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.

a hole in the center of hammer for

A couple more hours...

upward after the clinging noise

peeking at Cyclope, who

in sweat, making him resemble a Greek god.

and right while checking it out

he put it down and mumured while scratching his bald scalp,

Felix sought confirmation

you have to stay a bit longer than I anticipated."

to react. He could only watch

I ask what went wrong?" Felix inquired, "It

the silver hammer

what I see." Cyclope smiled kindly, "I promised you a perfect masterpiece,

only drop the subject and hope that

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

allow themselves to make only one

the hammer, Cyclope returned to beating it up until he was finally satisfied with the

closer and feel it."

appeared next to the hammer and caressed it gently

like I am touching silk." Felix remarked with a

look into

exclaim in shock, "When did you

ought to feel shocked as the interior of the hammer had many

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

"Just amazing!"

what those veins were for as he knew that they were

would be able to attach themselves with both the axe and the hammer! When they separate, Felix could wield them together like

ability would merely help Felix switch between forms, but it didn't mean that the hammer wasn't required to

integrity

might make his hammer a bit weaker and

think I decided to do it again?" Cyclope smiled, "The first one had a small vein not in place, making the hammer

after fixing 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

Felix's worries were put at

how

"Most defintely." Felix nodded.

curled it around itself

pushed it

me your

aback by his request, but he still complied...He cut his palm

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 akin to a

as the vine began to grow new more branches, which ended up growing inside the hammer as well

"Okay, that's enough."