Broad World

The Field Hotel is located in the west of the town and is the most expensive place to spend in Belgost. Set bar, hotel and jiyuan in one. And there are also magic scrolls and a small amount of magic items for sale here.

Walking into the lobby, the entire hotel is not wrapped tightly in red. Red carpet, red tablecloths, even the ceiling is red. Coupled with snow-white marble pillars and some green plants, it gives people a noble and luxurious feeling.

"Although I don't know how the food tastes here, I'm sure they must be extremely expensive. Kegan, is your wallet ready?" Henry said with a teasing smile at the dwarf.

"Don't worry, I brought enough gold coins to go out today." As he spoke, Cagan found a table against the wall and sat down.

A beautiful waitress came over and asked, "Good afternoon, what do you two want to eat. Our specialties include charcoal-grilled steak, stewed pork with turnips, mushrooms in meat sauce, roasted whole chicken, and steamed fish."

"I'd like a charcoal-grilled steak and mushrooms in a bolognese sauce." Henry ordered two dishes at random.

"Give me some steamed fish, another roast chicken, and a bottle of winter wine."

"Okay, please wait a moment." After writing down the menu, the waitress turned and left.

"Kagan, you drank so much wine yesterday, do you still want to drink at noon today?"

"I ordered it just for you."

"But I never drink."

"Oh, there is no man in Little Henry who doesn't like to drink. You are still a little boy and you can't appreciate the benefits of wine. This is winter wine, and you will feel like you are in a world of ice and snow after taking a sip."

"Forget it, you don't want me to blow up your house when you're working in the afternoon." Henry still refused, he was a teetotaler before crossing. I never thought ethanol was good to drink. And as a mage it is better to stay away from alcohol, drugs and women. Many famous mages have fallen on this.

The food was served soon. Henry ate steak and mushrooms in pate in silence. Cagan drank winter wine while eating grilled chicken and fish. He also chattered to him saying that if he is a man, he should have a drink often.

A total of 5 gold coins were spent on lunch, which can be regarded as a sky-high price for a meal. Henry bought some blank scrolls by the way. After the dwarf paid the bill, the two began to walk back. Thirty minutes later I was back at Cagan's house.

The door to the basement was opened, and large pieces of dust fell down. A musty smell irritated the nose. Henry frowned and asked, "Kagan, your blacksmithing place hasn't been used for many years."

"Forty years? Or thirty years? I don't remember exactly. The blacksmith shop has not been used since it closed last time."

"Cleaning up here is really a big project." Henry saw the bellows covered with dust and spiders, punches, chisels, steel files, steel chisels, clamps and other tools piled up on the iron platform. Rusty. It won't work if you don't polish it.

"Let's start cleaning. Sprinkle some water first, and you will clean the grinding tools. I will clean the floor. Finally, I will clean the stove." Henry wrapped his head and face with a cloth and started to sprinkle water with a bucket. The dwarf picked up the grinding wheel and began to regrind and remove rust from various tools.

After three hours of hard work, the tools were polished to a gleaming finish. The dust on the tables on the ground was swept away. Furnaces were gutted and chimneys and bellows re-dredged. The two of them sat on the ground exhausted and panting.

"It's finally over. Tomorrow, buy some coal and some ore and start working." The dwarf shook the dust from his hair and beard vigorously.

"You still need a helper or apprentice." Henry said to Cagan, removing the cloth wrapped around his head.

"I want to learn dwarven forging techniques a lot. I can recruit a lot of apprentices who don't need a salary." When it comes to forging, Cagan said proudly.

"I think we need a shower now. Then go to my house for dinner. My sister is still waiting for you to tell her adventure stories."

"Haha, I like to tell adventure stories." The two stood up and walked towards the well with the barrel in hand. After washing off the dust and dirt on his body with cold water, he got dressed and came to Henry's house.

After greeting each other as soon as they entered the door, Lina came up and pestered Cagan to tell adventure stories. Henry helped his mother light the fire and prepare dinner. While the little girl was arguing with the dwarves about whether the diggers could jump up, Henry brought a large pot of chicken and mushroom soup to the table. Mother then brought bowls and bread.

Tired and hungry all afternoon, the dwarves stopped arguing, filled a large bowl of soup and ate it hungrily. Cagan took a big gulp and praised: "Lily, your mushroom soup is always so delicious."

The mother smiled at Cagan and said, "Thank you for your praise, and thank you for taking care of Henry. Although I don't know how your adventures are going this time, I think he must have caused you a lot of trouble."

"At the beginning, there was a little trouble, but then his performance was really amazing. Exquisite magic skills, good ideas emerged one after another. Otherwise, we wouldn't have earned so many gold coins this trip."

"Grandpa Cagan, that's not what you told the adventure story just now." The little girl punctured Cagan's cowhide again.

"Hahahaha, adventure stories are all exaggerated. The bard even told a story about a halfling fighting a dragon."

Lina rolled her eyes and muttered, "But you just said that you chopped off the heads of four diggers with one axe, and split the worm king in half with another axe."

"Pfft, cough cough." Henry couldn't hold back and sprayed the soup on the ground. Then he looked at the dwarf in surprise. This cowhide is blown too much. If only the insect king had not prepared three people at the beginning, he might have to confess to storing food for the insects in the cave. The cheeky dwarf didn't notice it, and continued eating and drinking.

Before leaving after dinner, Cagan told Henry to come back at noon tomorrow. In the morning, he was going to order some coal, iron ore, and combustion accelerant. After the dwarf left, Henry told his sister and mother exactly about the adventure. He didn't want his sister to be brainwashed by exaggerated adventure stories. It seems that when I was a child, I listened too much about Cagan's stories about taking risks and killing all directions to obtain the glory of treasures and embarked on this path.

Henry came to Cagan's house at noon the next day, and the blacksmith shop opened normally. A small sign reading the Hammersmith's Shop hangs above the dwarves' door. The first floor was transformed into a place for displaying weapons and armor. An apprentice in the basement was pulling the bellows vigorously, the wind entered the furnace, and the flames shot up in the furnace. With his bare upper body, Cagan clamped the red-hot iron to the anvil with pliers, turned the iron material tightly with his left hand, and hit the iron material with a special skill with a hammer in his right hand.

Henry stood by and watched quietly without speaking. After hundreds of beatings, the shape of a long sword gradually emerged. The dwarf picked up the sword embryo and put it into the water tank. With a "squeak", a burst of white smoke suddenly floated up, and the quenching was completed.

"Here you come, see that this is the basis of blacksmithing. First, you need to melt the ore to remove impurities and turn it into molten iron. Then pour it into a mold to form and cool it. The most important thing is repeated heating, forging and quenching. As far as ordinary materials are concerned, the more A good weapon needs to be forged more times. It can range from hundreds of times to as long as several months." Cagan explained to Henry the essentials of forging iron.

"You need to learn from the basics, the simplest ones first, and practice forging techniques." The dwarf said as he took the rough dagger. "Heat it first, and then hit it repeatedly with a small hammer on the anvil. Feel the strength with your hands, and stare at the shape with your eyes."

Henry also learned to take off his shirt and put on his apron. Pick up the blank with pliers and put it into the stove to start adding. When the iron starts to turn red and soften, take it out immediately, put it on the anvil, raise a small hammer and start forging. "Don't use too much force, beat evenly," Cagan instructed from the side. Once, twice. When I hit the fiftieth stroke, my arms felt sore and numb. Gritting his teeth, he persisted until the blank was punched into the shape of a dagger before being put into the water tank for the first quenching.

Henry dropped the tools in his hand and sat on the stool panting heavily, sweat dripping down his cheeks. The whole body is soaked. Cagan took a closer look at the dagger and said: "The first half is not bad, but the second half is uneven in thickness. Your endurance needs to be exercised. In the next few days, you will be responsible for hammering the rough, and you must have a good body for a blacksmith. Teaching you a dwarf's unique breathing method can save you a lot of effort."

Henry nodded after drinking a glass of water, picked up the blank next to him, took a deep breath while lifting the hammer according to the method taught by the dwarf, beat it four times and then took another breath. Sure enough, it was a lot easier. For the next seven days, he came to Cagan's smithy every day to beat the blanks. From the simplest dagger to longsword, axe, two-handed greatsword, spear point. His strong learning ability allowed him to learn the essence of forging and the timing of tempering in just seven days.

On the eighth day, Cagan began to teach him how to identify ore and remove impurities from ore veins. There are also annealing, normalizing, tempering and other processes and tell him how to sharpen the sword. And taught many alloy formulas used by dwarves. After studying for two days, Henry upgraded from the basement to the first floor and began to sharpen the forged weapons.

On the eighteenth day, Henry had learned all the forging techniques and procedures. "You are already a good blacksmith not inferior to me." Cagan said after seeing Henry's graduation work, a beautiful machete. This scimitar is made of high-quality fine steel, using several unique processes on the earth, using Baotou steel technology to carry out quenching and tempering several times for 2 days, and the blade is carburized. After experiments, it can cut ordinary iron swords without damaging the blade, and can cut through tough leather armor with a light stroke.

The dwarf made a beautiful scabbard out of shark skin, inserted the scimitar into it and gave it to Henry, and named the knife Liu Guang. Because the black blade is hidden when it is swung quickly, only the cold light of the specially treated blade can be seen. —————————————————————————————————

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