#418 - Forging (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

"Bang!" The centaur lost his balance after being caught by the railing. His two front feet failed to land perfectly, and he fell headfirst.

His head plunged directly into the soft soil in front of him, and his horse body continued forward due to inertia, folding into a 'V' shape. He also exposed his private parts in a very unsightly manner, looking utterly disheveled.

"Pfft, hahaha!" Hogg immediately clutched his stomach and burst out laughing at the sight. "Ronan, you've got it coming! You dared to laugh at me for not being able to jump over the last hurdle. Look at yourself, you fell even worse than I did back then. How does your face feel?"

Not content with verbal taunts, Hogg charged towards the fallen Ronan, deliberately running in front of him and jumping around to show off.

"Oh, isn't this Ronan, who claims to be the number one warrior of the centaurs? What's wrong? You fell so miserably? Aren't you showing off anymore? Aren't you awesome anymore? Should I publicize your deeds today in the camp?"

Hogg gleefully berated Ronan, laughing hysterically, acting as if he wouldn't be satisfied until he drove him to death.

At this moment, the fallen Ronan struggled to get up, angrily patted the dirt off his face, and then looked at Hogg, who was constantly mocking him. His face flushed with shame. "Why are you here, you really know how to pick your time."

After following Anduin, Hogg often ran into the Forbidden Forest to play. Plus, he wasn't human, so he became very familiar with these centaurs.

In addition, they all hated the werewolf wizard Griffin, so he had a good relationship with Ronan, Firenze, Bane, and several other young centaurs who had also been persecuted. Besides chatting and joking, they often hunted together in the Forbidden Forest.

Before, after this training ground was built, Hogg had tried it himself. His physical fitness was good, but the last railing was extremely difficult, so he had suffered on this threshold. At that time, Ronan had laughed at Hogg, but he didn't expect retribution to come so quickly.

"What? Are you afraid of being seen after making a fool of yourself? Then I have to help you promote it." Hogg looked at Ronan with a grin, and then quickly ran to the nearby camp.

At the same time, he ran and shouted, "Disaster! Ronan has embarrassed himself today! You didn't see how ridiculous he fell today, his face is swollen..."

"Get back here!" Ronan was already embarrassed enough, but Hogg gave him such a show, and was immediately furious. He picked up the longbow handle and chased after this husky. However, Hogg's speed might not be as good as the centaur's, but thanks to Anduin's long-term training, his movement was quite agile. Several quick stops and turns left Ronan far behind, and accompanied by loud noises, he turned the entire camp upside down.

The centaur elder Brandvarden, who had been watching all of this, as well as several other young centaurs and Anduin, were amused by Hogg's antics. Several young centaurs even covered their mouths and snickered.

"Anduin, you're here." Brandvarden looked at Ronan chasing Hogg further and further away, then turned to look at Anduin.

"Yes." Anduin also retracted his smile and nodded. "I'll have to trouble you this time. See when it's convenient."

"Haha, your business is the business of our centaur camp, there's nothing to trouble. Let's set off now." Brandvarden laughed heartily, then looked at several young centaurs beside him. "Today's training ends here, you are free to move around. Firenze and Bane, come with me."

After speaking, Brandvarden dismissed the centaurs in training, and then led Anduin, Firenze, and Bane towards the outside of the camp.

After leaving the camp, the group headed towards a nearby small mountain, and then silently arrived at the top of the mountain.

The top of this small mountain was very flat, and a yurt was also built on the open space next to it. From the open door of the yurt, it could be seen that it was arranged like a medieval blacksmith shop.

Inside was placed a huge stove, next to which was an equally large bellows. In front of the stove was placed a large anvil more than one meter high, and not far away was a water tank for quenching.

Various sizes of metal hammers were placed on the surrounding tables, as well as many semi-finished hunting knives, spearheads, daggers, iron pots, and other utensils. This was the place where the centaur camp specialized in making equipment and ironware.

The centaurs were tall, so the equipment they used was much larger than that of normal humans. These devices gave people a strong sense of oppression.

And Anduin came here today to use the power of the centaurs to forge a piece of equipment for him. These centaurs were incredibly strong and possessed very exquisite forging techniques, and the ironware they made was extremely durable.

Brandvarden led the way, took the lead in entering the yurt, and turned back to shout at the other two young centaurs, "Bane, hurry up and start a fire, raise the temperature of the stove as soon as possible. Firenze, you will hold the tongs later, be careful."

"Yes, Elder."

The two centaurs acted immediately upon hearing this. Bane filled the stove with fuel, and then desperately pressed the bellows. Soon the entire yurt became much hotter.

"Anduin, take out the materials you want to use." Brandvarden led Anduin to the workbench and took out a huge stone scoop.

Anduin didn't waste any words upon hearing this. He had already told Brandvarden about the purpose of this trip, and he had been waiting for the dragon heart tendon to be soaked.

He then took out several pieces of metal from the space ring in turn. The two pieces of silver metal, one large and one small, were Urim steel, and the other two smaller pieces, with a shimmering glow on the surface, were refined mithril.

These high-level metals were Anduin's entire fortune, all looted from the Travers family and the Ministry of Magic. He had been saving them all the time for this moment.

"The equipment I want to build has a relatively special proportion of metal structure. I will first fuse them together before quenching." Anduin said to Brandvarden.

Then he used 'Control' magic to manipulate several pieces of metal, using Transfiguration to transform them all into metal liquid. Then, according to the metal fusion ratio he learned from the alchemy array in the Ministry of Magic, he slowly merged the two magical alloys into one. After their structure stabilized, he let them set and put them into the stone scoop in front of him.

"Anduin, I've never really understood. Your alchemy can be regarded as reaching the peak. Looking at your previous methods, you can directly shape the equipment with magic. Why do you have to use this traditional blacksmithing method?" Brandvarden looked at Anduin's operation and asked with a puzzled face.