Chapter 817 Unexpected (Additional Chapter for 600 Monthly Votes)

Men are always naturally fond of weapons such as swords, and Zhou Xu is no exception.

Holding the sword in his hand, Zhou Xu already has a feeling of not letting it go.

But he also knows that there are two other swords waiting for him to see.

"Which one is the one with diamond added to crystal iron?"

Hearing the question, Li Gan hurriedly presented the sword with both hands.

After taking the sword, Zhou Xu exerted force, and only heard a buzzing sound of "clang", and the blade with a slightly special color suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.

I don't know if it is because of the addition of diamond, the whole blade actually presents a subtle color that is half black and half gray, hazy.

On the contrary, the pattern formed on the blade after folding and forging looks much deeper.

But this pattern is also much sparser than the first patterned steel sword.

"There are fewer patterns on this sword, because the number of folding and forging is less?"

"Yes."

Li Gan nodded quickly.

"For this diamond, I have conducted a long period of research and testing, and found that it would be very difficult to forge it after smelting it with crystal iron."

"Adding this diamond can indeed effectively improve the hardness of the metal, but relatively speaking, the brittleness and forging difficulty will also increase. If you are not careful, it will be cracked during the folding and forging process."

"Considering this, I reduced the number of folding and forging, and then successfully proceeded to the next step."

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

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

From Li Gan's words, Zhou Xu could easily feel the difficulty.

"What about the performance? How does this knife perform compared to the patterned steel sword?"

"At present, although the hardness of the sword with the addition of diamond has increased, it cannot be compared with the patterned steel sword in terms of toughness because it has been folded and forged less times."

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

"..."

This result made Zhou Xu fall into silence.

It can't be said that the diamond he got after a lot of operations is useless, right?

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

This result is undoubtedly a bit annoying.

Of course, Zhou Xu is not desperate at this moment. As a special ore, diamond should have the ability to enchant like sharp stone.

With a flash of thought, Zhou Xu directly enchanted it.

[Basic Weapon Blessing]

After adding diamond, if the enchantment effect becomes better, it can be regarded as a gain.

But the fact proves 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 extent that he can clearly feel it.

Feeling the disappointment of their majesty, Li Gan spoke after a moment of hesitation...

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

Li Gan had this idea 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.

However, 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 turned his head unconsciously and looked at Silk beside him.

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

Although the patterned steel sword made him feel that the silver steel sword in his hand was not so good, the silver steel sword was the knight's sword passed down from generation to generation by the grassland elves, so in their hearts, the silver steel sword had a special meaning.

Zhou Xu, who saw this scene, simply said nothing more.

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

Can we try the mithril in it?

But Silk and his friends didn't want to, so forget it. Anyway, that little mithril couldn't arm any troops, and at most it could verify some guesses.

This method of adding special metals, melting them into alloys, and then forging them into patterned steel casting weapons represents the ultimate of their Great Zhou weapon forging skills at this stage.

When it comes to weapons of this level, ordinary soldiers don't even need to think about it, and basically only a few generals can be equipped.

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 adjusted his mentality and stopped forcing it.

He then set his sights on the last sword on the tray.

"This should be the one that didn't use folding forging?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Among the three swords, this is the only one that didn't use folding forging.

Drawing the sword out of its sheath, compared with the previous sword, it has no patterns on the blade, and the entire blade is silver-gray.

The positioning of this sword is also very simple, that is, it is equipped for soldiers in elite troops or even ordinary troops.

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

During the period, Li Gan, who talked about this sword, was obviously slightly more emotional.

"This alloy with diamond added, performs quite well without folding forging. The right amount of addition can effectively increase the hardness of the sword, and the increase in hardness can make the sword sharper. The most important thing is that it is simple and efficient. From the perspective of mass forging, it is a good way to increase the strength of the sword."

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

Li Gan used the folding forging method to forge the hundred-tempered steel before, pursuing the ultimate.

But on the other hand, if you lower your requirements, do not pursue perfection, and only require to forge a weapon with stable performance, guaranteed input cost and forging efficiency, and capable of large-scale mass production, you will find that this knife fully meets your requirements.