He ...... He did ......"

"It's ......"

He ...... When he was an apprentice, he already had the strength of a swordsmith. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info I think he has a lot of potential, so ......" Old Man Sword said, frowning and shaking his head, "Anyway, he was still an apprentice when he left, and later became Mr. Sword when he came back." But he threw away all these more than ten years of hard labor. It was a long process from apprentice to Mr. Sword, so I asked him to make up for all these years of hard work. ”

"Hard labor?"

"Hard labor, that is, repetitive labor. The old man explained, "For him, it's casting a sword embryo. For us swordsmiths, although we generally use the sword embryo made by our apprentices when we forge swords, the effort of casting sword embryos cannot be forgotten. Although it is not very skillful and can be completed by an apprentice, it is the basis of sword casting. I told him that he had to forge 500 sword embryos before he could pay off the karma he had created by his youthful debauchery. ”

"But ......," Lulu looked around, "he seems to be done." ”

"No, you don't know, the casting of sword embryos takes longer than you think. The basic steps of making a sword embryo are material selection, water frustration, small cutting, sorting, accumulation, forging chain, and return. Depending on the season and climate, the swordsmith has to make subtle adjustments to the time of exercise and return. Otherwise, the cast sword embryo will be uneven or even damaged. It takes nearly two years for an apprentice to learn how to cast a sword embryo. The old man paced in place, "It takes the average swordsmith decades to accumulate and forge five hundred sword embryos, I wonder why he finished it so quickly? The last time I came up from the bottom of the forge, there were far from so many swords here. What the hell is going on?"

"Then ......," Lulu said blankly, "what should I do now?" he seems to be a kid who goes to play after finishing his homework......

"No, I'm going to go to his workshop, it's impossible. ”

The old man continued to drag Lulu forward, and he felt more and more anxious. Compared to other crafts, such as farming or weaving, sword forging is much more serious. If the swordsmith's sword is of poor quality, the warrior who is the user will not be able to swing the sword to slay the demon with peace of mind. People in the outside world habitually refer to the warriors of the organization as "big swords", which also reflects the inseparable relationship between warriors and big swords from another side. This is a long-term process of mutual trust, so as a swordsmith, you must also be strict with yourself.

Only swordsmiths who have cast twenty sword embryos can apply to learn techniques such as Suyan, Blade Making, and Fire Making. When the number of sword embryos cast reaches 100, you are eligible to apply to participate in the key process of covering earth burning and quenching. Only those who have cast two hundred sword embryos are eligible to participate in the trial to select swordsmiths. Only after forging more than 400 great swords can you be eligible to select Mr. Sword. Casting sword embryos is always the most basic kind of hard work, just like a player practicing a scale and a fisherman constantly swimming, which is the experience and realm that slowly accumulates over time. If you don't run into the sword embryo for a long time, the swordsmith will not be able to feel the sword embryo's own thoughts, and will not be able to feel the will buried in the depths of steel. For many years, swordsmiths have followed such strict rules. Just like a sword, it needs to go through a series of steps such as forging chains, turning back, making edges, extending the edges, making edges, making fires, rough grinding, firing, forging grinding, initial grinding, preparing water, correcting the ton, naming the cangto, fine name cangto, inner and didi, finishing and grinding, knife polishing, wiping the knife, and engraving. A good swordsmith also needs to follow the steps, otherwise his swordsmithing life will be missing. This is also the reason why the old man of the sword asked his son to recast five hundred sword embryos.

The old man's steps became faster and faster, and Lulu, who was clamped by his pig's arm, also stumbled with him. The two of them walked through the corridor full of sword embryos, and the more Lulu looked, the more surprised he became. Each handle of these sword embryos is so similar—similar curvature, similar texture, similar coldness—and similar sharpness. Although it has not been polished, the sword embryo still exudes a faint sword glow. Hundreds of swords converged, making Lu Lu also feel an indescribable palpitation. It's as if all the secrets in my heart have been exposed under the cold metal.

Exposure of Chiroro.

The old man of the sword suddenly stopped, and Lulu was stunned for a moment, and found himself standing in front of a large gate. The door was closed, but the old man of the sword closed his eyes and said nothing. Lulu didn't know why, he noticed black marks on the ground, and he didn't know what they were. He frowned as he faintly smelled moisture in the air. The smell was easily discernible in the choking gas near the magma.

"What's wrong?"

"...... with a voice"

The expression on the face of the old man with his eyes closed relaxed, and his face was no longer red. Lu Lu actually felt that his expression at this time was a little similar to that of the boy who met his lover.

"Yes, the sound of forging. ”

Lu Lu measured his ears but didn't hear anything, but he chose to believe the old man of the sword, he knew that although the old man of the sword did not know martial arts, his realm was quite high.

"Could it be that Mr. Sword is forging a great sword inside? No, we're sure he's defected......"

The old man of the sword took a few steps without a word, and then pushed the door open. Lu Lu also followed the old man of the sword and walked in, and the scene inside surprised him. The whole room here is only half cut off, as if split from the center. The other time the old man and Lulu were in was the rushing lava. Although the lava spewed up to the upper layers was no longer red, it was still hot. Near the lava, countless more sword embryos were being forged, and hammers were chiseled into the sword embryos. The sound of all the striking sounds collided with each other and echoed through the sword-forging workshop as if it were a stirring music. Isn't the red-hot sword embryo taken out and exposed to the air to cool down, while the hot air has been blown out of the room by a huge fan. The cold air that had been brought in made an eerie clattering sound on the red-hot sword embryo.

It wasn't that Lulu hadn't seen the way sword embryos were cast, but it was the first time he had seen so many sword embryos being cast at the same time. The doubts in his mind touched a part. Sword casters need to adjust the casting of sword embryos through seasonal climate, or even moderate adjustments, so most sword embryos are not the same. If the sword embryo was cast at the same time, then it is not impossible to be similar. However, he was puzzled by one of the most fundamental things.

"Here...... No one?"

That's right, although the entire sword-forging workshop was also casting many great swords, but no one was seen operating it. The hammer that hammers the sword embryo, the blower that cools the sword embryo, the pliers that grabs the sword embryo - all these things are connected to machinery and bearings. Countless fine gears and transmission rods are intertwined like cobwebs coiled on the rock wall. The devices are constantly spinning, as if they never stop. A sword embryo was cast and stacked next to it, as if it were a corpse after the war. Lulu couldn't help but cast his gaze on the old man of the sword.

“…… This may be how your son was able to make so many sword embryos so quickly. Lulu shrugged his shoulders and said, "I think he's pretty clever." It's as if all the power here comes from the heat of the magma. He let the water flow through the magma and vaporize quickly, and then used that water vapor to propel the whole machine to work. The teacher said that I think the person who made this thing was a genius. I don't think you're pushing him too hard? He thinks you've left him too much homework, and he's ready to be lazy. ”

The old man shook his head, his face turning pale.

"No, it's a kind of destruction. He, this is destroying the entire system of swordsmiths. The sword old man's body suddenly slumped, revealing the emptiness unique to an old man of his age, "He didn't choose to cast five hundred sword embryos, but chose to make future people no longer need to cast sword embryos." ”

"What do you mean?"

"With this machine...... said the old man pointed to the hammer that automatically struck the sword embryo, "what apprentice do you think will learn how to make the sword embryo with this? If even the apprentice will not learn how to make the sword embryo, then the future generations will not have to cast the sword embryo themselves." All the hierarchy of swordsmiths will also be in tatters. The moment this machine was made, it didn't have to wait for it to produce five hundred sword embryos, and everything was already over. ”

The old man of the sword said, and he felt as if a fire had been extinguished in his heart.

"Future apprentices won't need to learn how to forge sword embryos, because the machine has already done the job. They will choose to learn more advanced swordsmithing techniques directly, and the age of the apprentice will be greatly reduced - because in the past, we had to consider physical strength, and minors could not become apprentices. In this way, the age of the overall swordsmith in the end will also be reduced, and they will have more time to forge the greatsword. ”

"Sounds great?"

Lulu shrugged his shoulders, but the old man of the sword laughed dryly.

"That's what you think? Yes, you should, because you're not a swordsmith of our age. Step by step, I went from apprenticeship to practice my own skills in forging sword embryos, and I felt their will in contact with steel. So did my father, and so did my father. I often touched the iron ore, and I felt that my father, my predecessors, their bodies were dead but still circulating in the earth. They turn to dust in ten years, stone in another ten years, and finally steel in a hundred years. The soul of the swordsmith is still alive in the iron, and every time I cast the sword embryo, I feel like I am communicating with the sword embryo......"

"But in the future, young people will no longer be casting sword embryos by themselves. ”

"That's right, so they won't feel the same way I do it anymore. And I felt that the machine had taken all the souls of the land, all the things I missed, struck them with a hammer and burned them into the magma. ”

Old Man Sword felt as if he had finished a year's words. He tightened his rickety back, then turned and walked towards the door of the workshop. Lulu hurriedly stopped him.

"Where are you going?"

"Where? Inform the apprentices, of course. Their hard days have come to an end. The old man shrugged his shoulders self-deprecatingly, "Now that the threshold for swordsmiths is lower, they can pursue their ideals more easily. Of course, the current swordsmith is not the same as the previous swordsmith. ”

"You might be able to put this down the story. "If you sealed this workshop, no one would ever know what was ever here." Or push it all down into the lava......"

"But that won't change anything, will it?" Old Man Sword smiled indifferently, "I've seen the collapse of the whole system, it was a revolution, and this is just the beginning of a revolution. My son won't be complacent about upending the traditions of the swordsmiths, and he'll do more. The storm of change is still beginning, and I have a hunch, but I didn't expect that the first to be reformed will be our swordsmiths. ”

"Innovation? No, that's not what I want to hear. I wonder where the hell Mr. Sword has gone. ”

"No, you should hear that. The figure of the old man of the sword disappeared into the corridor composed of sword embryos, but the voice came from afar, "I heard that he seems to have defected with a warrior? I feel that the storm of change is about to blow to you. You'd better be prepared in advance. If that warrior has any friends or relatives, use them quickly. Although it probably doesn't work. ”

Lu Lu was stunned for a moment, and then touched his forehead. He was thinking, thinking about how this event would change his plans today. The upper echelons felt that it was just a warrior and swordsmith who had fled, and they were afraid that information about demons and warriors would spread further to the outside world. However, this is limited to the concern of the upper echelons, who do not regard Mr. Sword and Tifa as key figures in causing a revolution. Lulu could make a fuss about this information error.

The machine Mr. Sword had built still roared. Countless hammers beat the drum to the same rhythm. Lulu reveled in it, and he felt that things were getting more and more interesting.