Chapter 43 More smithing. (1/2)

“You were a blackset the wrong house?”

Helci was standing in front of Roland and herfast She had exa him with questions She had picked up this quest as a side job She was back to doing the transporta safer approach to the whole adventurer life

This left time for her to pick up part-time work like this She didn’t expect to find the poker-faced h Even less that he was now apparently a blacksmith

“Well no, I switched recently…”

“But you were so strong back there, aren’t you wasting away in this du monsters!”

Thanks to how many ants they slew, Helci had leveled up to a second tier 1 class She had taken the hunter class that boosted better tracking and bow use It was also a class that was good with short swords and would let her level up to a ranger class on the tier 2 change

“Didn’t you have enough fighting ht you’d slon after the way that Grotto mission went”

Roland replied with another question He'd thought that the girl would see some reason and relax However, she was as active as always Adventuring was the thing she wanted to do, this raised another question though

“Shouldn’t you have left for a city with a dungeon by now?”

The girl flinched slightly and let her head down She then looked back up to Roland while blushi+ng Her left and right index fingers were now poking against each other while looking at her old party coh money to lance at what Helci earing She indeed had soear Her sword see new The arht have had so

“So even if you wanted you don’t have enough for the train ride? Can’t you just take an escort eon?”

Roland asked while placing so tools on his workbench

“You think it’s that easy? Maybe if my stupid party wanted to move withand then started talking Roland certainly didn’t think that he would be having such a heart to heart talk with his new assistant

Helci told him that due to the lack of funds it was hard to move She wouldn’t have much left for an inn and she would need to find a new party She was someone that just switched to her second tier 1 class and considered a newbie She ht not be able to find a party that wouldn’t rip her off if she moved

There was also the probleeon wasn’t anywhere close to where Edelgard was Roland washis scrolls but a new steel grade adventurer wasn’t After the failed uild only rewarded them partially as there was no proof that the client lied about the ants being there

Helci spent most of her hard-earned cash on her new equipment and recovery potions and was not left with much besides that She was a scout and a hunter so she also had the added cost of arrows The costs added and she was left with living froot frouild

It would take her so through theShe no that she got overzealous with her expenditure This tih money to have a fallback plan This was also why she was now here, earning irl

To Roland, this didn’t explain why he was getting the girl as an assistant He thought he would get soe Would this girl even be able to identify the crafting et?

“I see… you should be careful with yourthe office then”

Roland had to stay and listen to the girl complain for fifteen minutes about her adventurer party He didn’t have the whole day for so like this, he needed to craftskills

“Slave driver!”

The orange-haired girl shouted at hi an eh strength but with the added levels she was stronger than your average human man that didn’t have a class

Roland didn’t need her for anything else at the e to have someone follow his orders around Was this how all the business owners felt when they ordered their workers?

The girl vanished behind the warehouse doors after going out, the well for the water was about five one Roland decided to turn on the forge and get started, today he would craft a utility knife He was also in the possession of a lesser sharpness rune which would go with it nicely That is if he h to fit the s the knife out of so it fro down horse hoofs Half of it was rusted and he just needed about eight inches of the handle part It was already broken in half so he wouldn’t need to cut it It was also made from steel and not iron this time around

First, he needed to heat it up to a nice red color He then began ha the handle end of the file over the near side of his anvil until it was half an inch wide By using the handle end of the file he would save hi

He made sure to knock back the sharp corners where the filehandle began to create a taper; this prevented cold shuts fro enough

Drawing and tapering to lengthen thin steel were the most common techniques a crafter would use as a blacksmith When you drew steel out, you used flat hammer blows to er

Tapering used angled hale to the face of the anvil, to narrow a section of le

So he drew out the blade of the file until it was slightly over an inch wide at the shoulder of the handle He then created a one-sided taper by holding the spine of the knife flat on the anvil and while holding his hale

Roland bent the handle over the horn of the anvil in the ht the tip coainst the spine side with a loop at the end

He then started to grind the blade evenly on both sides until it was just right He couldn’t grind it too thin before hardening; otherwise, itNext ca

To nor to let the steel or rain structure relax and refine This reduced the chances that the steel would shatter when it is hardened For the basic blacksthe knife, he heated it up first so that it would beconetic and then he let it cool in a bucket of ash After annealing it, he heated it back up to a nonain just to then quench the blade in oil

Following this, he tees He did this by holding the blade upside down and waiting until the blade showed a straw yellow color and then he quenched it again

A yellow color was the hardest te chisels and slicing knives such as this It was best used for anything that needed a hard, strong edge at the expense of a higher chance of chipping or cracking