"Finally, someone who is not a knucklehead understands about it." [Josep]
"Brat… I dare you tell one more time about knucklehead. I will…" [Borg]
"Shut up Borg!! What he said is true. We really are just a bunch of people with knuckleheads." [Dwarf Elder with the most braid in his beard]
"Whatt??!" [All the other elder]
"Let me explain to all of you, First I will answer the kid's last question. From the record all of the material that is made of grade 4 and above equipment is only gathered by the first owner of the weapon himself."
"If what the kid said about the weapon being part of the first owner is true, that means the prerequisite to make grade 4 and above equipment is the gathering of all the material must be done by the first owner."
"Is that also the reason why you said you can make it but no one can use it. right kid?" [Dwarf Elder with the most braid in his beard]
"Yup, that's right. Since I am the one that gathers the other material. It means only me that can use it. That's why I found it weird when you are looking at blacksmiths that can create grade 4 blacksmiths."
"At first I believe that no one really has skill to create it, but after the showdown with this 'Border' ing person. his skill already surpasses the criteria to create grade 4 weapon. That means you all actually don't have knowledge about the grade 4 and above equipment."
"Not only is the material required to be gathered by the owner but the owner also needs to risk life during gathering the material."
"No matter what kind of material it is, as long as the owner gathers it while in the life and death situation. It can become material for grade 4 weapons."
"Of course, the better the material the better the weapon effect with a chance to evolve into higher grade. If not because of this harsh prerequisite, there will be millions of grade 4 weapons on Hirth considering there are already many skilled blacksmiths to create it." [Alex]
After hearing the detailed information of a unique grade weapon, the elders become dumbfounded they can't even find any fault in the boy's explanation.
Actually, this information is classified to only a few important people. The reason is because most of the time people gather the material it will end up dead.
Since then many kingdoms try to reduce the number of genius people dead from risking their life when they gather the material for grade 4 weapons.
Still this information can be easily obtained by the royal family as they are the one that control this information. That means this request is just to mock the Silvanbor dwarf community's prestige.
The crown prince must be known for the pride of the dwarf community that will hardly ask help from other dwarf communities.
As for the other capable blacksmiths, they are also too far away from the silver mountain to be contacted. That's why they didn't respond to all their invitations and told them of this important prerequisite.
However, it is also weird for the crown prince to make such ridiculous requests that may harm
their relationship between two races. The only one that can benefit from this situation is the other dwarf community.
Since Silvanbor's dwarf will lose their standing in the next dwarf council if they ask help from the other dwarf community.
But, if they somehow know about the grade 4 weapon prerequisite like now. The silver mountain dwarf will be having a bad relationship with their kingdom and lose most of their majority market.
However, it seems none of the dwarves realize this fact and are ready to throw all the blame to the royal family.
"Young boy, Josep Temus, thank you for enlightening us about this matter. As the leader of the Sivanbor dwarf community, I Barbas Ironhead declared that you will always be a friend of our Silvanbor dwarf community. However, I am sorry I must ask you to leave as we need to have private discussion." [Barbas]
"Well, then I shall go. Before that, may I ask when is your dwarf next council meeting as my payment?" [Josep]
"When is your next dwarf council meeting?" [Josep]
The moment Josep said that, the dwarf elders focus their attention to the teenager kid. Since they just got a big revelation from the kid, nobody thinks this human kid is ordinary.
"Why do you want to know about our dwarf council?" [Barbas]
"Well, it's not really important. You may already know that I am a blacksmith myself. As a blacksmith, sometimes I need to procure special materials."
"If I know when all the dwarf communities gather together, I just can have asked all of them to procure rare material in one place. It will be a hassle to contact all of you one by one. Especially the one that is far away from Rosewood Kingdom." [Josep]
"Ohh… you don't need to worry about that. As a friend of Silvanbor's dwarf community, we can help you contact them to procure the material anytime."
"As long as we dwarf races have the material, we can acquire it for you. Of course it is still requiring money according to the material price market." [Barbas]
"No, it can't be done." [Josep]
"Kid, what do you mean by it can't be done?" [Borg]
"Well, you may not know this. But, actually I am one of the noble in the Rosewood kingdom. So, since there will be a clash between Silvanbor and Rosewood's royal family."
"I cannot ask you all to help me procure material or equipment. All I can do is to ask other dwarf communities since it is the only safe way to not offend the royal family." [Josep]
All the elders immediately thought about Josep's word carefully especially Barbas. He thinks the possibility of other dwarf community using Rosewood's crown prince to steal their market or even make them lose their standing at dwarf council.
If that was true, the other dwarf community would be really cunning to even use that kind of move just for their greed. Although, the internal politics of the dwarf race is harsh and chaotic. They still have a good camaraderie in one banner under the dwarf king.
As the leader of Silvanbor who has more knowledge about other communities, Barbas begins to narrow down the other dwarf community.
First, they must have a blacksmith that can create grade 4 equipment to know about the hidden perquisite of a unique weapon.
Second, they must be near Rosewood kingdom to lessen their distribution cost. Third, they must have deep enmity toward the Silvanbor community.
From these criteria, he found only one community that matches with it. It is a Melbor dwarf community. They are located at the Argamel Mountain in the border of Heart Kingdom and Rosewood kingdom.
Since their predecessor, Silvanbor and Melbor have always become rivals because of their close place and the majority of their iron ore that they produce. However, despite their rivalry they still respect one with each other.
Unfortunately, a few years ago Melbor community's new generation produced a high level blacksmith that could create grade 4 weapons. This news begins to shift their balance of rivalry.
Since Silvanbor doesn't want to lose their market and name, they begin to create a new production method to increase the production speed of their product. Because of this new production method, Silvanbor produces twice more products than Melbor.
Although Melbor has a high level blacksmith that can create grade 4 weapons, he is only one person. Compared to Silvanbor who use a new production method, merchants with markets from middle and lower society begin to seek Silvanbor more rather than Melbor.
Even if Melbor is his first suspect, he still doesn't have any evidence to report it toward dwarf's council. However, he also cannot let the crown prince go from playing with them. Now, he is in a dilemma to make a decision since it will be deciding Silvanbor's future.
Looking at the stressful face of Barbas, Josep begins to smile evilly. "Well, now how about you hurry up and tell me when you will have your next dwarf council?"
"Since I don't need to create a grade 4 weapon, I just need to get payment for the 'little' knowledge of making unique equipment then go back to the academy." [Josep]
Hearing this comment, immediately broke up Barbas's thought and focused on the black haired kid again.
At this moment, Josep writes some doodle with his mageforce in the air. All the elders look at it with nothing serious since it is just some drawing, not a dangerous spell diagram.
However, Barbas looks at this abstract intently as he is very familiar with it. Before long his face turns into ghost pale.
Suddenly he activated his defense mechanism and shouted, "Guard!! Seal all the openings and arrest him!!"
In less than a second, from the rounded hall appears an invisible barrier. It makes the hall into prison without getting out. The guard also begins to close all the openings with thick metal doors. Some of the guards react quickly and point their weapon at Josep.
Despite all the sudden change of Barbas behavior and many weapon points at his neck, Josep remains calm and grinning happily. As for the other elders they also don't know what to do with the sudden change behavior of their leader.
Before they can ask something, "How do you know about that?" [Barbas]
"About what?? I just…" [Josep]
Before he can finish his sentence, "Enough of your bullshit!! Or you will be dead now!!" [Barbas]
"Hmm… Then, can you explain why you want me dead? Is it because of my doodle? If it is yes. Good luck about explaining why kill a noble child because of his doodle. Also don't forget about crown prince matter."
Then, Josep closed his eyes and let his fate on the weapon that pointed at him. Although, with Josep's current body endurance this weapon can only scratch him without him doing anything.
Hearing Josep's reply, Barbas was getting more headache. Meanwhile, the other elders also don't know what to do.
Since they killed Josep here without good reason it can lead them to be punished by their king. Furthermore, they can also be killed by the dwarf enforcer.
"Leader… I know that kid is really arrogant but killing him…" [Borg]
Ironically, the one that hated Josep the most came to standing up for him. But, before they can say any further. "SHUT UP!!!" [Barbas] his shout completely silenced everyone.
After looking at the surrendering boy and his doodle in the air, he contemplated for a few moments. Barbas muttering, "Out..."
Since the hall is in silence, all of the people can hear him clearly but are also confused. Then, "Out... All of you get out of this hall!! Before I call you back, no one will enter this hall or I will personally kill you!! Now, GET OUT!!" [Barbas]