Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 387: Workshop Tour 3

Leaving the room, Golan-san gave explanations as we walked the halls.

「The smithing workshop branches out in different rooms. Magic furnaces each have their own rooms. Well, I’m sure Takumi and Laeva know why.」

「Yes, even if it’s just hammering, it would be difficult to concentrate in the same room with the hammering sounds, and the light of the furnace, which has a different temperature from the quenching, would also be a hindrance.」

「Umu, that’s why this workshop has several areas for smithing.」

There seemed to be separate rooms for polishing and processing.

「The place where we produce magic devices is on the 3rd floor. The furnaces for smithing and smelting are underground.」

The reason for why the furnace for smithing is in the basement was because it made it easier to go completely dark in order to distinguish the temperature for the quench by color. Golan-san said that they used magic stones for ventilation so it was perfect.

We proceeded into the innermost are of the basement at Golan-san’s lead. Knowing that our destination was the innermost area of the basement, Doisy-san’s face paled. It shouldn’t be that hot, yet he was sweating buckets for some reason.

「This is the room where our workshop’s prided magic furnaces are. This furnace is the only one that can handle orichalcum in Gnomstoll Kingdom…………」

Golan-san froze in place when the heavy doors opened.

Beyond the opened door, Golan-san’s prided magic furnace in the workshop………… had become a storeroom.

「……w, what…… what is this?」

「U-uhh, Master Golan…… t-that, actually……」

「I asked you what this is!!」

「Hiiiiih! I apologize!」

Golan-san harshly scolded Doisy-san, who trembled immediately.

「That makes me angry. That was Golan-aniki’s prided magic furnace. There’s no point in it if it’s treated like a storeroom. At the very least, you should have kept it tidy so it could be used at any time.」

「Right?」

Neither Laeva nor I could defend Doisy-san. As a fellow craftsman, I could sympathize with Golan-san’s anger, which leaves me even more baffled.

「Doisy-san, you are the workshop chief after Golan-san, aren’t you? Even if smithing wasn’t your specialty, I don’t think a craftsman would do this.」

「Ah, well, Doisy-aniki was more or less a craftsman, but…… if I had to say, his specialty was money calculations, so I think that’s why he was valued for that and became the workshop chief.」」

I talked to Doganbo-san while watching a proper adult be scolded continuously.

It would seem that after Golan-san retired, there was no one who could handle adamantite. Because of this, the best magic furnace had become useless, and was now being used as a storeroom.

「There are other blacksmiths aside from Golan-san who are able to manipulate adamantite, right?」

「Yes, there are.」

「Those people are?」

「……making alcohol in the Sanctuary.」

「………………」

I shouldn’t have asked.

「Hey Takumi, do you remember the time when I asked you to refine mithril and adamantite many years ago?」

「There’s no way I could forget. It was so hard.」

It was truly difficult at that time. I had to keep refining the mithril and adamantite we got from mining.

「At that time, I could say that that was impossible for my furnace, but even if it could reach mithril and adamantite smelting temperatures, it was still impossible for me to refine them.」

「……could it be that aside from controlling the temperature, refining mithril and adamantite in the magic furnace requires a lot of magic power.」

「Correct. Magic power is needed to temper it, but the amount needed to refine it was a different league. Though it’s more than a human’s my magic power wasn’t that much, so refining it was impossible for me alone.」

So it really was that. I needed to use a lot of magic power to use 「Decomposition] and [Extraction」 from alchemy. Now I’ve gotten used to it and the total amount of magic power I had had increased, it wasn’t a problem, but when I refined it for the first time, my stomach got all filled up with mana potions.

「Takumi, you should know this from when you hammered the adamantite weapon, but it isn’t easy enough to wield a hammer with magic power. There are lots of Dwarves who can hammer mithril, but there are few that could adamantite are few. Even more so with orichalcum, it had to be someone like Golan-aniki. Well, there aren’t many chances to see its ore anyhow.」

Simply put, it was difficult to refine mithril and adamantite ore, and this room which contained Golan-san’s prided magic furnace had become a storage room. On top of that, right now, there were no craftsmen who could hammer adamantite in Gnomstoll Kingdom. For some reason, it’s because they all went to the Sanctuary to make alcohol……… no matter how I look at it, it’s a problem.

Haa, I came here for my honeymoon, I hope I don’t get involved in anything.

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