Throughout the ages, whether in Rigal or in Crescent Continent, legends about various magical weapons have never ceased.
The indomitable silver-white divine spear; the holy sword with short hair; the warhammer that can give the person who holds it special strength and courage.
People yearn for such weapons and praise them one after another. The heroes in the stories always have a matching weapon. Sometimes even the process of obtaining them is so magnificent that you can't even tell whether it is the weapon that makes the hero or the hero. The hero made the weapon.
But from the perspective of an experienced Rigal adventurer, the authenticity of most of those legends is not particularly high.
In the eyes of experienced mercenaries, weapons are always consumables in actual combat.
No matter how careful you are, wear and tear will inevitably occur once you are in battle. The wooden handle will swell or shrink under the influence of weather, and the groove that was originally tightly connected to the sword stem will expand over time, causing looseness and shaking, affecting the feel.
Mercenaries who have no money often continue to use broken but not completely broken swords. Well-maintained second-hand weapons are also very popular, but they are still just "useful tools" rather than life-like precious swords. That kind of thing.
The sword is used to protect your own life. Even if you sacrifice it, as long as you survive, there will be weapons for you to pick up on the battlefield.
Even if their performance is not good, recycling and selling them can help you get the money to customize or repair your own weapons.
And those swords that are truly revered as national treasures, with handles made of gold inlaid with diamonds, and then carefully woven by craftsmen with 5 strands of silver wire into beautiful patterned scroll handles, and enshrined on the royal seats, are often not made of gold and iron. The taste.
Their luxurious but soft gold gauntlets, as well as the carefully carved patterns and inlaid gems on them, will deform and explode the moment they collide with the opponent's weapon - for the enjoyment of the world, and ordinary people can also be surprised at a glance. Due to its exquisite craftsmanship and its high price, it is the sword of the princes and nobles——
To put it bluntly, it has nothing to do with real magic weapons.
They are more like a status symbol, a decoration, and a show off.
Swords used in actual combat are destined to have a more simple yet beautiful appearance.
Simplicity, because every bit of size and weight must be spent - literally - on the blade.
A qualified sword must strictly control its weight, length and center of gravity. Achieve an overall balance in various aspects such as material strength, lethality, feel, and fatigue after long-term use.
Among the Rigal mercenaries, those who specialize in hunting Warcraft can use huge swords. These swords are often as long as the body or taller than the height, and some are astonishingly thick. Because they need enough stopping power to deal with huge and simple-minded creatures. But when fighting against others, especially when masters compete with each other, details often determine success or failure.
A sword with too much weight will quickly consume your stamina, while a sword with a center of gravity too far forward will make it difficult to pull back to defend after slashing.
Human beings do not have as strong surface defense capabilities as thick-skinned monsters, and a light and sharp sword is enough to cause fatal injuries.
Therefore, small differences such as weight and center of gravity and length can often make the difference between life and death.
No matter the sword or other weapons, they are all a tool, a bloody tool.
And people with tools that don't work well will be unable to do the job they have to do - which is to protect themselves or kill their opponents, the two are often synonymous.
The craftsman industry has certain norms and evaluation standards precisely because it has the experience of countless predecessors who shed blood and sacrifices as a reference, and this can be extended to the second item - elegance.
People who often come into contact with swords, even mercenaries with little education and illiterate, can tell the quality of a sword at a glance.
Because those mature and deadly classic designs have their own unique beauty, which is the beauty presented on the visual level by the optimal solution of a killing tool that has been tempered for thousands of years.
It is the countless predecessors who have gone through various designs with imaginative ideas and then gradually discarded the excess clothing in the cruel war of survival of the fittest, just like a dancer wearing only tulle lifting up her long skirt under the backlight of the moonlight. The hazy and unclear beauty that stirs people's hearts.
From the contention of a hundred schools of thought at the beginning of its birth, to gradually eliminating those backward and outdated designs in the baptism of blood and fire, it finally summarized a set of effective industry norms.
When today's Rigar people and Crescent Island people look at a Kazuto Utachi sword or a Rigar long sword.
What they saw was an individual, but behind this individual was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless designers, blacksmiths, swordsmen, and generals over hundreds and thousands of years of war.
It is the human race that is thinking about how to most efficiently massacre the same kind of knowledge and inheritance.
Regardless of whether they are called holy swords or demon swords, they are all deadly weapons. It is an existence full of monster colors, praised by people but also feared by people.
The elves have many artifacts passed down from generation to generation; the weapons and armor made by the dwarves enjoy a high reputation in human society.
Weapons made by more advanced races have been coveted by human warriors since the Bronze Age. In the early years when the five races had frequent exchanges, many people were proud to wear weapons made by dwarves - this is still not uncommon in some areas today. .
But among humans.
But there are indeed many stubborn bearded craftsmen who are so angry that they beat their chests and beat their chests. No matter how hard they try, they are difficult to reproduce. It is completely unimaginable why a generation of magic soldiers would be born from such a race with a lower average level.
Dwarves are persistent craftsmen who grind data to the extreme. A dwarf craftsman will spend four or five generations of a human blacksmith studying the appropriate processing temperature of a metal and trying to control it by various means. Rather than "just relying on luck and naked eyes like humans".
But data alone may not be enough for the birth of a magical weapon.
Data can give birth to a generation of famous products, and can give birth to high-quality products with stable quality and reputation.
However, the production of a rare magic weapon may require all the conditions of the right time, place, people, etc. to come together, and it will be produced in a mysterious and mysterious collision between steel and soul.
——And that is exactly what is going to happen in Fuso now.
As February enters the land of mist, the rising temperature brings water vapor that fills the mountains and fields, and the dazzling brilliance of the sun rising from the distant sea in the early morning is reflected in it. The craftsmen who had gotten up early rushed to the workshop after breakfast. After performing simple tool maintenance to confirm that everything was not rusted or corroded by moisture, they started working.
The man-made waterfall drives the waterwheel to bring down multiple heavy power hammers, simultaneously shaping several swords as a whole. The short but sturdy Hayato clan craftsman with dark blue hair and a face that looks nothing like Kazuto operates a huge and unique smelting furnace with many chimneys - this is a dwarf heritage from ancient times, and it is the same as the blood still flowing in their bodies. And it has been passed down to this day.
Inside the workshop with a ceiling of five meters high, a special heart-like furnace with a height of two meters adopts a complex and difficult-to-reproduce design for humans. Coal filled from the bottom will vaporize and rise to the top through special pipes. combustion chamber to prevent the carbon content from affecting the hardness of the steel.
The excellent heat insulation effect brought by the special ceramic material allows its combustion chamber to reach a high temperature far exceeding that of a human furnace - it can only be burned continuously at this temperature for more than 12 hours, and it is famous for being extremely difficult to heat up. The material Mithril, which is called "cold iron", can be softened and shaped by being heated red.
The performance of the material our Mr. Sage brought yesterday evening even far exceeded Mithril.
What the man who arrived at sunset reported to the workshop owner was an ancient code passed down from time immemorial.
The runes that lit up on the raised arms of the tall, black-haired stranger made these descendants of the craftsmen clan, who had forgotten their origins, feel the blood in their bodies boiling for some reason. They instinctively felt that those runes were so familiar, just like their infant mother's. Lullabies generally make people feel close to them.
After a few older people with white hair and beards hurriedly found the workshop owner, they were taken to a residential area where there were not so many soot and iron filings. The sage showed Kramer and briefly proposed to them The demand for a replica of the same model was revealed, and the materials he brought from the distant land of thousands of lakes were displayed.
Just one glance at the craftsmanship used on the sword's blade immediately made these master craftsmen ecstatic. Each of their names engraved on a sword can make its worth a hundred times.
"Such a beautiful texture of the ground is like a glimpse of mountains, rivers and crops."
"This was the work of the previous boss!"
For more than two hundred years, even the longer-lived craftsmen with dwarf blood have gone through generations, but their meager bloodline is integrated with human innovation and inheritance capabilities.
Aya looked at the dark blue hair color of these Hayato clan craftsmen who were about the same height as her and fell into deep thought. Is it still considered noble to exist in the Hayato clan as a symbol of Kazuto nobility?
In one of the folklore versions of the founding myth, the Earth Spider clan, which had obstructed the Moon God's descendants in every possible way during their journey to unify the Crescent Continent, finally married and combined with General Zuowei, the first emperor, surrendered to the orthodox Moon God bloodline, and He used his superb skills to forge many artifacts of the royal family.
But this legend, which became more and more authentic after learning that the Earth Spiders were what the Ligar people called dwarves, and meeting the characteristics of these Hayabusa craftsmen, was not widely accepted in the Crescent Continent.
The reason is probably due to the increasingly sensitive and fragile self-esteem of the nobles during the past four thousand years.
All things in the world were created by He people. If other nations also have them, then it should be natural that those created by He people are the highest.
This kind of arrogance and arrogance is indeed true in some fields, but in more cases it is just an expansion of the concept.
He Ren's achievements are great, this premise is how to define He Ren.
When a Kazuto praises the superiority of Fuso swords and armors, even the Hayato clan is a member of Kazuto in a broad sense; and when the Hayato clan, blocked in Fuso territory, tries to seek the same rights as Kazuto, they are divided again He came out and became the Hayato clan.
What was once tolerance, mutual trust and love has evolved into opposition and distinction. The top Japanese nobles sitting at the top have taken over all the glory, wealth and fame and achievements, but they have turned a deaf ear to the demands of the creators of these achievements and wealth. They separated and locked themselves in specific areas, divided into different groups and divided and conquered.
The meaning of the journey is to meet things you have never seen before, and to talk with people you have never talked to before.
Although the first purpose of this journey is to create a sword for our Luoan girl, it is also destined to have an impact they did not expect.
No matter what, after studying ancient books all night and thinking about how to start work, the moment morning came, these extremely excited craftsmen worked together to start a forging experience that might become an unforgettable experience in their lives.
