The Author's POV

Rumble—

With a low rumble, the ground shook and the doors of Henlour opened up.

Without saying anything, we entered the gates.

"Welcome back."

Greeting us at the entrance of the city was another dwarf. By now, most people already knew who we were, and hence, whenever they saw us, they would greet us.

"Thank you."

Greeting them back, we once again entered the city.

Rumble—

It wasn't long before a low rumble sounded again and the gates closed shut behind us.

"Go get some proper rest. We will start our preparations for the elven domain over the next few days."

"Got it."

The first thing we did was go back to our own residences to get changed.

Having stayed in the nearby forests for over a month, everyone needed to get a proper bath.

Although our tents were indeed advanced, they still didn't have showers built in them. As such, whenever someone needed to wash, they would need to go to a nearby river to get cleaned.

Actually, I did briefly pass by Henlour a week ago to talk to Malvil about my sword, so it was only a week for me.

"Huam."

Once I arrived at my residence and separated myself from the others, I headed for the shower.

Turning the valve on, I let the warm water fall on my tired body, which had a couple of scars on them, before i relaxed completely.

Once I was done with the shower, drying my hair with a clean towel, I sat on the bed.

As I sat down, the water droplets that dropped down from my body traced down my toned body before they reached the clean bedsheets, wetting them.

"Let's see if anyone contacted me during all this time."

Opening my desk drawer, I took out my watch and booted it on.

Since there was no signal outside of the city as the dwarves tried to limit most outside communications, I had no idea about what had happened while I was gone.

It wasn't even a moment before a long string of text appeared on my watch. All of them coming from the same individual.

"Oh, Malvil called me."

'Is he finished with the sword?'

Him calling me only meant one thing: the sword was almost ready.

After the incident with Inferno, and after spending nine months improving my swordsmanship, I was finally able to convince him into forging a sword for me.

Not many had such a privilege, and so I was very happy with this development.

"That aside, I also feel much better now that I no longer have the tracking device inside of my head working."

Thanks to Jomnuk's coaching, Ryan was able to develop to the point where he could now easily hack into my chip and tamper with the device.

He could turn it on and off whenever he wanted to. This was a great piece of news to me as I could definitely make do with it in the future.

Especially at the conference where I was going to meet up with the Union.

With the chip tracking device off, they would of course be unable to tell that I was 876, but for sure I was going to let them understand that they had messed with someone extremely petty.

Well, that was granted if the opportunity for it came. If there wasn't, I could just wait for later.

'Right, that fucker will also be there…'

Recalling a certain face inside of my memories, my lips tugged upwards.

'I've still got quite the score to settle with you, don't I?'

more than the Union, it would be none other than the individual that brought me to

I had

teeth grinding together sounded

"Huuuu."

took a deep breath, trying

was a time for everything and now was not

I headed

Cli- Clank—

Malvil and seeing how

ones I have been using weren't

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that I hated about the fourth level, it would

to the earth's core, it was extremely

time I went there, it would feel as though I was

pleasant, to say the

"You're finally here, human!"

entering the main building of the facility center, Malvil came to greet me

to the secretary, and only greeted me once he saw

enough... I was already done a couple of days ago." He grumbled, looking at me

"That fast?"

annoyed, but I merely shrugged

be blamed, I put all of my focus on training instead of anything else. Though, I

"Follow me."

goodbye to the secretary, Malvil brought me to his

I had been there, it was a mess. With equipment sprawled all over the place and scrap pieces of metal on the floor, it looked as though a

to this. Stepping over the

Thump—

cloth onto

eyes paused on the sword, my

this the completed

me a while to process the…sword in front of me, if it could even be

looked nothing like it. Rather, it looked more

and completely nothing that would make it look like a sword, the thing that was in front of me could not

tell me that

never show me something like

paused there, I looked up to Malvil who was looking at

his finger forward and tracing it over the body of the piece

"How beautiful…"

You call that

wanted to say those words out loud but I

passed that

about that, almost

with a forceful

with that

was quite obvious as Malvil glared at

my hands in a show of peace, I calmly replied, "Nothing. I was just curious

"Of course it is."

his small

the

that this is

yes, I could tell that

is such

hands behind his back before walking towards another counter and picking up a small white hammer that was adorned with tiny blue,

proceeded to walk towards the sword

last glare, he handed me the

once you

asked, confusion dying my face. Why in the world was he giving

"Just take it."

shoved the hammer in my hands

"Now hammer the sword!"

was being, I calmed myself

Malvil was not someone who would joke about things related to his profession, so without wasting any more time, raising my hand which

mana before you do

I could even swing downwards, Malvil's voice traveled through my

"Got it."

my eyes, I channeled all

Vooom—!

embedded on the hammer's side suddenly started to glow, lighting up the room in beautiful myriad

towards the metal frame, Malvil shouted, "Now! Hammer