Shiraishi’s eyes were greeted by a dilapidated wooden house, and he followed Uncle Noah, bypassing a few alleys to the door of a blacksmith shop made of stone.

Outside, Shiraishi could hear the clanging of iron coming from inside, and this was where he needed to work.

“Noah, why are you only here now, and you! Shiraishi! You kid has been lazy lately! Give me all the work! ”

As soon as he walked in, the fat old man who was sitting in the doorway to enjoy the cool, his face was covered with sweat, and he kept wiping it with the towel in his hand. It looks like it was just fished out of water.

Well, it’s the same as myself just now, but I’m not so fat.

The fat old man’s eyes swept to the two who had just entered, and he cursed at Noah and Shiraishi, judging from the current situation, this person estimated that this was the mean old man that Uncle Noah said.

Uncle Noah, who heard the fat old man, had a purple face on his face, clenched his fists and jumped violently, enduring the fat old man’s abuse, and when Shiraishi felt that he was about to erupt, his hand was loose.

“Yes boss, I’ll just work.”

After Uncle Noah finished speaking, he took Shiraishi into the blacksmith shop, turned to Shiraishi and said in a deep voice

“Shiraishi don’t go to the heart, you can’t help it in order to survive.”

After understanding, Shiraishi understood why Uncle Noah had to swallow his anger, and how precious it was to have a job in a world where hunger and poverty were mixed.

“Well, I know.”

Shiraishi looked directly at Uncle Noah, and there was a hint of brightness in his eyes.

Shiraishi didn’t feel anything about what he said to this mean old man, and when he was in the orphanage, he was already accustomed to the abuse and discrimination of others.

“Well, just so you understand.”

Noah stopped talking after seeing Shiraishi’s gaze, some things are enough to say once, if you don’t even understand this, then you are not qualified to live in this world.

Although the blacksmith’s work was only new, Shiraishi became familiar with it.

Three days later….

It is summer, even if the temperature outside is high, there is a presence like ice and snow for Shiraishi, and there is a heat wave in the hot stove, and sweat is constantly flowing.

“Gooo Yes! ”

Shiraishi put down the kettle in his hand, wiped the water that overflowed from the corner of his mouth with his left hand, and clenched the iron hammer in his hand again with his right hand and smashed down on the iron that was about to fade into high temperature.

Clang!

Clang!

Clang!

Sparkling!

“Shiraishi, there is a piece of pig iron here, and it will be given to you too, I will be useful later.”

The fat old man pointed to the thick piece of iron in the corner of the smithy and said

“Boss, leave it to me, Shiraishi’s strength is still too small to forge that fast pig iron.”

Uncle Noah wiped his sweat and said.

“What’s the matter with you! While going! ”

The fat old man said viciously, the work of the blacksmith shop has been getting worse and worse in recent months, and he has long been dissatisfied with the existence of Shiraishi when he can’t make money, but he can’t fire him directly, and now he just finds a reason.

“But!”

“Nothing!”

Noah looked at Shiraishi with a hint of worry, how could he not see the fat old man’s thoughts after living for decades, but the pig iron was too big for Shiraishi, and even he could not temper it.

Shiraishi walked out silently towards the corner, and when he easily picked up dozens of pounds of pig iron with both hands, there was no blush and thick neck, and a surprised light flashed in the fat old man’s eyes.

A grown man can’t do it as easily as he does, how can he do it just as a child.

But this idea only stayed in the fat old man’s mind for a moment, and what could he do with great strength, and in the era when there was no food at all, he could only rely on him.

Shiraishi held the pig iron in his hand and placed it on the stove, tumbling it with an iron clamp, holding the handle of the bellows to control the temperature and strength of the fire.

The flames soared, the pig iron gradually turned red in the high temperature environment, Shiraishi grabbed the iron billet with the iron clamp in his hand and put it on the large iron pier, and then picked up the large iron hammer specially forged iron and hit the pig iron.

Clang!

Clang!

Clang!

….

A string of nails sounded, a rain of sweat fell, the dozen pounds of sledgehammer rose and fell, three hours later, the previous thick pig iron after continuous forging has only left less than ten centimeters thick, when the white stone will be displayed in front of the fat old man, the fat old man does not speak and turns away.

“Yes! The kid can forge a piece of pig iron into this look in just a few days! ”

Noah was pleasantly surprised to say to Shiraishi that quenching and tempering techniques, all based on practical experience, are generally difficult to master, and he did not expect that Shiraishi could do this in just a few days after coming to the blacksmith shop, which really surprised him.

“Well, this is also what Uncle Noah taught.”

Shiraishi said with a faint smile, a blacksmith usually brings one or two apprentices, and the main job of the apprentice is to use a large iron hammer that is five or six times larger than his master to help the master beat the iron blank used to make tools into the desired shape, and there is no apprentice work in the final tool forming stage.

But Uncle Noah did not hide his selfishness, and unreservedly handed over the way of forging and breathing method to Shiraishi, plus his strength was gradually increasing after opening the system, forging dozens of pounds of pig iron was still a very simple thing for him

When Uncle Noah left, Shiraishi looked at the forged iron in his hand.

“Hmph, count yourself lucky, and remember to engrave that pattern.”

After that, the fat old man left, and the pattern he said was the appearance of six rings superimposed, although Shiraishi did not understand the fat old man’s intentions, but he still did it for the sake of work.

“Uncle Noah, what does this mean.”

Shiraishi asked towards Uncle Noah.

“I don’t know, it seems to be the coat of arms of the ethnic group he used to belong to, but I have never seen such a pattern.”

Uncle Noah couldn’t tell, and in the end, he couldn’t say it.

….

A few days later.

Shiraishi has been in this world for seven days, and he can’t have time to inquire about this world before getting food, so in desperation, Shiraishi can only use his leisure time to get relevant information around him after work, and learn about this world.

Ishgar! This world where humans and dragons coexist, perhaps it is more reasonable to call it the world of dragons.

“Why can’t it be in 400 years?”

Shiraishi couldn’t help but have a headache, for the matter of Fairy Tail, Shiraishi still has this general understanding, this is an era full of crises.

Humans, the largest race in this world, for dragons, humans are just a large number of creatures. Even the most powerful humans still can’t compete with the dragons, at most only slightly blocking the progress of the dragons.

The only good thing is that the white stone is located in a place where people are rare, and compared to those Terran kingdoms, the city of Tagsk is relatively inconspicuous, and the shadow of the dragon has not been seen for decades.

“Get stronger as soon as possible, otherwise you won’t be able to survive in this world at all.”

Putting your fate in the hands of the dragon is not Shiraishi’s character at all! Only strength is his only pursuit in this world.


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