Chapter 265 – Apprentice Blacksmith (2)

The place I followed the voice was inside the valley of the spirits.

Along with the sound of something metal hitting a rock or ice, the familiar shout tickled my ears once again.

“Dizira, you big ice gangster! Wouldn’t it be a bit frustrating if I was beaten this much?!”

Frictional sounds and voices getting closer and closer.

Thinking that it must have arrived soon, as soon as I poked my head out into the broken valley, I could see a hunter confronting an ice spirit.

… No, given its size and shape, it would be a bit difficult to call it an ice spirit.

“Mundi Jasuk… It’s very chewy…”

Faced with a huge block of ice that seemed to be at least 5 meters high, she seemed to be quite tired, and sweat was pouring from her body like rain.

The weapon you are holding… Is it a sword?

I knew that the greatsword was an unpopular weapon, but surprisingly, I feel like all swordsmen around me are only greatswordsmen.

‘Tzuzu, that is, awesome…’

While feeling a strange sense of identity with the Hunter, who hadn’t even said hello yet, the ‘Glacier Spirit’ started to flinch with its huge body.

A huge fist of ice slowly lifted to slam her body down.

“Under… I’m so sick of it…”

A short thought ensued in her head as to whether or not to help her now.

If the hunter in front of her was really in danger of losing her life, she would have jumped right in and helped her right now.

First of all, there didn’t seem to be any visible injuries, and on top of that, the will to fight was still burning brightly.

I was in the middle of watching a little longer because I could have interfered with the hunt for no reason.

The great swordsman who was confronting the ice spirit suddenly raised his sword in a strange posture.

“Me too… There is such a thing as coming, child.”

… No, wait. If you hold the sword like that…

“This time, I will deal with the rabbit without it! Come in and see!”

Are you insane? No, who the hell uses a greatsword like that?!

“If you’re going to go crazy, go crazy, if you’re going to go crazy, go crazy! Can you please tell me if you are strong or if I am strong?!”

Her body jumped out before her words, and I grabbed the woman who was about to crush her and threw her face down on the floor.

The Ice Spirit’s gigantic fist slammed into the space where she had just stood.

“Ah, uh…”

“Are you out of your mind? What kind of swordsman would hold a greatsword like that?!”

“Ugh, uh? Mukko…”

“Do you know what a single-edged sword is? If you hold the blade with one hand, of course the other hand will be cut first…”

“Oh, okay, look back, back! Come again later!”

When I checked my back and pointed with my finger under me, the monster’s next attack was clearly flying toward us.

I hurriedly fixed the greatsword on my back and slashed the glacier spirit’s fist with a slash.

A huge block of ice splitting and breaking apart with a crackling sound.

The sermon on how to handle a greatsword is also a sermon, but first of all, it seemed important to deal with this monster in front of me.

Without inserting the Mithril Greatsword I had taken out once, I jumped into the guy’s body and swung it horizontally.

‘… Turn it off, turn it off…’

The body of the Ice Spirit collapsed on the floor with the sound of a huge chunk of ice sliding and colliding.

The woman who had been knocked over with the bayonet looked at me from the floor and opened her mouth in a daze.

“Wow, you were a strong person.”

Huh? Sister?

As soon as I brought my hand to her face thinking the same thing, I naturally touched the unusually thin mask.

… Come to think of it, today was the day I went to work for the union, so I was wearing an unknown mask.

Since it was a tool that had been used for a long time, it was natural to feel that it was not being used momentarily.

“Sister? Aren’t you my sister?”

“No, that’s right.”

“Oh, that’s right. I get it. I almost got confused because it was long and awkward, but I’m glad.”

I didn’t think it was necessary to correct the misunderstanding, so I let them misunderstand it.

Rather, it is better for you to think of me as a woman. Rather than having strange rumors like that a male Awakener has been born in the company as well as in the union.

The fact that Kim Seong-cheol = Seong Tae-kyung will be revealed someday, but there was no need for it to be known now that I was not prepared.

More than that, there were things I had to say right now.

“Greatsword…”

“Huh?”

“Why are you holding the greatsword like that? You don’t know what a double-edged sword is? If you hold the handle with one hand and hold the blade with one hand, your hand won’t be cut off first when you collide with something like that!”

“Ah, ah, did you see that… I’m embarrassed…”

As if he knew what he had done wrong, he smiled shyly and averted his gaze.

“Well, it seems that his body withered and his mind wandered for a while. I tried to wield the sword like my own body, even if I pretended not to see it…”

“…”

“Anyway, thank you for helping me. At least, as he said, I could have just dipped it.”

“… Well, that’s all I need to know.”

She seems to know that what she did was stupid, and she apologized right away.

I didn’t want to further admonish the person who said thank you for saving me, so I ended up holding the blade strangely at this point.

“Does it make sense to fight until exhaustion against monsters you couldn’t even deal with in the first place? Why were you hanging out with the Ice Spirit?”

“Oh, was that ice? I thought I was just a tiny little ice spirit…”

“…”

“Mo, you may not know, Ki Ai! I’m not a hunter who only visits dungeons every day…”

“… Aren’t you a hunter?”

For that matter, the expected acquisition points were displayed next to his face, and even if he was not good at entering a C-class dungeon in the first place, it would mean that he was not an apprentice hunter.

Only then did I feel a little more relaxed and took a good look at her appearance.

Light brown, voluminous braided hair. Her height is about the same as Cha Yu-ri’s, but compared to her, her body feels a little more voluptuous.

Looking at the muscles on his forearm, he seemed to be someone who worked hard even if he wasn’t a hunter, and the greatsword he was carrying looked quite good.

The outfit looks like she’s wearing blue overalls, a dark T-shirt, leather boots and even leather gloves… Certainly, it was a far cry from being a Hunter.

… I don’t really have anything to say in jeans and a t-shirt.

“What about Hunter? My original swordsmanship isn’t that great.”

“Yes?”

“My awakening ability is just a bit of power, it has nothing to do with swordsmanship. Just because you came out with a great sword doesn’t mean you’re good at swordsmanship. I just did this because I wanted to test performance, well.”

“A performance test?”

“Oh, I didn’t tell you. I must say I am the blacksmith. It’s a trainee, so I don’t have regulars yet, but it’s been 60 years since I learned from my father.”

“Sixty years… ? Not six years?”

“Are you deaf? Why do you confuse 60 years with 6 years?”

No, I’ve been learning for 60 years before that, so it’s apprenticeship? Does that make sense?

Usually, blacksmiths who have the ability to awaken and make weapons get a probationary ticket after a year.

Not six years, but sixty years was enough to change the impression of her before her eyes.

Oddly short stature, big-hearted personality, and confident attitude that makes him not particularly ashamed of being a trainee blacksmith for 60 years.

From that appearance, I was able to carefully draw out a guess.

“Are you a dwarf by any chance?”

“Contribution, can’t you just look at it? Ah, well, since I’m of mixed blood, I might not know at once. My father is a dwarf and my mother is just an ordinary person.”

That’s why she’s also a hunter with the ability to awaken, and she’s also learned blacksmithing for 60 years.

Since the lifespan of a dwarf was said to be around 800 years, the lifespan of a half-human and half-breed would be about 400 years.

Then, even though she has been working for 60 years, she can understand her appearance, which only looks like she is in her twenties.

“You weren’t a great swordsman.”

“Greatsword… ? Oh, then. Anyway, it was made with a feeling of gratitude, so I came out thinking I should give it a try.”

For a moment, my excitement, knowing that I was a great swordsman’s colleague, subsided slightly.

Just because I wasn’t a great swordsman didn’t mean I wouldn’t save him, but I still feel regretful in many ways.

“Is the performance test over?”

“No, that’s why we meet as soon as we come in today, so I don’t know. If you kill only C-class monsters at my level, you will usually pass.”

It was like pointing to the body of a fallen ice spirit and talking, and I pointed to her sword and asked once.

“Can I take a look?”

“Here it is.”

Accepting the sword made by the blacksmith who claimed to be her apprentice blacksmith, I took a quick look at it to see if it was really good.

Is the material Damascus steel? Seeing that the sword is made of materials that only dwarves can handle, it must be a proof that she, a half-dwarf, made it.

The blade is sharp and straight without any flaws, the handle is made of comfortable non-slip material, and the center of gravity is balanced and comfortable.

“It looks really good on the outside, but can I try swinging it at a monster once?”

“It’s really good, but you won’t see C-class monsters like this, right?”

“That’s fine.”

As soon as she got her permission, she swung her greatsword at the corpse of a B-rank monster that had fallen to the floor.

The sword that was properly swung by the great swordsman’s hand neatly cut the body of a B-class monster.

“Wow, don’t…”

It was a high-quality item that would definitely be worth the price if it was in the hands of a good swordsman.

To the extent that if I didn’t have a Mithril Greatsword, I would ask him to sell it for me with various excuses.

“It is a good sword. There seems to be no problem with product quality.”

“Oh, thank you…”

The apprentice blacksmith who received the sword that had completed the performance test carefully took the sword with a thank you.

“Are you always doing performance tests yourself?”

“Mo, yes. It’s my weapon, what should I do if I give it to another bitch? In addition, while testing, I check to see if there are materials or materials that can be used, and take all of them to the workshop. I make money by selling things like cores to guilds.”

He said he learned from his father for 60 years, so even if he did something similar for 10 of those years, it must be enough time to get a trainee hunter ticket.

Now I could fully understand how the Hunter mark floating next to her came about.

… Come to think of it, I think I heard an important story about blacksmiths before.

‘Taegyung, if you’re dealing with this kind of weapon, it wouldn’t be possible without a professional manager.’

Suddenly, Eun-yeong noona’s words flashed in her mind, and at the same time, her eyes moved to the trainee blacksmith in front of her eyes.

Thinking that her chance might have come just in time, she tried to convey her spontaneous suggestion to her.

“Me, Mr. Blacksmith?”

“Ah, you can call it my Suareum.”

“Yes, Mr. Su Areum.”

“Yeah, what?”

“If you don’t mind, could you take a look at my weapon?”

“… Sister, a weapon?”

It would be too bad to end the long-awaited relationship with the blacksmith in one day.