Chapter 42: Forging Swords
When I returned to the camping site, it was already completely bright.
"Kirito, I want to go back and take a break first." Kizmel said hesitantly, "The scattered scout is a relative of the commander. I really don't want to stay at the report site. Sorry, I made such a willful request."
Kirito: "It's nothing, I will report to the commander well, don't worry."
"Then please, please come to me at any time when you need my help." Kizmel, who smiled faintly and answered like this, took a step back, and an HP bar in the upper left corner of the vision disappeared with the somewhat lonely effect sound.
At the same time, a small system message conveying the Knight's departure from the squad also appeared.
The group walked into the tent again. Fortunately, when Kirito took out the [Queen Spider's Venomous Tooth], he directly completed the second stage of the mission of [Pest Control of the Poison Spider] without having to go to the cave to run.
Received rich rewards and took over the third phase of the task. The three of them walked out of the commander's large tent with satisfaction.
"The next mission will start for a while, next?" Kirito turned around and asked.
"I want to re-forge my weapon. Of course, Lu Ming will accompany me, so..." Asuna said with a smile, holding Lu Ming's arm.
Kirito looked at the two people in front of him and waved helplessly, "Okay, okay, I know, I will go to the town to wait for you first."
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After walking for a while, Lu Ming and Asuna saw a small commercial area in the Dark Elf Campground.
Four tents were arranged along the road, and from the front there were prop shops, tailor shops, leather craft shops and blacksmith shops.
Asuna looked at the various rare props in the store with a burning look, but each one was a price that she had just arrived at the third floor and could not afford. She could only suppress her desire to shop and stopped in front of the blacksmith shop.
At this moment, Lu Ming was even a little lucky that they had no money.
In the blacksmith shop, there is a tall and thin brother with long hair tied to the back. Only from the black leather apron and gloves from the length to the elbow can he see his identity as a blacksmith. However, the high-level blacksmith hammer on his right hand can already reflect his level of weapon forging.
"Announcing it, I want to ask you to help build a weapon."
Hearing Asuna's words, the dark elf blacksmith's sharp black face just glanced at her, then made a humming sound through her nose, and buried her head in her work again.
If it weren't for the NPC store's unique menu window in front of Asuna, neither of them would even know what this blacksmith meant.
"By the way, please melt this sword into a ingot." Asuna said, who suddenly remembered something, and removed [Fenghua Sword 5] from her waist.
Looking at Lu Ming's puzzled look, Asuna smiled embarrassedly, "This sword has been fighting with me for so long, I want her to continue to accompany me."
The dark elf blacksmith looked at Asuna in surprise, and finally reached out his right hand silently and took over the [Fenghua Sword] with a very careful action. At this time, the sword body was no longer as bright as it was at the beginning, but Lu Ming could feel the steady and deep luster wrapped in it.
"Is the power of the mind?" Lu Ming said to himself, which reminded him of the bonding power that has always existed in the Digimon world, which is also a manifestation of the power of the mind.
The elf blacksmith picked up and checked the sword body, nodded, and held the sword in a sacrifice gesture, and then placed it lightly on the melting iron furnace behind it.
Although there was no blower for increasing firepower on the square melting iron furnace, the flames that emerged were incredible blue-green, which immediately made the silver sword body hot, and the part from the tip of the sword to the head began to emit dazzling light.
Soon after, accompanied by a strong flash, it shrank into a cube about twenty centimeters in one breath.
After the light disappeared, the elf picked up the cube from the flame with his right hand, which was only wearing gloves, and then quickly handed it out. The ingot emitted a pure silver light under the rising sun.
"Thank you." Asuna thanked the elf and took the silver ingot with both hands. After looking at it in a complicated face for a while, she put it into the prop bar, then moved the store menu that she had just opened to the front of her body and started the operation again.
After pressing the [Weapon Manufacturing] button, many options such as weapon type and selection of materials appear in the menu. At the same time, props that can be used as materials also appear in another small box.
After selecting all the required props, the required money is calculated, and a confirmation dialog box finally appears.
Asuna looked at the elf blacksmith again, "Please give me!"
As she pressed the confirmation button, several small leather bags filled with materials appeared on the workbench of the Dark Elf Blacksmith. The Elf quietly reached out and threw the materials into the furnace in one breath.
"That's it, it's too casual, right?"
Lu Ming couldn't help but whisper in Asuna's ear, but the blacksmith was still heard. He glanced at Lu Ming without saying anything, but just 'hummed' again.
Asuna hit him gently with her elbow and looked at the blacksmith apologetically.
However, at this time the blacksmith had already begun to concentrate on his work.
When the ingot was fully heated, he grabbed it directly with his black gloved left hand and moved it to the anvil, then beat the ingot rhythmically at a speed of two seconds, and the clear hammer sounded throughout the morning campsite.
With the hammer of the blacksmith, the ingots that emitted pure white light began to slowly deform, and finally emitted a strong flash again. After the light, you can see a thin sword lying across the anvil that emitted silver light as a whole.
He held the hilt of the sword with a delicate carved head on his head, then took the sword up and slid the fingertips of his left hand over the slender sword body. Finally, he spoke: "This is a good sword."
Asuna breathed a light breath and reached out to take the brand new sword, which showed that she was still quite nervous before.
"Can you let me see your sword?" The dark elf blacksmith looked at the long sword around Lu Ming's waist, with a little shocked and suspicious look.
Lu Ming raised his eyebrows, a little surprised at the intelligence of this NPC, but with Kizmel in front of him, there was nothing more to express at this time, and silently untied the sword and handed it over.
The dark elf had a long sword, and the fingertips of his left hand slid across the sword body, his eyes sharp. After careful observation for a while, he sighed.
It seemed that he had seen something, the blacksmith's expression was a little complicated, and then handed the sword back again.
"Is this?" Asuna looked at Lu Ming inexplicably.
"It's nothing, it's just that my sword is a bit special." Lu Ming smiled, and his eyes looked at the NPC in front of him were a little meaningful, "It's time for us to leave."
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Chapter completed!