Volume 1 Chapter 14 (1/2)

A hundred thousand bolt screws

Standing in front of the Volcano Blacksmith, Xu Yi had swept away the pain from last night and had become composed again.

“May I ask if Master Lanus is in?” Xu Yi came to the front door of the blacksmith and was hit with a wave of heat, almost forcing his words back into his mouth.

“Keng——”

A loud metal clashing sound came from the blacksmith, as if it took the place of a reply.

Xu Yi went in and he saw the forge of the blacksmith spew out flames. Beside the forge, there was a dwarf whose head was only to Xu Yi’s chest, but was several times bulkier than him currently holding a piece of red iron clamped in his left hand and with his right hand slamming down with a hammer that was two times the size of his head.

“Keng——”

“Keng——”

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As the hammer fell down again and again, there was a clear metal clanging sound that filled the blacksmith, that had a kind of charm to it.

Xu Yi watched this dwarf’s extremely rhythmic hammering for a while and couldn’t help secretly nodding.

Heinz really was right. If one was talking about blacksmithing, dwarves really were the best on the continent.

When he met Heinz today, Xu Yi discussed the issues he faced with him. Heinz didn’t have a method for the material problem, but in terms of craftsmanship, he did give a suggestion. It was to have Xu Yi search for Banta City’s most renowned blacksmithing master, which was this dwarf Lanus in front of him.

After being reminded by Heinz, Xu Yi finally remembered that while the Sines Continent was different from earth, it didn’t only have humans. There were also many races other than humans.

The dwarf clan was renowned as blacksmithing masters on the continent, publicly recognized as the race with the greatest skills in blacksmithing.

But normally dwarves lived in their own tribes and rarely went out, so there was only Lanus, this dwarven blacksmith master in the entirety of Banta City. Xu Yi actually never thought of him before.

Xu Yi patiently waited for a while and Lanus finally finished what he was currently forging. He threw the red piece he had already hammered into shape into the water and looked at Xu Yi.

“Hey, say what you want to say, I don’t want to beat around the bush.” While speaking, Lanus took a waterskin from the table and opened it, causing a strong wine scent to spew out.

Dwarves loved wine the most, the stronger the better.

“Master Lanus, I am here to ask for your help in making something.” Xu Yi took out a blueprint from his chest.

“What is it?” Lanus raised his head back to take large mouthfuls while taking the blueprint to look it over. He gave a cold snort and threw the blueprint away, as he angrily said, “Who told you that I, Lanus would help people make this kind of broken nails?”

Xu Yi laughed, as he picked up the blueprint from the ground, “Master Lanus, although this thing is a nail, it is better to call them screw bolts.”

“I don’t care if it’s a screw bolt or not, anyway I, Lanus will never make this kind of little toy! You can leave!” Lanus waved his bulky arm and turned to leave. He looked like he wasn’t willing to acknowledge Xu Yi at all.

“Are you not making it? Or can you not make it?”

When Xu Yi’s voice fell, Lanus quickly turned around and pointed at Xu Yi as he shouted, “Human! Let me tell you, don’t think that Lanus is someone stupid you can goad into action! I said I won’t do it, so I won’t do it!”

“Oh, if you won’t make the screw bolt, will you make this? This thing is not a small thing.” Xu Yi took out another blueprint.

Lanus glared at Xu Yi before calmly taking the blueprint.

This time he didn’t throw away the blueprint, rather he honestly looked over it.

After a while, Lanus slowly looked up at Xu Yi with a face filled with curiosity, “Hey, little human, where did you get this blueprint? Why have I never seen this before?”

“It was made by me. How about it? Master Lanus, can you make it?” Xu Yi asked.

Lanus looked at the blueprint and carefully thought it over. His face suddenly turned red and he gave a snort, “This was just randomly thought of by you, how could it be made? I say, brat, did you deliberately come here to play with me? If so, scram for me now!”

Xu Yi laughed. There was a large scale excavator on this blueprint, it was even hard to make on earth, trying to make it with human labor was basically a fool’s dream.

But he certainly wasn’t here to play with Lanus. Although he saw Lanus becoming angry, he looked down at the blueprint and said with a serious face, “Master Lanus, you are a blacksmithing master. Although this thing can’t be made right now, you should know that this wasn’t randomly thought of by me. This thing is the main reason I came to find you.”

Lanus gave a snort, but his expression relaxed a bit.

Actually he could see that Xu Yi was not lying.

Although the thing on the blueprint seemed like it was fantasy, there were exhaustive details written for every part of the blueprint, even having detailed and precise parameters. It could be seen that this was not made on an impulse.