As I flew through the sky, I felt invigorated. I could swear I feel my blood dancing in excitement because of the Demon miasma in air. What a wonderful feeling.
We reached the blacksmith shop in only a few minutes and I guided Synthia to the hole I melted in the wall. Luckily no new undeads have taken up residence here so we could start immediately.
"It seems we have everything we need so let's start." Synthia said after inspecting the workshop. She had also inspected the ingots I had and when she saw the amount, I saw a glint flash across her eyes but it quickly disappeared.
"The process for creating an enchanted weapon is pretty simple. All you need to do is melt down the ingot in the furnace, use a mold to give it it's shape, use a hammer and anvil to hammer out any dents and get it the blade to be as flat as possible and then you let it cool. That should be everything....I think." From the way she spoke I knew she wasn't an expert. Hopefully she knows enough to make sure I don't fuck it up.
"First let's melt down the ingot in the furnace so grab that crucible and tong over there." She said pointing to a cup shaped metal and something that looked like long metal scissors. She placed an ingot into the crucible and gave it back to me.
"Now you need to light the furnace but here comes the tricky part. You have to infuse demonic energy into the flames but luckily for you you have [Hell Fire] affinity." She said and I conjured a small fireball in my hand and sent it floating towards the furnace and a dark orange flame ignited in it's center and the room became extremely hot. Ignoring the heat, I placed the crucible into the furnace using the tong and the ingot started to melt quickly but I controlled the flames so that it didn't melt the crucible and tong along with the ingot. A few minutes later, I removed the crucible from the fire and the ingot was melted down completely turning into a red hot liquid. I dismissed the flame inside the furnace and the inside was starting to melt.
"You're planning to make a sword right?" She asked and I nodded my head. She immediately pulled out a mold for the blade of the sword.
"Hurry and pour the liquid into this." And so I did, I poured the liquid into the mold.
"Now we just need to make the handle." She said and took up another ingot. I reignited the furnace and placed the crucible back inside the furnace. This time around I tried to control the flame so that it didn't melt the entire furnace or the crucible and I somehow succeeded. I pulled out the crucible and dismissed the flame and the inside of the furnace was almost completely melted and I doubt it could survive another use. This time Synthia had two molds one for the handle and another that looked like a screw.
"Quickly pour it into the molds." She said and I did. She then covered the molds with another piece and told me to pour more into an opening at the top then we waited. It took around an hour before the blade cooled and I had to hammer it out.
I used the tong to hold the still red hot blade and placed it onto the anvil. I used [Demon Enchant] on the hammer as instructed by Synthia and started smacking away at the metal. My technique with the hammer was far from perfect but I got the job done and now I had a perfectly smooth blade.
"Put it in here to cool." Synthia said as she carried a rectangular container full of water and I placed the blade inside and steam rose as soon as the blade touched the water. After a few minutes the blade was cooled and a large amount of water was evaporated.
"Those should be cooled by now." Synthia said as she walked over to the handle and pommel connection, as she called. She removed the mold from around them both and used the tongs to remove the red hot metal inside them. She then placed them into the water.
"And we're all done. All we have to now is put them together " Synthia said as she looked at the three pieces on the work table. She then instructed me to on how to put them together and soon I had a completed sword in my hand.