MTL - Dawn of the Grey Tower-Chapter 107 making dragon flute
It is not difficult for Cheese to create a suggested forging site. When he was in Valley City, he had a lot of contact with the dwarf lord of the hammer collar. He learned many basic forging theories from the latter, including of course How to build forging sites and facilities.
Besides, Cheese doesn't need complete forging equipment to remake the Dragon Calling Flute. He doesn't have any iron ingots to deal with. Rather than forging, it is actually closer to firing pottery.
There are often two situations for the birth of magical creations. The first is forging without special purpose, such as blacksmiths who devote their efforts to forging swords, and stonemasons who carve finely. They are all likely to turn their next work into Things with magical effects, even totems that have been placed for a long time, may also gradually acquire some supernormal abilities. This can be said to be a kind of accident, which is a small probability event that occurs due to certain factors in the manufacturing process.
The birth process of most magic items in the world can be classified as the first type of event. Although the probability of their occurrence is very small, when this situation is applied to all intelligent creatures and even non-intelligent creatures, many magical events will appear inadvertently. thing.
However, in comparison, although the number of items born in the second situation is scarce, their functions are more purposeful and their power is often stronger. They are magic creations designed and manufactured by spellcasters like Cheese.
They are different from simply adding magic to ordinary things, and they have a structure for magic to occur inside, so the use, power and required conditions can be clearly understood when they are manufactured. The Dragon Calling Flute belongs to the latter, its function is actually very simple, to contact a certain dragon.
After dawn the next day, Cheese used magic to draw a trickle from the lake, and dug a circular shallow groove on the shore to form a small island. The island asks Pinwei to help build an earthen kiln, where the firing of the dragon-calling flute will be completed. Then, there is the fine carving, the gray robe carves fine runes on the wood embryo, making them form larger runes, and then forming mysterious and incomprehensible patterns.
The whole process is not easy. The average mage may need several years to complete the design and arrangement of the paper runes, and then go through multiple experiments to verify its correctness, and finally find a material that can carry it for engraving. It cannot be said that it is difficult, but Extremely draining of energy and spirit. Fortunately, Cheese can omit this process, because he had already done it when he made the Dragon Calling Flute for the first time. Relying on his terrifying memory, it is enough for him to copy directly this time.
The entire processing process of the wood embryo took three days, but that is the three days of today's cheese. With this event, he can do many things that people can't even imagine. However, Youni and Pingwei also got a similar timetable from the gray robe, and they were not dissatisfied with it. They made full use of the time to recover from their injuries and collect supplies.
It may be because they are farther away from the blank world. In the past three days, the two of them have not found anything worthy of being called trouble nearby. The surrounding environment is not perfect, but it is pleasant enough.
After the wooden embryo, there is an earth seal. After all, the wooden embryo cannot directly become the Dragon Calling Flute. It will be burned in the final forging to make room for the internal space of the flute. At the same time, the runes on the surface will be printed on the soil seal to form the main body of the flute.
However, the cheese did not rush to carry out this step immediately. According to the conventional process, he should infiltrate the dragon's blood into the flute during the firing after the soil seal is completed, but that kind of production method cannot meet the functions that the gray robe needs at this time. He decided to take another manufacturing method, not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
The cheese raised a fire on the island, and Pinwei ensured that it would not go out, then put the dragon's blood on the fire and let it burn, and then hung the wooden embryo upside down to ensure that all the volatiles of the dragon's blood would be absorbed by it. absorb.
The process is similar to bacon, except that the manufactured product is not food, and the smoked ingredients are not spices. The smoking continued for another three days, and the three days of non-stop flames only evaporated an insignificant part of the total amount of dragon blood. Even so, the color of the wood embryo has also undergone a huge change, and the flat surface has become sharp-edged due to dehydration.
"The stubbornness of the core material is beyond imagination." Cheese looked at the half drop of dragon's blood and sighed slightly, and then quickly realized why this happened.
This half drop of dragon's blood was not directly obtained from the giant dragon. Before him, the blood had already had a master who tried to absorb it. In other words, the easily accessible part of the dragon's blood had long been deconstructed by worms. The remaining drop and a half can be said to be the most stubborn and most essential part of the refined dragon blood. Naturally, it cannot be easily volatilized by simply relying on the smoke of the mundane fire.
According to a rough estimate, it would take at least a hundred years to evaporate it with the current firepower. That being the case, the cheese had no choice but to find a more practical way to solve the problem of raw materials. For example, using the energy of the sun or other levels of magic, but after some adjustments, the results are not very ideal.
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The helpless gray robe began to recall that when he made the Dragon Calling Flute last time, his raw materials were all processed, and he didn't know how much effort the first gray robe put in behind it. I am still far behind the teacher in this aspect, and due to the problem of research direction, there are not many methods he can use here.
"If it doesn't work, we can only change the design concept." If the dragon's blood and the wood embryo can't be fused, it's better to keep them separated. The complete Dragon Summoning Flute has the convenience of being activated as soon as it is blown, because the power of the dragon in it has been perfectly fused with the carrier.
What about the next best thing? Don't pursue the so-called perfection, or even the convenience of use, as long as it can complete the task. This kind of design will waste precious materials in hand, but the construction period can also be greatly shortened.
He did what he thought, and within five days, Cheese readjusted the structure of the dragon-calling flute and the runes on the wooden embryo, and finally got what he wanted. This time, except for the meager dragon blood that had been absorbed long ago, he didn't use any dragon materials in the whole process, and just dealt with wood and clay with all his heart.
The materials that are easy to handle naturally don't take long. After just one day, Cheese got the dragon-calling flute he wanted, although it only had the shape. Cheese's newly designed flute is also in the shape of a dragon, except that there are two dragon wing-shaped designs on the side, and there is a small hole above the dragon wings.
The mage tried to blow it, and the sound from the flute felt a bit sharp due to the openings in the side wings. So he first put the dragon's blood in the bottle, and then put the bottle on the dragon's wings, so that the mouth of the bottle was aligned with the opening on the body of the flute.
This is the solution that Cheese thought of. This flute is indeed a dragon-calling flute, but it is not an unconditional magic item. If you want to truly exert its power, you must pour dragon blood or other into the flute while blowing it. A solution of dragon materials, the flute will consume them to be effective.
Generally speaking, it is very extravagant. Treating dragon blood as a consumable, this is a loss that no one can afford. But now, there is no better way.
"Buzz!" A dull voice came into the air from the opening of the flute, and half a drop of dragon's blood shrunk visible to the naked eye after only a few minutes of blowing. However, the consumption of dragon blood meant that the flute was indeed working.
"Now, let's see when that guy Migo will come over."
