**Author's Note**
So i came back, i wanted to post 2 chapters today but the 2nd one is half done, i'll try to post tomorrow 2 chapters.
Thanks for reading.
"Author's Note End"
January 27 Year 2780
Early in the morning Elio headed back to the forge, he was very excited. He passed by the same guard he met yesterday at the entrance. He directly headed inside the forge, there he met Patricia. Her height is around 165 cm, has a huge pair of “mountains” and she's a little bit plump. Her hair is blond meanwhile her eyes are blue, these pair of eyes seem belong to a child filled with blessed ignorance rather than to an official who works for Heaven's Army Forge.
“Helloooooo Elio, my name is Patricia. I love milk and anything else with a sweet flavor. I hope we will get along and … You look kind off like my brother. How old are you? ”
First Elio was mesmerized by huge “mountains” so he didn't answer for a few moments.
“ Ehm, ah? What? I'm sorry!”
Elio suddenly started running to his working place, he simply had no idea what to say , he felt embarrassed every time he tried to talk to some cute girl, so when he saw her and “them” being so close to him his face was hotter than an erupting volcano.
Suddenly he stopped and almost fainted from the blood pressure he felt... He forgot to ask her where's his workplace.
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March 26 Year 2780
A month passed by since Elio started working in the forge. First of all, to clear the work agenda, he forged 10 B Grade items which took a total of 10 days. Rest of the time he used to increase his abilities as the blacksmith. He reached the bottleneck in blacksmithing a year ago. Vulcan, Elio's Master , gave him an advice:
“ The threshold of A Grade doesn't consist only in increase of item's quality, the “perception” of the piece is totally different, that's your hint. Think about it. ”.
So, for past 2 weeks, he was helping others for no money. He helped Hephaestus and others to help them forge their items so he could gain experience for no money. From the time he joined The Forge his colleagues were pessimistic about his age and his abilities, but after seeing how fast he is and the way he does it,the attitude was changed, as the say goes “ Sky is vast and people are different, do not judge to not be judged.”
Elio couldn't talk that much with Patricia, he was simply too embarrassed ,but Patricia never understood his feelings so after some time they became friends. One might say there cannot be friends between man and woman but with Elio's shyness and Patricia's innocent mind there couldn't be any further progress in relationship. For Elio to become friend with a girl was already some kind of record.
Elio was helping Hephaestus with his work while Patricia was coming toward them.
“Good afternoon Mr.Hephaestus, hi El. Sorry to disturb your work but El, I think you forgot that you need to deliver your work as stated in the contract and today is the deadline....”
Elio felt his heart skipping a beat. Yep, he forgot it. He was so immersed in his work that he forgot about deadline, he always pushed it to the later date and the deadline was here. He had only 30 minutes left to deliver his work, the office responsible for handling such matters worked only until late afternoon.
“SORRY I NEED TO RUN!”
Elio reached his workplace and grabbed the swords he forged. These 10 swords were made from
Duranium, it's one of new materials discovered by humanity through their exploration.
To make weapons, armors or any other kind of item you need materials. Materials have their own grades as well, Duranium for example is a B Grade metal. The classification of those materials are divided into F,E,D,C,B,A,S,SS,SSS, Unique Grades. Grades F, E and D are common materials and they are used everywhere. From C Grade and forth are not that common, they are used for specific purposes without wasting any of them. Their price as well their rarity are equal. For example, to craft C Grade item you would need around 2 gold coins meanwhile for a B Grade materials you would need to spend 15 gold coins. Sometimes to sell some high grade materials an auction would be hosted in a city. Few years ago there was a ruckus in nearby city, an adventurer found an ore called Furium, Grade S. It was sold for an astronomical amount of money, 100000 gold coins. The year revenue of a Central City is around 1250000 gold coins. The year revenue of a city guard is around 500 gold coins.
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Elio reached 3rd floor of the building after 10 minutes, there was an office called Identification Division Their work is to identify, grade and accept/refuse the items made by the craftsman. This office had also another function, to provide assistance in identification of any new material found by the Heavens Army officials or to help them find any weapon available in the storage.
Each craftsman had to present their own work in time so they could be identified by the Judge .
As said before, whether to accept or refuse the items had to be decided by Judges, because of that the craftsman had to present his own work personally.
Elio ran to the reception of this floor and while running he started screaming:
“DON'T CLOSE THE DOOR, I NEED TO DELIVER MY WORK !”
He ran as fast as he could and couldn't help but to get more nervous when he saw the door closing, then he made last push and......... HE MADE IT!
“boom” Door closed and Elio started to grasp for air , he thought he was gonna throw up his lungs.
He got up and looked around , it was his first time here. He saw a woman behind the reception, she was looking at him with intensity, then she started to laugh.
“Ahahahaha, so you're the guy Patricia told me about, she was right. You made it barely in time... The way you rolled inside the office is priceless, best I ever seen. My name is Irina . So let's proceed with business , boy?”
Elio almost started to cry from embarrassment, from the moment he started working here his embarrassment moments pilled up with every day, on his first day he met Patricia and ran away without almost saying anything,same day he walked around search of a toilet , in the end he found it....But it wasn't a male one , but he didn't knew it and walked in without checking whether it was occupied or not, after all they are all males here. There he saw Patricia, she was sitting on the “throne” while some “river” noises could be heard.... So after every embarrassing moment he had in this Central of The Heaven Army he wanted to change the name to Central Of My Embarrassing Moments.
After few moments Elio had to calm down, he was here to deliver his first commission after all.
He walked to the reception and said:
“Yes, I would like to. I'm sorry for the way I entered... Please , here are my works, they should be all High Quality B Grade items. Made from Duranium, should be resistant to all types of corrosion, heat or cold. 3 of them are long swords, 2 bastard swords, 4 katanas and 1 broadsword.”
Irina checked each weapon one by one , she weighted it, smelled it , tasted it , used it in different way and tried the sharpness. They were as Elio said, high quality B Grade weapons.
“Yes, weapons grade and quality are both perfect. There's a sound recording device so don't get strange ideas ahah. “
After that Irina pressed on the button.
“I, Irina Medvedina, accept those items as stated in the contract. 10 High Quality B Grade weapons. Weapons received are: 3 long swords, 4 katanas, 1 broadsword as well 2 bastard swords. Payment of 50 gold coins has been given.”
Irina took a leather pouch filled with gold coins and gave it to Elio
“Here are your money. Take care of yourself , boy. “
Elio took the pouch, inside of it were his first gold coins which he earned by himself with his hands.
“Thanks Mrs.Irina , see you next month hehe.”
Elio started heading out and the moment he touched the door, his face got slammed by this door. He closed his eyes and almost cried out , then he opened his eyes and saw her, Sofia Bellador.