The sun is setting, outside the Forged Sword Castle.

"Do we need to wait here all the time?" asked Maester Black, Sam.

"I'll have to wait here. Sam said, "Go back, two scholars." ”

"Can't they let us inside the walls? Another bachelor said.

Without waiting for Sam to speak, the Ranger Captain said, "I'm sorry, two scholars, no one is allowed to enter the city gates without Lord Will's warrant, this is a military order. Either you wait outside the door or go to the deep lake dwelling. ”

The castle of the deep lake is twenty miles away. The ride passed quickly, and the rangers of Forged Sword would provide horses.

"Then wait here. Blake said. He walked down the avenue, into the woods, found a place, lit a bonfire, and sat down to read. Another scholar followed, and the soldiers of their own Forged Sword brought them bread and water.

*

Inside the castle.

Donner pushed Maester Aemon slowly, and Maester Aemon was going to walk through the entire Sword Forgery and watch every process. Unfortunately, he didn't get to see the delicate process of forging the sword. According to Donna Noi, the forged sword is sent to his swordsmithing room to be recast, and this step is the key to the Valyrian steel sword, as it is blessed with spells from the Valyrian High Language.

Donner Noi holds this crucial step. He is also looking for a second person to impart, and has not yet been able to select a talent. Every blacksmith who can work here, in addition to swearing by his family honor and gods, must have a special skill weapon master.

"Lord Donner, I don't see anyone forging a sword?" said Amon.

"They are forging sword embryos, and after the first batch of swords is completed, we will join the efforts of hundreds of people to create a truly peerless long sword, which requires hundreds of people to beat two thousand catties of steel into only two hundred catties of fine iron. ”

"A two-hundred-pound sword?"

"Yes, Bachelor, this longsword needs to be carried by three soldiers. ”

"Forged for Tyron Ash?"

"Yes and no!"

"Oh, why do you say that. ”

"It was originally intended to be made for Tyron Ash, but what about Tyron Ash a hundred years from now? Who can wield such a heavy sword? When the time comes, according to the oath, this sword will return to the Swordforge Keep as a sword king inlaid into the walls of the castle's halls. It will become the casting symbol of our Sword Forge Castle. ”

"Sword King?"

"We blacksmiths met for a long time, and finally we agreed to name the two-handed heavy sword the Sword God. ”

"The King of Swords, the King of Swords. When Tyronn Ash obtains this sword, he will indeed become an invincible sword king. ”

"I hope to forge this sword as soon as possible, the strangers and ghouls are coming, and time is pressing. ”

"Where are we now?"

"Three hundred masters and hundreds of apprentices beat the sword embryo day and night, and the two thousand catties of steel are now made into five hundred catties, and another three hundred catties need to be beaten. ”

"How many pounds can you lose in a day now?"

"It's almost impossible to beat now, no matter how you beat it, the weight is difficult to change, and there are almost no impurities, it's all the heart of fine iron. ”

"But there are still impurities. ”

"Yes, another three hundred pounds must be knocked out. Repeated calcination, repeated immersion in the Great Wall ice water, repeated beating, until the standard is reached. ”

"Three more months?"

"Maybe half a year, maybe a year, maybe the strange ghosts and ghouls have come and haven't done it yet, the problem of cooling the iron water has been solved, the Great Wall ice water with magical power is the best cooling water, but I feel that we lack a better fire now. ”

"Aren't there pyromancers on the Great Wall? Both Adunis and Adonis are master pyromancers. ”

"They're studying wildfires, solid wildfires and liquid wildfires, which are completely different from the magical flames we need to forge swords. The ice water of the Great Wall has blessed the sword with its coldness and sharpness, and I speculate that our sword also needs the blessing of magical flames. ”

"You don't have magic flames in your spells?"

"Only the spell of the Valyrian steel sword itself. There is neither a spell for cooling water nor a spell for magical flames. Donna Noy's voice was full of melancholy.

It sounds plausible, but it's just Donnell Noi's speculation.

However, one thing cannot be denied, here at the Great Wall of Desperation, the casting of the Valyrian steel sword is indeed blessed by the magic of the Great Wall of Desperation, and the medium is the ice water that melts through the ice and snow of the Great Wall. The Great Wall of Desperation itself is a huge magic array, and this magic array is the power to block the approach of strangers and ghouls.

"We may need the power of the Red God. Maester Aemon said.

"But Master Melisandre was an evil priest, and she didn't know where she had fled. ”

Melisandre's evil name has spread to every corner of the Seven Kingdoms. Her representative work is the burning of the eleven illegitimate children of the former king Lao Bo. One of those who was lucky enough to escape from the fire festival with the help of Bran Stark was Gendry, a young blacksmith in the Swordforge Keep.

"If needed, we can ask the Red God Priest from across the Narrow Sea. It is not our responsibility to fight the strangers and ghouls, but also their responsibility. This is a matter of life and death for the human race. ”

"There are still most people in the Seven Kingdoms who don't believe it, and it's even less likely that anyone on the other side of the Narrow Sea will believe it. ”

"Don't convince them, ask them for some other reason. Maester Aemon said.

Donner was overjoyed: "Bachelor, if you invite them to come and preach, they will naturally have to come." ”

"Yes!"

"I'll send it to Lord Will at once. ”

Aemon's blind eyes stared into the void, noncommittal.

After the death of Jeo Mormont, the Great Wall lacked a commander-in-chief. Lord Will was out on the road, and most of the knights refused to vote for a new commander-in-chief in his absence. The freedfolk generals even recognized Lord Will as the only Great Wall officer, and the severed Commander Colin joined forces with the Savage King Mans Rader to temporarily take the place of Jao Mormont.

But apparently, neither Colin nor the Savage King Mance Red were out of Donnell Noi's eyes, and he reported directly to Lord Will.

This cannot be said to be true, but it cannot be said to be wrong either.

Donner wouldn't even allow Colin to enter his swordsmith castle, and he naturally wouldn't think there was anything wrong with the little thing about raven communication.

Donner Noy shouted a few times, and immediately a bachelor trotted over.

"Send Raven to Lord Will, we have the Night's Keep, no, our Sword Forgery needs the help of the Red God Priest to increase the power of our flames. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Tell Lord Will that the Night's Keep has been renamed Swordforge Keep. Maester Aemon's suggestion, Maester is with me now. ”

"Yes, sir!"