Chapter 43 Magical Flame
"Well, um, are you okay? I'm sorry, my eldest and second sisters are a bit rude, I hope they didn't scare you?"

After a thrilling fight, only one of the three women was still standing.

She straightened her clothes, approached Rhodes carefully, and looked at him gently.

A tight and powerful arm stretched out towards Rhodes.

But she seemed afraid of scaring him, and she froze in mid-air, hesitating, her face flushed with embarrassment.

Rhodes glanced behind her.

The other two women were lying on the ground with their legs spread out, stars in their eyes.

The nearby birch forest was even more devastated. At a glance, all you could see were tree stumps and branches scattered all over the ground.

Honestly, I think you're the most violent one.

Rhodes complained in his heart but remained silent on the surface.

Although he could understand what the other person said to some extent, it was impossible for him to learn it immediately.

Using the real-world Northern language is likely to expose one's own problems.

The other party has shown no ill will, so it is more appropriate to maintain the status quo.

Seeing Rhodes lower his head and remain silent, the woman's face turned even redder as she looked at his handsome and elegant masculine face.

"You will freeze to death if you stay outside. I will take you to live in the village."

She gently pulled up Rhodes' sleeve and said, "You are lost, right? It doesn't matter. You can stay here with me for as long as you want until your family comes to find you."

Rhodes didn't notice any malicious emotion, and after thinking it over, he didn't refuse.

He was indeed curious about the human situation in this world, and he took this opportunity to learn a little bit about it.

When the woman found that the handsome man in front of her did not resist and was led forward by her, she could not suppress the excitement on her face and happily took him trot back to the village.

Before leaving, Rhodes looked back.

Did you forget something?
Looking at the two bulging snowballs buried in the snow behind him, he thought for a moment and decided to turn around quietly and pretend he didn't see them.

With that monstrous physique, I guess he isn't afraid of the cold.

After crossing the outer wooden wall, Rhodes entered the village and found that it was not very big.

What comes into view is a row of wooden bungalows, which look like they can accommodate only a few hundred people.

The special thing is that almost all the people walking on the street are women.

They were wearing fur armor and most of them were holding weapons in their hands.

Moreover, they are heavy weapons such as giant axes and giant swords that are exaggeratedly large in size.

Even a few little girls who looked less than five years old were jumping back and forth on the roof noisily, jumping three meters away at a time.

They were rolling snowballs and using the snow on top to have snowball fights with each other.

When Rhodes was brought here by the woman, he found that the eyes of the people around him quickly focused on him, full of surprise and curiosity.

Walking on the road, the woman kept explaining something to the villagers around her.

Sanxue, this is what other people call women.

Through their conversation, Rhodes learned that the three women who appeared together were three sisters, and the one in front of him was the youngest sister.

Although he has a gentle personality, he is also the best fighter in the village.

I have to say this is good news.

Rhodes saw other women's eyes glowing green when they saw him.

Fortunately, Sanxue in front of him glared back at him, and he finally restrained himself.

It seems that women occupy an absolute majority here not only in terms of physical fitness but also in terms of numbers.

Because Rhodes didn't see many men along the way.

But there were still a few, and Rhodes felt a little comforted when he thought that he was not the only man in the village.

"This is the house of my elder sister, my second sister, and me. You can live in my room." Sanxue took him into a large wooden house.

As Rhodes stepped into the room, a soft warm breeze blew in his face, dispelling the coldness of the snowfield.

The pores on his body relaxed and his whole body instantly became warm and comfortable.

What is this? He looked towards the middle of the house curiously.

In the fireplace there, there was a ball of red fire tumbling up and down, as lively as a living thing.

No, this is a living thing.

Rhodes saw the true nature of the fireball and discovered that it was actually a big-tailed squirrel with red hair.

It was grunting as it gnawed on the charcoal, with flames coming out of its tail.

"This is a stove rat. Haven't you seen it before?" Sanxue asked in confusion when she saw him staring at the fireplace curiously.

Suddenly, she realized what was going on and a look of embarrassment appeared on her face.

"I'm sorry, you must have lived in a luxurious palace before. This must be your first time living in a rural place like this."

Seeing her depressed and with a sad expression on her face, Rhodes was thinking about one thing.

If a noble lady was rescued by a village hunter and brought back to her own house, how should she react?

Rhodes thought about it and smiled at Sanxue.

Charmed by his smiling face, Sanxue's mood immediately recovered and her face returned to its previous appearance, extremely red.

Then she took Rhodes and began to introduce the rooms in the house. "There are only three rooms in the house. This one is mine. You can live with me first."

"The two next to them are my eldest and second sisters. We are hunters. They are usually not at home, so don't worry. Just like now, they are..."

Miyuki said, suddenly realizing something.

Her face turned pale in an instant, "Ah! Big sister and second sister, I forgot about them!"

With a bang, the door was pushed open.

Seeing her rush out of the room and run towards the outside of the village, Rhodes, who stayed in the house, looked at the Gray Stove Rat innocently.

He blinked and threw a piece of charcoal next to him into the fireplace.

With the Gray Stove Rat wagging its tail happily to say farewell, he walked out of the door.

"That should be the blacksmith shop, right?" Rhodes stood outside the house and cast his eyes towards the most conspicuous center of the village.

A large chimney several dozen meters high was erected there, continuously emitting hot steam.

What made Rhodes even more curious was that he could feel the powerful fire magic surging and boiling inside.

He silently estimated and confirmed that he would have to leave this spiritual world soon.

Rhodes took a step forward and approached the place.

There was no one guarding outside the blacksmith shop, and Rhodes entered easily.

The red flames were accompanied by billowing hot air.

There was a huge steel furnace in the blacksmith shop, with dozens of ash furnace rats spewing flames in it.

In front of the furnace, a female dwarf, only a little over one meter tall and with arms covered with rock-like muscles, was forging steel.

Holding a large black hammer, every blow of the hammer would create brilliant sparks on the anvil.

Is this the secret of Dwarven White Steel?
After noticing that the weapons of the villagers were all made of stainless steel, Rhodes couldn't help but enter here out of curiosity.

Watching from the sidelines, he noticed something peculiar.

The magical flames breathed out by the ash rats were magically integrated into the steel under the dwarf's hammer.

The mithril in it is melted into a unique metal structure.

No wonder I couldn’t figure out the structure after studying it for a long time in real life. There was something wrong with my thinking from the beginning.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, the dwarf blacksmith did not turn around, but stretched out his hand.

"Borax!"

With the help of the Eye of True Vision, Rhodes compared this piece of steel with the finished white steel.

Without hesitation, he picked up a small can of borax from the shelf next to him, adjusted it to the appropriate amount and handed it over.

The dwarf blacksmith took it and looked at it in confusion.

Then sprinkle it into the steel and continue to concentrate on forging.

During this process, he still reached back from time to time, shouting for the materials he needed.

Rhodes simply sat behind her and observed carefully, while handing her the appropriate amount of materials according to her needs.

Slowly, before she stretched out her hand and started shouting, Rhodes quickly handed the materials to her.

From borax, iron sand, silica sand, etc., to birch wood powder, Warcraft bone powder and so on.

In addition to the core steel and mithril, the forging process of white steel actually involves the fusion of more than fifty materials.

And there are almost harsh and strict requirements for operations.

Rhodes was dazzled.

He estimated that if he relied on his own research, it would take several years before he could achieve any results.

Compared to Rhodes' curiosity, the dwarf blacksmith became more and more adept at it.

It was the first time she had such a refreshing forging experience! She even felt so excited that she wanted to scream on the spot!

During the white steel forging process, the order in which the materials are fused will change with different conditions, and it is difficult to fix the order.

The opportunity to integrate the materials is fleeting.

If you slow down, the birch wood powder will be carbonized before being integrated and become impurities, which can be declared a failure on the spot.

Not only that, there are strict requirements on the weight of the materials, and adding a little more may lead to forging failure.

In the past, the dwarf blacksmith would always shout out the names of materials.

At the same time, control the amount you add to seriously distract her attention.

But this time, everything happened so naturally.

"A first-order weapon of perfect quality!"

The dwarf blacksmith picked up the white steel sword and stared at it in fascination.

After letting go of the burden, I can finally roar with excitement.

She turned around with laughter and was about to celebrate with the unknown assistant.

But I was puzzled to find that there was no one behind.

"Huh? Where are the people? Where did they run off to? Come back here, bastard!"

(End of this chapter)