The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Two hours ago.

The Durham family mansion.

"Your Majesty Duke, Lord Lambert is outside the door." An attendant rushed in to report.

"Oh? Please come in quickly!" Duke Drum said with joy on his face.

Upon hearing that Lambert had returned safely, Duke Drum's first thought was that Rennes was finished.

Because in his opinion, only one of Lambert and Lane should be able to return from the secret realm alive.

If Lambert returns successfully now, does it need to be said about Renne's ending?

"Your Majesty Lambert, congratulations on your successful return." Duke Drum immediately saw Lambert with his arms crossed and a sword on his back. He immediately smiled and opened his arms, wanting to hug him.

"Quickly, make arrangements and make the dinner sumptuous."

"No, Your Majesty the Duke, I just want to say that I am not your opponent, Mr. Ren. If he had not shown mercy, I would not have been able to come back. So, I'm sorry." Lambert relaxed his shoulders and said.

"What!" This caused the smile on Duke Drum's face to freeze immediately, and his raised arms froze in place.

"Your Excellency Lambert, please forgive me for the offence, did you really not hold back?" Duke Durham asked reluctantly after regaining consciousness.

After all, the Lord Lambert in front of me can be said to be one of the handful of top legendary powerhouses second only to the Imperial Guardians.

However, Dram's words made Lambert look solemn and said:

"Duke Drum, you are questioning the character of a disciple of the Sword Master!"

Suddenly, a unique belief in the sharp sword suddenly rose in the sky with Lambert as the center, and a wave of substantive pressure swept across the entire place.

At this time, a man in black leather armor holding a dagger suddenly appeared behind Duke Drum. He waved the dagger and stood in front of the Duke.

But Lambert didn't even pull out the two-handed sword behind his back. He just stared with both eyes, which immediately made the Duke's personal guard groan and take a few steps back.

"This level of faith in the sword"

With Duke Drum's eyesight, he could naturally see some clues, and he couldn't help but look solemn immediately.

The strength of Lord Lambert is much stronger than he imagined.

Then isn't Renne's strength...

"Sorry, Sir Lambert, I'm rude." Duke Drum said with a bitter smile.

"Duke Drum, Your Excellency Ren is even more powerful than me. Although I know that the Durham family has the protection of Mr. Stormy Cloud, I still suggest that you stop provoking Mr. Ren."

"If you continue to provoke, I believe that one day, Lord 'Bao Yun' may not be able to protect the Durham family." After saying that, Lambert disappeared in front of Duke Durham in a flash.

Duke Drum, who stayed where he was, had a bitter face, but his heart was even more bitter. He didn't expect that the strong man he had high hopes to invite would actually become a supporter of that guy Renn. This is simply...

However, after carefully considering Lambert's words, Duke Drum was even more shocked.

Is it possible that Ren's strength is about to reach the level of the Empire's Guardian?

But this shouldn’t be the case, it’s so unreasonable!

The next morning.

While eating breakfast, Ren was thinking about learning leatherworking.

The chamber of commerce managed by the beautiful woman Jennifer naturally has leather goods stores, and not only leather goods stores, but also tailor shops and blacksmith shops. But the problem is, these shops are all in Münster.

The last time Renn learned tailoring, the Julis Tailoring Shop was also in Münster.

"We can consider asking Jennifer to expand her business appropriately in the Imperial Capital."

With his current strength, it is no problem to support a small and medium-sized chamber of commerce, or even a large chamber of commerce. However, if it wants to develop healthily, the chamber of commerce must find a business model that suits itself.

In this regard, Renn believes that the beautiful woman Jennifer's talent and skills in business are no problem.

"In that case, let's find Luther."

"Luthor's Snyder family, one of the important trade items of their chamber of commerce is furs from the North. There should be large leather workshops and leather goods stores in the imperial capital."

Renn quickly thought of someone suitable.

The inner ring of the imperial capital.

Snyder family mansion.

"Sir Ren, do you want to learn leatherworking?" Luther stared at Ren with wide eyes and said.

At the end of the retest last night, he received the latest news. It seemed that Lord Renne in front of him returned early due to special reasons and failed to enter the top six in the retest.

Could it be that he was feeling too low and depressed, so he wanted to learn leatherworking to relieve his mood?

"Well, Sir Ren, actually, according to the current trend, dragon knight selection does not necessarily have to wait for another five years. Maybe, there will be another chance in two or three years. Look at me, both times."

Renn was a little confused about Luther's words at first, but he soon understood. He smiled and waved his hand, interrupting Luther's comfort and said:

"Lord Luther, you misunderstood. Although I did not enter the top six in the re-examination, because I was on an imperial mission, I have been compensated and have the opportunity to make a final two-way choice."

"Huh? Then you..." Luther was stunned after hearing this!

So why is this?

"Haha, I learned leatherworking purely because I wanted to learn leathermaking. Why, is it inconvenient for you, Mr. Luther?" Renn said with a smile.

"Of course, no problem, but Lord Ryan, you may need to be mentally prepared. The smell in the leather workshop is a bit strong." Luther said hurriedly.

Although he still found it a little hard to believe that a powerful man who had reached the peak of legendary strength would actually want to learn the smelly leather making, but Ryan did not seem to be joking, and Luther would naturally do his best to satisfy him.

"Well, I already knew something before I came. Can we set off now?" Ryan nodded and smiled.

"Of course! By the way, I haven't congratulated Lord Ryan for entering the final double selection. The dragon knight is just around the corner! I'm really envious." Luther couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you, Lord Luther, I believe you will become a dragon knight in the near future."

Soon, Ryan and Luther took a carriage to a leather workshop located in the sixth ring of the imperial capital.

Since the leather making process, whether it is tanning or painting, will produce a strong pungent smell, so leather workshops are generally built on the outskirts of the city.

Of course, the leather shops that sell leather armor are naturally in the prosperous trade area, and this point cannot be confused.

When Ryan got off the carriage, he immediately smelled a distinct odor, which was stronger than he expected.

"It stinks!" Luther, who got off the carriage later, frowned and said.

The leather workshop that came into Ryan's eyes covered a large area of ​​about several thousand square meters. According to Luther's introduction in the carriage, it was the largest leather workshop of the Snyder family in the imperial capital.

All kinds of furs sent from the north are tanned, colored, processed, and finally embellished or inscribed here.

At this time, a sturdy old man with half his sleeves lifted and two other leaders in linen robes quickly stepped forward, bowed and said: "Lord Luther, why are you here in person?"

"Sir Ryan, this is the leather master and the head of the workshop, Old Henry. He has been making leather all his life and has rich experience." Luther introduced.

"Old Henry, this is Lord Ryan, who wants to learn about leathermaking. Your next task is to do this well. You must tell Lord Ryan everything you know, without reservation."

"Ah? Lord Ryan wants to learn leathermaking?" Old Henry looked at Ryan, then at Luther, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Are you kidding?

This lord is obviously of extraordinary status, and is likely to be as strong as Lord Luther.

Come to learn the smelly leathermaking?

Isn't this a brain disease?

"Is there a problem?" Luther's face was serious, and he turned to Old Henry and said.

"Lord Luther, it's not that I don't want to teach, but this leathermaking work is really too dirty. Lord Ryan is afraid..." Old Henry is a straightforward person, and he immediately got into trouble.

"Master Henry, if I can't stand it, I will take the initiative to stop in the middle, do you think it's okay?" At this time, Ryan stepped forward and smiled to comfort him.

When old Henry saw what Ryan said, he knew he couldn't refuse anymore.

"Okay, Lord Ryan, how about we start tomorrow?" Old Henry nodded with a tangled look on his face and said.

However, he had already decided in his heart that he would get everyone in the workshop moving later, clean up, and spray some perfume, so that he could welcome Lord Ryan to learn tomorrow.

"No, Master Henry, let's start now." Ryan waved his hand and said.

"Now?" Old Henry was shocked. Isn't this guy too impatient?

No, are you really going to learn?

"Well, look at such a large leather workshop, it should be 24 hours a day, and there should be leather being processed in every link." Ryan pointed to dozens of apprentices who were constantly soaking, kneading, and scraping fur, a lively scene, and said.

"Old Henry, do as Lord Ryan said, you take us now." Luther frowned and said.

"Okay, Lord Luther. Lord Ryan, please come with me." Old Henry said helplessly.

Although Ryan had told Luther to go back first, Luther was quite curious about his learning leather making, so the group soon came to the first step of the leather making process, "soaking".

In a warehouse where a large number of raw furs were stored, the apprentices were moving the furs out, shaking them, and putting them into a large round water tank for soaking in clean water.

"Lord Ryan, these are salted raw furs transported from the tundra. They need to be soaked in clean water for a day to remove the salt sprinkled during transportation," Old Henry introduced familiarly.

Ryan looked at it and nodded. This link did not have any technical content and was easy to understand.

Then, old Henry began to introduce the next item:

"This is a dehairing pool with a mixture of cow urine as the main ingredient."

Although it is also a soaking step, this time the immersion is in tanning liquid, a mixture of cow urine as the main ingredient, the purpose is to remove fat and blood. At the same time, the apprentices have to quickly wash the fur in the tanning liquid many times.

This process has begun to have some technical content.

Because the tanning liquid used to remove fat and blood from raw fur is highly corrosive, this is a test of hand speed for leatherwork apprentices.

The speed needs to be fast enough, otherwise, the skin of the palm will be corroded.

"This is a softening pool with a mixture of pigeon droppings as the main ingredient." Old Henry pointed to another row of large pools on the side and said.

"In the softening pool, it needs to be soaked for two days to further soften and dehair."

And Luther on the side was almost vomiting from the smoke.

He swore that if it wasn't for accompanying Ryan, he would never get so close to this manure pit!

Although this is all his family's business, to be honest, he has never learned about the production process of the leather workshop in detail.

Because everyone has his own expertise, as a titled knight and the rising star of the Snyder family, his daily focus is to improve his combat effectiveness. Business matters like these are taken care of by a dedicated person.

"What a freak!"

However, when he saw Ryan watching with great interest, Luther could only resist the churning in his stomach and persevere, but he couldn't avoid complaining in his heart.

"This is the front process of leather making. During the soaking and depilation process, the skin scraping process must be repeated in the middle."

Old Henry pointed to more than a dozen apprentices standing on the inclined board and scraping off fat and residual hair with thick-bladed knives, and introduced.

Ryan looked around and basically understood the process of tanning raw fur and turning it into cooked fur, which is about five steps: soaking in clean water, soaking in cow urine, soaking in pigeon manure, scraping, and drying.

"It seems that it was right to learn blacksmithing first when I was in Shining Gold Town. The leather-making environment is too bad. If the body's resistance is not strong, it is easy to get sick." Ryan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Master Henry, I plan to try it." Ryan pointed to an apprentice who was washing raw fur in a large round earthen vat and said.

Hearing that such an obviously noble man in front of them was going to enter the large vat of cow urine mixture and wash raw fur like them, all the leatherworker apprentices were stunned and looked at Ryan stupidly.

"Master Ryan. This."

Ryan smiled, and before old Henry came back to his senses, he took the initiative to pick up the half-length coat made of thick waterproof leather beside him and put it on.

Soon, Ryan stepped into the vat and began to rub a piece of sheepskin in front of everyone's astonished eyes.

Luther, who was standing by, also looked at Ryan with wide eyes.

He never thought that Ryan really wanted to learn leather making, and the kind of learning that he would do by himself!

As for Ryan, since the metal energy particles had already covered his palms, these corrosive liquids did not cause any harm to him at all.

He shook quickly and almost cleaned the fat and hair on the raw fur. Then, he put the goat skin on the inclined board and picked up the file to gently scrape away the last remaining hair and dirt.

Even if it was his first time to operate, Ryan, who had a legendary peak of super physical control and perception, was more meticulous and professional than those leatherwork apprentices who had worked for several years.

"This Lord Ryan is really a natural leather worker." Old Henry on the side couldn't help but sigh.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Luther, who was standing aside, stared at Ryan's actions, but when he heard what old Henry said, he immediately came back to his senses and whispered.

"Ah! Right! Right! Alas, Lord Luther, I just feel that when I reached Lord Ryan's current level, I had already learned leathermaking for at least two years."

"Forget about Lord Ryan's control. You won't understand even if I tell you this. Old Henry, remember this. Treat Lord Ryan with more respect than you treat me. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Lord Luther." Old Henry nodded repeatedly.

As if he had completely understood what old Henry had just said, Ryan only scraped a piece of raw sheepskin, and the system prompt rang:

[You have tanned sheepskin, and the relevant comprehension has been improved! ]

[You have comprehended a new skill - Tanning]

[Your skill in making tanning has been improved, and the experience value is +1]

[Congratulations! You triggered the career panel - leatherworker apprentice]

"Sure enough, it was triggered, and as expected, it was an apprentice-level career panel!" Ryan said in his heart.

Ryan glanced at the new career panel. Although the "leatherworker apprentice" was the least conspicuous blank board among the extraordinary career panels, without any light, at this moment, he was quite happy in his heart.

Because this means that the follow-up of the leatherworking career path is likely to be similar to tailoring, and it can be transferred multiple times.

In other words, he will gain a lot of skill points and attribute points in the future.

"Lord Luther, you go back to do your own things first." Ryan naturally noticed Luther who was heavily fumed by the stench, and smiled immediately.

"Okay! Old Henry, Lord Ryan must take good care of this." Luther thought for a while and nodded.

"Don't worry, Lord Luther, it is my honor that Lord Ryan is willing to learn leatherworking skills!" Old Henry bowed to see him off.

"Sir Ryan, this workshop is yours. You can use whatever materials you want. They will all be on me." Luther gave another reminder before turning around and leaving.

And then, it was Ryan's real performance time.

Since the leatherworker apprentice profession panel was generated, Ryan naturally had no reason not to upgrade quickly.

With Ryan's physical strength, he would not feel tired even if he did not rest for a week.

So, with the blessing of the core skill "focus" of the witch pattern tailor (supernormal), Ryan was carrying out the process of shaving fur while gaining a lot of experience points.

After Luther left, it only took two hours for Ryan to upgrade the leatherworker apprentice from lv1 to lv3, gaining two attribute points and two skill points.

And the two piles of shaved raw fur next to him were the fruits of Ryan's labor.

Adding his original remaining points, his remaining skill points now increased to 5 points, which is 6 points short of the 11 points required to upgrade the new witchcraft "Sawtooth Ring" at one time.

However, just now, the system prompts the job transfer information:

[Prerequisites for promotion to leatherworker: 1. Leatherworker Apprentice lv3 full level; 2. Agility 5 points or more, strength 5 points or more, and constitution 5 points or more; 3. Produce any ten pieces of qualified cooked fur! . The current conditions are not met! Promotion to leatherworker failed! ]

Since Ryan was just doing the skinning process, it is naturally not considered to have produced finished cooked fur.

"Master Henry, I will select a few sheepskins for the subsequent process. If there are any deficiencies, please help me point them out immediately."

"Of course, no problem, Lord Ryan." Under Luther's instructions, Old Henry naturally responded to the requests of Lord Ryan in front of him.