The so-called "Sword Catalogue" is actually an illustrated book that records the shapes of common weapons on the continent of Zhuyuan.
After all, alchemists are usually mages and are not familiar with the weapons that warriors need.
Since Alchemy City has turned the sale of weapons into a business, it must cater to the market and meet the diverse needs of professionals.
Whether customers need rapiers, greatswords, warhammers, or flail, battleaxe, and spears, each weapon has its unique features. In order to maximize profits, it is natural to achieve mass production rather than individual customization.
By drawing various common shapes in the atlas, even apprentices who have never experienced combat can imitate the designs and produce passable weapons by simply copying them at the furnace.
Yun Wei took the unusually heavy "Sword Sample" from Joseph, but turned around and placed it on the control panel.
He noticed that the atlas was carved on extremely thin birch planks, and the back seemed to have been polished exceptionally smooth, as if it had been coated with a fine patina.
The two of them slowly flipped through the atlas together and soon found the section on greatswords.
Look closely at the patterns carved on the Yunwei Dynasty.
Their goal was a "noble ceremonial greatsword," which was thinner and lighter than a combat greatsword, with both sides of the blade curving inward into a graceful arc. The blade surface lacked blood grooves and was replaced with ornate decorative patterns.
Next to the diagram showing the dimensions is a table that records the weight of metals required to forge this weapon from copper, iron, lead, tin, bronze, silver, gold, as well as red copper, tin, and black iron.
Yun Wei quickly glanced at it and found that red copper was indeed the lightest material. According to the numbers next to it, a decorative greatsword like this would require approximately 10 grams of red copper.
So, they are probably still short 720 grams of mithril.
If we calculate based on the market price of 50 gold coins per gram...
Even if you sold both him and Isaac, you still couldn't afford it.
Seeing that Joseph was still counting on his fingers, Yun Wei couldn't help but tell him the result directly: "We are still 720 grams short. Each sword is 240 grams short, or the last sword is 720 grams short."
Joseph paused for a moment, and Yun Wei thought he was about to panic again, but then he heard Joseph exclaim, "You truly are a person of the Azure Glass. Mathematical calculations are as easy for you as breathing."
Hearing such praise, even though he was feeling annoyed at the moment, Yun Wei couldn't help but smile.
These are nothing more than basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at the elementary school level in my previous life.
Yun Wei clapped his hands and gently closed the atlas in front of him. "Alright, that's enough for today. At least our copper ore reserves are more than sufficient. Now, let's finish today's daily orders."
...
After seeing Joseph off in the afternoon, Yun Wei sat in the laboratory, flipping through the notes left by Sid, while waiting for her boyfriend who had not yet returned.
As he read further, he began to understand why Sid was so obsessed with mastering the necromancy spell "Shape Mimicry".
The development of smelting technology in this world is even less advanced than that of the Spring and Autumn Period in his previous life.
Only a very small number of mages are able to skillfully use fire magic to melt metal into a liquid state and then pour it into a mold; Sid is one of them.
What the other party finds troublesome and a waste of time, is a distant future for 99.99% of the people in the world.
Because in reality, the vast majority of alchemy workshops are still desperately using the expensive "block crafting" method—
The ore is heated red-hot in a furnace and then repeatedly hammered with a large iron hammer to gradually shape it into the prototype of a weapon. The whole process is time-consuming and laborious, and the material contains a high level of impurities.
This is what is meant by being tempered a hundred times to become steel.
It is precisely for this reason that ironware cannot be widely used on the continent of Zhuyuan.
However, contrary to the reality of technological development, black iron and iron ore are the most common mineral deposits on the continent of Zhuyuan.
If professionals use such weapons, what about ordinary people who can only use simple wooden and stone tools?
The smelting that can be carried out in the workshop is usually for metals other than iron and black iron.
Like mithril and copper, their melting points are not high, and even through laboratory furnaces, Yunwei can obtain alloys with high purity.
But this also means higher prices.
If it weren't for the order, even a greatsword made of pure copper would cost more than the average professional could afford.
Yun Wei slowly put down the second stack of notes and let out a long sigh.
Even after solving the problems of raw materials and forging, he was still at a loss as to how to enchant two completely opposite elements.
He had learned so much today that he felt a little drowsy.
He glanced hesitantly at the third stack of notes.
Although it is said that one's initial enthusiasm may wane after a second attempt, if he were to read through all these notes today, he felt that even his initial blind optimism would completely dissipate.
"Tap! Tap! Tap!—Tap."
Fortunately, at that moment, he finally heard that familiar knocking sound.
Yun Wei immediately stood up with a sigh of relief, walked quickly to the back door, and responded twice with practiced ease.
...
"Phew, that's the gist of it. I'm exhausted."
Yun Wei lay dejectedly on the bed, complaining to her boyfriend beside her.
He was extremely aggrieved and said, "I'm short more than 700 grams of mithril! There's a saying in my hometown, 'Even a clever cook can't cook without rice.' If we don't even have enough raw materials, I really don't know how to complete the order."
He had already left a message for Sid yesterday, but the other party was clearly too busy to do anything else.
A whole day has passed, and there has been absolutely no response.
Isaac silently patted Yun Wei's shoulder, then suggested, "How about we sneak into the Liujin family's warehouse?"
Feeling the tingling sensation at the base of his neck, Yun Wei couldn't help but cry out, "Hey, be gentle..."
He glanced at the other person sideways and said, "No way, that's too risky—hey! No, no! You should use a little more force, it's too ticklish if you're too gentle."
Isaac is getting worse and worse.
It's quite normal to think about it. A perfectly good knight would deliberately disguise himself and sneak into the workshops of the Alchemy City. It's only natural that he would pick up some goal-oriented thinking habits.
As long as the other person's upright character remains unchanged, Yun Wei doesn't mind if his other half becomes a little more flexible.
After all, constantly adhering to so many rules can really make life exhausting.
That said, although he also had a lot of opinions about the Liujin family, they were, after all, an old family with a history of nearly a thousand years. How could they just sneak into someone else's warehouse right under their noses...
That's a bit too much of audacity.
Unless they are truly desperate, it might be worth a try.
The force coming from my shoulders and neck was finally neither too light nor too heavy. As the other person's knuckles pressed and pushed calmly, the fatigue that had accumulated throughout the day seemed to be calmly driven away by the other person.
He thought, "Isaac truly is a warrior with exceptional comprehension."
Yun Wei squinted, feeling somewhat drowsy.
"Isa," he called the other person's name lazily, but asked instead:
"Where do you think I'm supposed to get so much mithril?"
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