Chapter 43 – Second Rank (2/2)

Cen Yue nodded his head. “I couldn't believe it either. But I now confirm that the kid is eligible for the second rank test.”

The surveyor considered Cen Yue's comment before turning towards Tang Wulin. “Kid, other than metal purification, do you have other skills?”

It was then that Tang Wulin awakened from his carefree forging state. However, his only faults were hammering too lightly while using the Thousand Refined Tungsten Hammers and the forging process ended a little earlier than he would have liked it to. If sufficient time was given, he was sure he could complete the Thousand Refinements.

“I can forge some basic small and medium-sized components,“ Tang Wulin described earnestly.

This didn't surprise Cen Yue since Tang Wulin previously mentioned it, and even Mang Tian agreed that Tang Wulin was capable of receiving jobs himself.

“Please forge a medium-sized component,” The surveyor said with a deep voice, “and if you manage to succeed, you will be promoted to the second rank.”

The requirements to be a second rank blacksmith was simply to forge a medium-sized component and to have the ability to Hundred Refine rare metals.

Tang Wulin's previous purification process was excellent, so he only needed to forge some components now.

“Yes!” Tang Wulin answered before immediately beginning to forge the component.

The pair of Thousand Refined Tungsten Hammers reappeared, and rhythmic hammering sounded out once again.

The surveyor was about to call out and tell Tang Wulin that he could use common metals to pa.s.s the test, but was silenced by a glance from Cen Yue. He wanted to see how well a nine-year-old child could perform this task.

As he hammered the chunk of Heavy Silver again, a surge of happiness filled Tang Wulin's heart. Within his heart, he felt as though he was reunited with his friends.

At his endless pounding, the chunk of metal produced a crisp hum, as if in response to his hammering. Tang Wulin's hammering speed gradually increased. Under his hammer's pounding, the metal started to change.

With every strike of his hammer, it bounced off the metal even higher. Afterwards, Tang Wulin would add even more force into his next strike. The Heavy Silver gradually formed into a circular-shaped medium component, under his constant pounding.

The hammering process that Cen Yue witnessed was one without any faults, as if every strike had its place and every move was natural. In his eyes, this was the textbook's ideal of forging!

This child's foundation skills were unmatched. Even if he were to be compared with 18 or 19 year olds with an apprentices.h.i.+p of more than eight years, he would still surpa.s.s them by far!

Though in this forging process, Tang Wulin simply hammered the metal without any superfluous techniques, it extruded an abnormal feeling of pureness to the bystanders.

Generally, small components would be used in mecha joints, and medium components would be inlayed within the main body of the mecha.

Tang Wulin had crafted a semi-circular component, an important component within the knee joint of a mecha. Joint protection components were most susceptible to wear and tear, however, this also made them the most suitable to be used for soul guide arrays. Heavy Silver was a good conductor for transmitting soul power. Thus, forging the joint component out of Heavy Silver would be the most appropriate. Tang Wulin had indeed considered these points prior to his forging.

Another hour pa.s.sed by before Tang Wulin produced a semi-circular component that was free from any defects and brought it up to both Cen Yue and the surveyor for their a.s.sessment. The two of them were even more speechless than before.

“Masters, did I pa.s.s the test?” Tang Wulin couldn't be more proud with his piece of work. In fact, this was his first time forging a component with Heavy Silver. When he recalled the past, Tang Wulin thought that the only flaw to his work was that the component was not Thousand Refinemed. He was confident that he would have been able to Thousand Refine it.

After his previous Thousand Refinements, he discovered that his understand of forging had gone up by a level. After forging Heavy Silver again, he felt that it was simply wonderful.

Previous Chapter

Next Chapter