After finishing our conversation, we went inside and saw Chelsie finished paying for Alice’s new sword.
Chelsie approaches Alice and gives it to her; she holds the sword in her hands to get a feel for it.
“What do you think?”
Chelsie asked what Alice thought of it, which she said
“It fits perfectly and feels really good to use.”
“That is good.”
As Chelsie and Alice were talking about the sword, Maria, who had been looking at the weapons closely, asked.
“Umm, Mr. Kinwall?”
“Just call me Kinwall, and what is it?”
"Oh, okay, umm... Kinwall, what kind of metal did you use to make these weapons? They don’t seem to be just made out of normal iron.”
Kinwall chuckled for a bit and grinned and told her.
“That is an amazing observation; you must be an excellent alchemist to see it.”
A bit embarrassed by the compliment, Maria said.
“I can’t say I’m that excellent, but I can see the mixture of metals in these weapons here is very different from the ones you see in other shops. What did you put in them if you don’t mind me asking?”
“If you really want to know, I added Mythril in them.”
Hearing the word Mythril, there was a long silence, followed by a big shout of “Heh?!” from everyone.
Kinwall grinned like he found it funny.
“Surprised?”
Alex, Wendy, and Maria looked at the weapons in their hands that they were examining and immediately held them like they were expensive, fine, fragile pieces of art. Alice also immediately held her sword with more care because Mythril ore is already rare enough that nobles tend to have a hard time getting it, plus ones forged by a dwarf are even rarer.
Everyone then turns to me, and Alex asks how I am not surprised.
I shrugged my shoulders and just said.
“Kinwall told me a while back, plus all of my weapons have Mythril in them too.”
They were surprised again by my blank response, which I surprised them even more by saying.
“You should be more surprised at why there is Mythril in them in the first place. He works with Mythril quite a lot and even rarer metals, so he tends to put the leftover scraps into his creations because he thinks it would be a waste not to use them.”
They became even more surprised, causing Alex to ask who Kinwall really was.
I looked at Kinwall, and he nodded yes for me to tell.
“He is apparently a famous blacksmith who has worked for royalty and really high-level adventurers. Due to that, unsavory nobles tend to pester him quite a lot to work for them. It’s the reason why he moves around so much, so he doesn’t have to deal with those nobles.”
After everyone was surprised and their jaws dropped for the last time, then calmed down, we left the shop and said goodbye since we had gotten what we needed.
Then I said goodbye to everyone else and that I was going back to my inn because it was the afternoon today and I decided to make the rest of the day a lazy day.
Back in my inn, I look through the piles of books in my room to look for a certain book. The book I picked up was titled The Tales of the World.
This book caught my eye when I was at Mila’s shop buying books about making magical tools.
I don’t know why it caught my eye; maybe it’s because I always wanted to read a fairy tale book, but I never was able to due to being told that they were a waste of time to read and I should focus more on my studies instead.
This was a fairytale book that had many tales from this world. I always wanted to read the lore of this world, and I wonder if any of it is true since this is a fantasy world.
I opened the book, starting with the first page, about the story of the Black Dragon and the Hero Flum.
There once was a small kingdom, whose name was lost to time.
After the last embers of the age of the gods had burned out, the world was filled with strife; the many races born from the old gods had been at war for centuries.
The gods, weakened from the war with the demons, were helpless to stop the violence and tragedy unfolding.
The fighting seemed endless, with no end in sight for the violence to stop. Fear, anger, rage, despair, sadness, hopelessness, and misery filled the land.
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However, there were exceptions, and one of those small pockets of light shone into the world of darkness was the nameless kingdom. They did not have much, except for a wise and kind king who ruled over them, caring for his people with what little they had.
But in the end, it didn’t last for long because war had eventually come to their lands.
Remembering my history lesson with my tutors, this was quite similar to what I was taught: there was a massive war that happened a very long time ago that lasted for centuries, involving all the different races fighting against each other.
Looking at the next page, which is an illustration, shows a depiction of the nameless king. He had light glowing around his body while being drawn without a face except for a gentle and caring smile. In addition to the king, in the bottom left corner, there was a drawing of faceless soldiers colored red, symbolizing war is coming to the kingdom.
Flipping to the next page, it goes to a village in the nameless kingdom, where it talks about a young village girl.
The book describes her with red eyes and blonde hair, like a flower yet to bloom, and tells us that she was the hero Flum. She was born into a loving family and home; she was ignorant of the conflicts and darkness of the world.
Once war had eventually come to her kingdom, her life was shattered and her village was burned to the ground. Family, friends, and her home had all burned in front of her.
She ran deep into a forest, as far as her legs could take her, for days on end. Eventually, her body gave out, and she collapsed to the ground. Dreary from constantly running, her body could not get up, and she closed her eyes. But just before she did, she saw a mysterious stranger in black robes approach.
Looking at the next page of the illustration shows Flum in a white dress in her peaceful village on one half of the page. Separating the other half was a diagonal line that showed her collapsing to the ground in a forest, looking up at the mysterious stranger with a hood hiding his face. Strangely enough, they didn’t have any drawings of their faces for some reason; maybe it’s an artistic reason, probably.
After finishing the page and summarizing it since it was quite a boring part, it was about Flum being taken to a house in the middle of the woods and being in his care.
Flum woke up in a house she did not recognize, and then the mysterious stranger introduced himself as Linus, putting down his hood to calm Flum with a gentle smile that held no malice. The book describes him as a stunningly beautiful handsome man around her age, with black hair and blue eyes that gave him an ethereal aura.
Basically, for the next few days, he nurses Flum back to health, and flipping to the next page, it was about Linus leading Flum to a town once she was in full health. Flum asks Linus if they would meet with each other again with how close they have gotten with each other in the last few days; he says a single word, and it is a yes with a gentle smile.
Flum, who was in a new town, made a new life for herself. She vowed to herself to never let what happened to her village happen again, so she desired strength and became a mercenary.
If I remember correctly, the adventurer guild did exist during that time; however, their jobs are mostly the same as adventurers of today except for being able to kill other people since that period of time was broiling in constant war.
In her new life, she made new friends to call family, but turning the next page, it did not last long because war eventually came to her new home like her village.
Choosing not to run, the yet-to-be hero chooses to fight instead of running to protect her new home. Standing on the tall stone walls that protected the town, that was her new home, she watched the massive army outside.
There were others as well, who had similar reasons to stay and fight; however, it would be fruitless in the end because the army that had attacked her village and now attacking her new home had weapons from the age of the gods. Yet despite that, she still chose to fight because she did not want to feel the pain of loss ever again.
The army attacked, and the fighting was fierce. The defender fended off every wave of attacks but only made the attacker resort to using the weapons from the age of the gods to besiege the walls.
They used them, and stars started descending from the heavens even though the sun had not set, and as the stars came in closer, a feeling of dread and shock filled everyone.
They did not know what it was going to do, but they knew it was going to be the end of them.
Flum, seeing the falling stars, closes her eyes, accepting her fate, only regretting she wasn’t able to meet Linus again. However, death did not come for her; there was a sudden boom that filled the sky, like crackling thunder.
She opened her eyes, and black thunder arced through the sky, stopping the falling stars.
Then she heard a deafening roar from up high in the sky, and a being started descending from the heavens.
The yet-to-be hero Flum, her comrades, and the enemy army stood completely still, recognizing it as something divine; it was a dragon.
Scales darker than the night sky, blue eyes that could see through your soul, black lighting crackling across its body, and 3 pairs of magnificent black angel-like wings.
It was one of the 7 dragons whose name is spread out through tales and legends: Bahamout, son of the fallen goddess Trelec, who governs war and order among the gods through her divine lightning.
Landing to stop the battle, the ground shakes as its massive body dwarfs the walls protecting the town, and no one dares to move in its divine presence.
Opening its mouth, it demanded with a dignified voice for all to hear.
“Enough, cease this meaningless fighting.”
The color of the scales and eyes, and hearing the voice, the yet-to-be hero Flum recognizes it, one she had missed. She thought to herself that it couldn’t be.
She approaches Bahamut, not showing any fear or doubt of the dragon.
Bahamut, turning its massive head to face the yet-to-be hero, said.
“We meet again.”
Particles of blue light glimmered around his body, then his entire body glowed into a black color. Bahamut, whose massive body turns smaller and smaller; his form turns from a dragon to a human.
As I turned over the page, it ended and led to the next chapter. It was quite an interesting story and quite unbelievable as well.
What I found and liked the most was the part where Bahamut shows up in the battle, making a cool entrance, especially because my named Aias does have a coincidentally similar ability to him, with us using black lightning.
If I had my Aias, how much fun would it be fighting him with my sister Norn? Going by the Kaiju grading system, it would be at least a level 6, maybe a level 7 if I’m generous.
Putting my book away, it was late into the night, so I decided to read the rest of the book at my own pace for the next few days until my shoulder healed. I was quite excited to read the next part because it left off on a cliffhanger.
The next day and the following days, I continued to read the book, which was about how Flum and Bahamut went on a journey to convince the other 6 dragons to agree to end the wars happening on the land, which continues into 6 parts.
During that journey, the yet-to-be hero becomes a hero and gathers allies who share her dream to end the war in her journey, completing the task of each of the 6 dragons to test the hero and gain their blessings and support.
In the end, it concluded with a happily ever after.
After reading the end, I also found it really interesting because it differs from what I was taught, which is a princess instead of the hero Fulm, who is a commoner, falls in love with the dragon Bahamout and starts the first bloodline of magic users.