Chapter 14

13. Water Flow Phalanx

"Hello everyone, I lived on the island ten years ago, and I chatted with some people at that time."

Li Ang wanted to get close to the villagers.

"Ah, I remember you. So it's you, a person who doesn't know where to come from and doesn't know where to run."

A villager suddenly walked up.

Ten years, Li Ang didn't recognize him at all, but he remembered Li Ang, which made Li Ang very surprised.

It seems that this village is too closed, decades as one day, so the memories of ten years ago will not be replaced by fresh memories.

There are several people like this villager.

"You still remember me? What an honor." Li Ang said politely.

If it were outside, reunion after a long separation might require a good chat, but Satutus Island really doesn't have contact with the outside world. The villagers are not good at chatting, and they didn't say a few words to each other, so they asked Li Ang why he was here dryly.

"I'm looking for a blacksmith shop."

As soon as his words came out, the villagers' expressions were unnatural.

At the same time, they also looked at Zoey behind Li Ang. At this moment, the girl lowered her head, her face covered by the chestnut hair hanging down.

Li Ang didn't know the situation, and the scene fell into silence instantly.

"Uh, her, I didn't do anything to her."

He felt it was better to explain first.

A villager leaned forward and whispered: "Well done."

Hmm? What does it mean?

"This girl is a weirdo, and her parents are also very scary. We don't dare to provoke them. You can make her cry, you really have ability."

Do Zoey's parents have a grudge with the villagers?

Li Ang's gaze turned to the girl. Hearing the villagers' words, her shoulders shrank, and she retreated a few steps, turned around and ran into a narrow alley between two houses nearby.

Seeing the girl run away, the villagers didn't feel anything strange, but seemed to have let out a sigh of relief.

"What kind of people are her parents?" Li Ang asked.

"Weirdos, always doing strange things."

It took a bit of effort for Li Ang to ask clearly.

It turned out that ten years ago, as soon as Li Ang left, Zoey's parents brought her to the island, almost one after another.

They lived on the island for two years before leaving. At that time, Zoey should have been seven years old.

In the eyes of the villagers, if someone comes, they come. Anyway, opening a field on the island is easy to be self-sufficient. The fields in the Newbis world are incomparably fertile and never need to be fallowed, so both sides naturally won't have any conflict.

But not long after, people on the island began to disappear. The villagers suspected that they were murdered and wanted to investigate. However, when they approached their house, they heard huge strange noises and saw strange light, which scared them so much that they never dared to approach again.

Later, before the two left, they also went door-to-door to threaten the villagers not to bully their daughter after they left.

Murder? Threat?

Although Zoey is sometimes naughty, even if the vicious parents left early, it would affect the child. She doesn't look like the child of such parents at all.

Saying goodbye to the villagers, Li Ang found the location of the blacksmith shop through the system's overlooking map.

It is located at the other end of the village, but it is a distance from other houses. It is a detached building with a courtyard. The furnace and anvil that looked like they hadn't been started for years were in the courtyard, with a shed built above.

On the other side of the courtyard is a small house, surrounded by flowers and plants, and there is a courtyard in the back, where you can see the corners of the fields.

The blacksmith shop is no longer open, but someone still lives here.

Li Ang felt strange, and saw Zoey open the door and come out.

"Li Ang." The girl called his name in a low voice.

"Is this your home?"

"Hmm."

"So, the blacksmith is actually your father?"

"Dad was knocking here every day, knocking stones into swords and knives and things, so I thought you would come here too, so I came here to wait first."

After the battle just now, Zoey is much more quiet now. She is neither as at a loss as when they first met, nor as giggling at any time as before today.

And it is this kind of demeanor that makes people notice that she is actually a stunning beauty.

Her skin is naturally perfect. Even if she is crazy outside, it only adds a healthy flush to her delicate skin, which not only didn't lower her appearance, but filled it with youthful breath.

"Then I'll borrow your family's forging furnace and anvil."

"Okay, but I don't know if it can still be used."

Li Ang didn't understand these things before, and didn't know even more now.

After he got closer, he saw that this furnace was a magic furnace. Mechanisms using the same principle can be seen in many places. The most common are the power rooms of various airships.

He found the dim energy storage crystal behind the furnace and injected magic power. The magic flame burned quickly, and other tools looked complete.

Opening the equipment manufacturing panel, the system prompted that it was ready and could start manufacturing.

【Detected required tools, detected materials (Iron Ore) (Water Mist Stone), can choose blueprint】

Li Ang chose 【Blueprint: Basic Standard Iron Sword】.

【Blueprint confirmed, detected additional material (Water Mist Stone) can be added, add it?】

It was the observation information given by the system that let Li Ang know that Water Mist Stone could actually be smelted. He also wanted to see the effect, so he chose to confirm.

The Wyvern materials were also prompted that they could be smelted, but he was afraid of waste, so he prepared not to add them first.

After pressing the option to start manufacturing, his brain was clear, and he was flooded with a series of knowledge. This knowledge was not a combination of words, but directly became his experience. He immediately understood how to forge.

The feeling of directly acquiring knowledge is wonderful. He is like a skilled blacksmith for many years, picking up tools and starting operations.

Smelting iron ingots, heating, knocking...

Putting the Water Mist Stone into the magic furnace, the magic flame quickly burned away its impurities. Li Ang accurately added it to the iron embryo before the water elements escaped...

Time passed gradually, the iron sword gradually took shape, and after quenching, the finished sword embryo was finally obtained.

After polishing and using some materials left by Zoey's father to manufacture the guard and hilt, the final result was presented.

【Standard Iron Sword (Clear Spring)】

【A sword forged through standard processes. Because materials containing water elements were added, the attack has water attributes】

【Rank: 1】

【Category: One-handed sword】

【Equipment Skill: Water Flow Phalanx (Torrent)】

Water Flow Phalanx?

【Skill: Water Flow Phalanx (Torrent)】

【Activation Method: Collaborative Unit 5】

【Raindrops gather into streams, streams merge into rivers, rivers pour into the sea. When water gathers together, its power is unstoppable】

【Effect: Weapon rank rises by 1 when activated】

When he got the sword, Li Ang thought he read it wrong.

Equipment does not necessarily carry skills, nor does it mean that equipment carrying skills must be top-grade. The final result depends on the rank and the effect of the skill.

He didn't expect to be able to forge equipment carrying skills, but because he was already accustomed to the system's power, he was not very surprised.

What really surprised him was this skill.

Or rather, it is "Phalanx."

Equipment with phalanx skills is called phalanx equipment. As the name suggests, when multiple individuals form a phalanx, power will be added.

This is a skill favored by various Sky Knight teams. If you can collect weapons with the same skills, everyone uses them together, and their power can be enhanced.

Li Ang knows a top team that is equipped with phalanx weapons on a large scale. When teaming up to fight, it gets twice the result with half the effort.

But equipment with the same skills is not so easy to find, and some people regard it as a chicken rib.

But if Li Ang can mass-produce phalanx equipment...

"In this way, if I arm my team, we will definitely be invincible."

His heart was burning, and he immediately prepared to put the remaining ore into forging to see if there were any new discoveries.