Pendekar Batari Mahadewi: The Journey to Find Your Self
Episode 253 Forging Metal
The next day, Tagama's grandfather took Batari Mahadewi to the Gun-making workshop owned by the Sky Stick college. Outside, five young men and two young women were training with Sata's grandfather.
“Kakek Tagama, how many students in this college currently?” ask Batari Mahadevi.
“The seven young warriors, and the two of us. Guru Udhata no longer teaches, so we are the ones in charge of teaching at this college,” replied Tagama's grandfather.
“Before I thought, this college many students,” said Batari Mahadewi.
“Since long ago, Udhata's teacher never raised many students. Anyone who can get to this college, then he can be appointed as a student. The students of Udhata teachers of my age or before my generation, have spread in Siwarkatantra and set up their own college,” said Tagama's grandfather.
“Means, the college founded by the students of Udhata teacher also has the same style?” ask Batari Mahadevi.
“No. All the students of the previous Udhata master were warriors. Most of them have a degree. Here, Udhata's teacher does not teach the style of his creation. The only student who ever learned the style of creation of teacher Udhata is the swordsman of the God's Sticks who is now the founder of the God's Scepter. The rest, Udhata's teacher taught his students to create their own style,” replied Tagama's grandfather.
Batari Mahadevi felt that Udhata's teacher was very similar to Ki Gading Putih who never once taught a certain style to his students. The difference is, Udhata's teacher is much older than Ki Gading Putih and he is more engaged in another path, namely creation, both the creation of the style, knowledge, and weapons.
While Ki Gading Putih has sailed as a swordsman, then secluded in the forest Cemara Seribu. He chose his students without choosing. In other words, just because of the soul mate. Even after Ki Gading Putih was lonely for a very long time, then he began to open and willing to accept students.
“So, Sata's grandfather will help them to develop themselves each?” ask Batari Mahadevi.
“Yes, like that. Sata and I chose to stay here, helping Udhata's teacher to take care of this college. We're all here living as if. Unlike the big colleges that have many students, all students here come voluntarily, study without any reward,” said Tagama's grandfather.
Batari Mahadevi understood the new things from the figure of Tagama and Sata. The two people were much different from the swordsman of the God Scepter, one of the disciples of the Udhata master whom he knew. Tagama and Sata are much simpler, unmoved by the world, and are two students who seem to be really following in the footsteps of the teacher. You could say, Tagama and Sata when combined will be Udhata.
“Alright, Dance. Now we start from the beginning. What do you understand about guns?” ask Tagama's grandfather.
“Tools help to defend themselves as well as to attack,” replied Batari Mahadewi.
“True, but why weapons needed?” ask Tagama.
“As a tool,” replied Batari Mahadewi.
“It was also true. Farmers need hoes to plow fields because their bodies are unable to do so. Weapons are as useful as any other equipment. Fishermen need hooks and nets to catch fish, cooks need knives to cut meat and vegetables.
That is, a weapon is just a tool needed to cover our weaknesses in a matter. Everything a human being does needs a different tool. Fishermen will not find fish with swords.
So, each weapon will have its own uses.
In the martial world, there are different types of weapons. In fact, for certain warriors, pebbles, leaves, or even air can be used as weapons. Its main function is to defend or paralyze the opponent. That is the basic meaning of the weapon.
Up here do you understand the difference between a weapon with an heirloom weapon?” ask Tagama's grandfather.
“Paham, grandfather,” Batari Mahadewi replied.
“What we will make later is an heirloom weapon. That is, we must include different types of sources of strength and devotion in the weapons we will make. The source can come from ourselves making it, or from other things, the materials we use as heirloom weapons. How far do you know about heirloom weapon materials?” ask Tagama's grandfather.
“Everything that exudes power?” replied Batari Mahadewi not too sure.
“Kot more so. Everything in this world has power. Even a speck of dust. But, the better the materials we use, the more valuable the heirloom weapons we can create. We can make weapons out of iron, gold, silver, stone, mustica, bone, wood, or even spirits.
Seeing as your ability can purify the power of the demonic mustika and demon that you obtained, you shouldn't have taken long to be able to make an heirloom weapon. I will show you the simplest way to make weapons, then we will make heirloom weapons,” Tagama's grandfather said.
The old grandfather then lit the furnace and prepared various forging equipment. He picked up a lump of raw metal that was available in the workshop. Batari Mahadevi just pay attention to everything that was done by the grandfather without interrupting to ask.
“See this. There are several different types of iron. It is iron that falls from the sky. It was difficult to obtain it and became one of the best materials for making heirloom weapons. While this one (titanium) is also rare, it is mild but very hard. Then this (tungsten), it's very heavy and hard and it's also hard to get, and this one is a common iron that we can easily find.
We should mix these materials so that our heirloom weapons have more than one kind of iron power. If you want a light and hard one, then it takes a lot of this material (titanium), but to get it is very difficult. If you want a sharp and have a large destructive power, then multiply this material (tungsten).
The iron that falls from the sky is of various types. This is all we have, and there is one of the best that has now become a Sky Stick heirloom weapon,” Grandpa Tagama shows various types of metals that he does not know his name, he said, but he knows the difference and the quality.
Batari Mahadevi just nodded and listened to the explanation. The rest, he carefully observed each type of metal introduced by the grandfather. Batari Mahadevi was attracted by the metals that fell from the sky, the object was out of nowhere, so that every metal that fell to the earth, not necessarily the same type, although the way of fall is the same, even though the way of fall is the same, it caught fire and exploded when it landed on the ground.
Luckily, Batari Mahadevi could know much better than the grandfather, any metal that was really hard, solid, and had great strength. But he did not say about his ability, rather, he was reluctant to explain how he got the ability.
Next, the grandfather fused some kind of metal with a certain position, tying it with thin iron.
Then, the grandfather burned the metals he had stacked into the coals in the furnace. The metal slowly changed color to smoldering red. With a hot metal clamp in his left hand and a hammer in his right, the old man forged the metal deftly, clearing the crust until the remaining pure metal was much smaller than before.
“Well, this is the first stage we have done in the simplest way. There is another way, which is to forge and purify this metal with energy in us. I'll show you this way later and I'm sure you can do it easily. However, I want you to try this simplest way first as I did earlier,” said Tagama's grandfather.
Batari Mahadewi understands, the simplest way is the hardest and most time consuming way. The grandfather told him so that he would understand how man first learned to forge iron.
Without a doubt, Batari mahadevi chose various materials that he liked, then did the same thing as Tagama did. The experience of forging is not merely physical work, but can be equivalent to meditation, focusing the mind on one thing.
From there Batari Mahadevi experienced a different experience, he seemed to be conversing with the metals he wrought in every swing of the hammer that clinked loudly and drops of sweat coming out of his body.