Chapter 101 Rocket-like Improvement
After Ryan tactfully told Lagre about Borris's little thoughts, Lagre didn't mind her watching. Instead, she nodded readily and agreed directly.
Perhaps, in the eyes of Lagre, a senior blacksmith, how much blacksmithing skills can ordinary blacksmiths in the town learn even if they watch her series of operations.
Just the flux link, how much white fluorite and barbarian blood are needed, for ordinary blacksmiths, it is a natural chasm.
However, Ryan thought of one thing and asked Lagre quietly: "Lagre, in addition to incorporating glowstone into the greatsword, can star iron be incorporated at the same time?"
"Oh, it's meteorite iron. I don't know what you barbarians call it." Ryan gestured and said.
Lagre's eyes lit up, and she said, "Of course, do you have star iron? I was a little worried that if I used only pyroxene, the hardness and toughness of the sword might be a little weak, so I need to spend more time on forging."
"But if a small amount of star iron is mixed in, I can guarantee that your new weapon will be a standard pyroxene weapon even in our barbarian tribe."
Ryan smiled mysteriously and said, "It will be ready soon."
Then, Ryan pulled Borius to a corner. After some bargaining, and allowing Borius to watch, a condition that Borius could not refuse, Ryan successfully bought Borius's favorite thing - star iron at the price of thirty imperial gold coins. Of
course, this price is also because Borius's piece of star iron is only a little bigger than a fist.
But it is more than enough to be integrated into the greatsword to improve the hardness and toughness of the greatsword.
And Borius, with a complex mood of joy and heartache, immediately announced that the blacksmith shop would be closed for one day today.
Ryan originally thought that the stingy Borris would give the blacksmith apprentices a day off. Logically, these apprentices who had long complained about Borris's stinginess should be overjoyed.
But when Borris announced the news, the blacksmith apprentices looked at each other for a while, and then they each found reasons to stay and continue working.
However, Ryan soon knew from their fiery glances at Lagre from time to time that their motives did not seem so simple.
In the end, these blacksmith apprentices were forcibly driven away by Borris!
Ryan and Borris closed the door of the blacksmith shop and hung a sign saying "Closed", then returned to the yard to help Lagre.
However, the two looked at the scene in front of them and were stunned. They did not expect Lagre to have started alone.
Lagre had mixed a lot of clay, and then began to build a small cylindrical smelting furnace, which seemed to be used to smelt Ryan's glowstone alone.
Although the blacksmith shop has an ordinary smelting furnace, Lagre has used it to smelt star iron and Ryan's original greatsword.
It seems that considering that Ryan's piece of pyroxene is not large, the diameter of the bottom of this furnace is only about the same as a washbasin, and the height is only about one meter.
Soon, Lagre finished building it and was putting charcoal fire into it little by little.
"Lagre, what do I need to do?" Ryan was a little anxious watching from the side.
After all, he wanted to participate in the process of making pyroxene weapons. It is obvious that if he can participate in the making of pyroxene weapons, he will definitely get a lot of blacksmith professional experience.
But now he is just watching from the side, which makes Ryan a little itchy.
After thinking for a moment, Lagre found that there was really nothing that Ryan needed to help with, so he said seriously:
"Ryan, you don't need to do anything, I can handle the whole process."
As soon as Lagre finished speaking, Ryan seemed to see a lot of blacksmith experience slipping away from his eyes.
With his brain working at high speed, Ryan finally thought of a reason that was not a reason. He immediately said with a serious face:
"Lagre, this is to forge my two-handed sword after all, please be sure to assign some work so that I can participate in it."
Ryan also emphasized the word "my".
Although Lagre didn't know why Ryan was so active, what Ryan said was indeed reasonable. After all, it was his weapon, and it was a normal request to want to participate.
Lagre didn't think much about this small request from his savior, and nodded in agreement.
"Well, then!"
This made Ryan feel relieved. Fortunately, he finally participated!
However, Lagre looked around and found that he really couldn't find anything, so he casually said: "Ryan, you... help install the bellows and pipes for this small smelting furnace."
"Install the bellows?" Ryan was dumbfounded immediately. There was no such thing in his blacksmith skills.
He only knew how to pull the bellows, but not how to install them!
Borris, who was standing by, couldn't help but laugh at Ryan's stunned expression, and immediately laughed and said, "Ryan, come with me, I'll tell you how to do it."
It can be seen that Borris was in a good mood.
After all, not every blacksmith has the opportunity to witness the birth of a pyroxene weapon.
Soon, Ryan followed Borris to the storage room and took out a set of things for blowing.
It was mainly a rough iron pipe more than two meters long and a floor-standing circular bellows sewn together with multiple layers of cowhide. The bellows can be pulled up and pressed to blow air.
As for why the gas does not flow back?
That's because there is a check valve on the part where the hand is pressed. When it is closed when pressed, it will open when pulled up, sucking the surrounding air into the bellows.
Soon, under the guidance of Borris, Ryan inserted one end of the iron pipe into the clay furnace and installed the other end on the bellows.
"Well, not bad!" Lagre took a look and nodded, indicating that Ryan did a good job.
"It's almost done. Let's put some charcoal on it and let the clay solidify so we can put the glowstone in it." Lagre patted the clay in her hand and stood up.
"Is it ready?" Boris blurted out in surprise.
He didn't expect that Lagre used the "reduction method" to smelt the glowstone, which made Boris, who was watching carefully, completely unable to understand.
This method is used to smelt the most common iron ores such as limonite and hematite.
It is the most primitive and simplest method.
Although Boris didn't know the specific melting point of the glowstone, he also knew that it was much higher than iron ore.
So, he instinctively felt that this shouldn't work, but after looking at Lagre, who looked natural, Boris swallowed the subsequent words back.
After all, he had finally obtained permission to watch, and he didn't want to be deprived of it because of his bad mouth.
"Well, just put the glowstone and charcoal in it later." Lagre said confidently.
After everything was ready.
Lagre put the glowstone emitting a soft light and mixed with charcoal into the newly dried clay furnace.
"Ryan, can you blow air?" Lagre asked.
"Of course, bellows is my strong point!" Ryan nodded confidently.
Finally, it was time for the familiar part!
[You worked on the bellows, and your understanding of the relevant aspects improved!]
[Your skill of bellows was improved, and your experience points increased by 3]
[You focused on bellows, and your blacksmith professional experience points increased by 1]
About half an hour later, Lagre began the most critical part.
She first took out two walnut-sized white stones from her waist bag, which should be white fluorite. One was placed in the furnace that was smelting star iron, and she told Borris to pay close attention to the surface changes of star iron. The
other was placed in the furnace that was smelting glowstone. Then, Lagre cut her wrist with a knife, and a stream of blood flowed out, dripping slowly on the glowstone.
"Lagre, didn't you say that you only needed a little blood? What's wrong with you?" Ryan was both surprised and moved.
Just as Ryan was about to stop the blast and rush over to stop Lagre.
"Don't stop, if you stop now, all your efforts will be wasted." When saying this, Lagre's tone was calm, and her focused eyes were still staring at the glowstone in the smelting furnace.
This gave Ryan a very strange feeling.
At this time, Lagre seemed to radiate an invisible force, as if she was telling the birth of a pyroxene weapon, which was a necessary process.
This made Ryan, who was about to stand up, stagnate. He could only continue to blow vigorously helplessly, looking at Lagre with both admiration and concern.
Fortunately, this process did not last too long.
Lagre, who seemed to have determined that there was enough blood, quickly took out a piece of white linen bandage to bandage his wound with a pale face.
About half an hour later.
The impurities in the glowstone gradually melted into slag, flowing out from the opening at the bottom of the furnace like magma.
The essence of the glowstone in the furnace was only a ball the size of an egg at this time, and its shape was as soft as plasticine, but the light it emitted was ten times stronger than that.
"Almost! I'm going to take it out and forge it." Lagre looked at it again, turned around and said to Ryan.
Lagre held the shiny glowstone with a fire tong in one hand and a heavy hammer in the other hand and began to hit it.
"Ding Ding!"
Sparks flew with every swing of the hammer, and the light of the glowstone seemed to be a little more dazzling, but the white bandage on Lagre's wrist turned a little redder.
"Let me do it?" Borris and Ryan said in unison.
"No! You are not strong enough to further remove the impurities in the glowstone." Lagre looked at Borris first, then shook her head and refused.
This made Borris blush a little. He had been a blacksmith for half his life, but a girl said that he was not strong enough.
"Let me do it!" Ryan, who was proficient in hammering, was still very confident in using the hammer.
"Can you do it?" Lagre, who looked a little pale, glanced at Ryan.
It seemed that Ryan had enough strength, but I didn't know how to use the hammer?
At this time, after bleeding, she was indeed a little tired. If she could save some energy in the later forging process, it would obviously be able to better ensure the quality of the greatsword.
"Don't worry! With you by my side to guide me, it should be no problem. Besides, if I really can't do it, you can still make it in time."
"Well, okay, then you try it."
"It's too heavy, make it lighter!"
"Okay! How about this?"
"Well, it's OK, this weight is just right."
After half an hour of continuous forging, when the impurities were almost removed, Lagre asked Ryan to beat the glowstone into long thin slices.
The star iron was also repeated in the above process.
Then, Lagre used a fire tongs in one hand to pick up the red-hot sword from the original furnace of the blacksmith shop, and used a clamp with the other hand to stack the glowstone slices and star iron slices on top.
And again directed Ryan to forge repeatedly with the hammer.
"Ding Ding!"
With each swing of the hammer, the fusion of the sword with the glowstone and star iron deepened.
"Fold it in half."
"Fold it in half?" Ryan asked in surprise.
"Yes!" Lagre stepped forward and replaced Ryan, folding the stacked star iron, glowstone and sword body in half and stacking them together.
After repeating this twice.
Ryan's sword no longer had its original appearance, but turned into a rectangular iron bar about 20 to 30 centimeters long and 10 centimeters thick.
"Beat it into a sword embryo."
"Okay." Ryan swung the hammer vigorously.
After repeating this many times, it finally began to shape, quench and polish. These processes were relatively delicate and were all completed by Lagre herself.
And Ryan finally had time to check the system prompts:
[You have forged a two-handed sword, and your understanding has improved! ]
[You have learned a new skill - two-handed sword forging]
[You have forged a pyroxene weapon, and your understanding has improved! 】
【You have learned a new skill - Pyroxene Weapon Forging】
【Your skill Two-handed Greatsword Forging has been improved, and your experience points are +1】
【You focus on Two-handed Greatsword Forging, and your Blacksmithing Professional Experience Points are +2】
【Your skill Pyroxene Weapon Forging has been improved, and your experience points are +1】
【You focus on Pyroxene Weapon Forging, and your Blacksmithing Professional Experience Points are +5】
【Congratulations, your Blacksmithing Professional Level has been upgraded! 】
As expected, Ryan looked at the Blacksmithing Professional Level upgraded to Level 3, and his heart was as sweet as drinking honey.
And next, there is an even bigger surprise waiting for him.
(End of this chapter)
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