I take the tools with me and go back.
While wondering how I should go about the next talk, I move to Tiraiza’s lab that no one goes to.
I listen to Jamie’s shape requests.
“I can even choose the shape?”
Jamie happily drew a picture on paper.
It’s handmade, so I make anything.
Hey, wait, isn’t this a little complicated?
It’s fine that it’s a double-sided, but there’s this design in between the two edges.
There’s this sharp corner like thing that’s unnecessary for a weapon.
There are pointlessly thin parts, and parts with holes in them.
It somehow became the best design Jamie’s ever thought of.
“You’ve made it into a design that looks like it’ll be a pain in the ass.”
“Is this shape even possible?”
Yufilia looks at it interestedly.
“It’s fine, probably. I won’t know until I try.”
“Will you request a blacksmith? Design fees will probably be high, and aren’t the goods on the market good enough?”
Tiraiza is trying to ruin Jamie’s creative urges.
“Yeah, there’s no romance in that.”
Jamie voices her displeasure.
“I’m using materials you can’t find on the market, so I can’t”
“So it’s a material that isn’t sold. Are you using dark steel?”
Materials have ranks.
Zinc, copper, and iron were materials found in my old world.
However, this world has ones even higher than those.
Ghost ore----what is processed from it is the so-called mithril.
Black iron ore----the so-called dark steel.
The dark steel that Tiraiza mentioned is humanity’s best material.
“I see. The current ax is made out of mithril. Properly speaking, we should have made it out of dark steel a lot earlier.”
“Well, there was an attachment to it too.”
Putting aside the two’s conversation, I open the box I brought.
“This time, the material will be this.”
It’s a whitish ore.
“What’s this? It’s not black iron ore.”
“It’s orihalcon ore.”
“Fatu!”
Tiraiza let out an unusual voice.
I’m satisfied, surprising her.
“Isn’t orihalcon a legendary ore? I heard you can’t obtain it in this world anymore.”
Jamie *anguri* opens her mouth.
“That’s the same material used in Ridiru, and other legendary weapons, right? Where’d you find this material……?”
Yufilia stares in wonder.
“It’s something like a secret material passed down in my family.”
“What kind of family is that……?”
Iris, who didn’t even raise a surprised voice just now, retorted in a faint voice.
Yufilia was touching the orihalcon and checking it.
“Is it fine to use this thing?”
“Well, it’s something was unused and just collected dust anyways.”
For roughly 1000 years. Plus, there’s still more material, so it’s fine.
“Wait for a moment, we still don’t know whether or not this actually orihalcon or not.”
Tiraiza, who slightly calmed down, naturally voices her doubts.
“A secret item passed down through generations being actually fake, is something that happens very often.”
“That’s true. Well, it’ll be proved when it’s processed.”
It’s difficult to prove that it’s real to people who don’t know what real ones are like.
However, you can tell by looking at a made weapon.
Thus, without going in depth with my explanations, let’s hurry up and make one.
“This is still an ore, where are you going to process it?”
Iris asks.
“That’d be in a workshop, so about that, I have no choice but to ask the princess.”
As expected, I can’t process it in this room.
When I look at Yufilia, she puts her hand on her chin and thinks.
“The Bream Company has a large workshop.”
It’s a company that competes for number 1 or 2 in the country.
They focus their power into making armor and accessories.
Yufilia also visits now and then, so it can be said they have a good face.
For the time being, I decided to go their.
The Bream Company’s head office was close to downtown.
It’s 10 stories tall, a top class building even in the city.
It was a reputable department store that boasted there was nothing you couldn’t get here.
When we entered the store, the clerk hurriedly went to get someone.
They noticed Yufilia, and called a higher up.
“If it isn’t Yufilia-denka, welcome to our store.”
A middle aged man with a good physique came in rubbing his hands together.
“This is Roger Bream-san. He’s the current president of the Bream Company.”
Yufilia greeted him, and introduced Bream to us.
No, I might be the only one who doesn’t know him.
“Anyways, what business do you have here today? Is it what I’ve been hearing in the rumors?”
“Ah, it’s different.”
Yufilia makes a bitter smile.
Soon is soon.
It seems they thought we came for money.
“I want to use the workshop for a bit.”
“So it was that. In that case, feel free to use it, I’ll come to talk to you soon.”
Bream seemed to be relieved, and accepted our request with a smile on his face.
The workshop is located in a place away from the center of town.
It was near the barrier, in the southwest part of town.
It’s usually loud, and sometimes accidents happen, so there’s no way it could be in an area with a lot of people.
“Oh, you came. I heard the story.”
When we entered the workshop, there was one person who approached us while holding a hammer.
He’s called Scott, and he’s the top around here.
The workshop was pretty big, and had dozens of people working in it.
“Wa,wait artisan, what tone are you speaking to the princess with……”
His disciples are panicking.
“It’s fine with this princess.”
“Yeah, being formal is fine just within the royal palace.”
Yufilia speaks with a smile.
It’s probably a relationship past acquaintanceship.
“So, what did you want to use?”
“U,umm”
Asked by Scott, she gives a troubled look to me.
“I’d like to process this and use it to make weapons.”
I go out in front, and talk to Scott.
At the same time, I showed him the orihalcon inside the box.
“What’s this? I never seen this material.”
Scott not only looked at it but also felt it, and he felt it was strange.
“I guess that’d be this case, if it was real.”
Tiraiza mutters.
“You’re a suspicious one.”
“It’s the role of a sage.”
“So, what is this?”
Scott interrupts Tiraiza and I’s conversation.
“Oricalhon.”
When I say that, everyone in the workshop stopped moving.
“Haa!?”
“Achichichichichi!”
Everyone seemed to be surprised and have gone mad.
“That’s a lie right? That’s a legendary material that’s even been said to not be in this world any more.”
“We’d like to use the workshop, even if just to check whether or not it’s real.”
Apparently even Yufilia didn’t completely believe it.
Giving a light explanation of the sequence of events, she looks at me and the oricalhon suspiciously.
“I don’t mind, but how are you going to find out anyways? In the first place, you’ve never seen the real thing before.”
“It’d be a waste of time to investigate, so I’d like to hurry up and process it. That’ll also become a way of proving it.”
“I guess that’s true. Then I’ll go ahead and try it.”
Scott rolls up his sleeves.
“No, you guys can’t do this.”
“Ahnn!? Are you saying I can’t do it with my skills?”
Since my wording was bad, Scott was offended.
“No, it’s not a problem with your skills. If I could leave it to you, I’d want to.”
Various impurities are mixed into the ore.
The work begins with removing those.
In other words, with ingot production.
An ingot is a mass of metal.
For example, a gold credit pole is also an ingot.
There’s a variety of ways to remove impurities.
Let’s take iron as an example.
The melting point of iron is about 1500℃.
In other words, at 1500℃ it changes from a solid into a liquid.
Even if you don’t go that far, if it’s heated to an extent, it’ll soften and become easy to separate.
If you introduce limestone then, the impurities will react with it, and be absorbed into it.
After that, there is a work process, and you’ll make a high purity iron ingot.
“Hou, you seem to have some knowledge.”
When I explain myself, Scott is a little surprised, and raises his eyebrows.
“Black iron ore has a melting point of about 8000℃. It’s not easy to process something at that temperature.”
“That’s why even blacksmiths need to train their bodies, until they get a body that can withstand heat, and can guard themselves with ninki(jinki).”
In addition to that, it’s recommended for blacksmiths to have the fire attribute.
They’ll have a body resistant to fire.
Conversely, people who have the water attribute aren’t fit for the job.
They also need to use fireproof magic items.
Looking at the craftsmen, they're equipped with bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and so on.
“This facility can stand up to 10000 degrees Celsius,and we can endure it. What's the problem?”
Scott asks me.
“100000.”
“Ahn?”
“The melting point of orihalcon is 100000 degrees Celsius.”