Using my water pressure powered forge blower I started to make a lot of melted steel. But I didn’t need to shape them with my power hammer. I just smelted first iron lumps to something more pure and then smelted them into liquid hardened steel. After that I just shaped 10 spearheads a time with bringing out of the forge as liquid and shaped them with my magic powers into the spearheads in air. I waited long enough for those 10 to cool down and take some sort of hard form in the air. When they became solid again I just left them in the ground to cool more. After that I just quench them and deal with their heat treatment for the right kind of hardening. After all that I sharpened them with my water powered sharpening wheel. I produced 10 spearheads alone every day with relative ease. I never let anyone enter my forge. If someone from the village came to my smitty they knocked I got out. Take their broken tool and tell them when to come take it back, fixed.

One day my master knocked on my door. He said “Hank, I heard you earned a lot of money in gambling” I really didn’t like the gambler infamy. But my family needed to explain how we suddenly got rich. With a smile he said “I can sell you all this stuff and go to Taylorsville to my daughters.” He was smiling. He said “I can sell the smithy for just 50 gold. But because you are such a famous gambler we can gamble for it. If you win you pay notting If I win you pay 100. I openly rolled my eyes. So he wanted to be ripped off. I said to him “I only play dice, do you have dice” he brought out his dice. Those dice were of course loaded. The Old wolf knows how to play it. He threw his dice and It was snake eyes but, suddenly the dice decided not to stop and turn one more time it was 1-3 a useless dice. Of course that was me. I throw the dice. Sneak eyes. I said to my master “I won you lost.” He was shocked. He looked at me and said “I don’t know how kid, but you cheated.” I said “You shouldn’t use loaded dice against someone who knows it.” He smiled bitterly “You knew, I didn’t want to screw you, you are rather talented. I saw how goblins bring you metal and wood. You trained them. Yes you are not the first in history to do that but that is a rare talent. And I know playing that kind of gamble you already had to make big money from smithing. I knew you are much better than me while training you. So I wanted to get rich quickly. In the end you would simply gain it back quickly anyway. I said to him “I answer people who wrong me with revenge. But I never pay the good done to me with ungratefulness. Master, tomorrow morning come to my home, I will pay you 50 golds.

My next two weeks were the same every day. I exercise my fire mana while waiting for the forge to do its job. Then shaping 10 spear heads with my magic quenching, heat treating and sharpening them and then go home, eat, make some conversation with family mostly about how Tim’s land clearing goes, and go to sleep.

When my order ended I still had 2 months to go. So I decided to make myself a damascus steel sword and learn how to read.