Chapter 145 – 145. Restoration of the Holy Sword (1)
“I can’t believe they made houses and environments like this in the dungeon… Furthermore… This movement magic called ‘Gate’ is… It is too dangerous.”
“A magic that can move by interfering with the interior of the dungeon on its own. If Magus finds out, they will make a fuss about revealing the formula.”
People who saw Eunhyeon’s new life in the great labyrinth of Archis generally felt more than astonished and collapsed.
Following Riod into the dungeon through the gate, his wife, Theresia, immediately recognized the usefulness and danger of the movement magic called the gate developed by Eunhyeon and Illyana.
If used commercially, it brings huge profits to merchants by using this magic that shortens travel time and distance to move a large amount of goods to a distant place at once.
“This technology… Are you planning on not revealing it to the world?”
“Of course.”
In response to Abros’ question, Eunhyeon nodded his head with a natural expression.
Gate magic is magic created solely for one’s own convenience, and revealing this technology to the world, even if one’s permission is denied, one’s own goddesses will interfere and prevent it.
The gate magic was a magic that Eunhyeon and Illyana created with the essence of pure magic knowledge and skills without using authority, but Eunhyeon and Illyana did not want to reveal this magic and create a trend that would lead to change in the world.
“It is also not a level of technology that someone can discover and copy. Currently, recreating the magic of this gate would take an enormous amount of manpower and time. I judged that even if the duke knew this technique, he would not be greedy to reproduce it.”
“Is it… Well, if you don’t intend to reveal it, I hope you don’t disclose it at all. It’s like a double-edged sword.”
There is a possibility that this can be fully used in the military aspect, and there is enough room for it to be used in a dangerous way because it is not useful.
The range of absurd usefulness and versatility is absurdly wide.
A technique like a double-edged sword that brings enormous benefits to oneself who uses it, but can cause great damage to oneself if others use it.
Hearing Avros’ words, Theresia frowned and trembled as she imagined the scene of connecting the gate to the dungeon and the capital, Pernin, and releasing a large number of demonic beasts into the capital.
“Are you crazy, really? I came back to life and the pakku is gone. Very?”
“I heard from Ayla, but you have been doing a lot of these absurd things since before. But somehow it seems to have gotten worse.”
“Well, I personally put a little effort into it this time.”
Eun-hyeon led his party from the lead, answering Anies and Riod, who were staring at her with tired eyes.
“Anes, Alex, the princess is me. Those who remain, follow Illyana. Please guide me inside the Illyana building.”
“What guidance? You just came here to let me rest in moderation. Just let them roam freely.”
“You’re honestly just having trouble guiding me, right?”
“Uh. What, is there a problem?”
Watching her show her confident attitude to Eun-hyeon’s point, Eun-hyeon was speechless and just frowned at her.
“There are no valuable items in the house, just feel free to look around. I will head straight to the smithy to prepare for the restoration of the holy sword.”
“No, if possible, I will follow you. It is the sight of a family heirloom being resurrected. As the head of the family, I have the responsibility and duty to watch over it.”
“Personally, I am also interested in the holy sword of the ducal family. I’ll stick to you too.”
Avros and Riod chose to watch Eunhyun’s holy sword restoration work.
For Abros, who was feeling the heavy responsibility and burden while entrusting the family treasure to Eun-hyeon, and for Riod, who was curious about the sword called the holy sword as a knight and swordsman, watching Eun-hyeon’s work was more important than sightseeing inside the building.
“Theresia, come with me. I will guide you around the house.”
“Yes. Is it so. Sister.”
She grabbed Theresia’s hand and led her up the stairs quickly as she saw Illyana leading her upstairs. Eunhyun made a puzzled expression.
“… You said you didn’t guide me?”
“Looks like the two of you are having another secret conversation.”
The prospective married man and the current married man subtly frowned upon seeing the two women climbing the stairs, but soon sighed and headed for the newly completed blacksmith’s shop.
“I envy you… I wanted to wear it too…”
“You can’t.”
“Sheesh. Okay.”
Agies, who had an envious expression on his face as he watched Illyana and Theresia ascend the stairs, listened to Eunhyeon’s words and clicked her tongue and followed him.
Squeak
As they unlocked the lock and pushed the iron door open, a wind full of the smell of iron blew past the nostrils of the party.
“Than you think… Are you clean?”
Eleanor muttered, scanning her insides.
When she said it was a forge, she thought of a drab, dusty, messy facility, but the inside of Eunhyeon’s forge was very tidy.
“Because it was completed and never used.”
Eunhyun answered Eleanor’s question and walked towards the furnace.
“Alex, bring the Holy Sword and Orichalcum here.”
“I get it.”
Following Eunhyun’s words, Alex obediently untied the coffin he was carrying on his back, and handed over the box containing Orichalcum along with the broken holy sword inside the coffin to Eunhyun.
I opened the lid of the coffin, grabbed the handle of the old sword inside, and took out the broken holy sword from the coffin.
It was old and shabby to the extent that it was hard to find the majesty of a holy sword from the broken body and the exterior that lost its light.
“Anies. Set up the sanctuary barrier.”
“… I don’t know what you’re thinking. For now, I’ll do as you say. You must have thoughts too.”
While putting on a trembling expression at Eun-hyeon’s words that he couldn’t understand, Anyes closed her eyes and prayed to the goddess Vesta whom he enshrined.
[God. Have some mercy.]
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Holy Sanctuary]
“… Could divine magic be manifested with such an insincere prayer?”
“The case of Agnes is a very exceptional case.”
Avros knew that divine power was divine power, but only when the prayers of the priests were very sincere and earnest were the gods granted their wishes.
Because his daughter is a priest, and because he has seen, heard, and researched more about his priests, the sight of blessings manifested through Agnes’s halfhearted prayers was more disconcerting and absurd than surprising.
When Leode answered calmly about his colleague’s behavior, which he had become accustomed to, Abros, who had nothing to say, glanced at his daughter.
“…”
He didn’t say anything, but Eleanor also looked very worried.
Along with the divine light that fills the blacksmith’s interior, the aura that makes the whole body warm and warm permeates into people’s bodies, making their physical condition the best.
“This… At that time…”
While blocking the dragon’s breath, he realized that it was a miracle of God that he unconsciously manifested while using the divine power in the shield that Eunhyeon had handed over.
As he confirmed the miracle of the sacred barrier being built to expel evil spirits such as demons and purify evil spirits, he wore a dazed expression, realizing the gap between Agies and himself as priests.
Realize that the difference between being sincere in prayer and not being sincere is not a fundamental problem.
Inside the barrier of the sanctuary created inside the forge, Eunhyeon opened her mouth.
“From now on, maintain this sanctuary barrier.”
“What? Until when?”
“Until the holy sword is restored.”
“… How long does it take
“I don’t know. But it won’t be over in one day.”
“Hey. You know it’s not easy. It’s a matter of a completely different level from setting up a barrier, and maintaining the barrier of blessing from a higher level for a long period of time for more than one day.”
In addition, the fact that it had to be maintained for more than one day meant Agies, who had to maintain this barrier, also had to breathe in divine power regularly without sleeping.
“That’s why you brought the princess too.”
“…”
Eunhyeon shifted her gaze away from Agnes, who was making a disapproving expression, glanced at Eleanor, who was standing near the entrance with Avros, from a distance, then looked at Agnes again.
“Maintain this barrier while taking turns with the princess. In your opinion, how long do you think the princess can maintain this barrier?”
“Hmm… At least 4 hours? Could it be possible for up to 5 hours?”
“Take a three-hour shift. And as you teach the trick, you adjust it so that the holding time is increased later on.”
“What are you? At first, she just put on a slightly disapproving expression, but is she secretly taking care of him?”
“Something happened that had to happen.”
As long as she had been asked directly by Vesta, she did not forget to arrange an opportunity to develop Eleanor’s abilities as a priest.
For Eunhyeon, who did not know that the gods were watching her actions so much, she still thought that Vesta might be watching her movements in her divine realm.
In the end, he had doubts about the meaning of Eleanor’s ‘willing to help her Eun-hyeon’, but her Eun-hyeon decided not to worry about her, putting her thoughts on her aside for now.
“Huh? Well, it’s not a bad opportunity for me either, since our god told me to push him hard.”
“Then I will ask you.”
“Okay. Okay.”
Eun-hyeon ignited the fire in the furnace and waited for the inside of the furnace to burn and the temperature to rise.
Orichalcum’s processing does not work with normal smelting like normal steel or metal.
As a representative metal that boasts hardness and durability with a hardness superior to steel, Orichalcon, one of the three major precious and rare metals that exist on the continent, has the advantage of having very high resistance to magic in addition to its hardness and durability.
This is one of the reasons why it was chosen as the metal for the holy sword, and the holy sword made of it cuts off all magical power and possesses divine power, so it specializes in literally defeating ‘evil’.
That’s why, what is needed to process Orichalcum is not fire or magical power, but divine power.
Eun-hyeon silently thanked his two eyes and recalled the ‘Hammer of Vulcanos’ imprinted in her soul and prayed in her heart with the desire to summon it.
Ugh
As if to make that wish come true, the hammer of Vulcanos appeared on Eun-hyeon’s hand and landed on his hand.
To others, it might have been an ordinary sight, as Eunhyeon summoned her weapon, but the two priests’ faces hardened when they confirmed the existence of divinity or divine power contained within the hammer.
“Hey, what are you, that hammer… ?”
“I received some help (sponsorship) to work hard.”
“Do you?”
Eun-hyun, who was muttering an incomprehensible sound, grabbed a hammer and pointed it at the blazing furnace. As part of the divine power inherent in the hammer went into the furnace, the color of the scarlet flame inside the furnace gradually began to change.
“The color of the flame is white… ?”
Eleanor, who had been watching the scene blankly, muttered as she saw the pure white holy fire burning in the furnace.
“Let’s begin.”
A large amount of Orichalcum metal was thrown into the furnace to melt it, and the molten iron flowing down through the hole below was transferred to the mold.
“Shall we beat it up?”
The shape of the blade to replace the new blade of the broken holy sword was firmly solidified, and the divine hammer struck the blade of the holy sword firmly fixed on the anvil with all its might, and a refreshing metallic sound began to spread deep into the forge.
Kaaang!
