Alex sat around, giving the blacksmith some tips on how he could improve his craft. He tried to give tips that the man wouldn't know about, and tried to teach him about Dao too, but the man simply wouldn't understand that.
Dao as a concept was so foreign to these people that even starting to explain it was unreasonably difficult. In the end, the man simply had to take Alex at his word and go on.
The blacksmith walked over to the forge during that time and took apart a compartment on its side, before pulling out two Sunhearts with his bare hand. When they came out, the forge's glow vanished, the heat lowering drastically by the second.
Their heat source had been stripped away.
Alex raised an eyebrow in surprise at the man casually handling the hot Sunhearts, especially when he was surprised himself when Alex handled the red-hot ingot.
"Are your hands not burning?" he asked, curiously as he walked over to the man.
