Chapter 817: Unexpected (Additional chapter for monthly ticket accumulation of 600)
Men always have a natural liking for weapons like swords, and Zhou Xu is no exception.
At this moment, holding the sword in his hand, Zhou Xu already felt reluctant to let it go.
But he also knew that there were two other swords waiting for him to see.
"Which one has crystal iron mixed with diamond?"
Hearing the question, Li Gan hurriedly presented the sword with both hands.
After taking the sword, Zhou Xu exerted force, and there was a buzzing sound of "clang". The blade with a slightly special color suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.
I don’t know if it’s because of the addition of diamonds, but the entire blade has a subtle color that is half black and half gray, and hazy.
On the contrary, the pattern formed on the blade after folding and forging looks much deeper.
However, this pattern is much sparser than the first patterned steel sword.
"There are fewer patterns on this knife. Is it because it was folded and forged less times?"
"Yes."
Li Gan nodded quickly.
"I have spent a long time researching and testing this diamond and found that it would be very difficult to forge it after smelting it with crystal iron."
"Adding diamonds can indeed effectively increase the hardness of the metal, but in return, the brittleness and difficulty of forging will also increase. If you are not careful, it will crack during the folding and forging process."
"Taking this into consideration, I reduced the number of folding forgings, and only then was I able to successfully proceed to the next step."
"But even so, the knife still has a high risk of breaking during the quenching stage."
"And, if the forging is successful, the time and effort required to forge this sword is basically twice as much as the previous patterned steel sword."
From Li Gan's words, it was not difficult for Zhou Xu to feel the difficulty.
"What about performance? How does this knife perform compared to a patterned steel sword?"
"As of now, although the hardness of the sword has been increased by adding diamond, it cannot be compared with the patterned steel sword in terms of toughness because it has been folded and forged less times."
"At the same time, due to the increase in hardness, the brittleness also increased. When it was tested against a patterned steel sword, the blade would quickly chip or even break."
“…”
This result made Zhou Xu fall into silence.
It's impossible to say that the diamonds he obtained after all the work are useless in the end, right?
Or is the existence of diamond superfluous to their original crystal iron weapons? Adding it in, not only did it not have any positive effect, but it also gave the weapons a negative buff that made them more likely to break?
This result is undoubtedly a bit disturbing.
Of course, Zhou Xu has not despaired yet. As a special mineral, diamond should have the same enchanting ability as sharp stone.
The thought flashed through his mind, and Zhou Xu directly performed the enchantment operation on it.
[Basic Weapon Blessing]
If the enchantment effect becomes better after adding diamonds, it can be considered a gain.
But it turned out that he was overthinking it.
There might be a slight improvement in the effect of enchantment, but at least the improvement was not so great that he could clearly feel it.
Feeling their Majesty's disappointment, Li Gan spoke after a moment's hesitation...
"Your Majesty, perhaps we can try to find some metals with higher toughness to smelt, so as to change the properties of the alloy, ensuring that the toughness is as high as possible while ensuring that the diamond increases the hardness."
Li Gan had this idea when he was conducting research.
Alloy smelting is itself a means of changing or improving the properties of metals by adding other suitable metals.
But so far, he has not found the right metal. The toughness of steel is already very high, but the effect after smelting obviously does not meet their expectations.
When Zhou Xu heard this, he unconsciously turned his head and looked at Silk beside him.
At that moment, Silk, who obviously sensed something, immediately took a step back and put the silver-steel sword in his hand behind him.
Even though the patterned steel sword made him feel that the silver steel sword in his hand was not as good as it used to be, the silver steel sword was, after all, the knight's sword passed down from generation to generation by the grassland elves. Therefore, in their hearts, the silver steel sword had a special meaning.
Zhou Xu, who saw this scene, simply didn't say anything more.
His idea just now was actually very simple. Speaking of toughness, silver has very good toughness. Under this premise, Silk and his team's silver-steel swords were forged by melting mithril and steel.
Can we try the mithril in it? But Silk and the others were unwilling to do so, so forget it. Anyway, that little bit of mithril could not arm any troops, and at most it could only verify some guesses.
This method of adding special metals, melting them into alloys, and then forging them into patterned steel to cast weapons represents the pinnacle of their Great Zhou weapon forging skills at this stage.
When it comes to weapons of this level, ordinary soldiers don't even have to think about getting them, and they can basically only be equipped to a few generals and officers.
In the era of cold weapons, from the perspective of a war, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers are the ones used in the largest numbers and have the greatest impact on the outcome of the war.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu adjusted his mentality and stopped forcing it.
And his eyes fell on the last sword on the tray.
"This should be the one that didn't use folding forging?"
"Yes, sire."
Of the three knives, this is the only one that does not use folding forging.
When the sword was unsheathed, compared with the previous sword, there was no pattern on the blade, and the entire blade was a silver-gray color.
The positioning of this knife is also very simple, it is equipped for use by soldiers in elite troops and even ordinary troops.
Although not performing folding forging reduces strength, it ensures forging efficiency, which is very important.
During the conversation, Li Gan's mood obviously improved slightly when he talked about the knife.
"This alloy with diamond added to it performs quite well without the folding forging method. Adding a proper amount can effectively increase the hardness of the sword, and the increase in hardness can make the sword sharper. The most important thing is that it is simple and efficient. From the perspective of mass forging, it is a good way to increase the strength of the sword."
Zhou Xu obviously didn't expect that there would be such unexpected benefits.
Li Gan previously used the folding forging technique to forge the hundred-fold tempered steel, pursuing perfection.
But on the other hand, if you lower your requirements, do not pursue anything extreme, and only require to forge a weapon with stable performance, guaranteed input cost and forging efficiency, and capable of large-scale mass production, you will find that this knife fully meets your requirements.
(End of this chapter)
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