The knight in the abyss

Chapter 61 Hundred Refinements

Barende didn't leave. He stared at the raging fire in the hearth, and suddenly said:

"You kid, are you going to use the thousand-layer forging technique?"

Pluto gave an ambitious smile.

"With the strength of Lancelot, I won't do it for nothing!"

Barende looked at his son meaningfully and smiled.He patted Pluto on the shoulder, turned around and walked out, the words of exhortation floated from his back:

"Remember to scrape it clean every time you stack it, and I'll come over when it's quenched."

Lancelot curiously watched the conversation between the two dwarves and asked:

"What is Thousand Layer Forging?"

"Thousand-layer forging is to smash the iron material, then fold it, smash it again, and repeat it."

Pluto controlled to concentrate the heat on a small section in the middle of the sword blank, and quickly heated that part to a sufficient temperature. After clipping it out, he knocked it over with a small hammer.He put the folded sword blank back into the hearth and continued:

"Fold once for two layers, twice for four layers, and three times for eight layers. As long as you fold it ten times, you will have folded more than a thousand layers, so this method is called thousand-layer forging. If you are happy, You can even go all the way down, but it doesn't make much sense beyond a certain number of times."

"What's the benefit of doing this?" Lancelot carefully pulled the bellows to avoid raising the temperature in the furnace too high like the previous few times.

"This will greatly improve the performance of the weapon and form beautiful patterns." Pluto shrugged, "Some experienced blacksmiths can even make the patterns form some special arcane runes, giving the weapons powerful magic power. , but of course I don't have that level."

"Since this method is so good, why not all use this technique?"

"Because it's troublesome, and not everyone has the power of you." Pluto shrugged, "Let my dad do it ten times, he will take at least a week."

"We've been doing it for ten days." Lancelot pointed out a harsh truth.

"That's because cold iron ore has a lot of troubles! If the temperature is higher, it will become ordinary iron!" Pluto replied angrily, "If you don't pursue the performance of repeated use, the molten iron will flow into the mold and pile up one by one. Twice to start grinding, I guess it's the same way everywhere else. It's for those cannon fodder demons anyway, it's going to be the best weapon they've ever seen, but in real swords It's still unstoppable in front of you!"

"So Tijana is quite reasonable." Lancelot smiled. "She is very clear about the purpose of these weapons."

"But it's still too difficult for a dwarf to give up the quality of his work and pursue quantity instead." Pluto placed the white-hot sword blank on the anvil and tapped it twice with a small hammer. "You're not a dwarf, you don't understand."

Lancelo shook his head and swung out the giant hammer in his hand.

His power made the most laborious part of the thousand-layer forging quite easy, and they had folded it more than twenty times before Pluto finally decided not to fold and used his little hammer to shape the sword blank.

The further back, the more time Pluto spends removing impurities from the surface, Lancelot is instead idle.He carefully observed the dwarf work.In fact, Pluto's passion for blacksmithing is no less than that of ordinary dwarves. It was his overly strict father who made him want to escape from the workshop.

As he fell hammer by hammer, the sword body was completely formed.Pluto walked over to the grinding wheel and began to work on the blade.

"Such a sword is ready?" Lancelot watched curiously as sparks shot out from the rapidly spinning grinding wheel. "It doesn't seem to be too much trouble."

"Yes, if I were an orc blacksmith." Pluto glanced at him angrily, "Next, I have to do heat treatment. If the beating just now determines half of the weapon's performance, then heat treatment can determine the rest. Half. Only the most experienced dwarven blacksmiths can grasp the temperature and time required for each link, such as my father's."

During the conversation, Pluto had disposed of the blade and put it back into the furnace.Lancelot went to the bellows, but was stopped by Pluto.

"No, the sword blank has been completed, and it doesn't need too high temperature. I'll rest here tonight, you can go back first, and let my father come to help us quench it tomorrow morning."

"Okay, see you tomorrow morning."

Lancelot, who returned to Hagrid Manor, took a luxurious hot bath with the help of little Isa, washed away the dust accumulated for many days, and then returned to his room, sat down with his legs crossed, and started his daily routine. day practice.

Most of the infuriating energy in the body was consumed in one day. Lancelot used the Aquarius Immortal Technique, opened countless invisible acupoints on his body, and absorbed the spiritual energy in the heaven and earth.

Early the next morning, Lancelot returned to the small workshop in the blacksmith's district. Pluto was sleeping soundly on the bench in the corner, but the fire in the furnace was burning brightly, and it seemed that he had just added Fuel doesn't take long.

Lancelot sat quietly and waited, not in a hurry to wake up his companions.

After a while, Pluto woke up leisurely. He first went to check the situation of the furnace, and then found that Lancelot had arrived.

"Yo, good morning, how was your rest last night? Did a succubus sneak into your dream?"

"I have a lot of energy right now."

"That's good, we're going to start the second casting today, but we have to finish the last step of our first work first." Pluto stretched out and went out, "I'll go to my father. "

Barende walked in quickly.The old dwarf looked at his task from a different angle, and regarded it as a kind of big project. The purpose was to improve the quality as much as possible while ensuring the output. The whole person was full of energy at once.

He first checked the sink for the quencher.The water tank was right next to the anvil, and the bottom was covered with Korean iron ore to keep the temperature low. The sharp-eyed Lancelot even found a few small pieces of cold crystal inside.Then he checked the holding furnace for tempering next to the furnace, and was also satisfied with its condition.

After these inspections, Barende gave Pluto a few compliments, then took the pliers and took the blade out of the furnace.

After all night's heating, the whole body of the sword blank was fiery bright white, and a high temperature came oncoming, making Lancelot wonder if he had lost another sword.

However, Barende was obviously very satisfied with the condition of the sword blank. He did not hesitate to insert the hot sword blank into the sink for sudden fire.

A puff of white smoke rose, but the amount was much smaller than Lancelot had expected, and he realized that the liquid in the sink was not water, but oil.

In less than 5 seconds, Barende took out the sword blank and put it directly into the holding furnace for tempering.

"I have a hunch that this will be a good sword." The old dwarf patted Pluto on the shoulder, "The tempering temperature of cold iron weapons is lower than that of ordinary iron weapons, and it is probably warmer than boiling water. Three achievements, pay attention to yourself."

"Don't worry, Dad." Pluto rubbed his hands excitedly. "Tempering for an hour and a half, cooling for half an hour, and repeating it three times, right? You see I remember it all."

Barende looked at Pluto, was silent for a while, and suddenly embraced his son.

"I think I've been too harsh on you before." He brushed Pluto's tousled hair. "You're doing much better than many of your peers."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked out, leaving only Pluto stunned in place.

"Are you okay?" Lancelot said.

"Of course I'm fine." Pluto turned his head, and Lancelot noticed that his eyes were red.

He stepped aside, scooped up a handful of cold iron ore with a shovel, and put it into the furnace.

"Let's continue, there are five swords left for us to finish."

　Or change it first and then change it, I wrote these two chapters and watched a lot of blacksmithing videos haha

　　

　

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