Earth, tell your nature.
I appealed to the earth mana and analyzed the 100 ters of land beneath .
Okay good. This is nice soil, its got enough clay and quartz.
I let out a sigh of relief.
They were normal things that you could find anywhere. You could find clay if you dug a little and you could find quartz with sand.
If youve seen white stones on the beach then youve seen quartz.
{Material Manipulation: Clay}
It was a magic spell that that used earth mana to manipulate particular substances.
Clay without impurities was being extracted from the ground.
It undulated around in a radius of around 30m.
Then as the amount increased it grew towards the sky. When it reached around 5 ters it closed in above and blocked out the sky.
I stood in the midst of the 5 ter tall do I had created.
The do had a few 60cm square openings and one 2 ter tall doorway.
I walked through that and stepped outside.
{Material Manipulation: Quartz}
Then I used the quartz to fill up the smaller openings.
I finished doing my work with earth mana after fixing things properly.
Next is fire. Fire Mana I will borrow your power. {Fla Prison}
I used fire mana and created a huge conflagration.
My compatibility with fire was 80, it was slightly lower than earth but it was plenty good for my purposes.
The dos 30m radius was at the limits of my fire control. Fire mana was very difficult to control properly, so even with my competence I couldnt go much further.
The flas that summoned surrounded the clay and quartz do inside and out.
I adjusted the flas slightly as I watched the do being baked as if in an oven.
Slowly the clay was baked reddish-brown and the quartz turned into a red hot liquid.
At this level using both fire and earth magic together was difficult, but I sohow made it through using Kuiros high affinities.
I slowly removed the impurities from the red hot lted quartz. Unlike clay the quartz couldnt be purified unless it was heated.
After the clay had fully hardened and the impurities were removed from the quartz I changed my spell.
{Cooling}
Fire magic wasnt just simple magic to light fires. It was magic that manipulates temperature. I used the cooling version of it.
It removed the excess heat from the clay and cooled the lted quartz.
Once it cooled quickly the quartz beca clear and turned into silica glass. The quartz glasss transparency was as high or even better than regular glass.
Good all done. As expected of a dwarfs skills. Making a simple workshop in the blink of an eye.
Even I admired this kind of skill.
Baking clay into brick. lting quartz to produce glass. Both of these were simple manufacturing jobs, but altogether they usually needed high cost equipnt.
Once the job had switched to creating a house, it was no longer as simple as all that. You had to be cautious about the bricks changing size due to the heat and cautious about properly removing the smaller impurities from the quartz.
Before burning things you needed to perceive how it would affect the final product through experience. This is where the Dwarf Kuiros sixth sense showed its true worth.
Okay, now its ti for the swords and armor.
I used the earth mana to manipulate the armor and swords and placed them inside the earthen do.
As I thought, earth magic really is convenient. Being unable to use it in my Elven form was truly frustrating.
I wonder how much I can accomplish today.
I used fire magic to lt the armor and moved so of the tal to make a door to seal the room properly. I made the necessary adjustnts to allow it to open and close.
This completes my rudintary workshop.
It was finally ti to make the weapons.
I focused and activated my magic to lt all the weapons and armor.
As I thought, the Empire is still inexperienced in utilizing iron. Its filled with impurities. Practically pig iron at this point.
If you simply slt iron ore once it will barely have any durability.
The impurities had to be eliminated to make iron a suitable material for crafting. You would need a high power furnace, knowledge, and technique to do it properly. The weapons and armor I had lted were ill-made.
The various tals and materials within the weapons and armor were lted and separated into different ingots.
Then once the ingots were produced I lted them down once more and mixed them together to produce proper steel.
Pure iron is a great tal on its own, but introducing certain impurities can change the properties of the tal itself.
I was making the rim of the bow right now. It was what I would use to hold the bowstring.
What I was aiming for was a tal that would bend properly and have spring power. Using my Dwarven experience and intuition I combined materials together to create a suitable rim alloy.
I utilized the tal and impurities from the armor and swords to craft the best alloy I could.
Then I took the tal and cast it into the shape of the rim I wanted to create.
It was around 50cm in size. For a bow it would be quite small, but this was just the right size. After all it was just one part of the crossbow I was crafting.
Including spares I would be able to make 50 of these. Using the dwarf skills I had I would be able to create 50 of them with nary a milliters difference between them.
Next I would have to make the reel that would launch the arrows, then the two part trigger chanism, and finally the pedal that was attached to the front of the crossbow.
Each of these items were easy to craft since they only needed simple molds to pour the tal into. Even with my skills I couldnt simply pour materials into a cast and produce a complete crossbow all at once.
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