Legend of the Empyrean Blacksmith Chapter 28

Chapter 28

CHAPTER 28

TO SEE ONE'S HEART

Tri-colored flame was slowly heating up the furnace, causing the entire room's temperature to rise . Folds of paper laid scattered on the floor alongside various materials and tools . Sounds of craning iron echoed out against the thick, concrete walls alongside sounds of hammer bashing against a metal plate . Lino was currently looming over the anvil, his upper body entirely exposed . Due to slight tan, his muscles were pronounced further, causing him to appear much older than sixteen . Though at one point his hair was tied up neatly, it was currently disheveled while some strands were glued to his forehead due to the sweat . Atop the anvil was a flat, squared metal plate, its surface entirely smoothed out . Picking it up, he examined it deeply before nodding with a satisfied smile . He went over the grindstone, cutting the plate's edges slowly until they weren't sharp but rather smooth . Finishing up the four corners, he went over to a simple, wooden table and laid the plate down . Lying neatly one next to another were three different herbs; a simple, white-leafed flower with seven yellow petals, simple-looking weed with reddish stems and a blue, lotus flower . Picking them in that order, he ground them with his bare hands bit by bit before placing his palms directly onto the metallic plate, infusing Qi into them and letting it seep into the latter alongside the herb's remnants . It took him nearly fifteen minutes to repeat the process with all three herbs . Leaving the plate on the table, he scurried over to the corner where a large, poster-sized paper was latched onto the wall . Atop it were seemingly plex yet simple schematics of a chest armor piece; the entire armor was split into two – upper part which would be metallic, and lower part which would be made of leather .

Alongside the direct split in the materials, there were numerous lists at the side depicting various binations . In addition to that, at the lowermost part of the paper were four circles with intertwining lines; all four were arrays he was still considering it . Though all four were basic ones, Lino actually attempted to modify them to his liking slightly, such as bining 70% of with 30% of