The backyard of the blacksmith shop is not a traditional open-air yard, but a huge processing site. A brick roof was erected, with a huge furnace in the middle and two small furnaces side by side on either side. It is surrounded by a casting room, a washing room, a storeroom, etc., and in the southwest corner, there is a row of huts.

At this time, Alan was tidying up in one of the rooms, and the one who helped clean it was the apprentice named Gally, who was seventeen years old and had been an apprentice in the blacksmith shop for two years. At the counter was Jays, who had been an apprentice for three years, and because of his good communication skills, he was arranged by Vincent to be the front desk manager. In addition, there are two adults, Hall and Harvey, who are mainly responsible for smelting, forging, and purchasing.

A plank bed and a table and chairs are all there is to the cottage. This hut is Alan's lounge in the future, which is much better than the bunk where four people sleep crowded into the big room next to it, which is obviously Vincent's special care for Alan.

After tidying up the house, Alan followed Gallie to where they worked.

A thick stream of metallic liquid poured out of the steaming furnace, and it was red. Shirtless, Hale followed with a sword-forging mold.

On the other side, Harvey was also naked, holding a sledgehammer to forge the first blank. The sound of ping-pong and the burning of the furnace lingered throughout the backyard.

And then there's Vincent crafting it in the training room. The sound is sometimes harsh, sometimes tactful like a small bridge of water, and it is clear that the rhythm is controlled by the master.

"Star, build a new database 'forging' to record the smelting and building process. ”

Alan wasn't here for sightseeing, the blacksmith shop would be where he learned the craft of blacksmithing.

In the following days, in addition to adapting to the environment of the blacksmith shop and learning blacksmithing with Vincent, Alan did not leave behind the practice of knightly body forging.

There is a sub-base of the Knight Alliance in the city, and when you are promoted to a full knight, you can apply for knight certification and obtain a knight identity certificate.

The knight's identity certificate is a special badge-like thing, and it has many benefits, not only has the courtesy of an ordinary nobleman, but also can apply to join the security team and be directly promoted to the elite by going to the city lord's mansion, or apply to become a mercenary in the mercenary union, you can undertake the tasks of the corresponding level, and the remuneration is quite generous after completion.

Therefore, Alan set a short-term goal for himself, that is, while learning forging, he practiced forging skills diligently, and strived to become a mercenary as soon as possible, so that he could have the capital to break through.

Early mornings are always short.

Allen changed his bad habit of sleeping lazily in the flagship "Heavenly Palace" like in his previous life, and completed the knight forging exercise in the courtyard early.

Soon after, Hall, Harvey, Vincent and others also began their work, and the day in the blacksmith began again.

After a brief breakfast, Alan went to the smelting furnace and assisted Hall in lighting the furnace and getting to work.

The fuel for the furnace is coke, an ore similar to the earth's coke coal. As an ancillary ore to major mining plants, although the supply is abundant, the sales market has always been tight. The burning of scorched stone is also very powerful, and a brick-sized piece can feed an ordinary person to cook a meal.

However, the ignition process of the scorched stone is quite difficult.

This is due to the high hardness of the coke stone, and the smallest piece of coke stone mined is often larger than the brick. Ordinary people can't get the scorched stone, they can't split it like wood, and it is a rather slow process to burn a whole piece.

There is no way to do this in the blacksmith's shop, or even in other places that use scorched stone as fuel. Either a small shop like a blacksmith that burns the charred all the time, or a small shop like a blacksmith that spends a morning rekindling the charred stone.

Alan has been trying to figure out a way since he learned about the situation. He knew that in his previous life, there were many ways to deal with such a stinking and hard stone.

Using chip scanning to clarify the composition of the focal stone, he thought about using chemical reactions, mechanical grinding discs, laser cutting, and so on......

However, the chip database is blank, and the materials in this world are very different, and the technical means are really limited, so Alan has to use the most stupid way to accelerate the burning of the scorched stone.

That is, the use of high calorific value in a short period of time to cause the burning of scorched stone – that is, an explosion.

However, the material structure of this world seems to be surprisingly stable, and as far as Alan knows, there has been no explosives of a decent point.

After several tosses, with the cooperation of the chip, Alan still reluctantly made a poor combustion powder similar to gunpowder, but with little power.

Using a little scorch powder that was finally grinded, accompanied by charcoal powder, star sawdust, sequoia leaf powder and other flammable powder screened by Allen, etc., spread a layer under the scorched stone, and a slight fire was a slight sound, and the scorched stone slowly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye......

With the help of the combustion powder, the work of igniting the furnace is much easier and the time is greatly saved.

After Vincent learned about Allen's invention (let's call it an invention), he praised Allen's ingenuity and praised Allen for his talent in forging.

Especially after seeing the process of Allen's iron casting, Master Vincent was full of praise.

Allen's forging was taught by Master Vincent.

From the first blank to the crafting, Allen has demonstrated an unrivalled ability to connect with each other. Often, after Master Vincent demonstrated it, Alan was able to reproduce it roughly according to the gourd painting.

Although he followed up and learned the formal things, Alan didn't plan to copy the specific creation of the divine will. He tried to refine and build in his own way, and identified the effect through different forging methods, so as to summarize a set of forging skills suitable for him.

If you are an ordinary person, if you want to accomplish this goal, you have to wait until years of accumulation to achieve it. However, for Allen, with the assistance of the chip star, it is only a matter of a few days.

In five or six days, Alan will be able to make the right move, and the timing will be just right to catch up with Harvey, a long-forged veteran.

This is still a deliberate clumsy performance of Allen.

"In just a few days, you have mastered the basic skills of blacksmithing, and the next step is to practice repeatedly to improve your skills. Vincent smiled and squinted, looking at Alan as if he had seen a new star in the forging world rising.

Alan was quite unimpressed by this, with the assistance of Xing, it was not easy to do these technical jobs.

But Alan is not interested in this, he knows that there are such magical beings as knights and wizards in this world.

So whenever he has time, he will try to decipher the wizarding text with Hoshi. It is a pity that whether it is borrowing from the form consciousness of Chinese characters in the past life, or using the phonetic symbols of the Ankara language in this life, even the philosophy of metaphysical idealism has come in handy, and it is still incomprehensible.

In this regard, Alan is also helpless.

He only hoped that one day he would be lucky enough to meet a wizard and be able to initiate his knowledge of wizarding.