Mythran's Master Of All

Ren ended up with 32 bags of powder and stored them in inventory after turning off the oven. He'd had just enough fabric in the bolt of cloth he had in inventory to make the rest of the bags. He could have made more sacks, but he'd used some of it to make coin pouches for the female workers. Of course, that reminded him to make more coin pouches. Ren ran back to the stable and stored all the bolts of cloth there, went back to the workshop and made several dozen high quality coin pouches of various colors.

“I'm going to have to hire more general labourers to shovel silt into the oven, and to gather the powder into sacks.” Ren said. “I can get 40 sacks from a single bolt of cloth, so with the 5 bolts that I have left, that's 200 sacks.”

Ren checked the giant boar cloak and the metal arch was cooled off. He folded over the edge of the pelt and sewed the metal arch into the rim of the hood, so that when it was flipped up, the tusks didn't flop around, or hit the wearer in the head. Ren tested it by holding the cloak at arms length and flipping the hood up, and the metal arch kept the tusks pointed in the right direction.

“Sweet.” Ren said and stored the cloak. His Leatherworking was now Level 2 (Intermediate 50%), and his Stitching was at Level 1 (Advanced 15%). That had only gone up 5%, even with the size of the boar and the difficulty, and with the 20% bonus for using the portable crafting station. “That's going to take a lot to level up.” Ren looked at the oven and the sacks he needed to make. “I'm going to have to buy more fabric.” He was tempted to use the high quality bolts of cloth still stored in Narhilda's old bedroom closet, but Ren had earmarked them for army uniforms. That assumed the army got off their butts soon and hired House Neram with a regular contract. Ren grinned. He'd be spending a few days in the brig if he'd said something like that to the Commander of the Garrison.

Ren stored the Portable Leatherworking Crafting Station and then used up 4 bolts of cloth to make 160 sacks, then stacked them beside the exit chute of the oven. He took out a bit more cloth and sewed up a sack 1 foot square, and unloaded all the 1 gold cost diamonds into it, tied it shut, and store it. His Stitching was now at Level 1 (Advanced 16%).

“Yeah, a lot of time to level up.” Ren said, then went to the forge. He changed the mold layout on the floor to make several rows 10 feet long and an inch wide, then ran out of bricks. “That's good enough.” He said and nodded to Ruck, who started pouring the molten metal. Ren used the skimming tool to spread the metal along the molds and they were soon filled. He took out the 4 wind bricks that he had and set them on the ends of the molds to let the steel cool. After a few minutes, Ren popped the bars out and had Ruck pour again. They repeated this process twice more and Ren had a dozen 10 foot long and 1 inch wide steel bars.

There was still about a quarter of the smelter full of molten steel, and he added more iron ore to fill it. After more impurities were skimmed off, Ruck poured it out into the big blank mold several times. Ren took each one and hammered out the rest of the pieces for a set of armor plate for Nathalia, to match the elaborate breastplate he'd made for her. 2 nice shoulder pieces, thigh high metal boots, and a pair of upper arm coverings. It nearly emptied the forge, and Ren eyed the huge pile of gold ore.

“Oh, why not?” Ren said and added in the gold ore, with 1 piece of iron ore for every 3 gold. Once it was smelted, Ruck filled the big blank mold several times and Ren hammered out a set of full plate armor for himself. He had about half of his Mana Pool left after enchanting all the stones in the giant oven, and set to work enchanting the armor pieces he'd forged. He enchanted them with double glyphs (8 runes total) with Protection for now. Ren could always modify the enchantments later, and probably would.

He took out some fabric, and dyed it black, then used one of Lord Neram's patterns to sew a skin tight bodysuit to fit under the armor. Once that was done, he equipped the bodysuit and put on the gold armor pieces; minus the armored gloves. Ren still needed access to his rings.

Teepo whistled. “You look awesome, Ren.”

“Thanks, Teepo.”

Ren had Ruck pour out the last bit of gold/iron mix into the big mold. He'd think of what to do with it later. He tossed in several chunks of iron ore.

“That's great Ruck. You've been a big help.” Ren said, and Ruck gave him a 'thumbs up' gesture and climbed down off the forge. He waved to Ren and left the workshop. Ren then sewed up a skintight bodysuit for Nathalia, enchanted her armor pieces with Protection glyphs, polished them to a shine, and then thought about how he'd give it to her.

“I think it would be better in a box, rather than handing it to her as a bunch of pieces.” Ren said, then pulled out enough wood to make a long box, just over 4 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet deep. He built it and got a popup.