Section 30 Forging

Iron striking is not a hammer a anvil a clamp a furnace can solve the work, the hammer used for forging is divided into sledgehammer, hammer, small hammer, can also be divided into long hammer and short hammer, hammering techniques have light hammer, heavy hammer, flower hammer, side punch and cushion buckle, clamp parts of the clamp clamp, clip, sharp clamp, wide clamp, large mouth bend clamp and fine straight clamp, as well as for cutting parts with axes, chisels, drills and other tools.

Brushing, burning, forging, burning, forging, every day William followed Singers to do repetitive work, William's unimaginable strength and control made the one-eyed dwarf speechless. People with great strength have an advantage when forging, but not people with great strength will be able to create good things, a good blacksmith is more important to integrate hands and eyes, and use force freely. An ordinary apprentice, no matter how talented he is, if he wants to become an excellent blacksmith, he must accumulate years of experience before he can succeed, and the long life span of a dwarf can become an excellent blacksmith is also an important factor. But William broke the common sense, he can control his muscle strength almost perfectly, and he only needs to practice three or five times to control the force of the hammer and the point of falling the hammer.

Singers, who was guided by a small hammer in one hand, rose and fell with William's hammer, and the red rough billet was smashed flat, smashed and flattened again by the hammer, and the falling iron slag flew everywhere with sparks. The skin of the iron billet is stacked and peeled off layer by layer, and the whole piece is getting smaller and denser, and the metal purity is getting higher and higher. Some people think that the density of iron parts will be higher and higher after forging, in fact, this assertion is not completely correct, the inside of iron ore contains a large number of impurities, the density is small, the impurities are gradually eliminated in the forging process, its density is indeed getting larger and larger, and gradually approaching the density of pure iron (of course, it will never reach the level of pure iron, this is a process problem), and the iron parts with higher metal purity have no impurities that can be excluded by the method of forging again, but a large number of surface iron will be gradually oxidized and peeled off, resulting in the waste of iron。

During this time, Sunderland was collecting fluxes for smelting fine gold through various channels, and Torgue was also preparing various other necessary supplies, including those needed for future fine gold mining. In order to fully process the harvested Adamantite, they need a lot of flux, in fact, Mirabah has a large amount of flux, but these fluxes belong to the alchemists of the Marquis of Erastu, and Sunderland does not want to expose the existence of the Adamantite Mine, so she cannot attract the Marquis's attention on it. Luckily, as an archon of a trading city, she knew many of them in Sunderland, and even in the Marquis's alchemist order, she had a good friend, the dwarf Nanfdo, one of the most famous alchemists in the Northlands.

Sunderland had sent secret orders to the Chamber of Commerce in the field through magic, but it would take at least a month to get them. During this time, William practiced forging techniques with the dwarves during the day, and learned elven language with Elf at night, and of course Phinea and Mi Sha'er, which were not unconditional, William promised to build a new Adamantite Sword with the dwarves for the elves.

Elven language is long and subtle, speaking tactfully rapping, with a variety of ups and downs of tone, it's like singing, it's dizzy to learn, among the three people, Mi Sha'er learns the fastest, William thinks he has a hard time learning, but because of Phinea's foil, he doesn't seem too ashamed; But William insisted that Phinea study with him, regardless of the poor girl's sad and indignant gaze, as a traverser, he fully understood the importance of knowledge, even if Phinea could never speak the elven language, he had to force the female half-giant to be able to understand the elven language, and know the elven language, and read the elven books.

Compared to the complexity of Elven pronunciation, Elven writing is much simpler, as a combination of letters and pictograms, it is not much more difficult to learn than a foreign language in the previous life, William does not understand that it is the stupid fork who has to make the pronunciation of Elven so complicated.

More than a month has passed, and fluxes and other auxiliary powders have been received in several recent areas, and deliveries from a little further afield will continue to arrive. William's forging skills were already extremely exquisite, especially when he consciously folded and forged a hundred forged swords, which made old Singers full of admiration, and this thin sword with beautiful moire on the blade became Elf's collection. With the materials almost ready, William temporarily finished his elven language studies and prepared to start the fine gold forging in earnest.

Phinea who has been in the "dire straits" has also been freed, without the control of men, this girl was "herded"; only Mi Sha'er still can't escape Elf's "clutches", in view of the previous grievances, the elf finally found a place in the "as a human teacher" aspect of the field, every day the little girl is trained to be teary-eyed, and from time to time it will develop into a "local violent resistance" to stage a full martial arts.

After several days of rest and preparation, William and the two dwarves officially began to forge pure gold. Because natural gold is almost always pure metal, it does not need to be refined, and it is important to shape it in the shortest possible time. The first thing to build is the elf's rapier, and Phinea's battle axe handle also needs to be completed in advance, due to the female half-giant's hand shape, the axe handle needs to be made relatively thick and long, if it is only pure gold, it is not suitable, it will not only waste materials but also cause the axe handle to be too heavy.

Phinea's Ice Axe is made from a single piece of Cold Star Iron, a special metal that can only be found in the Northern Polar Regions or the top of the Snow Mountains, this kind of metal infected by cold energy, born with cold damage, is the best choice for making cold weapons, except for the poor toughness, its hardness is much better than steel. In fact, the weapon crafted from Cold Star Iron is not the most suitable for the Frost Giants, as the cold damage it comes with is ineffective against the Frost Giants and other subarctic creatures in the Northlands, and the Frost Giants prefer to use equipment with fire damage if given the choice. However, in the polar generation, only Cold Star Iron is an excellent metal that is relatively easy to find, and the chill of Cold Star Iron makes the holder (Frost Giant) feel very comfortable.

Cold star iron is combined with pure gold to form an alloy, which has both the cold effect of cold star iron and the toughness of pure gold. Cold Star Iron Smelting also requires a special magic potion, as this metal prevents the flame from burning, and it cools too quickly, requiring the addition of an accelerant and another retarder that slows down its cooling rate, in fact, the blood of the Frost Giant is the best accelerant and retarder.

The location of the casting was not in the city of Miraba, but more than ten miles east of the city, near the Miral River, under a small mound, where a tunnel connected to the dwarven underground settlement. Six large furnaces burned one after another. When smelting ore, ordinary blacksmiths generally use charcoal or better black oil charcoal, and only when calcining the highest metals such as fine gold, will expensive white charcoal be used, this fuel with extremely high combustion value has the advantages of high temperature, less impurities, long-lasting and stable combustion. One of the most delicate furnaces, in the fiery red white charcoal, the purple-black pure gold gradually shed its external impurities, revealing a pure purple-gold pure metal body.

The addition of flux is only effective when the metal body of pure gold is completely translucent after heating, but it is extremely resistant to cauterization and requires a long heating time to change color. Four small pieces of adamantite gold were heated in the main white charcoal furnace, while the largest one was burned with black oil charcoal in another large furnace, and by the other furnace, Singers slowly poured in a bottle of blue-black cloudy liquid (I don't know if it was the blood of Phineas), and the fire suddenly burst into flames, almost scorching the dwarf's only half of his beard, and the gray-white giant axe was thrown into the flames, and the cold star iron gradually became bright, and there seemed to be countless starlight flashes.

In the evening, Sunderland arrived at the forgery with a diminutive figure, no more than three and a half feet tall, with a hooked nose, a bare brain, and sparse white hair with only half a circle around the ears and the back of the head, but a dwarf. The arrival of the gnomes made Singhs and Tog extremely dissatisfied, after all, the relationship between the two races was very stiff, especially now that several people were preparing to cast it from pure gold.

Singers said angrily, "Little Sunderland, why did you let a dwarf come here? I hate dwarfs! Damn, do you want everyone to know that we're fiddling with gold?"

"Shut up, Singlas!" Sunderland frowned, and she turned to William to explain, "Nanfdo is the most famous alchemist in the Northlands, and he is my friend!

"No! I don't need the help of a pesky gnome! that would mess up my job! Gnomes are the least reliable!" Singhs snarled and refused, thankfully Tog wasn't there, the Commander had a lot to do in Mirabah, otherwise the roaring dwarves would have turned into two.

"Shut up! Fat man with only half a beard!Do you want to fight?" It seems that this dwarf is not a good-natured fellow, and he is about to quarrel with the dwarf, and he inadvertently sees the piece of adamantite that is bigger than a human head, "Oh my God! To the great wisdom of Gal Shining Gold! This is! This is pure gold?! I am a god! How can there be such a large piece of pure gold?" Nanfdeor excitedly climbed up to the stove and tried to reach out to touch it, but William next to him hurriedly went over and picked up the little dwarf who was looking for death.