Chapter 80 Smelting
Although the energy storage crystal has a relatively small capacity, it is relatively common. Every time Jiayi wants to use it, it needs to be charged continuously for 7 or 8 days before it can fully accumulate magic power.
Jiayi came to the front of the high-temperature furnace. The stove was outside the house and built a shed to block the rain, and there was nothing else.
He had prepared the materials, charcoal, iron, and a grain of pure gold.
Essential gold is a particularly hard and wear-resistant magic metal, which is of great value. Jiayi begs his teacher and got a small pill about the size of a sesame seed.
No matter how many, my teacher will be reluctant to leave.
In these free time these days, Kaichi is practicing his "Master's Touch". Not only is he satisfied with picking up things, but he also tries to change the shape of his tentacles, no longer seeking strength, but only pursues accuracy and operability.
This is for shaping. Now, he can use his "Master's Touch 2.0" version to shape the wet clay into various shapes and perform various more detailed operations - such as tying a bean.
However, the shaping accuracy still cannot meet Jiayi's requirements.
Let's make do with it for now. The accuracy behind can be sharpened with a whetstone.
Jia Yi put the charcoal into the furnace and set the fire.
In fact, coke should be used, but he has never seen coal or coal mines, just charcoal.
Jiayi’s strongest ability is actually not cooking skills, but this kind of ability to make do with it.
When the temperature in the furnace rose, the magic array was opened, the flames rose again, and the temperature continued to rise.
He did not directly refine it.
Instead, he first released the "Master's Touch" and reached into the fire.
After a tentacle was burned by the flames, I felt that the magic and mental power on the tentacle were consumed quickly, at least 10 times faster than usual. After a while, the tentacle collapsed. In Jiayi's feeling, it was like the glass of the car window was broken and then broken into pieces.
This tentacle barely lasted for 4 or 5 minutes. In order to calculate the time, he did not input additional magic. If he inputs additional magic and mental power, each tentacle can be about 2 or 3 minutes longer. Even so, it will only take about 25 minutes to go on the four tentacles together.
I don’t know if there is enough time. He has always believed in practice to create true knowledge. Just try it if it is useful.
Use tentacles to extend the iron into the furnace. The temperature in the furnace is at least 3,000 degrees, but the steel can usually melt at more than 1,500 degrees. Soon, the iron begins to turn red and then slowly melts.
The steel has not completely melted yet, and the first tentacle can't hold on, so I immediately changed to the second one.
Put the second tentacle into the furnace, and the iron material is replaced on it. The first tentacle is dispersed and will no longer be maintained.
In this way, when the second tentacle was almost unable to hold on, the iron had melted into liquid state. He stirred the iron to allow the iron and air to fully mix, let the carbon react with the air, reduce the carbon content, turn pig iron into cooked iron, and then turn steel.
Finally, he took out the melted steel and spread it into a small piece. After it cooled down and solidified, he threw it into the water next to it.
With a "wa" sound, a small piece of steel plate was successfully made.
This steel plate is only the size of a palm (the part without fingers), and the thickness is about the same as the thickness of millet, and it is not very large. It is called a steel plate, but it should actually be called a steel sheet.
If this kind of small batch production had not been used for "The Touch of the Mage", most of the things would have been stuck to the container.
The surface of this steel sheet is not flat, with some slight protrusions on it, which appear silvery white.
The first step is to do this first.
He showed it to his teacher.
"Teacher, this is a steel plate I made with the hand of a mage. What do you think?"
Im took the steel piece handed over by Jiayi and used a detection magic.
"The steel sheet is very good, but the inside is not very uniform, and there are many tiny bubbles, which still need to be forged to use."
Im added a huge force technique to his hand, bending the steel sheet vigorously, and then released a wind blade to it, hitting the steel sheet. The steel sheet did not change much, but only a trace of about one millimeter was left.
After all, it is a steel plate several millimeters thick, so it is impossible to cut it open with a small wind blade.
Im continued, “Can you make larger steel plates now?”
"No, I can only practice this small piece with four tentacles. Maybe it can be bigger, but it won't be much bigger. It takes more time for the larger steel plate to melt and stir." Jia Yi said.
"If you can make large steel plates, you can make full-body armor, which is useful. Nowadays, it is not cost-effective. With this energy, it is better to make a bottle of magic potion. However, if you exercise more, you can be more refined or larger in quantity, and you will also have development potential."
Jiayi asked: "Which of these two directions is better?"
"More finer can be used as the base of magic items, such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc. Nowadays, unless the craftsman works as a jewelry craftsman, the craftsman needs to make it before inscribes runes and magic circles. Most of the good masters of magic items have several excellent masters of jewelry making to serve him. If he is heading towards a larger direction, it will be almost a blacksmith, making armor, big swords, etc.
"I suggest you develop in a more refined direction, which consumes more mental power and your mental power is more abundant. Moreover, if you want to make weapons, everything you refine needs to be forged."
Im said.
Jia nodded and said that he knew that he also wanted to develop in the direction of magical items. After all, magical masters are more rich. It is just that the materials and magic arrays for magical items are the key, and as for the base material and shape, it is not that important.
In the next time, Jiayi went to refine a piece of steel and tried it.
After each magic circle is activated, the magic stored in it can last for about an hour, but Jiayi himself cannot last for so long. After refining it once, Jiayi needs to turn off the fire and magic circle and rest for an hour and do it again.
In this way, after the second seven days, he made another metal plate. This time, it was not a steel plate. He found gold coins, silver coins, smelted steel and bronze to mix them together to make a metal plate, of which gold accounts for about half of the content.
Speaking of which, this metal plate can be said to be a collection of hardware essence (bronze contains tin), or 12k gold.
Speaking of which, if it is another metal, if the main metal contains only half, it will definitely be called an alloy, or a specific title should be added, such as steel, high manganese steel, and bronze. Only gold, which only contains half of the gold content, is also called gold, and at most it is called 12k gold. A higher content is called 18k, but it is all considered gold, not alloy.
After the metal plate was made, he forged the metal plate with a small hammer until it was only a thin layer, about the thickness of two sheets of paper.
Based on memory, Jiayi drew several figures on this thin 12k gold plate, with the front pointed and the back thick, and the end ended like a gun tip that has been reduced many times.
He gave Im the metal plate with the figures and asked him to cut it down according to the figures.
Im was curious about what he did, so he used a powerful wind blade to help him cut off the drawn figures, and a total of 12 metal pieces of this shape were cut out.
In fact, it’s almost done here, but Jiayi wants to be perfect and add some hard metal to the tip to increase wear resistance.
He asked for a piece of pure gold from his teacher, just to do it, but unfortunately the pure gold is too small, the size of a sesame seed.
With this little bit, if you want to increase the wear resistance of the 12 tips, you may have to make a coating.
He thought about it and said that he should use alloys and leave their power to fate. If the results are not ideal, would he have known the wrong direction?
He took out a small piece of gold the size of soybeans and melted it, and then melted the essence into it.
The essence gold is not only hard, but also has a very high melting point. Jiayi raised the heating array to the maximum. After overclocking, the flame began to turn blue before financializing the essence. At this time, the flame temperature was almost over 4,000 degrees.
When the gold essence alloy was finished, Jiayi no longer had the strength to continue doing it.
Chapter completed!