Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 96

The next tool that Eisen was making was something that may be used more often than the pickaxe, an axe. For this, Eisen shaped the hot steel ingot into a flat square shape, and created a thin edge at one of the ends while thickening the end opposite to the edge to give enough space for the handle to pass through. Now that this was done as well, Eisen set the axe head down next to the pickaxe head, and then threw the next ingot into the forge for the next tool.

He would also need to make the dagger for that Crafting Guild request he picked up before, but that wouldn't take all that long either, so it was fine to do it after he finished his tools.

Once the steel ingot in the forge was glowing a bright yellow, Eisen grabbed it out of the forge again, right when he remembered a new part of his dwarven racial skill. Slowly, Eisen moved his fingers toward the glowing steel until his skin was pressed against it, and Eisen didn't feel any pain or lose any HP through this action. He would still move it around with a tong while crafting, though, since they would take up the least amount of space on the metal to let Eisen work more easily with it, but at least it was good to know that he could even handle something as hot as this with his bare hands now.

But while Eisen was quite happy to see this, the owner of the smithy was nothing but confused. "Erm, are- are you a Dwarf, by chance?" He asked, already feeling quite silly to ask this man that was nearly double the height of what any dwarf should be, but to his surprise, this old man simply laughed as he began to work on the metal in front of him.

"Haha, yeah, I'm a half Dwarf. My other half is a giant." Eisen explained while flattening the steel, and the owner of the smithy nodded slowly.

"A Half-Giant? Well, that explains your height at the very least... Anyway, don't let me disturb you any more than, was just surprised to see you touching the hot steel with your hands."

Eisen chuckled and nodded his head as he continued flattening the steel down quite a lot, until it was less than a centimeter thin and shaped it to have a rough 'U' outline, just that it was completely filled out, and was slightly pointed at the round end. Because what Eisen was making right now was a shovel.

As these were all quite simple tools, making any of the parts really didn't take that long, and Eisen managed to finish this within a little more than an hour, including the time it took to grind each edge down to be sharp enough.

Now, after asking if this was alright, Eisen stacked some bricks on top of each other to make a small box, placed a few bricks onto the ground in the box to make sure that the steel parts wouldn't touch the burning coals that Eisen added in next, right before he placed the steel parts on top of them and closed the box off.

It seemed like the owner was kind of confused at what Eisen was doing, but just let him do his thing anyway. So next, it was time to make the dagger for the guild request.

Eisen threw another small steel ingot into the forge and waited until it was glowing in a bright yellow like always before grabbing it and placing it on the anvil. He quickly thinned it out and slightly lenghtened it as well, before creating the edges of the dagger that lead all the way around the blade part, and then reshaped the part of steel where the handle would be attached later.

Since it couldn't hurt to temper this small blade as well, Eisen placed it into the tempering box next to the tool parts and then stepped over to the group that watched him work.

"Alright then, now we only need to wait for a bit. The parts will finish tempering soon, and then I can finish everything in the carriage." He explained while deactivating his skills and packed away his hammer, changing back out of the leather apron into his regular shirt before turning to the owner of the smithy.