Chapter 279 – 279. Crafting Demigod Arms (3)
On the path he is walking, he is preparing for adversity and hardships that can help him and the people around him by arranging characters who are helpful and kind to him.
It seemed as if someone was weaving innumerable threads into the thread of one’s own fate that stretched endlessly forward and made it into one large stem.
[Hey. That’s too…]
It was also a forward thinking that could be dismissed as excessive delusion.
Therefore, this is an experiment, a challenge to oneself, and a process to confirm one’s hypotheses.
Perhaps, if he had been favored by the gods enough to receive Vulcan’s hammer, Aegis, and Cornucopia, and even induced him to become a half-god by having him form a relationship with Belldandi, who had a favorable attitude toward him.
‘If this is also on the rails you laid, I will make this a success.’
Caang!
It was a good idea to be treated like a crazy person, but Eun-hyeon was sure that someone was listening to her thoughts.
I continued to hammer, and I continued to think.
‘It looks like you’re trying to make me the ‘main character’, but I’ll pass on that intention.’
Even as the flame seemed to be ripening in the heat of the brazier, and sweat was pouring down like rain, Eunhyeon pounded the hammer with intense desire.
‘Instead, it makes me stronger.’
Dozens of endlessly repeated actions, tempering a part of his soul with the momentum to pour all his strength and only one wish, injecting an enormous amount of divinity, and creating a ‘armor’ that only he can use. Went on to produce
‘The relationships you prepared for me have now become a precious part of me.’
What Eunhyeon intensely longs for is the power to protect from demons.
‘Give me the power to protect my precious people.’
I’m not asking you to give yourself that power for free.
The will and body are ready for the bloody effort that suits him.
What Eun-hyeon wants is that he will achieve the results he wants after all his hard work.
I’m sick of the peace and stability I get after sacrificing someone dear to me anymore.
If I can protect it, I want to protect all of them.
[Hey…]
Having clearly heard Eunhyeon’s will, Belldandi looked at Eunhyeon with a mixture of pity and emotion.
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Kaaang!
The cheerful sound of metal being struck filled the interior of the smithy.
“…”
The girl stared at the back of the man who concentrated all his nerves and continued to work for a very long time without a break.
Inside the smithy, only the sound of burning white flames, the sound of hammers, and the rough breathing of Eun-hyeon, who was working in full swing, lingered.
The heat from the furnace that made the inside warm hit Eunhyeon’s body and took an enormous amount of moisture from his body.
Eun-hyeon’s body is already covered with sweat as she throws off her top and hammers non-stop with her bare body.
“Erin, stop going in now.”
A few hours after starting the work, Eleanor brought a towel, bottled water, and a simple lunch, and from one point on, Erin and Eunhyun were watching Eunhyun’s work.
Every time she took a break after throwing ‘something’ she was training by beating a hammer into the brazier where the torch was burning, Eleanor’s skill to approach Eunhyeon and focus on assisting in replenishing her lost moisture and physical strength was something she had only tried once or twice. It is not a skillful movement.
A total of 13 hours passed while continuing to work, resting, and repeating.
The work that started as soon as I ate breakfast was continuing into the evening before I knew it.
Erin shook her head at Eleanor’s invitation to take her break.
“… No. Please keep watching. I want to.”
“So?”
Eleanor nodded her head slightly and stared back at her.
“Hyeoni…”
“Huh?”
“Did Hyun-i make this sword by hitting it with a hammer non-stop for over 10 hours like that?”
“Hmm… It wasn’t until 10 hours, but I think it took about 6 hours. You know that doesn’t mean that he roughly made Erinn’s sword, right?”
Eleanor, who did not know anything about blacksmith work, could only compare the amount of time it took to make it.
However, the fact that it took relatively little time did not mean that Eunhyeon did not put her heart and soul into Levantein.
Erin also understood Eleanor’s meaning and nodded her head.
“Of course.”
There is no way that a person who makes tools with such enthusiasm would tolerate the word ‘approximately’ while making something.
Erin murmured as she held the rapier she brought with her, the Levantine, tightly into her arms.
“I am… I was stupid.”
“Erin?”
“She complained about why she gave Hyeoni a sword she couldn’t even pull out.”
Erin belatedly recalled what the gumiho had said before her.
-Heh, it’s too much for those of you who don’t understand what the sword was made of, by whom, and through what kind of smelting process.
It’s so literal.
She did not know what material her sword was made of, by whom, and through what process it was made.
She was busy expressing her joy with her whole body and her heart beat as if her heart was beating wildly just because her Eun-hyeon had made it herself and gave it to her as a gift.
-Listen carefully. First of all, the material of the sword is not ordinary iron. One of the most precious metals in the world, it is iron smelted from an ore called Orichalcum, which is also called divine iron. And the sword is a weapon made by beating the iron dozens or hundreds of times and filling it with high-quality divinity. It means that a lump of blood like you, who knows no value, is not a weapon that can be handled carelessly. First…
I couldn’t properly understand Eunhyun’s hard work, sweating profusely in front of such a hot brazier, earnestly beating the hammer.
“It really was too much of a sword for me…”
– So you didn’t tell me. He complained that he couldn’t pull out the sword without knowing the value of the sword properly. It would be a waste to even compare it to a diamond necklace hanging from a pig’s neck. It’s intelligence at the level of a microbe, less than a pig, not even a livestock. It’s really pathetic.
“Ugh…”
The Gumiho’s sarcastic remarks he had mentioned earlier came belatedly as a dagger and pierced Erin’s chest.
The fact that there was virtually nothing wrong with what the gumiho said about always talking harshly made me angry and ashamed.
And the emotion that precedes that emotion is sorry for not properly understanding the value of the gift he gave.
“Don’t be too pessimistic.”
Seeing Erin in her serious self-loathing, Eleanor with a wry smile put her arm around Erin’s shoulder and pulled her towards herself.
Erin, naturally leaning on Eleanor’s shoulder, felt that she had been comforted by her.
“You have to work hard in the future. Because he doesn’t care about that.”
“Still…”
“If you’re really sorry, you just have to grow up and show yourself. It shows directly that you did a good job by gifting the sword to Erin. Then wouldn’t that person be very proud?”
“I will really try. More than now…”
Slightly moved by Eleanor’s kind encouragement, Erin hugged Eleanor tightly around her waist and buried her face in her chest.
“Huh. Great.”
Eleanor, smiling as she felt at seeing her playful sister, stroked Erin’s hair and pampered her girl.
She soon remembered one thing she had forgotten, and she addressed Erin with her words.
“Oh, and Erin.”
“Yes?”
“The things you saw last night.”
“Ah… Ah! I, that, that… I really didn’t mean to see… !”
“Shhh.”
Eleanor untied her arms that were tightly wrapped around her waist, took her hand away from Eleanor, and Eleanor blocked Erin’s mouth with her index finger as she hurriedly tried to explain herself.
He glanced at Eunhyun, who was working in full swing, and smiled and whispered to Erin.
“I don’t know that person yet. What are you going to do if you hear it?”
“Yeah, that’s right. Sorry…”
“You don’t want Erin to find out, do you?”
“Of course…”
She was so embarrassed that she was told that she had seen what she was doing last night, and she couldn’t possibly lift her face.
She was already trying hard to forget, but she couldn’t understand Eleanor’s intention of mentioning the fact first.
“So, let’s keep what happened last night a secret between me, Illyana-sama, and Erin. That person…”
“What about Hyun… ?”
“Huh? Can you tell me?”
“I, never!”
Erin was startled and shook her head vigorously.
“I’m kidding. Knowing that Erin was seeing us last night, that person will probably try to distance her from Erin. Because that is not what we want either.”
“Eleanor-sama… Would you mind if I showed you that? That, so… She was bullied badly…”
Erin recalled the image of Eleanor, her panting, blushing, and pleasant voice.
She couldn’t bear to speak and her face blushed.
“Huh. Good. In the first place, that person is also suitable for such a play because I want it. Furthermore… There is no reason to hide it from Erin.”
“Yes?”
“Didn’t Erin want to connect with that person?”
“That, that, that, but… !”
Erin, having tasted the feeling of having her own heart stripped naked, her face blushed even more, and in her haste, not knowing what to do, she was wandering.
What the hell was this situation, she couldn’t comprehend in Erin’s head.
It is Eleanor who shows her disgraceful and humiliated appearance, but she is smiling infinitely leisurely, and on the contrary, she is losing her cool after watching the embarrassing situation.
“I think it’s okay for Erin to be greedy with her a little more.”
“… Really?”
“Then. The one who got to know that person first was Erin after Illyana-sama. Rather, I was a little worried that I might have gotten in the middle.”
“I-I didn’t know you had such thoughts…”
Eleanor continued with her wry smile.
“That person has already followed Lady Verdandy and Lady Illyana, and I also have her, so she probably won’t try to increase her wives any more. Because he’s more savvy than you think. Maybe Erin and Lily will have to work a lot.”
“Illyana-sama also said something similar. And, of course, Lily’s sister…”
Lily’s mind was also close to what she had vaguely guessed.
Because she was in a similar situation and shared the grace and admiration she had for the same person, she was able to recognize it.
“I support Erin. Regarding this issue, Illiana-sama and I intend to side with Erinn and Lily rather than that person. So, do you have to work hard?”
“Yes! Thank you! Miss Eleanor!”
Kaaang!
When the two women whispered and confirmed each other’s intentions, the production of Eunhyeon was finally over.
“Whoa…”
Erin and Eleanor looked at Eunhyun, who took a long breath, at the same time, confirmed that the hammer in his hand was gone, and finally realized that the work was finished.
When Erin finished, she stared at the object resting on the anvil.
“… Key?”
I just hit the pure white orb containing divinity with a hammer for 13 to 14 hours, and the result that appeared on the anvil was a key shining in white silver.
Erin, seeing for the first time the production process of a divine weapon or divine object, different from a normal weapon, was in a bewildered situation.
Eun-hyeon took her key in her hand and placed it on her chest.
Seeing that water naturally permeated like melting water and was absorbed into Eunhyeon’s body, Erin asked.
“That is… Is it a weapon?”
“Huh. A weapon that only I can use.”
That the weapon was a small key that fit in the palm of her clenched fist was beyond Erin’s common sense.
However, seeing Eunhyeon with a satisfied expression on her face, she did not have the desire to pry into it.
“Whoa… Eleanor.”
“Yes.”
“Thank you. For preparing me to replenish moisture and nutrients in between.”
Eleanor smiled and shook her head.
“It’s a matter of course.”
“I’ll wash up right away and get some sleep. Tell Emilia how to organize the workshop.”
“Yes. Okay.”
Eunhyun nodded her head and went upstairs to the living room with the two of them.
