A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 832 Hardwood
"What are you thinking about?" Clint asked curiously as he looked at Leon in deep thought.

"I remembered the news you mentioned about giving gemstones the ability to give tools and weapons." Leon picked out a piece of information that he could talk about and revealed it.

"Is there really a technique to give tool gems stable energy? It's not a coincidence or an accident?" Clint looked at Leon in surprise and asked.

"No, Clint, do you know Jiang Island?" Leon asked, shaking his head.

"I don't know, it should be an island, on the Gem Sea?" Clint guessed.

"Well, there are many interesting things on the island, including an active volcano. In the deepest part of the volcano, there is a forge. I don't know whether it was left by the dwarves or some other special beings. There, you can use the special minerals in the volcano as fuel to drive the forge to incorporate the power of gems into tools." Leon briefly introduced the effects of the volcanic furnace.

"Any gem will do?" Clint inquired.

"As for tools, it seems the only tools available are the Five Colored Fragments," Leon explained, referring to the game's situation. "But that's not necessarily true. After all, I haven't actually seen the furnace. I just have some information. I can try it out if I get a chance."

"In that case, please take me with you. I also want to see this technology." Clint was very interested in the skills or craftsmanship of integrating the energy of gems into tools. His intuition told him that there must be a lot of forging knowledge that he didn't know about.

"Well, let's go together if there's a chance." Thinking of the characteristics of Jiang Island and the resort at the pier that could be built with the help of parrots, Leon smiled and assured Clint.

Afterwards, Leon chatted with Clint for a while and then took the initiative to say goodbye.

The powerful properties of the steel axe are time-limited, so he plans to take this opportunity to chop down more hardwood piles.

The place with the most hardwood piles is the Secret Forest.

But before that, Lyon has to confirm one thing.

"Why are you here again?" Seeing Leon appear again, Linus, who was holding half a watermelon in his hand, looked disgusted.

"Grandpa, can you help me see if I am suitable to eat the third star fruit now?" Leon asked Linus with a smile.

Since we are going to the Secret Forest, we can naturally take the Gem Berries we have grown to the statue of Old Master Cannoli as a sacrifice in exchange for a Star Fruit left there.

"Can't you feel it yourself?" Linus looked at Leon speechlessly and complained.

"How does this thing feel?" Leon asked in confusion.

"You want to eat the Star Fruit. Does your brain tell you that there is danger, or does your body tremble?" Linus asked back.

"No." Leon shook his head decisively. He really didn't have those feelings.

"That's right, your subconscious has already told you the answer. You've already absorbed the power of the last Star Fruit, and you haven't developed any resistance or fear towards it. This proves that this isn't your limit yet. Just go ahead and eat it." Linus patted Leon on the shoulder and encouraged him. "Once you eat the third fruit, you'll understand why the Star Fruit has a limit. After all, it's not uncommon for people to eat one or two Star Fruits. The third and subsequent fruits are the watershed."

After saying that, without waiting for Lyon to ask in detail, a breeze lifted Lyon up and carried him away from the railway area, gliding all the way through the air to the Red Star Farm.

Standing outside his house, Leon reminisced about Linus's impressive performance of a wind-driven car, smacking his lips and grumbling, "They said the wind could only carry messages, but now it's supposed to provide a speed boost, and now it can blow people away. This is no longer acting."

Leon had long guessed that Lanis's Voice of the Wind was not a simple ability, but the old man had never explained it. Now it seems that it is not just a function of passing on a message, otherwise it would not have become Lanis's most commonly used and most convenient ability of the Star Fruit.

Leon was quite envious of this special elemental ability. Although the abilities he had obtained from the Star Fruit had their own characteristics, they were still a little lacking. Now that the third Star Fruit was within reach, Leon also wanted to see what his third awakened ability would be like.

After returning to the house and finding the treasured jewel berries, Leon couldn't wait to leave the farm and walked along the coal forest to the entrance of the secret forest.

The huge dead tree that I had to turn over by myself before is no longer an obstacle.

Taking out a steel axe that had been temporarily enchanted with a powerful spell, Leon gripped the axe handle tightly and chopped directly at the tree trunk.

Unlike the blocked feeling of ordinary trees, the axe blade made a dull sound when hitting the dead wood, and the force that was fed back was even more obvious, with a hard feedback like hitting steel.

But when you lift the axe blade, you can still see the axe marks left on the dead wood.

Aiming at the mark, Lyon continued to chop down. The cracks on the trunk became more and more obvious under the pressure of the axe blade. When the last axe was swung down, the huge dead tree was directly broken into two pieces, and collapsed in an instant, turning into reddish-brown free logs scattered on the ground.

The length is similar to that of ordinary wood, but the diameter is twice as large as that of ordinary wood. Not only does it feel heavy in the hand, it also feels smooth like a steel pipe.

Lyon tried to fold the hardwood in half and found that it took a lot of strength. In addition to its hardness, the hardwood was also extremely tough. Even if it was pulled into an arc, no cracks appeared at the fold. When it was relaxed and allowed to return to a straight state, there was not even a wrinkle left at the folded position.

"It's tough."

Feeling the difference in strength between hardwood and ordinary wood, Lyon withdrew his thoughts on the experiment and put all the hardwood scattered on the ground into his backpack.

There are eight pieces in total. Compared with the volume of the dead logs, this amount of hardwood only accounts for one-tenth of the volume. However, considering the special nature of this wood, Lyon feels that the hardwood should be the concentrated essence.

The natural rules of this world are strange, and Lyon has long been accustomed to this situation. Anyway, as long as he can cut out hardwood, Lyon is satisfied.

Without this huge dead log blocking the way, the road from the coal forest to the secret forest suddenly became clear. Walking along the path in the bushes, a dozen steps away was the open grassland that Leon was familiar with, and of course, there were also the slimes jumping on the grass.

(End of this chapter)