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87 (Arc 2). Self Forging
Self Forging.
Cold wind blows, black clouds cover the sky, “This bad weather, as usual.”. Estrid.
His attention then turned to the surrounding area where the land was covered in red, blood splattered, dozens of monster corpses scattered.
A woman with red hair was sitting on top of a pile of corpses. He tried to rest after the new big fight he had gone through.
“Captain, I report if all monsters have been collected?” a young man riding a goat spoke loudly.
“Good.” reply Estrid who then jumps down from the monster pile. Two wolves, Alaska and Pluto immediately welcome him, Estrid was a little play with both.
“You are working well also today.” he said to a group of children who are trained warriors.
“““Thanks for the hard work of the captain!.”””
Say all the children in unison.
Wof...
Awoooo...
Alaska and Pluto do not want to lose, both want to be praised by Estrid.
“Ahaha.... You two also do well.” said Estrid to caress the feathers of both wolves.
Estrid's red hair slowly turned white, indicating that her emotions had stabilized. Then with a single flick of hands the mountain pile of monsters vanished in an instant.
All the corpses of the monsters had been put into the inventory, while the rest would be given to the goat riders' troops as payment for aiding the daily conquest.
Although the children do not need payment because they have got better things, namely fighting skills and experience. But Estrid says they need to start thinking about having savings.
“Before the bridge will be completed, you may need money to buy something in the city.” he said.
Unpleasant as it is to refuse a gift from someone they respect so much, the children receive the monster corpses they have hunted
“Alright, it's time to go back to the village. I don't want to be late and get a scolding from the old dwarf.”
Estrid was riding a six-legged goat whose head was bandaged as if it was wounded by something. Next to the two wolves running in tandem, then behind him an army of children followed.
The group moved quickly down the snowy road, taking only two minutes until they reached the village.
The village looks so alive. Not only humans in the village but on water creatures called with the Merman race were seen and passed.
The arrival of Estrid and her entourage was welcomed by the residents, some gave praise, some bowed their heads respectfully. Even some of them to prostrate, they are the Merman.
Estrid was disturbed to see the actions of the Merman that she considered too excessive. But he realized that they became like that because of his mistake.
The Mermans were still overshadowed by fear of the massacre that Estrid committed a few weeks ago on their people. They avoided direct eye contact with Estrid as much as possible, which is why they prostrated themselves every time they met her.
After arriving in the middle of the village Estrid parted with his men. They will do daily activities after training with Estrid, which is a hot bath together with their pet goats.
Alaska and Pluto also join, while the goat is ridden by Estrid...
“You come with them, I will stay in the forging hut all day.” Estrid said to the goat king.
Embeeek...
The goat king bleated on his master and soon went with the others. Estrid stared at the wound on the goat's head that was caused by her.
The promised fight took place two days ago. The goat king would only allow people stronger than him to ride on his back.
Since Estrid thought it would be nice to have a strong and fast mount, she challenged the goat king to a duel.
But just like the previous duel, this time even the goat king was defeated with a single blow. It was a short fight, The goat king thought he would be able to fight with a draw after his health recovered.
But in reality the goat king too underestimated the opponent who had defeated him first. As a result of the defeat, the goat king must become Estrid's pet.
***
The noise from the impact of the hammer and metal was heard continuously. Grock the forging dwarf seems to be working on a weapon.
Seeing Grock so focused on his work that Estrid was reluctant to bother him, he chose to wait.
A hissing sound accompanied by billowing smoke occurred as Grock dipped the hot iron he had formed into the fire. After a while Grock again lifted the iron in the water for him to see.
“Perfect,” he said with a satisfied face. Grock also placed a sword blade that he had not finished making. He would finish the weapon later after drinking a few bottles of alcohol.
“Is it time for a training session?.”
“Berrrr.
Estrid's sudden voice in the back made Grock so shocked that the dwarf spouted out the drink he was about to drink.
“Are you there already?.” asked Grock nervously.
“Yes, it may have been ten minutes.” replied Estrid casually
“Based on stupid girls, why don't you greet me?.” Grock said angrily, but Estrid laughed out loud.
“I just don't want to disturb the master, after all see how an expert forger makes that weapon so much fun.”
“Haaa.. you praise too much.”
After that brief conversation, the master then took out a prototype of a new weapon 90% finished. A weapon I've been working on for two weeks with Master Grock.
The length of making this weapon is due to using a dwarf forging technique that is so complicated and dangerous.
Master Grock did not use any forging equipment that could be used to make common weapons because of the special materials he used this time.
He used a blue flame called soul fire, created by combining molten magma with a mixture of soul soil.
The light produced by the soul fire was not so bright, but the temperature of the blue flame was immeasurably hot. My health was reduced when it was too close, but over time the heat resistance I had increased so that it could face the soul fire now.
Master Grock said if I was abnormal, he told me that it would take months for dwarves to get used to the soul fire. But I only need two days to get used to it.
“I think it is because of the effect of the skill of the miner that makes me resistant to the heat of the bowels of the earth.”
The heat of the soul fire could melt ordinary iron in seconds, while the adamantium which was a stronger material took weeks to be melted down if it used ordinary fire.
But with soul fire, making Adamantium the strongest material I can currently obtain, can be melted down in just two hours. So you can imagine how hot the blue flames are.
Two weeks of manufacturing process is really draining. The first week that Grock's master asked me to raise the forging skill to the advanced level, it was truly a crazy request.
How could I who have no forging skill be asked to become an expert forger in how many days. Please note if the skill level is divided into three groups, the first is the beginner level I to X (I\=1, X\=10).
I have to raise (Blacksmith I) to (Blacksmith X) to reach the advanced level. In the condition that players could take months to raise their skill level, but I was lucky to have a cheat skill called [Furnace], which allowed me to do forging automatically.
In my mind making hundreds of weapons simultaneously, the forging skill continued to increase until the Blacksmith level finally reached Master level within five days.
Hearing if I had reached [Advance Blacksmith I], Grock looked at me in a different way to this day. He thinks of me as a god-drop or something. Grock's master's admiration actually makes me feel uncomfortable because it has done a cheating way to raise the level of the blacksmith skill.
I stared at the weapon in front of me, an axe with various blue rune carvings. Looks really awesome. I kept refraining from using the appraisal skill on that weapon, because I wanted to get a surprise.
It was not long before Herka came to the workshop while carrying a scroll of letters which was the last item to perfect the weapon.
Scroll the letter containing the reinforcing spell, an enhancement created using Lapiz Lazuli. An item that only an Advance Rune Maker could make, that's why I also spent a lot of time with Herka to learn a lot of Runes for the sake of leveling up the Rune Maker skill.
On top of Anvil, the axe was ready to be granted Enhancement. It made me so tense, but two of my teachers said otherwise there would be problems. I grabbed the hammer and started doing the enhancement.
“OK... this is it.”.
Ding!
[Adding Loyalty Effect on Weapons]
The first Enhancement was successful with the effect.... Waws.
***
Seriate.
