51 Bowls Making!
With a good enough Crucible, he will make good Ingots, and with it, he will be able to make Steel and forge the necessary tools he needed.
He was surprised that he worked for what seemed like hours but it was now that the Sun was above him!
"The day is long, huh?"
Elias lay on his back as he stared at a bird that was patched on his Dome. It just landed there as if it owned the place.
The Fourth Trial has begun but he doesn't know what it entails.
He looked away and felt the need to continue working. Then he smiled, "Maybe this Trial was based on Forte usability, right?"
It's justified, as Islanders usually obtained ten Myriads of Islands, as for him, twelve Myriads of Islands. It is good to assume he will be tested on how well he will make use of those Island Fortes effectively!
Elias summoned the Island Interface and read the Fortes he obtained.
[Islander's Island]
~Islander: Elias Gobarau, Prime Crocodile
~Island: Grade 3, level 4.
~Type: Growing Isle!
~Size: 20 Diameter
~Number of Merged Islands: 24
~Resource: Mineral Rocks, Metal Ores, and Grasses.
~Residents: Slimes, Metal Slime, Fish Slime!
~Island Fortes: Abinci Grass, Igneous Rock, Clay, White Sand, Metal Ore, Mineral, Wood.
[Note! Some Fortes are dormant]
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"Igneous rock. I guess this is an offshoot of Antecedent rock. And to think that the Ram Island has a Forte and it still stands strong after the Second Trial, showed that the Island is special on its own. That's why the Ram raised trees on it!"
Elias closed the Interface and then pulled the bowls close to him and started stacking them together.
Since they were roughly made they come in different volumes. Though he made sure that the size remained relative so that they can easily be stacked together.
In the end, he obtained 6 sets of stacked bowls. 5 of them have ten bowls and one has 8 bowls. He stared at them for some time and muttered.
"This is hard. I'm running out of ideas." He scratched his head with a frown and then separated the bowls again.
The idea was after stacking the bowl he would put them on fire and heat them till they became red and malleable. Then used lumber to smash them together to blend them. Then used the Wand to perfect them.
But, some of the bowls at the bottom are weak and they might heat up and melt fast, leaving the above unmelted. What he wanted was that the bowl at the button is hard and resilient, so even if it heated up, those at the above should begin to soften before it does.
He disassembled the sets and made the best set he can think of out of the decent bowls.
"Early blacksmiths did suffer before they came up with various ideas… to even come up with the idea of alloy, how many trials and errors have they been through before they came to the best possible combinations." He wondered.
Elias managed to stack one set that is to his liking. The bowl at the bottom was stronger than the above bowls. And the second is stronger than the subsequent bowls.
The arrangement was in 1st,2nd,3rd...8th. The 8th bowl at the bottom was the strongest.
He made two rock stoves to support them. After that, he set fire to each. What amazed him was that as more woods appeared beneath the sand, the new woods were dry and crisp for burning, unlike the first ones that were not.
It is as if the Island has read what Elias needs!
On one stove, he put the 1st bowl.
On the second stove, he put the 2nd bowl.
As the fire in the stove heated the 1st bowl, it became red. Then he used two strong but thin lumbers and grabbed the 1st bowl carefully and placed it on the 2nd bowl.
It too has begun to show signs of red.
He picked the 3rd bowl and placed it on the now-empty fire stove. He added more wood for the fire to keep burning!
When the 2nd bowl was red he moved it and placed it above the 3rd bowl. And then he placed the 4th bowl on the now-empty fire stove and added more wood.
That's how he made all the bowls red and stacked them gradually, until the 7th bowl but... the moment he put the 8th bowl on the empty fire stove, in just five seconds, it heated up and became red.
The bowl was the heaviest and felt strong, yet it heated up faster. He waited to see if there was any sign of softness and moments later it showed signs of liquifying. Before it melted, he took it with the two lumbers and placed it in a bowl that wasn't on fire.
He then worked with the 7 stacked red bowls by slamming round lumber at their centre to blend the bowls!
Then he put them back on the stove and blazed the fire. After the bowl was red again, he brought it on the sand and hammered it with the round lumber. Until there the bowls were as one.
He put it back on the fire and he took a breather away from the fire and heat with a smile!
Then he cast his eyes on the rest of the bowls and began to set them according to the experience he had. But he did not put them on fire!
The bowl glowed red, almost completely yellow and it was still holding up without melting. Elias, then, entered the Wand and asked what was the composition of that bowl. The answer did not satisfy him.
His goal was to make a steel Crucible which he can place inside a good foundry.
The red bowl softened after several hours and Elias used the lumber and bent it deeper than it already was.
He then took it into a hole made with wet clay and sand and buried it. He left it till it was no longer red before he poured his saved piss on it.
He has thought of using water but, what about him? So he began saving his piss as the coolant, hopefully, it will work.
"Tangible Items"
[Tangible items]
~Merged rough concave metal
~bowls
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This time it didn't call his scrap and bowl but concave metal.
"Improve Merged rough concave metal!"
[Improvement]
~Smooth concave
~Hardened concave
~Shining concave.
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Among the list there was none he needed, then he checked among the set of bowls and took one that was like a small bucket.
"Improve it to this shape!"
The hot bowl disappeared and appeared as if a replica of what he held. With a sigh, he took it and checked and he was content with it.
"Improve Element Composition"
[Improve Composition]
[Iron, Aluminium, Carbon, Coffer, Zinc]
[Possible Combinations]
~Ductile steel
~Tough steel
~Hard steel
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