Abe the Wizard

uch reaction to that.
Apart from Abel, all the other people here were experienced old men.

Hoover whispered to Abel, “It’s been the twenty of us for the last ten gatherings.
Now that you are here, that breaks the record for a pretty long time.”

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“What about the other masters?” Abel asked.
From his understanding, there should be a total of around 36 blacksmith grandmasters in the Blacksmith union.
Did Hoover mean that the other 16 never attend these events?

Hoover explained, “Those who don’t come are often those who were trained by large organizations.
Since their skills and crafts are often privatized, they are pretty much not allowed to come to show themselves in public.
Pretty dodgy stuff, if you ask me, but that’s just my opinion.”

Master Morry continued to speak, “We will now begin our first activity.
Fellow master blacksmiths, it is now time for you to demonstrate any new achievements that you have.
Master Abel, as it is your first time to attend our event, we’d like to inform you that it is up to you to decide what technique you would like to disclose in public.”

“If you don’t want to show us anything, Master Abel, that’s perfectly fine.
I will have to remind you something, though: If you don’t agree to demonstrate some of your findings in the next gathering event, we’ll have to stop you from entering into any future gathering event.
Unless you become a grandmaster, we’ll have to make sure that you keep showing us your findings when you come here.”

“Grandmaster.” The look on Master Morry’s face seemed kind of strange when he mentioned this word.
The other master blacksmiths laughed as they looked at Abel.
Abel didn’t seem to mind, though.
He just thought that they wanted to see what he was capable of.

Before Abel did anything, he first looked at the other masters that were doing their demonstrations.
It was been especially helpful for his learning.
Obviously, there was no commentary to explain the techniques that they showed.
Also, they were only showing a brief part of the entire craft, instead of doing the procedure from start to finish.When Abel saw that the odd furnace, he thought it was just like the one at the Rogue’s Encampment.
It was also powered with inferno flame, which just showed how much taste dwarves had for the fires that they used.

For Master Robin’s demonstration, he pulled a piece of iron into a string.
This technique was especially helpful in making bowstrings.
Not only could it bolster the sturdiness of the bow, but it could also be used to launch a more powerful shot than most arrows.
Of course, Master Robin wasn’t going to tell them what the ratio of the metals was.
What he showed was just the start of an area of research, so if the others wanted to look more into it, they would have to spend a lot of time and resources by themselves.

As for the others, some of them added a fire accelerant liquid to boost up the hotness of a flame.
It was more like a real-life commercial than a display of craftsmanship, so Abel didn’t really have a use for it.

Most of the stuff was practical, though.
A lot of the master blacksmiths would try to show off little tricks that they use in their crafts.
As insignificant as these skills might appear to be, there was always going to be a chance that they could be helpful to whoever that knew them.

What attracted the most attention for Abel, however, were the two elven master blacksmiths.
Since elves were much weaker than humans and dwarves, they must have been putting the most work out of all the masters here.
Their expertise was in making small items such as accessories and jewelry, and they demonstrated a lot about the ways of smelting precious metals and separating gemstones from rings.

While the other skills that these elven masters revealed weren’t of much help for Abel, he really thought that they were the most generous ones with showing off what they knew.
Well, there was also Master Robin, but these two outdid themselves.

Come to think of it, Abel had never looked into how to make accessories.
Now that the two elven masters have introduced him to this art, he thought that he might be able to start on his own research into this.
And since these two have already looked into the process of smelting, he might also want to ask them for some further input.
If he could get the data on how to mix different metals together, he might just create some even more overpowered weapons for himself.

Of course, those weapons would be made of alloys.

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