The store is not large, and Su Wen can even vaguely see the flames emitted by the blast furnace in the workshop behind. The owner is a strong middle-aged woman, her sturdy body and a pair of calloused rough arms indicate her identity as a blacksmith.

In fact, there are almost no large weapons shops in the market in Hongfeng Town, and almost all of them have single-room shops. Su Wen couldn't help but feel a little strange: if we only talk about the flow of people, this place may not be much worse than Trides City. There are also many private stores of all sizes everywhere. Why can't we see a large weapon shop? There are several large grocery stores. Su Wen has visited them. The weapons sold there are not much better than those outside. Both the production process and the strength of the weapons are much worse than those he has seen before.

After hearing Su Wen's words, the middle-aged woman smiled and nodded at him with a simple smile, then turned around and quickly climbed up the low wooden ladder, and took off a solid crate box from the shelves.

"Former Teutonic Legion's standard daggers. Customers, if you want pig iron-level weapons, then these are the best, each with 50 gold coins, no bargaining."

Su Wen looked closely and saw daggers soaked in the box with oil. The quality of these daggers was more reliable than the shops in front of him. He picked up one of the semi-arched black military spears. The dagger blade on it was extremely sharp and the blood groove was polished to a very smooth one. Although it was difficult to tell whether its inner quality was excellent or inferior from the outside, the system's identification function quickly gave the answer.

"The sharp pig iron dagger has ordinary quality, physical attack power of 4-17, medium equipment strength, high attack speed, usage requirements are: None. Included enchantment: None."

It is a very ordinary weapon, but its equipment strength is the highest level in Su Wen's circle, and its physical attack power is even higher than the 250 gold-coin "super weapon" recommended by a black-hearted store before. Su Wen knew that this dagger could definitely satisfy his normal use, and the "military weapon" mentioned by the owner has a high probability that he did not lie to him, but he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Terra Steel, do you have a Terra Steel dagger here?"

This is the information that Su Wen saw in the library. This special alloy material is almost the best material for making weapons. Its appearance is similar to ordinary pig iron, but its hardness and rigidity are much stronger than the latter, and it is a product of the magic industry. No wonder Su Wen always feels that it is a little bit worse: after two or three hours of shopping, he has never seen weapons made of this material in any store.

The female blacksmith who looked powerful in Kong Wu was stunned for a moment, then grinned and shook her head: "Customer, that thing is controlled by the state and is not allowed to be sold and traded. And even if it is not controlled, we can't get a small workshop like us."

Hey, so that's the case?

The blacksmith continued: "Terra steel, elemental iron, and magical raw ore. After these materials appeared, ancient crafts like ours passed down have declined. The nobles and the army looked down on me and did not make a lot of money. Many forging techniques have been lost, and they can only barely make money now... Haha, I'm sorry for complaining so much. If the guests want to buy that kind of weapon, they should go to the underground mall in the big city. There is no market in Hongfeng Town, and even if there is one, they will not be sold."

The female blacksmith's words were very rough, but Su Wen quickly understood what was going on.

After all, it is nothing more than the impact of the magic revolution on traditional forging craftsmanship. However, these advanced craftsmanship has a high threshold and are firmly monopolized by the powers. In this way, traditional steel-made weapons cannot be supplied to the mid-to-high-end market. It would be strange if the blacksmith industry does not decline if it is sold to mercenaries who do not have much spare money.

This is the benefit of going out for more walks. Su Wen has never seen these things in the library. If he had not come to the market in Hongfeng Town in person, he would probably never have learned about this situation.

In the end, Su Wen paid for the standard dagger taken out by the female blacksmith. After all, even if he was willing to make a better product, it would be a matter of days. The mercenary mission he received seemed not difficult, but after all, he still had to be prepared and he couldn't go on the road empty-handedly.

After buying some supplies that might be used, Su Wen realized that the gold coins he spent were far exceeding expectations, and only half of the 460 gold coins in his wallet were left. While sighing that he really knew how to spend money, Su Wen pulled his wrinkled clothes that were already dry and finally walked home.

...

I have to say that the black beast mercenary group that James joined was really generous. Although he temporarily lent the house to Su Wen to recover from his injuries, he actually transferred the property certificate to his name. After all, this is a large two-story house. Although it is not a prosperous area, it is worth nearly 10,000 gold coins. He actually gave it to him as soon as he said it!

Su Wen knew that he had not shown anything worthy of his efforts to win over. At most, he saved James and his life and sold it to the leader of the Black Beast Mercenary Group for a favor. The reason why the other party made such a generous move was probably because he simply did not take this house seriously.

It seems that even if it is a wild path like the mercenary group, it will be very rich after it grows bigger.

However, when she returned to her temporary "home", Su Wen always felt a little strange in the atmosphere - if it were normal, even if Liticia was idle, she would never leave her range of activities, let alone do something like welcoming the owner, which Su Wen would not even dare to think about. But today, Su Wen saw Liticia standing at the gate of the courtyard from afar, and her glaring gaze at her.

"Master, you should see what good things your pet has done."

Before he got close, Liticia spoke up in anger.

Hey, pet? What pet?

Su Wen was a little confused at first, but soon realized that Liticia was probably referring to the slime.

Before signing the undead contract with Su Wen, the Slime had obviously been killed by Donald's clone team and Nikola's undead mage group, and died so much that it could not die again. After that, although Slime was "resurrected" because of the contract, Su Wen understood that its essence was still dead, so it did not need to absorb any nutrients, and it only needed water and light to live well.

Two days ago, Su Wen moved the half-dead Slime from the dark room to the balcony. After that, he quickly recovered a lot of energy after getting plenty of sunshine. Su Wen even felt that he could often feel the little guy's happiness. He didn't know whether this was the reason for the contract or a simple illusion, but in short, except for this inconspicuous feeling, Su Wen never found that the contract had brought any changes to him.

So, what's wrong with this cute little creature?

Did an attack on Liticia?

Su Wen looked up and down at the half-elf maid and found that the maid dress on her body was very neat, and there was no abnormality such as humiliation in her expression except anger. It seemed that the plot in the story with slimes and beauty as the protagonists did not happen. Therefore, while breathing a sigh of relief, she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"What happened, dear Liticia?"

Seeing that the half-elf maid gradually became even worse under his gaze, Su Wen asked quickly.

“In the bathroom, you can see it yourself.”

After Liticia finished speaking, she ignored Su Wen.

She picked up the broom beside the door and began to clean the courtyard. Su Wen knew that she was a very clean person, and even if she was a temporary residence, she would never allow any garbage.

However, the bathroom sounded a good place, and Su Wen's interest was successfully aroused. At the moment, he didn't care about Liticia, who had significantly reduced her favorability for him, rushed straight into the room and trotted towards the bathroom.

However……

Despite his sufficient mental preparation, Su Wen was still shocked by the scenery in his eyes when he pushed open the bathroom door.

A pool of slimes!

Yes, the large bathtub that was enough to accommodate two people bathing together was filled with transparent, irregularly shaped, and wriggling slimes. There was not much water in the bathtub, or they were all absorbed into the slimes' belly. Looking at the sticky and crystal clear creatures, Su Wen felt dizzy.

What about "Slime Cooking Collection"?

Su Wen felt that he needed this book to suppress his shock.

But at this moment, an extremely clear and crisp voice exploded in Su Wen's mind.

"dad!"

...

...

After a long period of silence, Su Wen looked at the pool of slimes in a daze. Although there was no place in these slimes that could speak, he knew that the crisp shouts just now would definitely not come from other places.

"Dad, I am your devil, I can feel you by my side."

A clear voice continued to ring.

Su Wen rushed to the edge of the bathhouse and grabbed a slime casually. The feeling of getting it was slippery and comfortable, just like holding a ball of cold water.

"This is my proliferation body, only in this way can I have enough energy to talk to you. Dad, I feel that you are scared by me, but if we don't do this, we can't communicate with each other. The strength of me alone is too weak."

“…Can you feel my thoughts?”

Su Wen threw the slime proliferative body in his hand into the bathtub and hesitated to the bathtub.

"Not, Dad. You can feel my thoughts, but I can only feel your mood, your position and state, and these must be achieved through proliferation."

"I see."

Su Wen nodded, then stood up and reached out to grab the plug in the bathtub.

"Do you mind if I rush you down?"

He asked expressionlessly.

"Please don't! Dad, why do you do that? Is it a bad thing to communicate between us?"

"Don't call me dad, I don't have a son like you."

"Dad, I'm a female. If you use it, you should be a daughter."

"Ah, that's really great... Cough, no! I count three times, either you jump out of the bathtub, or you'll be washed down with your proliferative body."

Just kidding, without professional guidance, Su Wen dared not come into contact with completely unfamiliar areas.

How did he know that this slime is calling him father sincerely, rather than taking the opportunity to eat him? Even if the probability of such a thing happening because of the contract is not high, Su Wen will definitely not allow the possibility of playing with it.
Chapter completed!