I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

After Murphy obtained the style that Will needed, he did not rush to make a move.

It just gave the medicine to those five people and is now waiting for the settlement.

Forging complete.

[Forging Target: Human]

[Forging Level: Perfect]

[Forging Reward: Herb Identification +1]

[Herbal Identification: You can identify some herbs to a certain extent.]

……

Murphy was somewhat surprised to see the new ability.

It originally thought that this time the reward would be worse, such as just knowledge of a certain herb.

But giving them a skill directly is already quite good.

Seeing that the new ability had nothing to do with forging, Murphy took out paper and pen and began to sketch the design freehand.

Will wanted a two-handed long straight sword, about 1.2 meters long.

The spine of the sword should be slightly thick and the material should be hard.

After Murphy roughly finished drawing the design, he planned to start selecting materials.

It intends to make this longsword using the forging method for patterned steel.

This involves repeatedly folding, heating, forging, and twisting two or more types of steel with different properties, like folding a quilt, welding them into a whole, and then pickling them.

Murphy planned to use the metals he had traded with Goblin as the base material, and then, based on Will's other requirements.

Then select the remaining metal materials.

It went to the storage room and took out three pieces of metal, then walked over to Will, who was sitting and resting nearby, and put them down.

Will stared at Murphy, waiting for him to explain, but Murphy just stared at Will without saying a word.

"Um, do I have to choose?"

Finally, Will's lips twitched as he asked a question.

Murphy nodded.

Will waited a while longer, and seeing that Murphy still didn't say a word, he could only give a helpless hint.

"Could you explain the differences between these three?"

Murphy was silent for a moment, then glanced at her somewhat awkwardly.

Then, pretending nothing had happened, he began to introduce the topic:

"This one is harder, this one can be infused with more magic, and this one is more durable."

Will stared at the three metals for a long time, then asked:

Is this a single-choice or multiple-choice question?

"Multiple selections and single selections are both acceptable, but the more you select, the worse the effect."

Murphy replied.

"Then let's choose this harder one, but I've heard that the harder the one, the easier it is to break..."

After he finished speaking, Will asked a question with some hesitation.

"What I make won't break."

After Murphy gave a concise answer, he put the other metals back, leaving only the one with higher hardness.

The metal chosen by Welsh was called blood platinum.

As its name suggests, it is blood red in color. It has no other uses; it is simply hard, extremely hard.

But as Will said, this metal is a bit brittle and will easily break if used as a base.

So the metal used as the base is the kind of metal called Demon Meteorite Iron that Goblins gave us.

This is a metal with very high toughness and adaptability.

Its magical properties are also relatively neutral, and it will not produce any additional reactions or resistance to any specific properties.

"You should move a little further away, to the cave entrance."

After Murphy prepared the materials, he turned on the stove and spoke to the five people who were resting.

"We're about to start the fire. It's going to get hot, you'll get burned."

Everyone else left as Murphy had suggested, leaving only Roy. Before leaving, Roy pointed to a semi-circular object in a distant cubicle and asked Murphy curiously.

"Is that your stove?"

Compared to the furnace, he felt that the semi-circular thing in front of him was more like a brick kiln. Was it really suitable for operation?

Murphy nodded.

Then, carrying a few pieces of steel, he walked into the work cubicle, and right in front of Roy, he went into the furnace and lit the fire.

Roy nodded, and seeing the temperature inside the furnace gradually rise, he turned and left.

and many more?

Roy only realized what was happening when he got close to the cave entrance.

The person was inside the stove, and then they lit the fire?

Something feels off.

"No, is it forging iron or forging itself?"

Will thoughtfully voiced his criticism directly.

He was wondering why the opening of the furnace was so big, but it turns out it's because people want to go inside!

"Perhaps... this is how stone golems are forged?"

Roy guessed.

"Who knows? I've never seen any other stone men forge anything."

Will gritted his teeth, and after a long while, he could only manage to utter this one dry, lifeless sentence.

……

But the scene inside the furnace was quite different.

Inside the semi-circular furnace, there is a platform in the center.

Beneath the platform lies a red crystal core, which is the core of the furnace's heating element.

In a way, this thing is what gave birth to Murphy.

The appearance of the stone man is due to this thing called the mountain core, which imbues the nearby stones with consciousness and magic, bringing them to life.

And in front of Murphy is this mountain core.

It is a mountain core that is "dead" or has not produced the ability to become a stone golem.

The method of using this thing to make a furnace was one of the few complete pieces of information Murphy obtained from the craftsmen's memories.

With just a simple treatment, and then by placing the mountain core into fuel composed of gel and petroleum secreted by the stone golem, it can generate heat and burn continuously.

Murphy saw that the temperature had risen enough.

First, place the meteorite iron on the platform and heat it until it turns orange-red.

Then, with a wave of his hand, the totem on his back transformed into a hammer.

It gripped the hammer and began to strike forcefully.

boom! boom! boom!

The heavy clanging of hammers echoed continuously inside the cave.

As the meteorite softened, it became flat and elongated, with a slight indentation towards the center.

Then Murphy set the hammered meteorite aside and took out blood platinum to place on top of it.

Then increase the furnace temperature.

Blood Platinum has a much lower melting point than Demon Meteorite Iron, and it was quickly melted into a liquid by the high temperature.

Murphy seized the opportunity and began striking, the blood platinum liquid being hammered into the demonic meteorite iron one strike after another.

Murphy then lowered the temperature and waited for the blood platinum to coagulate again.

It began to repeatedly pound and knead the mixture of meteorite iron and blood platinum, shaping it little by little.

Because the processing takes place inside the oven, the temperature remains constant.

Its shaping process was remarkably smooth, with virtually no obstacles.

The heating is uniform and stable, and the hammering force remains basically unchanged.

While the blanks produced by hammering in this way may not be 100% high-quality, they are close to 99%.

The clanging and banging sounds were incessant.

Once it's almost done hammering, it twists the shaped dough into a spiral, then folds it back and forth and hammers it repeatedly, repeating this process.

After being refined through countless trials, a rough embryo is initially formed.

Murphy took the long whip in his hand and then beckoned over Little Murphy, who had been watching him forge iron.

Yes, Xiao Mo watched the blacksmith the whole time, and even happily spun around while sparks and fire flew everywhere.

Seeing Murphy beckon it over, it quickly rolled over.

Murphy placed the little Murphy down, then placed the long knife on its eggshell and began to roughly grind it.

After Murphy's repeated testing, it discovered that Little Murphy's eggshell worked surprisingly well as a whetstone or sandpaper, sharpening the knife blank in just a few strokes.

Xiao Mo wasn't unhappy about being used as a whetstone; in fact, she quite enjoyed it and even helped by rubbing the areas that needed sharpening.

Murphy tapped Little Mo's eggshell to express his gratitude.

Xiao Mo rubbed against it even more vigorously.

After polishing the blade blank for about ten minutes, it was considered to have taken initial shape.

Murphy looked at the knife blank and nodded in satisfaction.

The next step is the most crucial one – quenching.

Murphy did not quench the blade directly, but instead put the blade blank into the furnace first.

He went out first, filled a large bucket with gel in a prepared stone basin, and then continuously poured concentrated water elements into it.

This is Murphy's extract.

The inspiration came from my recent knowledge about gels—

The essence of gel combustion is to continuously decompose the gel into gas.

With a higher concentration of magic, the tendency of the gel to decompose into gas will be suppressed by the magic.

What if the gel, when burned in a high concentration of magic, was a sword prototype?

What will happen?

Very simple!

The gaseous substances produced by the decomposition of the gel will flow into the interior of the sword embryo, and the substances carried by the gel are naturally sticky!

Therefore, the internal stress inside the sword blank, which is rapidly cooled from austenite to martensite, will be instantly diluted and neutralized by this viscosity.

It transforms into another material that retains both hardness and extremely high toughness!

After Murphy finished making the gel quenching liquid, he took the sword blank out of the furnace and soaked it in it.

As puffs of white smoke rose...

The originally dark red sword blank gradually turned golden red, and the temperature gradually cooled down.

Murphy then took the sword blank out again and put it back in the furnace to temper it.

After that, the sword blank was taken out and air-cooled.

However, what Murphy didn't expect was...

It didn't even wait until the sword was actually finished; it was just a moment after the sword blank was initially formed.

The prompt for the Craftsman's Hammer suddenly appeared.

[Artisan's Hammer Level Up]

[Normal → Elite]