Chapter 10 Duel Against The Unknown Blacksmith

Going into the guild i didn’t thing that it would be this bad the air had that depressing aura around the people just sitting in their silence and drinking their drinks.I made my way to the counter where a man with silver hair stands hes probably the worker in this place i should ask him some questions.

-Hello sir do you have a minute

I asked he didnt seem like he was annoyed and turned his head to me with a bit slowness to it

-Boy what you want ?

-I am searching for Luke the blacksmith i was told that he was here

The man thought for a bit and nodded.

-Yes he was he ordered some leather from our guild for armor he comes here every week but today there wasnt any so i couldn’t give him leather

In the way he said it,it sounded like he had really trouble with it

-Why is everyone so so…

-Depressed ?

-yes

he sighed and said.

-well the hunt isn’t going well in the forest there are enough beasts to hunt but lately there is something more than just that some kind of bigger beast has made its nest in the forest it already killed 2 hunters and when we searched for it we couldn’t see it its like we fight a invisible beast so we cant go and hunt.

That explained the atmosphere they seem to be really troubled by it and the opponent seems to have a spell that lets him go invisible maybe i can do something but first

-where did Luke go then ?

-he said something about going himself he left with some other hunters who wanted to challenge the beast again because of that they left

-isnt it dangerous to do so ?

-yes it is and last time 2 people died because of it but we have magic scrolls for teleports here in the guild if they need to run they can take care of it

-ahh

There is are lot of ways to teleport in this world one of the ways i can probably do it is with my ability the void other than that there are items like scrolls or stones that have the magic incarnation written on them and can be activated without using mana they are neat items to have and don’t need time to be prepared.

I asked the guy on the counter where they left he told me that they left to the south forest the beast seems to be there.

-hey boy what business do you have with him ?

-i was supposed to be his apprentice starting today

-at your age ?

He was a bit surprised by it i get it.

-yeah i get that a lot lately

With that i left the hunters guild.Hearing my conversation albi got an idea what the beast is something like a white wolf she says it cant go really invisible but can use its environment to make it look alike and seem invisible.The fur is like steel she said.

I didn’t worry about the beast albi was with me and i had a plan i didn’t need a weapon just yet so i headed to the south forest.From the information i got from albi the wolf hunts with his pack its highly intelligent and is a natural leader for the pack so the wolfs will protect him no matter what.

On the other hand it was hard to find the hunters albi used her ears to locate them she turned into her human form because she can be a help that way and so we ran.

When we arrived we could see that the hunters were overwhelmed by the wolfs we also could see the silver wolf in the middle the hunters seemed to be more calm then i thought but for some reason the wolfs wont attack just staring at the hunters intently both me and Albi used our stealth skill and picked some berry’s and rubbed them on us to trick their noses they didn’t notice us that was good.

After some time of watching i could now see now why they couldn’t get close the man up front was holding something like a staff with runes that prevent monsters to come near it generally used in every village town or city but it used a lot of mana so i don’t thing that it will last long some of the hunters were ready to use their teleport scrolls
but still didn’t move so i decided to make a move.

-Albi i have a plan

Albi listened to my plan my idea was that i would distract the wolf’s and in the middle she would kill the leader Albi had enough strength to fight the wolf physical and magical in our conversation i found out that albi could use a lot of spells she even said that she would teach me but right now those spells were needed for other matters and so we discussed our plan and moved on

Just as the hunters were about to teleport i jumped from the tree and landed on the head of a wolf killing it the other wolf’s looked confused but snapped out of it fast and charged at me with full speed dodging their attacks wasnt hard but sometimes i would get bruised i took peek at the silver wolf he didn’t seem to want to move and inch and
just watched.There still were some wolf’s with him in the mean time the hunters shouted something like “hey kid get out of there” i couldnt make out what they were saying so i concentrated on the wolf’s Albi was soon close enough to make a surprise attack and jumped from the bushes and used ice bolts a tier 2 water spell and killed 2 wolf’s at once the silver wolf got startled at that because he couldn’t sense of her he felt danger coming from that girl he knew.

At that attack some wolf’s were looking the other way and i used the moment to stab them with a sharp stick albi made for me and told me that it wouldn’t do anything if i stab their pelt but their eyes were vulnerable and so i killed 3 wolf’s that way and had another 4 sticks left in mean time i was fighting.The hunters slowly joined seeing
me kick their ass Albi had already killed the silver wolf’s guardians and was fighting the leader he used his ability but because albi was a cat she could detect him easily and killed him with a slash from her claws.

The fight ended that way it was pretty boring but the only ones who kept quite were the hunters until one of them spoke

-kid what are you doing here that was dangerous but still i am impressed about your skills and that girl too

They didn’t see her claws so it doesn’t seem like they will question it right now

-i was told luke the blacksmith was here so i came to make him take me as his apprentice

As i said that a brown haired guy with elf ears came out

-Oh my name is Luke i heard from Lars that you wanted me to take you as a apprentice i must say that you are a very really skilled fighter and i am puzzled why you would want to take on my profession but i will gladly accept you

He said it with a smile i was glad that i didn’t have to do more to become his apprentice it slowly came to my mind that rescuing someone can you give you a lot compensation.

They still were some people in their who’s jaws wouldn’t go up because of the slaughter.

And so everyone picked the dead wolfs i asked if i could take the silver wolf and the rest would get the normal ones and so all of them agreed one of the hunters skinned the silver wolf and gave me the pelt.

After that we left from the forest and headed to the village i told them that i had things to do and that i would meet luke a while later he nodded and so i left to get the ores on the way i stored the pelt that i just acquired albi was still in her human form on the way she didn’t talk to anyone beside me they tried to start a conversation with her but were straight out ignored by her…very cold.

Albi and i were heading to the north forest to go to the cave and get the ore there i could see albis skills when we started albi used a spell to make the ores part from the stone smoothly it looked really smooth after that i had a lot of ore i could later work with we were there for 4 hours in the process she used her x ray eyes and found more ore she used her claws as a pickaxe and was slashing the stone her claws looked metallic it was cool to watch after 4 hours i stored everything in the void and tried to think what is inside

532 ????? ore
630 ????? ore
103 ????? ore in total of 46 different types of ore every type over 100 pieces

When i thought about it i could make the difference between the ores but not describe what they were so i thought that i maybe needed to study more in the library later on i would need to look into it maybe if i study the different types of ores i will know what they are i was really excited from the concept of new ores !

After that i and albi left the cave and got straight to the village it was 2 or 3 i didn’t know what time it was but we the headed to the blacksmith only to see Lucy again with a face enraged and Luke smiling wryly i could guess what happened lucy probably didn’t want me here but Luke somehow convinced her and here they are.

-Hello master luke it seems like you heard some things about me from your daughter i apologize

At that luke got a surprised face and said

-no no my daughter was just impolite its my fault for raising her like that you didn’t do anything wrong it was right to search me in smithy

At that Lucys face got even redder and turned away so i asked

-When can i start ?

At those words Lucy ran at me wih full force and gripped my shirt and said

-you are not going to start without my permission father may have accepted you but not me !

She shouted it sounded like she really hated me so i asked

-what is this about ?

-you see Damon lucy says that you have to have some kind of understanding in smithing and said that she  wants a test to see if you truly are good enough

At those words i understood she wanted some piece of proof before letting me in
And so i said

-Sure but i hate waiting so lets do it like this i challenge you lucy in smithing a sword the best sword wins the judge will be Luke so i know he makes a good judge and if i win i am allowed to use the smithy whenever i want i wont use your materials don’t worry if i win and will help in the smithy myself.

At first Lucy made a perplexed expression but then a smile of confidence rose Luke had just a complex face but before he could speak lucy spoke

-And what if i win well obvious either way

-Thing of something i am fine with anything

Lucy thought for a minute and then said with a big smile

-You will be my slave for the rest of your life if i win !

she said but i didnt flinch or react to that she obviously just tried to scare me with that thought and not actually do i smiled and said.

-sure the duel will begin now Luke be our judge

Luke wanted a saying in this but he knew that he couldn’t talk sense into lucy and just looked at Damon a thoughtful look and said

-damon can you smith ?

Lucy also looked at Damon she didnt thing of the possibility that he already knew how to smith so she wasnt sure but she was convinced in her skills and that was enough and so Damon said

-We shall see

With a big mocking smile