My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 89: Traditional Blacksmithing

Chapter 89: Traditional Blacksmithing

After leaving Jackson’s office and meeting with Vespera, I decided to try crafting something with the mithril slab.

I thought about making a small annex to my house and turning it into a workshop, but if I worked during the night, it could become an annoyance to the neighbors and the people sleeping inside.

With that in mind, I decided to make the annex in the forest next to the tree house.

When we teleported there, we saw a few of the alchemists hanging out outside while checking some herbs they had hung up to dry.

They had discovered that certain herbs could be used for different potions if they were left to dry, as their components would differ.

It was pretty genius, to be honest. I never thought about processing the materials in different ways to see if their effects would change, but I supposed that was a good side of having more than one person experimenting.

A moment later, Reinar came out from the workshop to greet Vespera and me.

After congratulating me for the rank up, he inquired if I needed something from the tree house, but I explained to him and the other alchemists that I wanted to try my hand at blacksmithing with mithril and didn’t want to be a nuisance in the town.

With the help of Vespera, we built a workshop with earth magic a few meters away from the bathtub area. It was nothing fancy, as it was an open space with a roof and four pillars to hold it.

It looked suitable, considering it took me a few minutes. Either way, once the foundation was done, we had to try several times to come up with the perfect furnace.

The furnace couldn’t be powered with magic, or it wouldn’t work on the mithril, so I had to think hard about how a forge worked.

This wasn’t common knowledge to the people of my past life. While I had a general idea of how a forge worked, I needed a bit more detail and understanding of the process to build one that would work as a traditional forge.

"Uuh, we might need some help with this..." I said to Vespera with a defeated tone, not knowing how to build a good furnace that wouldn’t need magic to be powered.

’Come on, Ichiro, let’s think hard. I need bellows to blow air into the fuel. I need coal to act as fuel, which I can easily make by burning some wood.

I believe the part that holds the burning fuel is called the hearth, so I’ll need to make one of those and a tube that connects the bellows to the hearth. I’ll also need some tongs to hold the hot metal...’

As I kept brainstorming all of the things I needed to make, Vespera stared at me with anticipation.

At that moment, Melina arrived after teleporting to the tree house. She had been catching up with the maids and visited Ivy, who was unsurprisingly eating chocolate in one of the stands in town.

The two maids were accompanying her, and the three of them asked me what I was building, so I explained I wanted to make a traditional smithy workshop to work with the mithril, then asked them if they knew anything about it.

Melina and Gina shook their heads in denial, but Carli, the princess’s personal maid, said she knew a little bit since her father used to be a blacksmith.

With Carli’s help, Vespera, Melina, and I built the workshop using magic, made specifically for non-magic crafting.

It took us the entire day to finish the forge since we had to recreate the different pieces many times until we got the perfect shapes and sizes.

As nighttime arrived, I told the group that they could go home and rest any time, but the princess was still curious about what I was going to do next. However, I planned to make a bunch of coal from burning wood to use as fuel, and Melina stubbornly decided she wanted to help.

I mean, I didn’t mind having her help me, but I just thought it was such a mundane and boring task that I didn’t want to keep her there.

After hours of burning wood, we took a well-deserved bath in the outside bathtubs late at night, separated from each other, of course, and then teleported back to the house in town to rest.

The following day, we ate breakfast and went back to the forest. I was ready to start testing the mithril out, and I knew it would take me a while to get the hang of it, so I told the princess that if she was bored, she could do anything else.

Nonetheless, Melina stated she wanted to see what I would do, and I had no problems with that.

Starting a fire using two pieces of wood and dumping them in the hearth, the flames slowly began to heat the coal as I pumped air using the bellows.

A few minutes later, the sparks from the coal were fully visible each time the air flowed through the tube. I didn’t know exactly how hot it needed to be to meld the mithril, but Carli said it needed to be extremely hot, as it wouldn’t get softer otherwise.

Since the workshop had gotten extremely warm due to the forge’s heat, I took my poncho and shirt off since they were not only getting dirty, but I was probably going to pass out from the heat if I kept wearing them.

Once the forge was as hot as it could be, I used the tongs to place the mithril slab inside and wiped the sweat off my forehead, noticing that the princess was sitting on the side watching me intently.

’Okay, I had no problems with them being here. But why is she staring at me like that...’ I thought, a bit nervous of the princess’s gaze that didn’t budge from me.

A few minutes later, I pulled the scalding hot piece of metal out and placed it on the anvil.

The slab was quite large, and I didn’t want to waste it all, so I split the malleable metal into smaller pieces.

Needless to say, it took me until nighttime to make something that was actually decent. During all that time, the princess just kept watching me work, although changing positions and locations.

Sometimes, she would watch me closely, lying on the side or even floating in the middle of the workshop with a slight smile on her face.

My first creation ended up being a small blade the size of a knife. It wasn’t as big as a dagger, but I believed it would probably fall into that category.

I had made the blade long enough so that the hilt wouldn’t be attached to the knife but instead covered the bottom of it.

That was actually a trick I had learned from my past life, remembering that you could tell a cheap sword from a real one by the way their hilts were attached to the blade.

A hilt wrongly attached could have the blade flying off with a strong or sudden move, so having the handle coat the blade was the best practice to avoid this.

As I removed the hot mithril knife from the water-cooling bucket, I placed it on a table and proudly showed my creation to Melina, the maids, and my companions.

It had been a while since I felt like I was doing real physical work and not relying on magic to finish the tasks. My title of "Master Craftsman" also didn’t help me at all since it only made me work better if I was using magic in my creations.

However, that only made the result much more satisfying. The princess’s eyes glowed with admiration, and I truly felt proud of myself after seeing their reactions.

"It’s quite hard to believe it was your first time..." said Gina as she inspected the blade on the table.

"Well, it did take me a dozen tries..." I said, noting that it was nighttime already and I had been working since early in the morning.

The maids said that not all blacksmiths were able to use mithril in their crafts, and it was a job mainly for dwarves, who were the most adept at anything related to smithing.

Carli even mentioned how she didn’t actually believe that I would be able to make anything, at least not that fast, but the princess laughed at her statement with a tear of joy filling her eye.

"After all this time, do you really still believe there is anything that Ichiro can’t do?" she asked before laughing again.

I blushed at her words, as I didn’t consider myself to be "good" at anything. I mean, I knew that my magic was better than most in the kingdom, but I never thought of myself as the best or anything.

The princess saying she believed I could do anything I wanted made me somewhat embarrassed but still happy to hear it.

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