Chapter 657 Forging
It's time for wizards and militiamen to say goodbye. Leo Cliff and the others will go to the battlefield, and Allen will take Merlin away. They need to return to Crowhurst Village. The work in the smithy was not done.
Crowhurst Village appeared again in front of the wizard mentor and his new apprentices. Merlin's mood had stabilized a lot, and he automatically entered the unskilled apprenticeship. On this road of gaining strength and accomplishing one's own goals, the attitude is relatively correct.
Instead of going directly into the village, Allen took Merlin to a thick oak tree in the village—the one that Odegar wanted to climb when he missed his hometown.
Allen looked at it for a while, and grabbed a branch on the tree in the air, and the branch broke by itself and flew into Allen's palm. Merlin looked at this scene with surprise in his eyes. This is magic, and he didn't know how long it would take him to master such a spell. The branch unexpectedly turned into a tape measure in Alan's hands, flew to Merlin's side, stretched it around Merlin, and automatically measured various data of his body.
After getting the data, Allen began to process the oak branch back to its original shape in a smooth manner, and explained the main points while making it. After roughly processing, Allen said to Merlin who was full of yearning: "This is what wizards use. The tools needed to cast magic are generally long wooden strips. We are still short of an inner core made of a part of the body of a magical animal, and the rod material also needs time to be further processed. Each magic wand is unique, if If you use a wand that does not belong to you, the effect of magic will be greatly reduced. Therefore, how to use the wand and how to maximize the effect of the wand depends on the ability of the wizard himself-although after learning and practicing hard, you can To a certain extent, it gets rid of the dependence on the wand when casting spells, and the ancient wizards did not use this tool when they first cast spells."
Alan did not make a growth wand for his apprentice but used a more traditional method, because he could not guarantee that Merlin could keep this magical wonder at Hogwarts after he left without attracting prying eyes from others He didn't tell his new disciple that the reason why he could cast spells without a wand so easily and freely was because he changed the way of casting spells after reading the Nether scroll, but since he became Merlin's mentor, he felt that he should be responsible. Alan still taught himself The apprentice should not rely too much on the wand, just like Luna reminded him after the Kraken incident.
After finishing this, Allen took Merlin across the messy ground of the blacksmith shop. Among the gravel and rubble, Allen directed all kinds of blacksmith tools to fly out of the outdoors, and the finished and semi-finished ironware followed. Neatly stacked on one side.
Flames burst out from under the furnace, Merlin jumped back in fright, and then watched those iron objects fly into the furnace one by one, and then flew out one by one, the huge hammer flew clumsily. Come over, like those kitchen utensils that wash dishes automatically or the knitting needles that spin sweaters automatically-they ding-dong-dong-dong-dong these iron tools.
Then, under the control of magic, these accessories were combined together, and turned into a majestic thick iron armor in front of Merlin.
The wizard apprentice couldn't help being curious and tried to move a piece of armor that had cooled down, but found that he couldn't move it with all his efforts, even by making it move a little bit. It was also really hard for him to imagine who this armor was for, and how it was so heavy so that it could move deftly in battle—because of the blood of the devil, Merlin had always been quite confident in his own strength before.
"Merlin, is there a cobbler in your village?" Alan's voice sounded beside Merlin.
"Yes!" Merlin felt very happy to be able to do something for Alan. He pointed to the small road in the village, "Go straight along that stream, and turn right at the fork. The cobbler lives there. Its The smell is a bit strong, and people in the village do not allow him to build houses in the village and upstream of the stream,
Sometimes I would sneak over to watch him skin the animals, it was fun. "
"Uh... There are too few entertainment methods for children in this era." Alan thought about it for a while, and snapped his fingers behind him.
The footsteps sounded like an earthquake, and when Merlin saw the person coming, he was like a frightened rabbit, "Teacher, the Vikings are here."
"Don't panic, these are the subordinates under my control." Allen comforted his apprentices, and after the death knights saluted Allen neatly, they ran towards the direction Merlin had pointed before, and Allen was concerned about his apprentice's words. His eyesight was a little curious, "Why, have you seen the Vikings?"
"Teacher, I haven't seen it." Merlin still looked at the death knights with some fear, "But I asked Leo Cliff before what is the difference between us English and Vikings, and he told me that we English They are people, and those Vikings are not... and these men of your mentor..."
"Although Leo Cliff's meaning is actually somewhat different from what you understand, your insight is indeed good." Allen couldn't help but praised the apprentice's talent, "You have a good perception, these Vikings People are no longer living things, and this is the first thing I will teach you on the road of magic, Merlin, maybe you will meet some white wizards who reject black magic in the future, but I hope you can use your own Judgment to look at the problem, my way of magic is not to reject any kind of magic, I don’t think there are any restrictions when studying spells—but don’t be too obsessed with one of them because of your talents in certain aspects , all things return, if you lack the knowledge of one of the directions, then I think your magic path is no longer complete. Many people think that the path of specialization is better, but their end point is at the beginning of the choice. I am limited by my own choices, so I hope that you can also take the path of generalism, and you also have the talents you need to choose this path. Of course, the path of magic needs to be chosen by yourself, you may not understand now , but when you have learned enough knowledge, I hope you can recall this passage..."
While Merlin was meditating, those death knights came back with some smelly leather in their hands—cobbler is not a good job in this era, because in order to quickly remove the fat from the animal hide and preserve it Preventing shedding, in this day and age is done by dipping it in urine. Due to the stench of their work, tanners settled on the outskirts of towns and villages, and belonged to the same class as executioners, butchers and prostitutes, and were marginalized people in society.
Allen asked the death knights to throw these leathers into a large cauldron they brought back from the cobbler's house, and then threw some magic herbs into it to boil them together, and finally let the leathers that were still wet and smell of medicine be used as The inner village of the iron armor before was inlaid.
When everything was finished, Allen ordered these death knights to put on these armors, and their appearances took on a new look. In Merlin's eyes, these death knights were extremely tall and strong, with broad shoulders and arms as thick as the small trunks on the oak tree just now. There is still a layer of boiled leather inside the armor, and they wear full-face helmets that still have some Viking styles on their heads. There is no gap except for a narrow iron fence-like hole next to the eyes for observation.
Merlin on the side looked enviously at the shields and axes in the hands of these death knights who had put on new armor. Although he was young, he wanted to have his own weapons after seeing the cruelty of the war, even when he was about to The case of having a magic wand. After all, yearning for knights is in the nature of these little boys.
Seeing the undisguised envy on Merlin's face, Allen commanded some iron tools to fly into the furnace, and the big ax clanged again, and Allen stretched out his hand to direct and gesture, and there was a hiss on the iron tools Carved voice. Under the fierce friction and collision, the flames splashed, and a dagger gradually took shape. Allen carved magic runes with destructive magic shields and sharp special effects on the dagger.
After the formed dagger was cooled and sharpened, Allen handed the radiant dagger to Merlin: "This will be a gift from your mentor."
Merlin took the dagger with joy on his face, played with it curiously, and looked at the mysterious symbols on it that had a different kind of beauty.