BXBX NOVEL Chapter 19: Chapter 19. The Blacksmith Shop
Race: Hume
Gder: Male
Age: 5 y/o
Occupation: Apprtice hunter, F-Rank Advturer.
[Skills]
Appraisal・Complete LV (3/00)
Invtory ( 50/500 )
Cut & Paste (9/00)
*Weapons Related:-
Dagger・Extreme (4/50),
Stealing hands・Extreme ( 3/50 ),
Two-handed Blade ( 0/50 ),
Axe ( 0/50 ).
*Body Enhancemt:-
Swift Feet (Small) ( /50 ),
Strong Arm (Small) ( /50 ),
Leg Strgth Enhancemt ( Small ) ( /50 ),
Sight Enhancemt (Small) ( /50 ).
*Magic Related:-
Magic・Wind ( 3/50 ),
Support Magic・Speed Reduction ( Small ) ( 4/50 ),
Support Magic・Sleep ( Small ) ( 8/50 ),
Support Magic・Stamina Recovery ( Small ) ( 0/50 ).
*Normal:-
Needlework ( /50 ),
Etiquette ( 0/50 ),
Cooking ( 5/50 ),
Art of Negotiation ( /50 ),
Alchemy ( 6/50 ).
[ Money: Gold Coins ( 500 ), Silver Coins ( ) ]
...Eh? Why are there so many numbers in my status?? Myne thought with surprise and suddly stop in the middle of the road.
I remembered correctly there was no number in my status wh today morning I use appraisal skills on myself.
Huh! Wait a minute, wh did my appraisal skill become level ?? So those changes happed because my appraisal skill leveled up. So this means that those numbers behind my skills are probably their proficicy number that shows wh my skills going to level up, Myne thought with a smile.
But why is there LV: 7 writt under my name? what Is this LV means, I never heard about this. Just as Myne is thinking about what the LV word under his name means, a new scre appears in front of his eyes.
[LV]: Read as level. The digit shows the strgth of the Host. The higher the number, the stronger Host will be. By defeating emies, the experice will be obtained, and wh a fixed amount of experice is accumulated, the level will rise. By raising the skill proficicy, the skill level will rise and every increase in skill level will make that skill more powerful.
So this LV / Level word under my name currtly represts my all strgth, Myne thought and hurriedly looked at a woman who was buying a long and thin eggplant from the vegetable shop and use his appraisal skill on her...
[ Name: Evelyn
LV:
Race: Hume
Gder: Female
Age: 9 years old
Occupation: House Wife,
[Skill]
Clothes Making.
No wonder she is buying eggplant so carefully, her husband probably doesn\'t give her time, and because she can\'t do anything about that, so need some other way to relieve her pressure, Myne thought while shaking his head, this is quite common things here, if a wife doesn\'t have the power to control their husband, th they start having affairs with other wom.
After that, he use his appraisal skill on some more people and saw that most people are on level and some old people who were a soldier or advturers in their young days is a level 3 to 6. The highest level person he saw is level , he was a 30-year-old advturer who has good fire-type magic skills.
I think level 5 should be the highest level that I can see in Lucas Town, after all this town is a small undeveloped town, where most of the people hunt for a living. So finding a powerful person here is the same as finding hundreds of gold coins on the road, Myne thought and just as he was about to walk toward the blacksmith shop, he heard a voice from behind.
"Oy, Brat! why are you standing in the middle of the road like a statue? Move away, don\'t block the road."
Myne turn back and saw that a 35-year-old aunty and some random people are staring at him angrily like he steal their daughter from them.
"Sorry, Aunty, I am feeling a little dizzy, so I stop to take some breath, I am going now," Myne said and hurriedly run away from the crowd in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.
"Today\'s youth, they are become so weak, in my time, at his age I am working in mines, so we can eat something at night, but now they felt dizzy without doing anything, Aunty made a commt on Myne that no one takes seriously and walks away, she still has to scold her daughter in law for her mistakes.
...
Huu! That aunty clearly wasn\'t a good person, she looked at me like she wanted to beat me, ev though the tire road was empty but no, she has to walk the same path as me, what a lout woman, she will probably die alone without any family, Myne thought while walking toward the blacksmith shop.
The blacksmith shop was located a short distance from the advture guild and was runs by two twin brothers, in two parts. The elder brother Aid, sells weapons, while the younger brother Ethan, all kind of sells armor.
Since tomorrow is my first day being an advturer, and now I am not short of money, so I decided to buy some good equipmt for the upcoming advture.
First I come in front of the two-story weapons shop named \'The Metal Petal\' owned by the elder brother Aid, and if you are thinking that Aid doesn\'t have sse in naming, th yes, you are right, he doesn\'t.
"Good afternoon," I shouted just after tering the shop, so Aid can hear my voice.
"Wait a minute, I am coming," a loud voice comes from behind the shop where Aid and his all workers made weapons, and soon a meter well build muscular man with short black hair, blue eyes, and normal looking face with a wide smile plastered on it comes in front of me.
[ Name: Aid
Level:
Race: Hume
Gder: Male
Age: 37 years old
Occupation: blacksmith
[Skill]
Forging LV7
Appraisal・ Metals LV6 ]
Oh, Aid also have appraisal skill, but it seems like his appraisal skill only works on metals, Myne thought.
By the way, I visit this shop quite oft and consider myself a regular customer. Before awaking, I always use a bow for hunting, so I need good arrows regularly, and since Aid was a good frid of my father, so I am quite familiar with him.
"Ohh hoho, Look boys, who came to meet us? Our little Orc hunter," Aid said loudly, and just as he said 4 people\'s voices start coming out from the smithy ( a place where blacksmith made weapons.) as if they have long be waiting for his call.
"Ohh! Where is he," a 7-year-old man, who has a height of a .5 meters and looks like a giant in front of other people said after he comes into the shop running.
"Ahh, Myne, my best frid, how are you I heard that you kill an orc, you really know how to give me a surprise," the giant man said with a big smile after seeing Myne, he hurriedly comes in front of Myne and put his one arm a his neck, like a real best frid.
"I am fine, Kofi," Myne said with a helpless smile.
Kofi is a normal-looking man with a .5-meter height, a muscular cooper-colored body, and short brown color hair and eyes. He is my time pass buddy. Kodi come to Lucas Town at 4 years of age and at that time he was quite a shy type of person, he rarely talks to anyone but because he has nice physic, so Aid hired him as a helper.
One day for some reason Aid made Kofi the manager of the shop, and that day only god knows how unlucky was I am, I come here to buy some arrows and meet him. After seeing Kofi, I talk with him a little and become frids, and that was my life\'s worst mistake.
Ev though Kofi is a nice person but he is a big gold digger, if he was a girl th it is still acceptable but that f*cker is a .5-meter tall stingy guy, who himself makes more money than me but always makes others spd money and himself never spd a single copper coin.
But just as other workers come into the shop and Aid distracts a little, Kofi hurriedly takes his face beside Myne\'s ear and said in a slow voice, "Oye, Myne, do you have orc meat? I heard that you only sold a little bit of orc meat to the butcher old man, and don\'t ev think of lying, if you did, th I will tell Big Sis Maya that you drink alcohol that day with me."
"Huh? But wasn\'t it you who force me to drink alcohol, and In that too I just drank a little bit and spit the rest of the alcohol on your face, because of its foul taste??" Myne said innoctly.
"Ev though you are talking right, but whom will Big Sis Maya trust more? An expericed and hard-working handsome man like me or an inexpericed young man like you??" Kofi said with an evil smile.
"Sigh, I knew I shouldn\'t have gone with you that day, not only your taste in alcohol is so bad but your character also wasn\'t good," Myne said while shaking his head but he still took out two 5 kg orc meat bags from his storage pouch ( Invtory).
"Ohh? Do you save this much for me?" Kofi said with stars in his eyes after seeing orc meat bags in front of Myne.
Just as Kofi hurriedly wanted to take both bags, Myne slapped on his hand and said, "you can only take one, the second is for big bro Aid."
"Okay," Kofi said with a big smile and after taking one meat bag from Myne, he hurriedly start running toward smithy like wolfs are chasing him.
Hehe, time for revge, how can I let you eat so peacefully, Myne thought and said hurriedly, "Guys look, Kofi is running with orc meat."
"What! I know it, no wonder that fatty come here in so a hurry, so he was behind the orc meat, guys hurry up and catch him, otherwise, he will eat everything like last time," a random worker said.
F*ck You Myne, can\'t you keep your mouth shut for a while, now I have to share my delicious orc meat with those basterds, but only if they can catch me, Kofi thought and start running faster.
That gold digger run quite fast, Myne thought, and use appraisal on Kofi.
[ Name: Kofi
Level:
Race: Half giant / Half Hume
Gder: Male
Age: 7 years old
Occupation: blacksmith, Hunter.
[Skill]
Stone Skin ( Medium ) LV3
Strgth Enhancemt ( High ) LV4.
[Stone Skin]
Can make Host skin hard as stone. Any attack on the host reduces to 30% but while the skill is running host movemt speed reduces to 5%.
[ Strgth Enhancemt ( High )]Increase Host Strgth by 3 fold for 30 seconds and after the skill time runout, the host would feel an extreme level of pain over the allover body like thousands of ants biting at the same time.
Skill Cooldown Time: 30 Minutes ( Can only use 3 times a day. )
What the F*ck! I just said some momt ago that I can\'t find any person that has a level higher than 5, but now Kofi unknowingly become a super expert with a level a ?
But looking at Kofi\'s skills I should not be so surprised since both of his skills are super powerful, ev though Kofi both skills have some restrictions but still, he is quite powerful, Myne thought after seeing Kofi\'s status.
No wonder he become a blacksmith just two months after starting working here, with the strgth of a giant it was probably piece of cake for him to make weapons where most of the work depds on the blacksmith\'s strgth and stamina, Myne thought while coming in front of Aid and giving him second meat bag.
"You know sometimes, you really make me wonder that you are only 5 years old," Aid said while accepting a meat bag from Myne.
"Haha, you don\'t have to feel jealous of my intelligce," Myne said shamelessly while rubbing his head with a big smile.
"So what is the price of your orc meat? I will pay for both meat bags, Aid said while taking out his storage pouch, he decided that from now on he won\'t give Myne any complimts, Myne is too shameless for that."
"What are you talking about, I am not the type of guy who takes money from his frids, this is a gift from me, so just take it," Myne said with a frown.
"But still, I know that you work hard to get it, so if you don\'t want money th how will it be if I give a 50% discount on any next weapon that you buy," Aid said with a smile.
"Sigh, Well, now you\'re saying so much th, Okay, I accept your this offer," Myne said while shaking his head.
"So what do you want to buy today," Aid asked while placing his meat bags on the table.
"I want to buy a new super sharp dagger that can easily cut the orc skin like paper," Myne said after thinking for a while.
"Ohh, your requiremt is quite high, I don\'t know if your little pocket can buy this kind of expansive weapon, by the way, what is your budget?" Aid asked with a smile.
"Not much 30 gold coins," Myne said while making a fake proud expression on his face.
"It seems like you really make quite a lot of money rectly," Aid said and walk toward the strong room to bring a good dagger.
Ev though I can buy an expsive weapon but Aid is familiar with me and know very well how much money I make with hunting. So if I suddly took out a large amount of money to buy a weapon, th he probably has doubts about my money source ( which is not worth saying, and if I did th till tomorrow morning half of the town people probably become my emy.
) and who knows after seeing my money he became greedy and decide to do something bad behind my back? greed can make a normal person something that you can\'t imagine in your weirdest dream.
After all, if you saw that your frids who were poor till yesterday, and suddly become rich, th you of course become jealous after seeing his wealth. So in order to not get unnecessary atttion, Myne decides to play safe until he has ough power or a good excuse to say where is all money coming from.
"Take a look at this one, this is the best dagger that you can buy at the price of 30 gold coins," Aid said he come out of the storage room and handed me a black color dagger with a lgth of a 35-40 Inches.
[ Name: Dark Blade ( Dagger )
Attack Power: + 30
Grade: Medium
Attribute: None
Description: A dagger made of Nira metal that was found in the depth of the Samara mine. The perfect partner for an assassin.
Strong Against Humanoid Monsters ]
Ev though I don\'t know what attack Power means but it looks quite sharp and its description also looks cool, anyway most of the time I only use magic skills, so let\'s buy it, Myne thought and took out 5 gold coins from his storage pouch ( Invtory) and give them to Aid.
"Big bro Aid you really like this dagger, and since you just give me a 50% discount so here are 5 gold coins I am buying it," Myne said with a big smile.
"Hahaha, you made me a big loss this time, who would have thought that you come fully prepared," Aid said while laughing.
"But no one asked you for a discount as well, next time if you give someone a discount th choose your customer wisely," Myne said with an evil smile and hurriedly run out of the shop.
So that was all his plan, huh? I felt from the beginning that something was wrong wh he offers meat so gerously but only now do I know where my feelings come from. Sigh, gold coin worth of orc meat, he sells that to me at the price of 5 gold coins, what a big loss, Aid said while shaking his head helplessly.
But wh he turned a to take his 5 gold coins worth of orc meat from the table he saw that his meat bag was missing.
Ohh shit, I hope that didn\'t happ what I\'m thinking, Aid said as he hurriedly come to the smithy but after seeing the view in front of him, his eyes become red in anger.
"Kofiiii, with whose permission are you eating my orc meat?" Aid said loudly after seeing that Kofi is eating the last piece of his orc\'s meat which he cooks on the heat that use to make weapons, while his other workers laying on the g unconscious, clearly in order to eat peacefully Kofi sds them in their sweet dreamland.
{A/J: What a great idea, maybe I should try this trick with my younger brother too wh mom brings sweets.}
"Huh! Boss doesn\'t look in good mood, I must run now, Kofi thought and hurriedly run out of the shop like a hurricane.
"My 5 gold coins worth of orc meat," Aid said with some tears in his eyes while looking at the empty orc meat bag, clearly, he is quite ssitive toward the food.