Chapter 2085: Miraculous Craftsmanship

Crossbows may require certain skills to make, but as long as there is a mountain, can't boulders be easily excavated?

If this was said in the previous world, there would be nothing wrong with it.

But everyone should remember one thing, this is the Sky Island world, not the previous world.

Although there are mountains here, they are not fixed in a certain place like in the previous world, but grow in some special areas.

After all, the Sky Island is mainly soil, but there are no stones. If you want to get stones, many people fish them out, or go to special dangerous areas to explore and then mine some ores.

So these boulders look ordinary, but in fact each one is an ore, which is not an ordinary stone.

Then everyone knows that it is definitely several times more difficult to excavate ores than to excavate ordinary stones.

Because these ores cannot be mined and excavated at will like ordinary stones.

The reason why ores are called ores is that there are substances containing other elements inside or on the surface of the stones.

For example, the main currency in the Sky Island World, ‘iron ore’, is extracted from the ore.

Then there are some refined gold mines that are rarer and stronger than iron ore. These require a lot of time and effort to extract these ores without destroying the minerals themselves.

Then the stones after extraction can be used as ammunition for catapults, or as arrowheads for crossbows.

However, no matter how powerful the level is, it is impossible to completely extract a piece of ore. More or less, some of it will be preserved.

In this way, the value of these stones will also rise. Of course, after adding these metal ores, the attack power of these boulders is much stronger than the previous stones.

If it is an ordinary stone, it will be difficult to penetrate the wall with one or two attacks when encountering some walls made of special materials.

But if the boulders made of metal ores such as iron ore are added, it is very likely to penetrate the wall at once.

In addition to this, once an ordinary boulder is launched, regardless of whether it hits the target or not, it will be broken into pieces, becoming pieces of rubble of different sizes, and its attack power is almost zero at this time.

However, after the boulder made of ore is launched, it will not be so easy to split. It will always remain in the state of a boulder. After penetrating the city wall, it will still fly towards the distance, and wherever it goes, there will definitely be a lot of casualties. This power is at least several times more than that of an ordinary boulder.

This is why the ammunition of these catapults and crossbows is so expensive.

As the saying goes, a good car needs a good saddle, otherwise no matter how good the catapult is, if it is equipped with a small stone, it will not be able to exert its due power.

As I said just now, these boulders and crossbow arrows need to be extracted from the ore and then forged.

Just this point alone, many forces cannot do it.

This is why Tang Yan, the forging master, is respected by everyone.

The number of forgers in the Sky Island World is even rarer than rare birds, not to mention that it is definitely not something that ordinary forgers can do after extracting ore and then forging it. At least they have to complete the beginner's task and become a real level 1 forger before they can do it.

This is why many platforms can imitate the Merchant Alliance to produce defective catapults and crossbow carts, but only a few platforms can really make the ammunition for these siege weapons.

After all, the profession of forger is absolutely rare. It is basically impossible for ordinary people to learn to become a forger from an ordinary person without spending ten or eight years.

Moreover, ten or eight years is just the minimum starting point, and the learner must have a certain talent, and must not be the kind of idiot who can't open his head.

If he is so mentally retarded, he can't learn even if he is given a hundred or eight years.

Of course, those who can learn in ten or eight years are only the most basic forgers. If you want to become someone like Tang Yan, it is basically impossible to change your career halfway.

In fact, it stands to reason that although there are few forgers, it cannot be said that there are none.

Although it is difficult to make boulders and crossbows, they are not completely impossible to forge. As long as they have a forger, they can definitely imitate them.

It is nothing more than a defective catapult and crossbow, and the quality is greatly discounted.

But even so, if they can make it and the price is slightly more favorable, there will definitely be some forces with poor economic strength who will go to them to buy it.

But even so, with potential customers, there are still very few platforms participating in production and sales. Why is this?

That is because the level of their forgers is too low, and the cost and energy required to refine ore far exceeds those of the powerful forging masters.

In this way, their costs are naturally rising.

If their quality can exceed that of the Merchant Alliance, then they can still accept such a high cost and energy to make it. Anyway, the extra money will make up for their extra effort.

But their strength is limited, and under the condition of spending a large amount of money, the boulders and crossbows they make are not as good as those sold by the Merchant Alliance.

If they want to sell at a higher price than the Merchant Alliance, it is absolutely impossible to sell.

Because no fool will spend a high price to buy a bunch of garbage.

But if the price is too cheap and they compete with the Merchant Alliance for business, then they will not only not make money, but will have to lose money to sell.

How could they be stupid enough to do such a thankless thing.

So the best way is to give up this business and concentrate on imitating catapults and crossbows. As for the ammunition business, let other more powerful platforms make money.

After all, their termination is to make money, not to lose money here to make a profit.

Because compared with the Merchant Alliance, their shouting can't make back no matter how much money they spend.

It's not that they can't make money, but under the suppression of the Merchant Alliance platform, their efforts are useless and can only make them lose more.

Even these platforms that specialize in sales can't produce the ammunition needed for catapults and crossbows, let alone those ordinary forces. They have no other way except to buy from the Merchant Alliance and these platforms.

It is precisely because of this monopoly that the business alliance can make so much money.

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