"Young master, what you ordered for has arrived" Wallace just stood up from his meditation position and wanted to start training when he heard the voice of Jeff from outside the training room.
"Lucy sure is efficient," He thought as he walked out of the training room. He arrived outside and saw a truck with two middle-aged men outside. The two bowed when they saw him.
"Where should we drop it" one of them asked. He took them to a room he had already cleared up and let them do their thing before taking their phone to call Lucy. The call connected and it was picked up soon after.
"I've received it thanks," he said.
"No problem, you should just get ready, I want you to follow me somewhere in a week," She said.
"Hmm," he frowned his face.
"Don't worry it's a gathering that will benefit you" She told him.
"Ok," he said. He could not help but frown when he dropped the phone, he just wanted to live an uneventful life in the six months remaining before he heard of the magic academy but he can't be stubborn with Lucy. He is still too weak to take care of himself in this world so he needs her backing.
Within twenty minutes, the room was set up. There is a black table in the middle of the room with buttons that lead to a compartment that will calcine the metal. There is also the newest rune-smiting machine that has just been developed. A rune-smiting machine is a machine that's used to type a series of codes in the form of runes into metals to strengthen them and also make them exhibit a property. On one side of the room is a shelf with different metals and on the table is a pair of normal forge-mastering masters. Lucy wanted to make him a hammer that would have less weight but he rejected it. Each hammer weighs almost ten kg which is the standard forge-mastering weapon. He is not supposed to be able to lift it because even grown fit men cannot lift it but his body stat is bordering on the limit of the human body due to the internal energy inside him.
**Stage 1 of mission completed: Get the blacksmithing equipment. 1000 prime credit received. Shop interface unlocked
Stage 2 begins: A good blacksmith has to be familiar with the hammer before them. Swing the hammer before you one thousand times. 0/1000. Reward: 1000 prime credit.**
"Shop interface," he thought.
**Shop**
**Prime credit available: 1050**
**Blueprints** **Techniques**
The words above appeared before him but the blueprint and techniques interface is greyed out so he can't access them now. He went to the hammers on the table and carried them before he started to swing both of the hammers. He is determined to finish it today and what's the reason, it's simple. He has to reach level ten in a month and blacksmith is the most important factor he needs to start his plans.
In his past life, he was a renowned engineer who built the nanotech bio armor. He might not be able to achieve it now but he can at least try to build a mecha in a week to enhance him. If he simply goes out, any rogue mage can simply kill him even the armed forces can kill him easily. For him to start officially practicing spells or techniques he needs to reach the rank ten mage realm or if he attempts anything now, he will run out of mana faster. The only thing his mana is useful for now is his senses and the model construct in his mind which consumes only a little bit of mana.
**200/1000**
After one hour, his hands were already aching him and sweat pooled up on his body while all his strength had been exhausted. He dropped the hammer and sat on the floor. He used the vigor breathing technique and within five minutes, he was back to his peak condition. He took the hammer again and started swinging them while gritting his teeth. If anyone is there at the moment they will see a ten-year-old boy swinging massive hammers with each weighing over ten kg. It's simply just monstrous strength.
**500/1000**
Three more hours passed, his whole body was already shaking and his arms were aching him to the extent that he could not feel anything in them. He used vigor two times in that three hours and the effect is already reducing, he reckons that it will only be able to take him three more uses of vigor before he needs to sleep, and worst still, the time it takes is getting longer, it is not even bringing him up to his peak. He ran the breathing technique through his body and he recovered seventy percent of his body strength once more after twenty minutes.
**1000/1000**
The day had crept by and it was already eight in the evening before he finished the exercise. His whole body is as heavy as lead, he cannot even move while his hands are aching him. It is willpower that is keeping him still, he simply laid down in the room and slept off while hugging the two hammers.
**The second stage of the mission finished: 1000 credits received. Go to the shop**
Was the first thing that appeared in his line of sight the following morning when he woke. His body was still feeling a little heavy and sore and weak but he's glad that he finally completed the second stage of the mission. He simply just felt empty and his stomach was grumbling. He only ate once yesterday and he forgot himself in the mission to make matters worse, he used vigor seven times yesterday, and it drained all the energy from his body. He wobbled back and forth and it took him minutes to reach the freezer before he took out an energy bar and an energy potion and popped it into his mouth. Warm currents spread from his stomach to every part of his body including his cells. Within a minute the feeling of weakness disappeared and he entered the kitchen to prepare something for himself. Even though he has recovered his energy, it is only a part of it and it did not reduce the feeling of emptiness inside him.
** Shop**
2050 Prime credit remaining
**Manuals** **Blueprint**
It was already noon, he cultivated his mana in the morning and he could feel that he would soon reach the next stage but he had to stop because the side effect of mediation was kicking in. He ate before he returned to the forging room because he did not want to repeat the mistake of the previous day before he went to the shop interface. He saw that the manual interface was already glittering. He entered the interface.
**Manuals**
**Basic lessons on blacksmithing: 1000 prime credit**
He purchased the basic manual on blacksmithing. A manual appeared in front of him and he could see that on the top right of his system interface, there was a golden video section that was glittering. He took the manual and started to read it. It took him almost the rest of the day to digest the information.
There are three processes of blacksmithing and they are forging and, building, rune-smiting, and assembling. The forging deals with working with the metal that one is working with, it has five stages which the tempering, extreme refinement, alloy forging, spirit refinement, and heavenly refinement. The tempering is simply hitting the heated metal with a hammer to remove the impurities inside it while the extreme refinement is communicating with the metal to know the internal structure and rearrange the inner structure in an orderly manner. As for the spirit refinement and heavenly refinement, there is no explanation for it.
The second stage of building is the using of the metal required in the form of the blueprint given, that's when he learned about the circuits and the use of connections which is different from what he knows on Earth since most of the things he built on earth deals with the use of electricity and external fuel but the gist behind this building is the ability of the various part of the metal to be able to absorb mana on their own and use mana to boost their function. He was able to get it since everything is not as complex as that of Earth. It's not as difficult as that of Earth but it is far superior to that of Earth.
The third step is rune-smiting, the runes are just like the set of codes used on Earth but this time runes will be imprinted onto a circuit core to give them a particular command, and then they will be embedded into the metal. There are different runes close to three hundred, this is what took his time. He learned about the function of each rune and how to assemble and combine them. There are times when he has to engrave different runes onto different metals before assembling the metal to give rise to a particular function. The assembling part is quite simple and it's just assembling the different parts of the metal that has been forged.