The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 28 Promotion! Occupation【Blacksmith】

I saw Boris put an iron bar of about half a meter into the fire and heated it. When the middle was white, he took it out and brushed off the impurities on it, and then immersed it in water for quenching. This quenching process was done by Ren En in his previous life. Knowing can make the iron bar stronger.

Soon, after repeated forging and heating, the iron bar gradually turned into a crescent shape.

Seeing Ren come in, Drews, who was pulling the bellows, greeted him eagerly: "Ren! I'm here to help again today. Do you want to continue pulling the bellows?"

Renn smiled and said: "Drews, I'm sorry, I may not be able to turn on the bellows today!"

Under Drew's surprised gaze, Renn walked up to Boris, pointed at the horseshoes being built and said, "Uncle Boris, I want to learn this. How much tuition will it cost?"

Blacksmith Boris glanced at Renn in surprise and said: "Renn, are you rich? You are not my official apprentice. If you just learn the technique of making horseshoes, the tuition fee will not be low. Although you have helped for free, you should not No matter how much you charge, I can’t give you a discount.”

After hearing this, Ren couldn't help but secretly curse. Sure enough, the rumors were true. This Boris blacksmith's skills were pretty good, but he was extremely stingy!
  "Of course, Uncle Boris, how much is the tuition for learning how to make horseshoes?"

"Teach you horseshoe forging for a month, 12 silver coins! If you can't learn it after the expiration date, there's nothing I can do, but the tuition will not be refunded."

hiss! Hearing this price, all the blacksmith apprentices around looked at each other, as if to say, this time Ren was afraid that he would be asking for trouble!

After all, this price is too high for most people, let alone Ren, who comes from a poor family.

Ren was also speechless for a while.

This price!
  Boris really dares to ask for it!

It’s only one month, and it’s not guaranteed!
  The income of an average adult male in Goldsmith Town from one month's work is roughly around 2 to 3 silver coins.

（注：1枚帝国金币兑换12枚帝国银币，1枚帝国银币兑换20枚先令，1枚先令可以兑换12枚便士，1枚便士的购买力约为1块一磅重量的黑麦面包。）
  However, after being stunned for a moment, Ren gritted his teeth, took out an imperial gold coin from his arms with an expression of great pain, handed it to the surprised Boris, and said: "Okay, Boris Uncle!"

"This time my family signed me up for the boy servant training in the Habsburg Manor. The goal is to be a blacksmith apprentice, so the family specially prepared money for me to learn the common blacksmith skills."

Ren said half-truthfully, explaining the origin of the money.

"It seems that Old Ren has high hopes for you, come on, boy! Don't be like my brat, who goes to the county every day to fool around, and now you can't even find anyone!" Boris suddenly took a shot with emotion. He patted Ren on the shoulder and said with emotion.

This gave Ren a slightly different view of Boris. Even if he was as stingy as Boris, he still had the heart to hope that his son would succeed.

"Come on! Renn, give me a hand!" After saying that, blacksmith Boris handed Renn a heavy blacksmith's hammer.

Just when Renn grasped the hammer that Boris handed him, suddenly, a row of system prompts appeared, which made Renn slightly stunned!
  【Ding! It was detected that the host touched the blacksmith's apprentice promotion medium item - the blacksmith's hammer! 】

[The prerequisites for promotion to blacksmith are: 3. Blacksmith Apprentice LV6 is at full level; 6. Strength is above points, and Constitution is above points; . Forge ten qualified blacksmith products! The current conditions are not met! Failed to be promoted to blacksmith! 】

Ren was immediately overjoyed. It turned out that this was the key to a blacksmith apprentice's promotion to a blacksmith!
  "Ren! Why are you still standing there?"

"Oh, okay, Uncle Boris!"

Renn quickly came to his senses and immediately began to help with the forging.

Lane, who had just started learning, only needed to complete one process, which was to punch grooves in the U-shaped iron bars.

After the iron bars used as horseshoes are shaped into a crescent shape, the subsequent process requires the cooperation of two people.

Blacksmith Boris held the iron bar in his left hand and heated the iron bar again. At the same time, he held a sharp tool in the shape of an ax in his right hand and moved quickly on the iron bar.

Ren followed the rhythm and swung the hammer forcefully, hitting the slightly wider top surface of the "axe head". The "axe blade" was relatively narrow. Under a heavy blow, it would hit the hot iron bar. Leaves an elongated groove.

This horseshoe groove is to accommodate the dirt on the ground and enhance the grip of the horse's hoof. Although Boris's fees are extremely expensive, his teaching attitude is good. While guiding Renn's rhythm, he also explains to Renn a complete set of horseshoe forging experience.

This has benefited Rennes a lot.

Not long after, the system prompt appeared again:
  [You have forged horseshoes, and your related understanding has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - forging horseshoes]

[Your skill of forging horseshoes has been improved, experience value +2]

[You focus on forging horseshoes, and the blacksmith apprentice career experience value +5]

Obviously, after participating in horseshoe forging, the professional experience of blacksmith apprentices increased rapidly, far exceeding the previous bellows pulling.

This may be the meaning of 'Krypton Gold'!

At the same time, qualified horseshoes were forged one after another by Lane and Boris.

But unfortunately, it seems that because most of this part of the work was completed by blacksmith Boris, the system did not identify these horseshoes as belonging to Rennes Forge.

Naturally, it cannot meet the conditions for forging ten qualified blacksmith products.

This made Renn slightly disappointed.

He still wanted to be promoted to blacksmith as quickly as possible.

But besides horseshoes, what else can be learned quickly?

Huh! Got it!

Those are the iron nails used for horseshoes! This thing is relatively simple to make. Logically speaking, horseshoe nails should also be regarded as blacksmith products.

Renn still remembers a proverb in his previous life: "If a horseshoe is lost, a horseshoe is lost; if a horseshoe is lost, a war horse is broken; if a war horse is broken, a king is lost; a king is lost. , lose a war; lose a war, fall an empire.”

So even though horseshoe nails are small, they are still very important.

Taking advantage of the break, Ren proposed to the blacksmith Boris that he wanted to learn the forging skills of horseshoe nails.

Although Boris was curious about why Ren insisted on learning the forging skills of horseshoe nails first, rather than the more important horseshoes, he readily agreed after thinking about it for a while.

Because horseshoe nail forging is also part of Rennes’ tuition. After all, after the horseshoes are made, they need to be used together with the horseshoe nails. The order does not matter!
  Ren calmed down the excitement in his heart and began to forge horseshoe nails according to the instructions of blacksmith Boris.

Although at the beginning, the horseshoe nails made by Ren were all crooked and none of them could be used, but slowly, qualified products began to appear!
  Sure enough, as Ren had guessed before, horseshoe nails were recognized by the system as any qualified blacksmith product.

Suddenly, Ren was overjoyed, and at the same time, he was swinging the hammer vigorously, sweating profusely, and forging horseshoe nails as if he had been given a shot of blood.

The blacksmith Boris on the side looked at Ren, who was making horseshoe nails with great enthusiasm, with a confused look on his face. He shook his head and said: "What a weird thing!"

Finally, before lunch, Renn both achieved his goal.

Any qualified blacksmith product (10/10), achieved!

Blacksmith Apprentice lv3 (500/500) Full Level, Achieved!

(End of this chapter)