The Epidemic

In the study room.

Su Nan put down the book in his hand and nodded slightly.

“Not bad, all three of you have passed.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Xie Man, Ke Lei, and Artil, who stood before the desk, all breathed a sigh of relief.

“Here’s your reward.”

Su Nan waved his hand, and three bottles of secondary active potions floated in front of the three.

“This is a secondary active potion, it can enhance your mental activity, improving meditation efficiency and learning ability. One bottle lasts for a month.”

Upon hearing this, the three of them, Xie Man among them, were delighted, their eyes gleaming as they looked at the potion in their hands.

According to the descriptions in the books, real wizard potions, even if they are just Tier 0 potions, have effects unimaginable to ordinary people.

Not to mention, potions that improve meditation efficiency, which are extremely valuable to wizard apprentices.

“Keep working hard, and if you pass next month’s knowledge test, there will be more rewards.”

After encouraging them with a few words, Su Nan waved his hand to let them leave.

“The learning progress of these three little guys is pretty good.”

“Especially Xie Man. I originally thought his background might make his learning ability weaker than the other two, but he hasn’t fallen behind at all. It seems this little guy is worth cultivating.”

A slight smile appeared on Su Nan’s face.

At this pace, in about half a year, these three little guys should be able to take on some of the work at the base.

Upon leaving the courtyard, Su Nan headed straight for the martial arts field.

As expected, Brother Ke Yi was indeed training on the martial arts field.

Bured and Jodun were there too.

Considering the need to stabilize power, and the secondary dragon blood potion being supplied to the Black Rock Cavalry Regiment, Brother Ke Yi hadn’t asked Su Nan to make dragon blood potions for him for the past half year.

Thus, he remained at the level of a junior grand knight and showed no sign of breaking through yet.

However, being a 21-year-old junior grand knight would be impressive in any country.

Bured and Jodun, on the other hand, had both taken a dragon blood potion once.

The former already showed signs of breaking through to become a grand knight.

The latter broke through to become a pinnacle knight three months ago.

Noticing Su Nan’s arrival, Brother Ke Yi immediately stopped training, took a towel from a servant to wipe his sweat, and smiled, “How come you have time to come here today?”

“I have something for you.”

Brother Ke Yi’s eyes lit up immediately, eagerly asking, “What is it?”

Bured and Jodun also showed curious expressions.

After all, everything Su Nan brought out was beyond their imagination.

It would probably be no different this time.

Under everyone’s expectant gaze, a long sword appeared out of nowhere in Su Nan’s hand.

The silver-bright sword blade gleamed under the sunlight, the mysterious patterns on the blade shimmering with an extraordinarily dazzling luster.

“This is an enchanted weapon.”

Su Nan approached an iron mannequin target, and swung the sword down sharply.

The crowd seemed to see a flash of fire, and the next second, they heard a hiss, the iron mannequin target was diagonally sliced into two from shoulder to waist, with the upper part thumping to the ground.

“This is…”

Brother Ke Yi took a deep breath.

As someone who has used sword-like weapons for years, he naturally saw how exquisite the long sword in Su Nan’s hand truly was.

That iron mannequin target was forged from Black Stone Iron, extremely hard, an ordinary sword could only leave a white mark.

But under the slash of this long sword, it was as fragile as tofu.

The sharpness of the sword was indeed shockingly impressive!

However, typically, with such sharpness, the cut should be smooth and flat, but in reality, the cut was uneven with signs of melting.

This clearly indicated that the sword had effects like flame damage.

“This sword is fixed with ‘Armor Piercing’ and ‘Weak Fire Elemental Damage’ traits. Besides being far sharper than ordinary weapons, it deals weak fire elemental damage upon attack.” Su Nan explained by putting the sword away.

He had synthesized the ‘Armor Piercing’ trait on an enchanted weapon, then fixed the ‘Weak Fire Elemental Damage’, succeeding after three failures.

It was the best enchanted weapon he had made to date.

This was only possible because ‘Artificing’ reached level 2, otherwise, it would likely have failed.

Currently, binding two traits simultaneously, that was Su Nan’s limit.

To achieve more, he would need ‘Artificing’ to reach a higher level.

Nevertheless, Brother Ke Yi was already quite taken with this sword.

Caressing the long sword excitedly, he couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

True to Su Nan’s reputation, he always managed to bring him great surprises.

This kind of weapon significantly enhanced a knight’s combat power.

With the sword in hand, he even felt confident facing an intermediate grand knight.

Beside him, Bured and Jodun gazed enviously at the weapon in Brother Ke Yi’s hand.

Seeing this, Su Nan threw each of them an enchanted weapon.

Bured received a shield fixed with ‘Black Steel’ and ‘Energy Gathering’, extremely hard, and could enhance the power of battle qi.

Jodun’s was a long sword fixed with ‘Sharpness’ and ‘Weak Fire Elemental Damage’.

Having received the enchanted weapons, Bured and Jodun were immediately ecstatic, thanking Su Nan repeatedly.

“Can these weapons be mass-produced?” Brother Ke Yi asked excitedly.

Su Nan shook his head slightly, “Weapons like yours no, but slightly inferior ones, fixed with only one trait, can be barely mass-produced.”

“The cost?” Brother Ke Yi immediately asked.

He was now the most sensitive to this.

The Shining Lands now needed to expand armaments and support Su Nan in building the base, so the economic pressure remained huge.

“About twenty gold coins per piece,” Su Nan said.

This was because the magic stones were synthesized by him, making the cost extremely low.

Otherwise, a market value (if there was one) of one enchanted weapon would be at least over eighty gold coins.

Brother Ke Yi slightly relaxed hearing this.

It was alright, twenty gold coins wasn’t too much.

A regular fine iron longsword cost three to four gold coins, so it’s reasonable for an enchanted weapon, much stronger than regular ones, to be several times more expensive.

Even so, equipping every knight in the territory with an enchanted weapon would still require a significant expenditure of several thousand gold coins.

Brother Ke Yi glanced at the weapon in his hand, pondering if this could open a new trade route.

Noticing his change in expression, Su Nan immediately guessed his intention and poured cold water on it, “Forget about selling to outsiders, I don’t have that much time to spend on making enchanted weapons.”

Brother Ke Yi was somewhat disappointed, but he understood the rationale behind Su Nan’s point.

Having a wizard apprentice act as a blacksmith was indeed a bit of a waste.

After some thought, he decided to first equip every knight in the territory with an enchanted weapon.

Su Nan nodded in agreement and handed over the enchanted weapons made during this period to Brother Ke Yi, including those that were failures, letting him distribute them.

With everything settled, just as Su Nan was about to leave, he noticed Brother Ke Yi’s clerk rushing into the martial arts field, handing a scroll of parchment to Brother Ke Yi.

Upon opening it, Brother Ke Yi’s brows immediately furrowed.

“What happened?” Su Nan paused and asked.

Brother Ke Yi took a deep breath and said solemnly, “An epidemic has broken out in the Frostveil Province.”