Arcane Lord

Watching Brotto hit the anvil with his magic hammer, Xia Duo felt for the first time that blacksmithing could be full of beauty. He had seen Brotto blacksmithing not once or twice before, but never like this. This shocked him today.

Maybe this is the magic filter!

However, holding a magic hammer in hand, Broto's forging techniques are indeed different from those in the past. There are some magical changes, and even Xia Duo can see some clues from them.

A large lump of iron material was soon hammered into fine iron by Broto. Of course, it can be called "steel", but there is no special word to refer to "steel" in the Nese language. Generally, "fine iron" is enough. It shows the quality.

Of course, fine iron can only be regarded as one of the raw materials of the [Dragon Hunting Rune]. After that, Broto divided the fine iron into small pieces and processed it again, and this was the official production of the [Dragon Hunting Rune].

If Shado could barely understand the previous techniques, from now on, Brotto's techniques were beyond his comprehension.

With a "pop" sound, a valuable sapphire was smashed on the anvil by Brotto. Then the magic hammer wrapped the gem powder and continued to beat the fine iron embryo again.

One after another, gems were integrated into the fine iron embryos in this way, and the mithril was also done in the same way. However, before Sha Duo came, the mithril blocks he provided had been processed into mithril threads.

This did make Chateau miss part of Brotto's skill display, but the integration of mithril wire into the fine iron blank while remaining relatively independent is obviously more worth watching than processing mithril wire.

Such skills almost surpassed Sha Duo's imagination. In his understanding, once mithril is compatible with other metals, it can easily affect its own purity, especially if it is beaten repeatedly.

With his method, it may be possible to process the mithril components first and then encapsulate them in metal, but this method of directly integrating mithril wires into metal is still a bit too exaggerated.

Maybe this is the skill of dwarves!

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Forging the [Dragon Hunting Rune] was obviously not an easy job. For several hours, it was fine for Xia Duo to just watch, but Broto remained focused and hammered the fine iron embryo one hammer after another.

Sweat was constantly falling off Brotto's arms and beard, but before it touched the anvil or magic hammer, it immediately turned into a wisp of steam, accompanied by a strong smell of alcohol.

It was during this process that the fine iron embryo gradually became regular, like a palm-sized iron piece. Although the surface was red and hot, whether it was a relatively independent mithril thread or a magic string that had begun to gradually connect. , all hinting at its upcoming official appearance.

"Boom——"

The last dull knock instantly dissipated the red heat on the surface of the iron piece. Brotto directly reached out and picked up the final product on the anvil, inspected it briefly, and then threw it to Chateau.

Xia Duo took the iron piece and it was a little cold, but the densely connected magic strings on it were unmistakable. This should be the [Dragon Hunting Rune] that Brotto said.

After playing with it for a few times, Xia Duo discovered that the front and back of this [Dragon Hunting Rune] were almost identical. Except for the cuneiform text that clearly showed the true color of mithril, there were no other decorations.

These cuneiform characters should be dwarven characters, but Shado has no research on dwarven characters, and is limited to knowing that they are dwarven characters.

Brotto integrated the mithril wire into the piece of iron, penetrated the inside and outside, and formed these words. For the time being, Shado didn't know much about the dwarf's forging technology. He was not sure whether this was the most reasonable approach. .

However, if you follow Master Nese's approach, it can be simplified. As long as you know the specific spell contained in this [Dragon Hunting Rune], you can directly use mithril to construct the most simplified energy path, similar to the method of general magic items.

There is no need to hammer away for hours like Brotto.

Of course, this approach is based on the arcane magic system of Netheril. Shado has no way of knowing what the dwarf's magic system is, but after observing Broto's forging this time, he guessed that the dwarf magic system is The system may be very closely related to forging.

While the essence of magic is the same, its manifestations are different.

Putting aside whether Brotto is willing to reveal the secret of the [Dragon Hunting Rune], the conversion between different magic systems is not an easy task.

The magic of dwarves is really unfamiliar to Sha Duo. Even before today, he only knew that dwarves did have magic, but he had never seen any example.

Unlike elf magic, humans initially followed the elf magic route. Basically every mage tower has information about elf magic. If you really want to study it, it is not difficult.

Judging from the fact that Elvish is the standard language for almost all mages, and Sha Duo still doesn’t know a few Dwarvish words, the potential influence, or development potential, of dwarves is far less than that of elves!

Xia Duo even speculated that perhaps it was because of the coercion of the elves that the dwarves and the elves came up with a mithril rationing system. In fact, it did not have much benefit to the dwarves. To say that the mithril rationing system did not have any influence from the elves, Xia Duo wouldn't believe it even to death.

On the other hand, there is not much conflict between humans and dwarves when it comes to the choice of place to live. Dwarves prefer to stay in the mountains, underground, and among rocks.

And these are not what humans like.

The real conflict is between humans and elves. They are both ground creatures and need to occupy land. On the one hand, they must maintain the forest and on the other hand, they must open up farmland.

The question of who is a friend and who is an enemy; who can be a friend and who can become an enemy is very important.

Staring at the [Dragon Hunting Rune] in his hand, Xia Duo fell into deep thought for a long time.

…

"That's the Detec script of our dwarves. You Nese mages like to call them 'Detec runes', which means 'hunting dragons'."

Broto's words interrupted Shado's thoughts. He raised his head and saw that Broto had rested and was about to continue forging. It would take at least a few hours to create a [Dragon Hunting Rune]. Shado had already read it. Once again, he was not ready to continue reading, and he couldn't understand it anyway.

So he said: "Uncle Broto, please continue to build it, and I will prepare some spirits for you."

When Brotto, who was about to swing the hammer, heard what Shado said, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said quickly: "Go quickly, go quickly, don't only have one bottle!"

"Don't worry, there's enough for you to drink!"

…

After leaving the blacksmith shop, Shado bought a few barrels of so-called "spirits" in the town, and then returned to the Tower of Time. The raw material for distilling spirits before was just some light ale.

It took two large barrels to distill less than one bottle. Now that I have replaced it with good wine, I should be able to distill more spirits.

However, this kind of repetitive work does not need to be done by Xia Duo himself. He casually released a private task through the tower spirit that was limited to level 3 apprentices and above, and then came to the previous workshop.

Before waiting for the person to take over the task to arrive, Xia Duo began to make a larger distillation device. In fact, if he were not in a hurry, it would be most cost-effective to make a thermometer first and then let ordinary people take care of it.

Like now, although it is very convenient to control the temperature through the alchemy circle, it is also very expensive. The added value of wine is not as high as that of magic items.

Producing spirits in this way should only happen once!