Chronicles of Primordial Wars
Chapter 30 Artsy Stones
At first, Shao Xuan knocked on a hammer and saw the reaction of the grams. He hit it and then stopped paying attention to the grams. He was immersed in the knocking.
The beating process is laborious, not just wave your arms, each beating has to be calculated a lot, angle, force, how to wave hammer, where to beat, etc. all have to be decided in a brief moment.
For many people in the tribe, it's probably more of a knock, and with experience, you can get the best knock out of it by feeling it. But Shao Xuan is only a newbie now. It is impossible to have decades of experience as a stone artist. He can only rely on calculations and rough measurements, and then try and improve them one after another.
Even now the body is much stronger and much stronger, but this strength is not endless. When you first hold the hammer, you don't feel too much weight, but you hit it more often. As the power in your body is lost, you also feel that the hammer in your hand is getting heavier and heavier. At this time, you can't make mistakes. The force of the knock changes, the leafy stone that is knocked down will completely exceed expectations, and there will be a lot more waste.
That's why Shao Xuan didn't have the energy to pay attention to Gramoxone's reaction.
The initial stop between the two hammers is slightly longer because Shao Xuan has to think about the shortcomings of the hammer within this moment in order to improve the next hammer. However, as the hammer knocked down, Shao Xuan also got proficient, and the time between the two hammers became shorter and shorter.
I don't know how many hammers I knocked, Shao Xuan felt the whole person was about to fall off, but Gram didn't let him stop, but he would point out the mistakes from time to time. It's like running for a long time. It feels like running to the limit. I want to stop and rest. At every time someone pushes me back, "Go on! Go on!”
Knowing Gramoxone's temper, Shao Xuan would have stopped at this time, and would not have followed Gramoxone. Even if you're tired, you can only bite your teeth and knock them down.
When the last little bit of strength in his body seemed to have been drawn away, he hit it, but Shao Xuan gradually felt more relaxed. At that moment, he thought, is it going to feel like this if he breaks the limit once?
What Shao Xuan doesn't know is that when he feels relaxed and his strength recovers a lot, a totem pattern has appeared on the surface.
Unexpectedly, he had used the power of totem, but Shao Xuan's mind was used for knocking, and he did not pay attention to the bright totem in his mind.
Sitting next to him, Graeme was surprised to see that he had become a stone master for so many years and that many people had come to him to learn how to make stones, but few people would use the power of totem in the making process. Some feel that the power of totem is sacred and can only be used for hunting, participating in more “sacred” things such as tribal defense, while others, though not with this idea, do not find it easy to control the power of totem with precision unless some experienced veterans have the same degree.
But at Shao Xuan's age, or some young warriors like Langa, they can rarely be well controlled. Once the force of totem is used, it is easy to knock the stone core directly into pieces, which is not processing, but destruction. Without patience and impatience, he just left. Too much effort, I'd rather practice more hunting skills with this kung fu!
And that's why Ke was surprised, because Shao Xuan not only used the power of totem, but has not directly knocked the stone core, even the pieces of stone like leaves are more perfect, almost every stone leaf knocked down is used for further processing, not as scrap!
How rare!
Shao Xuan didn't notice his “rarity” at all, he was immersed in the knocking, all he thought about was the experience of each knocking, and then the next knocking, which also missed the surprise look on Grammy's face for several minutes.
It is quite difficult to show such a surprise even when talking to someone familiar without smiling.
Shao Xuan stopped when all the parts of the drawing line had been knocked out.
Look at the ground next to the core of the stone, and the pieces of stone leaves that are knocked down are either clustered into a pile or scattered across the ground.
And look at Graeme, he still doesn't have a face.
Shao Xuan lowered the stone hammer and gasped beside him, waiting for Gram's assessment. At the same time, my heart is emotional, stone masters are not easy!
No wonder there are so many disabled fighters in the tribe who can no longer participate in hunting outside, but only a small part of them become stone masters. Others, even polishing stones, are just for their daily lives, providing their descendants with stone tools. Apart from that, they usually have other things, such as “logistics jobs” in charge of transportation, such as grinding stones as opposed to treating them as a subsistence profession, and polishing stones is naturally not as skilled as a full-time stone mason as they are.
The colour of surprise on the face had long calmed down, restoring the old wooden face, still sitting there, lifting his hand from the side to grab an elongated wooden stick, pulling away the pile of stone leaf pieces, then shaking his hand slightly, the end of the fine wooden stick picked out a pointed stone leaf pieces, and the provoked stone leaf pieces crossed a parabola line in the air and fell into a wooden box filled with various kinds of stone leaves to be milled. "Peeled” stone leaves can be shaped as scrapers or sharps, cones, stone cones, etc.
Though many stone leaves appear to have been knocked down, Gram's speed of excitation is also fast. Shao Xuan can't wait to see those stone leaves fly into the stone tray from the ground like connected beads.
Without waiting for Shao Xuan to breathe a few breaths, the grams had already been picked out.
Drop the wooden stick and say with no expression: "Waste! ”
Shao Xuan's eyelids jumped, but quickly reacted. This “waste" was not talking about him, but about stone pieces that had been knocked down on the ground but could not be used for further processing. These are kind of scrap.
Obviously, grams are not satisfied with the amount of discarded stone leaves knocked down.
“I was going to make a stone ball, and now it seems I can barely make one.” Gram looked at the stone core with disgust and rarely said a long sentence.
Shao Xuan was relieved and worried that Ke would let him go directly, but since Ke said so, it meant that he had no objection to teaching him.
“Give it to me.” Gram refers to the stone core that Shao Xuan knocked.
Shao Xuan quickly put down the hammer and hugged the stone core, which was somewhat miserable, onto the anvil in front of Gram.
“Watch it. ”
Ke picked up the stone hammer Shao Xuan had just used, and his other hand picked up the stone core twice the width of his palm, holding it steadily, and looked at the stone core.
Shao Xuan only listened to the "hoo” wind, the hammer flashed.
“Ding!”
The hammer strikes the core of the stone and makes a crisp sound.
Meanwhile, a piece of stone leaf has been knocked down and stripped from the core.
Instead of landing directly on the ground, the knocking stone leaves fell into a crate hanging from the wall.
From swinging the hammer to knocking, it seems to have been determined long before swinging the hammer which piece or pieces of the core will be knocked down. Instead of waiting as hard as the battlefield when Shao Xuan just knocked, he waved the hammer with a slightly lifted weight at will.
This is the real “stone leaf stripping”, like Shao Xuan just now, it's just a stone knocking, and it knocks down most of the waste.
After one hammer, Gram did not give Shao Xuan too much time to think, followed by the second hammer, the third hammer, the fourth hammer...
The shadow of the hammer flashed and the chirping continued. As the shadow of the hammer grew faster, Shao Xuan even felt that the sound had become connected, and he could not hear the interval between the falling hammers.
And the stone leaves that were stripped from the core of the stone fell into the crate one by one, and at first glance it looked like a rainbow bridge, connected between the core of the stone and the crate.
Shao Xuan's eyes looked straight. He knew that Gramoxone was very capable of making stone tools, but he still didn't expect that, far underestimating this old stone master, he actually had such a ghost axe craftsmanship!
This is not a stone leaf stripping, this is a knife cutting surface!!
Obviously, when Shao Xuan came here to observe, he didn't see what Gram really was capable of. What he had seen in the past was just the tip of the iceberg, far from understanding Gram's mastery of stoneware technology.
So delicate! Such precision!
By the time Shao Xuan returned to God, Gram had stripped the stone leaves, and the stone core left in his hand was already in the shape of a stone.
This is followed by drilling and polishing, wooden handles, and tool shaping.
Perfect.
“Take it.” Ke handed the finished stone to Shao Xuan.
“Give it to me?” Shao Xuan picked up Shi Qiang and looked at him. Seeing that he had turned to busy with the others, he waved twice with Shi Qiang.
This stone has participated in the processing itself. Although the technology is rough, unsightly, and almost destroyed the stone core, after all, it is the first time that I seriously participated in the production, and I rarely see the ultimate skill of grams. For Shao Xuan, natural significance is extraordinary.
Build this stone core, which is delicate, tight and stiff, doesn't look visible, but you can clearly feel the weight in your hand, which belongs to the upper middle stone. I didn't think Gram would just give it to himself.
“Peeling tablets, even the simplest knocking, can be time-consuming and without shortcuts to achieve the most satisfactory results. You have to anticipate the peeling of each piece of stone, then think about speed, hammer weight, force, consequences, etc., and associate them with the stone core. The magnitude of the force, the optimal angle, and the changing circumstances from raw materials to finished products are untold. How to force, how to angle, how to tap… can only be understood by yourself through one exercise.” Gram turned his back to Shao Xuan and said.
Yes, stoneware, unlike iron, cannot be undone and cannot be reversed by mistake. One hammer down, either succeed or fail. A hammer.
Shao Xuan took Shi Qian, and Chao Ke complimented him, “Yes, I know. ”
“But," Gramoxone turned around and lifted his finger to the dead fish in the corner staring at Caesar, "you should also learn to sum up during the exercise. Failed, yes, but to learn the lesson, you can't be like these fish! ”
“Understood.” Shao Xuan could hear what Gram meant.
Gram means to tell Shao Xuan not to be like this cannibal fish. One muscle, not long memory, one mistake in the end, not to turn back.
“Take one.” Cloak. It's a rush.
“Oh.”
Since Shao Xuan was asked to bring back a fish, Shao Xuan's refusal was useless, and there was not much to say. He mentioned a fish with stone and asked Caesar to leave.
He walked out the door with the fish in his hand. Shao Xuan looked at the fish in his hand. When he thought about what he had just said, he couldn't help but smile and poke the fish head with a stone: “Silly! ”
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Fish: “Blame me? ”
There's more tonight.