Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Men always have a natural affinity for weapons such as swords, and even Zhou Xu is no exception.

Holding the sword in his hand at this moment, Zhou Xu already felt like he couldn't put it down.

But he also knew that there were two other swords waiting for him to see.

"Which one has diamond added to the crystal iron?"

Upon hearing the question, Li Gan quickly presented the sword with both hands.

After taking the sword, Zhou Xu exerted his strength and heard a 'zheng' sound. The blade with a slightly special color suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.

I don't know if it was because of the addition of diamond, but the entire blade actually showed a subtle, hazy color that was half black but not gray.

On the contrary, the pattern on the blade that was formed by folding and forging looked much deeper.

However, this pattern is much sparser than the first patterned steel sword.

"There are fewer patterns on this knife, is it because it has been folded and forged less often?"

"Yes."

Li Gan nodded quickly.

"Weichen has conducted long-term research and testing on this diamond and found that it will be very difficult to forge it after it is smelted with crystal iron."

"Adding this diamond can indeed effectively increase the hardness of the metal, but on the other hand, it will become more brittle and difficult to forge. If you are not careful, it will be cracked during the folding and forging process."

"With this in mind, Weichen reduced the number of folding and forging, and then successfully progressed to the next step."

"But even so, during the quenching stage, the knife still has a high risk of breakage."

"Furthermore, if the forging is successful, the time and energy required to forge this knife is basically twice that of the previous pattern steel sword."

From Li Gan's words, it was not difficult for Zhou Xu to feel the difficulty.

"What about performance? How does the performance of this knife compare with that of a patterned steel combat knife?"

"As of now, although the hardness of the sword has been increased due to the addition of diamond, it cannot be compared with the pattern steel sword in terms of toughness because it is folded and forged less often."

"At the same time, due to the increase in hardness, the brittleness has also increased. When tested against a pattern steel sword, the blade will soon chip or even break."

"..."

This result made Zhou Xu fall into silence.

It’s not like the diamonds he obtained through one operation turned out to be of no use, right?

Or is the existence of diamond just superfluous to their original crystal iron weapons? Forcibly adding it in, not only did it not have any positive effect, but it also added a negative BUFF to the weapon that was easy to break?

This result is undoubtedly a bit disturbing.

Of course, Zhou Xu is not desperate yet. As a special ore, diamond should have the same enchanting ability as sharp crystal.

The thought flashed across his mind, and Zhou Xu directly performed the enchanting operation on it.

[Basic weapon blessing]

After adding diamond, if the enchantment effect becomes better, that can be considered a gain.

But it turned out that he thought too much.

There may be a slight improvement in the effect of enchantment, but at least the improvement is not to the point where he can clearly feel it.

Feeling their Majesty's disappointment, Li Gan spoke after a moment's hesitation...

"Your Majesty, maybe we can try to find some metals with higher toughness to smelt in the future to change the properties of the alloy and ensure the toughness as much as possible while ensuring that the diamond increases the hardness."

This idea came to Li Gan as early as when he was conducting research.

Smelting alloys is itself a means of changing or improving the properties of metals by adding other suitable metals.

But so far, he has not found a suitable metal. The toughness of steel is already very high, but the effect after smelting obviously did not meet their expectations.

When Zhou Xu heard this, he unconsciously turned his head and looked at Hilke beside him.

At that moment, Silk, who clearly felt something, immediately took a step back and put the silver steel sword in his hand behind him.

Although looking at the patterned steel sword just now made him feel that the silver steel sword in his hand was no longer fragrant, after all, the silver steel sword was the knight's sword passed down from generation to generation by the prairie elves, so in their hearts, the silver steel sword had a special meaning.

Zhou Xu, who saw this scene in his eyes, simply didn't say anything more.

His idea just now was actually very simple. Speaking of toughness, silver has very good toughness. Under this premise, Hilke's silver steel swords were forged by melting mithril and steel.

Is it possible to try the mithril in it?

But Silk and the others were unwilling, so forget it. Anyway, that little bit of mithril couldn't arm any troops. At most, it could only verify some speculations.

This method of adding special metals, smelting them into alloys, and then forging them into patterned steel to cast weapons represents the pinnacle of their Da Zhou weapon forging skills at this stage.

At this level of weapons, ordinary soldiers don't even have to think about it, and basically they can only be equipped with a few generals.

In the era of cold weapons, from the perspective of a war, the weapons in the hands of soldiers are the most used and have the greatest impact on the outcome of the war.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also corrected his mentality and stopped forcing it.

And his eyes fell on the last sword on the tray.

"This one should be the one that was not forged by folding?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Among the three knives, this is the only one that is not folded and forged.

Pulling the sword out of its sheath, compared to the previous sword, there were no patterns on the blade, and the entire blade showed a silvery gray color.

The positioning of this knife is also very simple, that is, it is equipped for use by soldiers of elite troops and even ordinary troops.

Not folding forging will reduce the strength, but it can ensure the forging efficiency, which is very important.

During this period, Li Gan's mood obviously improved slightly when he talked about this knife.

"This is an alloy with diamond added. It performs quite well without folding and forging. Adding an appropriate amount can effectively increase the hardness of the sword, and the increase in hardness can make the knife sharper. The most important thing is that it is simple and efficient. , from the perspective of batch forging, it is a good way to improve the strength of the sword. "

Zhou Xu obviously didn't expect that there would be such unexpected benefits.

Li Gan had previously used the folding forging method to forge Bailiang Steel, pursuing perfection.

But on the other hand, if you lower your requirements and don’t pursue any extreme, but only require forging a weapon with stable performance, investment cost and forging efficiency can be guaranteed, and can be mass-produced, you will find that this knife is completely Meet your requirements.