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He is "forging" cast iron words. That should tell you everything.I thought, maybe he is using a magical furnace to melt and cast actual steel. Nope, a few chapters later he explicitly states that they are made of cast iron. The thing that would shatter on the first hit. Nevermind the fact that at this tech level, there is no way you are finishing a dozen swords per day. Although I suppose if you are making cast iron swords, might as well. (Incidentally, melting iron is also not a thing you can reasonably do like this... hence, forging...) The final nail in the coffin was the later translations that just threw it into an MTL and published it without any fixing. Kinda takes any possible fun out of it when you have to re-translate it as you read.t gets an extra star, just because the MC is not spreading japanese stuff and getting irrationally worshipped for it.