Will of Сhaos

Chapter 531: Tournament Of The Great Hammer Part 3

Chapter 531: Tournament Of The Great Hammer Part 3

As soon as the preliminaries ended the real tournament started, I was surprised at how fast the preliminaries were, Borges had no mercy in eliminating almost all the participants and not even saying how they got it wrong.

Everyone was watching but didn't understand a thing about analyzing a weapon or analyzing metal.

Diana said something about being able to analyze how someone fights by seeing the sword that person uses, I imagine a Blacksmith should do a similar but deeper analysis.

When the real tournament started we could see all the Blacksmiths working, thanks to my senses I was able to perceive a lot more things than the others in the audience, I'm sure it would be the same for my companions.

Some of the Blacksmiths use the kiln the way I imagine it to be the norm, but two Blacksmiths use fire magic and ignore the kiln, there was also a Blacksmith who started shaping metal without even taking it to the kiln using magic, this one had Affinity with the metal element Just like Anton.

Anton used magic too, but it was to control the furnace temper while heating the metal to high temper, so he took a Hammer the size of my head in one hand and waited while staring unblinkingly into the furnace, he looked like a statue where it was until the moment he took out a glowing metal and took it to the solid metal cube that I imagine he will use as an anvil.

Anton placed the glowing metal on top of the metal cube and concentrated mana from the metal element into the Hammer he used before he started hammering.

Every hammer blow from Anton sent waves of mana of the metal element through the glowing metal bar, with my vision I was able to see dark plates accumulating and breaking around the metal bar.

Anton's hammering seemed to follow some sort of pattern where every three hammers more of what I imagine to be impurities come out.

Anton continued his work without bothering to look at what the others were doing, his eyes were completely focused on his work with a level of twitch that the other competitors didn't show, some were even doing things that even I believed were unnecessarily exaggerated.

"You have 3 hours, start!" (Borges)

While Borges explained everything to the competitors and the public, one of the Mages who has been an assistant for this tournament placed 3 dagger handles on top of the three work tables of the finalists of the competition.

Anton goes to the cable and calmly analyzes it while his two opponents run straight to their own metal bars, so far I don't know what kind of metal this is, Borges talks like it's obvious what kind of metal it is and the competitors looked know too.

Soon Anton started to work, he didn't run, he did everything with great calm as if it was one of his daily jobs, he took the metal bar and put it in the oven which was still hot, after several minutes when the metal bar it was glowing again and more malleable, he takes it out and starts hammering, every hit of his Hammer was filled with Mana from the metal element.

He slashed until the metal bar became almost flat, then he cut with great ease in drawing a dagger blade using a magic item for the slash.

After that he hammered a few more times and made magic circle patterns in the center of the blade before cooling it in the liquid he used before, with the cold metal he analyzed the material that was still raw before starting to sand the entire blade while highlighting the notches magic you did before, the next step was to sharpen the blade and finally polish it.

The end result was an aggressive looking blade with a slight curvature and single-sided blade, and in a matter of seconds attaches the blade to the hilt, after which he enjoys his own work as he nods his head in approval before leaving it on top of the handle table.

All of this was wind for almost two hours, Anton had been the first to finish again, throughout the competition he was always the first to finish, he also always does everything very calmly and doesn't seem to mind being surrounded by people watching him work.

When the time was up Borges took a look at each dagger, he seriously and carefully looked at each one before announcing the winner by slapping Anton on the back and laughing out loud, the prize of this competition was a Great Piece of Red Mithril, a variant of normal Mithril with high affinity to the magical element of fire.

I just discovered that there are many varieties of Mithril.