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Chapter 178 Forging Furnace

The giant octopus surrendered and naturally could no longer stay in the box.

Dui left the box space, then took the box and rode his flying broom to the black lake at the foot of the mountain.

Then he released the big octopus from the box.

When the giant octopus Kraken saw the lake, he became excited, like a thirsty man seeing an oasis in the desert.

After getting Dui's permission, he couldn't wait to enter the lake.

Water is the source of power for the giant octopus Kraken. With the nourishment of the lake water, it becomes lively again, and those broken tentacles quickly grow back.

It waved more than twenty thick tentacles, stirring the lake happily and creating heavy waves.

The Kraken was huge, almost as big as the dragon Smaug. Such a huge movement in the lake naturally attracted the attention of the residents of Hogsmeade on the other side of the lake.

I was also shocked when I saw a huge octopus appear in the lake.

However, soon someone with sharp eyes discovered Dui's presence.

Seeing that the giant octopus seemed to be led by Dui, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and quickly accepted it.

After all, their lord already has a giant dragon, a giant eagle, and apparently a giant snake.

Now it’s no surprise to add a giant octopus!

Dui also noticed the movements of the residents across the street and ordered the giant octopus Kraken, "Remember not to attack the humans across the street, understand?"

The Kraken nodded. Apart from being unable to speak, its intelligence was no less than that of humans.

It could hear that its master treated those humans differently, so it naturally did not dare to disobey.

At this moment, a burst of rapid horse hooves sounded.

It turned out to be Mayor Luke who came riding a fast horse.

Because of the powerful aura of the giant octopus Kraken, the horse no longer dared to come over once it was a thousand meters away.

Mayor Luke did not force it. He dismounted and ran quickly towards Dui.

Luke looked at the huge octopus and couldn't help but feel frightened, but he still walked up to Dui and said respectfully, "Lord Dui."

Dui spoke directly, "Are you here to ask about this octopus?"

Luke nodded. "Sir, is this octopus going to live in the lake from now on?"

Dui nodded, indicating that he need not worry.

"Don't worry about it bothering you. It's a guard I placed in the lake. Under my orders, it won't attack the residents of Hogsmeade. Everything can proceed as usual."

Luke breathed a sigh of relief, but still hesitated as he spoke, "Sir, some residents want to go fishing in the lake. I wonder...?"

Dewi waved his hand.

"That's not a problem. From now on, the half of the lake near the castle will belong to the octopus Kraken's territory, and the other half will belong to the town's residents. As long as you don't get too close to the castle, the rest is up to you."

"Your Excellency is merciful!" Luke said happily.

Luke then brought the good news back to town.

Soon, fishermen who made a living by fishing appeared on the Black Lake.

The fishermen all have a tacit understanding and only fish in the half of the lake close to the town and never cross the line to the other side.

Until one day, when a fisherman accidentally capsized and almost drowned, he was rescued to shore by a tentacle.

The fishermen and the giant octopus Kraken, who had originally kept to themselves, finally had an encounter.

Gradually, the fishermen became familiar with the giant octopus.

Fishermen often bring various things to eat for the giant octopus, especially alcohol, which is the most popular among the octopus Kraken.

The giant octopus often drives the fish in the lake towards the fishermen, allowing them to return home with a full load.

As the relationship between the octopus and the residents of Hogsmeade improved, the giant octopus would even swim to the lake on this side of the town, where it would bask in the sun and receive various kinds of food.

There are also brave children who fiddle with the octopus's tentacles or play with them in mid-air.

Adults are very confident in letting their children play with the octopus without worrying about the risk of drowning.

Tourists, traveling merchants, bards, etc. from other places also came here to admire the scene, but they were amazed but did not dare to get close.

After settling the giant octopus Kraken, Dui returned to the castle.

This time he planned to build a furnace.

Ever since he acquired the goblin's forging technique, Dui planned to make use of it.

It just so happened that he had several boxes of mithril ore sent by Bahrain, and Moria would continue to send him mithril in the future.

In the magical world, mithril also exists, and it is also called fairy silver. Mithril is used in many fairy forging techniques. It can be said to be a very important magical metal.

If Dui wants to master the goblin forging technique, he must learn how to smelt and process mithril.

Under the resentful eyes of the dragon Smaug, Dui mercilessly took away all the mithril ore before it was incubated by him.

Dui specifically chose the 33rd floor of the tower and converted it into a forging room.

But before that, Dui first came to the underground passage leading to the lake at the foot of the mountain, and used magic to open a tunnel along the inside of the mountain leading deep into the ground until he found an iron ore vein.

This is just a small vein of minerals. When the dwarves dug the underground tunnel, they felt that it had no value in mining.

But now it is just right for Dui.

He came to the place where the iron ore veins were most concentrated, then took out a fist-sized piece of Mithril Mother and placed it at the core of the iron ore veins.

Then, he opened the mithril box, took out the flame crystals, and, mimicking the structure of the original Balrog's lair, built an eggshell-like crystal barrier around the Mother of Mithril. The flame crystals released extremely high temperatures, quickly melting the surrounding iron ore and turning it into crimson magma.

Dui drank the fireproof potion in advance, so he was not hurt by the scorching temperature.

These magmas surround the Mother of Mithril like a river of magma.

Dui could sense that the Mother of Mithril was emitting an invisible radiation, which was slowly affecting the surrounding metal magma, causing it to slowly transform into mithril.

The speed of this conversion is very slow. At the beginning, it might take a year to convert one gram of mithril.

At the same time, the flame crystals are constantly enhancing and purifying the Mother of Mithril, increasing its radiation and transformation speed.

If Dui didn't have the elf's sensitivity to metal and magic, he wouldn't have noticed this change at all.

After doing all this, Dui no longer stopped and just had to wait quietly.

Perhaps in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, a mithril vein will be generated here.

Although it cannot be compared with the mithril production in Moria, it is still a source of mithril.

As for Moria, although he owns one-tenth of the mithril property rights, it is still okay when Balin is in charge, but once Balin passes away, it will be completely difficult to say.

After all, this is not the first or second time that the dwarves have broken their promises.

After leaving the iron ore vein, Dui collapsed and sealed the tunnel again.

Then he went to the 33rd floor and began to busy himself with building the fairy furnace.

He planned to use flame crystallization to make the fire bricks for the furnace, but the temperature of flame crystallization was too high, enough to melt the surrounding stone walls and ironware.

So Dui had to be extravagant and planned to build a furnace with mithril.

Mithril has a magical property, which is that it is not difficult to melt the first time, but after forging is completed and it cools down completely, it becomes very strong and heat-resistant. Even if it is thrown into volcanic magma, it is still difficult to melt.

After preparing a bunch of forging tools, Dui took out a mithril container, enlarged the space capacity inside, put a few pieces of flame crystals into the bottom, and then put in the mithril ore one by one.

Under the high temperature of the flame crystallization, the mithril ore gradually melted and turned into boiling and flowing silver slurry.

After continuous purification, Dui slowly poured the mithril slurry into the mold.

After solidification, a mithril furnace is formed.

The furnace still couldn't cool down at this time. Dui held an iron hammer with mithril added and kept hitting the inner and outer walls of the furnace at a strange frequency. He recited a spell with each hammer and injected magic power through the hammer.

This technique is derived from the goblins' forging concept that "metal has memory". The goblins believe that metal has "memory", and forging is not only a shaping process, but also a process of "communication" with metal.

Therefore, the most important part of fairy forging is to awaken the memory of the metal and connect with the metal through spells, runes and mental power, so that the metal can remember the maker's intentions and thus give the item unique magical properties.

Every time the hammer struck the wall of the mithril furnace, magical sparks would burst out.

At the same time, the magic power injected by Dui was also merging with the mithril during the continuous knocking, making the mithril, which already had magical properties, full of magic power.

Wait until the mithril furnace is completely soaked in magic power.

Dui used a mithril carving knife as a tool to carve fairy runes on the inner wall of the furnace.

By the time I finished all this, a week had passed.

Even with the fire-retardant potion, Dui was sweating profusely, not sure if it was from the heat or fatigue.

Looking at the furnace in front of him that was as tall as a person, Dui waved his wand.

"The water is as clear as a spring!"

The cold spring water gushed out and poured onto the furnace.

The furnace hissed and steam rose up in an instant.

He waved his hand to clear away the mist in the room and looked at the furnace where the finished product was.

The furnace is silver all over and has an oval shape with a big belly. It looks a bit like an alchemy furnace, and the furnace is engraved with mysterious runes.

Then Dui took out a few fire crystals from the mithril box and put them into the furnace.

Although there was no lid on, the scorching heat of the flame crystals was magically blocked inside the furnace. Even if one touched the wall of the furnace, one could only feel the coldness of the metal.

Looking into the furnace again, I saw that the space inside seemed infinitely huge, and was filled with extremely high temperatures and flames.

Dui threw a piece of mithril ore in, and the mithril ore melted instantly, and all the impurities were instantly burned, leaving only the purest mithril molten liquid.

Seeing this, Dui directly threw all the remaining boxes of mithril ore in.

From the outside, each box of mithril ore looked enough to fill the furnace.

But even if all of it was thrown in, the furnace would still take it all in, and instantly melt all the mithril ore and burn all the impurities.

Dui tapped the furnace gently with his wand, and the furnace automatically shrank with each tap, eventually becoming a palm-sized pocket furnace.

But even so, the mithril molten liquid inside did not overflow.

This is the magic furnace made by Dui based on the forging technology of the fairies.

The furnace not only has an automatically expanding space inside that can become larger as more ore enters, but also has the ability to enhance firepower and purify impurities.

For example, if the flame crystals put in have a temperature of one thousand degrees Celsius, the furnace will be able to increase the internal temperature to ten thousand degrees Celsius, which is enough to melt the hardest and heat-resistant metals.

At the same time, the furnace has the ability to automatically expand or shrink. You can control the size of the furnace by tapping it with a magic wand, making it easy to move and operate.

Most importantly, the furnace has a maximum capacity.

That is, it can absorb the properties of the metal smelted in the furnace, making itself stronger and more self-repairing.

It can be said that with this furnace, Dui has the most solid foundation if he wants to become the master forger in Middle-earth.

(End of this chapter)