Chapter 177 - Commercial crafting (pt 1) (1/2)
With the entire front of this shack serving as a distraction aimed to deter any potential onlookers from looking deeper, the real content of the room in the very middle of the building was really rich.
Various ingots stacked against each other and pilling under the sturdy walls, three big forges and seven anvils, set of good quality tools hanging from the hook on the special stand… In short words, this place had everything that I could ever require to enjoy crafting!
Not willing to waste any time, I quickly fired up the forges with quick fireballs. Just the fact that entire blast got contained within the confines of the tool proved how intricate it was. If I were to do so back in the smithy in the sect, more than half of the energy would get transferred outside of the forge, making it a bit harder to start the fires.
As the coal started to slowly heat up, I sat on one of the stools for a moment, thinking about what kind of weapons should I make. While it sounds like a simple task since anything that would come out of my hands would be an insanely valuable commodity in this city, I wasn't just going to earn from it.
For once, I couldn't make any sabre. With the division of the sects by the weapons they were using, creating something that only the rival that I was aiming to hurt could use, would be simply meaningless. Even if I managed to sell it to someone else, sooner or later, it would fall in the hands of dracons, allowing them to learn about the entire scheme.
With that in mind, I threw the first few iron ingots into the crucible placed in the forge. Considering how noob's smasher sold for a big sum, using intricate ores like myrthrill or orichalcum would force me to make something of a quality that would prompt half of the city to investigate how did I get my hands on it! While creating a single piece far greater than anything that those countryside folks ever saw was okay, I had to limit myself to just a single piece of art!
As soon as the iron in the forge started to slowly melt, I ignored the slight pain and threw a single clomp of coal inside the liquid metal. While this way of creating steel would make its quality far worse than what I was capable of doing with my current ability, I had to create a fair bit of bad weapons to hide the real pearls among them!
With the mixture still in preparation, I searched through the stone forms lying around the place. After picking some of the most ordinary sword shapes, I lined them before grabbing the crucible with special pliers and pouring its content into the forms.
The second that last droplet of metal left the container, I placed it back into the forge, infused the fire with few surges of my energy and dropped a few more iron ingots inside. This time, however, I added quite a bit of more expensive metals inside, trying to control the quality of the future weapons by creating an uneven mixture of various metals.
As the metal started to heat up and slowly melt under the constant onslaught of the fire tongues emerging from between the burning coals, I rummaged through my storage ring, picking up quite a bit of different materials and ores.
Bogner, would you be so kind as to bring the item randomizer for me?