Capítulo 287: Competition of Craftsmen

The words of the dwarf caused Daedalus to snap a little. He was silent for a second before saying "I have been learning my craft my entire life, if I say I made this I made it. As a craftsman I am proud and I would not risk slandering myself by taking the work of someone better and more famous than me. I challenge you all to a competition of craftsmen."

The moment Daedalus stopped speaking the dwarves burst out in laughter, they clearly hadn't taken his challenge seriously. Daedalus was done with them and made it clear "Those of you who are craftsman within this crowd should know this now. If you do not answer my challenge I will kill you, for both slandering me and the progression itself."

When he said this every single dwarf looked at him with anger, the dwarf that Daedalus had fought with first said "Oh, so we're slandering our own profession, eh. How is it that we're doing that?"

Daedalus looked down at the dwarf and said "I assume you haven't heard of the competition of craftsmen, it is an ancient and sacred challenge that any craftsman with any sort of respect for the craft would accept without hesitation, even if they knew they would lose."

The dwarfs face paled slightly and he shouted "Someone find a book about this challenge!"

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A few minutes later a dwarf came running over with a pale face and a book in their hands. As they stopped in front of the dwarf they said "It is a real challenge, not one used in a long time though. He really meant it when he said ancient."

The dwarf from earlier took the book and read through it getting paler as he read further. Eventually he set the book down and said "Fine I accept your challenge, but if you lose I am taking you dammed head."

Daedalus nodded and said "And should I win you will find the best metals you know of, all of you, and you will give them to me for free."

After he said this each of the dwarves who he had challenged gave their wagers and Daedalus simply nodded to them all, agreeing. When the wagers where decided Daedalus said "Let's go to a more open area for this competition. Also if you don't uphold your end of the wager, I will find something myself and use you as the cost."

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It didn't take long to reach the arena, and seeing as it was equipped for these sorts of challenges Daedalus excepted and found a forge to work at. After a couple minutes Daedalus saw that everyone was ready and said "We will be making Weapons, I don't care what, just a weapon. I expect that you will judge properly."

With Daedalus words everyone began their work on a weapon each in order to beat Daedalus. Daedalus also decided to try his best as he did in fact need a new spear as his one was starting to fall apart due to the extremely excessive use.