Chapter 183 - Deal Settled (With the courtesy of JaxMatador) (2/2)

”I need you to organise craftsmen that will prepare handles for the weapons that I'm making. As a blacksmith, I can create great weapons, but so far I simply used premade assets that were stored in the smithy that I was using back in the sect. While I already secured more than enough materials that are great for making handles, I think they are a local product, and using them would betray that all those weapons were made in this city as well.”

With our ruse of obtaining all the weapons from a chanced meeting with a master blacksmith, if I were to use those bones as the handles, everyone would understand that this mystical figure either resided in the city or at least obtained those handles in it. Considering how they were ordered from the parties adventuring to the forest, it wouldn't be any trouble for any influential organisation to comb through the city and find enough clues to pinpoint my identity!

”Don't tell me you made those swords already!”

Initially ignoring my request, Venna found something far more important in my words. If I already need the handles, that obviously meant that I was at the stage where they blocked me from future progress!

My bad. Why it's not to the point of saying that I fucked up, it's still not good that I didn't think about it beforehand. While making a simple sword is just a matter of few hours of hard work for a common smith, creating a masterpiece of the level of my Utopy, would require a blacksmith to work relentlessly for days! If that wasn't the case, just a single crafting master would be more than enough to flood the entire market with his franchise!

With a deep sigh, I rummaged through my storage ring only to pick one of the blades made of those fairly better materials and a single bone-handle. Not even bothering to lit any fire, I simply cast a small fireball on the bone while holding it against my chest. Despite how powerful the blast seemed to be, with my resistances I hardly felt anything when the fire erupted against my body.

As soon as the bone turned squishy, I pushed the pin of my craft against it. Seeing that it firmly lodged itself inside, I took out a simple knife to model the handle a bit, before blowing at it for a while to kill the heat inside.

”Here, this is the sample that I promised.”

While the sword didn't have any handguard or decorations embedded into it, it already could serve its function as a weapon. Passing it handle-first to my backer, I couldn't help but smile.

”This one is a weapon of a slightly higher grade. I have a few worse blades on me, but I have yet to create the masterpiece that will serve as the highlight of the auction. Does that satisfy you?”

With the weapon now in her hand, Venna inspected the outer rim of the sword, infused her energy into it and even took out some kind of rod, only to try to cut it with her new possession!

”I couldn't be any happier!”

With the metallic stick split in half with a lazy slash executed by the beautiful woman, her face brightened up instantly. I could only guess what kind of treasures did she imagine while thinking about the masterpiece that I mentioned!

”Anyway, with that, we can consider the deal to be settled. As for the handles, I will ask some of our craftsmen to help you out. We can't let the others find out that you are the one making those swords. Oh, before I forget, how do you intend to hold back the rage of other sects when they find out that we lied to them? While I can protect you, this business of yours wouldn't be able to operate if they join their hands against us!”

That's sadly a valid point. I guess I will need to figure something out to prevent this from happening! But wait, since the problem lays in the possibility that all the major sects would gang on me...

”The elder that wished me luck... He was from the natural edge sect, am I right? If that's the case, can you give me some kind of a shortcut to secretly met with him? If I manage to bribe him with something, we would have two most powerful sects in the city on our side! With that, even if they wanted to do something, they wouldn't be able to! No matter how much they would hate it, they would have to swallow their pride to get their hands on those weapons!”