He sighed in relief after hearing what she said and began thinking on a good armour to make, 'I didn't mean to say something about armour from another place, but it seems I'm going to make a samurai armour'
He was about to grab a tool but another thought came into his mind, 'I don't even know any techniques! I'll go and see the techniques used on the armour displayed at her quarter'
There are several armour displayed and hanging on the walls of the room. He approached them and began seeing what technique was being used at the armour.
All of this happens when the girl looked at him curiously and confused on what he is doing. She decided to not take any action and let him have his time on making the armour.
On the other hand, Arden keeps examining those armour and after thinking he learnt all the techniques being used. He approached where the furnace and anvil are.
He took several bars of iron from a container at the floor and placed it at the anvil. After that, he placed those irons at a container made out of hard to melt irons and placed it in the furnace.
He did that several more times and now, there are about 5 buckets filed with iron bars in the hot and burning furnace at this point. He turn around to see the girl nervously sweating about him making an armour instead of wasting resources.
He on the other hand calmly wait for the irons to melt while making a custom shape on a piece of steel to make a sharpening container. Basically, to form the melted irons back and made an armour about it.
After he did that, the irons are already melted and he took it with a thong and began forming it with the container he made. He made a thin and long piece of metal which all of them are different from the other.
After that, he let it cool down by dropping it on the water and he continues making the body part now. (This is the author and I don't know shit about this, so let's skip about the part where MC made the body armour)
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He finished the metals for the body armour by copy-pasting the technique he learned by seeing the armour the girls made. Now, he pierced many small holes in the pieces of metals and the long pieces on for the helmet as well.
He also made bowl-shaped steel for the top of the helmet and he did the same thing to it as he did to every other thing. After that, he gathered many ropes and began tying the metal pieces together.
Now, he almost finished the armour, and it looked like the one made by a novice blacksmith. Fortunately, there is a thing called polishing.
With that, he perfected the armour and began painting the armour and even gave a signature of his on it. The girl looked at him in disbelieve and said at him, "Who are you? Are you another 3rd rank blacksmith? That is too good, let's display it here!"
Arden smiled after hearing this but the girl suddenly changed her mind, "Sorry, I'll just let you keep the armour, I don't want to take something that didn't belong to mine"
Arden heard this and this made him smiled while still painting the armour for a few seconds before responding to her words, "No no, I made this with your materials, just think this as a gift from me!"
After Arden was done painting the armour, both he and the girl carefully move the armour to a block covered in glass and move the block of glass to the front of her quarter.
Afterwards, both of them sat at a chair while talking about Arden's skill. Before they could even talk, a man approached the armour and examine it before saying, "Woah, this is a good armour! The look is great, and the protection provided by it is also excellent, it's not too heavy either. Never have I known there is another armour from Tadashima Shogunate being on here!"
It caught both of their attention and Arden quickly asked, "You have been in Tadashima Shogunate? I have been there too!"
The man laughed it off before saying, "I never went to that place but my friend called Usha have gone to that place! He brought back armour with him and showed me before I became a blacksmith. I'll just be honest with you, I was a former slave but Usha is a good person"
After he heard about the name, his mood suddenly went down. With a little bit of guilt, he said to the man, "Usha is dead, he was killed by the gang of bad people"
Both that man and the girl were shocked and the man quickly said, "Sorry, I didn't know about that and I apologize"
The girl that brought Arden here quickly grabbed a chair and placed it so the man could sit with them. The three of them started talking to each other.
But soon, it was a little bit too hard and awkward to keep the conversation running since they didn't know about each other name. The three of them began introducing themselves.
Starting from Arden, "I'm Arden, just a normal noble in this kingdom"
The girl followed soon, "I'm Anastasia, a rank 3 blacksmith!"
The one to be last was the man, "I'm Jay, people call me J, a rank 4 blacksmith!"
Arden was shocked hearing this and a new thought came up in his mind, 'I will get to meet Daulitos with the help of these 2 people!'
After thinking about that, he bluntly asked both of them, "Anastasia, Jay, can you both bring me to the headmaster of this place?"
Both of them looked at each other and soon became nervous about it. Suddenly, Jay told Arden, "We can try but it would be hard, there is rumour of important guest on this building and the headmaster is currently with him since the day the guest came to this place"
Arden smiled and just responded, "At least we can try! Let's make our way there as soon as possible!"
The three of them were about to make their way toward the upper floor. Suddenly, Jay said, "The 5th floor is where the headmaster's office is located, I have a friend there, we can use him to get to the 5th floor!"
Arden sighed in relief seeing he could get to the headmaster because of Jay and thanked him. They passed the 4th floor and now the 5th.
Another person followed the three of them toward the headmaster, it was Jay's friend that helped them to get to the 5th floor.
Now, Arden and the blacksmiths are peeking around the corner and saw the headmaster's office is guarded by around 5 guards standing in front of it.
Arden bluntly approached them while his friends were shouting and chasing him not to go there. He finally stopped when Jay's friend grabbed his arm and stopped him on his way.
Anastasia quickly whispered to him, "Do you want to die? We can't just approach them and ask them to let us in!"
Arden looked at the 3 people shouting at him. Yet, his spirit is not shaken. Instead, he responded with, "What can we do then? Just sit here and do nothing?"
The three of them began looking at each other, they their selves didn't know about the answer. However, this made Arden have enough time to escape their grip.
Once the 3 of them already noticed he was gone from them. Arden was already talking to the guards. He bluntly ask, "Can I meet with the headmaster? I have something to talk with him"
The guards were a little bit confused and just answer, "No sir! We can't let you in, there is someone important having a meeting with a very important person!"
Arden looked at them while squinting his eyes. There and just casually said, "Is it Daulitos?"
By the time he said this, Anastasia, Jay and his friend were already grabbing him and were about to take him away. But the guards looked at him and shouted, "Sir! Wait!"
The 4 of them looked back around and saw one of the guards with a serious face said, "Follow me, sir, I'll allow you to enter the office!"
"Okay, let's go then!" Arden said excitedly and followed the guard inside the headmaster's room while Anastasia and the other are looking at each other. They finally followed Arden after a few seconds of looking at each other.
The 4 of them with a guard in front of them is at the headmaster's office now. However, there is no one and nothing there. Only an unoccupied table of the headmaster itself.
How surprising it is when the guard pulled out a staircase from the ceiling in front of all of them and began going up using the staircase.
Arden and his friends followed him closely and reached to wherever the staircase led to. It led to a small room with walls around it and a wooden door.
The guards opened it, and Arden and his 4 friends entered the room. Almost immediately, the door was closed by the guards trapping the 4 of them inside the room.
That's when the 4 of them noticed they were in a luxurious room that is covered with decorations and other things. Arden said to all of them, "Look! We are in a luxurious room"
That's when he noticed the 2 men sitting face to face on the couch in the middle of the room. Jay whisper to Arden, "That's the headmaster on the left, that is the man you are looking for!"
Arden then turned to see the other person and how surprised he was to notice it was not Daulitos.