Chapter 21. Irish town (3) Master Ian’s Craftsman Test

     “Maria, I heard that Master Ian is recruiting temporary workers, are you going to try your luck too?”

     What Lina speaks is not Chinese, it’s a common language of the Celtic continent, somewhat similar to an ancient Western language on Earth, and has nothing to do with Chinese.

     “Yes.” Ye Mo replied briefly, trying not to reveal her unfamiliarity with this strange language.

     Lina grinned. The goblin’s mouth occupied a quarter of their faces, and she could see the two rows of pointed teeth inside, which were so white that they glowed. “Master Ian is a high-level craftsman. There must be a lot of people going there today, let’s walk faster.”

     Most goblins spend their entire lives forging weapons and equipment, and their profession is craftsman. Goblin craftsmen are roughly divided into four levels: junior craftsmen, intermediate craftsmen, senior craftsmen, and legendary craftsmen.

     Thousands of years ago, there was a mixed-blood goblin. He was not only a legendary craftsman, but also an excellent alchemist part-time.

     Don’t be surprised, there have always been people of different races falling in love for tens of thousands of years, even the short and smart Goblins and the elves who are always known for their beauty.

     The fire ax in Ye Mo’s hand was assigned by the system to be made as a primary goblin craftsman.

     Since there are senior craftsmen recruiting workers, it’s time to go and have a look before talking. It’s really inconvenient not to have a single coin with you.

     Without further ado.

     When two goblins were walking quickly, the goblin with slender legs always had a joyful and funny feeling as she hurried on.

     Ye Mo: “…”

     The underground world of goblins is clean, tidy, and orderly. Seeing this world with your own eyes is quite shocking.

     In residential areas, winding alleyways cut the entire underground world into living quarters. Each living quarter has a dedicated garbage chute and deeper underground drainage ditches. These are all managed by an old goblin.

     Goblins also have very strong mental power. They can clearly identify this maze-like underground world in the dark. They are worthy of being a group that has lived underground for a long time.

     After going around more than twenty turns, the lane became wider and wider.

     On both sides of the cave wall, there are murals painted with colorful paints. These murals are lifelike and vivid, without much artistic conception, but permeated with the atmosphere of simple and joyful life.

     Of course, both underground creatures, non-intelligent creatures and intelligent creatures have completely different ways of survival.

     Passing by a Goblin workshop.

     Bang-dong-dong!

     Dozens of goblins were diligently hammering away with hammers or other tools. It is said that they asked a magician to draw a silencing formation to control the hammering sound within the scope of this workshop. 

     When Ye Mo followed Lina to the recruitment workshop of Master Ian, there were already hundreds of goblins lined up here. When he saw two more newcomers, one of the senior goblins showed a threatening look.

     “Hey! Little girl, this is not the place for you to come.”

     “Master Ian does not set the age for recruiting workers.” Ye Mo pulled Lina behind her who was about to cry. She never thought that one day she would compete with the dwarves for a job as a coolie.

     Lina stared at Ye Mo with emotion, her big copper bell eyes becoming more and more ‘pretty’.

……

     Master Ian is a goblin with a thick green beard. Forgive Ye Mo’s boring language description, but for her, the difference between the more than a hundred one-meter-tall goblins in front of her is really very small.

     The craftsmen are very serious about their work. Even temporary workers, Master Ian decided to select them personally.

     The test is mainly divided into two procedures. First, hammer a piece of iron material the size of a hill into a square. Second, carve a fixed pattern on the four sides of a square rough stone the size of a palm.

     The goblins lined up to receive the large pieces of iron first. Once they received it, they found a fixed position and started banging. The earlier the work was completed, the greater the chance of being selected.

     Ye Mo also received a heavy piece of iron material weighing over 500 kilograms and found an empty corner.

     The hammering and shaping tools in each Goblin’s hand were different. Many Goblins’ hammers were actually sharper than the fire ax in her hand, and her fire ax had a strange shape.

     Bang bang!

     Ye Mo hammered hard twice. As expected, the hardness of iron in this world was much stronger than that of the earth. The strength of 23 attribute points and the fire ax could only leave a shallow mark.

     This is purely a labor job.

     Ye Mo stopped thinking and, like other goblins, hammered the iron with all his strength.

     Bang! bang! bang!

     Bang! Bang! Bang!

     Bang! bang! bang!

     The process of hammering was very hard, no less than grinding an iron pestle into a needle, but every goblin never gave up, even if their hands were reddened and sweat spilled all over their body.

   【It was detected that the survivor Ye Mo broke through the critical point of strength value, and the strength attribute was +1.】

     This is the first time Ye Mo has broken through the critical value other than the mental attribute. Apart from the potential value, was the power she consumed when killing zombies not enough to reach the limit?

     I don’t know how long it took, but Ye Mo’s body was very, very tired.

     Her square iron block finally gradually took shape, and she took out the iron nails from her backpack to hammer and shape it into a square shape, so that the error in the side length of each iron piece did not exceed 0.1cm.

     Master Ian took a quick look and announced with a smile: “Little guy, you passed the test!”

     Ye Mo breathed a sigh of relief. There were more than ten goblins who completed the task earlier than her, and more than forty more completed it one after another. Master Ian announced that these people had successfully challenged the first level.

     The newcomer Lina was still a little short of time and failed. Her two big dark green eyes were moist and she could only leave reluctantly. Before leaving, she cheered for her little friend.

     “Come on, Maria!”

     Ye Mo nodded to her and lined up with the remaining goblins to receive palm-sized stones. Unlike the physical test just now, carving and grinding stones requires certain skills.

     Thanks to her profession, she was able to quickly understand the work process of the goblins in Maria’s memory. Moreover, the professional knowledge on Earth is not completely useless in this world.

     Unlike most goblins, Ye Mo was not too anxious to start this time.

     Instead, she first polished the stone with a whetstone, with the movement being neither light nor heavy, and the speed being neither fast nor slow. During this time, she thought about which composite material on Earth has the most similar properties to the material of the stone on her hand.

     Secondly, remember all the patterns that need to be carved clearly in her mind, without missing any details, and dismantle the patterns, then take out the black carving sharp knife and outline the overall outline bit by bit.

     In the Celtic continent, there is a kind of grindstone material called ‘black crystal’, which is indispensable for rough carving, fine carving, and fine carving. Materials that can bear the carving of black crystal will have extraordinary hardness, toughness, and sharpness.

     Only weapons engraved with black crystal can undergo the next step of magic array processing.

     What Ye Mo is taking now is just a rough grinding task.

     But this process is still not simple. The difficulty lies in the fact that the strokes must be consistent, otherwise the magic array can no longer be processed, which is equivalent to being useless.

     The most troublesome part of the pattern is not only the engraving frame, but also the grinding and engraving of a few fine lines. The finer the lines, the more difficult it is.

     At this moment, Ye Mo’s primary mental control technique played a decisive role. The pattern emerged little by little under the black crystal sharpening knife. Not to mention incoherent, she even completed it in one breath!

     It’s just that the speed is very slow.

   【It was detected that the survivor Ye Mo broke through the critical point of mental value, and his mental attribute +1. 】

……

     Many goblins were sweating profusely, and finally lost at this level.

     There can be no second stone, they have been eliminated.

     Gradually, the goblins either failed to carve or had completed the carving task.

     There was only one little goblin who had just grown up and was still going on.

     It doesn’t matter, Master Ian has been paying attention to this one-stroke little goblin since very early. Now he is blocking the discussion of other goblins and quietly waiting for Ye Mo to complete the task.

   The workshop became very quiet, except for the sound of black crystal rubbing materials in the corner of the ‘central display stand’.