Bab 390: Suite of Gifts

With the weapons all forged and ready to be polished and finished off completely with a proper handle and some grinding to smooth out the edge - just not to a keen, sharp edge, that's for sure.

The falchion and two daggers were currently just plain, simple metal weapons that didn't look all that special, and since they were supposed to be gifts for my darling daughters plus one - Ipoala was my daughter too, just not by blood - I wanted to make sure they looked good as well.

That meant a serious grinding on the flats of the blade, a good grinding on the bevel, a polishing, and then fitting the wood onto the tang to create the handle; that would then need to be sanded down and shaped for their smaller hands.

All of that would normally take quite a bit if done entirely by hand, but uh...

Yeah.

Watching as the various bumps and roughness on the side of the blades was smoothed out in a mere wipe of the sandpaper, I chuckled wryly as I then began to do the same on the other side, using my System here to do the 'not so fun' portion of the work for me; at least in this moment in time, I wanted to get going to make the other things.

Though I did do the handles myself, in two different styles; for the falchion, I traced out its tang on a block of wood and began to carve out the shape of the tang, before setting the tang inside that slit and placing another block of wood on top, making sure they were compatible pieces.

When I saw that they were, I crafted up some wood glue and applied it liberally to the inside of the first wood block, before firmly placing the other block on top alongside a few thick ingots to make sure the glue did its job.

Then I went to work on the daggers, heating up the tangs before burning them into their handles, creating a tight fit for the daggers that I then added a bit of the glue to again, before pushing the tang back inside the wood.

Giving them a few moments, I used my System just a bit to ensure everything went well as I drilled a hole clean through the wood, tang, then wood again, which I fitted a pin through to secure everything even more.

Hammering the pin down, I nodded as I began to shape the handles into something more wieldable, sanding them down and contouring the wood to feel comfortable in your palm; after that, I gave the wood a nice seed oil finish to help seal the wood and protect it some, as well as give them a nicer coloring over the plain, bland wood I had available to me.

When it was all finished, the falchion and twin daggers had been sharpened - to a certain degree - had a nice polish, and their handles shaped perfectly as well, they looked pretty good for some practice weapons!

And before I went to leave the forge, I decided that I could make something good and special for my two daughters special focuses just like Aka's falchion; so I took some silver and steel and began to alloy them together into a Damascus ingot that just looked fancier than normal, forging them together before imbuing it with mana to create a material meant for Focuses.

[Silver Damascus Manasteel]

That was what showed up in my inventory as I finished forging them, making me nod before I began to walk around the forge and begin loading up the workbenches, furnaces, and anvil with items to craft; smelting ores, combining metals, forging blades...

Everything would take a few hours to finish up, but until then I could go and do something else with my time instead, which I did; I first made my way into the Jewelry Studio, where I began to craft myself an abundance of iron rings that might just turn into batches of silver rings instead thanks to my skills.

Then I made my way into the room dedicate to the Focuses, approaching the table and slipping the first small ingot of [Silver Damascus Manasteel] into the small furnace on the workbench to heat it up; the beginning of crafting a Focus was much the same as to crafting a weapon, only harder thanks to the stronger materials.

For both Ehretia and Ipoala, I decided that a good start for the two girls would be wands, where they could practice all forms of magic instead of focusing on a single type; amulets were meant for primarily invocations, whilst staves were meant for runic spells, leaving wands as the happy median.

And since they would be identical wands in terms of materials and function, I decided that personalizing the wands would be a good touch for my two girls, as well as excellent practice on my ornamentation skills.

To start, I began to lengthen the ingot before rolling it gently, maintaining a cylindrical shape as I forged the wand first, moving onto the ornamentation afterwards.

I kept it simple for them both, but Ehretia got the head of a Doe forged onto the end of her wand whilst Ipoala got the head of a Robin, the silvery metal making those ornaments stand out whilst not being the most gaudy things ever, which was a plus.

Roughly eight inches long, the wands were long enough that the girls could use them even when they grew up, whilst the thickness of the metal was slightly much for them now, but in a week they would be perfect.

[Silver Damascus Wand (x2) : +45% Mana Gathering, +40% Mana Damage]

A bit stronger than the wand I made Kalia, they were good enough to last the girls for a long time, though I imagine I will be able to make upgrades soon enough to everyone's weapons and Focuses if need be; after all, the Damascus managed to add 5% to the stats of the wands, and that was just a simple alloy of basic Silver and Steel.

What about an alloy of Flame attuned metal and Wind attuned metal?

Would that create something super strong, something diverse, or would it fail?

With questions on the mind, I could only sigh as I lifted the two wands and placed them in my inventory, before heading up towards the main floor to rejoin everyone after a rather tame few hours.