Chapter 108: For Iron (1/2)
Apparently, not many students knew about dwarves While hueneral knowledge did not includebeards
In fact, their facial hair held great i dould reach his adult height in about two decades Therefore their beards represented a far better indicator to detere Furthermore, a son of the earth - how they like to call themselves - would rather die than have his beard forcibly shaved Curses involving their most inored the taunts froirl While the relationshi+p between their races deteriorated with each passing year, he found himself a senior with at least four centuries irl like her In his best esti branch anyway Letting her run wild and burn herself in the forging area would grant hiht, Fithe started arranging the material orders on his desk The smithy required an astrono materials each week
Most students were not aware However, teachers needed to orderup the necessary aanised the account books
Meanwhile, Nisha silently fue Fundamentally she was a prideful creature Whatever she set as her target, the dragon was sure she could achieve it As a proof for that, she overcas to survival when they were lizards attold she was unfit to be a seelse Who was the dwarf to tell her what she could or could not do?
If it weren't for the gleae, the other studentsfroer by redirecting it into a strong desire to prove the teacher wrong, the elf started to observe the s special, a sined to melt metal and pour it either into a mould or has, as well as various other kinds of tools,hung sorted into theirhe needed to start his work Around the ground, several different failed creations roup of students either forgot to clean up their mess or simply didn’t care when they left
The barely suppressed rage threatened to erupt again While the elf wasn’t even an apprentice in regards to the art of s, Nisha already knew no artisan would be able to work in such an environon felt the itch in her hands to beatup first Otherwise, she’d stumble as soon as she took a step in any direction
“Do you need help with that?”
Suddenly snapping her head upright, an unusual event happened Standing in the saer politely bowed as soon as she caught sight of hih he looked somewhat heavier than the other applicants in this lecture, the elf didn’t underestiure, he already reached the late first aura rank, while most of the others - herself not included - barely stepped into the first rank at this point to enter the academy And this wasn’t all
“Aren’t you afraid the teacher will look down on you if you work together with me? I cursed at him after all”
With plenty of ti her court sessions Nisha already knew her behaviour earlier wasn’t the most well-suited course of action if she wanted to e, it would be rather strange if her peers didn't ignore her This youngher wariness to the maximum
“Oh, I’m not bothered by that Rather, as it? ‘So old and such a big beard, and yet you wasted all those years You ought to shave it all of lest people confuse you with an elder’, right? My dad would beat me black and blue if he heard me say that Pretty impressive”
To Nisha’s surprise, the red-headed youth could pronounce the original version of the curse she translated, cohtly different pronunciation as the one she studied from the book in the library
“It’s impressive that you know that one in dwarvish And why’d your father beat you for learning another language? I’ her hand for a shake, Nisha forgot about her belly full of fire Now she was only intrigued by her new acquaintance
“It’s not about learning so Dad would be afraid I would let that one slip when he has guests over to talk about a trade My nae trading house dealing aloods I also learned one or two phrases fros over, that’s why I understood what I said But the curses, the httowards the end of his introduction, Conner started picking up the iron scraps and failed works lying around the unit the t had all to thereed to form a team with him, but she also saw no reasons why she shouldn’t
“That’s cool nonetheless It doesn’t explain why you don’t fear to invoke the anger of the teacher by helping th at the high end of the first and second aura rank respectively the cleanup did not take long, and Conner didn’t answer either while they worked When Nisha threw the last of the scraps into a box to the side, he sighed
“I thought it was cool when you stood up for yourself ForIt’s the wish ofEventually, I will have to start helping out in the family business, and then I need to knoay around
My older brother was the sa well for himself now Dad expects led you out, I already guessed it was because you’re an elf, but you didn’t give up and even lashed out at hi and ca in her actions and letting the hot air fro furnace drift between them, Nisha didn’t knohat to say While they weren’t considered friends yet, Conner already laid his feelings bare How much of his words were true or not, she couldn’t say, but the elf got a strong feeling they were; otherwise, there would not have been as much raw emotion in his voice
At the saes drifted over to theether and inspected the ite man beside her already roup despite putting hion wanted to pay him back in some kind
“Did you already ?”
Without enough information, Nisha was unable to make a decision and could only ask him more about his situation