Metal enchantment was a branch of alchemy. Alchemists who specialized in metal enchantment were known as metal enchanters.
Metal enchantment was different from ordinary enchantment. Apart from mithril, thorium and a few other precious metals, most metals had a strong interference effect on a mage's mental strength. This was why spellcasters were unable to wear metal armor.
Casting spells was an extremely delicate process. Even the slightest interference would cause the spell to fail, wasting mental strength or causing the spell to backfire.
In order to enchant metals that interfered with mental strength, one had to bypass this interference. Therefore, when metal enchanters enchanted metals, they could not use mental strength to control the enchantment directly. Instead, they used an alchemy tool called an enchantment pen to do the indirect operation.
The enchantment pen worked on the same principle as the spell control circuit in general scrolls. It used the power of magic to control the spell, unlike ordinary scrolls which required the mage to use mental strength to control the spell. This was why even ordinary people could use it after training.
The enchantment pen itself was an alchemy product. It was given the power and ability to control spells. Alchemists had to use this product to replace their mental strength to control the power of magic to enchant metals.
The difference between using an enchantment pen and directly using mental power to enchant was like using one's hand to pick up something and using a pair of pliers to pick up something. There was a layer in between, and the control was several times worse.
Therefore, not all ordinary alchemists could master metal enchantment. However, metal enchanters were all excellent alchemists.
It was this rarity that made metal enchantment much more expensive than ordinary enchantment.
After reading the agreement, Feng Chou took out two cheques from the Waukeen Bank for two thousand crowns and one for one thousand crowns and handed them to Harris.
Harris was obviously satisfied with the cheques from the Waukeen Bank. Both parties signed their names on the agreement.
Waukeen was the name of the Goddess of Wealth. The Waukeen Bank was a bank established by the Church of the Goddess of Wealth. It was one of the most reputable banks in the world. Even the Royal Bank of Orvendell could not compare. The cheques issued by this bank had the Goddess' Divine Seal on them, which was a hard currency comparable to gold. As for checking the authenticity of the Goddess' Divine Seal, it was a simple matter for an alchemist.
After signing the agreement, Feng Chou couldn't help but ask before leaving, "Master Harris, will you personally enchant my broadsword?"
Harris gave Feng Chou a look that said, "Are you kidding me? Of course not. I'm just a beginner Tinkerer. I don't have the ability to enchant + 4 magical weapons. Your weapon will be enchanted by my mentor, Brian, an Intermediate Tinkerer. My mentor is a Level-10 Metal Enchanter."
Feng Chou suddenly understood and said, "That would be my honor."
After Feng Chou bade farewell and left, Harris also put on his grayish-black tuxedo and took out the large saber that Feng Chou had given him.
Over the next few days, after selling some of the equipment in his hands, Feng Chou bought a new set of equipment for himself from the secret market in Casablanca for this trip to Benedict.
For example, after selling his + 4 inlaid leather armor, he replaced it with + 4 medium armor. Compared to inlaid leather armor, medium armor was more suitable for warriors. This kind of armor had better protection for the head, chest, and abdomen than inlaid leather armor, and less binding on the arms and legs than inlaid leather armor. It was very practical for mercenaries.
When he changed the armor, he also adjusted the enchantment plan attached to the armor.
The standard + 4 armor had the following effects.
First of all, the strength of the armor itself was doubled based on the material of superior black steel.
It had the effect of resisting energy damage. Its effect could completely resist energy damage from level-4 spells and below, and weaken energy damage from level-4 spells and above.
It had the effect of protecting against attacks from incorporeal attacks. Its protective effect was comparable to the level-4 "Power Armor."
It could block the effect of mind control spells of level-4 and below, weaken the effect of mind control spells of level-4 and above, protect the owner of the armor from being possessed by evil spirits of level-8 and increase resistance against evil spirits of level-8 and above.
This kind of enchantment standard was created during the Arcane Empire. It was a protective measure customized by the arcanists according to the weaknesses of the warriors. It turned out that this plan was very effective.
In addition to these four standard effects, the alchemist could also perform more enchantments according to the customer's requirements. The surface area of the armor was relatively large. In addition to the standard enchantment plants, it could also accommodate a lot of magic circuits.
On the basis of the standard enchantment, the alchemists developed a lot of targeted magic armor.
For example, the "Return of the Dead" armor that Feng Chou had chosen was specially designed to deal with undead creatures.
Other than the standard effects, this set of armor also came with "Undead Detect", "Undead Ignore", and of course, the most important "Undead Ward", which was a spell used to fight against undead. There were also small spells such as "Brute Strength" and "Tenacity".
Among these spells, "Undead Ignore" and "Death Ward" were originally divine spells. However, during the Arcane Empire, the arcanists analyzed part of the divine spells and added them to the list of spells used by the arcanists.
It was said that during the heyday of the Arcane Empire, the arcanists even added healing spells to their list of spells.
However, after the Arcane Empire, the gods forbade the mages from studying divine spells. They thought that it would damage the glory of the gods, so some spells, including healing spells, were removed from the list of spells used by the mages.
Metal-type enchanted items were already expensive to begin with, and after adding so many special effects, the price was even higher. This set of 'Return of the King' armor actually cost more than 38,000 crowns.
Fortunately, Feng Chou didn't have much on hand at the moment, but he had a lot of money.
In addition to better armor, Feng Chou also bought two necromancy rings, as well as rings that could remove paralysis, curses, blindness and deafness, as well as poison neutralization spells.
In the process of shopping in the arcane shops, Feng Chou found that almost every arcane shop had a clear price for some precious alchemy materials.
He suddenly remembered that when he reaped the benefits from Drow's fortress in the tigermen's cave, other than buying a lot of Drow's weapons and armors, he also bought a lot of tigermen's primitive equipment under the suggestion of Qiankun Pagoda.
Although the tigermen's primitive equipment was simple, if it could not be damaged after colliding with Drow's weapon, it was definitely not an ordinary item. It should be a high-grade alchemy material, but he didn't know enough to recognize it.
So, he took out a small piece of metal used by the tigermen and a bone rod and brought them to a few shops looking for alchemy materials, asking them to appraise it.
The results of the appraisal shocked him. The black metal with a golden flash was actually black iron that contained a small amount of adamantine, while the bone rod was a small piece of dragonblood bone.
Adamantine was an extremely precious magical metal. Not only was it incomparably tough, it also had the miraculous effect of changing other metals. Any metal could become extremely tough as long as a small amount of adamantine was mixed in.
The price of this metal was a thousand times that of gold of the same weight. According to the appraisal of the alchemist, the palm-sized piece of metal Feng Chou took out contained less than three grams of adamantine, yet the other party offered a high price of 20,000 crowns.
Feng Chou raised the price and sold the piece of metal to the other party.
As for the dragonblood bone, it was sold for more than 60,000 crowns. After all, it was much bigger than the piece of metal.
When he appraised these two items, the appraisers all asked him where he got them from.
Feng Chou naturally couldn't tell them the truth.