Chapter 369 Divine Smith IV (1/2)
CHAPTER 369
DIVINE SMITH (IV)
Lino sat in the corner, his shoulders slumped, helplessly drawing circles on the ground with his finger in vain hopes his mind will randomly flash with a bout of inspiration. He'd spent the past six hours in such a state, helplessly searching through all he knew in an attempt to rectify the fact that he just might have to destroy this small pocket of space, and even then he might not get to finish the item.
Nothing he could think of would work, including the brief idea he had to use his own body as a bolster. He quickly threw it away, though, as he'd have to dig himself full of holes, and it might take him years, if not decades, to fashion the ring whole. It was put in the 'last resort' basket inside his mind alongside some of the other brilliant ideas he had, such as using his items, using Vy's body, the idea that the Dragon cussed him out properly because of, and, in the brief moment of agony, the idea to just give up and make the ring the normal way.
However, giving up wasn't the way he did things. If it was, he wouldn't have made it all the way here in the first place, so he buckled down and settled on doing it this way, or not doing it at all. But, as he really liked the potential benefits he would get out of doing this, he very much wanted to complete it.
Taking a deep breath, he got up and started pacing around the room, thinking over virtually everything that even remotely had anything to do with endurance. He briefly fancied the idea of making up a non-existent array to transfer his Martial Arts onto a really, really hard rock, hence strengthening it further, in order for it to endure the pressure. As proof that he was far too gone in the loop, he hadn't figured out inanimate objects cannot utilize Arts for nearly ten minutes.
”... alright, this is getting really depressing,” a whiff of fire suddenly appeared in front of Lino in the likeness of Vy. ”If you're that desperate, I'll help you.”
”Really?!!” Lino exclaimed in happiness. ”You'll let me hammer away at you?!!”
”Fuck you! Hell no!!” the Dragon growled. ”I already let you do it once, what if you get fucking addicted?!”
”Psh, you're saying that as though it isn't the case already.”
”... do you want my help or do you want to fuck with me?”
”... can I choose both?” Lino asked. ”Help! I want your help!” he quickly added as he saw Vy beginning to flicker out of existence.
”Fine,” the Dragon sighed. ”I'll lend you an item but, and I emphasize this more than I did my daughter's eulogy, you must, I repeat, you must return it. No matter what happens. Or what you feel. Or think. After you've done crafting this item, it goes back to me. Get it?”
”... you know, if you didn't say anything, I'd just naturally return it to you since you're nearly as big of a hoarder as Hannah, but now I kind of wanna keep it just to see whether you'll burn me to crisp to get it back.”
”Of course I will.”
”Well, I expected some sort of hesitation there seeing as, you know, we're friends and all. I guess not.”
”We are, of course. But I'd rather shit on your grave than give up this item.”
”... wow.” Lino exclaimed softly, looking at the Dragon in wonder. ”Alright, fine. What is it? Your goddamn dick?”
”... an anvil.”
”... all this build-up for a fucking anvil?!” Lino exclaimed angrily. ”I can literally shit one out right now!! What the fuck dude!? You got my hopes up for nothing!”
”Hey, fuck you, mongrel! What?! Do you think anything I hold dear to my heart is ordinary?! This ain't the sort you can just pick up on the side of the street!”
”That's because they're so common no one would fucking bother!”
”Why don't you see it first and then judge, you piece of shit?!” Vy growled angrily as he suddenly procured what appeared to be an ordinary anvil. Lino withheld his judgment as he approached the two meters long anvil.
[Anvil of Creation -- Primordial]
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Special Effect [Creator] -- the First Anvil, said to be forged with the combination of 72 Origin Dragon Flames, bequests the smith with ABSOLUTE mastery of Smithing and Creation. All stats of the created item are doubled for Continental, up to an increase of sixfold for Fiendish. A hundredfold boost to all smithing-related stats while using the anvil.
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Note: Anvil of Creation, said to have been forged by a combination of 72 Origin Flames, is a treasure long thought to have been lost to the vestiges of time; absolutely like no other, since its inception to the present, it has not met its match yet.