"Aiso, wake up. Wake up," I say, lightly slapping Aiso's cheek.
"AHHHHH! HUFF HUFF HUFF… Y-your highness, what happened?" Aiso says in between heaving breaths.
"Nothing much… but look at your weapon," I say, picking up my newly evolved scythe.
I should keep quiet about what happened, so Aiso doesn't feel any unnecessary paranoia or stress. Maybe consulting with Paimon would be good first; he might know what just happened.
"W-whoa. I made that?"
"Indeed, but so spirits blessed it, so it evolved. But I highly doubt this would've been possible if you hadn't created such a high-quality weapon in the first place. You are the best blacksmith in my kingdom," I say, admiring my new soul equipnt.
"It is an honor to receive your praise… also, did you get your limbs back? I can tell from just glancing at you that your stats are extrely high, maybe even higher than before, but you also have your leg and arm back… so," Aiso says as I help him up.
What a sharp fellow… I guess he's not as much of a muscle head as I thought. Well, maybe this is obvious information.
"So you heard about my [Evolution Switch] skill?"
"Of course, Mia couldn't stop talking about it, HAHAHAHA!" Aiso laughs out loud.
"Seems you're all getting along…"
I would feel bad if this guy got nothing in return for making such a high-quality weapon. Raiu doesn't even compare in the slightest towards this scythe. It almost embodies death but also has ice and golden properties… A pretty weird but powerful combo.
"Want a reward?" I ask the still laughing Aiso.
"It's fine. A complint is more than enough for a reward," Aiso says.
"Nah, what reward do you want? Money?"
"I-I told you it's fine,"
"Are you rejecting my offer of kindness?"
"I-I was only joking! Please forgive for that, and if you insist, may I have… so high-quality tal and materials to forge with?"
"I can get you so high-quality materials such as dragon scales and the wolf mountain guardians canines. I heard the canines are the best material to use for any type of dagger, sword, or spear,"
"Oooooooh, okay. Thank you very much, your highness,"
"The tal, on the other hand… I don't have any high-quality tals in my treasury. I've never really bothered collecting tals, but can't you ask Akio?"
"Urk… Uh, about Akio. I've already asked him for so tals before, but he always shoots down and tells to pay for them. Like co on, man, we've been friends for all our lives, why can't he just give a nugget at least," Aiso complains.
"Do you have sothing I can petrify?"
"U-Uh yes… please wait for a second,"
Aiso walks over to the corner of the room where hundreds- no thousands of scrap tal were stacked. I had only seen this just now, but I can see how much effort he has put into smithing when I look at it.
Each piece of scrap tal was a mistake that he learned from instead of feeling discouraged and giving up.
He soon ca back with a random piece of curled-up tal and handed it to . I gripped the amount of tal tight within my hand before activating [Forbidden Magic: dusa]. The tal slowly started to turn grey, and cracks quickly appeared all over it.
Before it began to break or shatter, I deactivated dusa, leaving the scrap tal in a petrified state.
"Give this to Akio and tell him you can choose two ingots of any tal you wanted. If he still has doubts after this, tell him he can co to the throne room," I say, handing the tal to Aiso.
"Thank you very much, my queen,"
"I have another request for so masks. Make about 15 more Oni masks, and I need you to make two more types of masks. Give a sheet of leather so I can draw it,"
"As you wish," Aiso says, heading to the back room.
Once he cos back out, he places two leather pieces on a steel table right next to . Before he gave the pen-like object, he first put out the raging fire that had continued to burn inside his forge.
"Okay, let's see… for my Water corps, make it look like this. Do you know what monster this is?"
"Tree Toad? I don't know much about the monsters since I have rarely gone hunting after evolving," Aiso says, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassnt.
"Well, you got it right,"
It was a mask similar to a toad from Earth. The Tree toads in the [Forest of Poison] are green, but these will be dark green with a hint of grey.
I gave them beady black eyes, two small holes for a nose, and protruding fat lips. I gave the mask two stubby grey horns that poke out the top of the mask for just an extra touch. In addition, I gave them two grey tusks that ca from the fat lips of the toad.
"Okay, this is the Water Corps mask… now I just need the Air Corps mask,"
After pondering for a bit, I lifted the pen and started to draw the next design.
It was a grey bird with a white beak. Black eyes that seed to stare back at even though it was just a drawing. A few designs mimicked feathers that were purely for aesthetic. And finally, black horns protruding from the top of the mask, but I added no tusks since there would be no place to put them.
"That's all. Use the strongest but lightest material you have. I'll be taking my leave now," I say before inspecting Aiso.
『Status』
[Na: Aiso]
[Race: tal Elf]
[Status: Direct Subordinate]
[Level: 2/100]
[HP: 295/800 MP: 176/300 SP: 390/800]
[Strength: 200]
[Defense: 200]
[Magic: 120]
[Speed: 110]
[Luck: 1]
[Charisma: 50]
[Skills: [Body Enhancent] [Wind Magic] [Concentration] [Grand Fire Magic] [Blacksmiths Strengthen Arms] [tal Muscle Enhancent] [Enhanced Senses] [Enhanced Regeneration] [Art of Blacksmithing: 3] [tal Manipulation] [Blacksmithing Hamr Slam]
[Equipnt: [God of Blacksmiths Gauntlets] [Blacksmiths Twin Hamrs]
[Titles: [Direct Subordinate] [Master Blacksmith] [Grand Idea Creator]
…
Seeing his low health, I use Ichii on him before leaving the room and not looking back.
…
I didn't realize how late it got so I was surprised when I saw the moon and night sky. But I quickly rembered what I would have to suffer through if I was late to dinner, so I quickly dashed back to my castle and ran into the throne room.
"Shit…" I mutter, seeing my wives angered faces.
"So, what's your excuse?" Aika asks.
"I didn't realize so much ti had passed. But, I have so good news, I got new soul equipnt!" I shout in excitent.
My wives all dropped their jaws in awe and imdiately dashed towards after putting down their utensils. They kept asking to show it, which I had no reason to refuse, so I imdiately summoned my new scythe.
"Holy shit, that is badass," Kumo says, sliding her finger along with the handle.
"Yeah, so you got this today? How did you acquire it?" Aika asks.
"You know the scythe that I asked Aiso to make? He finished it, and when I inspected it, it was soul equipnt that anybody could claim. You just needed to drop so of your blood onto it, and it will recognize you as the owner," I respond.
"Then can we have one?" Homura asks.
"You have to ask Aiso to make you one,"
"Okay, well, that's pretty cool. Let's eat dinner and go to bed. There are so things I want to try out," Aika says.
"NO! We are not doing anything like last night. We can do it normally or not at all, and I won't back down," I say, firmly planting my foot on the ground.
"Hmph, fine…" Aika says, storming back to her seat.
Why the hell is she getting so agitated?
I look at my other wives, who shrug it off. I let out a sigh of relief before deactivating my scythe and sitting down at the dinner table.
The rest of the dinner went smoothly since the food was delicious. Homura, Aika, and I seed to be the ones with manners, but Kumo… didn't care.
After dinner, we imdiately went to the bath, where I ordered so maids to give and my wives a massage.
"Arpious, I've been wondering, but how are we going to be able to tell that Ina is still alive? What if she's already dead? We're just wasting our ti waiting for her to co back," Kumo asks.
"I would know. First of all, Yin's my pet, so we have a connection through the system. If I lose a pet, it would either be Yin or Ava, but most likely Yin since she's out on a dangerous mission. Also, there's her collar. I have a connection with the collar that allows to know the physical condition of the wearer," I explain.
"Can I borrow a collar? There is sobody who's been bugging for a while, and I want to turn her into a pet. She's an alchemist, and she's been annoying, but her skills could be useful," Kumo says.
"You can't just turn sobody who annoys you into a pet," Homura says.
"Okay, well, let tell you this. I've seen her trying to fuse living beings and guess what those living beings are," Kumo says, her eyes narrowing at Homura.
She stays silent. Everybody stays silent.
"Children. She has been trying to fuse children,"
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