Azar's first day of work was just checking Big Beard doing his job. He was so excited by the way he was using magic to transform the iron. He asked Big B(Big Beard) to teach him, but the answer he got was not quite what he was expecting.
"Wait, what did you say kid? You don't know how to do these basic spells?"
"Yes, I am new to magic, i was unable to use magic, so i took the Willing Challenge, and i..."
"WHAT? You took the willing challenge and survived, or are you going to explode here?"
"I survived it... You know it's rude to interrupt someone who is speaking, right? Now, i have a small amount of mana."
"Listen, kid. You can't use basic magic, you must train in it. So you will start with these things. That's what my master was using for details, he is dead now and i don't know how to use them so, they are yours."
*Wait, a minute. Those are a hammer and a pinch. I have to use the classic way to make my things? I am going to stay only for 1 week. I cant make anything, I don't know how to be a BS( blacksmither). Also, did he mentioned that he don't know how to use them? How am i supposed to do anything?*
"Listen Big B, I don't know your art. I can't make anything."
"Well, i understood that, you were looking at me this whole time. That's how i started too, except that i was idiot enough to start crafting before learning anything. You can still make the deliveries for me and if you make it in time i will give you ¼ of the price."
"Yes, but that's not what i wanted to learn here. I will do your deliveries but i will continue seeing you doing your job."
"Kid, can i check your core?"
"My what?"
"I see... You don't know anything about magic. Do you remember where you delivered your first sword yesterday?"
"Yes, I do."
"Ok, when you are finished, go there again and ask him to train you, he is a retired magician, he will teach you if you pay him. I don't know how much he'll ask though."
*I have nothing to lose.*
"When is the last deliver."
"Now, take those. Go i have the address written."
"Ok, goodnight Big B. By the way can i borrow this?"
"You want to borrow a small piece of metal? Take it, all yours, i don't know why you want it, but i also don't care."
"Thank you."
*Wait, this address is right next to the man i was yesterday. Big B forgot to give me a time limit, this brainless man. Wait!! What is written here? WTF! He wrote my time limit next to the address. This bastard.*
He whistled so loudly that Nir his horse, understood the situation Azar is again and She arrived in seconds. This time the time limit was 3 hours but he decided to run it down because he wanted to go to the magician too.
He finished very fast, returned to Big B took his payment and left for the magician. This time Nir was walking to her destination. When they arrived Azar left her to a place with grass so she could eat something.
He walked to the small stone path that was leading to a wooden door. The house did not seem so big and it wasn't decorated at all. The sun was setting in 3 hours. He knocked 3 times. A not so old man opened the door.
*What, a man close to his thirties is a retired magician.*
"Oh, what have we got here. I didn't purchase anything else, are you lost?"
"Hello, um, no, i am not lost, i'm here to ask you to teach me the art of magic."
"Get lost kid. I am not a magician anymore."
"But you know how to teach magic?"
"Yes, of course, but i refuse to teach you magic."
"Even if i pay you?"
"Yes, I don't need money."
*Azar started to get angry, but decided to keep his anger in.*
"Do you need anything?"
"Kid, no means no. Get lost!"
The magician closed the door.
*This little bastard!!*
"I AM COMING AGAIN TOMORROW!!"
Azar went to Nir and headed back home. In his way home he found Big B right outside the Blacksmith shop waiting.
"You knew it was going to end like this, right Big B?"
"Yes, but not exactly, i was waiting you a bit burned or at least bleeding somewhere or in the worst case you didn't show up i was going to head to the magician either with your dead body or with you in liquid."
"WHAT THE FUCK! I could die and you didn't warned me? Are you fucking serious?"
*Big B don't stand for Big Beard anymore... It is for Big Bastard*
"If I warned you about it, your curiosity about things would made my life hard. You are alive and not even harmed that means he liked something about you."
*I mean he is right, but still he is a bastard*
"Ok, I said i was going back and that's what I am going to do."
He went back to his room to rest. He pulled out the small piece of iron and tried to change its form.
*Ok, i have the object, now what? I'll start by trying the ways of the games. Clear my mind, focus on the item and try to imagine it changing form.*
He closed his eyes, let his mind to clear, but... he slept.
*Fuck! I slept. Ok what time is it. Near the sunrise, ok i have some time before heading to the shop.*
He was still holding the small piece of iron, so he tried again to change it's form.
*Clear your mind, focus on the object. Imagine it changing forms.*
He opened his eyes, but nothing had happened to the piece of iron.
*Okay, it's currently between 5:45-6:00. I have 2 hours till the shop opens. I could go to the magician and try once more.*
He walked out of the hotel and climbed up Nir. He headed to the magician, he was convinced that he couldn't learn magic on his own without knowing the basics. When getting close to the house of the magician, he left Nir, he saw the magician from afar standing outside his door. He hid at the nearest bush so he could spy the magician.
For the first 10 minutes he did nothing just stood there. But then, he checked for one more time the road, turned to the opposite direction of Azar and walked down the road.
*I must follow him. He is hiding something for sure.*
Azar started following him, while maintaining his distance. The magician made some sudden turns, to check if someone was following him, that's the reason why Azar kept his distance. At some point he turned in an alley.
*I am not this stupid to go in the alley, I must find an other way to follow him.*
Azar scanned the place, made a plan. It had to be done quickly and silently He grabbed a tree's branch, pulled it off, grabbed an other one. Now he had two branches somewhere near his height. He went two houses away from the alley, he nailed the branches to the ground. Backed off, run heading towards the wall between the two nailed branches.
*The wall is made out of stone, so it will stand my weight without breaking, i have to hit the wall so it will spring me up to the branches without falling, so my momentum must be 0 when i land to the branches, stone has 0.7 friction and wood 0.2, my momentum before standing to the branches must be 0.2 that means i must run with 2.7 meters per second, I must slow down.*
With an incredible move he jumped to the wall and back to the nailed branches. He climbed up the house. went to the next roof and checked the alley, the magician was waiting at the corner of the alley, he knew someone was following him, but he underestimate his enemy. The sunrise began so Azar kept in mind his shadow to be hidden too.
The magician suddenly went out from the corner, expecting to scare his follower. Azar kept his laughter so hard when he saw the confused face of the magician. The magician went inside the alley again. He reached a warehouse. He made the rock from the wall next to the door transform to liquid, and pulled a leaver. The door of the warehouse opened and he went in, he stood there waiting till the door was closed.
Azar then, went back to Nir and headed to work.