A Song for Winter: Fire Ax

Chapter 41: Fire Ax

    William loved his water sword as he could freeze it with a single whistled note making it into an ice blade of any length he needed. However, there were certain situations where his innate air magic powers or his water sword weren’t the most effective weapons for the situation. To compensate for this William decided he needed a new elemental weapon. This time the weapon was to be an ax made with the elemental powers of fire infused into it. Much like the water sword, William knew a fire ax would be a challenge for even his master smithing skills.

 

    As he had done before William traveled through a few different portals to observe different types of elemental weapons to figure out the best way to approach this project. Several fire weapon wielders had interesting weapon designs but none were quite what he was looking for. With some ideas in mind, William found an active volcano and meditated on the essence of fire. Flames could destroy all they come in contact with as a force of destruction unrivaled by almost anything else. On the other hand, all that destruction could clear away the old and make way for new growth to thrive. Fire was as much of a weapon as it was a tool.

 

    Finally ready to start crafting his new weapon William journeyed back to his home forge to begin smithing. He knew that to craft an elemental fire weapon his forge was going to need to be hotter than it had ever been before and to do that it was going to need to be expanded a bit. William knocked down the back wall of his smithing hut so he could lay new bricks to expand his forge to twice its former size. The process of laying new bricks and mortar took several days but in the end, it was worth all the trouble. With this newly expanded forge, it could hold more fuel allowing it to heat up even hotter than before. Normal wood or coal wasn’t going to give William the heat he needed so he made a deal with a fire elemental. In exchange for heating his forge, William would open a portal for the elemental to go home. 

 

    With his forge superheated William welded several red asters together before putting them into the forge. In the forge, the individual red asters melted into a single workable billet of metal. William began the slow process of shaping the billet into several round hollow cylinders. When the metal began to cool William would put it back into the forge to reheat it to a workable temperature before he hammered on it some more to shape it how he liked. Once William, had five cylinders made he fitted them together one inside the other with a simple mechanical connection. The cylinders would collapse down into the largest one as well as expand out into a three-foot rod. 

 

    At this point half the work was done with all that was left was to make the ax head for this fire weapon. Carefully, William set a fire pearl into the haft of his new weapon to power the elemental power. Now with a flick of his wrist, William could expand the haft of the weapon to full size, and with a press of his thumb up the fire pearl, a blazing ax head sprang forth from the red aster haft of the weapon. Equipped with a new weapon to fight whatever villainous needed put down next. Satisfied with his work William set the fire elemental free to its home plane and went home to be with his daughter.

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