Could you repeat that?
I said I can use the chieftains tooth to make you a weapon.
Making a weapon out of Kunkhans Tooth?
Is that possible?
Since the chieftains tooth is unusually heavy and hard, not anyone can forge it. However I, Orrush, am the greatest warrior on Sky Mountain and also its greatest steel handler. Its possible.
Steel handler.
It ant the first ogre to handle the huge tal weapons that the ogres used.
In the context of humans, they were a type of blacksmiths.
The will of the previous chieftain Kunkhan. I want to refine it.
Wait.
This was an unexpected gain.
Is there a specific weight and shape you want?
Wait. This is too much too fast.
You can tell later. After all, its sothing that cant be handled by anyone other than a steel handler from Sky Mountain.
Because of the question about the shape, I pondered on it a little bit.
Sword?
Shield?
Armour?
Staff?
However, no matter how much I thought about it, my answer was already set.
I smiled brightly.
Would it be possible if it wasn't a weapon?
* * *
15 days had already passed since I entered Sky Mountain.
During that ti, I stayed in a vacant mud hut on Small Summit, but even if it was called a mud hut, since it was built for an ogre, there was too much space for alone.
Thanks to this, I was able to get a space for myself, and I spent most of my days training my body here.
I did the quests that I had neglected because of the busy schedule during the Grand Festival.
Of course, even if I was staying here as a guest, I wasnt just playing around the whole ti.
Where are we going today?
Were going over Senduma Pass to hunt.
So its wolves.
The ogres would wander around the entire region of Sky Mountain to hunt and store food.
For certain hours of the day, I would follow along and help them.
It would sotis be rabbits, sotis deer, and sotis wolves.
If necessary, we would sotis also hunt for wild monsters that were hidden in parts of Sky Mountain.
The surprising aspect of this was, unlike the savage randomly-hunting-everything-they-see I expected, the ogres would never hunt more than they needed.
Even if Sky Mountain is endlessly wide, all of nature is finite. There are cases where leaving so for later would be better.
After all, the natural life of Sky Mountain wasnt endless.
This was a promise to not disturb the cycle of nature.
Yeah.
I had forgotten for a mont because the land was vast, but this place was removed from the outside world by a barrier.
As I stayed here, I naturally ca to learn why this place beca a sanctuary for ogres.
It was because the shamanistic practices of the ogres were completely different to magic.
Orrush called this ritual.
They even had a priest dedicated to these rituals on Sky Mountain.
We will survive until the end, waiting for the day we can rebuild the tribe and move outside the sanctuary.
I didnt know the specifics of the ritual, but it was sothing close to a mystical hope of regaining their land.
Well, anyways
Training and hunting.
Other than these two things, I had one more thing that took up the rest of my ti in the day.
This was
Hey, Orrush.
You ca again, human.
Co out. Lets fight.
Youre persistent.
Having an arm wrestle match against Orrush.
After I lost against Orrush on the first day, I challenged him every day without exception.
It wasnt just because of the quest.
As I continued to challenge him, my competitive spirit beca stronger and stronger.
I would go day after day until I won.
However, the outco was the sa.
The results till now were 15 matches, 15 losses.
In a sense, the outco was expected.
I was a human who only beca a player a few months ago, and Orrush was an ogre who trained himself for hundreds of years on Sky Mountain and beca one of its greatest warriors.
Orrush never goes easy.
Thats what Im expecting.
Yeah.
Bending this steel-like arm of an ogre that was multiple tis larger than .
It looked impossible at first.
However, as ti slowly passed
No.
As I continued to accrue the experience of losing, I was learning.
Human, if your strength is 100, you arent even using 50 of that strength.
What does that an?
Use all the strength that you have. Dont unnecessarily waste your strength.
Not wasting my strength.
The right way of using my strength.
The way to increase the density of my strength.
I accepted Orrushs advice and made an endeavor.
10 seconds, then 20, then 30.
The ti I could endure increased bit by bit every day.
After about 10 days, I could hold my ground for nearly a minute.
This wasnt all.
!
Even though it was just for a mont, I could even push Orrushs arm over the halfway point.
As ti passed, Orrush beca genuinely impressed with .
Human. The pace your strength is increasing at is fast.
Is it? But I havent been able to beat you yet.
No. Youve gotten a bit of the feel of using your strength.
Well, a little.
How long until you leave Sky Mountain?
About 3 days?
You might be able to defeat before then.
* * *
* * *
Just as Orrush said, the gap between our strengths was quickly decreasing.
It wasnt simply because of an increase in my strength.
It was proof that I was able to utilize my strength to its fullest.
And then, on the afternoon two days before I planned to leave Sky Mountain
Hey, Im here again.
Lets start then.
I faced him on that unchanging smooth rock and grabbed Orrushs hand.
But, for so reason, sothing felt different.
You Are you nervous?
What?
Nevermind.
Orrush was strong as always, but I couldnt feel the hardness I first felt in our first match.
It wasnt that Orrush changed.
It was because I changed.
Maybe, theres a chance I can win.
I put strength in my arm with this thought in mind.
The strengths clashed.
However, it wasnt unmovable like the first ti.
It didnt feel like an unbreakable wall, and I didnt have any negative thoughts that dissuaded into thinking it was impossible.
Our strength was matched in a tight balance, and it held in a shaky form at the center.
Ooooooooah!
And so, 3 minutes passed.
As these 3 minutes that felt like an eternity passed, both of us started to sweat like we were sitting in the rain.
It beca so tense that the rock we were leaning on started shaking.
As the arm wrestle started to get drawn out, it beca a battle of endurance.
Who was more desperate to win?
Who couldnt afford to give up?
The difference in these had crumbled the tense balance.
!
And, in an instant, the great weight on my arm beca light.
Crunch!
Just like how an old tree is felled, accompanying the dense feeling of falling, Orrushs arm had collapsed.
Ah
I won?
I couldnt believe it.
17 battles.
16 losses.
And now, 1 win.
The taste of victory I havent felt in quite a while.
It tasted sweet and also amazing.
Quest
Foreigner of Sky Mountain
Victory against Orrush in arm wrestling: 1/1 (Completed)
You are awarded Pride of the ogres of Sky Mountain.
You are now respected by all the ogres.
Orrush opened his mouth.
I lost. Completely. Ruin Ardell, you surprise at every turn.
Orrush didnt call human like he used to, but referred to by my na for the first ti.
His expression was filled with respect for .
It seems the preparations are now over.
Preparations? What preparations?
Then, I instinctively felt it.
Wait, is it finished?
Its been finished for a long ti. I was just waiting for the right ti to hand it to you.
Kunkhans Tooth had been produced into my first weapon.
* * *
Orrush. What was the reason that you didnt give the weapon when it was done?
Like I told you before, I was waiting. Waiting for the day you defeat .
What if I never beat you?
I wasnt going to give it to you until you won. The will of the chieftain is an important object for us.
This damned ogre.
I nearly got robbed in broad daylight.
But thankfully, I defeated Orrush within the tifra, and because of this, I could check out the weapon I had commissioned.
Co in.
Orrushs forge wasnt a simple hut, but a huge repurposed cave near the Middle Summit.
I ca to this place every day for the arm wrestle, but this was my first ti entering the forge itself.
My first impression of the inside
Hoo.
was that it was incredibly hot.
As soon as I passed through the entrance, the essence of heat washed over my face from the equipnt.
The second thing I felt
Is that it?
Yes.
I had expected sothing grand to appear inside this sweltering smithy.
But inside the forge, there were just three steel handlers other than Orrush that were hitting sothing with tal hamrs.
The thing they were hitting with their hamrs was the weapon that I commissioned.
A pair of gloves.
Co closer, here.
As I approached, the steel handler ogre struck the glove again with his tal hamr.
However
Klang!
Even after being struck by the heavy tal hamr, there was no dent nor damage to the glove.
Rather, the hamr had bounced back from how hard it was.
This was because of the fragnts of Kunkhans Tooth that were attached to the outside of the gloves.
As you wished, Kunkhans Tooth was separated into 10 pieces.
They had attached 5 of these 10 pieces to each glove.
It was like a brass knuckle.
These types of weapons werent widely used, and were usually wielded by back-alley thugs or monsters that plundered for a living.
However, for , whose main weapon was his fist, this form was worth more to than any famous sword.
I didnt have to think twice.
The tooth is separated into 10 pieces, but the chieftains will is still there. No, it was amplified.
Orrush handed the knuckles to .
And I accepted them.
Simultaneously, a status window appeared.
Knuckles of Kunkhans Will
Creator: Orrush
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The knuckles were created by attaching the tooth fragnts of Sky Mountain ogres first chieftain. The 10 tooth fragnts will not break from any physical force and will destroy anything and everything.
Upon equipping, strength will increase by 2000.
You have learned the unique skill, Chieftans Will.
There is potential for growth.
There is potential for growth.
I asked Orrush with a blank expression,
How many ogre warriors are there on Sky Mountain?
Hm? We have about 120. Why are you asking this suddenly?
I didnt know for certain, but after equipping the knuckles
I beca overflowing with confidence for so unknown reason
And I wanted to try it at least once.
I smiled brightly and asked him one thing.
Can you call them all?
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