The path to the black smith was not too far away as it took only a minute to get there. The heat told us the remaining directions to go. The first thing I saw about the smithery was the red light from the flames raging in the furnaces. The heat wafted over me like a wave, it was pretty busy in the smith as they forged new weapons and armour.
In the middle of it all was a hearth, its flames raging casting ever changing shadows across the forge. It served as the main heat source in the forge which is used to create magical items for military uses. Each of the smiths had a bulky and muscular frame from working for hours in the forge each day. The ringing of metal echoed throughout the forge and even to the nearby hallways.
When we first entered no one noticed us as they hammered away at pieces of metal and Mythril. Star squinted at the hearth flame "Is it just me or is there something in the fire?" She asked, pointing to a barely visible silhouette of a figure.
"It isn't just you" replied the silhouette as it got darker till a head poked out "Baron, your guests are here." They called out. From first looks it looked like a female's head that was wreathed in flames, assumed to be a flame or volcano spirit.
"About time you decided to show yourselves" a gruff and deep voice said as Baron walked over to us. He was bigger in size compared to the other smiths and assumedly the one in charge of the place from his strides. "So you lot are the one destined to save us all huh, you don't look like much right now."
"The orc is pretty buff but the rest seem scrawny if I'm being frank" the spirit said "You here for your weapons and stuff I would assume?"
I nodded "Yeah, but we're new to the whole process and everything, mind
giving us the rundown?"
Baron nodded "Sure enough, I need your classes and body measurements before I can start it off." He then frowned at us "Do you even know what class you are in?"
We looked at each other before shaking our heads "Only a guess on what it is, only the military get a class test."
"Well you need to take one first before I can do anything for you, head for the arena and seek out Bessie. She will assist you with the test and the progression of leveling up your classes. Don't bother asking me questions regarding classes, save them for the professional." Baron said "Now go along I need to get back to work and Crimson stop being so nosy." Waving us off before he turned his back on us and went back into the smithery.
Crimson scoffed "Easy for you to say considering that my job is to just sit and it's very boring especially since no one talks to me" with a sigh she retreated into the hearth her figure fading till it was no longer visible.
"Well then let's head to the arena to meet this Bessie person to get our classes checked out." Said Sora gesturing for us to leave, we all went towards the closest totem Star, took a look back to the hearth before following up with us. With a swipe of her hand the totem flickered on displaying a map of the place. After a while of searching we found its location "There it is, it does not seem to be too far off from here although it is massive and seems to be open to air"
"I'm sure that is only the training area that's exposed, the rest including the class test should be covered." I said looking back to the rest "Since we know where it is, let's get going the sooner the better so our equipment can be finished faster." With a nod of approval from the rest we made our way to the arena.