Vol 3 Chapter 42: , the weapon forging competition-the competition is heating up!

At this time, most of the twelve contestants have started to quench and harden the blade. After quenching, they can start to make the scabbard and handle. Player number three was still leading the way, and his strategy gave him the best advantage early on. And with the progress of the competition, compared with the other players, he has widened the gap with the excellent forging skills of the third player.

The oak handle and scabbard of contestant No. 3 have been cut with a small hand saw, and the place where the sea fish skin roll is wrapped on the scabbard with a sharp carving knife. The first made oak handle is considered complete after the heated blade handle is inserted at high temperature. Immediately afterwards, contestant No. 3 took out the sea fish skin rolls he had prepared earlier, carefully planned the size of the sea fish skin rolls with a measuring ruler, and then cut the sea fish skin rolls into strips of different lengths with a tool cutter.

Contestant No. 3 separates sea fish leather strips of different lengths, and piles some of them next to the scabbard as the outer decoration of the scabbard. A section is stacked separately to serve as a strap for securing the scabbard. Part of it was pulled down the side of the machete, ready to be wrapped around the handle.

Beside him, the glue pot used for gluing various things has been prepared by the church staff, and the animal glue in the glue pot is gurgling and rolling slowly.

"Look, everyone, No. 3, the fastest player, has begun to wrap the handle of his machete with decorative leather. He also plans to wrap the oak scabbard with fish skin, and he plans to use the same strap to fix it. Made of fish skin. The sea fish skin roll chosen by contestant No. 3 is the skin of a deep-sea fish that came from a long-distance journey from a neighboring country in the south. It is said that it is the skin of a huge and fierce sea fish that can overturn fishing boats. I believe that contestant No. 3 This machete work will also be a very ferocious sea fish."

Contestant No. 10 is also carefully handling the tibia of the cow. He will use this section of ox shin bone as the handle of his machete, he must carefully make a gap in line with the base of the handle, so that the handle and the handle can fit together perfectly.

Compared with other materials, the production of bone materials has a long history, and his family has always preserved this ancient skill. Although he doesn't have a deep understanding of this skill, he is full of confidence in it and believes that the final product will amaze many audiences who like it.

Even if he didn't win the competition, it would be good if Mr. Grimm, who is one of the judges, likes this kind of weapon work full of primitive and wild style, so that he can get in touch with the president of the Galloping Horse Chamber of Commerce. I believe that his development will have a broader world in the future.

Contestant No. 7 finished heating the knife blank that he had used the chimera technique on the stove. He carefully heated the entire knife blank evenly to avoid uneven heating inside and outside the knife blank. When he used this technique before, what he was most afraid of was the crack and chipping of the blade caused by uneven heating.

The cracks are easier to deal with, and can be repaired with minor repairs, but once the cracks occur, the lapis lazuli inside the blade will be exposed, so this weapon cannot be repaired no matter how you think about it .

Therefore, contestant No. 7 repeatedly checked the heating situation on the surface of the knife blank. It is best if all places emit red light evenly. The heating should not be overheated. If there is a yellow hot light on the knife body, it means that it has been heated. The reason is simple, his machete is made of two kinds of metal inside and out, the outer layer is steel, and the inner layer is lapis lazuli. The melting temperature of iron is very high, and the stove provided by the church in the competition cannot reach the temperature of melting iron. The inside of the blade is a layer of lapis lazuli liner, and the melting temperature of this iron ore's associated ore is not very high.

Contestant No. 7 discovered during the home experiment that the melting temperature of lapis lazuli is exactly the temperature at which iron is heated to glow red. At this time, the outside of his knife embryo was glowing red, but the guts inside were melted lapis lazuli, and the lapis lazuli had already been hammered into the inside of the blade during the forging process and could not be leaked out.

Contestant No. 7 did not come to the quenching oil tank used by many people, but planned to quench it with water. His move greatly attracted the attention of Bordeaux Shepherd, the organizer of the competition. The Bordeaux shepherd has been paying attention to the forging process of the No. 7 player. After all, the No. 7 player's forging plan has never been done in Kendall City. The idea of using lapis lazuli as the inner liner of a weapon has never been tried before. He wanted to see what kind of innovation this player could bring him.

Contestant No. 7 found in the previous experiment that since the inside of the weapon is high-temperature molten lapis lazuli and the outside is relatively low-temperature iron, no matter how he quenches it with quenching oil, he cannot produce satisfactory results. In the end, he took a risk. He didn't expect that although quenching with water may be scrapped, there is always a chance to complete the work perfectly. Some of the inexplicable laws also allowed him to master some. Although he didn't understand the principle, he finally mastered this technique.

Use water to quench this thing, and you can't put the knife embryo in slowly. On the contrary, he wants to quickly immerse the knife blank in water, so that the entire shell of the knife blank can be hardened quickly, and the high temperature inside cannot be released in any direction. Moreover, this quenching process is also very long, and the lapis lazuli inside the knife embryo must be allowed to cool naturally.

The Bordeaux shepherd saw that contestant No. 7 put the whole knife embryo into the water tank, then observed the knife embryo through a small amount of bubbles boiling in the water, and then left it alone. The man went on to make the handle and scabbard of the machete.

The Bordeaux shepherd's curiosity arose. He really wanted to know why the No. 7 contestant put the knife embryo in the water tank to quench it and then left it alone? What is the reason here?

Hey, but this is the private technology of other craftsmen. Player No. 7 is willing to display it on the field. It is his own decision. The point is, that's completely impossible.

It's a pity, but Bordeaux Shepherd will wait and see the final result of the No. 7 contestant's work first! After all, if it is just a new and weak technology, although it provides a new forging idea, it is not very useful.

After all, the truly powerful weapons in the world today are god-given weapons, divine power weapons, and magic weapons. Some of those weapons are really powerful things that can destroy the army and destroy the country, and that is the real strongest forging technology.

After all, Kendall City is a small city on the edge of a small country on the edge of the border. Everyone here holds a weapon forging competition. In fact, it is just for self-entertainment. The celebration competition is just a conceptual tool to attract people to believe in the God of Great Craftsmen. Regarding this point, he had already made it very clear to him when the God of Craftsman gave him the apocalypse in his early years.

Contestant No. 5 finally finished his folding forging knife blank, and then he couldn't wait to run to the stove to heat it up. After all, he is now the third last player in the forging process among all twelve players.

Although Contestant No. 5 was very satisfied with his work, the tight schedule still made him hurry up. After the knife blank was put into the furnace, contestant No. 5 didn't waste time waiting. He ignored the knife blank that was slowly heating up in the furnace, but directly started making the handle and scabbard.

The practice of No. 5 contestant made Crow Knight question: "Bordeaux shepherd, is this No. 5 contestant's jumping directly to making the hilt and scabbard without quenching is a violation of the rules of the competition? "

The onlookers were also divided into two factions regarding this question. One group of people believed that there was nothing illegal about it. After all, contestant No. 5 did not skip the quenching step directly, but the heating of the quenching and the making of the handle and scabbard were carried out at the same time. .

The other group of people think that other players did not do the same, which means that it is wrong to do so, and it should be a violation of the order of the game. If they are all the same as contestant No. 5, then it would be better for everyone not to design blueprints first, but to grab good raw materials and a good forging table first.

After discussing in a low voice with the other two judges, Bordeaux Shepherd finally made a judgment: "The move of contestant No. 5 is a small violation of the general process of the competition. Although there was no such thing as quenching and heating while making other weapon accessories before. , but this fact is actually a violation of the overall process of the competition. Therefore, I am here to represent the organizer of the competition - the Church of the God of Craftsmanship, to make the fifth player stop working immediately and concentrate on waiting for the blade to heat up. "

Hearing the Bordeaux shepherd's decision, contestant No. 5 breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid of being directly deprived of the right to compete just now, because it would have a great impact on his reputation. Now just stop the work at hand and let him wait quietly for the stove to heat the knife embryo, which has already made him very satisfied.

Putting down the materials and tools in his hand, contestant No. 5 obediently returned to the stove, waiting for the end of the heating.

Contestant No. 12 finally finished the forging work of the thick machete exhaustedly. He hurried to the wooden platform, picked up a can of water and drank vigorously. Contestant No. 12 drank water so hard that the three judges unconsciously picked up the small water glasses on the table and drank.

After drinking enough water, contestant No. 12 seemed to remember that his knife embryo was still on the forging platform! He hurried to his forging table again, picked up the thick machete embryo, and put it directly in the center of the furnace~www.mtlnovel.com~ Contestant No. 12 wiped the sweat from his body with a clean linen cloth, and then simply Disliked that the clothes on his upper body were soaked and uncomfortable, he took off his entire shirt, went to the blower, and pulled the handle of the bellows himself.

The howling air blows into the stove, and the No. 12 player shouted to the staff in charge of the stove: "Add coal!", and the staff added a large amount of coal to him at the right time, causing a fierce and hot flame to rise in the stove .

Contestant No. 12 sang loudly while pulling the lever of the bellows: "Hey! Hey! Pull up! Bellows!"

"Hey Yo! Hey Yo! Push up! Pull the lever!"

"Hey! Hey! Blow up! The wind is coming!"

"Hey Yo! Hey Yo! Light up! Flames!"

"Hey Yo! Hey Yo! Heat! Steel!"

"Hey! Hey! Forging! Weapons!"

"Hey! Hey! Protect! Home!"

Some family members of the onlookers unconsciously sang along with contestant No. 12. The atmosphere at the scene made the Bordeaux shepherd very happy, and the young host, who was a trainee shepherd, also sang the song of the apprentices pulling the bellows again loudly with a voice blessed by divine magic:

"Hey! Hey! Pull up! Bellows!"