The four of us stood on the edge of the stone wall and looked up at the two bows hanging on the wall.One is a slightly darker ironwood bow, the whole ironwood bow is five centimeters shorter than the normal ironwood bow, but there are two black iron steel belts inlaid on both sides of the bow, and the steel belt is engraved with magic talismans that seem to be about the wind, and in the middle of the steel belt, there is actually a magic crystal the size of a small fingernail, and the other side of the bow is also engraved with wind charms, but there is no magic crystal.The entire bowstring was made of a red-colored beast tendon, and I couldn't tell what the material was at all, but I could feel the residual magical aura on it, but the magic crystal seemed to have no energy, and only emitted a faint magical elemental aura.The old orc reached out and took off the ironwood bow on the stone wall, held it in his hand, turned around and took out a feather arrow from the quiver next to him, put it on the bowstring and introduced it to us: "This ironwood bow was originally made by a master bow maker in the dwarf country, because the height of the dwarves is far lower than that of us orcs, so when they make bows and arrows, they will always deliberately reduce the overall length of the bow in order to make it easier to use.This is an ironwood bow with demonic steel belts inlaid on both sides, and the two steel belts itself increase the range of this ironwood bow by thirty percent, and just bring a talisman engraved with wind attributes, which can make the feather arrows shot out have a certain chance of breaking armor. ”As soon as the words were finished, the old orc stretched his bow and arrows to make a set of extremely smooth movements, only to hear the sound of "boom", the bowstring was vibrating slightly, I didn't even see the movement of the feather arrow, I saw that there was already a feather arrow inserted on the opposite round wooden target, and most of the entire feather arrow was inserted into the target, which can be said to be very strong.Just when Kuz was amazed, the old orc also sighed, put the bow on the wooden table and said: "Although the designer of this bow wants to use the steel belt to increase the range of the bow, but the design did not consider that the inlay of the steel belt on the back of the wooden bow will affect the overall strength of the wooden bow, so it was originally planned to increase the range by 50%, but because the inlay of the steel belt hurt the bow itself, it only barely increased the range by 30%, but the pulling force increased by half of the original pulling force.
The gains outweigh the losses.However, the wind series of seal carving belongs to the finishing touch.Gives this magic bow some value. ”Kuzi took it in his hand and reluctantly tried to pull the bowstring, but he could only pull more than half of it and could no longer pull it.Kuzi blushed with some shame, bowed his head and said to me, "Jia, I can't pull this bow. ”I comforted him on the side and said, "This bow is not very good, how do I think that if I have such arm strength, I should be able to pull the elven bow, this bow is not suitable for you, it is too old."
Don't you think that crystal is full of cracks?
I don't know how many times I can use it!
”Hearing me say this, Qige also exhaled and said, "I just felt that something was wrong, yes!"
There is not much magic left in this magic crystal, so it will be so dim. ”When the old orc heard us say this, he also sighed helplessly and said: "If it weren't for this, it alone can increase the range by thirty percent, which is comparable to an ordinary elven bow, where can it be hidden in my bow shop, it has already been bought by our orcs."
Do you think there are a lot of magic weapons?
”Seeing that we had no intention of buying it, the old orc once again removed the bowstring of the old ironwood bow and hung it carefully, perhaps we saw the flaw in this bow at a glance, when the old orc took down the second bow on the wall, he was not selling it, this is a neti bow made of neti green rattan, this bow has a turquoise neti vine on the back, and I can even see the tender green shoots growing on the rattan on the back of the bow.The old orc didn't sell Guan Zi this time, nor did he show us his superb skills, but just handed the bow to Kuzi and said to Kuz: "This bow is a Neti bow made by the bow master of the lizard people tribe in the swamp clan, and its difference is that this bow and arrow is alive!"
”"AhhThe first time I heard that there were live bows and arrows, they were beyond the scope of our usual cognition, which caused several of us to exclaim, and after careful observation, I found that the reason why the bow in Kuz's hand was said to be alive by the old orc was because the Neti vine that made this bow still had a trace of green, and this rattan was alive."
The pulling force of this bow is smaller than that of the Neyti bow, because when making this bow, the bow master made the bow a little smaller as a whole, and he used the secret method of the swamp clan, even after making the Neyti vine a bow, this rattan is still alive, this bow has two major benefits, first, this Neyti vine is still growing, and over time, the bow attribute will be improved.When the time comes, you won't try to change the bow because the bow you hold after your strength is not matched with you.It can grow under special potions, which is the biggest feature of this bow.The second point is very insignificant to the first, but it is a very practical benefit, which is that the bow has the ability to repair itself, even if it has some damage, as long as it is soaked in the special potion, it can be recovered overnight. ”The old orc's words touched me deeply, such a bow is good.I think one of the biggest headaches for archers is the maintenance of bows and arrows, to be honest, bowstrings made of beef tendon and wooden bowbacks are both very delicate, and the slightest carelessness can ruin a good bow.In the field, it is inevitable that there will be dangerous situations, it is inevitable that it will encounter rainy days, and the wooden bow will be deformed at worst after being flooded by fire, so the most difficult thing about bow weapons is maintenance.I asked Kutz with interest, "Az, what do you think of this?"
”Kuz stood aside and tested the pull of the bow and arrow, but said with a bitter face, "This bow is too light to shoot the demon antelope."
It's not as energetic as the ordinary Neti. ”I was a little unhappy, and said that the old man surnamed Su only hung such two broken bows on the wall, one is an old antique, and the other is a tender cabbage.I said to Kutz, "These two bows are really not for us, or we may find the right one in the free market." ”When the old orc heard me say that I was leaving, he pondered for a moment before asking, "What kind of bow do you want to buy?"
”Kige said directly on the side: "It's better to have an alloy bow!"
”"Well, then you wait."
After saying that, the old orc shouted downstairs a few times, and called the orc girl to sit with us for a while, but he was afraid to go upstairs from the stairs on one side.At this time, I knew that the orc girl's name was Sukameo, the daughter of the old orc surnamed Su, and the father and daughter had been running a bow and crossbow shop in Yemen for more than ten years, but now the orcs in the wasteland are getting poorer and poorer, and the originally prosperous bow and crossbow business is getting worse and worse, and many people would even rather have a worse performance of the bow, and only buy a bowstring, and refuse to change the bow easily.According to Sukameo, this weapon shop has only sold three alloy bows this year, and three months ago, Old Man Su had to sell all the high-end bows and arrows in stock to a merchant of the Green Empire, so that there were only two bows left on the second floor that could not be sold with some flaws, and she gently stroked the Naiti bow with vitality in her eyes, like stroking her own child.A question popped into my head and blurted out to her, "This Neti bow is yours?"
”"Huh?"
Sukamio didn't hear my broken orc language with a Guruding accent at first, but after a pause, he finally reacted, and said with a slight smile: "Yes, this is a gift from Old Man Su when I was 9 years old, at that time, this bow was less than half the size of now, and now it is so thick, I think it will be a good bow in a few years." ”I don't know what happened to this shop, but it seems that business is very sluggish, and he actually hangs up his love bow to sell, and when he sees my serious expression, Sucamio smiles and says to me, "What's the matter, no one buys it anyway, does it?"
”I asked Sukamio a little strangely, "How can the orcs hunt demon antelopes in the wasteland and gather the first magical herbs, which is vast and rich in resources?"
”Sucamio often worked in the shop, saw a lot of people and things, and heard a lot, so he naturally knew some inside information, so he introduced: A few years ago, the human caravan brought a large number of goods, in exchange for the livestock and herbs and ores of the orc tribe, the orcs began to abandon their leather armor and wear silk, smashed clay pots and replaced with fine porcelain, refused to eat jerky cassava, and began to learn from human nobles to eat sweet bread fermented from wheat flour.But there are no such things on the Pai Plateau, and after thousands of miles from the Grimm Empire, the things are frighteningly expensive.In the past, the orcs were self-sufficient, eating tapioca jerky, wearing leather armor and battle skirts, and producing a large number of animal skins and tendons and herbs every year can be exchanged for a large number of magical metals such as black iron, red copper, silver, mythril, pure gold, etc., which filled the warehouses, but later these precious metals became luxuries, such as magic carved high-leg candlesticks, fine and beautiful high-necked porcelain bottles, Carved ivory beds and a wide variety of beautiful objects.Even so, the life of the orcs could have been maintained, but three years ago, the orc tribal alliance launched a war to encircle and suppress the gray dwarf bandit group, this war completely collapsed the fragile economy of the orc race, the orcs have not been able to completely eradicate the gray dwarf bandits because of the lack of food, weapons and medicine, but instead the war has been ignited in various parts of the Pai Plateau, and then the orc tribal alliance turned to the human race for help, borrowed food and medicine that could sustain the entire battle, and finally defeated the gray dwarf bandit group before the heavy snow last fall, But because of this, he owed a huge debt.The upright temperament of the orcs made them return every piece of animal skin, animal tendon, herbs, ore, livestock, and the rare monsters hunted in the wasteland to the human beings to pay off the debts owed by the war, so that the entire orc tribe became poor, if it weren't for the cassava, I am afraid that the orcs on the Pai Plateau would only be able to eat grass now.Because of this, business in Yemeni town has also become bad, and it is difficult for merchants to sell some high-end weapons and armor, so over time, the stock of these high-end items is not much, and even some things have been out of stock for a long time.We were chatting with Sukamio for a long time, when we saw the tall figure of Old Man Su appear from the entrance of the third floor, he was carrying a long wooden box in his hand, I could even see that the wooden box was originally full of dust, but it was hastily wiped by Old Man Su, making this box with log wood grain more broken, and there were mud marks left by wet cloth wiping the dust on the wide wooden board.Old man Su walked to the table, pushed away the tea set on the table, and laid the long wooden box flat on the table.The things inside didn't seem to be heavy, but in the hands of Old Man Su, it was extraordinarily heavy, he was a little reluctant to say much, just silently opened the box, after opening the box, I was speechless and saw a long thing like a mummy, I could see that its prototype should be a bow, it was tightly wrapped in oilcloth, lying quietly in the box filled with soft grass, Old Man Su picked up the bow and slowly untied the tarpaulin."
This alloy bow was used by my father, since my father died, I wrapped it in the best oilcloth and sealed it in this wooden box, my father once used this bow to kill a mutant hyena man, and it was also relied on it to create this bow and crossbow shop, but now it is useless, I can't even remember what he looks like" Old man Su muttered in a low voice and untied the oilcloth bag.
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