Chapter 191 Discovery of Iron Ore
Kelly didn't expect Ophelia to make such a condition.
She bit her lip and clenched her palms. "Okay, I promise."
"Okay, let's do it for two days." Ophelia agreed readily.
She wanted to see how Tagore would react.
After the two talked it out, Kelly left.
It was already completely dark at this time, so she did not rush to find Tagore and wanted to wait until the next day to tell him what happened.
Taylor and Klein didn't return to the stone house until the moon was high in the sky. Seeing how exhausted they were, Ophelia quickly brought them two bowls of water.
"Why are you back so late? Did something happen?"
Taylor drank the water in one gulp and wiped his mouth. "It's okay, we found the mine."
"You found it so quickly?"
"So fast." Zeref and Ophelia were a little bit unbelievable.
Klein patted the pouch containing the Gold Hound Rat at his waist. "Don't underestimate the abilities of my Gold Hound Rat."
Ophelia nodded and looked at the purse with enthusiasm, as if she were looking at shining gold.
Ophelia, Taylor and others talked about Kelly.
"It seems that Budar can't wait any longer." Klein narrowed his eyes and made a judgment.
Zeref also agreed.
"Tomorrow we will take people to collect iron ore."
"If everything goes well, I can make what I need in two days."
Ophelia roughly knew how to forge and smelt iron.
High temperature forging.
Moreover, with the skill book in hand, she felt that forging fine iron would not be a problem.
So the next day, Taylor and Klein took the earliest members of the Fu tribe to the mountains to mine iron ore.
Ophelia and Zeref found a vacant space near the three-story stone house to build a furnace.
The method of building the furnace was simple, so Ophelia found Summer.
"I want to build a furnace with a fire inside, and it also needs air inlets and an outlet so that it won't crack under high temperatures. Sam, can you do it?"
Summer touched his chin. "You need special soil for this kind of soil. Ordinary soil will crack when exposed to high temperatures."
"Okay, I'll ask someone to find it."
In fact, this kind of soil is pottery clay, which can withstand high-temperature baking.
So the furnace was built that night, and in order to start production as soon as possible, Ophelia had firewood lit in the furnace to dry it.
She also asked Zeref to help her carve out a small stone bucket to hold the iron slurry.
After everything was prepared, Taylor and Klein brought the iron ore back under the cover of night.
They also brought back a large amount of firewood and iron ore for forging.
"Let's start tonight while it's dark and we won't be discovered." Ophelia looked at the sky and decided.
"Well, okay." Taylor and the other two agreed.
"Once this stove is lit, it cannot be extinguished. Someone must be watching over it at all times. The four of us will take turns watching over it."
"No, keeping watch is something we males should do, you are not needed." Zeref rejected it immediately.
Taylor and Klein had the same idea.
Seeing that she couldn't persuade them, Ophelia had to start teaching them how to burn the iron ore.
The furnace is not high, only half a person's height, with holes on the top and holes on the bottom.
Ophelia asked Taylor and the others to put the firewood into the furnace and then light it. When the fire was almost burning, they could start.
"First, break the iron ore into small pieces and put them into the furnace. Burn them overnight and the impurities inside will be removed."
"good."
Taylor and the other two obediently cut the large piece of iron ore into small pieces that could be put into the furnace.
After waiting for two hours, crackling sounds were heard from the furnace.
Ophelia knew it was the sound of iron ore cracking.
Because it was her first time forging, Ophelia was reluctant to leave and stayed with Taylor and the others to wait for success.
The skill book says that traditional high-temperature forging takes five to six hours to melt iron ore into iron.
No one slept much that night, and they kept putting firewood into the fire.
The next day, the sky gradually turned pale, and Ophelia yawned to stop Taylor from adding more.
At this time, seven hours had passed since the furnace was fired, and the forging was almost complete.
Now we just have to wait for all the firewood to go out before we can start the stove.
After waiting for another half an hour, the temperature of the fire gradually faded and the firewood was burned out.
Ophelia asked Taylor to pry open the small hole under the furnace. "Taylor, take out all the ash inside. Be careful not to get burned."
Hearing that Ophelia cared about Taylor, Zeref and Klein felt a little sour in their hearts, but they also knew that the most important thing at the moment, so they suppressed their jealousy.
After Taylor had dug out all the ashes, Ophelia squatted on the ground and began to stir the ashes with a branch.
Soon she dug out some small black iron beads. These iron beads were very small, and together they were only as big as a fist.
"This is too small." Ophelia was a little disappointed. She put in such a large piece of iron ore but only got so few bricks.
It might be a bit difficult to make it into a kitchen knife.
The iron ore production in the Beast World was even lower than she had imagined.
She poked the small iron bead with a branch in frustration, and the bead was embedded in the resin.
Ophelia's eyes lit up when she saw this. "Yes, if it can't be made into a kitchen knife, it can be made into an arrowhead."
That is the real bow and arrow.
Taylor and the other two didn't know what Ophelia was thinking, but she suddenly cheered up from her depressed state.
"Zeref, quickly bring the small stone bucket over so we can continue calcining."
The iron balls were placed in a stone bucket as big as a teacup, and the furnace was lit again.
But this time the forging time was not that long.
During the break in forging, Ophelia asked Taylor to carve out the shapes of arrowheads and iron sheets on the stone.
After waiting for about four hours, the iron beads were completely melted into iron slurry.
The iron will be poured into a mold of iron sheets and cooled by pouring water. Soon, an iron sheet as thick as a finger and as big as a palm will appear in front of everyone.
Zeref picked up the metal piece and examined it. "It looks similar to the City Lord's token."
Klein also took the iron piece and knocked it against the stone a few times. There was still a crisp sound of impact.
“It will still crack.”
Ophelia, "Nonsense, this isn't even completely successful yet."
Ophelia asked Taylor to put the iron sheet into the furnace again, but this time it was not turned into iron slurry again.
Instead, it was taken out when the iron sheet was burned red.
"Taylor hammered the iron sheet with a stone." This is the real forging, using stones to hit and remove impurities from the iron sheet.
"good."
Taylor said nothing, but just listened to Ophelia and started hammering the iron.
This process is repeated many times until the sound of the iron sheets hitting each other becomes different, and the forging is considered complete.
"Okay, next, melt this iron sheet into iron slurry and pour it into the arrow mold."
The iron slurry is poured into the arrow mold, cooled with water, and the rough shoulders are successfully demolded one by one.
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