“H-H-Hey! You mean you’re a magic sword?!” Sigvorn questioned the sword who seemed to be annoyed by Sigvorn’s action.
“Didn’t I just say so? Could you stop being surprised by every little thing you encounter?” The sword finished with a sigh.
When Sigvorn immersed himself through the stories of adventurers when he was a child, he was aware of the existence of magic items. But this was the first time he encountered an intelligent magic item who could think and talk. He was able to obtain such a sword with a mere 40 gold coins. “H-How can a magic item like you just worth 40 gold coins!?” Sigvorn continued his barrage of questions with a happy expression. It was extremely lucky to obtain such a sword with 40 gold coins. He could not contain his joy whilst looking to the sword from the blade to the hilt.
“Well, a lot of adventurers tried to buy me, but when I tried to talk to them, they freaked out and brought me back to that old man. I was starting to lose hope, then you came. You may be an idiot but you are truly a lifesaver.” Ignoring the sword’s rude remark, Sigvorn continued his questions.
“By the way, I haven’t heard of a magic item that could think and talk, what are you?” Sigvorn asked with a somewhat serious tone, noticing how serious Sigvorn was with his question, the sword coughed and introduced itself. “I am one of those what you, humans, call as a magic sword. I hold the name Ashrune, unlike most magic items, I was created by Acldir, The God of Blacksmiths himself.” Sigvorn hearing the name Acldir, dropped his jaw in amazement.
The God of Blacksmiths, Acldir!? Did I just get myself a formidable weapon? Sigvorn could not contain his excitement and but his excitement came to a halt as he realized something. “If you are one of Acldir’s creation, then why are you in Aedweif? Instead of being in Arusha, the God’s continent?” Hearing this question, Ashrune became silent for a while and answered.
“I’d rather not talk about it…” Sigvorn being puzzled as Ashrune refused to answer, Ashrune immediately switched to another topic. “Anyway, it’s starting to go dark, do you have a place to stay?” Sigvorn tilted his head for a while and noticed that the sun has set.
“Ah! It’s this late already! We need to find a place to stay!” Sigvorn yelled in panic, placing Ashrune back to its sheath and started to run a full speed. Ashrune could only sigh at his new master’s silliness.
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Back to a certain rural place, a large scream filled with anger came from one of the house. With just a few minutes a crowd had already gathered, one of the men in the crowd stood forward and looked at the source of the scream.
It was a middle aged man, his eyes were mean and full of anger. “That child. That damn child! Argh!” He once again screamed in anger. The previous man who stood forward asked the cause of his anger. “What happened here?”
“That child of mine, he took off with some of my food and my gold without even saying anything!” The surrounding villager could only frown at what happened. They knew that kid was at his rebellious phase but they didn’t expect he would live the village.
“You’ll regret it someday, Sigvorn!” A scream once again, ringed through the entire village.
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Sigvorn was walking around while muttering to himself. “The inn last night cost me 4 gold coins, and for breakfast, I lost another 2 gold coins. 3 gold coins remained in me. I need to undertake a quest or I’ll be sleeping in the middle of the streets tonight.”
Walking a few distance, Sigvorn reached the Adventurer’s Guild, as he entered, everyone’s gazes were directed to Sigvorn, but immediately losing interest as they saw a child. Sigvorn looked around looking for Eustace and his company but to no avail. He went to the quest board and saw a variety of quests written on papers that were sticked on the board.
“If I remember correctly, an E ranked Adventurer like me can only do E and D ranked missions. Ashrune what do you think?” Ashrune released a ‘Hmmm’ sound as if thinking, and reached a decision. “Then what about the D ranked goblin subjugation quest? I think it would fare well for an E ranked like you.”
D-Ranked Quest
Quest Name: Goblin Subjugation
Description: Defeat as many goblins as you can and bring their noses in the guild.
Reward: Depends on the amount of nose you bring.
Sigvorn thought of Ashrune’s suggestion for a while, he could not afford to be careless as he almost met his doom with those goblins. But with Ashrune on his side, Sigvorn thought it would be fine to accept the quest. Sigvorn reached out to the quest paper and removed it from the board and placed it inside his pocket.
Sigvorn went outside of town to and started to look for goblins. As he stepped out, he immediately saw a group of goblins consisting of 4 in a distance. The goblins seemed to have not noticed him, he went near to observe the goblin’s actions. They looked like they were having a conversation, but Sigvorn couldn’t hear anything. Using this opportunity, Sigvorn slowly unsheathed Ashrune and charged through. When the goblins finally noticed Sigvorn’s presence, one of the goblins have already died from a slash coming from Ashrune. The goblins realizing they were in danger instinctively unsheathed their knives. But before they could do a battle stance, one of the goblins were slashed horizontally by Sigvorn. He then stepped back and stared at the two remaining goblins.
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“Heh, What do you think, Ashrune?” Sigvorn proudly said in a somewhat arrogant tone. As he was busy praising himself, he didn’t notice another goblin beside the two in front of him managed to sneak to him. But before the goblin could attack, a longsword which was created out of nothing appeared out of thin air and pierced through the goblin.
“W-W-What was that!?”
“Tsk, I’ll explain after this fight. Just continue fighting!”
Sigvorn held Ashrune tightly and charged.
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The field was left with 5 goblin down and Sigvorn standing. He sheathed Ashrune and unsheathed his dagger. He sliced the goblin’s nose as proof of subjugation, Sigvorn was disgusted by the first and the second but after the third goblin, he had gotten used with their ugly state.
"Sig, you're pretty sloppy at your swordsmanship, Is this the first time you used a sword in battle?"
"Ugh.. Pretty much. To be frank this was my first quest as an Adventurer." Ashrune unconsciously let out an 'Eh?' and went into silence. Even though Sigvorn was an E ranked adventurer, Ashrune thought he had taken quests before and had experience in battle. After a few seconds of thinking, Ashrune gave Sigvorn an advice.
"Sig, you should start training and polish your swordsmanship."
"I know that. It's just I was so excited in being an adventurer that I haven't got time to train." Hearing this, Ashrune could only give a sigh. Sigvorn, who remembered the recent incident, began to ask Ashrune questions.
“So Ashrune, what happened a while ago? A sword just appeared out of nowhere!”
“Umm, how do I explain this…? Ah, you could say it’s my ability, you know how magic items have special abilities right? My ability can create and control those created swords. As long as you wield me, you’ll have unlimited blades at your disposal. That is, if you supply me with mana.”
Sigvorn’s eyes shone in amazement He knew magic items contained such abilities unique to itself but what piqued his interest the most was its ability to create and manipulate swords. He decided to give it a try once again and held Ashrune tightly.
“Go Ashrune, make the swords.” Sigvorn demanded in a slightly arrogant manner.
“Then pour your mana into me.”
“Pour my mana? Eh, how do I do that?” Ashrune unconsciously let out an ‘Eh’ sound as if puzzled by what Sigvorn said. “Didn’t you just do it earlier at that battle?” Sigvorn tilted his head. “No, I just panicked a bit then the sword came out of nowhere.” Ashrune became silent for a while and sighed. “You must have poured mana on me without realizing it, listen I’ll explain how you do it.”
“As you know, mana is everywhere in the world. You, Me, those trees and grasses, and even monsters have mana. Mana is power itself. Now, to create swords, imagine pouring your mana into me, like pouring water to a glass. Then imagine the sword and the place where you want it to appear.”
Sigvorn followed Ashrune’s explanation and gathered mana into his hand and transferred it to Ashrune. In a blink of an eye, a sword appeared out of thin air and was levitating in the middle of the air. Sigvorn was surprised at Ashrune’s ability and tried to control it. He imagined the sword moving around him at a circular motion and the sword did as imagined.
“Woah! This is amazing, Ashrune!”
“I guess, anyway, let’s continue the subjugation and hit the sack.”
“Yeah!”
Sigvorn began to find another group of goblins and blazed through in an instant with his newfound abilities.
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Sigvorn went back to the Adventurer’s Guild to turn in the goblin’s nose he hunted. All in all, he was able to collect 26 noses. It was pretty impressive for his first quest. The receptionist was surprised by the amount of noses he collected but she immediately went back to her charming smile. As expected of a professional. The receptionist placed the noses inside a sack bag and placed it in the back room, when she came back, she was holding a pouch.
“26 noses amounted to 280 gold coins.” The receptionist smiled as she handed the pouch over to Sigvorn. Sigvorn was happy with the amount he obtained, it was the first time he held such an amount of money. He received the pouch with a happy expression and thanked the receptionist. The receptionist smiled back and gave her farewell.
“Ashrune, we should hit the sack for now and spend this money tomorrow.”
“I agree. You better start training tomorrow as well.” Sigvorn went to the inn where he slept yesterday and rented a room. He lay himself on the bed and immediately went to sleep.
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