Chapter 42: The Iron Sword (I'm sorry)
However, since there is a way, John does not lack time, and he does not have to think about whether the input and output are worth it, and now he wants to be the best craftsman in purgatory, to put it bluntly, John is bored and wants to find something to do by himself. If that's what it takes, John succeeded.
So, the next morning, before Lily could open her eyes, she heard a series of "ding" banging sounds coming from outside. What is this doing? Lily walked out of the room with questions in her mind. Following the sound of metal thumping, Lily found the source of the sound: in the adjacent room, John was forging a weapon. When Lily arrived, John was in the final step: quenching. The so-called quenching is to greatly improve the rigidity, hardness, wear resistance, fatigue strength and toughness of the material through cooling. Unlike the commonly used quenching media such as salt water, water, mineral oil, and air, John did not choose these, but directly used a rare ingredient that he had just obtained: the blood of a rock dragon diluted with water.
John had sensed Lily's arrival, but didn't greet her. Reaching out and directly picking up the iron sword that was temporarily cooled aside, and putting it into the pool filled with diluted dragon blood on the side, with the sound of "Ng" when quenching, the magic power originally contained in the blood of the rock dragon was instantly stimulated, and it diffused into the surrounding air. At this time, John saw that the iron sword suddenly began to absorb the magic power that was diffused around it - not only the magic power in the air, but also the magic power contained in the blood of the rock dragon that did not spread was also forcibly sucked away by this iron sword, and the strength of this absorption was so powerful that for a while, John could even see that a magic vacuum had formed around the sword, constantly pumping the magic power around it, even the magic power of the rock dragon's blood that had spread into the air did not escape, and was directly pulled back.
It wasn't until the iron sword stopped absorbing that the storm of magic stopped. At this time, a forbidden demon realm was even formed in this forging room, and not only the magic power of the rock dragon's blood was absorbed, but even the free magic power that was originally everywhere was absorbed by this iron sword. John lowered his head and stretched out his hand to take out a little dragon blood in the pool, and found that the magic power and rock laws contained in the original dragon blood had been absorbed, and now in addition to seeing the blood red, he could also smell a trace of blood, and he could no longer see the difference with ordinary clear water. All that is done now is to wait, waiting for the blood and iron sword in the blood pool to cool down to the right temperature, so as not to affect the quenching effect due to excessive temperature differences.
Of course, it was only at this time that John began to greet Lily, who had been standing next to him for a long time. Lily looked at this magical scene with a look of surprise, she never knew that forging could absorb all the magic around her. Is there such a magical thing in the forge room? How did I not know before? Do those black goblin gray dwarves have such a forging technique? Well, follow the master, everything cannot be judged by common sense.
After struggling for a long time, Lily gave up digging deeper. She knew that no matter what race it was, these skills were secret, not to mention the forging skills like this that could trigger the whirlpool of magic power, and it was a secret among the secrets. So Lily just came over and explained that she was out hunting and gathering firewood and left.
John didn't really care if Lily saw his forging process, because John was still confused, how did this magic vortex appear. This is not caused by his own actions, which John can affirm, because John's forging this time is not different from the previous forging, no matter which process is a common method. If anything, there are only two things: the way you extract the metal yourself, and the difference between ore and quenched material.
There is no way to change the extraction method now, because there is no other way for John to obtain metal ingots that can be used for forging, and John can still find different kinds of ores, after all, John has found more than one ore in this mine. The quenching material will no longer add the blood of the rock dragon this time, and directly use clean water. Test it this way to see if the previous phenomenon will still occur.
When you think of it, you do it. John got up, picked up a small animal that Lily had captured yesterday and threw it to the little dragon vulture on the side: "Go outside to eat, play by yourself after eating, be careful not to hurt yourself." ”
The little dragon vulture grabbed the rabbit, screamed, and flew out of the big hole overhead.
Without other interference, John waited until the temperature of the blood pool returned to room temperature, and then fished out the body of the long sword, which had no hilt or scabbard, from the blood pool. The iron originally used was black, and the sword made should also be black, but the black body of John's sword glowed with a hint of reddish-gray light. It's not normal, but it's normal. After all, such a strange thing happened just now, if this sword is not unusual, it would be wrong.
"Kamlaline, do you know what this sword is about?" John looked at it for a long time and found that in addition to the different colors of this sword, he seemed to be able to feel a surge of magic in his hand. At the same time, John waved the sword in his hand lightly, and a stone pillar suddenly raised on the ground not far away, which was not something John could do.
"Oh, at this moment, the magic and the laws of rock in the dragon's blood of that rock dragon were sucked into the sword, and before the magic of the dragon's blood was exhausted, this sword had the ability to control rocks like a scientific dragon. Kamleline said: "I didn't expect you to really make it, use the dark iron to make the sword body, and use the dragon's blood to quench it, just so that the absorption characteristics of the dark iron can be brought into play and the laws and magic contained in the dragon's blood are cleaned." ”
"Stygian iron?" John asked, "Is this the name of the iron I mined here?" and Katherine replied, "Well, stygian iron is a metal unique to the underworld, and it has the property of absorption, and it will absorb the things around it and gather it on itself, so it is difficult to find the veins of the underworld, but I have buried two veins of the iron in this mountain for you to mine." Because of its preciousness, it is generally forged by adding other metals as an additive, which can give that thing the ability to place it in a specific place where magic gathers, absorb the surrounding magic and bring specific attributes to itself, and also use other metals to repair that thing after it is damaged. Forging directly from the dark iron has never been so extravagant. ”
Well, so it was. John looked at the sword in his hand and wondered if he was going to melt it down and forge it again. A sword made from additives that others dream of is probably not easy to sell out.