Chapter 377 - Heading to the Conference [2]
Rumble—
With a low rumble, the ground shook and the doors of Henlour opened up.
Without saying anything, we entered the gates.
"Welco back."
Greeting us at the entrance of the city was another dwarf. By now, most people already knew who we were, and hence, whenever they saw us, they would greet us.
"Thank you."
Greeting them back, we once again entered the city.
Rumble—
It wasn't long before a low rumble sounded again and the gates closed shut behind us.
"Go get so proper rest. We will start our preparations for the elven domain over the next few days."
"Got it."
The first thing we did was go back to our own residences to get changed.
Having stayed in the nearby forests for over a month, everyone needed to get a proper bath.
Although our tents were indeed advanced, they still didn't have showers built in them. As such, whenever soone needed to wash, they would need to go to a nearby river to get cleaned.
Actually, I did briefly pass by Henlour a week ago to talk to Malvil about my sword, so it was only a week for .
"Huam."
Once I arrived at my residence and separated myself from the others, I headed for the shower.
Turning the valve on, I let the warm water fall on my tired body, which had a couple of scars on them, before i relaxed completely.
Once I was done with the shower, drying my hair with a clean towel, I sat on the bed.
As I sat down, the water droplets that dropped down from my body traced down my toned body before they reached the clean bedsheets, wetting them.
"Let's see if anyone contacted during all this ti."
Opening my desk drawer, I took out my watch and booted it on.
Since there was no signal outside of the city as the dwarves tried to limit most outside communications, I had no idea about what had happened while I was gone.
It wasn't even a mont before a long string of text appeared on my watch. All of them coming from the sa individual.
"Oh, Malvil called ."
'Is he finished with the sword?'
Him calling only ant one thing: the sword was almost ready.
After the incident with Inferno, and after spending nine months improving my swordsmanship, I was finally able to convince him into forging a sword for .
Not many had such a privilege, and so I was very happy with this developnt.
"That aside, I also feel much better now that I no longer have the tracking device inside of my head working."
Thanks to Jomnuk's coaching, Ryan was able to develop to the point where he could now easily hack into my chip and tamper with the device.
He could turn it on and off whenever he wanted to. This was a great piece of news to as I could definitely make do with it in the future.
Especially at the conference where I was going to et up with the Union.
With the chip tracking device off, they would of course be unable to tell that I was 876, but for sure I was going to let them understand that they had ssed with soone extrely petty.
Well, that was granted if the opportunity for it ca. If there wasn't, I could just wait for later.
'Right, that fucker will also be there…'
Recalling a certain face inside of my mories, my lips tugged upwards.
'I've still got quite the score to settle with you, don't I?'
If there was soone whom I hated much more than the Union, it would be none other than the individual that brought to 'that place' to begin with.
'The pain I had suffered there…'
The sound of my teeth grinding together sounded across the room.
"Huuuu."
I took a deep breath, trying to calm down.
There was a ti for everything and now was not that ti.
Standing up and quickly getting changed, I headed for the door of my room.
Cli- Clank—
Right now, my priority should be visiting Malvil and seeing how much he progressed on my sword.
I wanted to leave for the elven domain with a new sword, especially since the ones I have been using weren't the right fit for . They just broke too readily.
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If there was one thing that I hated about the fourth level, it would without a doubt be the trendous heat.
With it being so close to the earth's core, it was extrely hot.
Every ti I went there, it would feel as though I was inside a steaming hot sauna.
It wasn't pleasant, to say the least.
"You're finally here, human!"
Upon entering the main building of the facility center, Malvil ca to greet at the door.
Well, it was more like he was already there talking to the secretary, and only greeted once he saw coming in.
"Took you long enough... I was already done a couple of days ago." He grumbled, looking at with a peeved expression.
"That fast?"
He sounded quite annoyed, but I rely shrugged my shoulders.
Couldn't be blad, I put all of my focus on training instead of anything else. Though, I was impressed by his speed.
"Follow ."
Bidding goodbye to the secretary, Malvil brought to his workroom.
Just like in the previous tis that I had been there, it was a ss. With equipnt sprawled all over the place and scrap pieces of tal on the floor, it looked as though a storm had raged inside of the room.
Fortunately, I was already used to this. Stepping over the garbage, we soon paused in front of a large desk.
Thump—
Dropping a long object that was covered in a thin white cloth onto the table, producing a dull sound, Malvil slowly unfolded the sword.
The mont he unfurled the cloth and my eyes paused on the sword, my face twitched slightly.
"…Is this the completed sword?"
It took a while to process the…sword in front of , if it could even be called that.
It looked nothing like it. Rather, it looked more like a burned stick.
With no sharp edges, no grip, and completely nothing that would make it look like a sword, the thing that was in front of could not even be considered one.
'Don't tell that he failed?'
But that was impossible. With Malvil's pride, he would never show sothing like this unless there was sothing more to it.
As my thoughts paused there, I looked up to Malvil who was looking at the sword with traces of satisfaction on his face.
Extending his finger forward and tracing it over the body of the piece of tal, Malvil muttered to himself.
"How beautiful…"
'Really? You call that thing beautiful?'
I really wanted to say those words out loud but I managed to keep my mouth shut throughout the whole ti.
It was only after a couple of minutes passed that Malvil finally regained himself and coughed slightly.
"Keum…sorry about that, almost lost myself there."
"…Right," I replied with a forceful smile.
"Oy, what's with that look?"
But it appeared that my face was quite obvious as Malvil glared at .
Raising my hands in a show of peace, I calmly replied, "Nothing. I was just curious if this was the sword that you were planning on forging for ."
"Of course it is."
Malvil slamd his small hand on the table.
He then pointed towards the long piece of tal.
"Can't you see that this is the fra of the sword?"
"Well yes, I could tell that much."
"Sigh, ignorance is such a bliss."
Shaking his head, Malvil interlocked his hands behind his back before walking towards another counter and picking up a small white hamr that was adorned with tiny blue, red, and green crystals.
He then proceeded to walk towards the sword fra.
Throwing one last glare, he handed the hamr.
"Here, you'll understand once you do it."
"You're giving that to ?" I asked, confusion dying my face. Why in the world was he giving the hamr?
"Just take it."
Obviously annoyed by my question, Malvil shoved the hamr in my hands and pointed at the sword fra.
"Now hamr the sword!"
Seeing just how serious he was being, I cald myself down quickly and stared at the sword fra.
I knew that Malvil was not soone who would joke about things related to his profession, so without wasting any more ti, raising my hand which held onto the hamr, I prepared to hit the sword with it.
"Inject your mana before you do it."
But before I could even swing downwards, Malvil's voice traveled through my ears.
"Got it."
Closing my eyes, I channeled all of my mana into the hamr.
Vooom—!
The gems embedded on the hamr's side suddenly started to glow, lighting up the room in beautiful myriad colors.
Once that happened, pointing towards the tal fra, Malvil shouted, "Now! Hamr the sword right now!"
Snapping out of it and nodding in response, I swung my hand downwards.
Clank—!
A loud tallic ring swept throughout the room as the hamr in my hand ca into contact with the sword fra.
"Again!"
Malvil shouted after the ringing in the air dissipated.
Clank—!
Without saying anything, raising my hand once again, I swung the hamr and a similar ring swept through the room.
Once the ringing sounded disappeared, Malvil once again shouted.
"Again!"
Clank—!
Raising my hand again, I once again swung.
Clank—!
"Again!"
Clank—!
"Again!"
Clank—!
And so for the next three hours, the sa scene repeated again and again as I continued to hamr the tal.
TWIIIING—!
Smashing the hamr one more ti, another loud ring rang out and a bright light suddenly enveloped the room.
"Move back."
As soon as the light appeared, pushing back, Malvil snatched the hamr from my hands and once again hamred the sword fra.
Clank—! Clank—!
With each swing, his arm beca faster and faster, and before long, the bright light that ca from the sword enveloped the entire room, blinding completely.
"Give your arm."
He shouted before I felt a small hand grasp my wrist and bring forward.
I was completely blinded by this point, so I had no idea what he was trying to do, but it was at that mont that I felt a sharp sting coming from the tip of my finger and a strange worm-like feeling suddenly enveloped my body.
It felt like I was being constricted, or stung by a viper. I couldn't be sure, because my senses were going haywire.
But that feeling didn't last for long as all the remaining mana inside of my body suddenly got sucked out of , and headed like a torrent towards the sword, to the point where I felt the pain.
"Ughk!"
"Resist the pain! We're almost done!"
Malvil shouted from the side as my knees buckled up slightly.
"Ukh!"
Letting out another groan, one of my knees gave out and I fell to the ground, but thankfully, supporting from the side was Malvil, as his big, burly hands pushed up from below.
"I…I can't last much longer," I weakly muttered, trying my best to remain awake. Every second that passed felt agonizing, and slowly but surely I was feeling all the energy in my body getting sucked out of .
"Done!"
TWIIIIIINNG!!!
Thankfully, right before I passed out, Malvil removed my hand, and another crisp ring rang out throughout the room.
"Haaa….haaa…."
Falling down on the ground, I tried to catch my breath as sweat dripped down from the side of my face.
'What kind of demonic rite was that? You making a sword or what?!' I scread inwardly. Unfortunately, I couldn't speak, and exhaustion had overtaken .
Before long, once I managed to rest for a good minute, I finally opened my eyes.
"What do you say?"
It was then that I saw it.
My new sword.
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