(eng) Michael Chatfield - Ten Realms 01 by The Two Week Curse

Author:The Two Week Curse [Curse, The Two Week]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 49

Chapter: Path of the blacksmith

“That’s about it!” Rugrat said in a happy voice as he patted Erik on the back. They’d been looking over a map that Rugrat had been updating and working to mark all of the positions of the different boar glitters that were around the town.

Even though they had been hunting for three days straight, they would only kill some forty boars a day, there were hundreds if not thousands in the surrounding area and they were moving closer to the town everyday.

Today it was Erik’s turn to lead out a group to the forest, Rugrat was heading off to the smithy to learn more skills and help in building up arms for the town.

Erik could only shake his head and wave him off.

“Go and play with your metal, buy what you need from the auction house.”

“Don’t get lost I don’t want to have to come and find you!” Rugrat said.

Erik flipped him the bird as Rugrat left the main town square, he followed the familiar path to the barracks and the attached smithy.

He saw guards training the town folk, they were shaky, but they were improving quickly, this was after all lessons that could help them defend their homes.

He walked up to the smithy where Taran was working on different crossbow mechanisms.

Rugrat waited until he had finished one before he cleared his throat.

Taran looked up with a frown on his face, his eyes caught Rugrat and his frown turned into a smile.

“Finally get free from hunting?” He asked.

“Erik told you?” Rugrat said.

“Yeah, let me know last night that you might be coming around to help em with the smithy,” Taran said, stretching out his back. “So, what do you know about smithing?”

“I have a good grasp of the concepts but I just haven’t got any of the basics.”

Taran nodded and waved Rugrat over.

“In that case I’ll start simple, we’ll make one of those spear heads first,” Taran took an ingot of metal from the side and placed it into the burning coals. “Do you know what the stages of refining a weapon are?”

“First, sourcing the materials, from the ores, where were they located, under what conditions did they appear. Then refining the materials, combining them and tempering them with other items to increase their power, strength, durability or innate abilities. Then there is the forming of the items, taking the refined materials and using different techniques to turn them into a finished and final product. This is broken down into shaping and tempering. Then if it is possible, the final stage is actually placing an array or formation on the weapon to give it further enchantments or abilities,” Rugrat said.

Taran grunted in agreement.

“This iron ingot here isn’t anything special, but we’re not making anything advanced and to be honest, what we need to focus on is heating up the iron so that we can forge it into what we want. Taran turned from heating the ore, then brought it out, using his tools and hammer

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