Under the dim light, the old armor maker Oursan was very focused on sewing a robe. When she heard the sound of the door being pushed open, she raised her head and looked at Xiao Hua with a smile full of kindness. She was about to welcome him when she suddenly closed her mouth tightly and stared at Xiao Hua's leather armor, showing disbelief, surprise, and nostalgia in her eyes.
Xiao Hua saw that there was a chance, and the high charisma worked. This wasn't his first time wearing slime king armor to enter the armor shop, but in the past, even if he approached, Oursan didn't pay attention to him.
Xiao Hua hurriedly took off his slime leather armor and handed it over, saying, "Mrs. Oursan, do you recognize this leather armor?"
Oursan took the somewhat worn leather armor, gently stroked it for a long time, and then said softly, "Of course, this armor is the most memorable piece of protective equipment I have ever made in my life!"
Subsequently, Oursan slowly began a long memory, Xiao Hua patiently listened to it and also understood the general idea.
Many years ago, when Oursan was still a young girl, she had outstanding sewing skills and was qualified to become a master tailor at a young age. The promotion examination was to make an armor with purple or higher leather material. After learning about the content of the examination, Oursan felt perplexed.
The purple leather armor she was making with all her might still had a high chance of success, but the most crucial material she couldn't find. To make purple equipment, it must be made using rare or higher grade fur, which is very expensive. Even if she borrowed money from every villager in the village, she wouldn't have enough to buy even one piece.
Seeing that the deadline for the evaluation was approaching, Oursan couldn't help but feel anxious. Although she could participate in the evaluation again next year, advancing a year would bring her more benefits for her future.
"It seems that this year is still giving up, and I will try harder next year." Tomorrow noon is the deadline for the evaluation. Erlang stood at the edge of the wooden fence outside the door, looking at the bright moonlight, muttering to himself.
But at this moment, Oursan suddenly heard a light snap coming from not far away. He was startled and thought that the monster had entered the village. Holding a stick, Oursan cautiously walked over, but found that there was a young adventurer lying outside the fence.
The young adventurer lay on the ground, his armor damaged in several places, with pale face dotted with blood drops. His sword, which he would never let go of, had fallen to one side, indicating that he was attacked by a monster and fainted from injury.
Oursan hurriedly helped the adventurer inside, cleaned the wound with clean water, applied a first-aid kit and bandaged it. After a while, the young man woke up slowly and learned that Oursan had saved him, and he could not help but feel very grateful.
Oursan was worried about the upcoming evaluation deadline. After a few exchanges, the young man keenly sensed that Oursan had something on her mind. It is a virtue of adventurers to repay kindness. After repeated inquiries from the young man, Oursan sighed and revealed her worries.
The young man, upon learning of Oursan's troubles, hesitated slightly on his face, then took out a piece of black fur from his backpack and handed it to Oursan: "Miss Oursan, I have a piece of monster fur here that might help you."
The black fur was hardly noticeable in the dim light, but even before he could touch it, Oursan felt the strong magical aura emanating from this fur! This definitely is a fur more precious than rare!
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"This is too precious, I can't accept it!" After taking the black fur, he gently stroked the smooth and flexible surface of the fur with his fingers. Olson felt even more extraordinary about this piece of fur, and then returned it.
"Why, Miss Orsan. This piece of fur can't play its due value when I take it on my body. You use it to make equipment, pass the examination, and then give me the equipment. In this way, I will get a high-grade leather armor for free, which will undoubtedly greatly improve my survival ability. This is a good thing for us all, Miss Olsan, why not?" orsan's integrity touched the young man, and the young man strengthened his determination.
The young man made a lot of sense, and Oursan couldn't help but be shaken.
"Don't hesitate, Miss Oursan. If it weren't for your help tonight, I would have died from the injuries caused by the monster. But if I had a defensive enough leather armor, such things wouldn't happen again!" The young man continued to persuade.
Oursan was finally persuaded by the young man, and made a leather armor overnight using the precious fur brought by the young man. He passed the promotion examination before the deadline of the next day.
Xiao Hua saw that Oursan's words had come to an end, and hurriedly said, "Madam Oursan, this leather armor is damaged. Can you repair it?"
"Of course!" Oursan nodded. "Back then, my craftsmanship was not refined enough, and although the leather armor I made passed the test, it could only exert one-tenth of its original power. It's likely that this is why he suffered misfortune, even losing his leather armor to monsters. Now that you have killed the monster and retrieved the leather armor, you have also avenged him. As a reward, as long as you have the repair materials, I will definitely help you for free."
"What materials do you need?"
"Leather of higher rarity is best, of course, but ordinary leather will also work, although the repair effect will be much worse," said Oursan.
(Material grade: damaged, old, ordinary, good, excellent, rare, rare, legendary)
The source of fur is to use skinning skills to obtain from the corpses of animal monsters. In theory, elite BOSS with rare fur above level 40 can produce it, but to obtain rare fur, one must have skinning skills above master level. Skinning skills can only be acquired by peeling the corpse of wild animals, and are ranked among the skills that are the most difficult to practice in the game. A combination of the two makes the precious degree of rare fur imaginable.
Xiao Hua was at a loss for words. He would never use ordinary fur to repair it, and there is no way to repair the rare fur. The armor can't be repaired for now. Besides, repairing it too early will increase the requirements of equipment, which is also useless to him currently.
"Madam Oursan, I hope to learn sewing skills. Can you give me some guidance?" Xiao Hu showed a humble and studious expression. This was the awareness of a player - at any time, they should try to get as much benefit as possible from NPCs! Xiao Hu deeply knew from two months of internal testing experience that asking or not asking could sometimes result in a difference between heaven and earth in the benefits obtained!
"Of course, I will be happy to teach anyone who wants to learn sewing skills!" Oursan nodded with a smile.
"Be damned!" Xiao Hua cursed in his heart. He had no idea how many times he ran to the armor shop at the beginning of the internal test, and Oursan sent him away with a sentence that she would not teach skills.
System prompt: You have learned the skill Sewing!
System prompt: You have received guidance from Tailor Oursan, and Sewing skill has been upgraded to Beginner!
Sewing (Beginner): With a certain success rate, it can make low-grade equipment from ordinary leather and cloth.
"Madame Oursan, can you give me more guidance?" Sewing was directly promoted to primary level, but Xiao Hua was not satisfied and continued to "ask questions without shame".
"Son, I can only teach you a foundation. To become an excellent tailor, it is impossible without years of hard practice!"
Hearing Oursan say this, Xiao Hua knew it was hopeless and left the armor shop to head towards the teleportation point outside the village.
After looking through the cities that the system provided for him to transmit, Xiao Hua quickly found Snowfall City among the ten cities. Because of its perpetual snow and cold climate, players who were not used to it would find it very inconvenient, so there would naturally be fewer people going there compared to other cities. Therefore, Xiao Hua was not at all worried that the system would not provide a transmission option for Snowfall City before this.
Just as he was about to transmit, Xiao Hua suddenly received a prompt message from reality. Looking at the time, he realized that during his browsing of the forum and listening to Oursan's memories, it had unknowingly reached noon.
Seeing that it was a few minutes later than expected, Xiao Hua called out "bad" and hurriedly disconnected from the game.