Chapter 408 - A king should wear King tier equipment (1/2)
Multiple different crystals of different colors, shapes, and sizes were placed on the table in front of Randin. When the little dwarf stopped stuffing his mouth full of food to look up at who it was, he could see it was an old friend of his.
Randin was in the middle of teaching a class. Many people had been recruited and were now part of the blacksmith group. The problem was that they needed training in Randin's unique techniques, and he often would have to show them different concepts that had been created by the Dwarfs. Because of him, the city and everyone could enjoy his new creations and it was how they were able to implement the changes around the city so fast, such as the carriage that required no beast or horses to pull it.
The others were hard at work hammering away at their work benches, placing steel into the furnaces. Still, Ray was disguised, so the students and other workers didn't know who it was that had come to visit them, but the only one that wasn't working was Randin, who was at the back of the room, eating. His favourite pastime when he wasn't working.
Ray could have sworn in the short time he was away, the little dwarf had gotten more plump, but he wouldn't dare hurt a small old man's feelings. At least not a non human.
When Ray arrived with the crystals, he knew straight away who it was. It was a feeling between the two that Randin couldn't quite explain. No disguise was going to fool him.
”How are you, bo…” But before he could finish what he was about to say, his eyes suddenly moved on the crystals below. He couldn't believe it. He had never seen so many different types of King Tier Beast crystals in front of him before.
He was incredibly pleased when he was able to work on the king tier bow, and now this as well. A broad grin appeared on his face, and instead of greetings, he went straight down to business, ”What do you need?” He asked.
”Jack needs a new weapon, a large one,” Ray said. ”It doesn't matter what it is or what it looks like as long as he can swing it about and hit things with it. The bigger it is, the better. Those were his exact words, not mine.”
”I like it,” Randin said. ”The more simple, the better. It allows me to be as creative as I like…” With a slight pause, Randin started to look at Ray, durng his time here, he had only created things for his city and hardly ever created anything for him.
”And for you? How could the King carry on with those gauntlets while everyone else is using King Tier equipment? A king should use King Tier equipment at the very least, wouldn't you agree?”
This made Ray think about his battle approach, he had been using magic a lot more than his actual fighting skills. His level of equipment hadn't mattered to him for a long time, but now that he had promised himself not to use mana steal on his allies. He felt perhaps new equipment would help.
”If there's anything left from these after creating the equipment for Jack, then go ahead, I won't turn it down.” Ray replied, ”Oh, and there's one more thing.”
Out from his dimensional space, Ray pulled out a book and handed it over to Randin, before also pulling out a few pieces of the yellow armour he had retrieved from Zrey and handing it over to him.
”Apparently, that book contains smithing techniques on how to create that special armour there. It seemed to have the power to increase a Normal Knight around fivefold.”