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?'

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

I had suffered

of my teeth grinding together sounded

"Huuuu."

breath, trying to

for everything and

I headed for the door of

Cli- Clank—

priority should be visiting Malvil and seeing how much he progressed

domain with a new sword, especially since the ones I have been using weren't

***

there was one thing that I hated about the fourth level, it would without a doubt

close to the

I went there, it would feel as though

wasn't pleasant, to

"You're finally here, human!"

facility center, Malvil came

to the

done a couple of days

"That fast?"

quite annoyed, but I merely shrugged

all of my focus on training instead

"Follow me."

the secretary, Malvil brought me to his

over the place and

already used to this. Stepping over the garbage, we soon paused in

Thump—

object that was covered in a thin white cloth onto the table, producing a dull sound, Malvil slowly unfolded the

my eyes

the completed

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

Rather, it looked more like a

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

me

With Malvil's pride, he would never show me something like this unless there was something more

up to Malvil who was looking at the sword with traces of satisfaction on his

tracing it over the body of the

"How beautiful…"

You call

words out loud but I managed to keep my mouth shut throughout

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

about that, almost lost

with

what's with that

appeared that my face was quite obvious as Malvil glared

a 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."

his small hand on the

then pointed towards the long piece

that this is the frame

yes, I could tell that

is such

hands behind his back before walking towards another counter and picking

proceeded to walk

me one last glare, he handed

you'll understand once

giving that to me?" I asked, confusion dying my face.

"Just take it."

question, Malvil shoved the hammer in

"Now hammer the sword!"

was being, I calmed myself down

profession, so without wasting any more time, raising my hand

before you do

I could even swing downwards, Malvil's voice

"Got it."

my eyes, I channeled all of my mana into the

Vooom—!

on the hammer's side suddenly started to glow, lighting up the room

the metal frame, Malvil