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"May I ask you something, Mr. Ars? I am going to tell you about my study of the flame ore, that I have studied.

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"About the flame ore. You said it was the material for the Nine-Tailed Sword, but it was too soft to be used as a weapon. What do you know about it?

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"We have discovered something new about the hardness of flame ore, that we have. It was found in the existing nine-tailed sword of Lord Ars, that it was. It means that the nine-tailed sword may contain less impurities in the flame ore, that it does, Lord Ars.

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"Impurities?　Was there a lot of impurities in the flame ore that you took from the Fox Valley?"

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"It may have something to do with the fact that the nine-tailed fox once took the flame ore into his body and used it as the material for the nine-tailed sword, that it may be. Anyway, the same material called flame ore could not be used as a weapon if it was just mined, that it could not be used as it is.

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"I see. That may be the case. Then it's important to remove the impurities, isn't it? Have you done that, Gran?"

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"Not yet, that I have not. I think that an extreme temperature difference may be necessary to remove the impurities, that I have tried beforehand. That is what I and Mr. Ars are going to do, that we are going to do now.

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"Difference in temperature," ....... Are you trying to quench the flame ore, Gran?"

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"That's right, Mister Ars, that it is. I will heat the flammable ore at a very high temperature in the blast furnace that I built, and you will cool it down, that you will, Mr. Ars. Using the power of the ice spirit that only the head of the Fontana family can use."

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"Are you trying to tell me that I should be making ice water?

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That is right, that it is. Probably, the flame ore heated at a very high temperature would evaporate in an instant with ordinary water, that it would. I want you to use the power of the ice spirit to keep it cool, that I do.

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"You're the only one who would think of using the higher magic of a noble family for such a thing, Gran. But, well, I see your point. Let's get on with it.

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Then, I want you to keep this water cool here, that I do. Yes, while keeping the ice spirit in the water. Meanwhile, I'm going to heat the water, that I will.

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　With these words, Gran opens a small door attached to the furnace and throws in a magic stone.

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　It seems that the magic stone is connected to the flame ore inside the furnace and supplies magic power to the flame ore used in the furnace.

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　Normally, air would have to be supplied to the inside of the furnace in order for the fire to be more powerful.

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　I remembered the first time I built a furnace with Gran and helped Kyle to step on the bellows.

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　However, it seems that the furnace that Gran built this time does not need a bellows.

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　I wonder if this is due to the characteristic of the flame ore, which can produce a high-heat flame in response to magic power.

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　I have been in front of a furnace with a conventional fire, but the ambient temperature was obviously higher than that.

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　It makes me wonder what the temperature is like inside a flaming furnace.

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　Then, the flame ore, the material to be quenched, is placed in the burning furnace.

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　Flame ore is heated up to an extremely high temperature.

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　As I was sweating as I watched, I saw something slick melting out of the flame ore.

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　I looked at Gran's face with a sideways glance and saw that he was still staring at the flame ore.

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　I guessed that the dissolved substance might have been impurities in the mined flame ore.

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　After some time has passed, Gran takes out the flame ore.

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　He placed it on the anvil and struck it with his favorite hammer to stretch it.

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　A high-pitched clang echoed through the air.

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　After a certain amount of pounding, the ore is returned to the furnace, heated again, and pounded again.

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　This process was repeated several times.

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　Grand's movements were very sophisticated.

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　It looks like he is just tapping, but he is probably tapping evenly to keep the shape of the piece.

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　It seemed that he was even able to form the sword as it was.

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　After the standard sword shape was made, the hardening process began.

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　A container of water was set up next to the grill.

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　I had been cooling it with an ice spirit that looked like a shiny blue round ball that I had summoned with the summoner.

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　Gran puts a sword-shaped flame ore on it.

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　In an instant, a large amount of steam rises.

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　I mean, it's scary.

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　The metal is so hot that it has been put into the water.

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　In an instant, I thought the water would reach its boiling point and fly out like a volcanic eruption.

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　But it didn't seem to happen that way.

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　It was the power of the ice spirit.

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　The ice spirit that had been cooling the water suppressed the temperature of the water, which should have soared.

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　The steam only appeared for the first moment.

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　When the steam disappeared into the air, there was the flaming ore being cooled by the cold water in its place.

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　But there was something strange about it.

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　Something strange happened to the flame ore.

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　The metal in the shape of a sword that had been dipped in the water had changed color.

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　The metal, which at first was bright red like magma because it had been heated at a very high temperature, turned blue in the cold water that had been cooled by the ice spirit.

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　However, just as soon as it seems to turn blue, it turns red again, and then blue again.

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　In this way, the color changes back and forth between red and blue many times, and slowly the color change settles down.

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"Hey, Gran. Did you see this coming?"

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"No, this is something I did not expect, that I did not expect, Mr. Ars. I am surprised, that I am. I am surprised, that I am surprised.

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　The color change stopped completely.

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　Then Gran pulls his sword out of the water.

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　There was a pale purple sword with a bewitching glow.

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"Will you try it, Mister Ars?　This new sword."

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"You're scaring me. I'm so scared because I don't know what's going on, Gran. But it's going to be fun."

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　With that, I receive the sword in Gran's hand.

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　The metal should have been heated to a super-high temperature in the blast furnace, but now it feels cold and has a unique metallic feel to it.

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　It is shaped like the common Western swords Gran has been making, and it feels easy to handle.

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　The hilt Gran had prepared is inserted into the new sword.

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　With it in my hand, I move to the log where I have placed it for test cutting.

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　I swing the sword at the log.

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　The sword is sharper than the Grand Barca, but that's all right.

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　However, the initial problem of the softness of the flaming ore had been solved.

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　The sword blade after cutting the log had not a single scratch or distortion, and it seemed to be able to cut the log again and again.

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　I think that this is enough to use the flame ore as a weapon.

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　But that was not the only problem.

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　The most important thing about this sword is what happens when it passes through magic power.

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　Normally, we would think that a sword made of flame ore would produce a flaming sword like the Nine-Tailed Sword.

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　However, I had a hunch that this would not be the case after seeing the scene when the sword was quenched.

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　I wonder what will happen.

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　Fearfully, he passes magic power to the new sword.

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"What the heck is this?　Ice?　Has it become an ice spirit sword, ......?"

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　But to his surprise, when he passed the magic power through the sword, ice appeared from the blade.

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　The Ice Spirit Sword of the Fontana family.

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　A magical sword with a blade of ice that extends when magical power is poured into it.

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　In the same way, a sword of ice extended from the new sword.

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　However, it was completely different from the Ice Spirit Sword.

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"Oh, that's great, Gran! I cut a log with the ice sword and the log froze and then burned. ....... What the hell is this?"

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"......It seems that when you cut with an ice sword, it freezes once and then burns, Lord Ars. This sword seems to be a completely new magic sword that has the characteristics of the Ice Spirit Sword and the Nine-Tailed Sword, that it does."

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"A magic sword that combines the properties of ice and fire. It's like an ice and flame sword.

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I like it, Mr. Ars. How about a sword made by the two of us, me and Mister Ars, and we call it the Grand Ars, the Ice and Fire Sword?

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It's kind of embarrassing to have my name used. Well, if Gran says it's a good idea, then let's do it.

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　The surface of the test log froze once it was sliced by the new magic sword.

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　Ice covered the entire log.

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　And the next moment, the ice turned into flames.

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　I have no idea of the logic behind this, but I suspect that the ice itself was converted into flames.

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　Thus, I had acquired a new magic sword, the Grand Ars, the Sword of Ice and Flame.

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