Chapter 17
Davian Pov
Its been a few weeks since I was taken as an apprentice weaponsmith and I've been enjoying it rather much, the work may be tiring and monotonous but it was still enjoyable.
My basic routine was waking up in the morn at sunrise and stoking the fire so that it would warm up enough for the day's work, after that I would usually eat a rather large breakfast as we didn't have time for lunch after that. After that we would get to repairing or making the orders that we had received from the day before, and we would work like this for days on end but I kept learning new things about forging, such as ways to properly manipulate the metals in ways that I had never thought of before.
Thorlac was always a good teacher never getting angry with me and never shouting, he even began to show me how to enchant weapons.
Thorlac-’’ so boy , the first thing you have to know about enchanting somthing is that certain metals can hold the enchant for longer periods of time and that each enchantment can only last a certain amount of time’’ he said as he brought out several types of metals. ‘’ Iron, copper and spirit steel, these are the staple foods, of us blacksmiths, they may not be the most exciting of metals but they are the most versatile of them’’.
Davian-’’hmm I see, but how does that matter when talking about enchanting gear, and what is spirit steel’’ i asked him still confused over how this was related to enchantment.
Tholac-’’ first is spirit steel. Its a kind of metal forged from spirit ores; stones and rocks (not crystals, and gems) that spirits inhabited for so long, that they ceased to be, just rocks. This kind of metal has especially great affinity with enchantment magic.’’ he said twirling his mustache. “but metals are not even close to the best things for holding an enchantment, the best thing you could find for enchantments are crystals or gems the bigger the gem the better’’.
Davian-’’ so the better quality a metal is the longer it can hold the enchantment, and gemstones are better than metals?’’ I asked him, just to make sure that I had understood it properly.
Thorlac-’’ Haha yes my boy, no to enchant something is rather simple to do but to master the art is close to impossible, simply due to the fact that person can only have two or three of each element at their command. Now enchantments are what happens when someone begins to cast a spell but at the last second, instead of releasing said magic, traps the magic inside of an item, the trapped spell has to be kept in place with a binding magic circle that will degrade over time, many have tried to figure out how to make a permanent enchantment but it is currently impossible. Many think this is because the binding circle’s magic just fades with time’’ he said as he picked up a small dagger.
He then began to chant but as he finished the chant, instead on releasing the magic, he put his hands on the blade and channeled the ‘power’ into it, the dagger then absorbed the power and started emitting small amounts of flames before he grabbed what seemed to be a metal stamp that had the binding magic, and drove it down into the metal, causing the flames being released to stop. ‘’ that was a very simple fire enchantment, now whenever the blade hits something it will try and set it alight or burn the target’’.
Davian-’’ I see but what if you want to enchant something with an element that you don't have?’’ I asked him.
Tholac-’’ simple ask someone who does have that type of magic to cast the spell and trap it in the item’’ he said as he handed me a new dagger.’’ now try to enchant that dagger’’.
I took the dagger in one hand and thought about the type of magic I wanted in it, I knew that someday i would have to leave this place to try and find out who I am so i thought some type of attack magic may be good but also something that would allow me to escape if I had to retreat.
The first thing that came to mind when I thought of this was lightning, as it could be used to attack the foe and could also paralyze them if they were chasing me. I picked up the dagger and began a to chant a simple shock spell, and as i finished the chant I moved my hand on the side of the blade and started to channel the spell into it, as soon as I finished this the blade began to spark with golden light that gave me a small shock. I grabbed the binding stamp and pressed it onto the pommel of the blade, and as soon as I did this the sparking stopped.
Tholac-’’ boy how did you do that, I never seen someone use lightning magic I thought it was lost’’ he said with excitement in his voice.
After this he began to ask my questions about how I could use lightning but i kept telling him I didn't know due to me not have my memories. I was truly astonished that he knew that I had lightning magic after all Sykora had told me that it was apparently one of the lost types of magic when I asked him why he was interested. Then he simply gave me a rather dangerous smile before heading into the back of the smithy where he kept his personal works and the metal he used for his personal project.
He came back out after a few minutes holding a rather large block of metal that was a dark magenta colour, he set it in front of me and asked me if I knew what it was called but I didnt know.
Tholac-’’ this my boy is a type of metal that only reacts to lightning during the forging process, fire can't even affect it, it is called Irostalt, and it has to be fed with lightning magic in order to change its shape, well according to the book I found it said that’’ he said as he eyes lit up.
I thought what he said was absolutely insane, how does a metal not get affect by fire, but he then threw the metal into the forge, and let it sit in there for a good hour before taking it out. The metal hadn't even changed colour is was still the dark magenta colour it first was when he brought it out, he then struck it with his hammer and there was no visible change to the shape of the metal.
Davian-’’ how do you know that only lightning effects this metal’’ I asked him still skeptical about what he had said.
Tholac-’’ I tested it with natural lightning, when I first had this it was round but as soon as the lightning came into contact with it it turn into the large bar you see now. So how would you like to forge something from this?’’ he asked me with hopeful eyes.
Davian-’’sure it could be fun’’ I said to him picking up a hammer and walking over to it. I began a chant that would cast a small amount of lightning to coat the hammer for a short while, and as the lightning surrounded the hammer I swung it towards the metal causing a very visible dent; not in the way I wanted.
I kept striking the metal but it would only go into shapes I didn't want. After a few hours of this I felt like something was stopping me from forging the metal properly, I tried to enchant the metal to see if that would work but something inside the metal seemed to push it out. I then tried to talk to the metal asking it to go in the way I wanted, Tholac gave me rather weird look for doing this, but unfortunately this didn't work either.
I threw the hammer down in frustration causing the dagger that I had enchanted to fly into the air, and graze my cheek, blood fell towards the ground, but a few of the droplets landed on the metal. It made the metal to glow a bright yellow, before transforming into the shape I had wanted at the start.
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On the anvil sat a large 6 ft scythe that looked rather cruel, with both sides of the blade sharp, so that I wouldn't have to use the inside blade to hurt my foes, I grabbed the scythe and gave it a quick swing.
As I held it I couldn't help but feel as if it just fitted perfectly in my hands, as I tried to coat it in lightning the scythes shape changed into a rather large one handed single edged sword that had a slightly curved handle, and the guard was only on the side that had the blade . It felt as if when I held this blade in my hands that something was trying to talk to me.
Tholac-’’ BOY GET OUT OF THIS FORGE!!! WHAT YOU JUST DID IS INSULTING TOWARDS BLACKSMITHING!!’’ he roared at me before grabbing me and throwing me out of the smithy.
Davian-’’ huh what do you mean insulting towards a blacksmith’’ I asked him dumbfounded.
Tholac-’’ a blacksmith should never treat their tools that way, and also, spilling your blood onto you work shows that you dont deserve to hold a hammer’’ he spat at me as he threw out my bag containing my stuff hitting me in the chest.
Davain-’’ that doesn't mean you need to throw me out onto the streets’’ I snapped at him.
Tholac-’’ be lucky that I didn't kill you where you stood. Now out of my sight, I never want to see your filth again!!.’’ he said slamming the door behind him.
‘Shit’ I thought to myself, I open the bag and saw that it only contain a small bottle of water and a change of clothes. I paled at the sight of this as I had no money that I could use to even get room at an inn for the night.
Davian- ’’ fucking hell ‘’ I yelled at no one in particular. I then raised my self to my feet and started to walk towards west, hoping to find somewhere that I could sleep at tonight, as I was walking I could hear people saying something about someone called Sitra. But I had no idea who this was, and frankly I didn't care as right now either. Finding a place to sleep was top of my concerns.
I soon came across a rather small cafe like place that was hiring so I quickly walked in and asked for a job, the girl at the counter shouted out for the manager and in a few seconds a rather small fox girl came out of the back. She looked at me and just gave me a thumbs up before going in the back and coming back with a uniform consisting of a pair of black trousers, a white shirt and a grey waist coat.
Fox-girl-’’ you shall work here now, your looks are sure to attract customers’’ she said with an evil glint in her eyes.
After that they gave me a small room in the back of the store to stay in while I was working here, and over the next few days my life was rather simple; every morning I would wake up and clean the store before opening hours, and during the opening hours I would take orders from the customers and bring said orders to the tables.
One thing I noticed was a lot of girls seemed to gather in the cafe when I was working but I didn't let it bother me. After the closing times I would simply go back to the room they had given me and sleep.
The next month passed like this and nothing much happened, I had made quite a bit of money during this time, the amount i had made was roughly 10 gold and 53 silver, during a rather busy time in the store a carriage was going by as I was outside cleaning the tables out there. This carriage was being escorted by a large group of soldiers, I caught a glance of the people in side and saw a emerald haired beauty sitting inside beside a black haired woman. The one with the emerald haired seemed to be rather startled when she noticed me looking at her, but quickly calmed down.
I found out that in the next few weeks that the tourney would begin and I was wondering if I should try my hand at it as it would be a good way to earn some money for when I began to search for who I was. When I asked the rest of the staff if I should enter a few suggested that I get some armour and other gear if i wanted to, while others just ignored me. When I asked the owner she simply told me to do what I thought was right.
I decided to visit a blacksmith that wasn't Tholac and get some simple armor for myself. I walked around for a while trying to find a smithy that had relatively good gear, and I eventually found one called the Rusty Nail.
I entered the store to see a ratman behind the counter, he saw, came up to me and grabbed my hand.
Ratman-’’ hello, hello good sir, what might I help you with today, could it be a blade of some kind or a bow, maybe even some fine jewelry for a lady friend hmm? He spoke so quickly, only barely giving me a chance to answer.
Davian-’’ no no I was just looking for some leather armor as I wanted to entry the tourney but I haven't got any protection’’ I said to him causing him to rush behind the counter and pulling out three leather breast plates. Each of these breastplates had something wrong with them at simple glance.
The first one was slightly warped to the left, the second one was too small for me, and the third one was clearly made for a woman.
Ratman-’’ these yes these, they be my cheapest leather armour’’ he said as he then pulled out some leather armor that was of usable quality.’’ this is the most common type of leather armor here, they can be used by anyone of medium build like yourself’’.
Davian-’’ I’ll take the common one then, also do you have any throwing needles?’’ i asked him.
Ratman-’’ hmm yes yes i should have some somewhere, now the leather armor will cost 5 gold and 35 silver and depending on the amount of needles you want the price will decrease with every ten needles, how many needles was it you wanted?’’ he asked me as he then began to pull out the rest of the leather armor.
Davian-’’ I think that 50 should be enough’’ I said to him as i pulled out my coin bag. ‘’how much altogether?’’ I asked him
Ratman-’’ hmm the leather armor plus 50 throwing needles would equal to 6 gold 50 silver but with the discount it will equal 6 gold 30 silver’’he said as his finger moved, as if to help him remember how much the cost of the goods were worth. Afterwards I quickly handed over the amount needed and took my stuff and left. I arrived back at the cafe to see a carriage there and out the front of the store was the emerald haired beauty from before on this time. I was able to see her fully, she had a long purple scaled tail coming out from below her dress, that reached down past her knees. She also had a rather large stomach but not the type many people would think of, in fact she was pregnant.
As I walked toward the store and toward the door, she noticed me coming closer and stood up, and as I got closer she began to slowly walk towards me. As she got closer I noticed that she was crying.
Emerald haired girl-’’ Eoin’’
authors notes
sorry for the non-updating but i have returned, i hope you enjoy this chapter and all that jazz and all pr'right goto zeenu skyfire for doing it while i wrote the dam chapter
the images are from warframe but they are what i envson his weapon to look like
scythe form
http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Hate
sword form
http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Pangolin_Sword