Supremacy Games

Three days later...

Felix and Cyclope had returned to the main forge, wearing the same goggles.

"Looks like it's ready for the cast." Cyclope shared as he glanced at the molten red metal inside the crucible.

Without further ado, he picked it up with tongs and closed the wall behind him, returning the main forge into its normal brightness.

Felix removed the goggles and wore his AP bracelets back on as well as his nanoclothes. It looked like regardless of what he did, he always ended up in situations that required him to go nude...

"This is the cast?" Felix wondered as he looked at a metallic container that was shaped into half a hammer and half an axe.

Cyclope nodded and started pouring the molten material into the cast, filling it up to the brim. Then, he closed it and let it cool down for a bit.

Felix remained silent and sat on the corner, watching him prepare the tools to start working on the hammer.

The cast might give an accurate shape of the hammer, but it didn't mean that was the end of it.

Now the real blacksmithing work would start.

Ka-thud!

Cyclope opened the cast and picked up the glowing red hammer before putting it on an anvil.

Although it was cool enough to solidify, Felix knew that it was still hot enough to be reformed.

Cling! Cling! Cling!

Ax expected, Cyclope started to hammer it down in precise repeated motion, making him resemble the blacksmithing machines.

'What will happen when the hammer cools off completely while he wasn't done yet?' Asna wondered with a curious tone.

'He will be forced to heat it again but not to the point of melting.' Lady Sphinx said, 'But, I doubt it will reach that point as this wasn't a normal metal we are dealing with.'

Just like it took an insane amount of time for the material to get melted off, the heat wouldn't dissipate off it so soon.

If it was anyone else, this still wouldn't matter much as they would be required to heat it up again. But this was Cyclope, the godfather of blacksmithing and forgery.

If one person could shape up a piece of metal to his desired state in one single go, it would defintely be him!

As anticipated, in less than two hours, the hammer was starting to turn slimmer, cleaner, and the edges were refined.

Let's not speak about the axe's blade as it was so sharp, Felix felt like his eyes would be sliced apart if he stared at it too much!

Still, Cyclope wasn't done hammering it down even when the heat started to wear off and the hammer's real color began to show.

created a hole in the center of hammer for the vines to connect with

A couple more hours...

he finish?' Asna glanced upward after the clinging noise

Felix replied while peeking at

making him resemble a Greek god. Felix remained silent as he could see that Cyclope was studying

right while checking it out up

scratching his bald scalp, "Looks like I have gotten rusty to

a mistake?" Felix sought

have to stay a bit longer than I anticipated."

didn't even know how to react. He could only watch the

I ask what went wrong?" Felix

exaggerating as the

don't see what I see." Cyclope smiled kindly, "I promised you a perfect masterpiece, and that's

subject and hope that Cyclope get back his

wouldn't hesitate to keep trying over and over again for eternity if it meant not finishing this

grandmasters like Cyclopes allow themselves to make only one

returned to beating it up until he

and feel it." Cyclope

to the hammer and caressed

so smooth like I am touching silk." Felix remarked with a surprised

look into

as he was told and couldn't help but exclaim in shock, "When did you make such veins

to feel shocked as the interior of the hammer had many thin and long empty veins,

shared, "I used my manipulation to create those veins. When it was cooled, the veins stabilized and didn't

"Just amazing!"

what those veins were for as he knew that they were meant for

themselves with both the axe and the hammer! When they separate, Felix could wield them together like

help Felix switch between forms, but it didn't

this harm the integrity of

his hammer a bit weaker and

it again?" Cyclope smiled, "The first one had a small vein not in

it, the weakness had disappeared." Cyclope assured, "The hammer won't break as long as the vines entered those veins. You should know that stingy tree's vines are even

so, Felix's worries were put at

want to see how

"Most defintely." Felix nodded.

beamed the shimmering white root and curled it around itself until it resembled a

gently pushed it through the

me

he still complied...He cut his palm and

it above the hammer and poured the blood in the hole and specially the white vine...The moment the blood reached the white vine, Felix was startled to see it moving on its own

more branches, which ended up growing inside the hammer as well as around

"Okay, that's enough."