Wizard: I brought the wrong system.

Chapter 259 Demon Phoenix Golden Armor
Because of Harvey's meticulousness, the heavy armor he replicated became the best semi-finished products for making the Phoenix Armor.

Even if Yaro simply carbonizes the fish-man glue filling it and creates a dense buffer structure, he can directly use it to activate the third layer of magic!

While it has many drawbacks without other detailed structures, such as slower activation of magic spells, increased energy expenditure in combat, easier heat buildup inside, inability to channel abyssal power, loss of flight ability, etc.

The original purpose of making lead-iron heavy armor was for cushioning; as long as the cushioning structure was well made, it would have its main function.

At least, after activating 'Magic Strike - Black Flame Wings', there's no longer any need to worry about being injured or killed by the recoil, let alone the even milder 'Phoenix Spreads Feathers'.

With a buffer structure, as long as one can withstand the erosion of the abyss's power, as long as the body and mind have not reached their limits, and as long as the buffer structure has not been completely destroyed... the second level of the Magic Strike Technique can be kept active!
If you get your hands on these heavy armor sets made by Harvey, with just a few modifications, Yaro can immediately regain 50-60% of his short-term combat power!

After inspecting the armor and discovering that the magical runes were merely for show and contained no hidden traps, Yarrow stood up and looked at Harvey, the anxiously waiting shopkeeper, saying, "That golden armor is beautiful; I really like it..."

Shopkeeper Harvey beamed and bowed obsequiously, saying, "If you like it, please take it and play with it. It's my honor to have you like it!"

The fact that Yaro was willing to talk to him like this shows that Yaro had no intention of taking his life. If his life could be saved, what did it matter if he lost a valuable 'toy'?

"Sir...why don't you take the other two items as well?"

Harvey, the shop owner, just wants to get rid of this troublesome matter now, also fearing that Yaro will cause him more trouble because of it.

“The other two…” Yaro hesitated as he looked at the other two sets of heavy armor.

That set of dark silver heavy armor was probably a prototype made by Harvey. Its main material was iron, and it wasn't filled with any precious supernatural metals. It's impossible for Yaro to ask for a little bit of fishman glue.

The black heavy armor in the middle, which incorporates a large amount of abyssal materials, is probably the most expensive to make and also the most realistically replicated.

But precisely because of that intense abyssal power, the heavy armor was useless to Yaro.

The activation of the Magic Strike technique does not require the presence of Abyssal power within the heavy armor.

If we compare magic to the burning process of a flame.

Materials that inherently possess a strong abyssal power are like charcoal that has already been burned.

Although these charcoal pieces can generate higher temperatures, they are like the ephemeral bloom of a night-blooming cereus, possessing only a fleeting beauty and unable to last long.

If it were only for a moment of dazzling brilliance, there would be no need for Yarrow to divide the Magic Strike Technique into five levels.

What Magic Strike lacks is not a short burst of power!

"It's too ugly, I don't like it."

Yaro made up a reason to refuse.

"ugly?"

Harvey hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

These three sets are all replicas based on the information on the Record Stone, especially the middle set, the enchanted version, which is exactly the same as the heavy armor in the Record Stone!

If this is considered ugly...

Regardless of his thoughts, Yarrow placed the half-finished golden armor on the alchemy table and, without considering that it was an outsider, gave the order: "Harvey, get me 6 pounds of silver essence, 50 pounds of firestone, 15 pieces of fine firestone, 4 pieces of vanadium fossil, and 6 desert fire lizards..."

Silver Essence is the abyssal power guiding metal chosen by Yaro. Its effects are much worse than mithril, but it is also very cheap. It is a commonly used substitute for mithril during the apprentice stage.

Vanadium fossils are used to remove unnecessary enchantments. This set of golden armor has too many enchantments that Aarol considers useless, and they all need to be removed. This is also to prevent the existence of subtle traps that were not noticed.

The blood of the desert salamander can soften fish glue, which can be used to create a honeycomb-like cushioning structure.

……

Apart from the high-quality molten stone, the other materials were commonly used in alchemy during the apprenticeship stage, which Harvey, the shopkeeper, was naturally familiar with and had prepared in abundance in his shop.

"Please wait!"

Harvey, the shop owner, dared not delay and opened several secret vaults one by one, taking out the materials one by one.

After finishing all that, Shopkeeper Harvey said respectfully, "Lord Yarrow, well... you can continue with your work, I'll take my leave now?"

He was avoiding suspicion, and also testing whether Yaro was really prepared to let him go.

“Okay, go ahead and get busy.” Yaro replied without turning his head, while skillfully processing the various materials.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!" A hint of wild joy flashed in Harvey's eyes as he bowed repeatedly and carefully withdrew from the alchemy room.

Squeak!

Yaro stopped what he had been doing, glanced at the half-open door, and quietly approached, standing to the side of the wall and looking out through the crack in the door.

Outside, in the narrow corridor, a bald figure walked with light skipping, humming a cheerful tune.

Yaro: "..."

No, you were extorted, why are you so happy?

What's your backup plan?
Aren't you going to call for help?

Don't cough!
Judging from your pretentious actions, are you really going to honestly go and check out the store?

"Storekeeper Harvey, why hasn't Yaro come out yet?" It was Ian's voice.

"What, Yaluo! That's my senior brother! Show him some respect!"

After Harvey's clear and rebuking reprimand, he seemed to suddenly remember something, coughed a few times, and explained in a kind tone:

"My senior brother has his eye on a golden armor and is planning to alter it for himself. Are you waiting for him? Would you like something to drink?"

"..."

boom!
Yaro closed the door.

"Does he really understand what endorsement fees mean?" Yaro scratched his head in confusion and walked towards the alchemy table with a puzzled look on his face.

Wow!

Looking at the recording stones that had fallen from the alchemy table, Yarrow suddenly realized something.

"Could it be... that he was frightened by his own past fighting methods?" After all, this is just a small market for apprentices.

Based on Yaro's past achievements, a single 'Star River Surge' could obliterate this place completely.

"I can't just randomly use that kind of suicidal move again."

If Yaro couldn't break through the spatial barrier at that time, he could only hope that the secondary Stand puppet could safely take him away.

"On the other hand, if we hadn't prepared enough gold dust, the Star River Surge wouldn't have been able to unleash such power."

Although gold dust is the best fuel for magic.

But only under conditions of zero gravity and no strong winds can the thrown gold dust completely surround the body, prevent the dense abyssal power generated by the burning from scattering and escaping, and allow the vortex stirred up by the magic spell to form that incredibly terrifying huge storm.

Yaro shook his head, clearing his mind of distractions, and focused on modifying the golden armor in front of him.

"With golden armor, why bother with lead and iron armor? It's best to avoid lead before your body is fully developed."

To modify this golden armor, the first thing to do is to remove the fish glue that was haphazardly filled in.

Then remove all the enchantment structures that Harvey had imagined based on the exposed magic runes.

“Harvey has replicated these magic rune structures very well. Once the internal structure is removed, the enchanting can be applied directly.”

The enchanted structure inside the golden armor was not fixed, probably because Harvey hadn't decided whether to actually use these structures. Without a fixed treatment, any vanadium fossil could wipe away all the enchanted runes like rubber.

Yaro first activated the shaping platform, then placed the golden armor in it, using the repulsive force of the platform to make the golden armor float.

Then turn on the heating plate and let it slowly heat the golden armor.

Taking advantage of this time, Yaro used his magical hand to pull a blood-red desert fire lizard out of its cage.

The desert fire lizard is about 50 centimeters long and looks somewhat like a Komodo dragon, except that its scales are blood-red, making it look like a skinned Komodo dragon cub.

"Fizz!"

After being dragged out of its cage by Yaro, the desert fire lizard flicked its fiery red tongue and began to roll violently. As it thrashed about, drops of thick saliva splattered everywhere, hissing like sulfuric acid as they fell to the ground, releasing a pungent, fishy stench.

bass!
A streak of light flashed, and the cross-shaped longsword swiftly beheaded him.

Before the fire lizard's head could hit the ground, the longsword flicked slightly, swiftly sending it flying into the furnace.

coax!
A burst of flames erupted from the furnace on the heating platform.

Yaro dared not delay and quickly used a silver vessel to carefully catch the flowing blood.

In just a moment, the flowing blood turned into a foul-smelling, deep black. At the same time, Yaro moved the vessel away and used a heat-melting spell to maintain the bowl of lizard blood at a suitable temperature.

A desert fire lizard only has this much blood available; the rest is not only highly poisonous but also has no effect on dissolving fish glue.

Moreover, since the fish-man glue is worn close to the body, Yaro dared not allow it to become contaminated with too much toxicity.

"A bowl of fresh 'fire blood' should be enough to remove the fish-man glue from the golden armor."

He carefully poured the 'fire blood' onto the cross-shaped longsword, then slowly inserted the longsword into the gap between the fishman glue and the golden armor.

'Fireblood' truly lived up to its reputation as the nemesis of fishman glue. In just a moment, the fishman glue fixed inside the golden armor softened, and with a gentle scrape, it fell off in one piece like jelly.

Setting the fish-man glue aside, Aro immediately took out the vanadium fossil, continuously burned it with flames, and then quickly used the Water Extraction Technique to grind it into a gray-black liquid, which he then used to continuously rinse the inside of the golden armor.

Yaro stopped when the water sphere remained in a murky state and stopped changing.

After dealing with the trivial matters involving the golden armor, the main event is about to begin.

The first step was to create a honeycomb-shaped cushioning structure. With his experience, Yaro first used a copper ingot to make a template, then poured in melted fish glue, and used his magic hand to continuously tumble it, creating rows of honeycomb-shaped glue. After these glues dried, he smeared them with diluted 'fire blood' and layered them together.

"Demon Strike Technique - Phoenix's First Cry!"

Facing the golden armor, Yaro activated the magic spell, and the power of the abyss gradually flowed within it, eroding the interior of the heavy armor, which was mixed with gold dust, and creating tiny cracks.

These gaps are where the lines for embedding extraordinary metal need to be placed. Once the extraordinary metal that can conduct energy is embedded, the power of the abyss can spread rapidly along these lines, thereby quickly activating the magic.

As for other enchanting issues, those are things that require a lot of time and don't require the use of alchemical equipment, so Yarrow doesn't intend to delay them here.

He hadn't forgotten that after killing Viscount Corey's messenger, Edmund the Blood Bat, Viscount Corey hadn't made any further moves.

"It's not easy to find a place to stay. Since we haven't encountered any major trouble at the market, let's hurry back."

Rather than forcibly occupying someone else's alchemy lab, constantly guarding against this and that, and always worrying that others might have malicious intentions, it's better to stay in your own place and quietly make changes.

"That's the downside of the extraordinary world. Everyone is like someone carrying a gun, and you never know who will suddenly make a move."

Just like Harvey, the shop owner who just left, who knows if he might get angrier the more he thinks about it and suddenly run to notify the patrol officers?

A patrol team wielding advanced apprentice head wands suddenly attacked. Before the golden armor was properly modified and worn, Aro might only be able to reveal the secondary stand puppet.

"Even if we don't notify the patrol personnel, who knows if he has laid any powerful formations in this alchemy room?"

As Yaro slowly poured the liquefied silver essence into the cracks eroded in the center of the golden armor, he maintained the 'Cat-Shaped Fist - Running' stance, ready to counterattack at any moment.

Forewarned is forearmed, without prejudging the waste.

When you're in someone else's core territory, you can never be too vigilant.

The lead-iron heavy armor was designed and made by Yarrow himself. He had previous experience to draw upon, and the current part could be further refined with the help of the corrosive effect of magic. Even with some attention to guarding against the surroundings, the speed of making and modifying it was still not slow.

As Yaro intentionally slowed down, a dense abyssal power continuously emanated from the golden armor. The abyssal runes gradually spread at a slow speed, like flowing aqua regia, leaving strange patterns on the dazzling surface of the golden armor.

As the abyssal power increased, Yaro could no longer suppress the gathering of abyssal runes. The abyssal power suddenly flowed back, forming strange runes that resembled chains, and the dense abyssal power in the air suddenly thinned out at this moment.

The magical runes of the chains gradually flowed, forming strange feathers resembling peacock tail feathers. Then, the runes flowed faster and faster, and a ghostly light appeared like clusters of black flames. The feathers continued to overlap, quickly forming a magnificent black phoenix.

The gray mist was drawn back in and all flowed into the black phoenix stripes on the surface of the golden armor. Like the finishing touch on a painting, the divine phoenix awoke in an instant and let out a pleasant clanging sound like metal striking stone!

"Chirp—!"

The Demon Phoenix Golden Armor—complete!
(End of this chapter)