The Wizard: Grinding Experience Starting with Knight Breathing Techniques 69

Chapter 0069: In the World of Martial Arts, Layering Armor is Supreme! Forging Dragon Armor! (Seeking Follows!)

Taking advantage of the forging peak, Li Wei quickly used the scales of the Earth Dragon Beast combined with his own secret silver-mixed iron rings to make himself a suit of armor.

This armor emanated a wild and untamed aura, its style extremely fierce.

Li Wei dyed the armor black, with the texture of the scales faintly visible.

When worn, it was much lighter than ordinary plate armor, and it didn’t restrict his flexibility as much.

Its defensive power was not much inferior to plate armor, but unlike plate armor, this armor made from Earth Dragon Beast scales also possessed a certain resilience, greatly reducing the impact of blunt weapons.

“Let’s call it Dragon Armor.”

Li Wei gave his armor a domineering name.

“I’ll wear a layer of fine iron chainmail inside, then the Dragon Armor, then a layer of thick leather armor made from the Earth Dragon Beast’s hide on the outside, plus my black qi defense—four layers of armor, feeling completely safe!”

“In the world of martial arts, layering armor is supreme!”

Wearing the armor and wielding Frost’s Sorrow, Li Wei felt the world was at his feet!

Li Wei then struck while the iron was hot and made a set for Fred.

This left Fred overwhelmed with gratitude, tears streaming down his face.

Fred had now barely regained some of his strength.

Although it was difficult to return to the strength of a mid-level Knight, he still possessed the strength of an ordinary Knight; after all, the Seed of Life remained, his foundation was still there.

If Fred had had such armor at the time, he probably wouldn’t have been so easily seriously injured by Tie Shan—that’s the price of not having good equipment.

“I’ll save the remaining scales to forge armor for the three brothers when they grow up,” Li Wei said happily.

Besides forging armor, Li Wei also successfully replicated a new one based on the broken armor crossbow he had retrieved.

However, the hardest part of the armor-piercing crossbow wasn’t the crossbow mechanism, but the arrowheads.

Arrowheads made of ordinary iron couldn’t achieve the armor-piercing effect he desired.

After research, he, as a master craftsman, discovered that to achieve a strong armor-piercing effect, he needed a rarer material when forging the arrowheads.

“曜金 (Yàojīn) – Radiant Gold.”

Radiant Gold, a rarer metal even than secret silver.

On the market, a jin (a unit of weight approximately equivalent to 0.5kg) of secret silver cost about one hundred gold coins, while a jin of Radiant Gold cost two hundred gold coins.

Most importantly, both secret silver and Radiant Gold were rare metals rarely circulated on the market.

Li Wei had previously spent a considerable amount to buy the secret silver needed to forge the second generation Frost’s Sorrow.

His plan to mass-produce armor-piercing crossbows failed, but Li Wei wasn’t discouraged.

Even ordinary iron arrowheads, combined with the armor-piercing crossbow, still had considerable power.

Besides, he still had three Radiant Gold arrowheads, salvaged from the Earth Dragon Beast’s body—enough to serve as his trump cards.

By the time Li Wei finished his forging work, it was already the Budding Moon.

Three months had passed since he destroyed the Death Knell’s Icewind City base.

The Death Knell had most likely received news of the base’s destruction, and it was unknown what their next move would be.

Inside the shelter, Li Wei, practicing the Vortex Beast Breathing Method, stood up.

Recently, his Vortex Beast Breathing Method had reached the second level. He felt his physique had slightly increased, but only slightly.

For his current physical condition, the benefits of the second-level Vortex Beast Breathing Method were minimal; to see noticeable effects, he needed at least the fourth level.

He opened his skill proficiency panel.

Li Wei————

Vortex Beast Breathing Method: Second Level (1000/5000)

“Without elixirs, this breathing method is a bit slow to cultivate,”

Li Wei sighed.

This Vortex Beast Breathing Method was much harder to cultivate than the Frost Wolf, Human-Faced Spider, and Giant Bear methods.

The most important reason was that Li Wei lacked the elixir for this breathing method.

The Vortex Beast Breathing Method required an elixir called “Vortex Worm Elixir.”

It required a material Li Wei had never even heard of: “Vortex Worm Egg.”

He had sent people to the Icewind City Jadeite Merchant Guild and consulted some knowledgeable zoologists, but no one had ever heard of this thing called a Vortex Worm.

Therefore, Li Wei was purely grinding his way through this breathing method.

The effect wasn’t great; it only reached the second level after two months.

Such speed would be considered incredibly fast for others, but for Li Wei, it was a bit slow.

Cultivating this breathing method also squeezed Li Wei’s time for practicing other skills.

To reach the limit, it would take an incredibly long time.

“I need to go to Icewind City. First, to see what the Death Knell is up to; second, to check on my breathing method bounty request; and finally, to get the Vortex Worm Egg… Without elixirs, trying to grind an excellent quality breathing method to the limit is too time-consuming. Time is money, this isn’t cost-effective.”

In the past three months, besides the Vortex Beast Breathing Method, Li Wei had also made progress in other breathing methods. However, he focused mainly on the Black Snake and Vortex Beast Breathing Methods. The Human-Faced Spider and Sea Demon Breathing Methods progressed relatively slower.

But Li Wei estimated that his Sea Demon Breathing Method should reach level five in two or three months at most, and the Human-Faced Spider one shouldn’t be far behind.

In short, in a while, his strength would again see a significant increase.

After instructing Fred, Li Wei, wearing the White Wolf mask, went to Icewind City again.

He first went to the Shining Tavern to see if anyone was selling breathing methods.

He asked the staff, and there was indeed one. He was delighted and asked the staff to connect him with the seller.

Li Wei found a private room, drank some wine, and waited for the seller to arrive.

During the wait, he listened to various conversations in the tavern.

With the aid of basic vibration perception, Li Wei’s hearing was extraordinary. He could hear many whispers from the private rooms.

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Judging from the conversations of these patrons, the Eternal Night Kingdom in the Far North had a bad winter. Nearly ten thousand people were displaced due to the cold and the so-called “Snow Wraith” disaster, becoming refugees and heading south. Most died along the way from hunger, disease, robbery, and wild beasts—too many difficulties.

A small number entered the northern borders of the Jadeite Kingdom and the Tuva Empire, the best outcome being captured by slave-catching teams who preyed on refugees and vagrants, becoming slaves.

Among the serfs Li Wei bought, several were from the Eternal Night Kingdom.

They were shorter and more muscular, good laborers, suitable for forging.

For these people, life was always difficult. Staying alive was their biggest dream.

Regarding the so-called “Snow Wraiths,” according to some wandering Knights who were hired by the great nobles of the Eternal Night Kingdom to participate in the extermination of the Snow Wraiths and survived: “In the name of the Heavenly Father, they are tireless, fearless of death, frost-covered undead with empty eye sockets glowing with blue ghostfire!”

“Undead…” Li Wei’s eyes shone with interest. He was curious about the origins of these Snow Wraiths.

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