Chapter 11: Sword Casting 1
Casting a sword is a tedious task. In my previous life, I went to Shen Guanglong Jianpu to study and study with Mr. Shen Tingzhang in order to find a good sword. A truly good sword requires more than three hundred steps, and each step must be improved. A slight mistake will negate all previous efforts. Fortunately, whether I am an elf or Jin as a dwarf, I have a life long enough to endure the long sword-making process. It is not an exaggeration to grind a sword for ten years.
Following Jin to his special materials room, the old dwarf filled the room with various precious minerals collected from the mainland for hundreds of years.
"Every time I walk into this room and smell the unique fragrance of these babies, it makes me feel as if I am full of the power of a mountain." Jin Man's face was intoxicated, as if facing a holy jelly spirit.
Next, Jin introduced the characteristics of each ore one by one, never be shocked by the dwarves' knowledge of the ore, as if never question the elves' familiarity with the forest. Lax is undoubtedly the most special kind of metal ore among these ores. Although Lax is not very hard, even relatively speaking, it is a very soft metal, and it is absolutely impossible to use it to make weapons alone. Conductivity, although Lax can transmit magic, compared with Mithril, it is like the difference between a small stream and the sea. Even Mithril is slightly better than Lax in hardness.
What makes Lax really precious is its fusion. Just a little bit of Lax can make different metals blend together perfectly, without separation, and even ensure the unique effect of each metal.
Of course, there are not too many Larks, and at present, Larks has basically disappeared on the mainland. And those weapons that had been added with Larks in the past have basically become legendary artifacts. The reason why I have a huge number of larks in King's eyes is due to the proverb that Elder Saladin did not know where he heard from hundreds of years ago: Travelers should have a pig's beak, a deer's leg, and an eagle's eyes , Donkey's ears, camel's shoulders, monkey's face, plus a full purse. That's why he prepared for me a full purse of Larks that he considered to be enough to buy a small country. In addition to being unusable, I have to say that this purse is indeed very full.
With enough lux, I can choose the ore I need without considering the compatibility of metals.
After I identified nine precious ores and the proportions of these ores with Jin's assistance, even Jin sighed and said, "Although I don't know what effect your sword can achieve, I don't know whether this world There will be another artifact, but I'm sure that when your sword is made, I will be the dwarf who made the most expensive weapon and go down in history."
This makes me feel ashamed. Fortunately, the dwarves' enthusiasm for casting is enough to make them ignore the cost. Otherwise, I am afraid that my sword will die because of the expensive cost.
The next job is to make the model.
The weapons in this world are similar to those of the West in the previous life. Warhammers and epees are basically heavy weapons. Probably because the races in this world are more pragmatic, even the nobles of human beings do not. Typical flashy weapons such as foils and rapiers.
In fact, because of the existence of magic in this world, even human aristocrats without the power to bind chickens (of course, dudes) can wield a two-handed sword.
Although when designing my own saber, I deliberately took into account the habits of the world and chose a relatively thick Chinese sword shape, but with my wizard's arm strength, it must be no problem to use it. At least when choosing the material, Jin once asked me in a puzzled way, why did he choose the relatively lighter meteorite instead of the heavier Halite, and he once reminded me very seriously. The disadvantage of the sword in battle is very obvious.
It was only with my insistence that I reluctantly expressed that it was the sword I used anyway, and he would be irresponsible if I didn't use it well.
In fact, making a model is a very meticulous work. If you want to cast a qualified sword, you must have a good model. If the model you make has the problem of cheap center, then after your sword is cast The same problem will definitely occur. So when I made this model, I took extra care, so I simply asked the hammer to help me move the luggage from the hotel to the Fire Arms Store so that I could concentrate on making the model.
On the 30th day, I finally finished making the model. A total of eighty model swords were scrapped during this period, and it was not until the eighty-first one that a perfect model was finally obtained.
The gold was not idle for these 30 days. In order to match the expensive materials I chose for the entire casting process, after the hammer waited for the last batch of grain, Jin simply stopped the weapon shop's business and returned with the hammer. Dwarf tribe. It took more than 20 days to go there. Just three days before I made the model, Jin returned to the weapon shop with a long convoy.
What Jin brought back were various fuels and various springs kept fresh with the special magic of the dwarves. When I finished making the model, Jin had already adjusted the furnace fire to melt the materials.
Smelting materials is a very delicate task. It is not a simple task to fuse various materials together even with Lax. Although Lax can blend different metals well, even the same metal, if the heat and weight are not mastered when the material is penetrated, fatal cracks will occur. So Jin only stayed by the fire for a moment. Whenever a smelting is completed and a rough billet is made, while the rough billet is still hot, gold throws it into a special spring water. If the rough billet is slightly bent, it means that the material smelting has failed.
Although Jin is already the best dwarf master, there are too many uncontrollable factors in the process of smelting, both from the material itself and from the environment. Sometimes even the breath exhaled at inappropriate times will lead to the smelting. s failure.
After the rough billets were produced, Jin and I began to forge the rough billets repeatedly. I have to admit that the strong arms of the dwarves are simply created for ironing, and gold, regardless of the strength and speed of the forging, makes people feel a special beauty.
And the dwarf's insight into building makes me feel once again that there is indeed a kind of person in this world who is born for a certain profession. Folding and forging is a process that does not exist in this world. At the beginning, Jin once thought that what I said about making the sword as flexible as the new shoots while maintaining the rigidity and hardness of the sword was completely nonsense. But when I mentioned folding and forging When fighting, Jinmao grasped the essence of this technique. And put into this work with great enthusiasm.
After each firing, gold will use spring water to check whether the rough billet will bend, except that some rough billets were scrapped due to inadequacy at the beginning, but soon gold has mastered the knack of folding and firing.
To be honest, calcining is actually quite boring, but Jin seems to have taken a stimulant, and is constantly familiar with this new craft. Finally, when the old dwarf's eyes are full of bloodshot eyes and can't support it, He produced ten sword blanks, each of which was folded and forged one hundred and eight times.
After sinking these ten sword blanks into the cold spring water collected on the snowy peaks of the high mountains, Jin and I can finally take a breather and refresh our spirits. ! ~!