On his way to Lucas's house, Aaron wasted all of his Gold Coins when he bought two Magic Rocks.

'I better set the destination for the Mystique-Door Skill in a secluded area at the backyard of my house.'

"Ron!" Flora came running out the door and threw herself at him in the middle of the street, "This time you're here to play with me, right! Right!"

Her puppy eyes were sort of irresistible but Aaron had to toughen up and shake his head while pushing her away by the shoulders, even when she was sad her beautiful green eyes had gentle bewitchment to them!

"I know that you're feeling down but I'm really busy, plus I promised to let you have fun in the pool back in my house when it's finished." Aaron patted the girl's head then moved past her and she followed him back to the house.

He looked towards Shane who's winging a blunt sword to train in the garden, "Go tell your old man that he can find me at Mr Smith's smithy." Afterwards he turned and left but not before teasing the sad girl by pinching her nose, a gesture which Flora answered by swatting his hand away while giving him an expression of annoyance.

Flora kept her nose scrunched until he left before stomping her feat towards her mother back in the kitchen to complain after Aaron heartlessly refused to spend time to play with her.

*Clang* *Clang*

The sound of metal getting struck could be heard long before Aaron reached the street where the smithy is located, but unlike two days ago... this time there's a simple tent close to the furnace where Mr Smith's workbench and anvil.

Beneath that tent Mr Smith was busy at work hammering a piece of red hot steel against the flat surface of the anvil.

"Oh! You're here my friend." Mr Smith noticed Aaron coming his way and smiled widely which revealed two rows of shiny white teeth.

"Good morning Mr Smith," He looked around at the current state of the smithy and frowned because nothing happened here after it was destroyed besides the debris getting removed, "Why is there nobody building this place? Wasn't Chief Peter supposed to personally oversee the work until it's finished?" Aaron asked while glancing towards the simple and rough looking mattress which this giant must've been using as a bed the past two nights, he felt bad for the poor giant.

Mr Smith smirked before dipping the piece of steel into some oil container, "Yeah he was. But I've told Peter to call off his men and send them towards your house to speed up things once I helped Vogen create these "bricks" because it'd be much better if I used some of these materials and techniques to build my smithy, actually Todd also decided to wait until the smithy is built anew before he builds his restaurant."

Aaron finally understood why there's a delay, "Humph. That old geezer might not get his chance until much later."

"Why's that?" Mr Smith asked while taking a seat on the ground to take a break from work since he's been busy since early in the morning without stop.

"You do know that there's a Beast-Wave coming our way right?" Aaron moved closer and whispered because he doesn't want the news to spread because it'd cause mass panic among the people.

The giant nodded his head before taking a swig at the bottle of hard liquor, "Uh-Huh."

Aaron shrugged before explaining why he thinks so, "Chief Peter might allow more people to work on my house because the sooner it's finished the sooner he gets to use these people to reinforce and strengthen the defenses of the Village, the reason he's not against delaying his plans to build your smithy is because everyone stands to gain when you're working comfortably and creating products of the highest-quality. But the same can't be said about old geezer Todd and his restaurant which doesn't benefit anybody in this situation."

"Hahaha... no wonder he's been in a sour mood lately, I heard that he's crashing at Stan's house with his grandson. Camila has always been such a nice girl." Mr Smith slapped his thigh a few times and didn't feel embarrassed in taking pleasure at others inconvenience.

"Anyway," Aaron moved a bit further away from the sitting giant while saying : "That's not the reason why came here today?"

Mr Smith nodded, "Yeah, I thought so too. You don't strike me as the gossipy type."

The kid smiled before retrieving the huge metal eggs one by one.

*Thud* *Thud*

"Where did you find so much refined steel? No... that's not only refined steel, there's also different types of metal in the chaotic mix!" The giant tossed the bottle of liquor to the side and ran towards the first egg and began inspecting it by hitting it gently with his hammer and closing his eyes to listen to the sound while putting a hand on the huge egg itself to feel the vibrations when the metal rang.

"I came here to give these to you and to make a request of my own." Aaron said when Mr Smith looked towards him as if he's some sort of alien or something like that!

Which he totally understands that he is one of these by the way!

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

Mr Smith leaned against one of the huge metal eggs and crossed his hands while saying : "Let's hear it then, I don't have anything to do besides the requests Arturo made before he left but I had little materials left in my storage to work with and was about to twiddle my thumbs soon anyway."

Aaron gestured towards the five huge refined metal eggs, "You're aware about the basement which is being built beneath my house."

"Yeah, I've seen how large it's going to be and I'm not sure why and what are you going to do with all that space to be honest my friend." Mr Smith nodded when he heard a ringing tone of sound which he understands from one of these five eggs.

"It can be used for many things, the basement could be used for storage when needed and for shelter when it is required among many other things and it only depends on the situation." Aaron explained before continuing to say : "But none of this is going to work if I'm not certain of keeping it sealed shut whenever I see fit, that's why I need you to use some of these eggs to build a formidable gate that's neigh impenetrable and indestructible."

Mr Smith's eyes brightened before frowning slightly, "I'm certain that I can operate somehow and work my way through the less technical parts of the process with your help fueling the furnace with your amazing flames but... I've never built a gate before and I'm pretty sure my work wouldn't be as amazing as you want it to be, not even close actually."

Aaron nodded, "That's to be expected when you don't have a blueprint to follow and a design of certain mechanisms, but don't worry about a thing Mr Smith I got you covered. Just have fun separating the different types of metal within these eggs until Cassandra pays you a visit."

The giant released a sigh of relief before smiling widely while gesturing towards the furnace, "Now that you've mentioned it, the temperature of my furnace has gone down a lot since yesterday and as you can see I don't have any firewood to fix this issue."

The kid shook his head and walked towards the mouth of the furnace while thinking : 'This big fellow is trying to take advantage of me and acting so shamelessly despite us being partners and having received a few tons worth of precious refined metals just a few minutes earlier! But why do I still find it kind of cute though?'

"Hmmm. What happened to you? Didn't you eat your breakfast or something?" Mr Smith asked while tilting his head to the side slightly.

"Nothing happened to me. What do you mean? And of course I had breakfast! Plus what has that got to do with any of this?" Aaron asked right after releasing a Flame Orb from each one of his hands into the furnace, he jumped a few steps to the side and away from the mouth of this furnace.

*Bang*

The muffled explosion could be heard and the ground could be felt shaking right under their feet, the giant had to support one of the huge metal eggs when it was about to tilt to the side because it might destroy a few neighbors' houses if it rolled like a gourd.

"The fire balls you made this time were a lot less intense in contrast to last time you helped, that's why I'm asking if you're alright and not sick or anything like that." Mr Smith pushed the eggs to their side and used rocks to prevent the metal eggs from moving at all.

"I'm not sick, I'm not hungry, and I certainly am not weakened by anything. I just lost my weapon so my techniques are a little bit weaker than before but all of this is fixable so just relax and watch me give your furnace the kind of fire it needs." Aaron placed both palms facing the mouth of this furnace and channeled the Fire Orb Skill after activating it.

However, this time he felt his skin getting scalded once three seconds passed and the blue spark appeared within the two orange-red colored Flame Orbs.

Not daring to take any risk at all especially after what happened yesterday during his experience with Sera, the kid released the two Flame Orbs and jumped away while activating both of his Defensive-Skills plus Recovery and Nimble-Feet.

*Bang*

This time the ground beneath their feet vibrated harder then everything calmed down a few seconds later.

"Was that enough?" He asked while stealing a glance towards the belly of the furnace but the glaring brightness and the unbearable heat made him look away.

Mr Smith walked forward and took a look inside the furnace while squinting his eyes, "That'll work for a day or two, but you'd better come everyday to heat up the furnace because it'd make things much easier for me."

Aaron nodded, "Alright then, let's do that." After taking a few steps away from the intense heat which made him feel like all moisture within his mouth was evaporated and it left him feeling parched.

'My lungs would be cooked if I stay in this sort of environment for too long!'

"Wait!" Seeing the kid waving goodbye at him after seeing his two followers coming towards the smithy, the giant stopped him before heading towards the back of the furnace and using the pointy side of his hammer to remove one of the biggest rocks from the ground.

Aaron, Pio, and Lucas plus a few villagers walking the street saw the blacksmith retrieve a huge wooden box from beneath that rock, the box isn't made completely from wood but is studded with metal bars on each corner and right down the middle of each side both horizontally and vertically!

"Is that some sort of treasure?"

"Hush you idiot, that's none of our business!"

"Heh. So this is where this lumbering fool hides his treasure!"

"I was really having enough with all of his annoying noise all day and night, it's about time I get something nice for my lady."

"Careful not to get caught by him, I bet he wouldn't hesitate and toss you into that hell-like furnace of his."

While the people whispered among themselves, Mr Smith dropped the box in front of the kid before saying : "I can't take all that refined metal for free, you keep these Coins for now and wait for me to pay the rest from my share after we sell the items I make later. Please don't refuse me my friend, we might be friends but we're also partners and I hate being unfair to any friend or partner."

Aaron felt happy once he saw the sincere and firm look deep within the giant's pair of wide ox-like eyes, "Fair is fair, but I'm still going to pay what I owe you for the gate you're about to build me once it's finished."

"Deal." Mr Smith smiled and both of them shook hands before Aaron took Pio and Lucas away from the smithy once the giant got busy cutting at one of the huge metal eggs.

"Where to now young master Ron? Are we going back to the forest?" Pio asked while flexing his arm muscles to check the difference after their morning exercise.

'This moron thinks something would change in a few hours, he's hopeless.' Aaron thought before rolling his eyes towards Pio while saying : "Probably not today."

Pio felt embarrassed under the gaze of his young master and fixed his attitude, "What are we going to do then?" He asked before noticing a group of four coming towards them from the direction of the street where Chief Peter's house is located.

Three of them were men and all three of them are people which Aaron's group is familiar with, them being Roger and his younger brother Sen plus Scadur trailing a step or two behind the two brothers.

The final member of Roger's group is a teenager girl which looks no older than fourteen or fifteen years old maximum.