14 Smithing

"Is this the Fiery steel smithy?"

"Ah, yes, help yourself in, I will be there in a second."

I heard an aged voice answer to me as soon as I entered through the door, accompanied by the sound of hammering coming through.

"Here am I, so what can I help you with."

A dwarf, that was my first impression as I saw the smith. however, he was quite bulky like the village head, and had a small pair of glasses on, I wondered if this species actually existed in this world.

"Uh, it's actually me, who is wondering about that, I came to assist you with the work in the smithy as assigned within the request list that I received from the village head..."

"Ohhhhh, that, I was wondering when someone would come, I have left that request for more than a month, thank god you came, I'm getting too old for this."

"So, what do I actually have to do?"

"I would have liked to let you rest first and share a cup or two of drinks. Unfortunately, we have no time for this, follow me."

I followed the smith into the room he just came out from, he didn't bother asking for details so it either meant he was so desperate for help, or just that he trusted the village head this much.

"We will have to do a quick test first before putting you to actual work, try raising this hammer."

I touched the hammer slightly as 'weapon Resonance' activated on the spot.

[Refining Hammer lv.1]

[rarity - common]

[Requirements - Strength +10, Constitution +5]

This was all the information I could view for now, as I didn't have 'Hammer-mastery' yet, but it was enough for this task.

Raising this hammer may have been a hassle for the old Ian, but for the current me who satisfied the requirements, it was a piece of cake.

"Well, you seem to have enough strength for this, I guess you are passable. you will have to take care of ore refinement for the time you will stay here"

The smith pointed at an anvil in the corner, which had several rough shaped iron ores by its side.

"It is quite simple, all you have to do is hammer these ores till they lose their impurities which would get adsorbed to the anvil"

It seemed that this anvil was made of a special material that helped with the refining process, which seemed quite efficient in this world where there were no ore refining factories.

I didn't question much as I already sat at the chair and started hammering, I didn't have much time to waste if I wanted to earn the smith's trust and get to do more advanced work other than this labor.

"Well, you seem to take this quite seriously, just call me when you are done with this batch of ores, you can stay here for the night if you want"

The smith who seemed to be in hurry left, as I continued hammering for a while, it precisely took me 100 hammer strikes to remove all the impurities when I used all of my strength, which was about 10 minutes worth of work. However, the time it took and the number of strikes needed started lessening as I got used to it.

[daily quests:

Refine 500 iron ores {28/500}.]

I realized that the daily quest panel changed according to my work once again, After checking it. Unsurprisingly, there were only enough iron ores to finish the quest in the crate beside my work space. So, I decided to finish them as fast as I could, even if I had to give up my sleep for tonight.

However, as I continued hammering, exactly when I did about 100 ores more, I was alarmed by the system once again.

[You have learned 'Ore refining' Lv.1]

['Ore refining' Lv.1

Skill type: Passive

*The time required for refining an ore decreases by 10%

*The quality of the refined ingot increases by 10%.]