Chapter 278 Your Father Is Very Short

Chapter 278 Your father is so... so short

Logically speaking, this small village with less than a thousand people should not be that big.

And Haina's home is not on the edge of the village, but in the center of the village with the best environment.

Aiwass and his friends followed Haina and it didn't seem like they had walked far... But when they arrived at Haina's door, they looked up and found that the moon was already high in the night sky.

——Unknowingly, it was already late at night!

Aiwass and Sherlock looked at each other, and then looked at Lily who was also surprised, and confirmed in their hearts that the time sequence here was chaotic.

But at present, they can only confirm that this chaos must exist, but they can't analyze the rules in detail - the only thing they can be sure of is that Haina, as a local, can't feel the abnormality at all, but they, the outsiders, can feel it...

After they approached, they could see the light from Haina's blacksmith shop overflowing. The lights were bright inside, but no conversations could be heard from outside the house.

"Mom, I'm back."

Haina pushed open the closed door of the blacksmith shop. Her voice became somewhat tired, not as excited as when she just came home.

The lights were on outside, but there was no one. Only some forged weapons were hung casually on the wall, and large pieces of pliers, kitchen knives, iron hooks, dwarves, saws, sickle heads and other tools and iron fragments in the tools were placed on the table or hung on the shelf like harvested wheat.

Some of them were already rusty, but they were not taken away, but just put together with other tools.

Pieces of pig iron were piled messily in the corner, and cast iron ingots were neatly piled in a pyramid shape on the ground in another corner.

Haina led them through the front desk and prepared to go to the back room.

But as soon as he entered the door, Sherlock felt something was wrong.

...Why is it so cold in this room?

He then looked around and widened his eyes in surprise.

-Why is your furnace placed indoors?

This made Sherlock stand there in a daze for a while, and he didn't react for a long time.

Therefore, when passing by the baking furnace and the smelting furnace, Sherlock reached out to test the temperature inside.

It was ice cold.

Not only was there no fuel at all, but even the ash had been specially cleared out - Sherlock touched it, but he didn't feel much ash.

Sherlock raised his eyebrows and secretly wrote this down.

After all, there are few blacksmiths on Glass Island now. Blast furnaces and steam hammers have replaced the work of blacksmiths. Not only is it more efficient, but the quality of the ironware produced is also better and more stable.

The blacksmiths who are still active now are those extraordinary craftsmen who can make extraordinary weapons, and those rural blacksmiths who make cheap farm tools for farmers.

The rarer the profession, the more it can arouse Sherlock's interest. He has specially studied this aspect.

- Baking furnaces are fine, but can the smelting furnace be turned off?

These craftsmen are not traditional blacksmiths, but "blacksmiths" from the extraordinary profession of the Devotion Path. They can call out the fire spirits that accompany them - they are extraordinary creatures raised by the Flame Heavenly Master of the Devotion Path.

And these fire spirits with the intelligence of children can help them to make extraordinary forgings - melt some difficult-to-melt materials, or add some mystical materials that cannot be integrated into the embryo through conventional forging techniques.

Because even if you become such a "blacksmith", you cannot get the corresponding formula, and a blacksmith without a formula is a useless person.

Therefore, "blacksmiths" and their upgraded professions "magicians" are usually passed down from one line to another - and the magician who forged the elven dagger in Avalon is an elf from the Church, and his several generations of disciples are native Avalonians.

This is also one of the aids sent by the Church when Avalon was founded.

However, even if Sherlock does not understand blacksmiths... he understands logic.

He noticed something wrong logically -

Since there is pig iron in this room, it means that the blacksmiths here do not use finished cast iron bought from the city. Instead, it is pig iron made from iron ore. In other words, this furnace is not for decoration, but is really used.

However, if the furnace wants to produce high-quality iron, it needs a high enough temperature.

This civilian furnace is not the blast furnace in the factory, and these mortal blacksmiths are not extraordinary people - they cannot summon fire spirits. Therefore, if you want to raise the temperature of the furnace to a level that can produce iron with qualified hardness, you need to preheat it for a long time and gradually heat it up by accumulating heat.

And this requires a lot of fuel - in other words, a lot of money.

Once the furnace is extinguished, if you want it to heat up again to a usable level, you need to preheat it for a long time. This requires a lot of money and time.

Therefore, the forge in the blacksmith shop and the furnace outside are generally not turned off. So as soon as you enter the door, you can immediately feel the rolling heat.

It is for this reason that the furnace should be placed outside - because the temperature of the furnace is too high, and placing it indoors will not only make people feel strongly uncomfortable, but also pose a fire hazard.

Seeing this scene, Sherlock immediately had an idea in his mind -

Haina's father... is a supernatural being?

Only supernatural beings who can call upon the spirit of fire would not need such a crude way of heating up...

But this made Sherlock confused.

——Your family is the inheritor of blacksmiths. Why did you travel all the way to Avalon to learn? ?

Isn’t the magic craftsman formula in your family more valuable to inherit?

and……

Haina has the adaptability to the path of devotion? Why didn't I see it?

Or is she not her parents' biological child?

Sherlock was filled with doubts.

After Haina entered the back room, the middle-aged man's rude scolding came immediately: "Your mother asked you to pick up the guests, why did you not come back after playing outside until night! What is there in the village after dark? Do not you know?!"

Haina flattened her mouth a little aggrievedly and leaned against the wall near the door without saying a word.

She also felt very unhappy, but she couldn't refute it - because in terms of the results, she really felt that she had done something wrong. But she felt a little baffled...because she really didn't know what she had done to cause this result.

Following Haina, Aiwass also walked in.

This is the first time Aiwass has met Haina’s parents——

But after just meeting him once, Aiwass was immediately surprised.

Aiwass's words stopped abruptly: "Hello, uncle..."

...so short.

Lily was also stunned for a moment, and Sherlock couldn't help but say "Huh".

——Because Haina’s father turned out to be a dwarf!

He has gray marble-like skin, pure white beard and curly hair. Big nose, big ears, and a pair of small eyes. He was sitting on the beautiful dark red sofa at the moment, and his calves were like a naughty child, but he could still swing around.

...This is a very standard dwarf.

This is also the first time Aiwass has seen a dwarf in person.

The only incongruity is that the relationship between elves and dwarves is very bad. Basically, elves will not approach countries dominated by dwarves; and countries dominated by elves will also not see many dwarves.

Avalon is obviously the latter - the Avalonians who benefit too much are too attentive, even more extreme than the elves themselves.

The elves merely despised and were hostile to the dwarves, but the Avalonians went a step further - they directly expelled all dwarves from the country to express their friendly attitude towards the Theocracy.

Anyway, there weren't many dwarves in Avalon, so this gesture was totally worthwhile.

Currently, a large number of dwarves are gathered in the Everfrost Empire in the north of Avalon. And Eagle Point Village is located in the northwest corner of Avalon, so it is indeed possible for dwarves to sneak over...

This also explains why Haina clearly has the heritage of a "blacksmith" but still chose the official path of a transcendent.

Because this old blacksmith who can give Haina the inheritance is fundamentally not a regular blacksmith from the Theocracy, but an unlicensed extraordinary person who is even a stowaway - not only is the inheritance he holds illegal. Yes, even his entire being is illegal!

——That is Haina’s father!

I had insomnia, so I got up in the middle of the night and finished writing a chapter, and then I fell asleep... I posted it first!

The second chapter will be written when I wake up in the afternoon