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

I had

my teeth grinding

"Huuuu."

a deep breath, trying to

for everything

changed, I headed

Cli- Clank—

priority should be visiting Malvil and seeing how

especially since the ones I have been using weren't the right fit

***

fourth level, it

the earth's core,

I went there, it would feel as though I was inside a steaming hot

pleasant, to say

"You're finally here, human!"

building of the facility center, Malvil came to greet me at

the secretary, and only greeted me once

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

"That fast?"

annoyed, but I

focus on training instead of anything else. Though, I was

"Follow me."

Malvil brought me to his

mess. With equipment sprawled all over the place and scrap pieces of metal on the floor, it looked as though a storm had raged inside

I was already used to this. Stepping over the garbage, we soon paused in front of a

Thump—

white cloth onto the table,

cloth and my eyes paused on the

this the

in front of me, if it could even be called

looked nothing like it. Rather, it looked more like a burned

edges, no grip, and completely nothing that would make it look like a sword, the thing that was in front of me could

tell me that

pride, he would never show me something like this unless there was something

paused there, I looked up to Malvil who was looking

body of the piece

"How beautiful…"

call that thing

those words out loud but I managed to keep my mouth

only after a couple of minutes passed that Malvil finally regained himself and

that, almost lost myself

replied with

with

appeared that my face was quite obvious as

show of peace, I calmly replied, "Nothing. I was just curious if this was the sword that you were planning on

"Of course it is."

slammed his small hand

the long

this is

I could tell

ignorance is

his head, Malvil interlocked his hands behind his back before walking towards another counter and

proceeded to walk towards the

glare, he handed

you'll understand once you

that to me?" I asked, confusion dying my face. Why in the world was he

"Just take it."

my question, Malvil shoved the hammer in

"Now hammer the sword!"

I calmed myself down quickly

not someone who would joke about things related to his profession, so without wasting any more time, raising my hand which held onto the hammer, I prepared

your mana before you do

downwards, Malvil's voice traveled through my

"Got it."

I channeled all

Vooom—!

on the hammer's side suddenly started to

that happened, pointing towards the metal frame, Malvil shouted, "Now! Hammer the sword