Mechanics

**Mechanics** (制器) is a field of Alchemy in the Demon Realm that specializes in making tools, weapons, armor, etc. It includes forging (锻炼), smelting (冶炼), armor-making (制甲), machine-making, etc. The three main specialties are

1. Leather-making (皮革), see armor
2. Metallurgy (金属)
3. Accessories / Jewelry (饰品)

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In addition to the newly emerged "Master Arthur", Demon Realm's original top mechanic master was the chairman of the Mechanic Association of the Bloody Empire, Nate. However, Nate had that title because he was duo-specialized, not because he was top in one category. He could use the rules to win every master competition.

When it comes to single specialization, it is the three strongest top masters who truly made it to the top.

* Metal Master Anderson; the current chairman of the Dark Shadow Empire's Mechanical Association.
* Leather Master Fonsaq; former senior master of Bloody Empire's Mechanic Association, "deceased".
* Jewelry Master Tetanus (特特尼斯); the free master not belonging to any empire; whereabouts unknown.

Majority of the mechanics were Great Demons, accounting for about 50%. The three masters were Great Demons as well.

## Mechanic master

The mechanical master had three types of mastery: metal, leather goods, and accessories.

Metal referred to metal weapons and armors; leather goods were mainly light armors such as leather armor and cloaks, as well as soft materials such as fabrics; accessories were mainly ornaments and tools.

Generally speaking, a master being able to master one mastery was already very impressive. For example, Skye was proficient in leather goods, Tata was proficient in jewelry, and the Chief Tauren Delong was proficient in metal (but lacked in enchantment).

In the Demon Realm, only the president of the Mechanical Alliance and Nate of the Bloody Empire had mastered two kinds of mastery. They were considered the best among mechanics in the Demon Realm. Could this Aguile’s teacher be Nate? But didn’t he say that his teacher lives in secrecy somewhere, and he is unwilling to reveal his name?

## Skills

### Forging

Chen Rui was taken aback. When he learned forging from the taurens in the underground world, he already understood the divisions of equipment grades in this world. Ordinary whiteboard equipment was considered low grade; equipment with good quality and a certain enchanting effect was considered intermediate grade; those with better quality and good magic properties were considered high grade.

On top of these three conventional equipment grades, there were even better equipment, which were excellent grade, legendary grade, and epic grade.

These three grades of equipment were not only excellent in quality, but it was combined with a perfect enchanting effect. The higher the grade, the more powerful. For example, the seven artifacts belonged to epic grade. The Evil Blue Tear brought back by Royce was the first secret treasure of the Belphegor Royal Family other than the Breeze Shadow Boots. It should belong to a legendary grade. The “Dark Will” in Chen Rui’s hands was likely to be legendary grade.

Athena’s Guardian Sword, which had the attribute of being particularly sharp and was enchanted with bloodthirsty effect, seemed to have reached excellent grade. However, strictly speaking, this weapon could only be regarded as a high grade equipment because the special sharpness was a property of dark star iron itself. The double enchantment effect was only 40% of the effect, and the user’s defense was reduced by 20%. This was because the tauren priest, Torre enchantment skill was not perfect enough.

In fact, due to the taurens being naturally lacking in magic sensing, it became the most unfortunate flaw in the taurens’ forging process. If it was a mechanic master who was proficient in enchantment carries out an enchantment with the taurens’ brilliant forging skills as the basis, the effect would be much more perfect. It could even reach legendary grade.

A mechanic that could produce excellent grade equipment already belonged to grand master level. Only when the mechanic master was at peak condition or when he was occasionally inspired, he could create legendary grade equipment, but it was relatively difficult. This was the greatest achievement so far. Besides, only mechanics who reached the grand master level could easily create legendary grade equipment or even epic grade artifacts.

Skye’s leather armor that was used to exchange with potions turned out to be excellent grade equipment that could only be created by the mechanic master. Chen Rui’s eyes suddenly lit up. Although the potions he provided were also master level, the potions were only consumables. It was far from being comparable to the equipment. Of course, black potions were another matter.

As for those few pieces of second-class refined dark star iron, Chief Tauren Delong said he could forge it himself, but because the taurens were lacking in enchantment, as a true forging master, Delong could not bear to waste these precious materials.

“Sir Skye is an expert, please rate my work from a while ago.” Chen Rui said and brought out a long sword of his own creation. This was the work after creating Guardian Sword and the short dagger. With the help of <Deep Analysis>, his technique had improved a lot, but there was no enchantment.

Chen Rui threw the metal over. Skye caught it, but it felt heavier than he expected. He looked at it carefully and was stunned. He said, “This dark star iron… has been refined to the legendary grade!”

Legendary grade materials were a necessary condition for creating legendary grade equipment. Skye’s surprise was not without reason. Not just its legendary grade quality, just the refinement ability of making this dark star iron without impurities was far above him. However, Skye is not dispirited because his specialization was not the same as Aguile’s “teacher”.

Skye took the sword and looked at it. He expressed his appreciation, “If you just look at the forging ability, it is already very brilliant. Even I can’t give you too many useful suggestions. It’s just that a true mechanic master does not only use the hand but also the ‘heart’ when creating a piece of work. In other words, they are not only your work but your child, a living being.”

Chen Rui nodded and said, “When I was learning forging, my teacher also said that you are not only casting a weapon but also building a life. Every force application point and degree of force are a realization of life… I still have a long way to go.”

These words were actually the Chief Tauren’s original words. There was a sentence that followed, “If you can truly understand this feeling, then you are the top tauren blacksmith.”

When Skye heard it, he expressed approval. “It seems your teacher is a true top master. I am ashamed of my inferiority. If I have the opportunity, I hope you can recommend me on my behalf.”

After this conversation, he looked at the weapons Chen Rui forged again. The relationship between the two became much closer. Chen Rui said, “In fact, everything I’m doing now is to pass my teacher’s test. It was not just my forging skill, but my own strength too. If Sir Skye trusts me, I am willing to help you get rid of the secret disease in your body. If it is successful, I hope that you can help me make three legendary grade equipment, and… I hope to be by your side during the whole process to watch and learn.”

Skye silenced for a moment and said, “Even if a mechanic master has legendary grade materials, there is no 100% certainty that he can forge legendary grade equipment. Your teacher should have said that there are three mechanic master specialties, which are metal forging, leather goods making and jewelry making. My specialty is not metal but leather goods. I can’t forge these three pieces of legendary dark Star iron. I can’t help you with your studies.”

Chen Rui’s teacher was of course fictitious, but his brain turned quickly. He said, “My teacher once said that once you learn one thing, you learn all. I still hope to observe and learn the process of your craftsmanship. As for the materials… how about this?”

“Learn one thing, learn all? It makes a lot of sense… Hold on, this is… hydra skin!” Skye was so moved when he saw what Chen Rui took out. He threw the dark star iron back to Chen Rui and stepped forward in one quick stride. He stroked the hydra skin with his eyes shining. “Very perfect material. Although it is not of the mutated Demon Emperor level, it is still the Great Demon King level. It’s also very fresh with no tanning. With special methods, its enchantment effect will be quite impressive…”

### Xingxing

The only one who was indifferent to this was Master Tata. The dark goblin master only cared about one thing right now, which were the two stones in his hand. The red one was the firestone, and the white one was the mythril. These two types were relatively common magic materials, but Tata had never seen firestone and mythril of such high purity before. This pure material was enough to make magical tools of legendary grade!

For a true master, not all legendary grade equipment required the materials of the highest grade. As long as it was used properly, it could be matched with some common materials to craft something legendary. However, no matter what the material was, the higher the quality, the better.

This firestone was sold to Tata by a dark goblin hawker in a cloak two days ago. The price was very low. The hawker said that there would be new stock the next day. Sure enough, Tata bought some mithril with no impurities at all from there. According to the hawker, the newer stock would arrive at noon today. However, if Tata wanted to see them, he could only come alone. The location was at No. 4 alley in the Southeast Block.

### Enchanting

Xingxing arrives to watch in earnest. At that point, Skye’s leather armor was completely formed. The rest was the most important enchanting process which would determine the final quality of this leather armor.

Chen Rui had seen the enchantment of the tauren priest, Torre. He was using a special way to integrate his power of bloodthirst halo with the equipment. However, compared with their master-level craftsmanship, tauren had inherent defects in magic. Therefore, this enchantment effect wasn’t only single, its effect wasn’t great. It greatly reduced the quality of the finished weapon. It was the most regrettable thing for the taurens.

The enchanting method used by Skye was completely different. Although he had Great Demon King-level’s magic power, he didn’t integrate his own magic into the leather armor. Instead, he used an “enlighten” method, which used the corresponding attributes of the magic material and his own magic as primer to integrate the characteristics of the magic material into the equipment.

This method required not only the fine control of magic power, but also a high level of understanding in the material. The suitable temperature, fusion time and compatibility of the material etc.. were already a profound knowledge by itself.

Xingxing held a piece of material every day in order to further understand and become familiar with every “cell” of the material so that it could play a stronger role in the crafting.

Master Xingxing had always been a badass existence in the Cloak Gang. Except when he faced his lover, Miss Sasa, as well as his prospective father-in-law, Didi and her two friends Alian and Eve, he usually ignored everyone, including this sick-looking dark elf before him. Certainly, as a mechanic master who was accustomed to being admired by many people, his attitude was understandable. However, when Xingxing saw that the dark elf’s mechanic skill, which was also master-level, his attitude completely changed. Although Xingxing’s specialty was in accessories and items while Skye’s was leather, Xingxing could see that this dark elf master’s accomplishments in leather had reached the top of master-level, which was on par with his mastery in accessories.

Xingxing says that "a mechanic isn’t an ordinary craftsman that is to merely complete a certain task. If there isn’t any inspiration and state of mind, the equipment created will lose its vitality."

Skye crafts two pieces of leather armor:

* Leather armor (speed): suitable for Roman
* Leather armor (water): suitable for Delia

The maximum enhancement for common equipment was 15%, and it had a maximum of two enchantments. Due to the problem with the mastery of materials, there might even be negative attributes, such as reducing the speed when improving defense; For excellent grade, the maximum enhancement was 30%, there’d be no negative attributes in general, and the enchantments could reach 2 to 3: the maximum enhancement of a legendary grade could reach 50% and the enchantments could reach 3 to 4.

As for epic grade equipment, it’s already an artifact. It cannot be simply measured by the requirements of these attributes.

Both of Skye’s enchanted attributes were over 25%, so it was considered excellent even among the works of the master.

As for Athena, she could use one of the superior equipment from the poison dragon’s treasure temporarily. In the future, Chen Rui wanted to make a full set of equipment for her. Certainly, they had to at least reach or exceed the excellent grade.

## See also

* Tauren
* Skye
* Xingxing

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 316 (Steambun)
2. ↑ Chapter 440 (Steambun)
3. ↑ Chapter 208
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 189 (Steambun)
5. ↑ Chapter 206 (Steambun)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 230 (Steambun)
7. ↑ Chapter 231 (Steambun)