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?'

I hated much more than the Union, it would be none

I had suffered

grinding together sounded across

"Huuuu."

breath, trying to calm

was a time for everything and

I headed for

Cli- Clank—

and seeing how much

since the ones I have been using

***

I hated about the fourth level, it would without a doubt be

to the earth's

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

pleasant, to say

"You're finally here, human!"

center, Malvil came to greet me at

already there talking to the secretary, and only greeted

enough... I was already done a couple of days

"That fast?"

quite annoyed, but I merely shrugged my

my focus on training instead of anything else.

"Follow me."

goodbye to the secretary, Malvil brought

all over the

the garbage, we soon paused in front of

Thump—

thin white cloth onto the table, producing

eyes paused

this the

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

Rather, it looked more like a

no sharp edges, no grip, and completely nothing that would make it look like a sword, the thing

me that

was impossible. With Malvil's pride, he would never show me something like

was looking at the sword

body of the piece

"How beautiful…"

call

wanted to say those words out loud but I

after a couple of minutes passed that Malvil finally regained himself

that, almost lost

with

with that

appeared that my face was

I was just curious if this was the sword that you were planning

"Of course it is."

small hand on

pointed towards the long piece of

you see that this is the frame of

I could

ignorance is

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

to walk towards the

me one last glare, he

once you

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

"Just take it."

Malvil shoved the hammer in

"Now hammer the sword!"

calmed

who would joke about things related to his profession, so without wasting any more time, raising my hand which held onto the

mana before you do

could even swing downwards, Malvil's voice traveled through

"Got it."

I channeled all of my mana into

Vooom—!

to glow, lighting up the room in beautiful

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