Chapter 41: The Blacksmith's First Step, Mineral Refining
John stood beside the rock wall, reaching out and caressing it, as if measuring the size of the cave that was about to be excavated. The biggest problem now is that there are no suitable digging tools, and if it is only John's hands to break the stone to open the hole, although John can also break the rock, this kind of work that requires precise control is not John's forte. It seems that tools are still needed.
"Kamlain, help me contact Ann or Tel. John stood beside the stone wall and thought about it, and decided to change some tools. Kamryine looked at John, "What do you want to tell your master to do? If it's not too difficult or important, leave it to me." ”
"I'd like to dig a few stone chambers here. John pointed to the stone wall and said, "But now I don't have any tools in hand, and I want to get them two to get some tools." "It's simple, don't bother the owner. Before Camherine could finish speaking, several stone chambers had appeared on the wall, each of them square, not only the entrance was as square as a square, but the inside of the stone chamber was also a standard cube.
...... "Well, after all, it's the gods of Purgatory, and this thing is still very simple. John thought that he would have to dig a room for a long time, but he didn't expect that in just an instant, this room appeared. John walked into the room on the far left and saw that there was already a furnace and iron felt: "......" "I know you're going to be a blacksmith, so I'll help you get these things in order." Is there anything else to do?" and when Kamary saw that John had seen the tools there, she asked, "Is there anything that is still bad?" John shook his head: "I have the rest, so I don't need to get it." As he spoke, he walked over to the felt and took out the other bellows, hammers and other tools and placed them beside him.
At this time, Lily came back with the processed meat and firewood on her back. Looking at the newly opened stone chamber on the wall, Lily's eyes lit up. In any case, it is not easy to make such a large space on the stone wall in such a short time.
Well, whatever Lily thought, John took out the hides and threw them at Lily, and asked her to choose a room of her choice and spread them, and then took the firewood and lit it in the stone pit in the hall outside, and a campfire was done.
The Purgatory Demon Clan has a lot of food, so John directly roasted the processed unicorn, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to eat it all.
After choosing a room, Lily covered it with a thick hide, and tried to lie on it. It was soft and warm, so that Lily, who had been nesting in the tree shed all this time, wanted to call comfortably. If it weren't for the hunger in her stomach, it is estimated that Lily would have fallen asleep directly.
Smelling the smell of roasted meat wafting in from outside, Lily struggled to get up from the hideout and walked out. At this time, the mutton was roasted, and John was not afraid of being hot, so he grabbed the roast lamb directly, tore it from his waist, and threw his upper body directly over.
Lily reached out to take the mutton, and she didn't feel very hot, so she opened her mouth and bit directly on the front leg of the mutton, tore off a large piece of meat, and swallowed it without even chewing it.
Well, no matter how much time passes, the word elegance and infernal creatures will never be associated.
John likewise tore a piece of meat from the hind leg of a sheep. Just as he was about to swallow, the little dragon vulture woke up.
The little drulture stood up, stretched, and shook its wings. It's just that a little bit of rock dragon's dragon blood doesn't have a big impact on the little guy, at most, it makes the energy and physical strength consumed by the little dragon vulture's previous exercise recover.
The little one woke up and smelled the barbecue, ran to John and sat down, staring at the barbecue and not moving. John smiled and tore off one of his hind legs and placed it on the ground in front of the little dulture. When the little dragon vulture saw the barbecue, he first rubbed his head against John, and then turned around and began to feast.
The little one was happy to eat, and John was very happy. John liked the little dragon vulture, maybe because it was the reason why John watched the little dragon vulture come into being.
In the evening Lily returned to the room John had arranged for her, lit a bonfire for herself, and then slept soundly on the fur bed by the fire. Instead of resting, John took his pickaxe and went to the other side, ready to come back from mining some ore. Ores in reality can't be like in the game, mined with a hoe is a metal ingot that can be used for forging, the real ore is really like a stone, which is composed of a large number of useless rocks mixed with useful metal oxides, so after mining, the useless rocks and metal oxides must be separated first.
This was more troublesome for John. You must know that when he was in Lothric, John used finished equipment to be fused and then forged again, while in the Source Continent, he bought metal ingots, which were all materials that could be forged directly. But now, John is faced with a pile of raw ores, and unfortunately, John's knowledge does not have the knowledge of extracting metals from ores.
"Hiss~" John looked at the ore in his hand and felt a little headache. Because no matter what world you are, no one will be interested in learning about these processes, unless they are scholars who specialize in this field or are professional ore refiners. And because different ores have different characteristics, even the same metal has different ore types, so naturally it cannot be refined in the same way.
“...... It's troublesome. John looked at the ore that had been mined by himself, and lost interest for a moment. Honestly, John, you're the guy known as "Three Minutes of Passion."
But John wasn't ready to give up. In John's view, the so-called extraction of metals from ores means that the ore is heated and then different substances are extracted by different melting points - to be honest, isn't this the way oil is extracted? Can it be used to refine ore?
However, it is always good to have an idea, and John is not in a hurry to go back, standing directly in the mine, using the talent of the Purgatory Dragoon's ability to control the law of fire, and directly start heating these ores. Soon, the ore that was still black began to glow red, and some black impurities fell out of the ore and fell to the ground. "It still seems to be useful. John nodded. Now that these impurities have been refined, let's keep it at this temperature. John controls the temperature of the ore in his hand and continues to raise the temperature of the ore until there are no more impurities dripping. This was repeated over and over again until the iron ore John hoped to obtain was melted down and dripped. John hurriedly reached out his other hand to catch the dripping molten iron.
When all the molten iron had dripped down, John found that two or three drops of ore the size of a fist could be extracted. I don't know how long it will take to accumulate iron that can make a weapon.
However, although this iron has the name of iron, it has many purgatory properties in addition to the characteristics of iron, and it should be possible to obtain new materials at that time.