Chapter 7: The Great Cause of Alchemy

The next morning, Colonos opened his eyes and saw Koya lying on the side of his bed, with both hands still on his arms, and he gently took her hands away, then got up and got out of bed, picked her up and put her on the bed, and walked out on his own. Many people went out hunting or gathering, and Sadenus was teaching the children martial arts in the square, and when he saw Colonus coming out, he immediately ran over and said, "Chief, how are you, where is not comfortable?" Alpatha said he couldn't even see what you were doing. "I'm fine, I felt like I was not doing well, but now I feel very good, better than ever." Colonos said with a smile. Although Sadenus was puzzled by what he said, he still nodded, and then said: "You just woke up and haven't eaten, I'll go get it for you, there is no one in the food shed now, you just sit down here to eat, it's better to watch them practice martial arts than to be alone in the food shed." Then he went to get food. In a short time Sadnus brought a wooden tray with a piece of white, somewhat charred meat, two duck eggs (i.e., duck eggs), and a large bowl of porridge chopped from the roots, and a spoon and fork. Colonos had already made it to a stone pier, he placed the tray on a stone pier next to Colonos, and then sat on a stone pier himself.

Colonos first cut the meat into small pieces with his dagger, ate a bite, drank a mouthful of porridge, and while picking up the duck eggs, he generally said: "Uncle Sadenus, do you want to avenge the revenge of twenty years ago?" Sadenus raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course I want to revenge, these scum who took advantage of the danger of people, if it weren't for that damn dragon to seriously injure Konos, one of their tribes would have been wiped out." After speaking, he was already a little angry, and Colonos ate the duck egg and drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and said, "Soon, we will soon be able to take revenge, as long as we refine enough red gold." Sadenus was surprised: "Really? Is red gold really that useful? "Of course, although the hardness of red gold is much worse than that of Tianshi, it is still impossible to break it when it is cast into a sword and stone tool with him, although the blade of such a weapon is easily dull, but it can be polished, and the protective ability of using it to make helmets and armor is not comparable to hard leather armor, red gold can also be made into pots and pans of various utensils, that is, strong and light, its usefulness is far more than that." With these words, Sadenus fell into the illusion of red gold, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately patted his leg and said, "Then what are you waiting for, I will refine red gold immediately, I can't wait." Colonos inserted a piece of meat and put it in his mouth and said: "Now that everyone is out, it's still night, I will let half of the people participate in the smelting of red gold, and all the terracorn will go to transport ore (at that time, there was actually a concept of mining, and it was called stone before but it was not recognized), and some people must learn to forge, this is very difficult, and it is very complicated to make armor." By the way, Koya hasn't eaten yet, so you can get some to eat. Sadenus nodded and went to get Koya something to eat.

Koya woke up at almost noon, and asked Colonos about his health, and after getting the answer, he was still not at ease, but there was nothing he could do. After dinner, Koronos called a meeting of all the people in the tribe and assigned most of them to come out, half of them were responsible for alchemy of red gold, and some of them were good at learning to forge their own things. The Styx tribe was not short of food, and it was enough for a small number of people to make ends meet, and most of the things that so many people had gathered and hunted were exchanged for special products with other tribes, such as salt, and the daggers of the Colonos brothers and sisters, gold and silver, etc.

A clearing in the west of the tribe was enclosed for a smelter, and a forges were built next to it, and many people began the labor of building smelting furnaces and forges. For the processing of red gold, a lot of tools are needed, there were no anvils and hammers in those days, only stone anvils and stone hammers were used, and the stone required was not only hard, but also delicate, and the stone used to make the anvil had to be large. The stone terrahorn used to make the anvil can only carry the weight of one piece, and a whole piece can't be humped at all, it can only be dragged, and the special stone that meets the requirements is only available in a far away, so it took them more than twenty days to polish the stun belt, which is really fast, and this is also because there are not many stone anvils needed. Originally, there was a forge and anvil in the tribe, during which Koronos experimented with the first piece of red gold to make a sword shape suitable for this material, with a high ridge and concave sides on both sides, four fingers wide at the base of the sword and three fingers wide near the tip of the sword, and the hilt was almost 30 centimeters long, and there was no head or sword grid. In the shape of this sword, Colonos himself made a mold out of the same stone used to make an anvil, and the sword head and sword grid on the mold were also very simple, the sword grid was similar to the knight's sword of modern people, but the width was half smaller, and the sword head was a round ball. Colonos used this mold to build the sword, which still looked quite beautiful, sharpened the corners, opened the blade, and wrapped a leather strip around the hilt of the sword. When Koronos was making swords, some of the other dry forging people polished the stone anvil and hammer, and some used a pottery dry pot to remove the magazines in the red gold, and then used clay molds to make copper ingots, and the smelting furnace had already started, so a lot of red gold was also produced, and mining ore did not require the smoothness of the stone hammer, so it was naturally not so difficult. After these projects are completed, the forging has officially begun, and the sword will have a mold for the entire tribe to cast a sword for thousands of people, and there is no need to worry, the forging is mainly armor, it is difficult to forge armor, especially the coverage of their wings. Chronos has already conceived the style of the armor, but there are still frequent problems when it is manufactured, and then they are solved one by one, because the leather armor is not a single piece, so their copper armor is naturally not a plate armor, the whole piece of metal is specially designed to protect the parts of the bones, and the other parts of the more active positions are riveted scales on the soft leather, the inside of the joints is only soft skin, and the wings are only to protect the flesh and bones, as for the feathers, there is nothing that can be done. The shape of the helmet is very similar to that of ancient Greece, but because a single piece of copper is too viscous to cast the entire helmet after melting, the left and right halves are cast separately, and then riveted together from the ridge on the outside of the helmet, plus a one that covers the nose. The shoes are no longer woven, but boots sewn from soft leather and hard leather with three layers of soles, and the middle layer has a hole to tie the nail piece of the foot guard with a rope.

The first piece of armor was made by everyone for more than a month, and it was much easier to get the first one. This armor style is not weak in the ancient battlefields of modern humans, and it is very powerful when worn on Koronos, so that the people in the tribe praise him as coming down like a god. Due to the fact that he has been busy with alchemy, some things in the tribe have been put on hold, such as the salt in the tribe has bottomed out now, and Colonos said that he was going to transport salt before he did not implement it. Now the food in the tribe is not salty at all, but everyone has no complaints, because this is for the strength of the tribe, but then again, it is always impossible to do without salt, and you have to find a way to solve it.