Chapter 80: Smelting

Although the capacity of energy storage crystals is relatively small, it is also relatively speaking. Every time Jiayi wants to use it, it needs to be continuously charged for 7 or 8 days before it can be fully charged.

Jiayi came to the front of the high-temperature furnace, the stove was outside the house, and a shed was built to protect it from the rain, and nothing else.

He had prepared the materials, charcoal, iron, and a grain of pure gold.

Adamantite is a particularly hard and wear-resistant magic metal, which is worth a lot of money, and Jia Yi begged his teacher to get a small grain about the size of a sesame seed.

No matter how much it is, my teacher will be reluctant.

In his free time these days, Kaichi is practicing his "Mage's Touch". Not only is he satisfied with picking up things, but he also tries to change the shape of his tentacles, and he no longer strives for strength, but only for precision and operability.

This is for shaping, and now he can use his version of "Mage's Touch 2.0" to shape the wet mud into various shapes, as well as perform a variety of more delicate manipulations - for example, tethering a bean.

However, the accuracy of shaping still cannot meet the requirements of Jiayi.

For the time being, let's make do with it, and the accuracy in the back can be sharpened with a whetstone.

Kaichi put charcoal in the furnace and made a fire.

In fact, it should be good to use coke, but he has never seen coal or coal mines, and charcoal is charcoal.

Jiayi's strongest ability is actually not cooking, but this kind of improvising ability.

When the temperature in the furnace rose, the magic array was opened, and the flames were full again, and the temperature continued to rise.

He didn't do it directly.

Instead, he released the "Mage's Touch" and stretched it into the fire.

I saw that after a tentacle was burned by the flames, I felt that the magic power and spiritual power on the tentacle were rapidly consumed, at least 10 times faster than usual. After a while, I saw the tentacle fall apart. In Jiayi's feeling, it was as if the glass of the car window had been shattered, and then shattered into pieces.

This tentacle barely lasted for 4 or 5 minutes, and in order to measure the time, he did not input additional mana, if he entered additional mana and mental power, each tentacle would be able to add about 2 or 3 minutes more. Even so, it only takes about 25 minutes for the four tentacles to go on together.

I don't know if there is enough time, he has always believed that practice brings true knowledge, and it is good to try it if it is useful.

Use tentacles to extend the iron into the furnace, and the temperature in the furnace is at least more than 3,000 degrees, but the steel can generally be melted at more than 1,500 degrees. Soon, the iron began to turn red and then slowly melted.

The steel has not completely melted, and the first tentacle can't hold it, so immediately change to the second one.

The second tentacle is put into the furnace, the iron material is replaced on it, and the first tentacle is directly and actively dispersed and no longer maintained.

In this way, when the second tentacle was almost unable to hold on, the iron had already melted into a liquid state. He stirred the molten iron, mixed the iron with the air, and let the carbon react with the air, reducing the carbon content, so that the pig iron became wrought iron, which then became steel.

Finally, he took out the molten steel, spread it out into a small piece, and after it had cooled and solidified, he threw it into the water next to it.

With a sound of "swoop~", a small piece of steel plate was successfully made.

This steel plate is only the size of the palm of a hand (without fingers), and the thickness is only about the same as that of Xiaomi, which is not too big. It is said that it is a steel plate, but in fact, it should be called a steel sheet.

If it weren't for the use of "Mage's Touch", I'm afraid that most of it would have stuck to the container.

The surface of this piece of steel is not flat, and there are some subtle protrusions on it, which appear silvery-white.

The first step is to do this.

He showed it to his teacher.

"Teacher, this is the steel plate I made with the hands of the mage, what do you think?"

Imu took the piece of steel handed over by Kaichi and used a detection spell.

"The material of the steel sheet is good, but the inside is not very uniform, and there are many tiny bubbles, which still need to be forged before they can be used. ”

Im added a force to his hand, bending the steel sheet vigorously, and then unleashed a wind blade on it, striking it on the steel plate. The steel sheet didn't change much, just left a mark of about a millimeter.

After all, it is a steel plate several millimeters thick, and it is impossible to cut it with a small wind blade.

Im continued, "Can you make a bigger plate of steel now?"

"No, I can only practice this small piece with four tentacles, maybe a little bigger, but not much. Larger steel plates require more time to melt and stir. Kaichi said.

"If you can make large steel plates, you can make full-body armor, and it can be useful. Now, it's not cost-effective, and with this energy, it's good to make a bottle of magic potion. However, if you exercise more, you can be more refined or the amount is larger, and there is also potential for development. ”

Jia Yi asked, "Which of these two directions is better?"

"It's finer, and it can be used as a base for magical items, like bracelets, rings, necklaces, and whatever. Now these magic items, unless the mage who made them part-time is a jewelry craftsman, they all have to be made by the craftsman and then inscribed with runes and magic circles. A good master crafter of magical items, most of them have several excellent cosmetic masters at his service. If it's in a bigger direction, it's almost like a blacksmith, making armor, a great sword, or something.

"I suggest you go in a more refined direction, this one is more mentally demanding, and your mental power is more abundant. Moreover, in order to make weapons, everything you refine needs to be forged. ”

Im said.

Jia nodded and said that he knew, and he also wanted to develop in the direction of magic items, after all, the mage was richer. It's just the materials and circles that make magic items that are the key, and the substrate and shape are not that important.

In the following time, Jia Yi went to refine a piece of steel and tried his hand.

After each magic circle is activated, the magic stored in it can last for about an hour, but Kaichi himself can't last so long. After refining once, Kaichi needs to turn off the furnace fire and the magic circle, rest for an hour, and come back again.

So, after the second 7 days, he made another metal plate, this time, it was not a steel plate. He took gold coins, silver coins, smelted steel, and bronze and mixed them together to make a metal plate, of which about half was gold.

Speaking of which, this metal plate can be said to be the essence of hardware (bronze containing tin), or 12K gold.

Speaking of other metals, if the main metal contains only half of it, it must be called an alloy, or a specific name should be added, such as steel, high manganese steel, bronze. There is only gold, but it only contains half of the gold content, which is also called gold, at most it is called 12K gold, and the higher content is called 18K, but it is all gold, not alloy.

After the sheet metal was made, he used a small hammer to forge the sheet metal until it was only a thin layer, about the thickness of two sheets of paper.

From memory, Kaichi drew several figures on this thin 12k gold plate, with the front tip thick at the back and the end closed, like a spear head that has shrunk many times.

He took the metal plate on which he had drawn the figure and asked him to cut it out according to the figure.

Im was curious about what he was going to do, so he used a powerful wind blade to help him cut off the drawn figures, and a total of 12 pieces of metal in this shape were cut.

In fact, it's almost here anymore, but Jiayi wants to be perfect, and wants to add some hard metal to the tip to increase wear resistance.

He asked for a grain of Adamantite from his teacher, just to do it, but unfortunately this grain of Adamantite was too small, the size of a sesame seed.

At such a small point, if you want to increase the wear resistance of the 12 spikes, I am afraid that you can only make a coating.

He thought about it for a while, let's use alloy, do your best to obey the fate of heaven, if the effect is not ideal, can it be regarded as knowing a wrong direction.

He took out a small grain of gold the size of a soybean, melted it, and then melted the pure gold into it as well.

Pure gold is not only hard, but also has a very high melting point, Jiayi raised the heating circle to the maximum, overclocked, and the flames began to turn blue, before the essence was financialized. At this time, the temperature of the flame was almost more than 4,000 degrees.

By the time the gold alloy was finished, Jiayi had no strength to continue doing it.

He sat down on the ground, not only was his magic power gone, but even the stored crystals on the stove had no magic power.