Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 10

Eisen looked down into his hands at the hammer he was holding. It took a few hours to create, most of which was the tempering process, but the final item was something Eisen was truly happy with.

[High-Quality Cross-Peen Hammer]

[Quality - Perfect][Rank - 2]

[Description]An extremely high-Quality Hammer created by the Blacksmith Eisen. Due to the quality and hardness, even high-tier metals can be forged without issues.

[Effect]+4 STR, +4 END

It truly wasn't very hard to create the hammer, and it went significantly faster than the knife the day before. In the beginning, he had the cylindrical ingot and first punched a hole through it so that it would be easier to handle during the rest of the forging and so that he could insert the wooden handle easily as well.

After the hole went completely through the ingot, Eisen inserted a square metal staff and set the ingot down on the anvil, so that the staff would basically be parallel to the anvil's surface, and began flatting the center area of the top and bottom surfaces.

Following this, he thinned out the area between the center area and the two end. He punched two parts off one of the ends and formed it into a wedge shape.

Eisen then proceeded by cooling the hot steel in a tub of water, followed by tempering it in the same brick-box as he built yesterday While he was then heading to the workshop to start working on the handle, he was thinking about whether or not it would be a good idea to advise Denmir to get some kind of oven specifically meant for tempering. As far as he noticed, none of them did anything like Eisen and didn't attempt tempering at all.

Why the developers chose to leave it out of general blacksmithing practices of NPCs was unknown to him, but Eisen guessed that they wanted to somehow give players that do the effort to learn about actual blacksmithing an advantage. He would need to find out if that was the case for other crafts as well, although they aren't necessarily as complicated and include as many techniques as blacksmithing does, so he really wasn't sure.

He made the handle for the hammer out of the same material as for the knife, to kind of get a theme going.

Eisen looked at the hammer in his hands and felt its weight. Compared to the hammer he was using before, this one seemed to be absolutely perfect for him, as his hand fit perfectly around the handle and even without using Tool Connection, it felt like the hammer was part of his body.

Exactly because of that, Eisen felt like Tool Connection would have a great effect. He concentrated and closed his eyes, feeling this foreign energy, Mana, spread from inside his body into the Hammer.

When he felt that the skill activated, he opened the item information and looked at the line displayed at the end.

[Connection] Rank 1 (4%)

He was surprised and happy about the connection ranking at the same time. Until now, the immediate connection was always only in the rank 0 territory, and apparently, his skill level also increased by 5 levels at once.

"Ah, old-timer. Ye made a hammer for yerself, eh? At least ye didn't lose your Dwarf's spirit when ye lost yer memories, hahaha!" While Eisen was looking down at his tool, Denmir walked up behind him and eyed the hammer with curiosity.

However, since he had work to do himself, the dwarf decided to walk off to his own forge on the other side of the room, but before he managed to walk more than two or three steps, Eisen stopped him.

"What do you mean? I just made this for convenience. The hammers you have here feel slightly... off."

Denmir crossed his arms and nodded his head, "Of course they do! The tools I let ya and my apprentices use are all made by me. Whenever someone creates a tool of any kind, no matter the quality or how much it actually fits to 'em, that item will feel more perfect than anything someone else can give them. And what I meant... It's a tradition for Dwarves to make their own tools when they stop bein' an apprentice. Many simply stopped doin' that, but here at the Dwarf's Delight, I still have my apprentices do it. And ye obviously earned the right for it, old-timer!" The Dwarf explained with a happy grin on his face, and then turned and left to get to his work.