The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 48 Forging and Casting
Forging iron is not a job that can be solved with a hammer, an anvil, a clamp, and a furnace. The hammers used for forging are divided into sledgehammer, medium hammer, and small hammer. They can also be divided into long hammers and short hammers. The techniques used include light hammer, heavy hammer, flower hammer, side hitting and cushion buckle. The clips for clamping parts include pliers, camera clips, pointed clips, wide clips, large-mouth curved clips and thin-mouth straight clips, and there are also clips for cutting. Various tools such as axes, chisels, and drills are used for Pi pieces.

Blowing wind, burning, forging, burning, forging, William followed Singers to do repetitive work every day. William's unimaginable strength and control ability made the one-eyed dwarf amazed.People with great strength have an advantage in forging, but not people with great strength will be able to forge good things. What is more important for a good blacksmith is the unity of hands and eyes, and the ability to use force freely. Hands are patchwork.For an ordinary apprentice, no matter how talented he is, he must accumulate years of experience to become an excellent blacksmith before he can learn something. For a dwarf to become an excellent blacksmith, his long lifespan is also an important factor. factor.But William broke common sense. He can almost perfectly control his muscle strength. He only needs to practice three or five times to control the force of the beating and the drop point of the hammer.

Singers, who was guided by a small hammer in one hand and a small hammer in one hand, his heartbeat rose and fell with William's heavy hammer. The red rough billet was smashed, flattened, and flattened by the hammer. Splash around.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 purity of the metal is getting higher and higher.Some people think that the density of iron parts will become higher and higher after being forged. In fact, this conclusion is not completely correct. The iron ore contains a lot of impurities inside, and the density is low. During the forging process, the impurities are gradually eliminated, and its density It is indeed getting bigger and bigger, 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 can be forged again without any impurities. Expelled, but a large amount of surface iron material will be gradually oxidized and peeled off, resulting in waste of iron material.

Sunderland has been collecting fluxes for smelting adamantine through various channels during this time, and Togg is also preparing various other necessary materials, including the needs for adamantine mining in the future.If they want to fully process the harvested fine gold, they need a lot of flux. In fact, there is a large amount of flux in Mirabar, but these fluxes belong to the alchemists under the Marquis of Erastu. De Lan didn't want to expose the existence of the adamantine mine, so she couldn't attract the Marquis' attention on it.Fortunately, as the consul of a trading city, she knew many existences with such things in Sunderland, and she also had a good friend in the alchemist group of the Marquis—the dwarf Nanfedo, a northerner One of the most famous alchemists in the world.

Sunderland has sent secret orders to chambers of commerce in other places through magic, but it will take at least a month to get them.During this period of time, William practiced forging skills with the dwarves during the day, and learned Elvish language with Elf at night. Of course, Finia and Misha were also indispensable. This is not unconditional. A new adamantine rapier.

The elf language is long and reserved, and it is tactful and rapping when spoken. With various high and low tones, it is almost like singing. It makes people dizzy to learn. Among the three, Misha is the fastest learner, and William thinks he is very good at it. It's hard work, but because of Finya's foil, he doesn't look too ashamed; the worst thing is Fenya, a female half-giant who doesn't speak very fluently in the language, let her learn to speak the more eloquent elf language. It's a little too difficult to be human.But William insisted on asking Finia to study with him, ignoring the poor girl's sad eyes. As a time traveler, he fully understands the importance of knowledge. The half-giant can understand the words of the elves, understand the words of the elves, and read the books of the elves.

Compared with the complex pronunciation of Elven language, Elvish script is much simpler. As a kind of script that combines letters and pictograms, it is not much more difficult to learn than foreign languages ​​in previous lives. To make the Elvish pronunciation so complicated.

More than a month has passed, and the fluxes and other auxiliary powders in the nearest areas have been received, and the deliveries from places a little further away will arrive one after another.William's forging skills are already extremely superb, especially his conscious folding and forging, and the hundred-forged rapier he forged made old Singers full of praise. This rapier with beautiful cloud patterns on the blade has become El Fu's collection.The materials are almost ready. William has temporarily finished his study of Elvish language and is ready to formally start the fine gold forging.

Phinya, who has been in "dire straits", is also freed. Without the restraint of a man, this bitch is "herded"; only Misha still cannot escape Elf's "clutch". Being wronged, the little elf finally found her place in the aspect of "being a human teacher". The little girl was trained with tears every day, and from time to time it would develop into "partial violent resistance" and staged full-scale martial arts.

After several days of rest and preparation, William and the two dwarves officially started the fine gold casting.Because natural fine gold is almost pure metal, it does not need to be refined, and the key is to make it into a specific shape in the shortest time.The first thing to build is the elf's rapier, and the handle of Phinia's battle ax also needs to be completed in advance. Due to the shape of the female half-giant's hand, the ax handle needs to be thicker and longer. It is not suitable to use pure gold alone. , not only wasting material but also causing the handle to be too heavy.

Phinya's ice giant ax is made of a whole piece of cold star iron. Cold star iron is a special metal that can only be found in the northern polar regions or on the top of snow-capped mountains. Metal with cold damage is the best choice for making icy weapons. In addition to its poor toughness, its hardness is much better than steel.In fact, the weapon made of cold star iron is not the most suitable for the frost giants, because the cold damage it comes with is ineffective against frost giants and other sub-cold creatures in the north. If they can choose, the frost giants prefer to use the attached Fire damage equipment.But 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 and fine gold are combined to form an alloy, which not only has the cold effect of cold star iron, but also has the toughness of fine gold.Cold star iron smelting also requires a special magic potion, because this metal will hinder the burning of the flame, and its cooling rate is too fast, so it is necessary to add a combustion aid and another retarder that slows down its cooling rate as an aid. In fact, the blood of the frost giant is the best combustion accelerant and retarder.

The location of the casting was not in the city of Mirabar, but at the foot of a small mound near the Miral River more than ten miles east of the city. There is a tunnel connecting it to the underground living area of ​​the dwarves.Six large furnaces burned one after another.When smelting ore, ordinary blacksmiths generally use charcoal or better black oil charcoal. Only when calcining the highest-grade metals such as fine gold, will they use expensive white charcoal. This kind of fuel with extremely high combustion value has It has the advantages of high temperature, less impurities, long-lasting and stable combustion.One of the most exquisite furnaces, in the fiery red white charcoal, the purple-black fine gold gradually removes the impurities on the outside, revealing a pure purple-gold pure metal body.

Only when the fine gold metal body is completely turned into a crystal blue translucent body after heating, the addition of flux will be effective, but fine gold is extremely resistant to burning, and it takes a long time to heat up to change color.Four small pieces of adamantine were heated in the main white charcoal furnace, while the largest piece was fired with black coals in another large furnace, beside which Singers slowly poured a bottle of blue The black thick liquid (I don’t know if it’s the blood of the same family of Phinia), the fire suddenly burst into flames, almost scorched the only half of the dwarf’s beard, the gray-white giant ax was put into the flames, and the cold star iron gradually turned It must be brightened, as if countless stars were shining.

In the evening, Sunderland came to the forge with a short figure, no more than three and a half feet tall, with a hooked nose, a bald head, only half circles around the ears and the back of the head. White hair, but a dwarf.The arrival of the dwarves made Singers and Togg extremely dissatisfied. After all, the relationship between the two races is very stiff, especially now that what they are going to cast happens to be made of fine gold.

Singers said angrily: "Little Sunderland! Why did a dwarf come here? I hate dwarves! Damn it! Do you want everyone to know that we are playing with adamantium?"

"Shut up! Singers!" Sunderland frowned and scolded, she turned to William and explained: "Nanfudo is the most famous alchemist in the Northland, he is my friend! Nanfudo will help You control the melting of the alloy!"

"No! I don't need the help of a nasty dwarf! That will mess up my work! Dwarves are the most unreliable!" Singers snarled and refused. Fortunately, Torg was not there, and the commander had many Keep things busy, or the snarling dwarves will turn into two.

"Shut up! A fat man with only half a beard! Do you want to fight?" It seems that this dwarf is not a good-tempered guy either. He was about to quarrel with the dwarf when he accidentally saw the piece of pure gold that was bigger than a human head. , "My God! To the great and wise Garl Flashgold! This is! This is pure gold?! My God! How can there be such a large piece of pure gold?" Nanfudo climbed onto the stove excitedly Trying to reach out to touch it, William who was next to him hurried over and lifted the little dwarf who wanted to die.

(End of this chapter)