Li Mu did not rashly choose a sword, and all the sword embryos were marked with the name of the blacksmith cast. He wanted to observe the craftsmanship of the craftsmen before making a choice.

Suddenly, he spotted a familiar name and looked at it again to make sure he was not mistaken.

In Dawn Sword, excellent swordsmiths mostly appear in Zhongzhou and Yamatai. Because many professionals in Zhuxia are more inclined to use swords, the demand for swords is much greater than that of the Deccan Plateau. The large demand has given rise to many skilled masters.

The sharp sword they forged, in the hands of the masters, could cut through a homogeneous steel plate thirty centimeters thick with a single sword with the blade alone. Ordinary armored personnel carriers and mutant creatures, under their swords, are as fragile as pieces of paper.

Although the craftsmanship of the blacksmiths in Lakin Bede is the best in the entire Deccan Plateau, there are very few swordsmiths who can be called swordsmiths. Only a craftsman is up to the standard of a swordsmith.

That is Wang Quanli.

The long sword he forged was even worse than the swordsmiths in Zhongzhou, but the scimitar and hook sword produced could be said to be the most outstanding.

Most of the future Ouroboros Twenty-Eight Pillar Snakes were forged by him.

Li Mu looked around and recognized Wang Quanli among the many blacksmiths. Now he is still an unknown young man. He was grim-faced, covered in sweat, wearing a fireproof apron, huddled in the corner and hammered a bearing cut from a scrap truck with an old power hammer.

Li Mu walked over and saw that after every time he folded and forged for a period of time, he evenly sprinkled borax on the bearings that had turned into steel blocks. Put it back into the gas furnace and heat it.

The blacksmiths consume a lot of borax, at the time of forging. It removes impurities and assists in the fitting of gaps. Prevents dust entrapment.

Because the radiation of the bearing in the wasteland environment is not uniform. This results in an uneven distribution of variable metals inside the bearing. It must be folded and forged several times to evenly distribute the mutated metal throughout the steel block.

However, there is a limit to the number of times a mutated metal can withstand high temperatures.

This is a great test of the experience of the blacksmith, how to make the various mutated metals in the whole piece of steel in the shortest number of folding and forging into one. Whether or not you can master this is the biggest difference between a swordsmith and a blacksmith.

All blacksmiths are iron-making on the street, but they are not afraid of being stolen by others, because as a blacksmith, the greatest effort is in a pair of eyes.

During this period, several people gambled on a sword embryo, but all failed. But Li Mu didn't even look at it. He squatted next to Wang Quanli and watched him handle the piece of steel.

Because after a long time, no one succeeded in opening a good sword, the enthusiasm of the onlookers began to dissipate, and the stall of gambling on the sword became empty before.

Finally, a notification popped up on Li Mu's retina.

[After observing the skilled blacksmith forging for more than two hours, you have a preliminary understanding of how to operate the anvil and hammer, whether to pay 80 experience points and take up a job]

Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, this prompt popped up, and I immediately chose to agree. And directly rushed the level to the third level. As soon as his head swelled, he had a lot of skills in using punches, hammers, and heat treatment. It's not enough to forge a sword. But if you build some farm tools like sickles and hoes, it's more than enough.

[Level 3 Blacksmith (100/800)]

Blacksmith is a life class, and leveling up does not increase stat points. But its skills are very useful.

[Forging identification: As a blacksmith who handles countless metals. You can make a preliminary estimate of the amount of mutant metals in your raw materials, but you can't judge their content and distribution. This allows you to pick valuable raw materials, but forge a longsword independently. You also need to know more]

For a blacksmith with ordinary talent, starting as an apprentice, even if the master tries his best to teach and learn the most basic forging identification, it will take nine months. And Li Mu only took two hours to learn, and it only took a small amount of experience and one skill point.

The sun was setting, it was getting late, and the forge was closing. The two apprentices lifted the shelves full of sword embryos and tried to bring it into the shop. The power hammers and gas stoves that were placed outside were very bulky and not worth a lot of money, but these sword embryos were very expensive and easy to steal. Must be locked inside the storefront.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to bet on the sword."

Li Mu patted his pants, stood up, and stopped the two apprentices.

Most of the blacksmiths had already taken off their fireproof aprons, grabbed the sawdust mixed with washing powder, lined up to wash their hands and go home, and when they heard Li Mu's words, they all gathered around, wanting to see the excitement.

Wang Quanli, who was immersed in forging steel, also raised his head and looked at Li Mu with some surprise. He also thought that Li Mu was a blacksmith who came to steal the master, but he didn't expect that he was a high roller who gambled on swords.

The two apprentices hurriedly put down the weapon rack and let Li Mu choose it himself.

"Sir, choose my sword embryo, not long ago there was a subway track water sinking material, my sword embryo is forged with the best section."

Other blacksmiths also sold their sword embryos to Li Mu.

Every time they buy a sword embryo, they will have a lot of dividends, and if they open any sharp weapons, the price of the sword they forge in the future will also rise.

Li Mu was not disturbed by them, but calmly looked at all the sword embryos. When he chose the sword embryo, the first thing he looked at was the shape of the long sword, and he eliminated those sword embryos that looked at a glance that the spine was not correct and there were burrs on the blade.

Then he scraped the oxide layer on the outer layer of the sword embryo with his fingernails, and he carefully observed the texture of the steel on the sword body. He clasped the sword body with his index finger, and listened to the sound of the sword body vibrating with his ears, his coordination attribute made his hearing much stronger than ordinary people, and he could clearly distinguish whether there was any incongruous sound in the sound. That's the characteristic of the sword body with inclusions.

This is the experience summed up by those trenches who used the gambling sword as a meal in the Sword of Dawn in the previous life, and can eliminate those congenitally bad sword embryos. Those sword embryos can't even pass the grinding level, and they are the failure of the blacksmiths. Use it to fool the layman.

Even so, it didn't improve the odds of success in the sword bet much. Because most of the sword embryos failed in quenching. Because even if the sword embryo is forged perfectly. If you can't determine the right temperature, the sword will still crack in the quenching oil.

All the blacksmiths stopped talking, watched Li Mu lift the sword embryo, and observed carefully. They saw that the one who came to gamble on the sword this time was a real expert.

Most of the shops on Blacksmith Street had closed their doors, but none of the blacksmiths had left. They were all very curious about whether Li Mu could gamble on a good sword.

Li Mu took out the sword embryo and observed it without hurry. He was using his forging skills to observe the type and content of mutated metals within the sword.

Magnetized molybdenum is a mutated metal associated with ferrosperm. Uncommon and not uncommon. Until now, blacksmiths have not discovered any special properties in it. It wasn't until twelve years later that the swordsmiths of Zhongzhou discovered its magical effects.

As long as the content exceeds 0.08%, the magnetized molybdenum can maintain the strength of the sword body at high temperatures, and inhibit the occurrence of degradation effects within a certain range. Most importantly, it prevents tempering brittleness and reduces the chance of a scorching blade cracking and twisting when it comes into contact with cold oil.

This greatly increased the success rate of sword embryo quenching, reducing the probability of losing the sword bet from 95% to 75%.

Li Mu picked and inspected all five sword embryos containing magnetized molybdenum from the pile of sword embryos. The blacksmith's sword embryo that sold himself was among them. Even Wang Quanli's sword embryo contained magnetized molybdenum. This made Li Mu a little more confident

It seems that the subway track contains a lot of magnetized molybdenum. This makes the proportion of sword embryos containing magnetized molybdenum here unusually high.

The apprentice on the side looked at Li Mu in surprise, it was rare for someone to gamble with five sword embryos. He looked at the sword embryo and calculated the price. The price of forging it is not the same for different blacksmiths. A craftsman as famous as Mu Feng would need three hundred gold coins for even a sword embryo. And a newbie like Wang Quanli. His sword embryo was only worth seventy-five gold coins.

"Five hundred and seventy-five in all."

He looked at Li Mu with suspicious eyes, a little skeptical that this man in dirty and tattered clothes could come up with so much money.

Mu Feng's face sank as if it had been soaked in water, and his sword embryo had not opened a sword weapon for a long time. This made some of the high rollers who were putting heavy bets on him hesitate. If a sword is opened among these sword embryos today. Then the position of the first blacksmith in Tarakin Bede will begin to waver.

"Hmph, I think he's just a poor ghost pretending to be a rich man to gamble on swords. Maybe I went to the second district and borrowed a high-interest loan. I can't even afford my sword embryos, so I can buy some mediocre sword embryos. ”

Mu Feng looked at the clothes that Li Mu was wearing that had been stripped from the drunkard's body. I was more and more sure of my guesses.

His words made the faces of several blacksmiths in the crowd change, but because of Mu Feng's identity, he could only forcibly swallow this evil breath.

"That sword embryo is Xiao Wang's craftsmanship, hehe, that's still the eighth sword embryo made by Xiao Wang, the previous seven were all cracked when they were quenched." Mu Feng said to Li Mu in a consoling tone: "I see you, let's hurry up and repay the high-interest loan, so that the interest can be reduced." Sword gambling is not for a poor man like you. ”

"What if I wield a sword?"

A dangerous smile appeared on Li Mu's face.

"You can't get it."

Mu Feng looked at him with disdain.

"How about we make a bet?"

Li Mu's eyebrows furrowed

"What bet?"

Mu Fengman didn't care.

"If all the sword embryos I picked are useless, I'll give you this crystal."

Li Mu said, and took out a finger-sized crystal from his pocket. The brilliant crystal refracted the fire of the gas furnace, emitting a dazzling light.

This made everyone present gasp, such a large crystal, even if it was sold in a hurry, the price would not be lower than three thousand gold coins.

Mu Feng looked greedily at the crystal that was glowing, he thought that he had won, this fool was simply giving him money for nothing.

"And if I win, the anodized gold will be mine."

Li Mu stretched out his hand and pointed to the bulletproof glass booth in the store. There was a dull golden metal in it, unremarkable. (To be continued.) )

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