#421 - Mutation (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

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The group waited in front of the furnace for nearly an hour. Then, Brandewarden took out the sword and, after touching it, realized he could only feel a faint warmth, not even hot.

"It seems the current temperature of the furnace isn't enough to complete the forging. We'll have to activate the backup plan." Brandewarden shook his head helplessly, but fortunately, they were prepared.

Anduin nodded. When infused with magic, all the runes on the sword blank would activate. Sure enough, ordinary fire was too strenuous.

"Then we'll use Fiendfyre, but for safety, we can't continue forging indoors." Anduin walked out of the yurt, looked around, and then pointed to a clearing outside the mountain top. "Let's move the equipment there and re-forge in the open air."

Brandewarden nodded and directed several centaurs to move the anvil, workbench, and water trough outside.

Once everyone was ready, Anduin solemnly looked at the centaurs. "For safety, I'll complete the melting process independently. Please stay away."

Then, Anduin took out a brazier and cast a spell to create a wisp of Fiendfyre flame inside, carefully controlling it to prevent it from spreading.

However, this was his first time using Fiendfyre to forge equipment. Finally, he took out a metal kettle from his person and poured a circle of liquid around the brazier as a precautionary measure.

This kettle was his replica of Newt's 'travel kettle,' with similar functions to the original, but the materials were slightly inferior. Newt's 'travel kettle' was made of Urim steel and Isern mithril, but his was only made of Agrippa alloy and Isern mithril. So, the water he poured out might not be as effective as the original, but it was more than enough to handle ordinary Fiendfyre.

"I'm starting! If anything unexpected happens, get away quickly!" Anduin carefully reminded everyone around him, then focused his attention on the brazier in front of him.

Anduin held the sword blank with tongs and extended it into the brazier, while holding his wand in the other hand to control the Fiendfyre. At the same time, he had to constantly infuse the sword blank with magic, making the whole process very energy-consuming.

However, the sword blank in Anduin's hand had very high resistance to Fiendfyre. Just as it came into contact with the Fiendfyre, the flame turned into a miniature beast, opening its small mouth and biting hard on the sword blank, but the sword blank, flashing with magical runes, was completely unharmed.

The sword blank and the Fiendfyre remained deadlocked for a while before slowly increasing in temperature. The color of the sword strip also began to gradually turn red, showing a tendency to melt.

Seeing this, Anduin immediately pulled out the sword blank, and the water surrounding the brazier suddenly rushed up, instantly extinguishing the Fiendfyre.

Immediately afterward, Anduin didn't stop, quickly went to the anvil, placed the sword blank flat on it, and together with Brandewarden, began the secondary forging of the sword strip.

At the same time, Anduin's own magic infusion work could not be interrupted. He had to inject magic into the sword while forging with a hammer.

This forging process was faster than the first time, after all, the overall shape of the sword blank had been determined. This time, the main goal was to use the 'enhancement,' 'solidification,' and 'purification' arrays on the hammer and anvil to familiarize the runes on the sword with Anduin's magic and to perfectly fuse the materials with the runes.

But although this forging interval was very short, both Anduin and Brandewarden could feel that this time, it took more effort to strike than the last time.

Every time they struck, they felt like a clay ox entering the sea, as if the sword under the hammer was not made of metal at all.

It felt as if they were forging magic itself.

In the eyes of the young centaurs on the side, the sword blank under their hammers showed extremely magical properties. With each powerful hammer strike, a flurry of fine magical light would burst out on the sword, like gold and silver powder flying all over the sky.

And these sparkling glimmers that they saw were actually the magical impurities in the sword. The forging process was also the process of purifying the sword's material.

At the same time, they could see with their own eyes that at the beginning, the hammer could still fully contact the sword, and they could hear the sound of 'ping pong pang' collisions.

But as the hammering time slowly passed, the two men's hammers gradually could not touch the sword. Those star-like magical flashes gradually disappeared.

Instead, every time the hammer was about to collide with the sword blank, it would be held up by a wave of electric arcs rising from the sword, and the knocking sound slowly turned into a muffled 'poof poof' sound.

"That's it, what we need to do next is repeat this step until there are no impurities in the sword blank, and then we'll be done." Anduin said with a happy expression, looking at the brand new sword in front of him.

Immediately afterward, Anduin lit Fiendfyre again and began re-forging. Everyone could see that this time, the Fiendfyre burned for significantly longer than the last time.

After burning the sword red again, Anduin and Brandewarden began hammering again.

After repeating this several times, the magical starlight appearing on the sword when the hammer struck became less and less, replaced by a sword body exuding a soft silver light and electric arcs.

In the process of repeated forging, the time it took for Fiendfyre to heat the sword became longer and longer, and it even reached the point where it could no longer burn the sword red, only producing a slight pink color.

"Look, in the sky!" Firenze came back to his senses from the forging scene in front of him, looked up, and shouted in horror to the centaurs next to him.

Bane, Ronan, Hog, and even Anduin and Brandewarden, who were forging, couldn't help but look up after being reminded by him.

At this time, just above the mountain top where they were forging the sword, thick, ink-like dark clouds had filled the sky, seemingly pressing down on the mountain top from their perspective, and faint flashes of thunderstorms could be seen within.

Could it be because of you?

Anduin looked at the sword blank in his hand in a daze. He had never heard of forging magical equipment attracting celestial phenomena. Could it be that you can really reach the level of a 'Sacred Artifact'?

At the same time, he had a premonition that after this final hammering, the Han sword in his hand would evolve into a complete body. After that, no matter how Fiendfyre burned it, it would not react, and they would no longer be able to hammer out any impurities.

"Brandewarden, this is the final moment!" Anduin vaguely realized that the current celestial phenomenon originated from the sword in his hand, but now was not the time to dwell on those things. What he needed to do now was to complete the final forging!

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