Making the spear

Making the spear

For the wooden handle I chose Sinnohen ironwood which was an incredibly heavy and durable form of ironwood found on the slopes of Mt. Coronet. It was actually a very popular wood for martial artist to build training dummies out of because it was durable enough to withstand attacks from pokemon bellow tier 4 danger level. This meant that even while superhuman levels of strength are used on these dummies they don't break. Unfortunately the tree while it is alive is far more durable and thus much harder to harvest creating a hefty price tag for a wood.-

For the head of my new spear I didn't actually get a choice in the matter as the old man made the choice for me. "This hammer head has been with me for almost sixty years now , care to take a guess at how it's managed to hold up so long?" the old man asked while showing me a heavily blacked hammer with unusual vein-like patterns on it. I admit that I may have cheated a bit and observed it with the system but what I found left me dumbfounded as I had never expected it.-

[Item name: Aura pulsed hammerGét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Grade: 4

Description: A plain steel hammer that has soaked in aura for a long period of time and transformed into a new material with high aura conductivity and strength. The veins on it's side are the external pathways that allow aura to flow smoothly.]

'It's just as heavy as I hoped.' I thought satisfied while I carried the timber over to the wood carving table towards the back of the room. Dust flew into the air as I set the wood down and the old man got to work cutting it down to fit my requirements. He directly cut off a foot of the foot for a perfect seven foot long piece. Then he started to slowly and methodically shave off the corners until the wood looked kinda like a telephone pole.-

He then kept shaving off more and more of the wood until it was roughly as big around as a soda can and perfectly straight. The old man then sanded the pole down until it was smooth and grabbed a tin of oil and a tin of wax that he polished onto the handle for weather and use resistance. To my surprise the old man grabbed the hot unfinished blade I saw earlier and directly tossed it into the furnace. "It was aggron alloy and after your spear it wouldn't have been finished since my hammer would be gone." the old man explained calmly.-

I didn't talk as we waited for the metal to heat up to the point of being nearly liquid. To reminded me a bit of those blown glass videos I saw before I died in how the very hot metal behaved. The old man paid it no attention though and struck it with his hammer until it was condensed into a dense orb with a hole in the center of it. To my surprise he then had me bring over the handle where he measured the hole with the end of the handle. He then expanded the hole until the handle looked like it would fit snug.-

The old man then took a groove making tool to the hole so that that it looked like something that would take a screw. He then proceeded to press the handle into the hole while having me twist it slowly to force the handle to follow the groove as it went in. "Now run your aura through the handle down here so that the wood can heal in place." he ordered and I did so confused.-

To my surprise the dry and dead wood immediately brightened up and seemed to come alive in my hand as I poured my aura into it at the bottom. The wood even swelled slightly which explained what he was talking about when he said heal. After that the old man took another hammer to his hammer to knock the handle out and free up the head. This time he placed the hammer head into a crucible and placed the crucible in the furnace. Once the head melted he grabbed a mold from nearby and poured the metal into it.