic power into a magic power slot of the testing equipment. He didn't stop until the whole equipment grew to more than one meter.

"Looks so awesome."

Feng Ling seemed to have discovered a new world. The storage ring was in an alternate dimension, so it could be carried with the weight of the person. But could Ares's device, which could enlarge or shrink and function similarly to his Ruyi Jingu Bang, also be extraordinary? This was his blind spot in knowledge.

This time, there was a teapot in the bucket. After they were put in together, the values ​​became outrageous, and even the evaluations were different.

Simulation props: wooden barrel inlaid rune stone sample

Props: Ordinary wooden barrel

Inlay method: Master-level engraving technology increases the effect by 0.01%

Rune Stone: Magic irrigation effect increased by 3%

Teapot medium: plain water

Overall evaluation: Such a wasteful act is disappointing, with only 0.31% of the magic irrigation effect, this high-quality rune stone does not belong here.

"Do you understand, Brother Feng?"

"I see. So that's how it is."

"Do you understand, Hua Xiaoling?"

"You're such a fool, why don't you just tell me directly?"

Hua Xiaoling shook Ares, signaling him to speak quickly.