Chapter 133: The Choice of Magic Armor

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Shu Yue didn’t answer him, instead looking at Lin in front of her.

Lin puffed out her little mouth and raised her hand to wave it, blocking the gaze Wolf was throwing at Shu Yue.

“Hey, old Wolf, you promised me, why are you asking so many questions?”

Wolf saw that Lin was shielding Shu Yue again, which gave him a headache, so he explained one line to Lin.

“The mana essence has been measured for purity. It’s one hundred percent pure, without a single impurity. Even if there were any, they’d be almost nonexistent. Someone who can refine raw mana ore to this level is by no means ordinary. And you should know that things like this don’t just flow out to the outside.”

The meaning of those words was obvious, saying someone had given it to Shu Yue.

Lin rolled her eyes at him. That wasn’t what she wanted to hear.

“Old Wolf, just help out with it, won’t you? It won’t take you long. Just make the most basic style.”

While saying this, she turned her head to glance at Shu Yue.

What Shu Yue had said back then was that she wanted the fastest and most basic one, as long as it was usable.

It wasn’t like Shu Yue actually relied on the Magic Element Armor.

As her strength grew, the Magic Element Armor would become more and more of a restriction to her.

The reason she wanted this thing was to prepare for after the Dragon Maiden Transformation, so that no one would see the Dragon Princess True Form and attract unnecessary attention.

With the Magic Element Armor, when she transformed into the Silver Dragon Princess again, she’d have a way to hide it.

So when Lin mentioned the most basic style, she didn’t voice any differing opinion.

Old Wolf looked at Lin’s willful manner and had no way to deal with her.

Earlier, Lin had snuck over to find him, saying she wanted a Magic Element Armor made, and he’d treated it as making a toy for a kid.

But he never expected that after Lin took out that Mana Element Cube, he measured it and discovered something unusual.

Wolf hadn’t seen many mana essence bodies this pure even before he retired.

Driven by curiosity, Wolf probed Lin for information, and only then learned it was Shu Yue who had provided it.

To be precise, in his eyes, it was Liya White who had provided it.

Wolf and White had never gotten along.

White Knight White had caused him to work overtime constantly, day and night repairing the wear and tear on the Magic Element Armor.

He hated guys like the White Knight who didn’t take care of their Magic Element Armor…

As a forger, every Magic Element Armor was his child.

Looking at the child returning after every victorious battle in such a sorry state, Wolf’s mood would be good only if hell froze over.

He glanced at the slender figure of the illusion form and snorted, saying:

“You little brat don’t resemble that bastard White one bit.”

“Mm, maybe I take after my mother more?”

Shu Yue casually replied.

Lin started urging at this point, telling Wolf to hurry up and bring out the design drawings for them to see.

If it was just the basic style, Shu Yue wouldn’t need to come.

The reason she was here at all was because of Lin.

Lin probably wanted to come out and play, and needed a playmate, so she found a way to drag Shu Yue along.

But…

Lin was a bit discouraged, because Shu Yue wouldn’t remove the illusion form, leaving her unable to get close to Shu Yue.

Wolf had no way to handle Lin, so he could only lead Lin and Shu Yue into his forging workshop.

This building was just the forging workshop.

The one next door was also leased out for use as a warehouse.

While in the courtyard, Shu Yue could hear the clanging sounds from inside, as if they were hammering and forging metal.

The moment the door opened, a wave of hot air carrying the scent of iron rushed at her face, giving her the feeling of being punched in the chest, and she instinctively held her breath.

Lin furrowed her small brows.

It wasn’t her first time here, so she quickly got used to the sudden change in temperature.

Besides, she herself had Fire Element affinity.

After using Bloodline Power, Lin could even try swimming in magma.

Though Lin hadn’t actually tried it…

The Northern Frontier was huge, and not all of it was covered in ice and snow.

Only the far northern reaches had year-round snowfields and glaciers.

Shu Yue still didn’t know where the Tian Yuan Defense Line was.

The Northern Frontier looked peaceful and harmonious, and she herself had come from the Outlands in the north. Could it be in the extreme north?

She’d find a chance to ask Lin about it later.

She’d definitely know.

After gaining some Fire Element affinity, Shu Yue also acquired high-temperature resistance.

Facing the iron-fire-rich interior of the workshop, she showed no signs of discomfort.

Just as they walked inside, Wolf turned and said to Shu Yue without courtesy:

“Brat, don’t go touching things.”

“Oh.”

Shu Yue replied indifferently.

Lin’s brows furrowed deeper. She stared at Wolf’s back, her little mouth slightly pouting, and a trace of displeasure flashed in her eyes.

The girl looked back at Shu Yue behind her and spoke up:

“Are you afraid of the heat? Move closer to me. I can help block the dense Fire Element here for you.”

“No need. I have Fire Element affinity too.”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t that normal?”

Shu Yue smiled faintly.

If she got too close to Lin, that forger old Wolf would definitely become even more displeased.

She could roughly see what kind of person old Wolf was.

He didn’t like Liya, because Liya was far too different from Wood.

Old Wolf had a deep connection with the White Knight Wood White.

As an elder, seeing his friend’s junior tarnish his friend’s name, he’d naturally be displeased.

Under normal circumstances, Shu Yue should put on a show and win genuine recognition from this “father’s” allies and enemies.

With his help, she’d get a carefully crafted Magic Element Armor.

In some future crises, this armor would help her seize a thread of hope and survive.

But Shu Yue was Shu Yue.

She didn’t need anyone’s recognition.

Everything she did only needed her own approval.

The workshop contained blast furnaces, but they weren’t for smelting molten iron.

They were for heating finished pieces to make shaping easier.

What was forged here wasn’t Magic Element Armor, but ordinary armor.

Whether it was armor forging or weapon forging, both were composite work.

From taking shape under the forger’s hands to having runes carved by rune craftsmen, the two professions worked in tandem, with many steps in between.

It was quite a complex technical craft.

As long as armor and weapons had runes carved on them, they became Magic Artifacts.

If ranked by Magic Artifact grades, they went: crude, fine, refined, precious, masterpiece, masterwork, and legendary.

In reality, if a Magic Artifact could reach the masterpiece level, its price was already quite steep.

Those who could afford it were either high-tier Supernatural Beings or rich second-generation types with money to burn.

Masterwork-level ones were family heirlooms.

Legendary… well, that was just a legend.

Wolf’s forging workshop had quite a few young people in it.

Most were forging apprentices, and the aura on them was apprentice-level.

Only a rare few had Tier 1 auras.

Shu Yue swept her gaze over them and saw the armor pieces they were hammering, polishing, and buffing.

Some were doing maintenance work, others were doing repairs.

When they saw Wolf, each of them showed reverence on their faces, but when they saw Lin, they all went wide-eyed.

It was Lin’s bright red dress paired with her golden hair and crimson eyes, like a Fire Element Elf appearing in the Material Realm.

Wolf used a cough to shake them awake, telling these guys to focus on the work in their hands instead of gawking around.

He strode forward, leading Lin and Shu Yue down to the workshop’s basement.

The forging of a Magic Element Armor was unlike ordinary armor.

Its creation was somewhat similar to a tailor’s work.

When not in use, it could transform into an accessory to wear, and it had both a half-armored and full-armored state.

It wasn’t simply a single form.

It required the dual professions of forger and rune craftsman, plus the empowerment of certain special secret arts.

Because of this, ordinary forgers couldn’t craft Magic Element Armor.

The three arrived at the basement workshop that belonged exclusively to Wolf.

Quite a few tools that looked impressive were placed here, along with many suits of armor on display.

They looked old and bore many signs of repair.

These were all Magic Element Armor.

Their cores were damaged, and only the outer forms had been restored to the full-armored mode.

Though their power was gone, that trace of battle-worn killing intent, weathered by countless storms, still remained.

When Shu Yue looked over, it was as if she’d crossed the river of time and glimpsed the figures of those powerful warriors.

This was… the residual aura of a high rank!

She withdrew her gaze, only to find old Wolf looking at her.

When she looked at him, old Wolf calmly pulled his gaze away, as if he’d only glanced at her by accident.

This struck Shu Yue as somewhat inexplicable, but she didn’t say anything and quietly followed behind Lin.

A silver-gray Mana Essence Cube sat on the table, separated from the surrounding air by a sealed Radiance.

That was Shu Yue’s piece. Small, but with absurdly exaggerated weight.

Wolf pulled out a stack of papers from the cabinet.

They looked somewhat yellowed, all old design drawings.

The patterns and rune arrays on them were things Shu Yue couldn’t understand a single one of.

But she could faintly sense the marvel within, similar to the matrix rune array used for testing Elemental Affinity earlier.

Though the array structures on these design drawings were simpler by comparison.

“These are all basic styles. Pick one yourself.”

After Wolf said that, he turned and found a chair to sit down.

Shu Yue and Lin walked up and started flipping through the design drawings.

She noticed the signatures on them were all Wolf’s.

Of course, the matrix rune arrays had other authors.

Wolf wasn’t the sole designer.

But being able to participate in design meant old Wolf was more than just a forger and rune craftsman.

He must also know some array design.

Lin spotted some slender female styles and handed them to Shu Yue.

“See how this one looks?”

Shu Yue glanced at it.

That Magic Element Armor perfectly hugged a female’s body curves, and she immediately rejected Lin’s suggestion.

“No.”

The waist was that slim.

Where was her dragon tail supposed to go?

“I think this one’s good.”

Shu Yue took out the one she liked and handed it to Lin, wanting to see what Lin thought of her taste.

What she pulled out was a big fat suit of armor…

Lin definitely wouldn’t like that.

She liked pretty things.

If she wore a bulky Magic Element Armor, what would there even be to look at?

Shu Yue saw she didn’t like it and didn’t force the issue.

She was coming from a practical standpoint.

Though this suit of armor was over two meters tall, with a back like a tiger and a waist like a bear, Shu Yue sitting inside it was like piloting a giant mech.

Her 4-foot-8 height.

How would she control a two-meter-plus suit of armor?

Simple. Use Earth and Stone Manipulation to fill the gaps, and the vision issue could be solved by activating her magic eyes.

Once Shu Yue made her decision, she excitedly grabbed the design drawing and ran over to Wolf.

“I want this one!”

Wolf stared at her for a moment, then couldn’t help but freeze when he looked at the drawing.

“You’re this skinny and scrawny, and you want one this big?”