Chapter 565 – 565. Master’s Sword (1)
An intermediate passage connecting the lower world and the divine world.
After the conversation on the ‘stairs’, the three returned to the underworld.
Agies, who recognized the surrounding background that had changed in the blink of an eye, realized belatedly that he had returned to his room where he had been before going to the ‘stairs’.
“… Are you back?”
“That’s right.”
It is Eun-hyeon, who has returned with him, who answers Agies’ question with a puzzled look on his face.
Agnes immediately turned his gaze to the clock in the room to check the time, and even after he realized that no time had passed at all, he looked puzzled.
“Looks like it wasn’t a dream. Really…”
It was an unfamiliar experience to Agnes that even though they talked for several hours in terms of experience, it flowed completely differently from the flow of time in the underworld.
“Do you go there often?”
“No. I can’t go either. This was only possible because of Eleanor and your help. I don’t think I’ll be using this often.”
In the first place, if necessary, Belldandi will only call Eunhyeon to the divine realm, but Eunhyeon does not have to go up to the divine realm herself.
In the underworld, there is Belldandy who is always by her side, and there is no communication problem, and the only reason why the place was prepared this time was to make a place for the two priests who serve the goddess to directly receive the real life of the goddess Vesta.
“Ah. I see ha…”
Agies leaned back on his sofa, the tension in his whole body released.
As he drooped, he pictured in his mind the image of the goddess he had met.
“It was really great. Goddess’ breasts…”
“… Doesn’t she have any feelings about meeting Vesta-sama?”
“Ok? Ah. It was amazing.”
He did not deny that it was a truly different experience to actually meet the presence of her goddess whom he worshiped.
The same goes for Eleanor.
But that was Agies’ impression of meeting Vesta.
“Because I’ve received a direct oracle from the beginning.”
It was a one-way communication that Agies could only receive, but Agies had never once doubted the existence of the goddess he enshrined.
Perhaps because of this, even when he received Vesta’s appearance for the first time in her life, he had only the impression of ‘Ah, that’s him.’ He didn’t think about anything else.
Rather, it was because the image of Belldandi who appeared together was too overwhelming.
“Ha… Shit. She should have been held in his arms once.”
Anies’ mind is filled with regret that he has never been held in the arms of Belldandi.
“… Don’t talk nonsense.”
What on earth did his own companions think of their goddess, Belldandy?
That disrespectful attitude of hers seemed to be full of her uncle’s insidiousness, who would not be happy even if he hit Vesta or Eunhyeon with a single blow.
“… If you weren’t like that with Illyana, why are you so obsessed with Belldandi-sama?”
“Hey. It’s not like she’s going to get hit by him. She won’t force a request from someone she doesn’t like.”
Although Eleanor was quite large, she did not dare to ask because she had the dignity to show as a senior with her title as a saint.
If she had listened to her inner feelings, she would have wondered where the dignity of seniority could be displayed.
“Oh~. I’m really sorry.”
Rather, it was all the more regrettable that Belldandy showed a generous response, as if he said, ‘Couldn’t he be able to do at least that much?’.
“I am… It was good. To be able to see Master Vesta in person. It was a new experience.”
Eleanor, on the other hand, looked satisfied.
The fact that she was able to accept the existence of the goddess she worshiped as her real life was probably something only Anies and Eleanor could do among the priests of the continent.
That would be impossible even for the pope, the highest authority in the temple that established Vesta as the state religion.
Eleanor said she was proud that she had experienced it and she felt elated.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Me?”
“Okay. Future plans.”
“Ok? What. Is there anything more you can do? I thought you prepared everything I needed to do?”
“…”
Eunhyun was at a loss for words for a moment.
“How have you played the role of Archbishop so far?”
“That’s what happened until now because you weren’t here. In order to catch the necromancer, I have to stick with you, and why do I think of that when you are there. You’ll figure it out anyway.”
“…”
Eunhyeon sighed when she saw Anies showing a casual attitude as if it were natural.
“Cheer up.”
Eleanor smiled bitterly at her without saying anything, and she comforted him a little for his hard work, which she had been doing.
“Okay. Then, is there anything you want?”
“What do you want?”
“Okay. Because this time, you listened to my request. If you want anything, I’ll prepare it for you. Say it.”
Eunhyeon also planned to prepare a small reward in her own way for Anies, who willingly came to help the Mograf region along with Erin.
“Hmm. Then go back to that ‘stairway’ later and get into the arms of your goddess…”
“I’ll listen to everything except that.”
“… Chet. It’s okay. Then I’ll think about what I need later.”
Anies clicked his tongue as he saw Eun-hyeon, who showed his intention to reject it with a single knife.
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Kaaang!
In the process of renovating the walls, the sound of hammers knocking on the huge iron doors filled the Mograf territory.
Along with the repair work of the castle wall, the inside buildings and roads are being rebuilt and renovated.
Currently, the Mograf region is full of energy in a sense.
“Hey! I’ve run out of materials here! Make up for it!”
“Yes!”
Dwarves and humans worked together to look around the scene of repair work, and slowly walked inside the manor.
“Eww… Shut up.”
Erin, who was following Eunhyeon and accompanied her, was very uncomfortable with the sound of hitting the iron that kept ringing in her ears as her hearing was superior to that of others.
“Are you okay?”
Eun-hyeon, who was walking in front of her, stopped her steps and checked the condition of her Errin.
Erin, who was covering her ears with her hands at the noise around her, frowning slightly, looked at Eunhyun who was worried about her and smiled bashfully.
“Are you okay! I can hold on!”
It was a little intrusive, but compared to the screams of many people, the noise of weapons, and the explosions that filled the battlefield, this level of stress was tolerable.
Above all, Erin, who was hungry for her husband’s attention, felt very happy about Eun-hyeon’s worries.
“Lend me your arm. I will wear it and walk.”
“Okay.”
When Eunhyun smiled and stretched out her arm, Erin immediately embraced his arm and buried her face.
“Ha… Smells good…”
Savoring her husband’s body odor on her shirt, she followed him in her steps.
Eun-hyeon, who moved her steps slowly in line with Erin’s stride, arrived at a simple blacksmith shop where dwarfs with short stature were busy working.
“Hey! This side is finished processing!”
“Okay! I’ll make it right away!”
“… What are these guys doing?”
Looking at the sight of dozens of dwarves sweating profusely in front of a huge brazier with roaring flames, Erin asked with a curious expression.
“I am making various things.”
Many Dwarves performed their respective roles, and the things being made here were materials and various tools to be used for repair work.
“That… Isn’t it Mithril?”
“You know me well?”
“Are you kidding me? I am also a gold-tier adventurer. Hyuna. Of course, I know about Mithril.”
Erin, who had accumulated various experiences through her adventurer activities, had developed an eye for recognizing the types of minerals she found in the wild, so it was not difficult for her to recognize the identity of the metals that the dwarves were smelting at once. .
The metal called mithril was not so rare, and it is often sold on the market at a high price, but the most important thing is that there are very few blacksmiths who can smelt it and make it into a weapon.
Weapons made of mithril, a metal with higher magical conductivity and durability than general iron, are traded at such high prices that rumors say that literally calling them expensive is rumored to circulate, so there is no way that the adventurer Erin will not be able to recognize the metal called mithril. .
“… Omg.”
And Erin looked puzzled at the identity of the tool she was making with the metal.
It was because the tools that the Dwarves were making with carefully refined mithril were not weapons that boasted superior performance than anything else.
“Song… Hoe… ?”
It was only a pickaxe made with mithril that other blacksmiths and adventurers would run into with their eyes open.
Erin’s head was hit by an intense shock that seemed to shatter Erin’s common sense.
She was so dumbfounded that Erin couldn’t close her gaping mouth and smiled as if Eunhyun was cute.
“Tongue, Hyuna… That’s right… ?”
“… What. It’s not common among them.”
Among the dwarves, learning how to smelt mithril starts walking the path as a blacksmith.
So, if you have a metal resource called mithril, it is not that difficult for them to process it and make tools.
“Oh my god…”
“Well, I just have to accept it.”
While watching the dwarves with a wry smile, a dwarf recognized Eun-hyeon’s face and ran to Eun-hyeon with a happy face.
“Hmm? Oh oh! The field chief is here!”
It was a dwarf that Erin was familiar with who ran to greet Eunhyeon and Erin with her short legs.
“Ah, this man…”
A dwarf who had been rude and rude to himself since their first meeting.
He was Gomon, who introduced himself as the chieftain of the Golden Hammer Clan.
“Haha! The lady came with me too. But do you still care about what I said?”
Seeing Erin staring straight at himself, stiffening her body and narrowing her forehead, Gomon smiled broadly and asked Erin.
“Poem, it’s noisy!”
“… What did you say?”
Eunhyeon, not knowing what was said between Gomon and Erin, asked with a puzzled expression.
“Haha! I didn’t even know the values of humans and said something rude to the wife of the field manager! A good woman has a big butt…”
“Ah! Don’t tell me!”
Erin cut off Gomon’s words as he tried to proudly tell her about the mistake he had made.
Erin’s reaction, which turned her face red with her shame, made it clear that there was a very embarrassing situation, but it seems that Gomon was willing to apologize, and Erin accepted the apology. He did not refuse to come.
Eun-hyeon decided to listen to this story later when Erin was away, and she told her the purpose of her visit here.
“I came to see the construction progress of the new Dwarf Village.”
“Oh oh! I guess! I will guide you to the construction site right away!”
Gomon welcomed Eunhyeon and Erin, and when Gan was about to leave the smithy, a dwarf hurriedly ran and stopped Gomon.
“I’m the chieftain!”
The young dwarf’s urgent voice sounded like he was trying to convey an urgent matter, so Gomon stopped his feet again and looked behind him.
“… Also?”
As if he had guessed something, Gomon stiffened his head and asked the young dwarf briefly.
“Yes! This is the seventh! Blacksmiths who said they couldn’t do it anymore started to appear one by one!”
“… Whoa.”
“Is something wrong?”
Seeing Gomon let out a small sigh, Eunhyun intuition that there was something between the dwarves and asked Gomon about the situation.
“That is…”
Gomon says that recently a human woman came to the dwarves’ forge and asked if she would like to make a sword.
The Dwarves, who had to be very busy with the construction of the town they were planning to relocate to and the renovation work of the Mograf Territory, accepted the female swordsman’s request without thinking, and intended to send her back after giving them a suitably made sword.
“The human woman bluntly stuck the sword into her crotch and cut it with another sword in her single slash. Then she ignited the pride of our Dwarves by telling us to make a proper sword, not such a crappy one.”
Afterwards, the Dwarves seriously practiced metallurgy and showed the swords they had crafted with great care to the female swordsman, provoking the female swordsman to perform the same swordsmanship as before.
This time, with the confidence that they would not be easily amputated, they were going to return the provocation they had received by giving a face-off to the female prosecutor who provoked them, asking if they could not do this.
“But the results all ended in failure.”
None of the swords that withstood the female swordsman’s sword existed, and all of them were neatly cut with a double-edged sword, completely crushing the dwarves’ pride.
While listening to the situation, Eunhyeon and Erin followed the guidance of the young dwarf and moved inside the blacksmith’s shop.
When she couldn’t hear the sound of her hammer, which resounded incessantly, Erin put on a strange expression as if she was not used to it.
“Again. Make it again.”
“Aww! Just go back! Please go back!”
“You should have said that before? I will never move until I receive a sword I am satisfied with.”
“… What are you doing here?”
“… Hmm?”
The female swordsman who was sitting cross-legged in her chair shifted her gaze from the dwarf begging her to return to the entrance where her voice was heard.
Soon after, she checked Eunhyeon’s face and muttered with a sullen expression.
“What. It was you.”
“… Master. This is a business obstruction.”
“Joy. It’s my fault for not making a sword I’m satisfied with.”
“Hey…”
As if she had done nothing wrong, she groaned as if the dwarves had hit her chest with daggers as all of the swords they had made were broken by her proud attitude.
