Chapter 267 Stahls Smithing (1/2)

The four originals that were currently there looked at Stahl with surprise, and after a few moments of startled silence, Brody spoke up. ”You wanna know everything that we know? You realize that's gonna take a while, right?” He pointed out, and Stahl immediately nodded his head.

”Of course I know that, and I'm talking mostly about the basics here. I want to be able to do a little bit of everything.” Stahl explained, before the four of them looked at each other for a few moments. Evalia, Jyuuk and Brody agreed basically immediately, because they didn't have much to do on the ship at the moment anyway, but Xenia took a while longer, mostly to regain her composure.

But soon enough, even she nodded her head. ”Alright, before then… I'll need some time to get the basic crafting skills that my gramps has. That means blacksmithing, tailoring, leatherworking, alchemy and enchanting. Then I can work toward things like Brewing and Bookbinding if I need to. Can any of you tell me any tips how I can practice other things while working on that?” Stahl asked curiously, and Brody immediately nodded.

”I can really only suggest Meditation. You'll probably need a bunch of mana for alchemy and enchanting, so Meditation's gonna help you with that.” The Demon-Orc halfling explained, and Jyuuk also immediately nodded his head.

”I also suggest taking any chance you can get at taming a monster. That skill will constantly increase over time while your monster is off doing something as well. And depending on what kind of monster you get, you might be able to have it assist you with your other tasks.” Jyuuk suggested, and quietly, Xenia also nodded her head.

”I-I suggest trying to u-use your mana the least amount as poss-possible…” She said, before Stahl looked at her confused. ”You want me not to use my mana? But why that?” He asked, and Xenia swiftly explained after taking a few deep breaths.

”Because if you r-reach rank 2 in mana manipulation while only ha-having crafting skills, then you'll get an element that ha-has to do with that. If you want to be an all rounder, th-then you should wait for that until you learned different disci-sciplines…” Xenia explained, and Stahl had to admit that it made sense.

”Alright, thank you. Then I guess I should ask you for help last… I'll just use my mana enough to get enchanting and alchemy up to rank 1, and the same with Necromancy…” He muttered to himself, before slowly turning around and stepping up to the door, before realizing something important.

”Erm… We don't actually have any workstations on this ship… So how am I supposed to start with Blacksmithing?” Stahl asked the others, before Jyuuk scratched the back of his head before waving his hand to the side. A large flame shot up immediately and soon turned into the shape of Akatori.

”Here, take him with you. His flames might be enough to heat up a little bit of metal enough. And then also…” Jyuuk slowly muttered before summoning his Beastiary and slowly flipping through the pages, before nodding his head. Immediately afterward, a large lizard that looked a lot like a Komodo Dragon, just with grass growing on its back. ”And this big boy as well. He's a Rock-Type Monster with a few spells, so he should be able to somewhat help contain Akatori's fire.” He explained, and Stahl nodded his head with a smile.

”Thanks my dude. I'll bring them back to you when I'm finished with Blacksmithing, I doubt I'll need them for other things anyway.” Stahl answered, before making his way to the door and down to the workspace at the bottom of the ship, where a certain young man was already excitedly waiting, although his expression became a bit more cynical when he saw Stahl instead of Eisen.

”Oh, hey. Do you know when Eisen is coming down here?” Sky asked, but Stahl simply scratched the back of his head with a wry smile. ”Sorry… He's not coming today… For about a week, he probably won't wake up. When he went to bed last night, he apparently wasn't feeling well and then told the others about it. Really sorry, man.” Stahl answered, and Sky's expression immediately slumped down.

”O-Oh… I see… Erm, I guess I'll see you later, then…” Sky answered with a deep sigh, before Stahl scratched the back of his head again. ”You… wanted to learn Bookbinding, right?” Stahl asked, and Sky turned around with a frown. ”Yeah… What about it?”

”I don't know much about it, but I do know a little bit of the techniques… And you know books a lot better than I do… Erm, I know you probably wanted to learn it from Gramps, but how about you surprise him by already knowing how to when he comes back? I could use a little company in there as well. Or rather, company that I can actually talk to…” Stahl chuckled as he looked at the Lizard and Bird that were following him, before Sky looked at the young man somewhat suspiciously, before slowly nodding his head.

”…Sure… That might be nice…” The young Fey-Kin answered, remembering how Eisen told him to try and be more sociable before.

With a smile, Stahl then opened the door to the room and stepped inside, explaining what he wanted to do for now. ”So, I don't actually have any skills right now, like at all. I have appraisal, Shield Arts, Swordsmanship, Mana Manipulation and Mana Modeling. While my grandfather is asleep, I want to learn a bunch of different skills and get to the point where I can gain an interesting occupation. For that, I want to learn the basic skills that my gramps learned as well, starting with Blacksmithing, then Tailoring, and then Leatherworking. At that point, we should be able to figure out stuff for a book, right?” Stahl said with a smile, and Sky nodded his head quietly. So once again, Stahl was the one that engaged the conversation.

”Alright, then I'll get right to it! My Grandfather had some tools around here, so…” He muttered and took a look around the room, before grabbing the basic Steel Cross-Pein hammer that Eisen was using for quite a while, and then looked at the Rock-Lizard.

”Can you make a super hard flat surface here, and something like a box with a small opening over there?” Stahl asked with a smile, before the Lizard gave out some kind of growl-like sound and did just as it was asked, before Stahl told Akatori what to do as well, and asked him to heat the inside of the makeshift furnace up as much as possible, before placing a small iron ingot into the flames. ”Now, let's hope I manage to do it properly…” Stahl muttered out nervously, before Sky sighed loudly.