Logically speaking, this small village with less than a thousand people living there should not be much bigger.
Moreover, Haina's home does not live on the edge of the village, but in the center of the entire village with the best environment.
Aiwass and the others followed Haina, and it felt like they hadn't gone very far... But when they arrived at the door of Haina's house, they looked up and saw that the moon was already high in the night sky.
——Unconsciously, it was already late at night!
Aiwass and Sherlock looked at each other, and then looked at Lily, who also looked surprised. They both confirmed in their hearts the confusion of timing here.
But at present, they can only confirm that this kind of chaos must exist, but they cannot analyze the rules in detail. The only thing that is certain is that Haina, as a local, cannot sense the abnormality at all, but foreigners like them can.
feel...
As a group of them approached, they could see the light overflowing from Haina's blacksmith shop. The lights inside were bright, but no conversation inside could be heard from outside the house.
"Mom, I'm back."
Haina directly opened the closed door of the blacksmith shop. Her voice became somewhat tired and not as excited as when she first returned home.
There was a light on outside, but there was no one. There were only some well-made weapons hanging casually on the wall, and large pieces of pliers, kitchen knives, iron hooks, pliers, saws, sickle heads and other tools and the fragments of iron in the tools all looked like
Harvested wheat is placed on the table in a messy manner or hung on a shelf.
Some of them were stained with rust, but instead of taking them away, they were just put together with other tools.
Pieces of pig iron were piled messily in the corner, while cast iron ingots were piled neatly in a pyramid-like shape on the ground in another corner.
Haina led them through the front desk and prepared to go to the back room.
But as soon as he entered the door, Sherlock felt something was wrong.
...Why is it so cold in this room?
Then he glanced around and his eyes widened in surprise.
——Why is your furnace installed indoors?
This made Sherlock stunned for a moment, and he didn't realize why for a long time.
Therefore, when passing by the oven and furnace, Sherlock reached out to test the temperature inside.
Ice cold.
Not only was there no fuel at all, but even the ashes had been specially removed - Sherlock touched it with his hand, but he didn't find much ashes.
Sherlock raised his eyebrows and secretly wrote this down.
After all, there are no longer many blacksmiths on the Glass Island. Blast furnaces and steam hammers have replaced the blacksmiths' work. Not only is the efficiency higher, but the quality of the iron produced is also better and more stable.
The blacksmiths who are still active today are those extraordinary craftsmen who can make extraordinary weapons, and those rural blacksmiths who make cheap farm tools for farmers.
The rarer the profession, the more it arouses Sherlock's interest. He has specially studied this aspect.
——It’s just an oven. Can the furnace be turned off?
These craftsmen are not blacksmiths in the traditional sense, but extraordinary professional "blacksmiths" who come from the path of dedication. They can call out the fire elves that accompany them - extraordinary creatures raised by Yantiansi who is dedicated to the path.
And these fire elves with the intelligence of children can help them perform extraordinary forging - melting some materials that are difficult to melt, or adding some mystical materials that cannot be integrated into the embryo through conventional forging techniques.
Because even if you become such a "blacksmith", you cannot obtain the corresponding formula. A blacksmith without a formula is a useless person.
Therefore, the "blacksmith" and its promoted version of the profession "magicsmith" are usually of the same lineage - and the magicsmith who made the elven dagger in Avalon was an elf from the Theocracy, and his disciples for several generations have
He is a native of Avalon.
This was also one of the aids sent by the Theocracy when Avalon was established.
But even if Sherlock doesn't understand blacksmith... he understands logic.
He sensed something was wrong logically——
Since there is pig iron in this house, it means that the blacksmith here does not use finished cast iron bought from the city. Instead, he uses pig iron made from iron ore. In other words, this furnace is not for decoration, but is actually used.
But if the furnace wants to smelt high-quality iron, it needs a high enough temperature.
This kind of civilian furnace is not the kind of blast furnace in a factory, and these mortal blacksmiths are not extraordinary people - they cannot summon the fire elves, so it will take a long time to raise the temperature of the furnace to the point where it can produce iron with acceptable hardness.
Preheating, gradually heating up by accumulating heat.
And this requires consuming a lot of fuel - in other words, a lot of money.
Once the stove goes out, it needs to be warmed up again to a usable level, which requires a long period of preheating. This consumes a lot of money and time.
Therefore, the forge inside the blacksmith shop and the furnace outside generally do not go out. So as soon as you enter the door, you can feel the heat immediately.
It is for this reason that the furnace is placed outside - because the temperature of the furnace is too high, and placing it inside the house will not only cause severe discomfort, but also pose a fire hazard.
Seeing this scene, Sherlock immediately had an idea in his mind -
Haina's father...is a transcendent?
Only extraordinary beings who can summon the spirit of fire don’t need this crude heating method...
But this made Sherlock confused.
——Your family is a blacksmith inheritor. Why did you travel all the way to Avalon to learn?
Isn’t the magic craftsman formula in your family more valuable to inherit?
and……
Haina is adaptable to the path of devotion? Why didn’t I see it?
Or is it that she is not her parents’ biological child?
Sherlock was filled with doubts.
After Haina entered the back room, the middle-aged man's rude scolding came immediately: "Your mother asked you to pick up the guests, why did you not come back from playing outside until night! What is there in the village after dark?
Do not you know?!"
Haina flattened her mouth a little aggrievedly and leaned against the wall near the door without saying a word.
She also felt very unhappy, but she couldn't refute it - because in terms of the result, she did feel that she had done something wrong. But she also felt a little baffled... because she really didn't know what she had done to lead to this result.
.
Following Haina, Aiwass also walked in.
This is the first time Aiwass has met Haina’s parents——
But after just meeting him once, Aiwass was immediately surprised.
Aiwass's words stopped abruptly: "Hello, uncle..."
...so short.
Lily was also stunned for a moment, and Sherlock couldn't help but say "Huh".
——Because Haina’s father turned out to be a dwarf!
He has gray marble-like skin, pure white beard and curly hair, a big nose, big ears, and a pair of small eyes. He is sitting on the beautiful dark red sofa at the moment, and his calves are even like those of a naughty child.
But he can still keep swinging.
...This is a very standard dwarf.
This is also the first time Aiwass has seen a dwarf in person.
The only contradiction is that the relationship between elves and dwarves is very bad. Basically, elves will not approach countries dominated by dwarves; and countries dominated by elves will also not see many dwarves.
Avalon is obviously the latter - the people of Avalon who have received too many benefits are too diligent, even more extreme than the elves themselves.
The elves only despised and were hostile to the dwarves, but the Avalonians went a step further - they directly expelled all dwarves from the country to express their friendly attitude towards the Theocracy.
Anyway, there weren't many dwarves in Avalon, so this gesture was totally justified.
Currently, a large number of dwarves are gathered in the Eternal Frost Empire in the north of Avalon. And Eagle Point Village is located in the northwest corner of Avalon, so it is indeed possible that dwarves will sneak over...
This also explains why Haina clearly has the heritage of a "blacksmith" but still chose the official path of a transcendent.
Because this old blacksmith who can give Haina the inheritance is fundamentally not a regular blacksmith from the Theocracy, but an unlicensed, and most likely even a stowaway extraordinary person - not only the inheritance he holds is illegal
Yes, even his entire being is illegal!
——That is Haina’s father!
I had insomnia, so I got up in the middle of the night and finished writing a chapter, and then I fell asleep... I posted it first!
The second chapter will be written when I wake up in the afternoon