Iron Mage 2 by Rob Nolan

Author:Rob Nolan [Nolan, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-10T22:00:00+00:00

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Javron

On the second day, I was able to get up and move around a bit. I was still in great pain, so it was more like hobbling… but I was able to leave the hut.

As soon as I stepped foot outside, I knew I was in the Nether.

The ground glowed with phosphorescent moss, and there were numerous toadstools all around me. But there were trees as well, something I hadn’t seen before the battle at the island. Evris’s hut stood on the edge of a small forest. None of the trees had any foliage, though, and all of them were gnarled and twisted.

There were other things outside the hut. A small sled, for one, completely constructed of wood – even the runners. The straps were made of leather… or the hides of some animal.

There were harnesses for six ‘dogs’ – which I saw crawling along the bottom of a crystal-clear river that passed within forty feet of the house. Evris had been right; the ‘dogs’ looked like giant salamanders the size of wolves.

But mostly I stayed inside the hut, slept, and worked on my armor. I didn’t have any tools, but I didn’t need any. I had my powers.

The first thing I did was repair the massive dent in my breastplate, popping it out and smoothing it over like sculpting clay. Then I fixed a number of scratches and smaller dents.

Next, though, I had choices to make.

First I removed the mithril and adamantine bars from my armor. They came detached easily.

I played with them a bit, seeing how easy it was to work the metal. It was far more difficult than iron or steel. If iron could be manipulated as easily as warm butter, then the other two metals were like cold clay. But they could still be molded.

Mithril in particular was easier. After playing with a block for an hour, I realized that it could be thinned out to the width of several hairs, yet retain the strength of chain mail. That was something to consider when I made my upgrades.

The adamantine did not lend itself to such fine work – but once molded into a shape, it was five times harder than steel. Not only that, but it could withstand almost any impact without shattering. I knew because I tested it: I struck a bar with my gauntlet blades until I realized I was hurting the steel and not the adamantine.

The problem was, I had so many things I wanted to do, but only so much metal.

First was the issue of a visor. I’d had to guard my face the entire time I fought Kalos’s archers – a definite disadvantage. I would like to never have to deal with that particular problem again.

Second was, I would have loved to create an entire suit of adamantine, so that it couldn’t be caved in again like when Kalos broke my ribs. But there wasn’t nearly enough metal to do that. I would have to use what little adamantine I had to reinforce rather than forge entire new pieces.

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