Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Chapter 88: The Elmante Sword

I stood in my place watching the sword to cool and did nothing else. The sword didn't take long to be ready, but I didn't feel the passage of time until it became all silver white in color.

"You can bring it to me here so I can check it for you," Nada suddenly said, interfering in my special moment. I woke up from my daze and looked at the screen then to the sword then to the screen again as I asked:

"Where do you want me to put my sword?"

"You sword?" Nada said with a loud chuckle, "Just pass it through the screen and I will analyze it and tell you the result."

I nodded and then grabbed my sword. I felt more awe as I held it, if I was a swordsman now I would have been gladder, but at least I'm proud, proud of making this sword. I held it from the handle and then passed it through the screen slowly as I doubted Nada could analyze it if I passed it any faster.

After I passed it completely, Nada said:

"Congratulations, it's a success. Its not only a good grade; you did some variation so you can name it and create your own design based on this sword as a model if you wish."

I didn't understand what she said, as I asked with a loss:

"What variations? I did the same as written on that design."

"No, when you wrote the letters, you made slight repeated changes in the shape of one letter, so it created another effect than the desired one, and so this came as a success this time for your luck. Many times, changes like these would cause failure for the end product."

I still didn't get what she was talking about, as I raised my sword and tried to read these small writings that I engraved over its surface, but I couldn't read them well like I did before on the design. Nada noticed this, so she added:

"When you create your own design, you can compare the two and see the difference yourself."

She said it right, as I went on her suggestion and said:

"Fine, create the design for me then."

"You first need to name it."

I looked at my sword this time, it was shiny and sharp. Back in my kingdom, there was a word to describe the shiny and sharp items, and they were all meant for the swords and cleaves. I smiled faintly as I said:

"Let's call it the Elmante Sword."

"Elmante, strange name, but why do I feel like I heard it before? Anyway, I will create the design for you immediately and name it Elmante Sword Design."

I feared she would recognize my kingdom, but when she didn't pursue this matter I was greatly relieved. I decided not to use anything from my home again. 

I looked towards the pot, which still had a great amount of the hot liquid inside it. I felt great anticipation to make more swords, but I was stopped by two different sounds.

"I have created the design for you, it will be added into your personal data at the lifestyle class in your profile. Now you finally finished forging the sword, and you can continue forging swords based on the basic design or yours," Nada said.

'System prompt: Congratulations to the player for successfully forging silver grade Elmante Sword level 15. The player created a new design by his own efforts. Player gained 10% Exp, plus 100 proficiency points in blacksmith lifestyle class.'

I checked the system announcement and became very excited. I just needed nine more swords and I would reach level 14. That was quite unbelievable, as I could do that literally in less than four hours, and maybe shorter if I continued to work without any rest. 

That was refreshing, really refreshing that it even pumped up my desire and ignited my spirit again. This time I planned to continue making swords using every bit of time I had here in this studio without any pause.

"I got 100 proficiency points for my class, what does this even mean?" I asked Nada about it, as she replied:

"Any lifestyle class needs proficiency points to be upgraded, as you are now just an apprentice, so you need probably ten thousand proficiency points to climb to the next rank."

I tried to calculate it, as I needed to make roughly one hundred swords to reach such a rank.

"It's not difficult," I said casually and confidently.

"No, you are mistaken, you gained it high this time because you created a new design, but next time you will get the standard points, which won't exceed 10 points," Nada said as her words made me realize how optimistic I was. Now I needed to make one thousand swords, which would be more difficult and time consuming.

"I believe it would take months to just pass apprentice rank, anyway these ranks hold no value for me," I said as I tried to get over this topic, but Nada commented to make me feel some pain:

"Who said it has no value? Each rank can affect the success rate in your forging, so don't belittle these ranks, got it?"

I only sighed helplessly, as I felt how long the road ahead of me was, I looked towards the melted materials and said:

"Display my Elmante Sword Design please."

"It's on the screen," Nada said.

I moved closer as I said:

"Highlight the places which I changed."

Nada highlighted the places where I did change the writings at, and frankly It was at the whole design. I looked at the magnified part of the sword body and I realized what happened. 

Back at home, most of our letters had some curved extension to it, so I got the habit of doing so without awareness. I smiled, as my home was still helping me even after I left it.

"I will start making my second sword, does the mold need any processing?" I asked as I pointed to that heavy mold on the table.

"No, use it at once," Nada said.

I then went to the pot and opened the neck part, letting a suitable amount of liquefied materials to fall into the mold. This time, I realized how easy it was to use the already processed materials, at least I didn't have that tension from before. 

I first sent a wisp of my fire under the mold, and controlled it to burn at the weakest version of it, then I held my hammer and started cleansing this primary form of the sword over and over again.