Chapter 101 Rocket-Like Promotion

After Ryan tactfully told Lagre about Borris's little thoughts, Lagre didn't mind her watching. Instead, she nodded readily and agreed directly.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Lagre, a senior blacksmith, how much blacksmith skills can ordinary blacksmiths in the town learn even if they watch her series of operations.

Just the flux link, how much white fluorite and barbarian blood are needed, for ordinary blacksmiths, it is a natural barrier.

However, Ryan thought of one thing and asked Lagre quietly: "Lagre, in addition to the glowstone, can the greatsword also be integrated with star iron at the same time?"

"Oh, it's meteorite iron. I don't know what you barbarians call it." Ryan gestured and said.

Lagre's eyes lit up, and she said, "Of course, do you have star iron? I was a little worried that if I used only pyroxene, the hardness and toughness of the sword might be a little weak, so I need to spend more time on forging."

"But if a small amount of star iron is mixed in, I can guarantee that your new weapon will be a standard pyroxene weapon even in our barbarian tribe."

Ryan smiled mysteriously and said, "It will be ready soon."

Then, Ryan pulled Boris to a corner. After some bargaining, and after allowing Boris to watch, which was a condition that Boris could not refuse, Ryan successfully bought Boris's favorite thing - star iron at the price of thirty imperial gold coins.

Of course, this price is also because Boris's piece of star iron is only a little bigger than a fist.

But it is more than enough to be integrated into the greatsword to improve the hardness and toughness of the greatsword.

And Boris, with a complex mood of joy and heartache, immediately announced that the blacksmith shop would be closed for one day today.

Ryan originally thought that since Borris, who was always stingy, rarely gave the blacksmith apprentices a day off, these apprentices who had long complained about Borris's stinginess should be overjoyed.

But when Borris announced the news, the blacksmith apprentices looked at each other for a while, and then they each found reasons to stay and continue working.

However, Ryan soon knew from their fiery glances at Lagre from time to time that their motives did not seem so simple.

In the end, these blacksmith apprentices were forcibly driven away by Borris!

Ryan and Borris closed the door of the blacksmith shop, hung a sign saying "Closed", and then returned to the yard to help Lagre.

But the two looked at the scene in front of them and were stunned. They did not expect Lagre to have started alone.

I saw that Lagre had mixed a lot of clay, and then started to build a small cylindrical smelting furnace, which seemed to be used to smelt Ryan's pyroxene stone alone.

Although the blacksmith shop has an ordinary smelting furnace, Lagre has used it to smelt star iron and Ryan's original greatsword.

It seems that considering that Ryan's pyroxene stone is not large, the diameter of the bottom of this furnace is only about the same as a washbasin, and the height is only about one meter.

Soon, Lagre finished building it, and was putting charcoal fire into it little by little.

"Lagre, what do I need to do?" Ryan was a little anxious watching from the side.

After all, he wanted to participate in the process of making pyroxene weapons. If he could participate in the making of pyroxene weapons, he would definitely gain a lot of blacksmith professional experience.

But now he was just watching from the side, which made Ryan a little itchy.

After thinking for a while, Lagre realized that there was really nothing that needed Ryan's help, so she said seriously:

"Ryan, you don't need to do anything, I can handle the whole process."

As soon as Lagre finished speaking, Ryan seemed to see a large wave of blacksmith experience slipping away from his eyes.

With his brain working at high speed, Ryan finally thought of a reason that was not a reason, and immediately said with a serious face:

"Lagre, this is after all, making my two-handed sword, please be sure to assign some work so that I can participate in it."

Ryan also emphasized the word "my".

Although Lagre didn't know why Ryan was so active, what Ryan said was indeed very reasonable. After all, it was his weapon, and it was a normal request to want to participate.

For this small request of the lifesaver, Lagre didn't think much about it, and nodded in agreement.

"Well, okay!"

This made Ryan feel greatly relieved. Fortunately, he finally participated!

However, Lagre looked around and found that he couldn't find anything, so he casually said: "Ryan, you... help install the bellows and pipes for this small smelting furnace."

"Install the bellows?" Ryan was dumbfounded immediately, there was no such thing in his blacksmith skills.

He only knows how to pull the bellows, but not how to install them!

Boris on the side couldn't help laughing at Ryan's stunned expression, and immediately laughed and said: "Ryan, come with me, I'll tell you how to do it."

It can be seen that Boris is in a good mood.

After all, not every blacksmith has the opportunity to witness the birth of a pyroxene weapon.

Soon, Ryan followed Boris to the storage room and took out a set of things for blowing.

It is mainly a rough iron pipe more than two meters long and a floor-standing round bellows sewn together with multiple layers of cowhide. The bellows can be pulled up and pressed to blow air.

As for why the gas does not flow back?

That is because there is a check valve on the part where the hand is pressed. When it is pressed, it closes, and when it is pulled up, it opens, sucking the surrounding air into the bellows.

Soon, under the guidance of Borris, Ryan inserted one end of the iron pipe into the clay furnace and installed the other end on the bellows.

"Well, not bad!" Lagre took a look and nodded, indicating that Ryan did a good job.

"Almost done, continue to put some charcoal fire to burn it, let the clay solidify and then put in the glow stone." Lagre patted the clay in his hand and stood up.

"Is it ready?" Borris blurted out in surprise.

He did not expect that Lagre used the "reduction method" to smelt the glow stone, which made Borris, who was watching carefully, completely incomprehensible.

This method is used to smelt the most common iron ores such as limonite and hematite.

It is the most primitive and simplest method.

Although Borris didn't know the specific melting point of the glowstone, he knew it was much higher than iron ore.

So, he instinctively thought that this shouldn't work, but after looking at Lagre, who looked natural, Borris swallowed the rest of his words.

After all, he had finally obtained permission to watch, and he didn't want to be deprived of it because of his bad mouth.

"Well, just put the glowstone and charcoal in it later." Lagre said confidently.

After everything was ready.

Lagre put the glowstone, which was emitting a soft light, mixed with charcoal into the newly dried clay furnace.

"Ryan, can you blow air?" Lagre asked.

"Of course, blowing air is my strong point!" Ryan nodded confidently.

Finally, it was the link he was familiar with!

[You have worked on the bellows, and your understanding of the relevant aspects has improved! 】

[Your skill of bellows is improved, experience +3]

[You focus on bellows, blacksmith professional experience +1]

About half an hour later, Lagre began the most critical step.

She first took out two walnut-sized white stones from her waist bag, which should be white fluorite, and put one into the furnace where star iron was being smelted, and told Borris to pay close attention to the surface changes of star iron.

The other was put into the furnace where glowstone was smelted. Then, Lagre cut her wrist with a knife, and a stream of blood flowed out, slowly dripping on the glowstone.

"Lagre, didn't you say that you only needed a little blood? What's wrong with you?" Ryan was both surprised and moved.

Just as Ryan was about to stop blowing and rushed over to stop Lagre.

"Don't stop, if you stop now, all your previous efforts will be wasted." When saying this, Lagre's tone was calm, and her focused eyes were still staring at the glowstone in the smelting furnace.

This gave Ryan a very strange feeling.

At this time, Lagre seemed to radiate an invisible force, as if she was telling the birth of a pyroxene weapon, which was a necessary process.

This made Ryan, who was just about to stand up, stagnate, and he could only continue to blow vigorously helplessly, looking at Lagre with both admiration and concern.

Fortunately, this process did not last too long.

It seemed that she had judged that there was enough blood, and Lagre, who was a little pale, quickly took out a piece of white linen bandage to bandage her wound.

About half an hour later.

The impurities in the pyroxene gradually melted into slag, and flowed out of the opening at the bottom of the furnace like magma.

The essence of the pyroxene in the furnace was only a ball the size of an egg at this time, and its shape was as soft as plasticine, but the light it emitted was ten times stronger than that.

"Almost! I'm going to take it out for forging." Lagre looked at it again, turned around and said to Ryan.

I saw Lagre holding the shining glowstone with a fire tong in one hand and a heavy hammer in the other, and started to hit it.

"Ding Ding!"

Every time the hammer was swung, sparks flew, and the glowstone seemed to shine a little brighter, but the white bandage on Lagre's wrist turned a little redder.

"Let me do it?" Borris and Ryan said in unison.

"No! You are not strong enough to further remove the impurities in the glowstone." Lagre looked at Borris first, then shook her head and refused.

This made Borris blush a little. He had been a blacksmith for half his life, but a girl said that he was not strong enough.

"Let me do it!" Ryan, who was proficient in hammering, was still very confident in using the hammer.

"Can you do it?" Lagre, who looked a little pale, glanced at Ryan.

It seemed that Ryan had enough strength, but I didn't know how to use the hammer?

After bleeding, she was indeed a little tired. If she could save some energy for the subsequent forging process, she would be able to better ensure the quality of the sword.

"Don't worry! With you beside me to guide me, it should be no problem. Besides, if I really can't do it, you can still make it in time."

"Well, okay, then you try it."

"Too heavy, lighten it!"

"Okay! How about this?"

"Well, it's okay, this weight is just right."

After half an hour of continuous forging, when the impurities were almost removed, La Gelei asked Ryan to beat the glowstone into long thin slices.

The above process was repeated for star iron.

Then, La Gelei used a fire tongs in one hand to pick up the red-hot sword from the original furnace of the blacksmith shop, and used a clamp with the other hand to stack the glowstone slices and star iron slices on it.

And again directed Ryan to forge it repeatedly with the hammer.

"Ding Ding!"

With each swing of the hammer, the fusion of the greatsword with the glowstone and star iron deepened.

"Fold it in half."

"Fold it in half?" Ryan asked in surprise.

"Yes!" I saw Lagre stepped forward, replaced Ryan, and folded the stacked star iron, glowstone and sword body in half from the middle and stacked them together.

In this way, after repeating it twice.

I saw that Ryan's greatsword no longer restored its original appearance, but turned into a rectangular iron bar about 20 to 30 centimeters long and 10 centimeters thick.

"Beat it into a sword embryo."

"Okay." Ryan swung the hammer vigorously.

After repeating this many times, it finally began to shape, quench and polish. These processes are relatively delicate and are all completed by Lagre himself.

And Ryan finally had time to check the system prompt:

[You have forged a two-handed greatsword, and your relevant comprehension has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - two-handed greatsword forging]

[You have carried out the work of forging pyroxene weapons, and the relevant understanding has been improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - pyroxene weapon forging]

[Your skill of two-handed greatsword forging has been improved, and the experience value has been increased by 1]

[You focus on two-handed greatsword forging, and the blacksmith professional experience value has been increased by 2]

[Your skill of pyroxene weapon forging has been improved, and the experience value has been increased by 1]

[You focus on pyroxene weapon forging, and the blacksmith professional experience value has been increased by 5]

[Congratulations, your blacksmith professional level has been improved! ]

Sure enough, Ryan looked at the blacksmith professional level being upgraded to lv3, and his heart was as sweet as drinking honey.

And then, there is a bigger surprise waiting for him.