In the rune refining skill advancement area of the Time Tower, Zhang Tie was completely immersed in his own world.
In that wilderness, starting with the skills of a Craftsman Apprentice, Zhang Tie methodically reviewed and tested every skill he had mastered through hands-on work, then integrated the things he had just absorbed into practical operation.
Zhang Tie had never done anything like this before. To him, it was both familiar and strange. Outside, he simply would not have had the time to fuss over such seemingly childish and time-wasting matters. But inside the Time Tower, time was what he had in greatest abundance. Moreover, his foremost goal in the Time Tower was to advance to the divine craftsman level—a crucial step toward realizing the idea in his heart—so he had plenty of time for these things.
Zhang Tie treated everything he did with his hands as entertainment. The entire rune refining skill advancement area was, to him, an amusement zone that belonged to him alone.
After finishing the simplest little brick kiln, Zhang Tie still did not stop.
He sharpened the edge of the stone in his hand against a rock by the stream, then went off to find two more pieces of dry, rotten wood and some small sticks.
Rolling those little sticks across a flat stone, he could easily select from their tracks the one that felt most comfortable in his hand for starting a fire. He then used the stone to whittle one end of the stick slightly pointed. The first tool for drilling wood to make fire was complete.
Though this step was simple, knowing how to choose, by the simplest method, the stick best suited for rubbing and spinning between one's palms, and how to angle its tip so it was convenient for drilling