The Witcher: Lord of the Elements

Now he is not Verek's little worker, but Verek's helper, apprentice, and Virek also has a good impression of Dole, and he did not refuse.

The outside stall of the blacksmith shop is the outermost one. On the left are all kinds of tools for life, such as kitchen knives, hoes, etc. A young man named Lin Rui looks at it specially. If there are customers, he goes out to introduce them. There are all kinds of swords, big swords for combat, rapiers for swordfighters in the warrior profession, broadswords for horseback riding, long spears, shields and other weapons.

In Dormont City, the most indispensable thing may be all kinds of weapons. Of course, most of these weapons are not sold domestically. Many caravans will come to collect them every year, and then sell them to other places. Therefore, most of the time, blacksmiths They will accumulate all kinds of weapons, then save them, and sell them when the caravan comes.

The folk customs in this world are tough, ordinary children are required to practice basic martial arts, so ordinary people sometimes carry weapons, so the sales of weapons are much more than the sales of ordinary tools.

Dole is now an apprentice. When the task is not very intense, he can learn to forge some small things from Virek, such as kitchen knives, scissors that are slightly more difficult, as well as hoes, sickles, and ordinary woodcutter axes.

The first thing he learned was a kitchen knife.

Although the kitchen knife looks easy, it is not easy. Although there is a mold, Dole completely messed up the first time he tried it. He used a small hammer, but even so, he still made the mold It snapped in two with a hammer.

At this time, Virek began to laugh at him, and then taught him many tricks.

Blacksmiths also have martial arts skills, and hammering is one of them. Dole was surprised when he heard this. A blacksmith actually wanted to learn martial arts, but then he saw Virek's skills in using hammers. There is more or less the shadow of hammering, so I believe it.

No wonder no one dared to come to the blacksmith shop to make trouble. These blacksmiths looked honest, but they were not good at it.

At noon, after the rest, Virek called Dole to the side of the iron felt, and said, "You are the apprentice that Brother Ha called for, so I won't hide anything from you here. There are three kinds of hammers in our blacksmith shop." There are two basic hammering methods and one low-level hammering method, which you will learn in the future. The basic hammering method is very simple. I usually use it when I make a lot of weapons. You must have observed it carefully. More to say, watch carefully, I will demonstrate it now."

He picked up a small hammer, clamped a discarded sword embryo with a clip, and smashed it on it. His movements were very interesting. He jumped up lightly, keeping his feet on the ground, and then the hammer fell heavily, landing on the sword embryo. However, his strength was not very great. After doing this three times, he changed his movement, still jumping lightly, keeping his feet on the ground, sinking his waist, and rounding his shoulders. After using his arms to the extreme, he bent his elbows , smashed down with a hammer, and the sword embryo shook heavily. After doing this three times, he changed another movement, but it was basically the same, only the severity changed. The last change was a light tap, but the movement Very quickly, very quickly, the knocking on the sword embryo was like beads falling on a jade plate, jingling, but very rhythmic.

After a total of seven movements, Virek stopped and asked Dole, "Do you understand?"

Dole was a little dazed. He touched his scalp and said, "Remember it."

Virek chuckled and said, "This is called light and heavy basic hammering. There are seven changes in total. You have seen it. There is nothing special about it. It is for forging, not for beating people. Just try it more. Usually Pay more attention to how I do it, and you have to weigh the embryo more, feel the center changes, and the thickness is even, so that you can create good things. You try more, I guess you can make a normal one at least a month Come out with a kitchen knife."

Duo Lai was a little discouraged immediately. It took a month to forge a kitchen knife, so when would he be able to become a real blacksmith.

However, he also knew that becoming a blacksmith was not so easy, since Virek was almost 30 years old and was a second-level blacksmith.

"I will try my best." He cheered himself up, and then carefully recalled the movements of Virek, a little muttered in his heart. These movements did not seem difficult, but they might not be easy to master. It's a practice that has been tempered a lot, and you can't be sloppy at all. If the force is not right after a few hammers, the embryo will be scrapped directly.If you want to eat this bowl of rice, you have to think hard about these things. Dole is clear about this point. Let's do it honestly. It's good to be full now, so why pick and choose.

Seeing Dole's appearance, Virek laughed.

At this moment, Brother Ha walked over and brought a person with him, and said to Virek, "Verek, here comes the business, this customer wants to make a sword, how can he ask for it, how can you do it! It was handed over to you."

Virek yelled "Okay" loudly, agreed to this matter, and then observed the people.

Chapter 15 Tailored

Observing the user of the weapon is the first element for a blacksmith to create a weapon for a customer. Height, arm length, and the proportion of the waist, shoulders and hips are used to judge the characteristics of the weapon used. Tailor-made is something that blacksmiths must learn.

Virek took a closer look at the person who came. He was wearing a strong black suit, which exposed his figure, which made it easy to observe his figure. He had long legs, long arms, and sharp eyes. He murmured in his heart, this person It can't be an assassin, right? It's true that with this body type, only a narrow rapier and a fighting sword can exert its greatest power.

Long legs, good for agility, quick movement, long hands, can stab, sharp eyes, can observe the weakness of others, and hit every hit. This person is either an assassin or a swordsman who has lived in the duel field for a long time.

Virek observed it first, and came to such a conclusion, and this person's appearance is also very ordinary, which also fits one of the three elements of an assassin.

He smiled honestly, "My lord, you can explain in detail what kind of sword you need."

The man in black nodded calmly, his eyes lingered on the two of them inadvertently, and then said, "Whether you are good at sword fighting or stabbing, I want to see both."

"We are good at fighting swords here. I have a pattern that I made before. You can refer to it first, and then decide how?"

The man in black nodded, "Yes."

Virek gave Dorai a look, then reached out and touched his eyes, meaning to observe carefully, and then took the man in black outside to see the appearance of those swords.

Dole nodded slightly, and then watched carefully from the side to see what Virek did and observed his details.Although he has only been working for a few days, he has learned a lot about observing words and expressions.

He quickly realized by intuition that this man in black was probably not simple. His figure, arms, and legs were all very slender. He had only seen such a figure around the nobles passing by the roadside. The sword fighters raised by the nobles are specially used to fight swords for fun. This kind of people are generally very strong, and they lick blood every day, even if they are not strong. Stewardship is much, much stronger.

Dolly's eyes warmed up.

The style of fighting swords is very simple. It is a round iron rod with a sharp point in front, which is very good for thrusting, but it has no other functions. This style of sword has only one function, which is thrusting. To prevent it, his role lies in the fighting between those nobles, and it will not easily hurt people's lives.

After watching many sword fights, the man in black finally chose a long-handled two-handed sword fighting style, and then re-made it according to his height, arm length, etc., which is not difficult for the blacksmith. home skills.

After determining the style, appearance and main functions, the man in black left the stage and waited, while Dole and Virek began to enter the stage.

The two set fire one by one, and the other went to the back to get the materials, and soon began to work. This time, Virek was not building alone, but explaining to Dole what to do during the building process while building.

Since the opponent's strength is unknown, it looks very strong, and Virek can only do level [-] sword fighting at best, so he has to use all his skills.Virek did it with great care, and all the details were in place. Senior fighters have already come into contact with fighting spirit and need the blessing of fighting spirit, so they have very high requirements for the material of the fighting sword itself. Introduce in detail, especially the relationship between the various occupations.

"A warrior apprentice is able to use a martial skill proficiently, cultivate the flexibility of the body, and after reaching a certain level of physical strength, it is called a junior warrior apprentice. The junior warrior mainly strengthens the bones, fascia and internal organs, and strengthens the body again. The intermediate warrior apprentice strengthens the bones and internal organs. After becoming a senior warrior apprentice, he began to get in touch with fighting qigong, introducing fighting qi seeds, and strengthening the body. The main thing here is to strengthen the bones, muscles, and strength. The strength of senior fighters is about three times that of ordinary people, so when building weapons, try to It is very strong, otherwise when people break it when they use it, they will smash their own signboard."

Dole nodded. He knew how powerful senior fighters are. The squadron leaders guarding the gate of the city are all apprentices of intermediate fighters, and the captains are all apprentices of senior fighters. They are very powerful.

When blacksmiths forge weapons, they fold and forge as many times as possible, and use the amount of forging to make up for some subtle problems in the forging process, and the flexibility and strength of weapons forged many times will be greatly improved. Forging itself is an advanced technique of forging.

From 27st to 27th blacksmith, you are a first-level blacksmith, from [-]th to [-]th blacksmith, you are a second-level blacksmith, from [-]th to [-]th, you are a third-level blacksmith, and from [-]th to [-]th, you are a fourth-level blacksmith, but in a small city like them There are basically no fourth-level blacksmiths here, and the third level is the limit. The real fourth-level blacksmiths have long since disappeared here.

Duo Lai has now learned the hammering method, which can be regarded as a martial art, and has changed from a commoner to a trainee warrior and trainee blacksmith.

Virek used the best materials, rattled for a while, and quickly produced the appearance of a fighting sword. The man in black was not in a hurry, and while observing where the two were forging the sword, he looked at Around, Virek's skills are undoubtedly good, but while doing it, he also needs to teach the kid how to build it, which makes him a little curious.

So, his attention was on Dole.After observing for a while, he found that the little guy was in good shape, with long legs and long hands, and it could be seen that he exercises regularly and has enough strength, he is a good seed for sword fighting.

However, he just felt that for a child like this who came out to work very early, his family could not afford to learn martial arts. Even if he was taught, no one would teach him fighting qi skills in the future, and he would not have much future.Learning martial arts is very expensive, and the food and drink are different from ordinary people.

These thoughts flashed through my mind.

After about three hours, a fresh, hot fighting sword came out of the oven. After testing, the man in black nodded in satisfaction, then paid the money and left. He also gave Virek some extra tip, which was a silver coin .

This silver coin naturally fell into Virek's pocket.

This is also a major source of income for them as blacksmiths.

In this scene, Duo Lai was a little jealous, it was a silver coin, but he had never touched a silver coin.

Seeing Dole's gaze, Virek was a little amused, took out the silver coin from his pocket, and said, "Here, let me touch it."

Dole smiled awkwardly, didn't answer, but went to the stove on his own.

Virek laughed, put away the silver coins, looked at Dole's back and said, "Little guy, practice hard, when you can make some small things, you won't be short of money."

Dolly nodded vigorously.

As an apprentice, in addition to helping the master blacksmith who taught him, he can also use some leftover materials to practice his hands. No matter whether the things he makes are good or bad, they cannot be counted as his own, but the assets of the blacksmith shop. After all, burning fire is also necessary. Coal, and the time to use the iron stove is also limited every day, it is impossible to use it unlimitedly.

Chapter 16 Learning

The best time to use the stove is when the master blacksmith has just finished using the stove. When the stove is still hot, he can use the fire to make some ordinary farm tools that ordinary iron blocks can make.

Doré naturally needed to use the stove just now, and soon there were clanging sounds in the blacksmith shed.

Virek was resting while instructing Dole, and quickly nodded. This child is very good, it depends on how much understanding he has.

The most senior blacksmith in Mondo City is only level three, because from the second level to the third level blacksmith, the blacksmith needs to have a certain foundation of fighting spirit. After having a foundation of fighting spirit, he has to use fighting spirit to draw various Formation patterns, being able to use battle energy to attach formation patterns to weapons, this is the main criterion for whether a shackle blacksmith can be promoted.

However, most of the blacksmiths in Mondor City are only second-level. A large part of the reason is that it is easy to get to in all aspects, but it is hard to find the fighting qi skills. The price of fighting qi skills in any blacksmith shop is clearly marked, and at least 20 gold coins are required. And it's still the lowest level. After working for so many years, Virek has only saved 10 gold coins. On the one hand, he has to subsidize his family. Accumulating 20 gold coins is nowhere in sight.

He didn't tell Dolle about this, for fear of hurting his confidence.

However, this child has a good point. He is used to living a hard life. As long as he can survive, he will be very happy and content. He is a good boy.

Soon, it was time to eat.

Although Dole worked hard at the blacksmith shop and had a lot of activities, it was comparable to being in the mine. When he got off in the morning, his arms and waist were sore, but one advantage was that he had enough food and meat to eat. Dole hadn’t eaten for a long time Overcooked meat, so it doesn’t matter if it’s hard or tired, anyway, I’m very happy at the end of the day.

When he has free time, he can forge iron whenever he has the opportunity, and practice basic hammering techniques, which is quite comfortable and can also strengthen his body.

Soon, the day passed and it was time to get off work.

Turn off the stove, turn off the flame, and put away the tools.

After a day of hard work, Dole can bring back the small hammer he can use today. In Virek's words, to use a good tool, you must be familiar with the tool. When he first started building, he slept with a small hammer in his arms at night. Sleeping, closer than a daughter-in-law.

Saying goodbye to Virek, the other blacksmiths, apprentices, and Brother Ha, Dole stood at the door of the blacksmith shop, waved goodbye to them, turned around and glanced at the slightly dark city, watching the light of the setting sun gradually fading away. There is a feeling of loneliness.

The blacksmith shop was very lively, but he was alone when he went back at night. On the not-so-quiet avenue, his expression gradually changed from joy and happiness to indifference.

This is him alone at night.

Looking at the somewhat dark road, he murmured to himself, if that dog doesn't come tonight, he will beat him to death with a small hammer if he comes.

He tightened his clothes and tucked the small hammer into his wide sleeves.

Stepping into the avenue, Dole's lonely figure quickly disappeared by the side of the road.

The slums are not far from here. Walking into the slums, a familiar and friendly feeling arises spontaneously. Walking through the canal, Dole quickly saw his new home.

As he walked, he looked around quietly. There was no suspicious person. When he came to the door, he quickly opened the door, then entered, and closed the door. The three actions were done in one go.

At this time, Otto the Dog was already waiting at the door, and as soon as Dolly came in, Otto the Dog was running around around him.

Dole patted the dog's head and played with it for a while, then took the food out of his body and put it in front of Otto the dog.

The food inside the blacksmith shop was much richer than the food outside, he wrapped it in paper, and it was still warm at the moment.

The dog Otto opened the oil-paper bag by himself, and quickly finished eating. After eating, he bit the oil-paper bag and took it outside.

Dolly was amazed, this dog Otto is really a genius.

After finishing this matter, he closed the door, took out a candle from his arms, and prepared to study hard. Take a good look at Naruye's story book. While reading, he looked up the dictionary and knew the characters in it. It is a very slow process, there are too many unknown characters, and sometimes the words in the dictionary are not recognized and need to be looked up, which causes him to read very slowly, very slowly.

However, Dole still read with relish, and the only sound left in the room was the sound of breathing and the sound of turning the pages of the book.

He also discovered a phenomenon, that is, when he was studying, the dog Otto would not bother him at all, lying there very quietly, his eyes seemed to be full of... wisdom.

Dolly felt as if his head had been flooded, and the idea of ​​a dog being intelligent was a hell of a thing.

He was quickly attracted by Naruye's story, and then sank into it.

This is a very great character, also very powerful, the most important thing is that he is very smart, from a small family son, learning martial arts, and then to learning witchcraft, he is very good at using his brain, making rapid progress, and then Step out of the manor, into the world, step by step...

Duo Lai looked at it for a while, and the candle burned out quickly. He sighed, then put down the book, and began to practice the fighting posture. He found that this standing posture is actually effective. After practicing for at least a few days, he felt light all over his body. The movements are coordinated, so I plan to practice for a while before going to bed every day.

After reading Naruye's biography today, I am very interested in this fighting posture, because Naruye has laid a good foundation with this fighting posture.In order to deal with Otto's bastard, Dolle had to seize every opportunity to improve his abilities and improve his abilities.

In this way, he practiced a few movements back and forth until his legs became numb and his arms felt sleepy. Then he rested and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The hell dog Odo got up from the ground, saw Dole who was already asleep, quickly put away his drooping ears, straightened them up, and put away all the dog's state at the same time.He glanced at Dole, and a mouthful of light spewed out from his mouth, landed on Dole's body, and soon disappeared.

The door opened automatically at this time, and Otto the dog slipped out quietly.

In the past few nights of investigation, he has roughly determined that there is a small magic crystal vein in the depths of the iron mines in Duomeng County, which has not been discovered by people or monsters from all walks of life. He only needs to occupy it himself. After absorbing it, the injuries on the body will almost heal.

In the past few days, the injury has been slowly getting better, almost recovering to one-thousandth of the level, but this is still too slow.

This place in Duomeng County is still too remote, and the resources are too exhausted. If it is placed in the Demon Realm, such injuries will recover within three months at most.

Of course, the premise is that he must survive on the spot. With the tyranny of the creatures in the demon world, even if he can survive, he may be eaten by any creature he encounters, let alone picked up and raised by others. It may not be possible.

Thinking of this, his gratitude to Dorai became more and more profound. Thanks to Dorai, when he was about to die, he reluctantly gave him a vegetable ball. Who would have thought that the majestic hell dog would rely on a human being? The cabbage survived.

Sometimes life is so funny.

He quickly left Domon City, ran along the forest next to the official road, quickly entered the mountain range of the mine, and then continued to move forward. As long as he found the ore vein, he would not be far from recovery.

Otto the dog is very confident in this point.

In the early morning of the next day, Dole woke up from his sleep. After a night's rest, he felt energetic and motivated. He reached out and grabbed the small hammer and smashed it in the air a few times, feeling very energetic.

Another happy day has begun.

Wash and go to work.

Chapter 17 Forging

Soon came to the blacksmith shop, came to Verek's forging furnace, lit a fire, and prepared all kinds of things. At this time, everyone began to come slowly. Dole greeted them one by one, and then passed on the message, Get ready for breakfast.

Dolle is used to coming early, but it made other people complain that this little thing came too early. Along the way, he was kicked several times and there were a few laughs, but Doley also knew that these people He was talking about him verbally, with a smile on his face, just playing around, the whole blacksmith shop was like a big family, very warm.

After coming here for a few days, he also knew the real details of this blacksmith shop.

Director Harley, responsible for all management matters, staffing, etc. of Corvo's Blacksmith Shop.

There is one third-level blacksmith who sits in the lobby at the back and rarely makes a move. There are three second-level blacksmiths, Virek, Santis, and Morley. There are five first-level blacksmiths. Dole only remembers a few names. Ike , Batty, etc., every blacksmith has helpers and apprentices, adding up, there are more than [-] people in the entire blacksmith shop. In Dormont City, Lao Ke’s blacksmith shop is considered medium, and the blacksmith shop has an official background. When the top blacksmiths are free, they are building and repairing various military products, and the same is true for Virek, so Dole saw many standard weapons.

After eating, Virek sat on the iron stool, picked his teeth, and watched Dolle busy. He hadn't seen such a diligent young man for a long time.

"Dole, I'm fine this morning. I want to test your basic hammering skills." He said with a smile.

Dole turned around, his eyes lit up, and he said, "I've only practiced for a few days, but I've got the feeling, let me show you a demonstration?"

Virek nodded, and said, "You try to hit a hoe first."

Dolly nodded.