บท 73: Promotion!
"Hmm..." I heard Harmur hum, thinking to himself. I then heard the sound of him picking up the blade, presumably to inspect it.
I stopped bowing and looked up to see him scrutinizing my work. He brought it close to his eyes, felt it with his thick and callus hands. He then used it to cut his thumb.
"Ah, fuck!" He yelled as the cut went deeper than he expected. He proceeded to suck on the wound almost instinctively. He went back to examining the blade whilst still sucking on the tip of his thumb.
After a few minutes he'd stopped sucking on his thumb. He'd also finished examining my work.
"Ready fer yer results?" He asked.
I nodded with an eager smile on my face and sparkles in my eyes, literally, my eyes were literally sparkling at this moment.
"Mmm... Out of a hundred..." He paused for dramatic effect.
I waited impatiently for my results.
"... You get a ninety-nine."
A smile beamed on my face when I heard that.
"Fer the blade itself, the rest of it ye got lower scores."
I stopped smiling and my mouth was left open as I remembered that I would be tested on EVERYTHING, not just the final product.
"Don't worry, ye'll be fine, everythin's over ninety."
I sighed a sigh of relief when I heard that as that meant that regardless of my other scores, I would pass with flying colours for this examination.
"Fer the first phase of choosin yer metal, ye got a ninety-nine also. Fer yer meltin of the metal ye got a ninety-seven, waitin fer the metal to set in the mould ye got a ninety-five. Fer the hammering process ye got a ninety-eight, and lastly fer yer smoothin on the grindstone, ye got a ninety-four."
My beaming smile returned hearing my results.
"So overall, ye got a ninety-seven percent fer the whole thing, one of the highest grades an apprentice has ever gotten in their test to become a novice, prob'ly the highest I'll ever see, unless a prodigy comes by that is." He explained
'Huh, so I achieved something no-one else has ever been able to do, nor probably will be able to for a long time.' That was a thought that made me feel nice, knowing that I could achieve things beyond what I or others could ever expect.
He then went over to the wall and grabbed a blue apron and tossed it over to me. I caught it and immediately took my current red one off and replaced it with the deep blue one that I just received.
"Hmhm, ye seem excited eh?" He asked.
I nodded vigorously as this would allow me to not only help me improve my skills, it would also allow me have a proper life. It was all I could ever want in life. I was so happy that I started crying due to the overwhelming emotions inside of me.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and saw that it was Harmur, trying to help me get through this.
"I know what yer goin through lass, I went through it too, though my journey here was far more difficult than yers." He said with a toughened spirit behind what he said, probably from his experience getting here.
"Well, time te get ye to yer new station where ye'll be workin from today onwards."
Excitement could be seen all over my face as I heard this. I would finally get to work on actually producing weapons.
I was then lead over to my new workstation which had everything a smith could ever need. It had a tool station, and anvil, a furnace and storage for metals, which was already full.
"Now, while ye seem te be good at makin daggers, ye can't forget te make other things such as swords, spears and glaives. There's a lot of blades ye can make so take yer time with em kay?" He Explained.
I nodded, acknowledging that I still had a long way to go before I could take the next step in my career.
"Well, I'll leave ye to it fer now, just place around and make some stuff fer a bit, if we need anythin made we'll come to ye." He waved as he left me to my own devices.
"OH! One more thing, do ye want te keep yer first blade? I always ferget te ask this te everyone." He asked.
I quickly Went over to him nodding. I wanted to show my work off to Cythistia, I also wanted to keep it as a sort of sign of my journey as a smith.
Anyways Harmur gave me the blade back before heading off to do his own thing, leaving me with my little workshop. Well, it wasn't really little, but it was smaller compared to the others that I've seen.
I looked at the blade that was in my hands. It didn't have a proper handle, just a metal rod at the bottom that was too small to be called a handle. Since I had all the time in the world, I decided to make one for it.
Going over to my metal storage, I pulled out the metals that I thought would be good as a handle.
'Hmm... I'm not going to make it out of Zenite as that would be counterproductive as it's more of a metal meant for blades. Hmm, maybe I could use Dephonix, maybe? No that won't work. Onzyite? No that's just going to break. Wait, if I use Dephonix as a meld to hold the handle and the blade together... That could work...Hmm...'
As I brainstormed ideas, I gathered the necessary materials and tools. All that was left was to decipher the actual metal that I'd use for the handle and then how I would smelt everything together.
I grabbed a bunch of metals and laid them out on the table and began inspecting each one.
'No. Not this one. Bad. No. No. No. Nope. Wouldn't work. No. Won't work. No. No...'
I spent an hour combing through the metals until I found one that seemed out of place, like it was put there by mistake, just looking at it gave me this weird feeling, like this was the one that I should use. I knew that this was the one I would use, the only problem was that I had no idea what the in the nine hells it was. I might not use it for this dagger, but I would certainly be keeping this for myself.
There were only three metals left, those being Borine, Feiguzen and Furze. Borine was just an all-round terrible metal, I don't even know why I was given it. Feiguzen was good but it Wouldn't meld well with the Dephonix. Furze though, that was a rigid and rough metal no matter how you tried to smoothen it out. It would be great as a handle if I made the hilt correctly.
Furze it is then.
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Wyvers Hooray! She passed her test with flying colours! Once again I have not much to say, nor is there anything on my mind that I wish to share. Maybe the fact that I'm back at it with uploading frequently again?
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