Deciding against making three corn rolls had been the right choice; this time he used his best skill set with 800-layer Damascus steel, easily accomplishing the fusion. The metal was neat and, in its red-hot state, shimmered beautifully like the sun.
Next, all he needed to do was to secure it with a clamp, straighten and elongate the steel billet, conduct localized fire quenching, and after ensuring the blade was perfectly straight without any bends and well-polished, a good knife would essentially be declared complete, the rest was just fitting a handle that suited the user's palm size.
But today had already been busy enough.
Since the morning when that girl came over to ask for nails, only to say she would pick them up in the evening, his work had been disrupted several times, sometimes due to people causing trouble. Then, cleaning the room and clearing the store in the afternoon took a lot of time, not to mention delivering goods to people.
