Since when? Blacksmithing seemed to be a way for Lu Yuan to exercise his spirit. Whenever he becomes impetuous because of something, or is hesitant about making a major decision, he will pick up the hammer and hit the anvil hard, which always calms down his emotions little by little... …
"...Master? Master Tyrande?"
"Ah?" Lu Yuan suddenly woke up from his meditation and found that Ella was looking at... the thing he was holding with iron pincers with strange eyes.
"Ahem", Lao Lu coughed twice awkwardly. Only then did he realize that the one-handed sword held in his pliers had been beaten into a thin piece without even realizing it. "That's it." Lu Yuan simply threw the iron pieces into the garbage heap, pulled out a steel sword from his oxcart, and put it together with the repaired weapons. .
"Work together!" Looking at the various iron tools that had been repaired for three consecutive days and almost piled up into a hill. Even if he has already stepped onto the holy level and sat on several worlds, he can still feel a full sense of accomplishment. He vigorously slapped away the accumulated coal ash on his body, causing the dust to fly and fill the small room with a choking smell. Then he laughed and packed up his tools, led the cow to the car, and prepared to hit the road.
"Are you just planning to leave like this?" Ella asked, shaking her head.
"Then what else? It's autumn now, and there's so much work on the farm. Do you have to call people back to see me off? I don't like to cause trouble to others... If it's convenient for you, help me and them later. Just say it. It’s still early, so I’ll take advantage of it.”
Lu Yuan didn't know why Ella chose to stay in this remote farm, and he didn't intend to care about it. Lu Yuan played iron for three days in a row, resting for up to four hours a day. This girl actually watched it for three days and was still very energetic! If it weren't for Lu Yuan's face now covered with stubble and a layer of black soot, Lu Yuan would have almost thought that Ella had fallen in love with him based on his persistence.
The forging technology in Skyrim Province is basically still in the late Middle Ages of the Earth. But in terms of the sophistication of the weapons, the standard weapons used by the elves and the imperial military, as well as the weapons passed down by the dwarves in ancient times, and even the weapons of the orc tribe, all have their own characteristics! After all, a large number of stable alloy formulas have appeared in Skyrim Province, and the materials of weapons alone are no worse than those on Earth in the late 20th century. The reason lies in the large-scale application of alchemy in the metallurgical industry.
Even someone like Lu Yuan built an iron smelting furnace with stones on a remote farm. There is no need for coking, not even a personal hair dryer - but as long as you sprinkle a handful of fire salt into the furnace when burning, you can increase the temperature of the furnace to a high temperature of thousands of degrees! Even the nobles in Skyrim eat coarse salt, but salt's equivalent magical minerals, such as fire salt, frost salt, void salt, etc., can be widely used in all aspects of the empire... I have to say that in the magical world, such unscientific things have to be Habit.
Fire salt can be said to be an artifact of the smelting industry. Unfortunately, there is only one shortcoming: it consumes a lot of coal... Coal burns quickly, and the ash is naturally large! Therefore, the blacksmiths in Tianji Province all seem to have their own disguise skills. They all look gray and gray all day long. The characteristics of the industry are very obvious! It is said that Gray Beard and White Beard were originally a family. Later, when they were choosing careers, a group of them became blacksmiths. Then they separated and changed their surnames to "Grey Beard"... Well, this is a cold joke that only blacksmiths understand.
In short, if Lao Lu can still be loved by a girl like this, then he might as well become the God of Cupid.
"I, no... I plan to leave too... No, what I want to say is," Lu Yuan suddenly prepared to leave, catching Ella off guard. She said some confusing words in a panic, and then realized that she looked very embarrassed. Ella stopped, took a deep breath, and forced herself to calm down. Then he asked, "What I want to ask is...how did you do it?"
Lu Yuan spread his hands for no apparent reason, and Ella patted herself in annoyance, then reached out and grabbed a very conspicuous double-sided ax from the pile of iron tools.
"Just like this axe. Before you repaired it, I tried to use this axe... and I found that the problem with it was not that it broke from too much use. On the contrary, this axe was used very little because of its center It’s biased!”
The double-sided ax is a traditional weapon of the Nords. But contrary to what ordinary people think, this rough-looking two-handed ax is actually far more difficult to make than a sword-type weapon. The core problem is how to ensure that the center of gravity is on the axis. Double-sided axes generally weigh more than 20 kilograms, and even heavier ones can weigh several hundred kilograms. If you want to use such a heavy weapon smoothly, the trick is to use the inertia of the weapon itself.
This requires that the center of gravity of the ax must be strictly located on the axis. Therefore, our common craftsmanship, such as hollowing out the ax blade and etching patterns, etc., are only one aspect of beauty and weight reduction. The more important function is to adjust the center of gravity.
The ax on the farm was obviously a blacksmith's experiment. After the failure, the blacksmith gave up his efforts to adjust his focus and simply got rid of the ax. Thinking about it, I know that if it hadn't been like this, I probably wouldn't have ended up in such a rural place.
but now……
Ella is better at using bows and arrows, and the double-edged ax is obviously not her thing.
But the ax was now in her hand. Just by picking it up and making a few movements, she could feel the ax sticking to her hand! The weight of the axe, which weighs dozens of kilograms, is transformed into the destructive power condensed on the ax blade during the swing, without interfering with its own strength at all - due to the Nordic people's enthusiasm for battle axes, this ax has now become Transformed into a magical weapon that everyone is fighting for! How on earth did you do it?
No, Ella felt like her head was messed up.
What she asked was not how Tyrande did it - it was simply that his craftsmanship was extraordinary, super divine, and super cosmic - but why Tyrande did it? ! It should be noted that this goes far beyond the scope of "doing good things easily". It is no exaggeration to say that no matter who the owner of this ax is, his destiny has been changed! Whether he sells it for a large sum of money, changes his profession to a warrior, or hides the ax as a family heirloom, his destiny has changed.
Think about how many villages like this Lu Yuan has visited in the past six months! Ella simply couldn't imagine what would happen next - on the one hand, she was inspired by some inexplicable excitement; on the other hand, she felt waves of panic, as if she was walking on the beach before a hurricane arrived...
"Ah, you mean that." She couldn't explain clearly, but Lu Yuan already understood what she wanted to ask. He smiled and explained while adjusting the harness on the cow. "How should I put it... I call it the 'power of choice'. When faced with misfortune, injustice, oppression, and exploitation, the common people in the past had no choice but to endure it silently. Some people may say that there is no need to leave the master here. There is always a place to stay. If you don't leave me alone, I will throw myself into... the Stormcloak. In fact, Ulfric is also a noble. The only difference between him and the past King of Skyrim is that his ambition is greater!
But now, when Xiaomin holds this ax in his hand, he at least has one more choice - he can choose to chop her to death! Haha~"
Ella couldn't help but laugh too.
"The person you made an appointment with hasn't arrived yet, and you still have a few days to spare. Let me give you a ride. There are dangers everywhere in Skyrim Province. It would be a pity for people like you to be eaten by any wild beast while walking on the road. "After Ella finished speaking, she stood beside the bullock cart without any explanation and held the reins of a horse. All she had was a small package and a longbow and quiver, and she was ready to go. "You don't think highly of Ulfric? He is respected by the Nords as the true High King of Skyrim."
Seeing Aila standing next to the horse, Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment. The day I bought this horse was when I separated from Alona. She had never ridden it... and she didn't know what she was doing now.
"Of course, Ulfric is just a man with empty ambitions. He relied on racism to fool a group of Nords. In fact, he built a castle on sand and it fell down as soon as he pushed it. In addition to hollowing out the empire, he made it In the end, if you fall under the sword of the elves, you will be useless."
"I didn't expect that your evaluation of him would be so low... What would you do if you were Ulfric?"
"I..." Seeing Ella sideways getting on the horse, Lu Yuan did not stop him and also got on the horse and left. "I will probably publicly announce from the beginning that I will unite all forces that can be united, vow to restore the glory of Talos, and completely drive the elves out of the continent again! I will not fight the empire, on the contrary, I will unite the empire! Not only must we unite The empire must also unite with the Redguards and Moretons! Not only must it unite with humans, but it must also unite with orcs and half-orcs, and even those dark elves!
Only by uniting all the creatures living on this continent can the elves be driven back to Summerset Island again! If necessary, we can even capture Summerset Island and completely destroy Thalmor! "
Ella was stunned by his words, but Lu Yuan rode forward without paying attention.
what is this? Just plagiarizing the wisdom of previous generations.
I remember that Taizu was still trapped in a corner, with only a few counties and less than 100,000 people. We are not afraid to tell the people of the country loudly that the purpose of our party is to unite all forces that can be united to drive Japanese imperialism out of China! Compared to Ulfric, who only knows how to fight civil wars and doesn't dare to give a shit to the invading Thalmor elves, I don't know how high he is!
"This idea of yours, haha~" Ella simply didn't know what to say. What Lu Yuan said was a bit impassioned, but it felt like she was listening to a book from heaven... What he said was completely contrary to the traditions of this continent! No one ever thought of it that way.
Isn't it a normal thought that "the times call for heroes"?
According to tradition, it doesn't matter even if the Thalmor elves rule this continent - sooner or later a hero will rise up in a series of legendary experiences - and then lead everyone, including the Redguards, Imperials, Nords, and Bu Together with the Leiden people, maybe they will be merciful and take the orcs, and then overthrow the rule of the Thalmor elves! That hero might be Ulfric, it might be Tyrande, the master blacksmith in front of you, or it might even be Ayla!
They don't know themselves, but they will still be pushed by fate and step by step onto the altar!
Of course, if you die on the way, then obviously - you are not that hero. Of course, it's possible that the hero hasn't been born yet...
This is not important, everyone can wait, because this is tradition - not only the people living on this continent firmly believe it, but also the invader Thalmor elves believe in this logic - the ban on belief in Talos is essentially a fear of risking it again. Come out with another Talos. If gods stand in the way, they will kill gods; if they stand in the way of Buddha, they will kill Buddha. This kind of fear is actually fear because of belief.
"By the way, Master Tyrande, where are you going next? I can at least escort you out of the Jellal Mountains. If you lend me the horse, I can escort you for two more days, as long as I can Just get back to the farm in time,” Ella said.
"Ah, I lived in Ximu Town a while ago. Then I went around a lake, which should be Lake Ilintana. After walking along the river for so long, I thought... we should be almost at Falkreath. Well? I still have a few old friends in the nearby Holy Land Town, so that’s where my next stop will be.”
"Master, others say you are a fool, but I will help you argue!" Ella bit her lower lip, her expression really depressed and sad. "You are probably talking about the Lake of Tears and the Cuiwa River. Falkreath is behind you... in front of us is Rift Valley City!"
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ps: The CPU fan broke the day before yesterday, water cooling is not a problem! The fan is still running, but because the pump is broken, the liquid is not flowing, so it cannot have a cooling effect - and I used it for several days, only to find out when it frequently crashed.
ps2: I replaced the air-cooled fan and it feels great! However, the CPU burned out for at least a week without a fan... I don't know how long this CPU can last.
ps3: None of the above is important. In short, bow and apologize.
