Chapter 6: Steel and Iron
When he opened his eyes, Levi had a splitting headache. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Turning his head with great effort, Levi saw Verus' face and the bread in his mouth.
"Grandma, he's awake," he shouted when he saw that Rivi had woken up, and after swallowing his bread three times and dividing five by two, he shouted towards the kitchen.
Levi, who had a headache and a sore shoulder, gritted his teeth, propped up his body with his elbows, and looked around blankly.
This is the town Andrew's house, the silver-haired stupid big man standing next to him is the boy named Verus, it is Andrew who is eating breakfast, and it should be Mrs. Ronnie who is busy in the kitchen, and Levi does not find Noshi here.
It seems that he is not dead, otherwise it would be too much to be wounded after he dies, and if this is hell, then Lady Ronnie is also dead?
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When Levi was reading a book in the library, he saw a sentence on the title page of the book: Whoever becomes an alchemist will surely fall into endless hell after death.
Levi didn't believe it until he threw himself into the study of alchemy and learned about the products of alchemy ten centuries ago, and his original awe of alchemy turned into pervasive fear.
When the alchemist dies, he may really have to go to hell, this is the conclusion that Levi came to after reading the account.
The alchemists of ten centuries ago could only be described as "terrible", and Levi could not find in them the grace and wisdom of an alchemist, and in his opinion, those people were just alchemists who had lost their minds.
Although Levi has little to do with elegance now, he still has sense, and he knows that his life should never be only alchemy, and he has a lot to do.
And this was the reason for his escape from the Kaos Empire, and Levi knew that His Majesty the young Emperor of the Kaos Empire pursued aggressiveism, and his only desire in his eyes was to expand the territory and conquer all who dared to be his enemy.
He just smiled at the emperor's rebuke of Revi's resignation to mediocrity, he had always regarded himself as an ordinary scholar, who could make some money through alchemy, buy a manor, marry a virtuous wife, and go to the library to find some books to read when he was fine, and live a happy life with his family, is it wrong? At least Levi doesn't think it's wrong.
He has been an orphan since he was a child, and he lived a civilian life when he was a child, so he is also very civilian in his future planning, saying that he is cowardly or willing to be mediocre, he just hopes to live his own life.
Levi, who has been sleeping on a woolen blanket for the past few days, has a negative effect on the alchemist's unique high fatigue resistance, because he can't sleep and has nothing to do, so he can only remember the past alone.
"In the record, it seems that the alchemists at that time were single all their lives, both men and women, and I won't..."
Over the course of a few days, Raberheed came to change Levi's bandages several times, and each time he came, he would marvel at Rivi's life force so strange that even death could not take it away, and it was clear that he was already dying at that time, and half of his body should be buried in the ground.
This time, Raberheed finally took up his responsibility as a doctor, and when he changed the bandages, he got a lot of herbs on Levi's wounds, but he didn't know what the ingredients of the herbs were, and whether they were useful.
In addition, all the treatment costs related to Levi these days have been borne by Andrew's family, which is not only what Ronnie meant, but also Andrew's meaning, which can be regarded as a little reward for Levi.
Today is the fifth day since Levi's injury, and he can finally get off the ground and move around.
It was the height of summer in the kingdom of Northwell now, and the sun was shining overhead, but for Levi, who hadn't been in the sun for a few days, the sun was just right, neither hot nor cold.
A white bandage made of gauze was tied around Rivy's right shoulder, and now he tried to move his right hand as much as he could, otherwise the wound would be very painful.
In the afternoon in the town of Jotun, the townspeople chose to stay in the shade, and there was no one else on the streets, except for the occasional patrol of heavily armed soldiers.
These soldiers were the soldiers who applied to the Lord of Kribi to garrison the town after the bandit invasion of the town, in order to prevent the next bandit attack.
Looking at these soldiers, Rivi's eyes couldn't help but appear in front of him, wearing light armor and having a cold attitude towards people, and listening to Verus, Noshi rushed back to the Kribi City Knights to report when Rivi was still in a coma.
Now Levi and Andrew's family have a good relationship, Andrew himself is a lot more polite to him, and Verus will come to talk to him whenever he has time and listen to him tell some stories.
The town of Jotun is located in a hilly area, surrounded by large wheat fields, and there is a small lake near Verus, which is a good place to cool off from the heat.
Anyway, there was nowhere else to go, and it was better to go around, and when Levi left the town, he was ready to go to the place called "Lake Viana" by the townspeople of Jotun.
After much deliberation by Rivi, he finally decided to stay here in Jotun Town for a while, Kribi City is a big city, and the pursuers of the Kaos Empire should also go there to search for his traces first, and it is safer to stay in Yotun Town.
After walking for about half an hour, Rivi finally saw the lake named "Viana".
The mirror-like water reflected the scorching light, the shore of the lake was full of aquatic plants, and the summer wind slowly blew through it, curling Levi's hair back and taking away the heat from Rivi's body.
Levi came to the lake, saw his own reflection in the lake, the water of the lake was very clear, he took a sip of the lake water with his left hand, the mouth was sweet and thirst-quenching.
"It's really nice here, it's just a little farther" walked for more than half an hour, which was already relatively far for Levi.
Finding a shady meadow to sit down, Levi looked around and saw that there were many other animals such as deer and rabbits that would come to the river to drink, and they were very wary of Levi's presence, and they had been keeping an eye on it.
Based on what he had learned, Rivi decided that there should be an underground river at the bottom of Lake Viana, otherwise the water of a dead lake would not be so clean.
But soon, a fact made Levi's face more ugly than eating ten pounds of bugs...
"Wow!Wow~ Ouch, why are you here?" Levi stared at the head that suddenly emerged from the lake, his stomach twitching, and there were signs of nausea.
"Are you also here to bathe in Lake Viana? haha, you've come to the right place," Varus laughed, shaking off the water stains from his hair.
This stupid big guy won't be convenient in the lake, but he drank the water in the lake.
"It's cool down there, why don't you come in and take a wash?"
"No need" The other party is a man, and Levi is not interested in it.
Suddenly, Levi's gaze swept over the right bank of the lake, where there were some clothes in the grass, and a sword that had been cracked, needless to say, these clothes and swords belonged to Verus.
"By the way, you said you were a craftsman before, didn't you?" asked Levie, who had seen Levi look at the shore and had had enough of soaking in the lake, and sat down beside him.
"yes," Levi said, glancing at the other.
"Can you help me fix this sword, then?" Verus, who was wearing only underwear, took the notched sword to Levi with a wet body.
"Why should I repair it?" Levi used to be in the Kaos Empire, and his status was transcendent, and with his value, Verus could not touch him.
"Levi, you can't die without help, I picked up all those valuable little stones for you, and I didn't tell the soldiers patrolling the town your identity, you must help me this time"
Are you sure you're not threatening me?" Levi sighed, "Okay, tell me, how did you get this sword gap?"
"Well, didn't you lose the spear I made myself, and the iron spear at home can't be used until an emergency, so I went to old Buffon and borrowed a sword," Verus continued, "Old Buffon told me that the sword was made of steel, but I didn't have to cut it twice before it burst into a gap."
Levi, who also had a little impression of the people in the town, knew that the "old Buffon" in Varus's mouth was a blacksmith in the town of Jotun, and now it seems that the other party is not a serious blacksmith.
Jobs such as repairing blades are considered the lowest level of technology in Levi's alchemy system, and as long as he finds him iron ore, he can make a steel sword in two or three minutes.
"Just fix it for you, right?" For Verus's sake of helping him get all the diamonds back, Revie decided to make a move.
Verus is a bit stupid, but he is not a bad person, at least he didn't hide the diamonds when he knew the value of them, but returned them all to Rivi.
However, for his identity as an alchemist, Levi still has to hide it, it was forced by the situation in the past, and now it is better to use the alchemy array less in front of people, so he asked Verus to go back first, and give him the repaired sword later.
Waiting for Verus to turn around and leave, Rivi unfolded the alchemy array in his left hand, there was no way, his right hand was useless now, and the efficiency would be a little slower.
When an alchemist performs alchemy, the first and most important step is to formulate a process, and without a specific process in the form of a line, it will be very troublesome to make items.
For example, now that Levi wants to repair this iron sword, the process is divided into five steps in terms of alchemy: dismantling→ heating→ refining→ deforming→ cooling.
Dismantling is the first step and ends with cooling.
The arc of electricity flickered on the alchemy array, and Levi took the lead in dismantling the missing iron sword, separating the strip of cloth tied to the grip from the iron sword itself.
The second step is heating, this time it is different from the last time in order to cope with the robbers heating the diamond to 500 degrees Celsius, Levi ran the alchemy circle with all his strength to heat the work, and soon, the iron with a melting point of 1535 degrees Celsius melted into golden hot iron in the alchemy circle.
If you change to a normal craftsman, this step must be done in the furnace, otherwise if the golden molten iron with a temperature of up to 1,000 degrees falls, it will scorch the field.
As for the fall on the person, it was not dealt with in time, and it is estimated that the amputation is light.
However, Levi is an alchemist, he doesn't need a furnace, the alchemy array holds up all this molten iron, and thousands of high temperatures are nothing to the alchemy array.
This involves the essential role of an alchemy array, the role of the alchemy array is to withstand the high temperature generated by the alchemist itself when processing, not including the temperature of the outside world, for example, if a mage comes to Livi with a fireball technique, he uses the alchemy array to block it, then he should consider how to put out the fire on his hand.
The third step of refining, this step is actually added by Levi himself, it is okay not to carry it out, the focus of this step is to reduce the carbon in the molten iron, unlike the blacksmiths who forge steel swords, the blacksmiths smelt the steel sword after the molten iron has cooled a little, and constantly knock the reddened iron with a hammer, by heating the carbon inside, the carbon will be turned into gas and removed, so that the iron will become steel. Levi didn't need to be so troublesome, he could effortlessly refine the excess carbon in the molten iron through the alchemy array.
This is prepared for Varus, and when the time comes, let him go and give old Buffon some compensation, and he will be able to buy a finished steel sword at the price of a scrap iron sword.
The fourth step is transformation, transformation can be said to be the second most used alchemy in Levi, the role of transformation is very wide, here is to deform and stretch the molten iron in the alchemy array into the shape of a sword.
In the last step of the process, Rivi, who had already rolled the molten iron into the shape of a sword, began to cool the molten iron, which was similar to heating, but it was just the reverse that it was changed to cool the refined material in the alchemy array.
When cooling, a large amount of water vapor cannot spill out in the alchemy array, and when the molten iron is completely cooled, the steel sword is completed.
It's complicated, but it only takes the experienced Levi about two minutes to complete it, and that's when he only has one hand.
Wrapping the strips of cloth on the ground back into the grip of the steel sword, Levi stood up, glanced at the sky, and headed for the town.