Awakening divorce, the little female is scrambled by all the big guys

Chapter 191 Discovery of Iron Ore

Kelly hadn't expected Ophelia to make such a demand.

She bit her lip and clenched her fists. "Okay, I agree."

“Alright, let’s set a two-day timeframe.” Ophelia readily agreed.

She wanted to see how Tagore would react.
After the two had talked things out, Kelly went out.

By this time it was completely dark, so she didn't rush to find Tagore and decided to tell him the matter the next day.

Taylor and Klein didn't return to the stone house until the moon was high in the sky. Ophelia saw that they had rushed back, looking travel-worn, and quickly brought them two bowls of water.

"Why are you back so late? Did something happen?"

Taylor finished his water in one gulp and wiped his mouth. "It's alright, we've found the mine."

"Found it so quickly?"

"So fast." Zeref and Ophelia were both somewhat incredulous.

Klein patted the pouch at his waist containing the gold-detecting rat. "Don't underestimate the abilities of this gold-detecting rat."

Ophelia nodded, her eyes fixed on the purse with fervent interest, as if she were looking at glittering gold.

Ophelia and Taylor told Kelly about it.

“It seems Budal can’t wait any longer,” Klein judged, squinting slightly.

Zeref also agreed.

"We'll take some people to mine iron ore tomorrow."

"If all goes well, I can make what I need in two days."

Ophelia had a general idea of ​​how to forge and smelt iron.

High-temperature forging.

Moreover, with the skill book in hand, she felt that forging refined iron would not be a problem.

The next day, Taylor and Klein led the earliest members of the Fu tribe to the mountains to mine iron ore.

Meanwhile, Ophelia and Zeref found an open space near the three-story stone house to build a furnace.

The furnace was easy to build, so Ophelia found Samo.

"I want to build a furnace, with fire inside, and it also needs to have air inlets and outlets, and it won't crack under high temperatures. Samo, can you make one?"

Samo stroked his chin. "The kind you're talking about requires special soil; ordinary soil will crack when exposed to high temperatures."

"Okay, I'll have someone go look for it."

This type of soil is actually clay, which can withstand high-temperature baking.

So the furnace was built that very evening, and in order to put it into production as soon as possible, Ophelia had people light firewood in the furnace to dry the food.

She also had Zeref carve out small stone barrels for her to hold the molten iron.

After everything was prepared, Taylor and Klein brought back the iron ore under the cover of night.

They also brought back a large amount of firewood to supply the forging of iron ore.

"Let's start tonight while it's dark and we won't be discovered," Ophelia decided, glancing at the sky.

“Okay, sure.” Taylor and the other two agreed in unison.

"Once this stove is lit, it cannot be extinguished. Someone must be there to watch over it at all times. The four of us will take turns watching over it."

“No need. Keeping watch is something we males should do. You don’t need to do it,” Zeref immediately rejected.

Taylor and Klein shared the same thought.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade them otherwise, Ophelia could only begin to instruct them on how to burn iron ore.

The furnace was not tall, only half a person's height, with holes on top and openings at the bottom.

Ophelia instructed Taylor and the others to put firewood into the furnace, light it, and wait until the fire was nearly burning before they could begin.

"First, break these iron ores into small pieces, put them in a furnace, and burn them overnight to remove the impurities."

"Okay." Taylor and the other two obediently cut the large chunks of iron ore into smaller pieces that could be thrown into the furnace.

After waiting for two hours, crackling sounds came from inside the furnace.

Ophelia knew that it was the sound of iron ore cracking.

Since it was her first time forging, Ophelia was unwilling to leave and stayed with Taylor and the others to keep watch and wait for success.

The skill book says that traditional high-temperature forging takes five to six hours to melt iron ore into iron.

No one slept much throughout the night, constantly adding firewood to the stove.

The next day, as the sky gradually turned a pale white, Ophelia yawned and stopped Taylor from adding any more ingredients.

Seven hours had passed since the furnace was fired, and the forging was almost complete.

Now we just need to wait for all the firewood to go out before we can start the stove.

After another half hour, the temperature of the stove gradually decreased, and the firewood burned out.

Ophelia instructed Taylor to pry open the small hole under the furnace. "Taylor, remove all the ash inside. Be careful not to get burned."

Hearing Ophelia's concern for Taylor, Zeref and Klein felt a pang of jealousy, but they knew that the most important thing at the moment was to suppress their feelings.

After Taylor had shoveled all the ash out, Ophelia squatted down and began to poke at the ashes on the ground with a twig.

She quickly pulled out some small black iron beads, which were very small, only about the size of a fist in total.

"This is too small." Ophelia was a little disappointed. She went in with such a large piece of iron ore and only got such a small number of bricks.

It would be quite difficult to turn it into a kitchen knife.

The iron ore production in the Beast World was lower than she had imagined.

Somewhat frustrated, she poked the small iron bead with a twig, and the bead became embedded in the resin.

Ophelia's eyes lit up at the sight. "That's right, if we can't make a kitchen knife, we can make an arrowhead!"

That is, a bow and arrow in the true sense.

Taylor and the other two had no idea what Ophelia was thinking, but suddenly they perked up from their dejected state.

"Zerev, quickly bring the small stone bucket over, let's continue calcining."

The iron beads were placed into a stone bucket the size of a teacup, and the furnace was lit again.

However, this time the forging process didn't take as long.

During a break in the forging process, Ophelia had Taylor carve the shapes of arrowheads and iron plates into the stone.

After about four hours, the iron ball was completely melted into molten iron.

The iron was poured into a mold and cooled with water. Soon, a piece of iron about the thickness of a finger and the size of a palm appeared before everyone's eyes.

Zeref picked up the piece of iron and examined it. "It looks similar to the city lord's token."

Klein also took the iron plate and tapped it on the stone a few times, and there was still a crisp clanging sound.

"It will still crack like this."

Ophelia: "Nonsense, it's not completely successful yet."

Ophelia had Taylor put the iron sheet back into the furnace, but this time the iron sheet was not melted into molten iron again.

Instead, it was taken out when the iron sheet was heated until it was red-hot.

"Taylor hammered the iron sheet with a stone." This is true forging, using a stone to strike and remove impurities from the iron sheet.

"it is good."

Taylor said nothing and simply listened to Ophelia and began hammering the iron sheet.

This process is repeated many times until the sound of the iron sheet striking the metal changes, at which point the forging is considered complete.

"Okay, next we'll melt this sheet of iron into molten iron and pour it into the arrow mold."

The molten iron was poured into the arrow mold, and water was poured on it to cool it. One by one, the rough shoulders were successfully demolded.