Chapter 34 - 34 Creating a Cursed Weapon
As I flew through the sky, I felt invigorated. I swear I could feel my blood dancing in excitement because of the extra Demon miasma in the air. What a wonderful feeling. Well, maybe not for Synthia as she looked down at the rising Demon Miasma with a frown on her face. I wondered how the Demon Miasma affected an Angel like her since it was made purely of demonic energy, and I knew that demonic and holy energies were not exactly friendly to each other, but then again, smoke wasn't rising off her body like when I entered the [Holy Territory], so it may not affect her much, if any at all.
We reached the blacksmith shop in only a few minutes and I guided Synthia to the hole I melted in the wall. Luckily, no new undeads have taken up residence here so everything was still intact and we didn't have to waste any time clearing out the place.
"It seems we have everything we need so let's start." Synthia said after inspecting the workshop. She had also inspected the ingots I had and when she saw the amount, I saw a glint flash across her eyes but it quickly disappeared.
"The process for creating an enchanted weapon is pretty simple. All you need to do is melt down the ingot in the furnace, use a mold to give it it's shape, use a hammer and anvil to hammer out any dents and get the blade to be as flat as possible and then you let it cool. That should be everything….I think." From the way she spoke, I knew she wasn't an expert or she wasn't telling me everything. Hopefully, that was enough details to actually make a cursed weapon, because if it isn't, I might have to take drastic actions. But Synthia is smart enough to know that, so the sparse details should allow me to create cursed weapons, just not powerful ones, which was okay for now.
"First let's melt down the ingot in the furnace so grab that crucible and tong over there." She said pointing to a cup shaped metal and something that looked like long metal scissors. She placed an ingot into the crucible and gave it back to me.
"Now you need to light the furnace but here comes the tricky part. You have to infuse demonic energy into the flames but luckily for you you have [Hell Fire] affinity." She said and I conjured a small fireball in my hand and sent it floating towards the furnace, a dark orange flame ignited in it's center and the room became extremely hot. Ignoring the heat, I placed the crucible into the furnace using the tong and the ingot started to melt quickly but I controlled the flames so that it didn't melt the crucible and tong along with the ingot. A strange scene unfolded inside the furnace as the flames seemed to curve and enter the crucible, melting the ingot directly while doing it's best to avoid the crucible and tong themselves.
A few minutes later, I removed the crucible from the fire and the ingot was melted down completely turning into a red hot liquid. I dismissed the flame inside the furnace and I could see that the inside of the furnace itself was starting to melt, and I wondered how many more times I could use it before it was completely melted.
"You're planning to make a sword right?" She asked and I nodded my head. She immediately pulled out a mold for the blade of the sword.
"Hurry and pour the liquid into this." She said and I followed her instructions, pouring the red hot liquid into the mold.
"Now we just need to make the handle." She said and took up another ingot. I reignited the furnace and placed the crucible back inside the furnace. After a few minutes, I pulled out the crucible and dismissed the flame and the inside of the furnace was almost completely melted and I doubt it could survive another use. This time Synthia had two molds one for the handle and another that looked like a screw.
"Quickly pour it into the molds." She said and I did. She then covered the molds with another piece and told me to pour more into an opening at the top then we waited. It took around an hour before the blade cooled and I had to hammer it out.
I used the tong to hold the still red hot blade and placed it onto the anvil. I used [Demon Enchant] on the hammer as instructed by Synthia and started smacking away at the metal. My technique with the hammer was far from perfect but I got the job done and now I had a perfectly smooth blade.
"Put it in here to cool." Synthia said as she carried a rectangular container full of water and I placed the blade inside and steam rose as soon as the blade touched the water. After a few minutes the blade was cooled and a large amount of water was evaporated.
"Those should be cooled by now." Synthia said as she walked over to the handle and pommel connection, as she called it. She removed the mold from around them both and used the tongs to remove the red hot metal inside them. She then placed them into the water.
"And we're all done. All we have to now is put them together " Synthia said as she looked at the three pieces on the work table. She then instructed me on how to put them together and soon I had a completed sword in my hand.