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chapter: 219
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Be the savior to the one who only you can save
The Sword of Thunder - first stage
The next day, after completing daily routine of fetching water, grooming, breakfast and worshipping at the altar, I began work on the yesterday’s Apoitikara cut-out.
This time, instead of mixing it I’m making a form of a sandwich of Apoitakara with steel. The idea is that if you sharpen the edge in this state or rather attach a blade the apoitakara part should be exposed as a blade .......
So far, no notification that cheat skill can't do it, so I think things will go as planned.
If it doesn't, we'll have to start over but I hope it doesn't come to that, just thinking about what to do with the sandwiched Apoitakara at that point is a headache.
To begin, Apoitakara cut is heated in a fire pit and the processing temperature is determined by cheat skill.
Heated metal usually glows red-white. That was also the case with Mithril. But Apoitakara glows blue.
Usually, blacksmiths can tell how hot it is by its colour, Fire and metal.
It would be quite tricky by that method to work here. It is possible that only a few can handle it in this world.
One acquire it by making certain of the temperature that you can process by experience. It’s hard to relearn it.
「It's beautiful.」
I muttered unintentionally. A gleam of blue shimmered—unnatural, as if the colour had been carved out of the world just in that one spot.
「So it's not like Mithril, either.」
riku responded to my mutterings. She stares at Apoitakara (T.N: I’m changing it to Apostille ore), glowing blue under heat.
「I guess so. It's going to be tricky to remember these colours.」
I can tell by cheat skill help which is fine, riku can’t. Still, as a dwarf she might recognize it better.
「I'll do my best to remember. It's a rare opportunity.」
「Oh, go for it.」
It is not likely that you will be able to buy something that costs two gold coins.
It’s not a matter of the money I can afford—it’s about how things are distributed. If the price is absurd, that tells me it was never meant to be accessible. And if we’re talking cash on hand, I’ve got enough for what it’s truly worth.
Once it reaches a temperature at which it can be processed, remove from the firebox and place it on the anvil and hammer.
I’d feared it might absorb magic power and harden, but that didn’t happen. It’s different from Mithril. It begin to emit a little phosphorescence with each tap while steadily absorbing the Magic power.
However, it is not getting harder and harder with each tap, but it is awfully hard at beginning. It is so hard that I think it is harder than mithril when it contains a lot of magic power.
The temperature drops quickly, reaching a temperature not suitable to work.
This means that it takes a lot of work just to extend it a little. Just a little extension and I put Apoitakara back on the fire floor again.
「If I had to make it with just this one knife, it would probably cost me no less than 10 gold coins.」
I chuckled to myself as I heated up the Apoitakara on the fireplace.
Then Helen, who had been watching the work as closely as riku, said.
「You could get 20 pieces. 」
「Really?」
「Oh! Weapons made of unusual materials are overpriced to begin with. And if you add Eizo's quality to that I think the price is sky-high. Even with my fee, the price is unaffordable but I'm sure there are plenty of people who would still like to have it.」
「I see. I'll use that as a guide for future pricing.」
These days, I wholesale almost everything I make to Camillo and he buys it from me at his asking price.
Of course, this is based on the trust that they will not price the item strangely, but it may be easier to buy such an unusual item if I tell them the price, and my motto is they pay what they think is the worth for special order items.
I'll have to learn a little bit at a time with the help of Helen, who is a mercenary and knows the price of this kind of thing very well.
After repeatedly taking it out of the fireplace and tapping it, I finally got it to the length I wanted by evening.
Splitting it into two was the struggle, but probably fortunate that the effort was not so great in extending.
Thus ended the first day of Helen's new sword-making project.
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