Carriage making (3)

Virtya was too concentrative on his task in that he didn't even realize the defeated looks of the experienced blacksmiths beside him. 

Forge welding was the only step that slowed Virtya down because it needed one to be precise and careful or else the merging wouldn't be perfect. If one was not careful, The whole thing would be destroyed. Virtya used the hottest flame to burn the upsetted ends of the unfinished wheel before he hammered them together when he saw that the ends had achieved the needed peptization.

Virtya made sure to painstakingly make each of the parts of the carriage and chariots that would be used by the Whiddiff palace himself.

After he finished making the components, he would then curve them exquisitely and and start to assemble them together to make the whole thing.

The wheel for example required a blacksmith to be keen and experienced in order to make this part because the wheel was needed to be flawless without any dent, bend or imperfection that would make the chariot to be imbalanced, the dents could even grow in the future while the wheel was moving until the wheel dismantled itself if a blacksmith was not keen enough. One should know that the wheel was a major part that ensured the movement of the wagon, it also provided support and aesthetics to the wagon. 

Coming to the wagon itself especially the one which was made entirely of iron, the wagon would provide the space for the seating passengers and it would also act as both an armor and a windbreaker for its passengers. The warriors would not have to worry about the unbearable weather when they had the carriages. What Virtya created was much durable and impenetrable than the one he imported from the northern continent.

The blacksmiths and the warrior knights could not help but be awed by the finished product. What the finished product now needed was to be painted and then it would be ready to roll. Virtya was also complacent with the finished product, this design was three fold better than the ones from the northern continent. It was simply impeccable. After all, this was a design that he stole from the modern world as exquisite carriages like the one he had created were used by the medieval Europe royalties in his past world and they were still being used in the present in some ceremonies.

Since the blacksmiths were now adept in making the parts of the carriages, Virtya desided to leave them on their own to finish building the wheels as he headed out of the guild, he wanted to see the progress of the carpenters.

Long live king Virtya!"

All the carpenters went on one knee as they lowered they heads in the presence of his majesty.

"Rise!" Virtya waved his hand to show that the carpenters could now stand up.

"I only came here to see your progress with making the wagons." Virtya said to them. The carpenters all stood up and continued with their work but their eyes never left the trail left by the king, all of them wanted the king to recognize them and praise them for their work.

Because wood was easy to work with than iron, Virtya didn't need to show the capenters how to make the wagons. The capenters only needed to peek at the blueprints given to them and then they would be good to go as long as the needed raw materials were present.

Virtya could see that their progress was quicker compared to the blacksmiths, though right now, Virtya had ordered the blacksmiths to stop making the wagons and only make the wheels, he hoped that their progress would now be quicker than that of the capenters. 

At last, Virtya ordered some knights to bring out the finished wheels, he wanted to install the wheels on the finished wagons.

One should know that the capenters made the wagons that could carry two people, another one had a seating capacity for four people and a bus like structure that could carry forty persons. This bus like structure would be pulled by six horses, so one could clearly tell that this thing would need three pairs of wheels with the two pairs of the front wheels being flexible to enable a turn around at an acute angle so that the horses would not be strained when a turn was initiated.

Inside the wagons, the capenters had created seats and small ventilations, they didn't make large ventilations incase the enemy ambushed the passengers while they were unprepared. The wooden covering could protect the passengers for some time if they were ambushed, right?