Septem - Chapter 54 Dwarf Invitation
“Hello, Destroyer we finally meet.” [Yosep]
Destroyer looked at the boy with black eyes and black hair. Although, he is still a boy but his instinct tells him that this boy is very strong. Somehow he also feels intimate feeling that make him to thrust this boy. The destroyer wants to reply the boy but he can’t even move his mouth.
“Don’t brother to reply, I put a very potent anesthetic to your body otherwise you will break down from all the pain caused by your unbalance body. Still, I cannot wait for your body to adapt to your current situation. I need some information from you. Now, can you try to focus on your memories?” [Yosep]
After saying that, he immediately grabs Destroyer’s head and begin to read all his memories. Meanwhile, destroyer find a foreign energy into his mind but he didn’t resist it. he keeps focus on his hidden memory like what he just told to do.
From the memories, Yosep got a lot of information about destroyer. His real name is Bezir. He is come from one of the kingdom in the Neviret continent a.k.a the magician heaven. According to his memory, he is one of the prestigious mage in the kingdom before being betrayed by a noble.
Because of that he loses his family during that time. In despair, He lost his mind and dabble in black magic. Black magic is sinister magic that may have bad effect toward the user or other people. Sometimes this magic requires sacrifice of others life but the effect is very potent.
Although it is called black magic but it is actually just normal magic with special requirement to cast it. The people of Neviret continent just label it as black magic because of their sinister effect. Although ancient spell usually is more sinister than this so called black magic.
After receiving condemn from the magician society, he begins mass destruction as retaliation. This mass destruction leads him to get nickname [The Destroyer].
Since then he always on the run before finally be recruited by Behemoth organization. As he already loses everything and his sane mind, He quickly rises into top rank in organization. Yosep managed to get a lot of information about the Behemoth from him and their current movement.
After sort out all the Bezir’s memories, he let the restrained man back to sleep. Yosep need him in one of his plans. Moreover, his chaos body ability is quite unique. It can squish life force of one being to empower the being for 10 times powerful in certain period.
Done with Bezir business, he returns to his adult form and training his body in the most concentrated gravity area.
A week later, he got a letter from the Bardur Ironhead, the dwarf that have competition with him at the blacksmith guild. The letter contains about invitation to their mountain. It seems the dwarf elder wants to talks to him about the production of unique grade weapon.
They will send an envoy from the blacksmith guild to become guide for him to their mountain. Although, that the letter write in polite manner but it actually it is not given him any choice to refuse them.
Fortunately, he also doesn’t want to reject the invitation. For him the dwarf community is same like gold mine. Even though, money is second to one individual strength in this world. But with money it can makes the world run. It can provide him some advantage in many occasion.
He already has enough strength to walk on Hirth without being afraid, but he still need money. If he keeps tyrannically abuse his strength, he may become the number one public enemy.
He replied the letter that he accepts the invitation and will go at two days’ time. He need to get permission from the academy. After the incident, the academy rules become stricter about people getting in and out from it.
It is compulsory to get the permission from the headmaster for student that want to leave the academy ground. Moreover, all the permission is must be for very urgent matter. Fortunately, the dwarf community already send letter to the academy about their current situation.
All he need to do is just asked permission before he will be permitted to leave. Actually, this is a perfect situation to him. He planned to slip up from the academy since he need a lot of things to do outside the academy.
The timing dwarf community send their invitation is good. It let him to save a lot of trouble from creating a perfect alibi to slip up from the academy.
Since nobody pay attention to Yosep at the moment, this is also good excuse for him. As for the bald prince and that Coldhearth brat that always harassed him in the past months, they change their target on Hilbert after being beaten by him at their tournament. For Hilbert this will be a good opportunity to enhance his battle experience.
Few days ago, Yosep mercilessly beating Hilbert until almost all his bone broken. This incident happens because he disappointed at Hilbert. After the tournament, Hilbert’s growth become stagnant because of his overconfident which infuriated him.
In the past few days, Yosep keep beating Hilbert without healing him at all. He also forbids Hilbert to heal his wound from potions or infirmary. Yosep want Hilbert to experience battle while sustain life threatening wound. He wants to teach Hilbert to not make many useless move when fighting. As fighting itself is not dance but battle with death or life.
After packing his things, he goes to Eve and told her that he need leave the academy for certain period of time. Hearing the news, Eve begin to hug him on her own. She asked him to bring her too, but he rejected.
In these past days, Eve already very comfortable with Yosep’s presence. She will become airhead if she is not meet him at least once a day. Although she didn’t show it from the outside but actually she is now quite dependable to Yosep.
Yosep only manage to calm her down after teasing her and give her promise for dinner date. Even Eve already more mature than her age, she still become very spoiled around him. Especially after knowing that he will bring her to dinner date. But, that’s what he like from her.
Few days later, Yosep arrived at the Silver mountain, home of the dwarf community that reside at Rosewood Kingdom. The journey toward the mountain is very uneventful since I got some bodyguard from the blacksmith guild.
As for bandits, they don’t dare to attack us since blacksmith guild also deals with the huge bandits group to supply them. In Hirth, blacksmith guild basically a legal weapon arm dealer.
Because of their huge influence, they often sell the weapon to both side party without care of others reaction. He also heard a certain myth about this from the guild’s envoy.
Once there is a nation that try to sabotage the blacksmith guild inside their nation. Later, the blacksmith guild refuse to sell their arm to this nation which let the nation become in vulnerable state from other nation.
Soon the nation being destroyed by invasion of nearby nation. Although, the nearby nation stronger than that destroyed nation but the majority reason it lost is because the soldier lack of good quality weapon and armor
Since this incident, there are no nation that try to make things difficult toward blacksmith guild. However, for dwarf community case in Rosewood kingdom is different. Although, the request is from the royal family but the one that make things difficult is the dwarf community itself.
They actually know blacksmiths that can create unique weapon however all of them are very busy and located far away from the Rosewood kingdom. They also too prideful to asked other dwarf community for help. Because of this, they now in dilemma to fulfil the crown prince request.
Until the received a certain news during the royal academy tournament. It is also the reason they invited Yosep. They found out that of the weapon Hilbert use to destroy Neil’s armor.
Before the dwarf community don’t care about him because of his ridiculous request of the gold. The dwarf elder even angry at his request for being too arrogant. But, now they just hope to negotiate with him about this matter.
They knew that this armor is super rare grade that can withstand Bardur’s axe, which a rare grade that sometime destroy super rare grade armor. After investigate further, they found that Hilbert got his gauntlet from Yosep.
Actually, he leaks this news purposely to bait the dwarf community. It will be waste if his creation only become his subordinate weapon. Now, the fish already bite the bait and he just need to pull them up.
The dwarf base at silver mountain is quite unique. The entrance looks like a big cave with few dwarf settlements for the dwarf guards. However, the dwarf settlement is more like barrack than residence for people.
There many kind of siege weapon from ballista to magic canon with huge enchanted wall surrounding it. he guesses even if the Rosewood kingdom fallen from invasion, they will still can hold back the invader.
After passing through of series tight inspection, they let Yosep and the envoy pass into the giant cave. The moment he goes inside it, “Alice, scan the entire area.” As he ordered Alice in his mind.
“Scanning the area for 10 km radius. Success Generating 3D map” [Alice]
for visiting.
One of Alice ability is that she can scanning 10 km radius area and generating 3D map. It is same for his [scan] spell but she can do it silently without being noticed by others. Unlike his [scan] who is created a lot of commotion when he cast it.
Alice ability is based on my body perception, the higher my body perception the bigger the area she can scan. Now, he can only handle 10km radius but it is already enough to cover the entire mountain.
From the Alice’s 3D map, he found that most of the dwarf live underground. The tunnel inside the cave itself is like labyrinth. It is impossible for stranger without guide to go through this labyrinth except for Yosep.
Following the guide, he found many huge stalactites with different color. It is very beautiful that even blacksmith envoy begins appreciated it. Even though most of them already often seen it every time they went to dwarf inner base.
For the dwarf’s guide, he become quite proud after looking at the human reaction except for Yosep. He can still maintain his calm even after looking such beautiful scenery. It is not because Yosep don’t like the scenery. But he already looking through more beautiful scenery many times from his past life.
Although most of his life on Earth was running, but there is one of his personality that always got his request fulfilled because of his trait. He is Sloth. Because of his unique personality, the others treat him like precious younger brother and spoil him a lot.
He always like to go many beautiful sceneries just so he can sleep peacefully. Although, it means they need to travel to many dangerous place. Because of his character, Sloth also got a lot of dangerous weapon from Greed and become no.1 sniper on Earth.
Even though most of his reason is based on his laziness to attain long sleep. But, compare to other personality, people can say that Sloth is the most docile among others. Although, when he cries usually Wrath begin take over and destroy everything nearby.
While walking through the tunnel, Yosep begins to remember about his past life. He missed his other personality that never shut up and keep rambling inside his head. Especially after going into unknown area like this place.
Finally, after half hour of passed through some shortcut and secret tunnel, they arrive at the real dwarf settlement. They arrive at the gigantic forging area. Many hammering sound across the area can be heard. Mixing with some of the dwarf voice shouting with each other.
“My dear friend, Yosep. Welcome to Silver mountain dwarf community, Silvandor.” [Bardur]