Apocalypse After

Forging Weapons

Next morning.

Alexander sat in the lounge with a lazy expression on his face. The guy talked about a lot last night. After which, he went around the entire Shelter 1 to avoid tracking. Finally, return home safely.

Alexander felt himself to have solved the heavy problem. But he knew that now it was impossible to immediately rest. The man had to go back to work, going to the Vermillion Shop as Faust to do some other things.

“Are you okay, Al?” ask Aurora.

The woman looked at Alexander who was leaning on a chair and holding a cup of hot tea with a lazy expression. Seeing that the man looked tired, he asked as he was quite worried about him. After all, according to Aurora, Alexander was the one who worked a lot when they reached Shelter 1.

“I'm fine. My plan went well. It's just that there's too much work to do, a busy schedule and it makes my brain a little tired. Let me relax briefly~” reply Alexander weakly.

“Then we leave for training first,” Aurora said.

“We're leaving, Sir!” added Aster excitedly.

“We leave.” Daisy nodded gently as usual.

Alexander looked towards those people. He waved lightly while replying, “As usual, exercise well but don't push yourself. If there is a danger, back off early and put safety first.”

When the woman nodded. After that, they left the house.

Meanwhile, Jane and Nene are getting ready. Not only did they prepare breakfast, they had also prepared items that they had to bring to the store beforehand. After all, they did not store potions in the store. Just bring home-made herbs to the store the next day.

Alexander and his colleagues have also started making dungeons, a habit they have finally brought up until now. The basement of the house has been completed, while in the new store until the final stage.

The basement in the house would be used to store the remaining potions they made from the materials Damian provided, as well as the various rare materials they had collected before. As for the basement that was in the shop, they were still thinking about its usefulness.

If the basement in the store is completed, Alexander still has plans to expand the basement of the house. Although it is not yet known for what its usefulness is, but at least they have some place to shelter or hide when something happens.

“Jane! Nene!” call Alexander.

“What's up, Mister?” nene asked with a surprised expression.

“Is something wrong, Mister?” ask Jane.

“It's okay. I just want to remind you. Today I'm going to forge a weapon. As always, you guys should be careful in watching the store as long as I'm not around. Do you guys understand?” alexander.

Just saying that, Alexander suddenly held onto his forehead with a depressed expression. The man took a deep breath and then spoke again.

“Forget. I will accompany you first. I forgot to remind Aurora, so they went to practice instead. Later in the afternoon they will come to the store, at that time I will go to make weapons as usual.”

Looking at Alexander who looked unfocused, the two women looked at each other. Rarely did they see Alexander in such a state. So they wondered in their hearts what was going on with her before.

After that, they had breakfast together and went to the Vermillion Shop to work.

***

After Aurora, Daisy, and Aster returned from training, Alexander took the big box and went to the forging site in the corner of District 3 area.

The place was deliberately chosen because it was close to the slum district. In District 2 there was also a place to forge weapons, but it was especially for knights and extended families. Even the forging site in District 3 was also managed by the Chivelm Family.

There, one could ask a blacksmith to forge weapons with the materials they carried, could also purchase finished weapons, or perhaps rent a forging place for themselves.

“Oh! I thought you weren't coming, Mr Faust!”

While dragging the wagon with some wooden boxes on it, Alexander saw the person greeting him. The man had a bright appearance, his blonde hair was cut short, leaving only the upper part. He wears an uncoated shirt, and shorts. Looks relaxed, not at all seen as a weapon forging.

“As usual Marco, one day rental.” Alexander said casually.

Marco is not a weapon forger in this place. Instead, he was the one who oversaw the business. One of the potential children of the Chivelm Family. The status was slightly lower than Damian due to too many children in the Chivelm Family.

“Good!” reply Marco.

For the man, Faust was a regular customer who came once a week. So they were quite familiar because they met several times. It was also based on the quality of weapons that Faust forged that made Marco want to be friends with ‘ordinary people’ like him.

“Mong-by the way, have you thought about my invitation before, Faust? I'm sure the Chivelm Family can give you more profit than the Ervens,” Marco said with a grin on his face.

“The problem is not how much I get, but I can't just turn away. It's Marco's trust. I hope you understand,” said Faust flatly. The man then let out a long sigh, looking tired from repeating that answer many times.

Alexander's seemingly perfunctory answer made Marco's eyes sparkle. According to him, finding someone like Faust was very difficult to do. Ordinary people were easily moved by profits, but some people had a firm and trustworthy attitude.

If Alexander knew what Marco was thinking, he would have praised him for having such an imaginative mind. According to him, a person who could be moved with just a slight advantage was actually a fool. Especially if their work is the same.

Moving quickly because of a slight advantage makes others look at the person badly. Although there are many reasons to do it (move), but others will not care and only consider it an untrustworthy person because it can be easy to turn to competitors.

Not just that. Rather than profit, Alexander saw more loss if he accepted Marco's request. On the surface, what the Chivelm Family gave might be more, but if calculated in detail, the results were still far from Alexander's income now.

Not to mention Alexander prefers to work with Damian because it is easy to control. Not the other way around, if faced with the Chivelm Family, they would definitely try to squeeze some energy and use it.

After exchanging a few sentences with Marco, Alexander went to the forging room. He closed the door, then began preparations to make some weapons that were usually sold in the Vermillion Shop.

A few hours later.

After completing the target of making weapons for sale this week, Alexander took a break. As his stamina began to recover, he began to lower the upper box. He took the box down and dismantled it, showing some materials were more valuable than the weapons-making materials commonly sold in stores.

Two of them are .. the claws of the Abyssal Basilisk.

Looking at the various materials available, Alexander took a deep breath and muttered.

“Heating done .. time to do the real job.”

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