The day has finally come that my new set of weapons is ready this morning I woke up earlier than usual, the reason being that before my class starts I want to go to Lofar's shop to get my new weapons. I don't even stop to eat my breakfast and make my way into town while the sun is still clearing yours.
As I approach Lofar's shop I have a bad thought maybe he's not awake. I doubt he's happy to be woken up by someone knocking on his garage door, but since I'm already here, better take a chance. When I put my hand on the doorknob I turn it unlocking the door this is the first time I'm glad I managed to open a door since if the door isn't locked it means the shop is working.
Upon entering the gun shop I come across Lofar who is arranging the weapons and ripe on the wall brackets.
"What the fuck are you doing here at this hour boy?"
"Is the store not open?"
"Of course not! Can't you see I'm still fixing it there's still an hour and a half before the store starts working I haven't even eaten yet. Why did you come so early boy?"
I fucked up today.
"Well and that I have classes in the morning and late today so my free time and now come here to pick up my order."
"What a fucking explanation is that! Why didn't the night come? I stay open after dark boy, there's no reason for you to come so early."
"And since I don't want to wait any longer to get my new weapons I would have to wait all day to get them at night I preferred to risk it."
"Wait here you hyperactive brat."
As Lofar went to get my package I could still hear him muttering insults. I was lucky he was already awake if I had woken up he would probably attack me with some weapon from the store. It didn't take long for him to come back with a sword and my hunting knife. When he put them on the counter he walked away from the sword and knife, he didn't need a single word I knew now was the time to get to know my new weapons.
I started with the hunting knife while holding it I realized it was much heavier than I thought it would be and this is unlikely to be a big problem my physical strength is increasing with time in a few months the feeling of heaviness should disappear. When unsheathing I come across a dark blade when the light reflects on it her blade imitates a weak red and green light in balance this shows that Lofar got him a perfect balance between the elements and the mana of the materials used to forge the knife of hunting.
Holding my new blade I swing it in the air to feel that although it is heavier than my previous dagger it is balanced and symmetrical, now all that's left is to eject my aura and elemental energy into it. I start with my aura by completing the inside of the hunting knife with my aura I repeat the previous movements even though I don't even feel a change in it I can see that the sound of the air being cut has changed it seems that just injecting my aura into it I've managed greatly increase the cutting capacity of the blade.
Then I use my wind element to strengthen the hunting knife as I do this I feel it is resonating with my elemental energy the knife blade turns slightly green a very small difference, but because of my keen eyesight this change is very easy to notice when moving it with the wind element impregnated with the knife the sound of the blade cutting the air disappears to my surprise the strange weight I felt in it disappeared and despite not having tested it I believe it is sharper than normal.
I didn't expect it to have so many changes I thought that at most it would feel my elemental energy would be denser when it accumulated in the hunting knife. By drawing energy from the wind element of the dagger I injected my second element. The knife has gone through similar changes to what you've heard before, but the biggest difference is that I didn't feel its weight change or the movements became more fluid besides the color change on the blade I didn't even feel a change in the knife which is disappointing.
I decided to use an elemental art on the knife to see its conductivity and better than my previous dagger by using the Red Blade art on it the fire element behaved differently not only did it enter the dagger more quickly but it concentrated naturally within her. Without spending too much elemental energy I already had a big temperature rise in the dagger I feel I spent half the energy in elemental art to have double the heat in the hunting knife. Even after I stopped injecting my elemental energy at high temperature into the blade it continued to persist it managed to retain the fire element within it for a long time.
Keeping the hunting knife I draw my new sword it had the same characteristics as the hunting knife in the end they are made of the same metal alloy. As I had experimented with the hunting knife before there was no need for me to repeat the same tests so I simply injected my aura and my two elemental energies into the sword at the same time. Creating a double elemental coating on the sword she transformed herself from a dark blade to a reddish sword covered in wild and raging flames. I said in awe of the sword's efficiency I'm injecting half as much energy into the sword as I normally use.
"Stop this! Are you trying to burn my store down? The wood here has no fire resistance, you idiot!"
I cut off the energy flow to the sword and tuck it back into its scabbard.
"It was bad Lofar. I got my heart excited about my new weapons and the first time I use a sword that completely suits me."
"You're wrong about something boy the sword doesn't quite suit you."
"Like this?"
"Before you used common weapons at most they would have a little expensive materials in them next to nothing that's why you have such a big difference when you use this sword. She has the same elemental property as you, but that doesn't mean she completely suits you. For a weapon to fully match the warrior it has to have the warrior's aura inside it only a weapon that has its own aura you can have a true union of warrior and weapon. This phenomenon is called aura resonance, the warrior's aura and the sword's aura are strengthened together transferring the aura to each other"
"How is a weapon like this made?"
"Not only is complicated and necessary for a great master blacksmith, the weapon must be made of high-level materials at least level 5. Plus the hardest ingredient to get and the aura seed and three types of aura seed. The first is a crystallization created in nature and the rarest and purest among them, the second is the aura seed created within a warrior's core and required enormous control to be able to create one the warrior has to have a red core to thinking about trying to create an aura seed during the extremely time-consuming process can take years for a warrior's fighting ability and halve even his cultivation progress and affected."
"The last method is the most terrible and unfortunately the most used is to sacrifice an orange core warrior or higher and it takes a complex and cruel ritual to create this kind of aura seed the warrior's life and drained for days to give birth to a soul seed I have never seen the process in person but as far as I know I needed to spend a lot of money to buy the necessary ingredients and it lasts for weeks the stronger the warrior is the longer the process is."
"I've never used a soul seed before for fear of working with this type of soul seed as I can't differentiate between the three types visually I'm afraid to end up using a seed that was born by the third method I would hate myself for creating this weapon and would do anything to destroy the weapon. The aura seeds are named by their color and their origin they are the seed of nature, the seed of life that ends up being only compatible with the warrior who cultivates it and the last type that is called the seed of pain. The weapon created by the Seed of Life or the Seed of Pain can be used by multiple warriors it just has to accept the warrior's aura the more they are compatible the stronger the aura resonance they will have"
"Is this type of weapon quite rare Lofar?"
"Unfortunately not the market is full of weapons with aura like the pain seed method and very popular as it only takes money to do it traders only need to sell one aura seed to have the money to try to create a dozen of seeds of pain. I've seen more than a dozen aura guns pass through the city's auction house in the last ten years. If you compare the normal or elemental weapons as yours their number is small, but I believe there should be fewer of them in the world the blacksmith who create the seed of pain should never have done this in certain arias of the wilder world there are organizations that create dozens of pain seeds each year they kill hundreds of warriors to make so many pain seeds."
"Shouldn't this kind of practice be prohibited?"
"Only some gods and realms condemn the ritual to create a seed of pain, but as half of them do not forbid the beginning of seeds already made so those who create them only have to hide the ritual after the seed is ready and basically identical to the other two seeds only a very experienced blacksmith and able to spot the difference that's why I refuse to try to create a weapon with aura the chance to use a very high pain seed and use that kind of material created by the pain and death of fellow warrior and against my principles."
"Thanks for today's class and for making such a good hunting sword and knife Lofar I'll be back to place more orders at your store."
"You are welcome to do this Ulric, but next time come at normal time."