Although the trip was long, it wasn't like Ryan and Femradiel didn't do anything aside from teleporting from one place to another. They also made some preparations for some situations and also began to use the mithril. Patience was the key in order to get better at forging weapons, so Ryan made sure to use the same amount of mithril several times.
He made a bow without a string and then melted. Ryan repeated that process dozens of times since he didn't have to worry about its durability. According to Nakine, as long as a weapon made of mithril isn't enchanted with a spirit, it could be reforged as many times as one might want.
"Why are you trying to craft a bow?" Femradiel asked.
"Bows grant more dexterity, so their raw power is better," Ryan replied. "I don't know when we are going to obtain any mithril again, so we should exponentialize what we have."