Portlem looked at the wall of the smithy, his gaze deep, as if his gaze could see through the thick walls.

This is what he has seen dozens of times without knowing it.

But Potlem stared for a while, as he had done dozens of times before, and finally withdrew his gaze, and sat behind the anvil with a fidgeting appearance, as if hundreds of nails had been placed under his buttocks.

Someone on the left-hand side of the street was walking far away, and because all his attention was on the blacksmith's shop, he didn't notice it until the man had already walked up to them and shouted, which finally drew Potolem's attention back.

"Potlem, is my kitchen knife fixed?"

Potlaim turned his head and saw a middle-aged man standing not far from them - it was Jeffrey, who lived in the Fourth District.

For civilians like Jeffrey, iron tools such as kitchen knives are precious objects in the family, and they are heirlooms, which must be passed down from generation to generation, and if there is damage such as curling blades in daily use, they must be repaired by the blacksmith shop, which is also the main role of the blacksmith shop: to help residents repair household knives, farm tools and other ironware, and the sale of new ironware accounts for a relatively small proportion of the blacksmith's income.

"Not yet, come back tomorrow and get it. ”

After saying this to Jeffrey, Portlem withdrew his gaze from him and returned to the blacksmith's shop.

Perhaps because of the strange situation in which the master and apprentice of the Portlem sat outside, and the blacksmith shop had its doors and windows closed, Jeffrey did not leave immediately after getting the kitchen knife, but asked curiously, "What are you sitting outside, why don't you go in?"

Portlem didn't bother him this time, and Jeffrey got no response, and after standing stupidly for a while, he couldn't see what was going on, so he left in a huff.

The bellows boy had been staring at the stove outside the house, and as soon as the customer Jeffrey turned to leave, he couldn't help but say to Potleme, "They haven't had much fire in there." ”

The road outside the house is connected to the stove inside the house, and you can see the clues of the stove inside from the outside.

The bellows boy noticed this situation, and as his master, Portlem naturally noticed it a long time ago, nodded slowly, and mumbled.

That's why he's restless, because judging by the state of the stove outside, it really doesn't look like something is being built inside.

He might well have been deceived, Potlime thought to himself.

Although he didn't know what the two people in it could deceive from such a scam, he seemed to have really been deceived, and the two of them were liars, saying that they were going to hit something, and the stove had not been burned much from beginning to end!

Although Poolem was almost certain that the two guys inside were liars, he still didn't break in immediately, because there was still the occasional ping-pong sound inside.

Anyway, these two guys can't fly in it, and he doesn't need to rush.

Thinking of this, Portlem couldn't help but give himself a thumbs up in his heart for his wisdom: fortunately, he was clever and let Barrow go to the back to watch in advance, the two people inside couldn't escape, and then, it was time to think about how to deal with these two guys later. They have wasted so much of their time, they have to pay a price, right? But the man's wife looked very strong, and it didn't look easy to deal with, did he go and call Greg here? There is a sheriff here, the situation should be easier to deal with......

Potheme is a typical representative of the common people, simply put, a giant in thought and a dwarf in action, so he has been thinking about this issue for a long time and has not yet decided.

And in the house, Norman was constantly busy.

"From Delvik's data, the craftsmen of your world have learned that repeated tapping can increase the properties of metalwork, but they know it, but they don't know why, and the basic principle is carburizing...... Because we know it but don't know why it's so, the refining of metal products with excellent performance depends on luck......"

Lancelot used his refining time to instill Norman with knowledge of the principles of metal smelting.

Only in this way can Norman try to improve his smelting level in a short period of time, otherwise, if Norman's understanding of metal smelting is still stuck in Delvik's understanding, and his experience is not as good as Delvik's, how can he expect Norman to build a weapon that can be sold for a good price in a short period of time?

"Normalizing ......"

"Annealed ......"

"Quenching ......"

"Tempered ......"

Lancelot's teaching is not about where to teach, in fact, his teaching content is strictly and carefully arranged, to ensure that the knowledge points are combined with practice to form a line, so that it can be easily understood to the greatest extent, so it seems to be a lot, and all of them are thrown up, but in the middle of it, you will find that the learning of the whole knowledge point is very coherent and smooth, not like a mountain pressed up, but like a river with abundant water.

However, the Knights Templar's rational arrangement of the teaching content is on the one hand, and Norman's own ability is also on the other: because his own intelligence is very high, and under the cultivation of the Heart Sutra of Catching the Sea, he has the ability to think like a computer core processor, so that the teaching content of the Knights Templar can be eaten and digested smoothly along the lines they give.

The combination of these two aspects allowed Norman's knowledge of metal smelting to grow by leaps and bounds in this short period of time, and in reality, he was able to build things more and more smoothly, and some steps did not need to be reminded by the Templars, and he knew what to do.

Later, this pure novice, who was still busy before, was already a full journeyman, and the speed of progress could be clearly observed with the naked eye.

Although Ji Ruoxi is also an outsider to build, she can still see such an obvious change in Norman.

But the most obvious change is in Norman's work.

A dagger, a spearhead, a scimitar, a cross sword, that's all Norman ever forged.

The chronological order between them is evident from the way they look, the more they go to the back, the more delicate and sharp, especially the last cross, which is striking in appearance: the crosssword is just lying flat there, and no one touches it, but you can see a ghostly light flowing on it, like a fish made of light swimming around on it, which is eye-catching. But if you look closer, you will find that there is no light fish at all, this is just an ordinary cross sword.

This cross sword is just used to look at it, and you know that it is not ordinary.

As a bystander who witnessed the birth of these things, Ji Ruoxi's current dragon life concept was destroyed again and again, because she seemed to have discovered another astonishing fact, that is, Norman's amazing crafting technique did not seem to have been learned in the past few months, but in the past few hours......

Whether it is Norman's forging movements from jerky to skillful, or the naked eye can see that a weapon is better than a hand, it proves this!

This guy is likely to use a piece of scrap to make a magic weapon for the first time! Then it only took him half a day to turn himself from a novice with jerky movements to a skilled journeyman, and his crafting skills are also growing by leaps and bounds at a speed visible to the naked eye! And the last cross sword, Ji Ruoxi even doubted whether its performance was close to that of a sub-artifact......

A magic item doesn't have to be a sub-artifact, but a sub-artifact must be a magic item.

Each sub-artifact has mysterious and powerful spell effects, and with the help of these spell effects, those non-magic items are completely incomparable, but Ji Ruoxi does doubt that this cross sword is really possible to compete with sub-artifacts with powerful spell effects with pure physical performance, and the basis of her suspicions is the dagger that Norman made in the first place.

The ugly dagger that Norman had made at the beginning was now even uglier - it was missing a small piece from its blade.

That small piece was neatly cut by the crosssword.

Ji Ruoxi had seen the sharpness of that dagger before, and now that this cross sword could cut off a small piece of this dagger so easily, what kind of sharpness should it be?

It's no wonder that Ji Ruoxi would suspect that this thing could hard-shake the sub-artifact just by relying on its physical properties.

And this cross sword is now held in Norman's hand.

To be honest, the birth of this thing is really a coincidence.

After beating the scimitars, their work for the day was actually over, but the Templars, in the spirit of not wasting their chances, had Norman try to make alloy steel, which was mixed into the black anvil in front of them...... No, judging by the Templars' observations, it was most likely not made of iron, which is why they chose it as a synthetic object for alloy steel.

Under the premise of not understanding the material properties, the production of alloy steel is actually not of much significance, because even if it is made, it is likely to be a defective product with metal properties as if it were a joke.

The Knights Templar didn't have any expectations, they just wanted Norman to use this opportunity to familiarize themselves with the process, but what they didn't expect was that when Norman followed their instructions to make this alloy steel step by step and made a cross sword, the metal properties were far beyond their imagination, and a number of experiments just now verified how good the metal properties of this cross sword were.

What's even more terrifying is that Norman also used magic alchemy to transform this thing......

Because the Knights Templar had already stated in advance that this thing was just an experiment to make Norman relax his mind, Norman had really completely relaxed his mind in the process of refining this cross sword before. In that state of mind, he even had an idea in his heart: could this refining method of the Knights Templar be combined with magic alchemy?

Because Ji Ruoxi was present and it was inconvenient to speak, and because his hands were busy refining at the time, Norman did not communicate his idea with Lancelot, but directly tried it - anyway, Lancelot said that this is just an experiment and a play.

Thanks to the effect of the Heart Sutra of Catching the Sea, Norman was able to use his heart to perform magic alchemy even in the process of concentrating on refining.

Alchemy and magical items are two different concepts: magical items must have a complete set of solutions and a lot of magical materials to be crafted, while alchemy is different. Alchemy is a method of refining weapons, which can be used even if there are no magic materials, but the result is that there is no use for eggs and magic items cannot be made.

Therefore, Norman did not encounter any obstacles when he cast magic on this cross sword, but after doing it concretely, he realized that something was wrong.

In the process of refining, he found that after using the magic alchemy, he had the same feeling as when he first refined the magic pool 1.0!

Norman knew very well that the touch was different from casually using alchemy on some non-magical materials.

Could it be that the anvil is still a magic material?

Norman didn't know very well, but now that the opportunity came, he certainly couldn't miss it.

Then Norman had another idea: since alchemy was useful, could he add a spell to this thing?

Anyway, it was an experiment, and he did it when he thought of it, so Norman simply tossed it up by himself, stumbled all the way, and finally before the end of the physical refining process, he used magic alchemy to fix a level 4 spell in this cross sword, the flame trap......

Well, it's Norman's own thought that it's "fixed", and in fact, whether this spell will work or not has to be tried to see if it works.

......

And outside the blacksmith, Potlaim couldn't wait.

The 6 bells of the church have been ringing for a while, and when you calculate the time, it is more than four o'clock in the afternoon and almost five o'clock in the afternoon in the earth world, but the two guys inside still haven't come out.

Potlime kept looking over the stove, and at last he could no longer stand the torment in his heart, and stood up, ready to rush inside and catch the two liars.

At this moment, someone came from a distance at one end of the street.

If you look closely, you can see that the bellows boy who was still by Potlem's side before was in front of him, leading the way, and behind the bellows boy was a shy white-faced sheriff with a big belly, with a chubby face, like a pig.

Seeing these two men appear, Portlem's heart was even more determined, and the two strode to the door of the blacksmith's shop, their fists had already been placed on the door panel, and they were ready to knock on the door and find out the two liars inside.