I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide - Ch. 13 - The Ball Begins

[Tavero]

So they're using a blast furnace. Or some metal with a lower melting point than steel.

Blast furnaces that are able to produce liquid steel have been available since the early middle ages (12 cencury or so).
But usually making liquid steel was prevented on purpose by cooling them down. Liquid steel intakes too much carbon gets hard and brittle and therefore unable to work with in a blacksmith.

Without the ability to control the carbon intake, liquid iron is kinda impractical to produce. So the scene from lotr where saruman produces Ork weapons in bulk is kinda nonsense.

 

[Bighomer]

yayy

 

[Aspidochelon]

i just reread previous 5 chapters before reading this chapter because I completely forgot this manga exist

 

[trollatron786]

ITS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

Thank you guys for continuing

 

[popmol]

it's finally back! OMG it's happening!

 

[lenovoaxioo]

godamnnnnn. . . the art is so fukken gold. If only all those webtoon can. .....

 

[Rukja]

thank you very much for the translation,
sooo i see her loose her book relativly soon,
but maybe only she can read it who knows

 

[sellmeformoney]

It's back baby!

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

why would she brought the book with her T_T

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

The more pencil detail on the face, the move evil the character likely is.

 

[BG9]

WE ARE SO BACK

 

[MonsieurFudge]

Thank you for the translations!

 

[FightingBread]

we're so barack

 

[DustyOldQrow]

thank you for the translation! really happy to see this get updated.

 

[suize]

The dress design changed slightly since the previous and this chapter

 

[AnotherDuck]

But usually making liquid steel was prevented on purpose by cooling them down. Liquid steel intakes too much carbon gets hard and brittle and therefore unable to work with in a blacksmith.

Without the ability to control the carbon intake, liquid iron is kinda impractical to produce. So the scene from lotr where saruman produces Ork weapons in bulk is kinda nonsense.

I've never heard of that, but rather the opposite. That's it easier to control the carbon content if you fully melt it down.

 

[rkkn]

oh? oh?! It's back!

 

[AMicrowave]

aw man, a full colour chapter, that must've been hell to clean

 

[ilusatus]

Sanana is back with a huge cliffhanger

 

[Tavero]

I've never heard of that, but rather the opposite. That's it easier to control the carbon content if you fully melt it down.

It may be easier to control carbon content but only if you have the right knowledge and tools. Fact is, historically it was easier to put carbon into iron than take it out again. Early furnaces that (accidentally) reached temperatures to liquify iron produced pig iron. Until the 14. century it was mostly impossible to refine it, so it was considered a useless waste material.
Only after refining methods were improving, furnaces were allowed to reach melting temperatures.