"Cough, it should be me who is the fool, Your Majesty," KE looked back and saw that Suma was very angry when she heard him mention that she was foolish, but she just sighed. "Your Majesty, are you alright now? Nothing happened to you, right?"
Although he spoke ill of her, she didn't mind. If it had been another man, she would have beaten him to death, but since it was KE, she didn't care. Yet, she was worried. After all, feelings of love were present. Just tell me, who wouldn't love the man who darkened the whole planet Earth?
(The Author: This is the benefit of beauty)
KE was really enjoying this treatment. Firstly, he is a man, and any man would enjoy being treated with love and respect by a woman.
Secondly, he is indeed an emperor. Well, at least in a month, and one of his dreams is to have an endless harem.
"No, I'm good Suma, thank you for your concern," KE patted Suma's black hair and felt it was very soft, so he continued patting it. "It's very soft, Suma."
"Y-Your Majesty, y-you," Suma felt a slight tingling of embarrassment spreading on her cheeks as she looked at the ground, unable to meet his eyes.
"Hehehe, okay, don't be shy, go with your sisters, they are waiting," Suma looked at KE's back as he walked away. Suddenly she felt a hand touching her shoulder.
"Suma, you are really naughty but smart," Hinatsuru nodded as she stared at Suma, perhaps having gained some understanding of getting close to KE. "Come on, let's go now quickly, I want to talk to you."
"Raizel, come on, let's see where Jiji is," Raizel nodded, and they started enjoying the scenery as they walked. "Raizel, I feel that the nobles in 'Lukedonia' have started to sense the danger, so they might send someone or have already sent someone."
"…I'm really surprised that the person hasn't arrived yet," KE laughed awkwardly and started scratching his head. He didn't know how to explain to Raizel that his friend, "Lord of Nobles," had died, and his daughter had inherited his position. "…."
"W- Why are you staring at me like that?" KE felt nervous and guilty at the same time. "Cough, we have already arrived, let's go."
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"The sound of the hammering is very loud," KE and Raizel stopped after walking for about half an hour and arrived at a huge hall where many young men and men were hammering swords to be forged with hammers. "This is really a paradise for blacksmiths, isn't it, Raizel?"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the compliment," Jiji Tetsuya hurried to the entrance after seeing KE and Raizel. "The workplace is noisy, please come here to my private blacksmith room, it's quiet."
"No, no need, I want to watch them," KE, of course, refused. The old man's nonsense, the reason for his coming here was to learn, not to sit. "Since you're here, come with us."
KE directly pulled Jiji to the team and began to stare at their sword forging methods.
"...KE, the weapon forging method here is very close to the noble level," KE nodded because he noticed that the weapon forging really required physical and spiritual strength, and most importantly, the will. "These people are a very important force for the army."
"What force?" KE began to sweat, feeling that Raizel had a more terrifying imagination than the author himself. "Cough, I have already learned the forging method, but I want to see where the path is to develop it."
"W-What, Your Majesty, did you really learn it? You know it's only been a few hours," Tetsuya's face turned pale, and his legs started trembling. He felt that his life had been wasted.
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"Damn, I'm really tired," Moe cried out in fatigue and stopped forging weapons. "It seems I will return home, unfortunately, this weapon is ruined."
It was not only Moe, but many people felt this problem.
"Jiji, are they still tired after what happened last night?" Tetsuya nodded. Honestly, he was also very tired because he helped deliver food to KE, whose halo was out of control, putting pressure on the ground. "Okay, consider it a gift from me, take this."
KE gathered a huge green light ball on his palms, which began to divide many times and enter the bodies of all people, starting to heal their bodies.
"This comfortable feeling," Tetsuya was very relaxed and not tense since the first time KE treated his body. "If the body or soul and even sleepiness and hunger all disappear, Your Majesty, your healing is really a good means for us blacksmiths to continue working."
"…..You are really crazy as soon as the topic of blacksmithing comes up," KE laughed sarcastically. He really felt that wasting Etheora on these crazy people would make them work 24 hours a day non-stop. "Okay, it doesn't matter, come on everyone, keep working, I want to learn."
"It's His Majesty," Moe looked at KE and didn't even know he was there because he was focusing on forging the weapon, like the rest, they would never think that he would come and see their work. "Come on, guys, you heard His Majesty, work until your souls burn, don't bring shame to the 'Kotobuki' clan."
"Ahhhhhhhhh," everyone shouted enthusiastically and began to work faster and more skillfully than before. There were even many young people who broke through their blacksmithing level and reached a higher level.
After several more hours, many swords and other weapons that had been forged came out. Saying that they are artifacts is not an insult at all.
"These weapons are very good," Raizel nodded and felt that if they learned Rune magic, perhaps they could forge magical weapons and even artifacts. "It seems that I already know how to develop your weapon forging method."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and felt proud at the same time.
Their work was really great, and many young people and men broke through their blacksmithing level and reached a higher level.
"It seems that they took me as a motivation to break through their own blacksmithing level," KE was very interested in this motivation method, but the most important thing now is the search. "In three days, I can create a special technique for blacksmithing and forging magical weapons."
"Jiji, give me the meteorite metal, I will try to develop it now," All the young men and men were curious about which metal he was talking about, while Tetsuya nodded without thinking at all and went to fetch the meteorite metal, which was a heritage of their clan.
As soon as Tetsuya came back carrying a huge, ornate box with Moe and the other men, it contained blue metal.
This metal emitted a very strange aura, unfortunately, no one could feel it except KE and Raizel.
"…KE, this metal," KE looked at Raizel and nodded seriously, both of them felt something strange coming from this metal.
"Raizel, this metal is not from our universe," This strange feeling when you see something that shouldn't exist in the universe came from the depths of KE and Raizel's souls, and it was rejection. "This metal is not from our universe, maybe there is a higher existence, or a rift in our universe and another universe next to us, and this metal was pulled into our universe."
"….This is strange, then why hasn't this metal disintegrated?" Raizel was very curious about this metal. "Could it be that it has a very strong power?"
"No, it's impossible for metal like this to withstand the energy of time and space," Suddenly KE's eyes lit up. "Time and space energy, so this metal has a great affinity with the energy of time and space, that's why it never disintegrated."
"Raizel, now I understand why people want this metal," Raizel didn't understand much, but when he heard KE mention the metal's affinity with time and space energy, he knew it was something terrifying. "It seems they have found the strong fluctuation of the metal like we felt, so they were searching for it and found it in the hidden blacksmith village."
KE began to create Hinatsuru's prophecies through Etheora illusion. "I should have thought about this carefully, Hinatsuru predicted the future and saw everyone in the village being killed to obtain the metal because of this strong fluctuation."
"Your Majesty, what do you mean that Hinatsuru Hime-sama predicted that someone will kill us?" Moe and the others trembled and turned pale, but as soon as they remembered that KE was there, the fear disappeared as if it never came.
Moe and the others knelt down to the ground, and their foreheads hit the ground hard. "If we are really going to die, then Your Majesty, we beg you to take the children of our clan to a safe place and protect them," everyone cried out in one strong voice. Raizel was shocked because he felt that this will, even stronger than iron, had come from humans.
(Humans… really very beautiful creatures)
This was Raizel's only thought, even with the ugliest actions of humans, there are still many humans who wanted to die to protect their families and children.
"Good, very good, in that case, I will protect all of you," KE got excited seeing Moe and the others who were not worried about their lives, but about their families. He did not want to rule cowards; he wanted men who were not even afraid of heaven. "Come on, go, I want this place quiet because I will develop your forging technique."
"Don't tire yourself too much, KE," Raizel left after saying goodbye to KE, along with Tetsuya, Moe, and the other men. "Tetsuya, you know what you have to do, right?"
"Of course, Raizel-sama, I know," Tetsuya nodded and looked at Moe. "You have to stay here with another group and switch if something happens, you must remind us quickly."