While the stone house was being built, Levi was smelting iron with a furnace in a corner of the back garden.
As the progress bar finished filling, the iron ore was smelted into an iron ingot.
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Levi picked up the iron ingot and broke into a smile.
Things were finally getting on the right track.
In the game, iron ingots would stack together until they reached the quantity limit.
But in reality, after being smelted, the iron ingot would be spat out from the furnace opening and neatly placed in front of it.
Baked potatoes followed the exact same process.
Levi even suspected that a little sprite lived inside the furnace, neatly arranging all these products.
Isabella curiously leaned closer to the furnace, looking at the iron ingots produced from inside, and couldn’t help exclaiming.
“How magical…”
How could every single iron ingot be identical and have such a perfect shape?
His Highness’s magic was truly amazing.
Trist picked up one of the iron ingots, and his decades of experience allowed him to instantly determine the value of the iron ingot in his hand.
“Such a pure iron ingot!”
He narrowed his eyes, holding the iron ingot with both hands as he carefully observed it from top to bottom, front to back.
It was too perfect.
Truly too perfect.
Trist clicked his tongue in wonder.
“If this thing were used to forge weapons, I’m afraid it could truly cut through iron like mud.”
“If made into protective gear, it’s even harder to imagine how good its defensive performance would be.”
Isabella nodded in agreement.
As a knight, even the armor on her body hadn’t used iron of such quality.
“Refined iron of this quality is something I’ve never seen even when I was in the royal capital.”
“If those master craftsmen knew there was such pure iron, I’m afraid they would burst our Lords Mansion at the seams.”
Trist looked at Levi, sighed, and asked, “Your Highness, just how many things are you hiding that this old servant doesn’t know about!?”
Just as Trist finished speaking.
He saw Levi place the iron ingot on the crafting table and tinker with it for a moment.
It was Isabella’s first time seeing Levi use a crafting table, so she couldn’t help feeling a bit strange.
“Your High—”
“Shh!”
Trist hurriedly stopped Isabella from speaking,
“His Highness is using magic, don’t disturb him.”
“Magic?”
The confusion in Isabella’s eyes turned into incomprehension.
Because she didn’t sense any magical fluctuations at all?
But since Trist said so, she didn’t speak up to disturb Levi, quietly watching instead.
Levi quickly placed the iron ingots on the crafting table according to the crafting recipe.
Iron helmet, iron armor, iron leggings, iron boots.
?!
Isabella watched as the iron ingots were arranged in a strange way on the crafting table, and then with a pop, they turned into complete protective gear.
???
How could iron ingots, which were still raw materials, suddenly turn into a complete set of iron armor?!
Isabella rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
Then she pinched her own cheeks hard.
She even suspected whether she was in a dream right now.
Trist had already seen Levi synthesize a stone pickaxe on the crafting table, so his heart already had some mental preparation.
This was His Highness’s “alchemy magic,” nothing to be surprised about.
That was what he originally thought.
But when he truly saw a full set of iron armor suddenly appear before him,
Trist’s neck still couldn’t help stretching forward, his eyes widening.
It was still too shocking.
Yet His Highness made a set in just a few seconds using “alchemy magic”…
Trist felt that if he were a blacksmith and knew about this, the sky would probably fall.
The iron ingots were rapidly consumed, and the crafted items were put away by Levi into his inventory.
Then came the iron sword and shield.
Levi took out the remaining wooden boards from his inventory and used them to craft some sticks.
Complete!
iron sword and shield!
“Your Highness, do you want us to serve you in putting them on?”
Seeing Levi stop his actions, Trist proactively offered to help put on the armor.
Isabella nodded in agreement.
Although by status, one was the Lords steward and the other was the head of the Knights Order, chores like serving were definitely meant for maids to do.
Levi had deliberately driven all the maids away because he didn’t want too many people to know his core abilities.
Only Trist and Isabella could be considered his confidants.
Letting them have an expectation of his power could instead make them more loyal.
Hearing that the two wanted to help him put on the protective gear, Levi shook his head:
“No need, I won’t wear it for now.”
Afterwards, a trace of anticipation appeared in his eyes as he looked at Isabella:
“Come, try whether your battle qi can inflict an effective attack on it.”
“But…” Isabella felt that this armor was so precious; it would be too much of a pity if she used her full strength and broke it.
This cuirass was much better than the one she was currently wearing.
Yet Levi calmly waved his hand, signaling Isabella not to worry:
“Don’t worry about it breaking; if it breaks, I’ll just make a new one.”
“…”
Isabella actually didn’t know whether her worry just then made her look like a clown.
Right, since His Highness could craft one just now, he could definitely craft a second one.
To think she was worried about breaking the iron cuirass.
“Then Your Highness, please forgive this subordinate’s offense.”
“Come.”
Isabella chose not to use a sword, instead wrapping her fist in battle qi.
“Hah!”
With a single punch blasted out, the red battle qi was unstoppable.
But what Isabella didn’t expect was that when this punch landed on the iron cuirass, the iron cuirass was sent flying by the impact force.
It landed ten meters away.
“Such hard defensive gear.”
Feeling the tactile feedback rebounding from her fist, Isabella couldn’t help being somewhat startled.
Although she had guessed beforehand that using such good refined iron could definitely forge defensive gear with better defensive performance.
But that was about it.
At this moment, Trist had already picked up the iron cuirass.
“As expected of defensive gear made from magical iron ingots, taking a Second-Order Knight’s punch head-on without even a dent.”
“How is that possible!?”
Isabella couldn’t believe Trist’s words.
Trist handed over the cuirass: “Take a look for yourself.”
Isabella hurriedly took it, then her eyes continuously scrutinized the cuirass.
It was actually true?!
The iron cuirass manufactured by His Highness Levi was actually completely unharmed under that strike just now?
You must know that her strike undoubtedly reached the standard force a Second-Order Knight should have.
Even with the enhancement of battle qi, the force was even greater.
With a strike like this, even stubborn rock could be shattered instantly.
Yet on this piece of armor, not even a pit was left behind?!
Only Levi knew why.
He looked at the iron cuirass in Isabella’s hands.
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Just like the setting in the Minecraft game, armor would only break after its durability was completely consumed.
Before that, even if only a single point of durability remained, it would still appear intact.
Such powerful MC Features.
Afterward, Levi tested the sharpness of the iron sword.
With a single slash of the sword, it easily sliced a stone in half.
“Such a sharp precious sword,” Trist praised.
“It doesn’t lose to my personal sword.”
Isabella also felt that the iron sword was incomparably sharp.
If it weren’t for the magical blessing on her own personal sword, it really would be hard to say which was stronger.
Levi nodded with satisfaction, then shifted his gaze to the last item.
Speaking of even more powerful features…
Levi’s gaze landed on that ordinary-looking shield.
In Minecraft, this shield was crafted from log blocks and iron ingots.
But its effect was conceptual-level.
As long as one held up the shield, it could reduce 100% of blockable melee damage from the front and immunize projectile damage.
In other words, as long as it was melee and thrown projectile damage, it could be negated by it.
The only drawback was that raising the shield had a cooldown and the shield’s durability was relatively low.
He wondered how strong this shield would be in reality.
Levi handed the shield to Isabella: “Next, try this shield.”
“Isabella, hold up the shield, and then I will attack you with this iron sword at full force.”
“Understand?”
“Understood.” Isabella nodded.
However, she felt it was a bit strange; this shield made entirely of wood…
no matter how she looked at it, it didn’t seem like anything good.
The iron sword in Levi’s hand could cut through iron like mud; it would probably slice the shield in half with a single strike.
Levi swung his sword.
Isabella defended with the shield.
Isabella had even prepared to take a backstep.
However, the anticipated scene of the shield being sliced open by the iron sword did not happen.
Isabella didn’t even feel any impact force, and the unstoppable offensive of the iron sword was completely deflected by the shield.
It was clearly just a wooden shield, but the iron sword didn’t leave even the slightest trace on it.
“How is that possible? The iron sword can easily cut through stones, yet this shield completely deflected its attack?!”
Isabella looked at the shield in her hand in disbelief.
Trist’s brows were likewise tightly locked.
This wasn’t logical, was it?
Clearly stones could be easily cut open by His Highness with an iron sword, how come nothing happened when it came to this shield?
Was this right?
This wasn’t right.
Looking at the stunned expressions on Isabella’s and Trist’s faces, Levi revealed a trace of a smile.
He found that teasing these otherworldly natives from time to time was quite interesting.
He put the iron sword, shield, and protective gear all back into his inventory and stretched lazily:
“Alright, this king is tired, let’s end it here for today.”
The two originally wanted to say something, but since Levi had already said so, they could only shut their mouths.
“Yes.”
…
Night fell.
The Lords Mansion was shrouded in darkness.
Uninvited guests arrived unbidden.