After saying goodbye to Hilda I went to my room I got some of the mana rich miner to use as a sample in case I find a blacksmith in town today.
I followed to Professor Balder's office. I knock on his door.
"Professor Balder would you have some free time to talk?"
"In between!"
Upon entering the office I see the professor in a pitiful state of messy hair, dark circles under his eyes and a desk with several piles of disorganized papers .
"You 're okay?"
"Yes, and just one that I ended up letting a part of my work accumulate a little what you want today Ulric ?"
"I wanted your help with something I plan to make a more customized set of weapons for min just two pieces a little bit, but I don't know the blacksmiths in town so I came to ask you if I would have a recommendation for a blacksmith who is skilled and used in making sheets with two-element materials. Would you have any teacher recommendation?"
"Well I know several blacksmiths in the city myself I had a lot of trouble getting a compatible equipment with me and a wise decision on your part to invest sese in a good Ulric weapon. Just don't make the mistake of ordering a low durability weapon in your situation a high durability weapon and better than a weapon that focuses on offensive characteristics. I know a blacksmith who can help you, but I warn you that he's a little expensive but it's worth paying his price."
"His name and Lofar he has a workshop in the east district of the city is not far from the adventurers guild just a few guards there he is specialized in forging equipment with the Wind, Fire and Earth element, light matures are his strongest his ability to forge blades is not much inferior to her just don't ask him to forge a spear the last one who asked for it was attacked by him."
The teacher writes his address on a piece of paper and hands it to me .
"Thank you teacher. Good luck with your paperwork." While leaving the teacher yelled at me.
"Just so you don't fuck Ulric . Lofar is not a dwarf even though he has the name of one he was only believed by them Lofar gets offended when someone questions or gets into trouble with his name so don't say anything about it in his presence ok?"
"OK. Thank you for the warning."
As I leave Professor Balder's office I go to the exit of the institute I am surprised with the professor's last comment I had no idea that Lofar was a dwarf name I wonder what is the characteristic that makes him a dwarf name.
With the address of Lofar's workshop I head towards the adventurers guild since the teacher says the workshop is not too far from the guild I will ask at one of the shops near the guild if they can point me to the direction of the workshop.
After an hour I find myself in front of Lofar's workshop and it's smaller than I thought it would be in front of it, it's not very big, maybe it's a rectangular plot.
As I enter the smithy I am greeted by warm air and only a few degrees higher than outside it looks like it has good insulation because a forge should have a much hotter temperature than that. I see several pieces of amadura and some weapons on the store walls not is a large space to forge should take up most of his ground.
As I looked at the items on display I focus on the amount of mana and elemental energy in the pieces as the teacher had had he only forge items with the Wind, Fire and Earth elements I only see elemental energy from these elements not the only piece with a different element until where I can analyze your work its quality is superior to the equipment I'm using and even its aesthetic style matches mine just a few small details in them nothing scandalous or full of ornaments that can break or deform when using them in real combat.
While I was distracted by the items on the walls I didn't notice the presence that appeared on the store counter.
"I'm glad you liked my works, but what does a student do here? The price of my store tends to be out of the economic capacity of first-year students at the institute."
Turning towards the mouth I see a man wearing a well-worn and charcoal-stained outfit and black hair and beard hair tied back and the beard braided he really does look like a dwarf smith at least the way I think a dwarf smith does.
"Good Morning. I'm Ulric and I'm a first year student but I believe I have money to buy from your shop in reality I want to order a sword and a dagger for myself Professor Balder told me my best option would be to order them from you. So Mr. Lofar would you be available to take my order?"
"Maybe it depends on a lot of things I can have the free time to do them, but first we have to define the subjects for them and only then draw your sketch and then I can make a budget for you. That's where you need to know if you have enough money to make them ."
"How do we decide the subjects? I have some ideas, but the final word and I leave it to you as you understand much more than I do."
"Well. Looks like you and a smart young man tell me what subjects you want to use and you don't have to be formal with me boy you can just call me by my name."
I pull the mana crystals and a metal sample out of my bag.
"I want to use these materials in the sword and dagger I want to use this metal as the main component I have a good amount of it and I want to combine these mana crystals with elemental fire and wind crystals for the dagger and sword to have good durability and conductivity I want weapons that can support my aura and elemental energy I want them to last a long time."
Lofar takes the metal sample and studies it for a while and then takes the crystals , but he doesn't waste much time on them.
"Good stories and a simple, smart list of gun characteristics generally young people want more offensive power even if it sacrifices gun durability. The crystals are pure and since we're not going to use a lot of them, probably what's in the bag and more than enough. As for metal I'm suppressed with it the quality is very good, but we'll need a few kilos to make a sword and dagger the amount can vary by the size you want them, but luckily I have crystals and minerals of the Fire element and Vento so you can buy them right here."
I pull out my sword and dagger and place it on the shop counter.
"I want a sword in dimensions a simple sword with a fine point and two edges, but the dagger already want a little different for first I want it to be a hunting knife it must have one edge the blade must be curved and three centimeters bigger than this dagger it can't be too thick I want a thinner blade ."
I see a thoughtful look on Lofar's face hope he can understand my request and hard to find a hunting knife around here most of the small blades are knives, daggers and a few daggers.
"I can see the blade you want, more and the first you see I hear the term hunting knife. Curved blades aren't very popular only swordsmen who have the Water element end up using curved blades or rapiers, but I believe I can forge your Ulric hunting knife. Calculating roughly I will need six kilos of the metal and I will also need three hundred gold coins for the elemental crystals and another two hundred for the elemental minerals. For my work I charge five hundred gold coins so it's a thousand gold coins in all. So do you want to confirm the order?"
My money is disappearing I'm getting poor again what the fuck.
"Yes, I'll get the metal today and bring it to you before lunch, but how long will it take for them to be ready Lofar?"
"I have my free time right now so I can start today I believe I will only spend a few days so you can come pick up in five days unless you want them to have lots of details and ornaments. Do you want them to be simple or full of freshness?"
"Simple! The simpler the better I don't like decorated guns in my opinion guns are tools to kill they are not fashion accessories."
" I liked you boy. I don't regret giving you a discount now."
"Discount?"
"Yes, since Balder sent you I gave a discount on the sale of the materials I sold for the same price I bought them. I usually add a fee when I sell them to have an increase in my final profit and also decrease the cost of my work in twenty percent for your order that's why your order was so cheap."
I wonder how much the price of my order would have been if I hadn't provided the mana crystals and six kilos of metal the value of the order would have easily exceeded the thousand gold coins.
"I'm happy to know that I had so many discounts today, I'm going to get the iron for you now, but here are the thousand gold coins." I take out the two cards I got this morning and so sad I couldn't even keep them for a whole day . Think about your new weapons they're worth it.
" See you in a little while boy."
"Soon I'm back."
The rest of my day was normal I handed the six kilos of metal to Lofar and spent the rest of the day training hard I tried but I wasn't very focused for some reason I feel like I forgot to do something today.