Chapter 21: 21. Workshop.
I decided to walk home with my pouch of money since I didn't want to accidentally teleport in front of Odin if he was in the house.
"Hel, I'm back." I call out entering the house.
"Welcome back!" She says meeting me at the door. "You missed my father but he left us some things and even fixed up the workshop for you. Come look!"
Well I do remember Odin having future sight or something. That makes me a bit wary but whatever. Probably saw all this coming.
Heading down to the cellar I was shocked by the transformation, various tools lined the wall on neat wooden shelves, there were new tables and workbenches, a forge was in the corner with various small crucibles for melting metal. It had a foot bellow attached to it to stoke the fires. There were even some metal bars next to the forge that I recognized as brass and lead.
On the work bench was mould used for bullet tips and casings, there was a bag of materials which could be ground up to produce gun powder and all the tools I needed to make bullets.
"My father said there used to be a gunsmith in his familia a long time ago, but people stopped using guns because they were weak in the lower levels of the dungeons and cost too much time to make ammunition. He mention magic guns were kind of limited with their fire power and one usually had to be a mage to use them effectively. So they died off rather quickly." Hel says as I look over the tools. "Why waste money on guns when you can just use magic instead? It's free. Was what he said."
"Fair points I suppose but I can always adjust my guns and I need something to do at night since I don't sleep. Unless you are up for cuddling?" I laugh as her face turns red.
"Well..I wouldn't mind.." She says quietly looking at her feet.
"Hmm? Sure, I didn't think you would agree." I admit with a laugh. I had been trying to joke but she took it seriously.
Her face turns even redder. "Well besides this he also left some other gifts." She says pulling out a pair of necklaces. "He said this would help with the trouble your having with your soul and everyone peeking at it. Plus we will be able to feel each other from anywhere."
It was a rather simple necklace when you looked at it but the closer you got the more beautiful the designs on it. There were various small runes over the chain and the little black pearl had a small glow to it.
Putting on the necklace I felt a cool wave wash over my body. A second later Hel put on hers and I could sense where she was.
"I can feel your heartbeat!" She says excitedly.
Focusing I could also feel a strange thump from the necklace.
"I believe I feel yours too." I tell her.
"Now i can know that your are safe in the dungeon." She says happily. 'And find you wherever you go.' was left unsaid.
"This was used to hide the soul from certain monsters in the dungeon and locate lost familia members. The deeper you go into the dungeon the larger the floors get and some of them have things like blizzards and sandstorms where it was easy to get lost. There were also quite a few monsters who locked onto the soul of a person to track them." Hel explains what her father had told her.
"Well that is incredibly helpful." I look at the little pearl but I'm quite satisfied with the results. "We should thank him. Anyway let me get a quick bath and then how about we sit upstairs and read for a while. He gave me a book I'm interested in and I don't feel like making bullets right now."
"Mm I would like that!" She says quickly.
I pass her the money I made for the day to store in the safe and head for the bathroom. About 45 minutes later we are sitting quietly on the couch in the living room reading books. Hel had tried to wiggle slowly next to me but I just pulled her into my side and she kind of just happily melted there with a content sigh.
The book on magic gunsmithing was rather large and had a lot of information. Most of the guns seemed to be made with mithril which was a magic conductive metal. There were also different kinds of magic bullets and new formula to normal bullets. Some of the bullet tips could be made with mithril and have enchantments on them to increase piercing power, but they were incredibly expensive to use. I was more interested in the guns that just fired out pure mana. Would save me money and time on bullets that for sure, however theh were supposed to be pretty weak.
I'll have to see if I can combine the gunsmithing knowledge of this world and the knowledge from Vincent and see if I can improve on the guns. However I would need to get my hands on rare metals, and I'm sure as shit not going to ask Hephaestus for any help.
I was still missing some moulds but I can have somebody else make those. Mostly they were mould for bombs which I wanted to have in case of emergencies, I could also make flash bangs, and a couple other grenades and bombs.
Those moulds didn't need to be as precise but still needed to be pretty precise. I mostly needed it for the round containers, then you fill those bitches with gunpowder and materia dust and light the fuse and toss it. Boom a magic fucking bomb. Depending on the materia you would get different effects, sadly the one I'd use now was lightning since it's the best available one to make.
A little bit later I could hear soft snores coming from my side and saw Hel was fast asleep. I used my cloak to cover her up and laid her head on my lap and continued to read.
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