Chapter 45 Ore Identification

For example, the skills of material selection, quenching and grinding are very practical. Perhaps one of them can bring Ryan relatively more blacksmith professional experience.

As for why he didn't learn to forge weapons, such as a two-handed sword?

It's not that Ryan didn't want to, but the blacksmith Borris didn't know how to do it!

Ryan had already known that the blacksmith Borris was just a blacksmith who was good at making daily necessities, mainly making iron products commonly used in life, such as horseshoes, iron pots, kitchen knives, etc., and was not good at forging weapons or armor.

As for the skill of Borris forging a half-hand sword last time, Ryan had already learned it clearly from the blacksmith apprentice Drus.

That was Borris's most important skill. He didn't intend to teach it to anyone other than his own son.

Therefore, Ryan would not ask for trouble.

What's more, his giant bear swordsmanship requires a two-handed sword, not a half-handed sword, because only a two-handed sword can fully exert the power of the giant bear swordsmanship.

"Uncle Boris, thank you for your kindness, but I still want to take part in the manor assessment." Ryan said tactfully.

Blacksmith Boris didn't care about Ryan's refusal.

"Young man, it's better to try more. If you can enter the manor, it will certainly be a better choice."

"By the way, Uncle Boris, if I learn the skills of material selection, quenching and grinding from you, how much tuition will it cost?"

"I want to have more control during the manor assessment."

Hearing Ryan's words, there was a sound of gasps around!

Obviously, the surrounding blacksmith apprentices were surprised at Ryan's appetite. It would be fine if he didn't want to be a helper, but he actually had to learn so many skills. Not to mention the cost, it was not easy to master all these skills.

"That's not cheap. The tuition for these three items combined is five imperial gold coins!"

"However, if you come to be a helper, I can slowly teach you these skills for free in about a year." Blacksmith Boris paused, looked at Ryan with a smile, and at the same time, threw out a very tempting recruitment for ordinary people.

This made the blacksmith apprentices who were eavesdropping on the conversation look at Ryan with envy, and their expressions seemed to say:

"Ryan is so lucky, he is so talented in blacksmithing! Why don't I have this talent!"

Facing Borius's invitation again, Ryan touched his nose and smiled bitterly.

He didn't expect that Borius, a blacksmith known for his "stinginess", would think so highly of him.

If it were in the past, Ryan would definitely agree without hesitation.

But now, his goal is the "sea of ​​stars", how could he restrict himself to a small blacksmith shop!

"Uncle Borius, thank you for your appreciation, but forget it, five gold coins, right? This is a lot of money, I have to go home and discuss it with my parents."

"By the way, can I learn separately?" After thinking about it, Ryan continued to ask.

"No problem, the material selection fee is one gold coin, and the two skills of quenching and polishing are charged at two imperial gold coins each." Borius gestured and said.

"Okay! Uncle Boris, I'll go home and discuss it with my parents."

"Of course."

"Then Uncle Boris, see you this afternoon!"

Ryan didn't tell his parents about this matter when he got home. What he and the blacksmith Boris said about going to school separately and asking for their parents' opinions was just a cover.

After Ryan went home and had lunch, he came to the blacksmith shop again with a gold coin.

As soon as he entered the door, he handed a gold coin to the blacksmith Boris as tuition for material selection.

After paying the fee, the blacksmith Boris took Ryan to a warehouse behind the blacksmith shop.

This was Ryan's first time here. There

were all kinds of raw ore stacked inside, and some square metal ingots such as iron ingots, copper ingots and tin ingots that had been melted and cast were neatly placed.

"Ryan, let's start with the selection of ore. Look at this, this is hematite." Boris picked up a piece of ore the size of a human head, mixed with red and black colors and said.

"Generally speaking, its surface will be this dark red, or black, and the fracture will be striped or shell-shaped."

Ryan listened carefully to the blacksmith Boris's explanation, while taking the heavy hematite ore and carefully measuring it.

"This is tin ore, generally the surface is dark brown, with a granular texture and metallic luster, and there will be pores inside the ore." Boris picked up another piece of dark brown ore and explained.

"This is chalcopyrite."

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With 11 points of mental power, Ryan had superhuman observation, discrimination, and memory. He quickly understood the most common ores that Borris had explained.

"Generally speaking, the higher the quality of the iron ore, the more black parts on the surface." Seeing that Ryan did not show any doubt, Borris continued to explain.

At this time, Ryan noticed that the system prompt also appeared:

[You have studied ore identification, and your understanding of it has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - ore identification]

[Your skill ore identification has been improved, and your experience value is +1]

[You have focused on learning ore identification for half an hour, and your blacksmith professional experience value is +1]

Ryan immediately saw a new icon light up under his blacksmith panel.

The pattern of the icon is an irregular iron ore. Obviously, this is the newly learned skill "ore identification".

At this time, the blacksmith Borris stopped explaining, and he turned to look at Ryan and said:

"Ryan, these are the most common ores, but in addition, there are some very rare ores that are extremely difficult to identify." "

But at the same time, the value of these ores is also extremely high."

These words immediately aroused Ryan's curiosity.

Blacksmith Borris took out a piece of iron ore with stars from a drawer and handed it to Ryan, saying:

"This is star iron, also called meteorite iron ore. It is said to come from a meteor in the sky. When the meteor falls to the earth, this kind of meteorite iron ore will be formed. It is very rare."

As soon as Ryan took this so-called star iron, he was surprised!

Because he immediately found that the weight of this star iron, that is, meteorite iron ore, was far more than ordinary hematite or magnetite.

In the case of not much difference in volume, the weight is about more than twice as much as them.

Borris seemed to notice the surprised expression on Ryan's face, and couldn't help but laugh: "Isn't the texture different? This kind of star iron is only the size of a fist, but the price is dozens of times that of ordinary iron ore."

"Hiss!" This price really shocked Ryan!

(End of this chapter)