Chapter 8: Sword Furnace Town

"What? I've been asleep for more than a month, and the furnace festival has long passed!" Grabbing the shoulders of the priest in front of him, Mino cried out in surprise, his shaking hands almost shaking the priest's weak body apart.

Although Mino was empty of qi and his physical fitness had decreased a lot because of Nirvana, due to Kewpie's strong alertness, Mino was able to sense the existence of danger much in advance, so he calmly avoided it, so the speed of the journey did not decrease but increased, and it only took two days to get out of the dangerous wild forest.

After descending the mountain, although Mino felt that he was soft-spoken, and that no one would listen to him, and that he would bring trouble to Lilo, whom he owed indebted, the work ethic of the priesthood made him feel at ease after all.

So when I got off the mountain, I found the nearest church and told me what happened to me and the speculation that Lilo was not involved, and asked the priest of the church to help report it.

After finishing this matter, Mino finally had time to go to Sword Furnace Town to participate in the opening ceremony, and as a result, he heard that he had been sleeping for more than a month, and the opening ceremony had long passed.

Hearing that the furnace festival he was thinking about was actually slept by himself, Mino was angry, so he did the gaffe of grabbing the stranger's shoulders and shaking it.

Originally, Sword Furnace Town was not called this name, it was just a nameless small mountain village surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there were thousands of such towns on the mainland, and there was really nothing worthy of others' attention.

But three hundred years ago, the town began to thrive when Quinn Trick, the world's most famous swordsmith who forged the equivalent of an epic treasure, settled here.

In order to seek the guidance of Master Trick, many young blacksmiths and those blacksmiths who have not made an inch for many years have traveled thousands of miles to arrive, plus those warriors who want to hire Master Trick to forge weapons, the town's popularity has suddenly increased.

If that's all it takes, when Master Trick dies, the town's popularity will naturally drop, and eventually no one cares about restoring its old looks.

However, before Master Trick died, the blacksmiths and swordsmiths who came in droves were surprised to find that the water from the upper reaches of the stream next to Sword Furnace Town was used for quenching, which would have a special miraculous effect on strengthening the toughness and hardness of the sword body, and the hill next to Sword Furnace Town actually contained a hidden source of earth fire, which was the best sword furnace for forging swords.

It turns out that in ancient times, a small meteorite once fell here, and because it was too small, it did not have a star core like the star shattered by the Minoan ancestors, but the remaining stardust melted into the depths of the earth here, and the water gushing out of the ground and the lava from the earth naturally carried the power of the stars, which can bring some star characteristics to the forged weapons.

With this surprise, the blacksmiths who had only come to seek guidance had stayed here in order to take advantage of the geographical advantage to create better weapons, and with the presence of Master Trick, over time, it had become a famous town featuring sword-casting.

If it weren't for the lack of ore here, the limited availability of stardust water and the limited opportunities to forge with earth and fire, it might have become a world-famous swordsmith mecca.

But even so, this is also a famous place for sword casting, and many warriors in the eastern part of the continent want to be able to hold a refined sword from Sword Furnace Town, so there is an endless stream of people coming and going, and the sword casting business is also unprecedentedly prosperous, and the whole town is tinkling iron every day, so it is simply renamed Sword Furnace Town.

It is for this reason, coupled with the rare starry spirit that Chelsea commissioned the most famous here, and according to legend, it was Master Cottma, who was deeply inherited by Master Trick's craftsmanship, to help Mino's sword.

On this day, all the young swordsmiths in Sword Furnace Town will do their best to forge a sword to compete for the title of the strongest rookie swordsmith in Sword Furnace Town.

The sword trial conference held at the same time is an important goal of Mino's trip, because the winner of this conference will be able to obtain the stardust fragments provided by the lord of Sword Furnace Town, which is produced by Sword Furnace Town for half a year.

Especially when Mino realizes the shortcomings and limitations of the Fallen Star Sword and needs a new sword to use the Star Sword to make up for the shortcomings, the advantages and disadvantages of this sword are really important.

If it is poor or does not meet the requirements of the light and sharp sword technique of Minoan Xingchen and the compatibility rate of the power of the fighting spirit and the power of the stars, resulting in the inability to display the full power of the sword technique when needed, then it is really a cheat.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the introduction of the equipment level that should have been explained a long time ago, but because Minoan brought his own treasure, he didn't find a chance for a long time.

The weapons and equipment on this continent are divided into six grades: rough, ordinary, excellent, sophisticated, perfect and excellent, and the first five grades go further, the better their basic qualities such as toughness, hardness, and sharpness become, and even because of the material, they can be comparable to the treasure in the basic material.

The first five levels are related to the craftsman's casting level and material quality, which means that given a bunch of legendary precious materials, an apprentice may also be able to make high-level equipment, and if it is just a piece of rough iron, the master will not be able to make an excellent-level sword.

As for the final excellent quality, it is a level of equipment that can be encountered but not sought, although the material is too poor to be ironclad, but it has little to do with the material, but in the craftsmanship and state of the craftsman when forging this equipment, which can perfectly play the characteristics of the materials used in forging and integrate them together, so that it is born with super-perfect equipment with spell-like abilities in an unenchanted state.

Every piece of excellent equipment is the painstaking work of a master, and it belongs to the divine weapons that are born with the qualification to become treasures, and those legendary weapons that can be compared to treasures, there is no one that is not forged from rare materials.

As for magic and magic equipment, they are all enchanted on the basis of the original equipment, which can only increase the ability of the equipment but cannot change the original material of the equipment, and even have hard requirements for the material base of the equipment.

It is precisely because of the cherished level that can be encountered but cannot be sought by excellent-level equipment, so Mino's long sword, which began to be forged more than two years ago, has only been basically completed until now, forcing Mino to come and get it in person.

Fortunately, Minoan himself has the ability to cast magic, and he has a family heirloom treasure, so there is little demand for excellent spell-like abilities and quasi-treasure characteristics, although it is naturally better to be able to add excellence, but as long as the basic requirements are completed, it is not an excellent weapon and will not be forced.

Therefore, even though he had missed the furnace opening ceremony, Mino still packed up his mood and rushed towards Sword Furnace Town.

(To be continued.) )