Chapter 182 – Silver Rank Advancement
In modern society, it is not uncommon for a son to inherit his father’s work. This is because, unlike in the past, the quality of education has improved and children have a choice.
They look for a job by considering various conditions such as aptitude, salary conditions, and working environment.
If you decide that the career you have decided does not suit you, give up and try again.
An affluent society without hunger made it possible.
However, the place where I am now is not such a modern society.
A man named Harbor did not invent nitrogen fertilizer, nor did he have convenient farming tools such as tillers.
Food is always scarce and there are people who are starving. In order not to starve, you must work hard.
In such a world, even children cannot be free from labor.
In childhood, he learns his father’s work over his shoulder. By the time he grows up a little, he starts to help his father little by little, and when he reaches adulthood, he can finally do his part.
By that time, the aging fathers are slowly pushed into the back room, and their children take their place.
He will naturally inherit his father’s job. There is no freedom of choice here.
I just live like that to survive.
To my modern eyes, their lives look miserable. But the parties don’t think so. Take pride in your work and do your best.
This is natural for them, and above all, to deny it is to deny one’s whole life.
So it is only natural that Marton takes pride in his work and cares for the smithy morbidly. It is a place where his lifelong efforts are contained and memories with his late father remain.
However, shouldn’t there be some flexibility?
“Well, you don’t know?!”
I got a little fed up with Marlton trying to get away with Orichalcum.
I understand Marton’s position. I’m still in a position to be swayed by the tyranny of the captain’s guild, but I don’t want to expose the cause of that, the Orichalcon smelting method.
No, so you want to use it without others knowing?
I suppressed the urge to scream by pressing my forehead.
“Why do you keep harassing people you don’t know?”
Marlton grunted, crossing his arms.
Don’t know I’ve heard everything you can do.
I wanted to reveal that I knew everything, but the source of the information was a problem.
When Marton asks who he heard it from, it becomes difficult to answer. In the first place, as Marlton only told Anne her secret, she will soon find out the truth. She will feel betrayed by Ann and her marriage may drift apart.
It wasn’t the situation Anne wanted, and that part should be taken care of by me, with her help.
However, it is very difficult because there are no other sharp numbers.
It was when I was thinking about how to look around.
“I told you.”
Said Anne, sitting next to Marlton.
“What, what…? You?”
Marton opened her eyes wide and gave her a look of surprise. It was as if he had trusted her wife and confided her secret, but her wife had told the secret to another man.
To be honest, I was also very surprised.
What was Anne thinking?
Unlike us who were surprised, Ann’s expression was calm. She placed her own hand over Marlton’s.
“Are you satisfied with the way it is now?”
“What..?”
“It means that you are satisfied with the situation where no one recognizes your skills like you are now.”
Marlton’s pupils twitched. Ann tightened her clasped hands and squeezed Marlton’s hand.
“I know and appreciate your efforts and skills. It will be the same for Yooseong, Seris, and Kara who use your work.”
As Anne begged for her consent, she threw a glance at me. I nodded once. Then she went on with her words.
“But most people don’t know. How good is the weapon you made. How much effort you put into making that weapon. How great is the blacksmithing skill you inherited from your father.”
“…”
“I feel very sorry for that. It hurts my heart to see you struggling and suffering for something that is not your fault.”
“Ann…”
Marlton lifted her head and gazed at Ann with moist eyes. Ann said with a bright smile as if to reciprocate.
“So do it. No matter how hard life gets in the future, I won’t care.”
“Ann…!”
Marlton looks at Anne with a moved look.
Silence flowed along with an affectionate atmosphere, and I felt uncomfortable in this place.
My conscience, which I thought I had already searched for, stung like a thorn.
Please be sincere in everything Anne said.
I prayed so and opened my mouth to finish the work quickly.
“I understand your concern, Mr. Marlton. You must be concerned that Orichalcum, which Mr. Malton smelted, will stand out and the tyranny of the captain’s guild will intensify. We will take care of that worry for now.”
I took out the adventure certificate I had kept in her arms and put it on the table. The silver-coated adventure certificate emitted a glow. The brilliance made Marlton and even Anne look dumbfounded.
“This..?”
“This is an adventure certificate that proves that I am a silver-level adventurer. I just got it today.”
“Yes yes? Today?”
“Yes. I just got promoted. From today onwards, I am at Silver rank, not Bronze rank.”
The bewildered expression slowly changed to that of surprise. Marton took the adventure certificate with trembling hands and examined it, then sighed.
“It’s true… I wasn’t lying…”
“Why would I lie?”
“That’s it, but… Huh, I still can’t believe it. Come to think of it, was it like that when you first came here? If you reach the silver level, the publicity effect will be enormous. Were you already certain that you would be ranked silver since then?”
“Yes, what is it?”
“Yeah, that’s right…”
Marlton and Anne began to look at the adventurous again. The silver adventure certificate looks strange. I continued talking so they could listen as they watched.
“As I said before, I am now Silver. It’s a little to say with my mouth, but it has had some influence on the adventurer’s guild. If I secretly introduce Mr. Marlton’s shop, there will be quite a ripple effect.”
In that case, the simple check of the captain’s guild, which slanders and mocks Marlton’s store, loses its meaning.
“Not only that, but I have a relationship with Lady Karen.”
The round eyes of the two people were bigger than before.
“I came to help by chance during the last Yeongji War. I hope you’ll listen to my one simple request. If Mr. Marlton wants, I can help you get rid of the captain’s guild’s checks, as well as take a place in the captain’s guild.”
The blacksmith is a high-class manpower. He said that the skill of smelting metal and making weapons is not something that can be mastered by working hard for a day or two.
There are even rumors that the lord himself goes out to find a blacksmith in a territory where supplies are scarce.
But this is Kalita.
It is an affluent metropolis where the word lack of goods does not fit. There are many blacksmiths who want to come here, but few want to go out.
The rapport is certain.
There might be some resistance, but the captain’s guild would accept it if it was the order of Karen, the daughter of the marquess.
‘There might be some people who try to appease them by saying it’s a fantastic mineral smelting method…’
All I have to do is put her bridge between her and Marlton first.
Surprised, I pulled out a silver dagger in front of the two speechless people.
“That..?”
“This is a silver dagger given to me by Karen-sama.”
This dagger will add credibility to my words. I handed the dagger to Marlton, who stared at me.
He inspected the dagger carefully and flicked the side edge of the dagger with his fingers.
“This is… Real. I can’t help but believe If you’re not the lord’s direct blacksmith, you can’t even dare.”
“What is it like?”
“Pure silver is very soft, so it is usually mixed with other metals. But this dagger is made of pure silver with no other impurities. Nonetheless, it retains some strength. Do you know how he did it?”
“How is it?”
“The dagger was treated with magic. However, this magic treatment is not easy. To do that, you need to make a hole in the dagger for the mana to flow through. It’s a very delicate job, so it’s usually unstable… But it’s stable. That’s amazing… I feel like I’ve learned a lesson.”
Marton spat out words in rapture.
Was that dagger treated like that? Since it is pure silver, I was worried that it would bend if I used it hard, but I don’t think I need to worry about that.
I hit the table to get the attention of two people who couldn’t take their eyes off the dagger and the adventurous.
Their eyes turned back to me.
“Mr. Marlton, as I just said, I can protect Mr. Marlton’s forge. So please again. Please use the Orhalcon I have to make a dagger.”
Marlton looked at the adventurous spirit and the dagger with a hard face, perhaps in trouble.
The silence didn’t last long.
“Good. Let me make it.”
* * *
To describe Seris’ life these days, the word ‘happy’ would suffice.
She had someone she loved and she bonded with him, becoming her family.
The income is high and stable, so I don’t suffer from the hardships of life like before. If you want, you can fill your stomach with expensive food for all three meals.
There is even a spacious house that is the home she and her family will return to.
It is a life of abundance to the extent that the poor life of the past does not even come to mind.
However, despite such a happy life, it is not without worries.
And the concern, as always, is meteor-related.
‘No matter how much I think about it, I feel like I’m being swayed too much by Yoosung these days.’
In the relationship between Seris and Meteor, the initiative is almost always with Meteor. To the extent that it cannot be said that Seris has the initiative, even jokingly.
There were several reasons for the relationship between the two to be so biased.
First of all, I didn’t know that Seris was push and pull. As Yoo-seong was her first man, she had no love-related knowledge, and her initiative naturally leaned toward Yoo-seong.
Second, Seris was often hugged by Yuseong.
She was the one who forcibly got into the relationship between Kara and Yooseong, who were dating normally.
She is also the one who made Yoo-seong, who is not very reluctant, hug another woman. She was there and eventually even beat up Amy for sleeping with Meteor because of her ugly jealousy.
Is that all?
She decided to quit, but she couldn’t forget Netora Se and even found out while reading her vulgar stories.
Even if Yuseong mentions just one of these things, she becomes a honeydew mute, so it can’t be done without her initiative.
‘It can’t go on like this!’
Right after he was caught reading her pornography, Yooseong declared that she would cheat on her as she wanted.
And then I really started to sleep out.
I was honestly excited at first.
It was thrilling to bury her face in the blanket and masturbate while imagining the meteor’s wind.
However, gradually her meteorism increased her sleepovers, and she and her branch became less likely to sleep on the excuse of her tiredness.
Seris didn’t like it.
Shouldn’t she keep her existing bed no matter how much she wants to sleep with another woman?
Yes. In fact, Ceris was unhappy that her meteor, rather than her initiative, had begun to neglect her.
However, this dissatisfaction could not be expressed in words. As I said before, the meteor’s sleepover was also caused by Seris. She can’t win with words as she has no cause.
So no conversation.
If so, is there any way…
‘If words don’t make sense, it’s just the body. Just take it in bed and press it!’
She just needs to squeeze her as much as she can’t hold another woman. Then the number of days she would stay out would be reduced, and Seris, the amount of time she would spend with her would increase again.
It’s a peaceful and good way without fighting meteors.
Seris, having come up with an idea, decided to put it into action, and that night she immediately hit the meteor.
And she was defeated.
“Ha ha… Ha… Hah…”
Clearly at first, she was winning. Because she was tired, so she shot down the meteor lying on her back. She knew that if she continued to squeeze like this, she could easily win.
But strangely, the more she took it down, the more it collapsed on her side. The meteor stood firm as if it were a wall of some kind, and in the end Seris was reversed by her.
“What’s this…”
Tears flowed from Celis’ eyes as she lay with her back to the meteor. She was saddened that something had ended as a woman. As if she noticed that she was depressed, Yoosung stroked her back.
Although she likes that touch, it doesn’t make her feel better.
Perhaps that feeling was conveyed, and the thoughts of the Yeocheonma that had been dormant inside Seris were awakened.
– My child, I can feel your heart sinking. What’s up?
“Grandma…”
Celis explained her situation in a voice so low that Yuseong couldn’t hear it. After hearing her explanation of the situation, Yeocheonma let out a sigh.
– Huh … So she didn’t say that she was the original daughter. She tells her to beware of men who use Chinese medicine. Hagisa, since you’re so enamored with that child, what’s the use of telling her to be careful?
“Is there any way, Grandma?”
-You mean getting the upper hand in copulation? That’s not difficult.
“Really?”
Cersei’s face blushed. She wondered if there was an answer to what she was asking in her mind..!
“What should I do?”
– The easiest way to break the bondi color ball is to press it with a stronger color ball. Fortunately, the original woman has a color ball that she can teach you.
“Color ball..? Are you saying you can beat Yooseong anyway?”
-Okay. Anything is possible for her only if she learns the Heavenly Demon’s Chinese Medicine developed by her own.
“Yes? The Heavenly Demon’s Chinese Medicine?”
The name is very strange. While thinking so, Celis suddenly realized that her hand that had been stroking her back had stopped.
Oops… She said a little louder at the end.
Seris turned her head gently with her trembling heart.
Then, a meteor appeared with her hardened face.
“Ceris, what did you just say? Heavenly Demon… What..?”
For some reason, she asked with her white face.
