Chapter 43 More smithing. (2/2)

He was now mostly done with his creation He just needed to add the rune part and then polish it Maybe add a wooden or cloth handle so he wouldn’t need to hold it by the cold steel The steel wouldmore difficult but he had leveled up this skill thanks to the skill book

While he was exa next to hiht next to hi?”

“Nothing, finished cleaning that roo so I didn’t want to disturb you You really are a blacksmith, aren’t you… also here have one…”

Roland looked at the sirl, in her hand was a ripe red apple He looked at her then back to her hand before taking the apple He realized that he was actually a bit hungry after having forged this knife for the first time

“Um, thank you”

“No probleirl paused while Roland took a bite out of the apple, soood at forging arrows?”

She asked while glancing at hi

“Arrows? Haven’t tried yet… shouldn’t be too hard, just need a steel or iron rod You can probably buy the arrow shafts at the orker so I’d just need to et the quills there though…”

He talked out loud while thinking that practicing on arrowheads could be better than ht be also able to inscribe some lesser runes on theht back”

Roland eyed Helci that looked awfully happy for some reason He had her as a te that it was a person that he knew The girl was a bit off but he could probably trust her, she was a good kid

The only proble an assistant was that he couldn’t runecraft He was still trying to hide his prestige class fro to be a proper runesether

While Helci was out he went back to working on his utility knife It wouldn’t ell as a weapon, it was too short for that Heskills and then to train his rune inscribing

He had one of those grinding wheels to help hi It was even one of those that he could operate with his foot and not with a handle He gave it a spin and sharpened his newly produced tool and then gave it a nice polish

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His skills increased a bit so heThethe easier it beca him out He didn’t even need to concentrate thattools that he previously ear and recreate what he already did Theon the items became

While Roland was happy about his new creation his assistant showed up again She was holding ten wooden sticks that looked like arrow shafts and quills She placed the iteht on the table and looked to her new kid boss with a so, I saw soet those Now you can make some arrowheads! Leave the quills to your lovely assistant!”

The girl nodded and started attaching the quills to the premade arrow shafts The procedure wouldn’t really be hard as everything was already prepared for her The girl was really chipper about hi some arrowheads and he already realized why

“They probably won’t be that good…”

He took one of the wooden arrow shafts that Helci graciously brought over He aligned it with some of the thinner iron rods that he had in the smithy and picked one that was the closest in thickness Luckily he had a point h in width

This was just a pointy tool that allowedconsistent sockets for arrowheads It was about six inches in length and when he aligned it with the arrow shaft it looked to fit the size nicely He wouldn’t need to grind it down any further thanks to this

The forge was activated again and the piece of iron was placed inside to heat up He left it there till it glowed a bright orange si with the nails He took the hot piece ofthe heated end

He was aih spoon shape that was a little bit over three times as wide as the rest of the iron rod He made sure to flatten it out nicely and to taper the ends thin He then started folding the socket by placing it over the horn and ha it a bit he placed it back on the face of the anvil and started to gently round it out He made sure to not overdo it otherwise it could collapse onto itself or have sharp creases After it was nicely rounded out he grabbed the point mandrel from the side and inserted it into the created socket

He then proceeded to hammer it in so that the inside would fit the wooden arrow shaft later on He needed to hammer it a few times from the sides so that it fit the tool better before it was done He then used his hardy tool that wasto cut away the partially done arrowhead frorabbed his pliers frorabbed the soon to be arrowhead with them by the socket side He placed it back on the anvil and started to draw the arrowhead out into a four-sided point After he was done he inserted the pointtouches on the arrowhead

If he had a better grindstone he could skip sos to the tip and just sharpen it with it instead It wasn’t fast enough for such a thing and he could only add soes instead After about twenty minutes he was mostly done with it and it was actually quite pointy at the end

After he used the grindstone to get rid of some uneven parts he heated up the arrowhead once more This was just so he could place it into soive it a nice oxide finish to keep the point fro He handed the finished arrowhead to his lovely assistant and told her to use some sandpaper on the inside of the socket and then to attach it to the arrow shaft while he worked on the rest

He had nine to go and the h dexterity allowed him to better ith smaller parts like this and he didn’t fail even once It took him about three hours to finish these up, in the end, he had six low and four intermediate iron bodkin arrowheads

He was actually happy with his work, the only problem was that these wouldn’t sell for all thatht

“Here… you can take therinned widely after Roland gave the arrows to her for close to nothing He knehat she was planning but he didn’t really care He just used this as practice, if he ever e her normally

“You’re the best boss in the whole orld! Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to cook you so out in those cheap restaurants”

She wasn’t wrong, Roland hborhood and didn’t even care if the food was bland He even received a nicely cooked stew for his work that alht a smile on his face

So his life as a blacks slowly but he knew that if he continued he would finally be able to craft so special