After having the idea to make the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, Shirou spent all his time forging.
He took advantage of the Dragon King Kingdom opening its forging workshop for him and collected as many King Dragon materials hunted from the King Dragon Mountains as possible. But because the Dragon King Kingdom didn't even have enough of these rare materials for themselves, Shirou had no choice but to go hunting King Dragons in the King Dragon Mountains himself to get the materials.
Originally, he had planned to transform into his Servant form and go to the King Dragon Mountains to hunt King Dragons.
But Ruijerd and Eris accidentally found out about it.
Neither of them was confused by Shirou wanting to forge the Evil Dragon Blood Armor.
Because they both knew Shirou could forge things. Ruijerd had already accepted the demon-breaking spear that Shirou had forged for him.
Even though Ruijerd was very hesitant at first and didn't want to accept anything from Shirou, Shirou said it was to better protect him and Eris, so Ruijerd agreed.
The demon-breaking red rose was specially made by Shirou for Ruijerd, and even the overall size was perfect for Ruijerd's grip.
Ruijerd was very satisfied after using it, and his overall fighting ability even improved a bit, making him praise Shirou as a very skilled blacksmith.
This time, when Shirou said he wanted to forge the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, Eris and Ruijerd didn't hesitate and immediately chose to help.
Normally, Shirou wouldn't want others to know about his forging abilities to avoid being linked to his identity as Muramasa. But since he would still have to fight in front of Eris and Ruijerd in the future, suddenly showing off the Evil Dragon Blood Armor would only make them suspicious.
So it was better to let them know he was going to forge armor now.
And in Eris and Ruijerd's eyes, the armor Shirou was going to forge wasn't anything too crazy. They thought he was just going to imitate King Dragon armor and make armor, so they didn't pay too much attention to it.
And just like that, the three of them took on a request from the adventurer's guild and headed into the King Dragon Mountains.
The King Dragon Mountains are located to the west of the Dragon King Kingdom. They are a vast mountain range, and because of the complex terrain, there are hardly any signs of people in the barren areas.
Their goal was to collect King Dragon materials for the adventurer's guild.
This wasn't difficult, and it could even be said to be very smooth.
Because Ruijerd, an emperor-level fighter, was there.
And while the King Dragons are best at gravity magic, which they can use to defend their bodies, the demon-breaking spear that Shirou made for Ruijerd is specifically good against magic defenses.
No matter how high the magic resistance, one spear takes them down.
After easily taking out a few King Dragons, Shirou collected as much of the King Dragons' essence blood as possible. He also took the King Dragon materials that the adventurer's guild needed and then started on the way back.
"Shirou, this spear you forged is even more amazing than I thought."
Ruijerd held the demon-breaking red rose in his hand and said with a very shaken expression, "I didn't think the demon-breaking effect would be this extreme, but I didn't expect it to even break the King Dragon's gravity barrier. If the world knew about this, it would cause a huge stir."
"Good luck, just good luck."
Shirou quickly said, "I just happened to forge this weapon by chance. I won't be able to forge it again if I try, so Ruijerd, it's best if you don't tell anyone else that I forged the weapon. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if someone forced me to forge similar weapons."
"I know."
Ruijerd nodded.
Shirou breathed a small sigh of relief.
He didn't want too many people to know that he could forge things, as that would very likely lead people to think that he and Muramasa were the same person.
While he and Ruijerd were talking, Eris next to them suddenly said unhappily, "What? Why doesn't Shirou forge a weapon for me too! I want one too!"
"This..."
Faced with Eris's tantrum, Shirou was quite helpless. He quickly said, "Didn't I forge a Black Key for you before?"
"That was so long ago! And the Black Key is only used in emergencies. I still use the sword that Ruijerd gave me normally."
Ruijerd had given Eris a weapon when he was teaching her combat techniques.
Ruijerd had gotten it from a demon before.
Eris had used it for a long time, and it was pretty good.
But in the end, it was just an ordinary weapon without any special effects.
Faced with Eris's whining, Shirou had no choice but to agree to forge a weapon for her later. But he didn't want to forge too good of a weapon for Eris. After all, Eris's own strength was still too weak, and if she relied too much on a weapon, it could affect her future growth.
Shirou thought it over and thought that the original Red Hound was a good sword.
As a noble phantasm, it has the characteristic of becoming stronger the more blood it absorbs, which is very suitable for Eris's wild dog-like fighting techniques.
Of course, forging a weapon for Eris had to be postponed first. Shirou had to use all his energy to forge the Evil Dragon Blood Armor while he was still in the Dragon King Kingdom.
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After returning to the capital of the Dragon King Kingdom, Shirou completely shut himself in the Dragon King Kingdom's forging workshop.
He gathered all the King Dragon essence blood he had collected, refined and polished it as much as possible, and used the Dragon King Kingdom's technology for forging King Dragon armor to create something very close to King Dragon armor, but with effects that were several, or even dozens, of times more powerful, the Evil Dragon Blood Armor.
The original owner of the Evil Dragon Blood Armor was the Servant Siegfried.
The Heavenly Demon Greatsword that Shirou had forged before was the weapon that Siegfried wielded.
At the same time, Siegfried not only had this extremely exaggerated dragon-slaying sword, but also a set of armor of the same level as the weapon, the Evil Dragon Blood Armor.
The Evil Dragon Blood Armor comes from Siegfried's own legend, the "Nibelungenlied." In the story, Siegfried is the prince of the Netherlands and a noble knight.
He is more willing to bring hope and happiness to others than to himself.
He carries the Holy Sword Balmung, which he obtained from the Nibelungs, and builds up his battle achievements in various expeditions and adventures.
The most famous of his achievements is defeating the evil dragon Fafnir – at that time, he bathed in the dragon's blood, and thus obtained this armor made of dragon blood.
The armor can nullify physical attacks and magic equivalent to rank B.
For attacks of rank A or higher, it will deduct the defense value equivalent to rank B before calculating damage.
This shows its exaggerated defensive ability, meaning that noble phantasms of rank B and below cannot cause any damage to it at all.
However, the Evil Dragon Blood Armor also has a single weakness, which is that in the legend, when Siegfried bathed in dragon blood, a linden leaf accidentally stuck to his back.
The area where the linden leaf was became an area that was not bathed in dragon blood, and it became Siegfried's only weakness.
When Shirou forged the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, he wanted to erase this weakness as much as possible and make the Evil Dragon Blood Armor a truly flawless absolute defense.
But what he didn't expect was that he couldn't get rid of this weakness.
If he wanted to create the Evil Dragon Blood Armor without any weaknesses, it would cause the entire noble phantasm to drop in level, turning it into an ordinary armor that only surpassed the King Dragon armor. Although it would still be extremely hard, far stronger than ordinary armor by several times, it would lose the amplification of the noble phantasm.
In contrast, the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, which retains its weakness, would have the nearly original exaggerated defensive ability. The price is that the only weakness would be extremely fatal.
Faced with this situation, Shirou vaguely realized that when he was forging noble phantasms, he seemed to be not just forging, but more like projecting noble phantasms that did not exist in this world.
This is also the fact that he has concluded from his past forging experience.
He finally chose to keep the weakness and create an Evil Dragon Blood Armor that was almost the original.
This was a decision Shirou made after putting many things together.
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After Shirou finished the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, he realized that he had to leave quickly, but he was having trouble choosing a route.
The Dragon King Kingdom and the Asura Kingdom are separated by the King Dragon Mountains. If they took the safe route, they would have to go around the King Dragon Mountains, taking a long way.
This would take nearly ten months.
And if they went directly through the King Dragon Mountains, they would not only face terrible King Dragon groups at any time, but they might even encounter the legendary King of the King Dragons.
In the most widely spread legend in the Dragon King Kingdom, the Great King Dragon was a terrible magical beast that once rampaged through the world.
Even the first North God died at its hands.
Until one day, a successor of the North God Style, Kalman's son, the second North God, took on a request from the demon blacksmith Yurian Halisko and personally fought the Great King Dragon and successfully killed it.
As a result, Yurian Halisko forged the Great King Dragon's body into forty-eight Holy Demon Swords, becoming famous throughout the world.
The above legend is enough to illustrate the horror of the Great King Dragon.
Only a North God-level existence could possibly fight it.
If it were just Shirou and Ruijerd, they might be able to take the risk, but now that they had to bring Eris, they had to take the safe route.
When Shirou told Eris his thoughts, he was undoubtedly met with the latter's disapproval.
"Why are you being so considerate of me? Wouldn't it be fine to just cross the King Dragon Mountains?!"
"No, safety first."
Shirou and Ruijerd had reached a consensus on this matter and would never put Eris in danger.
At this point, the journey to the Dragon King Kingdom was completely over. After Shirou reaped the reward of the Evil Dragon Blood Armor, he got a great boost and was able to embark on a new path, officially setting off for the Asura Kingdom.
But this situation only lasted a few days before something changed.
The moment Shirou got into the carriage, he just casually took off the eyepatch on his right eye to try to get used to the ability of Clairvoyance.
He had been getting used to it these days, wanting to try to ensure that he could completely adapt to using his magic eyes without the eyepatch in the future and stabilize his magic eyes.
But as soon as he took off his magic eye, the figures of Lilia and Aisha suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Before Shirou could even react, the scene suddenly disappeared.
"What was that just now?"
Recalling the scene in his clairvoyance, Shirou couldn't immediately tell where the two of them were, but since the clairvoyance gave him this hint, it meant that he and the two of them should be not far away.
And this undoubtedly meant that he would be able to find his two family members!
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