The second day passed by and the third day arrived. Just like the past two days, he cooked something that would last him the whole day before he started his cultivation.
After almost three hours of cultivation, the mana surrounding him suddenly turned turbulent before it calmed down, he had broken through to rank 2. There's not much change in his body except that the mana in his body is now more than before and if he uses mana now, he will be able to automatically recover it if he doesn't meditate and he won't fall back to the previous rank if he exhausted all the mana in his body.
He continued to cultivate till noon before he stopped and he ate food before entering his blacksmithing room. He will finally start practicing blacksmithing today. He summoned his system interface and played the video that came with the manual yesterday. A robot appeared in his view with a forging table and a metal that had been calcined on it. The robot started pounding his hammer on the metal. After almost ten minutes of continuous pounding, the metal has already reduced to half its size and it's now shining. He noticed that there was a rhythm to the ponding of the hammer.
After the hammer shone with a momentary light, the robot placed the hammer on the metal and started to knock gently on the metal while turning it around. He's practicing extreme refinement. He continued watching the process of the extreme refinement till it shone with a light that soared into the air. The metal now has a circular cloudy pattern on it, it has once again reduced but it's glittering now.
After he finished watching the video, he took out a piece of silvery metal from his shelf, what he took out was the white iron. It is a metal that is extremely hard but is brittle so it's mainly used in the forging of armor. He put it on the table and just closed his eyes for a minute to regulate his mental condition. After he is in the optimal state, he opens his eyes and presses a button on the table. A section of the table opened and dropped the metal in before it slowly closed. He utilized his dream sense and sunk it into the table to observe the metal, a model of the metal appeared in his mind soon. This is the ability that his mental affinity gave him and it's quite useful in this sense.
The metal was soon calcined to its optimal stage for refinement to be carried out, he pressed a button and it was ejected. The metal is now red which shows that it's been heated. He carried two hammers and sunk his dream sense into the metal, a model of the metal appeared in his mind. In his mind, he saw a silvery hue covered by black and red hue. The black and red hue is the impurities. He raised the metal and
"Bang" brought it down. In his mind, he saw a little bit of the black substance become incinerated by the heat in the metal.
"Bang, Bang" he continued to strike and little by little the impurities in the metal were being ejected. He was using his maximum force to incinerate the impurity. An hour passed and
"Bang" The metal glittered with silvery light and the last bit of its impurity was removed. It has now shrunk by three times. White iron is one of the metals with the most amount of impurity and that's the reason for its brittleness because most a little bit of impurity is usually left behind, the blacksmith does not have a dream sense like Wallace so they don't know how much impurity is remaining so they have to stop when it looks like the impurity has been purged so the integrity of the metal is not damaged by pounding.
Wallace looked at the silvery metal that is currently on the table, it is shining with a silvery red hue that shows that it's still heated. He could not help but smile at the fully refined silvery iron, it's simply too gorgeous. He closed his eyes and used vigor to regain his physical strength, this was the second time he had used it in the past hour. After five minutes, he opened his eyes.
"Time for extreme refinement," He thought as his sense sunk into the metal. The model of the metal appeared in his mind and he saw that there are bundles of lines that are entangled in the metal. The extreme refinement just deals with rearranging the internal structure of the metal so that when it is forged into what is required of it, the circuit in it will be able to be used. He closed his eyes as he started to knock on the metal with his hammer to slowly entangle the circuit inside it while turning it around. A series of knocking sounds sounded inside the room and this continued for three hours until a light rose five meters into the air before he stopped. The metal has been perfectly undergoing extreme refinement.
"Hu" he breathes out heavily, he is already tired physically and mentally. He has already used his breathing technique four times.
**Mission completed: Forge your first metal. Rewards: 1000 prime credit
** Blueprint now available**
He looked at the reward that was given to him and he remembered that the blueprint interface was in the shop so he quickly went to the shop interface.
**Shop** **Blueprint**
** Level 1 Mecha: 2000 prime credit**
That's the only option that's available for him now so he brought the level one mecha blueprint. The image of a dark mecha that's seven meters tall appeared in his vision. The mecha is plain. The mecha was soon broken down into various parts. The outer part consists of the headgear, the four front pauldrons, the four back pauldrons, the shoulder to arm joint, and the arm joint to the wrist then to the fist. The legs are also divided into three parts from the waist down to the knee joint then to the lower part of the leg then to the feet.
He still prefers battle armor to this mecha because mecha are big and require a lot of energy to control but there's no choice now, he is still too weak to operate a battle armor so he has to make do with the mecha since he can't go out from the city now. The first metal that he forged, he pressed a button and threw it into the section that just opened then he calcined it till it was very red. The metal needs to be heated very well for it to be shaped into the required blueprint. After almost ten minutes of heating, the metal was ejected. Its internal parts and external parts have been heated till they are in a red semi-liquid form. Then he took out his hammer and
"Bang" Struck down on the metal. The shaping of the metal is a process that requires a lot of practice but he already has experience in building mecha and battle armor on Earth so shaping a metal is not difficult for him.
He opened the drawer of the table and brought out something that looked like a drill. He continued to strike the metal into its required shape. After almost ten minutes of banging, the metal has been shaped into its required shape, one-fourth of a chest piece. Anything more than that and the integrity of the metal will be damaged. He took the drill and the model of what he just forged appeared in his mind. He saw the arrangement of the circuit in the metal and the empty center, that's where the circuit core will be inputted. He drilled a small not too deep hole into the center and then he threw it into the water. Smoke rose out from it and the red metal soon turned into a solid white beautiful pauldron. The pauldron is plain with no design on it but he smiled satisfied at what he just built. He left it on the table and went into his room to sleep.
Days passed and a week passed since Wallace came into this world. It was the following Monday. He spent the remaining four days cultivating and building part of his mecha. He has already broken through to rank two and is almost finished with his mecha, he has already forged fifteen pieces of the twenty-one pieces required for his armor. He has gone from just being able to forge one in a day to being able to forge three in a day and that's the reason for his fast advancement. He spent the four days holed up inside his house and he would have also been in the house today if not for Lucy who wants to take him somewhere. He has to prepare for the place she is taking him to, he just hopes that it won't take too much time.