Chapter 10: Mission: Make up a title for this chapter my readers
Hephaestus examined the blade and swung it a few times. Although it is not as good as my sword his skill is already at an expert level. She looked at Keres and couldn't believe that he never smith before. She felt a wave of excitement. "Forget training with Tsubaki I'm going to pound into you everything I know about blacksmithing until you master it. Which shouldn't take too long." There was a fervent look in her eyes.
Keres felt a cold shudder going up his spine when he saw how Hephaestus was behaving. He started a cold sweat. As he watched Hephaestus take out multiple books, blueprints, molds, tools, and materials. Hephaestus brought out a piece of paper wrote on it and burned it. "Alright Keres your apprenticeship begins."
For the next two weeks Keres learned the ins and out of the blacksmith craft. Which consisted of forging both regular and magical weapons and armors, repair, maintenance, metallurgy, and theory. As almost if it was second nature to him. Much to the enjoyment of Hephaestus and suspicion. As she began to suspect that Keres was the child of a god that presided over some form of crafting.
Keres habit of walking like an old man was immediately noticed by Hephaestus during their time together. Though it piqued her curiosity she did't pry. While Keres didn't mind the habit as he was quite comfortable walking that way. He still worked on walking normal to avoid questions in the future.
Keres also finally found out what he looked like since Hephaestus had mirrors in the bathroom within the room Hephaestus let him use. He was a short boy not taller than four foot eight, jet black hair and eyes, lightly tanned skin and scrawny body. Though due to his training his body has started to develop muscles especially his back and arms.
(Dam I must say i'm pretty handsome hehe.)
Keres last task was to forge a magical weapon by himself. He decided to make a hammer based on the hammer he received from that dam god. When he discovered that his hammer was a magical weapon made out of regular steel which disappointed him a bit. With the effect of mirroring every blow/strike/hit? (idk). Despite this he liked the simple design of the hammer.
Keres looked at all the materials within Hephaestus shop.
(Brightsteel, adamantine, mithril, dragons bone, dragons tooth, tempered elven glass, orihalcum, cold iron, electrum, scarlelite. Hmmm what should i use?)
Hephaestus saw that Keres was in deep though while looking at her materials. "What are you thinking about?"
"Which material im going to use. I can't decide between all of them, they're all so good!"
Hephaestus began to laugh and clutched her stomach. Making Keres frown in confusion.
"What's so funny?"
"~whew. You! haha." Hephaestus stopped laughing but couldn't stop chuckling as she walked towards her materials and pulled out a few steel ingots and placed them on the table.
"You're going to use the- bwahahahaha!" She couldn't finish her sentence. Because when she placed the steel ingots on the table. She saw Keres put on a horrible expression.
"You should see the look on your face right now! Hahaha" Hephaestus was dying from the laughter.
Keres smiled after seeing Hephaestus enjoy herself at his expense. Though he really wanted to use the rarer materials they weren't his to use in the first place. He walked up to the table and grabbed the steel ingots and began the forging process. When he did so Hephaestus immediately calmed down and began to examine him. Though she was confident Keres would be able to make a master level magical weapon by himself and become the youngest to become a master blacksmith. She still felt a little nervous.
The time it took to make the hammer was about an hour. Most of the time was spent inscribing magic runes onto the hammer doing the cooling and reheating process. The hammer was one complete piece of steel metal with a very plain design, a spike on the back of the head, and a blue leather wrap around the handle. Keres heated up a thick piece of scrap metal and began to strike the top a few times with his new hammer creating indentations. Flipping the scrap metal over he saw indentations on the flip side as well. Smiling in satisfaction he looked at Hephaestus and handed the hammer over. "I will name it [Two for one]."
Hephaestus closely examined the hammer, swung it a few times, and flicked it. This boy in just two weeks became the youngest blacksmith ever. I wonder what else he will be able to accomplish. She looked at Keres solemnly. "Congratulations you're now a master blacksmith."
Keres bowed. "It was all thank to you senpai-sama (is the sama needed here)."
Hephaestus smiled at the compliment but immediately turned serious again. "You know with your status as a master blacksmith you're basically a walking bank. There is no need for you to go into the dungeon. Adventurers would bring the materials right to you for your service."
Keres scratched his chin. "I know but I still want to go. I wish to see what this world can offer and maybe make it a little more interesting."
Hearing his answer Hephaestus sighed. "Alright, you will begin your combat training with Tsubaki in a couple of days. I will notify the guild of your status in 6 months so expect things to get a bit noisy around that. As we can't exactly say that you became a master smith in two weeks. That is too much of a giveaway for your skills. When your officially recognized everyone is going to want to know who you are. Especially the other gods and their familias."
Keres smiled and appeared quite lax. "If you're worried about my past Hephaestus-sama don't be. There's nothing they can find out about me." After saying this Keres stopped and remembered the guard captain.
(f*ck. If my name and appearance gets out surely the other families will find out about the guard captain. Basically making my orphan status a complete lie as my goddamn fake father is still out there! f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck. Me and my big mouth.)
Seeing that Keres stopped talking and looked to be disturbed. Hephaestus frowned and glared at him with her sole eye. "Is there anything you're not telling me Keres?"
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