Chapter 59 Material Fusion
"The magical Gray Stove Rat actually evolved from a little thing like you." Rhodes teased the little squirrel in front of him.

The predecessor of the gray stove rat was the northern ground squirrel, which was less than 20 cm long and had gray hair all over its body.

After October, the climate in the snowfield cools down.

Ground squirrels will hibernate and survive the cold winter by reducing their metabolism.

But the one in front of Rhodes was a whole circle larger, and the color of its fur turned into scarlet red.

At this time when it should be hibernating, it was jumping around on his shoulder, full of energy.

The big furry tail wrapped around its body makes it look like a jumping fireball.

Rhodes guessed that perhaps thousands of years ago, the first ground squirrel stood up.

Courage prevents it from hibernating and instead faces the cold winter.

Just as a mane horse evolves into a snowfield horse after being baptized by ice and snow, mastering the energy of ice.

Under the evolution of magic, the ground squirrel embarked on another path.

Become a Stove Rat and harness the raging fire to resist the bitter cold.

"The secret of magic." Rhodes marveled at the wonder of the world and stretched out his hand for the Gray Stove Rat to jump onto.

More than half a month had passed since he returned to the territory after the war ended.

During this period, the territory developed in an orderly manner based on the established framework.

Rhodes continued his studies as a wizard while taking charge of the general direction.

And enter the Shadow of the North every Monday night to follow the dwarven blacksmith to learn about the forging of white steel.

The Graystove Rat has disappeared from the real North, but there are still many of its remnants in the North.

Rhodes was lucky. During his previous entry, he obtained the essence from a dead blacksmith in the blacksmith shop.

Compared to the one month it takes for the Ice Blade Wolf to evolve, the small Gray Furnace Rat is faster.

After integrating the essence, it successfully evolved from a ground squirrel in less than a week.

Rhodes brought the stove rat to the fireplace in the room, let it jump in, and threw in a piece of charcoal.

The stove rat quickly picked up the charcoal with its front paws and began to gnaw on it with a grunt.

During this process, a red flame of magic power rose from its tail and ignited the fireplace.

Pieces of charcoal were thrown into it.

After confirming that the temperature reached the requirement, Rhodes placed the prepared materials outside the fireplace.

After this period of white steel research and the dwarf's teaching, Rhodes had a preliminary understanding of the relevant forging techniques.

Forged white steel, the real core point is fusion.

By using the magic flame of the ash furnace rat, the toughness, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and other superior properties of mithril are integrated with steel, greatly improving the metallic properties of steel.

The various added materials act as fusion agents to reduce the repulsion between the two materials and lower the difficulty of forging white steel.

Adding a lot of extra material, the process seems to become bloated and cumbersome.

However, it turned white steel from a skill that was exclusive to master blacksmiths into a skill that ordinary dwarf blacksmiths could also master.

After being passed down from generation to generation and continuously optimized, the forging process of white steel has reached near perfection.

Rhodes couldn't find any room for improvement for a while.

But the teachings on alchemy in the wizard's manual allowed Rhodes to see deeper content.

【Material Fusion】

This is not exclusive to white steel.

Rhodes placed the sword with the broken tip in front of him.

Next to it are the tough spine of the Iron-Backed Black Wolf and the sharp ice blades of the Ice-Blade Wolf's front paws.

A powder material made by grinding the two.

He drew the magic flame from the fireplace and wrapped around the blade of the sword.

Ten seconds later, the armor-piercing sword turned red under the high temperature.

Rhodes placed it on the anvil, picked up the Iron-Backed Black Wolf's spine powder, and sprinkled it evenly on the sword.

Then he picked up the hammer beside him and smashed it down.

Under the continuous hammering, the red sword blade burst into bright sparks.

At the same time, magical flames gushed out and wrapped around the sword.

With the help of external force, the spine powder and the sword body are continuously fused.

White steel requires mithril, but that doesn't mean you can't make extraordinary weapons without mithril.

After realizing the essence of material fusion, Rhodes tried to forge it according to his own ideas.

If an ordinary blacksmith tried rashly without the experience accumulated by his predecessors, the result would naturally be endless failure.

But the existence of the Eye of True Vision allowed Rhodes to see through the process of material fusion.

Whether the materials are successfully fused with each other, the weight of the materials, the temperature of the flame, the continuous pressure, etc.

He could clearly see whether these forging conditions were suitable. He saw that after one blow of the hammer, several cracks appeared in the center of the sword.

Rod paused and let himself catch his breath.

After a half-hour rest, he began to melt the sword again, constantly adjusting the forging process.

As the sword took shape, Rhodes picked up the ice blade powder beside him and sprinkled it on the tip of the sword.

A long time of forging.

When the red sword was dipped into the oil, a hissing sound was heard.

Rhodes picked up the brand new armor-piercing sword.

The sword given to him by his father has no name and is not an extraordinary weapon.

The reason it was given to him was because this was the weapon Duke Bert used when he first went into battle.

It was the first sword he wore when he was a prince.

From today on, Rod decided to give it his own name.

【Name: Ice Front】

[Quality: First-class inferior]

[Features: ①Strong ②Cold Edge]

[Strong: Can withstand 60-degree bending without deformation, and pierce stainless steel without breaking. ]

[Cold Edge: The icy edge will automatically accumulate in the scabbard. Within ten minutes of drawing the sword, the armor-piercing performance will be improved.]

After testing the performance of the Ice Front in an open field, Rhodes recorded its characteristics.

The strength of the sword is fused from the black wolf's spine, making the sword more solid.

The cold light is a fusion of the Ice Blade Fang's racial skill [Ice Blade Grinding].

Within ten minutes of drawing the sword, the surface of the sword tip turned icy white.

It was enough for him to pierce through the white steel armor at full strength.

After the test was completed, Rhodes put the sword back into the scabbard and looked back at the materials he had consumed.

The momentary excitement turned into heartache.

"Twelve black wolf spines, ten of them are gone, and the ice blade materials are all used up. Adding up, it's almost ten gold coins."

An ordinary quality white steel sword only costs 6 gold coins.

This is still the market price, and the cost is estimated to be less than 1 gold coin.

Even if the waste from the failed experiment is excluded, the cost of this Ice Blade of mine is 4 gold coins.

No wonder Dwarf doesn't launch other extraordinary products.

The advantages of white steel being cheap and stable are enough to allow it to firmly occupy the market.

At the moment, with my current level, I am unable to make knight-level weapons and armor.

It’s better to just buy it, what a waste of time!
The idea that just popped up in his mind was ruthlessly extinguished. Rhodes was in a bad mood and looked around with a wooden face.

At his feet was White Bread, lying on his stomach, gnawing hard at the bone in his mouth.

Seeing him looking at me, I thought it was time for dinner again, so I started smoothly and came over quickly with my tongue wagging.

The white bread in front of me has been upgraded again.

Unlike essences that contain high-level energy, in reality, if you want to prepare evolutionary potions, you need to consume high-level black wolfberries and other nutritional supplements.

Rhodes is now running low on reserves.

Just mix those Iron-backed Black Wolves into strengthening potions and feed them to White Bread and Saber-toothed Tigers.

After long-term nourishment, White Bread's body became bigger.

It is not yet an adult, but its body length is nearly three meters, its fur is pure white, and its strength has reached the intermediate level of the first level.

The forging of white steel armor is too complicated. If nothing unexpected happens, Rhodes will adjust the white steel wolf armor in his hand and wear it on it.

By then, White Bread’s combat power will be no less than that of a fully armed elite knight.

White Bread ran up to him and rubbed his face against him flatteringly.

His face was filled with the words "Feed me, feed me".

Rhode rolled his eyes, rubbed its neck hard, rode on it unhappily and said:

"Look at what you look like now! You've been sleeping and eating all day, and you're almost as fat as a ball. Come on, take me out for a run."

Rhodes lay on its back to show the way, expecting Whitebread to dash out like an iron-backed black wolf.

As a result, after being confused for a while, White Bread fell to the ground.

Turn over and lie on the ground face to face with him.

It stuck out its tongue and had an innocent look in its eyes.

For the sake of its soft and warm belly, Rhodes leaned on it and yawned, not bothering to argue with it.

(End of this chapter)