Chapter 773 – 773. Scripture Encounters (1)
Caang! Caang!
Intense metal sounds that make your ears fall.
The space filled with hundreds of figures in the series of hammering the iron was a forge where sweat, iron, and heat were constantly produced.
“…”
Cha Han-seong was at a loss for words at the sight unfolding before his eyes.
In the meantime, I thought that I wouldn’t be surprised by anything because I was pretty thick while working on this continent of Arcena, but the astonishing sight in front of my eyes lightly twisted the basic common sense that had been forming so far.
“I heard rumors, but…”
I never thought it would be like this.
Currently, the smithy Cha Han-seong visited is a large smithy boasting the largest scale in the Duchy of Armitas.
It was a building called the ‘Black Anvil Forge’.
The people in the forge were not only humans, but also full of dwarfs who were less than half the height of normal human males.
“Hey! What is hammering! Hitting it down is sloppy! How many times do I have to say it for you to understand!?”
“I’m sorry!”
In frustration, his gaze naturally shifted to the dwarf who was giving advice to the stupid young man who was holding the hammer.
“Did I tell you!? One hammering, one time, you have to do your best! What kind of weapon are you going to make with that kind of hammering without any malice! I really want it!”
The dwarf snatched the hammer from the young man and struck the iron fixed on the anvil with all his might.
Kaaang!
“Can you hear me? This sound.”
“… Yes. I can hear you.”
The young man nodded his head as if he had no face.
He made a clear, clean sound that was distinctly different from when he struck iron.
It’s the same hammer, but the user who wields it is different, but the sound it makes is so distinct that even Cha Han-seong, an ignorant of metallurgy who was overhearing from afar, could tell them apart.
“Ruler! Try again!”
The scene of a young man being yelled at by a dwarf who was not even half his size was very strange and fitting.
With serious eyes again, the young man struck the hammer with all the strength he could contain.
Kaaang!
Unlike the first irregular, ear-piercing noise and close metal noise, when a fairly clear sound came out, the dwarf who had instructed the young man slapped the back of the young man sitting in a chair with a rather satisfied expression.
Damn!
“Look! You can do it!”
“Heuk!?”
The young man who had been hit on the back screamed in surprise.
The dwarf was beaten with the intention of complimenting him, but unlike ordinary human men, the dwarf’s arm muscles that have been honed by hammering for decades are not just spicy.
The young man, who was tingling and thinking that his spine might have gone inside, was shocked by the dwarf’s next words.
“Today, beat the iron with that level of hammering for an hour or three!”
“You mean three or three hours!?”
“What? Are you saying you can’t? Such a pathetic fellow! That was when I was a teenager! Banging a hammer in front of a boiling furnace and an anvil for 12 hours! You guys are human, so I saw this too. Hey!”
“All right…”
The young man had no choice but to listen to the dwarf by crying and eating mustard.
The atmosphere inside such a huge forge was very noisy and noisy.
A continuation of the heat leaking out of the blazing furnace and hammering the iron.
The working environment of the countless dwarves and humans working in this forge was systematically ordered.
And this scene is quite familiar even to Cha Han-seong’s eyes.
‘… It’s like looking at a factory.’
It feels like watching workers at a production plant on Earth.
In the field of metallurgy, which is a profession, the dwarves at this forge are undoubtedly experts, and the sight of them teaching metallurgy to young men made it seem as if seniors were teaching new recruits what to do.
It was very embarrassing that the scale of the blacksmith shop, reminiscent of the factory, was much larger than he had thought.
“Didn’t you just say it was a small and medium-sized business…”
This is not just a small and medium-sized company, but a completely large company level.
The scale of the forge was completely different from what Eunhyeon had heard.
“What are you muttering about?”
Riod, who had accompanied him belatedly, approached and asked Cha Han-seong, who was whispering in a low voice.
“Oh, nothing…”
Cha Hanseong shook his head with effort and evaded him.
“Captain. Are you allowed to enter?”
“Fortunately.”
Riod nodded his head slightly and glanced down to his side.
Beside him was a dwarf who had accompanied Riod.
“Haha! Excuse me! I didn’t know they were friends at the field! Forgive the rudeness!”
The dwarf scratched his head shyly and apologized with a big smile.
It was because of a small mistake that Riod and Cha Han-seong, who had visited the black anvil smithy in the Duchy of Armitas, were waiting near the entrance without being able to enter.
It was clear that he had made an appointment, but the current situation was that he put on hold the visits of Riode and Hanseong Cha, saying that he had not been informed in advance.
“Recently, there are people who are trying to cheat by impersonating their relationship and friendship with the farmer… You must have been a bit sensitive.”
“Okay.”
Cha Han-sung, thinking that he could certainly do that, nodded his head in agreement.
Dwarven weapons produced in the Duchy of Armitas are traded at very high prices, and their performance is also quite excellent.
Currently, they are being sold through a reliable distribution channel under Eun-hyeon’s mediation, so the price and quantity of Dwarven weapons are controlled, but it is clear that if you can trade with the Dwarves, you can make a huge profit. There was no way I could leave them alone.
Of course, it was unavoidable because the Dwarves were also a division that was born from thorough security and vigilance.
One irony was that even Riod, who was known as the best knight in the kingdom, was banned from entering the black anvil forge.
Where on earth in the Kingdom of Fernias could he be stopped, the highest knight and duke of the Kingdom of Fernias?
“…”
However, simply being Eun-hyeon’s friend, the access control is immediately lifted and the right to a free pass is given, so it’s natural to be dumbfounded.
For all the Dwarf blacksmiths, including this Black Anvil Blacksmith, even if Queen Yuria, the owner of Fernias Kingdom, came, it would be impossible to receive better treatment than Eun-hyeon, who had the title of Master of the Thousand and One Nights.
I realized belatedly what a great person Eun-hyeon was.
It was strange that Cha Han-seong did not seem to feel any dissatisfaction with the fact that Riod controlled his access.
“I will guide you right away!”
The Dwarf guided the two to the second floor while giving them a brief tour of the facilities inside.
“By the way, from the words of the field chief, did you hear that you delivered a token that allows you to freely enter and exit our forge?”
If it had been, there would have been no reason to stand so inconveniently and be restricted from entering, but the dwarf asked why.
To the dwarf’s question, Riod answered calmly.
“I forgot.”
“Hmm?”
“Yes?”
It wasn’t just the dwarf who asked the question, but also Cha Han-seong, who hesitated at the completely unexpected and calm answer.
As if he didn’t care about their reaction at all, Lyod explained in more detail.
“Before leaving in the morning, I forgot to bring it.”
“…”
“… “
Cha Han-seong realized that there was a reason for not feeling any dissatisfaction while being restricted from entering.
The dwarf and Cha Hanseong, who were speechless, looked at each other’s faces and looked at each other, and soon replied in an evasive manner.
“What, what? Aren’t there times when you live like that? When I was out of my mind in the morning, it wasn’t the first time that I went out to the blacksmith’s shop in shorts without wearing pants. Haha!”
‘No. That’s a big deal You bastard.’
Cha Hanseong held down his inner thoughts that were about to come out of his mouth.
It must have been a joke to lighten the mood, but judging from what he said without hesitation, such an incident might be a common occurrence among dwarves.
I thought that there would be a big difference in common sense and culture between dwarves and humans, but I felt like I knew some of them, so I felt complicated.
Of course, the reason I felt a subtle feeling was also because of Leo.
I didn’t know it well before, but since I spent a lot of time learning the sword from him and training together, there were many hidden aspects of him that I came to know naturally.
To put those new aspects together in a simple way, Riod was subtly false.
Of course, he has an overwhelming advantage in the field of swordsmanship and military force, but rather, he has a strong tendency to solve all tolerable matters with force, so he doesn’t care much about the details.
However, Cha Han-seong was well aware that the world did not flow so simply.
The reason why Riod was able to survive the bloody politics of the kingdom, become the leader of a knightly order, and claim the title of the best knight in the kingdom was probably because he had great people by his side who could assist him.
It was because there was Riod’s wife Theresiana, who did everything in her power to make Riod a man worthy of his power and dignity, and his subordinates who admired his chivalrous side and began to follow her.
However, the present Cha Han-seong was too lacking in knowledge to understand his whole life.
No matter how flimsy he may appear, he is the leader of the knights he belongs to and a man with swordsmanship that he himself cannot match.
He thought that this was the end of having disrespectful thoughts, and changed his mind to looking around the inside of the forge.
And Cha Han-seong, who reached the second floor by climbing the stairs, was surprised again.
“Here is… ?”
The second floor, filled with pure white tiles and various facilities, was very different from the atmosphere of the first floor.
In contrast to the first floor, which was full of iron powder and dust, hot heat, and the sound of hammers hitting, the second floor was so quiet and cool.
Rather than a production plant, it was closer to a laboratory where experiments and research were conducted.
“How about this?”
“Success. You have been through a lot.”
“Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop…”
Hearing a woman’s eerie laughter, Cha Han-seong trembled her shoulders.
“You have suffered! I finally see the light!”
“It’s possible because Doran-nim helped me.”
“No. No What good was a dwarf who could only hammer iron? All of this was possible because of the young lady’s incessant spirit of inquiry!”
There was a warm atmosphere inside the lab where they hugged each other and praised each other for their hard work.
It was the dwarf who guided Riod and Cha Han-seong into the lab that broke the warm atmosphere and inadvertently entered the lab.
“Oh oh! Chief! Did you finally finish it!?”
“Haha! Yes! I will show you a prototype soon!”
Haha! If you give me a chance to smelt that metal first! I’ll keep buying beer for two weeks!”
“By the way, who are these people?”
The dwarf, who had a hearty laugh, answered Doran’s question and it was Eunhyeon who introduced Liod and Hansung Cha.
“My friend and… Hmm. A friend’s son-in-law? No see.”
Eunhyun, who hesitated for a moment about how to introduce Cha Hanseong, spat out the words that came to her mind.
Of course, it was up to the parties to accept it or not.
“Who is the son-in-law? Don’t talk nonsense.”
In spite of Liode’s denial, which was resolutely spitting out as if 10 years were still a long way off, Eunhyun smiled and replied.
If he was going to deny it like that, there was no really funny contradiction about why he brought him in the first place.
