Chapter 89: Traditional Blacksmithing
After leaving Jackson’s office and meeting with Vespera, I decided to try crafting something with the mithril slab.
I thought about making a small annex to my house and turning it into a workshop, but if I worked during the night, it could become an annoyance to the neighbors and the people sleeping inside.
With that in mind, I decided to make the annex in the forest next to the tree house.
When we teleported there, we saw a few of the alchemists hanging out outside while checking some herbs they had hung up to dry.
They had discovered that certain herbs could be used for different potions if they were left to dry, as their components would differ.
It was pretty genius, to be honest. I never thought about processing the materials in different ways to see if their effects would change, but I supposed that was a good side of having more than one person experimenting.
A moment later, Reinar came out from the workshop to greet Vespera and me.
After congratulating me for the rank up, he inquired if I needed something from the tree house, but I explained to him and the other alchemists that I wanted to try my hand at blacksmithing with mithril and didn’t want to be a nuisance in the town.
With the help of Vespera, we built a workshop with earth magic a few meters away from the bathtub area. It was nothing fancy, as it was an open space with a roof and four pillars to hold it.
It looked suitable, considering it took me a few minutes. Either way, once the foundation was done, we had to try several times to come up with the perfect furnace.
The furnace couldn’t be powered with magic, or it wouldn’t work on the mithril, so I had to think hard about how a forge worked.