Quest: Book 2 Page 5
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Taking the black iron out of the burning hot smelting furnace, I began to study with the master together…
After we have the new colleting way, it is no more a problem where the source of the black iron ore comes from. As a gift for thanking me, the master decides to make me the best black iron sword.
From the smelting up, the waste of the materials and the input of manpower are astonishing. To make my own weapon as perfect as it can be, I take participate in the whole procedure. I give all kind of the suggestions, the master makes some modifications according to his saved experience from those many years, the embryo of the sword is formed slowly.
I bring the “Lapping” forward after I consult the making of the Japanese knight knife, after I explain everything clearly to the master with a whole night, the master smelts the embryo of the sword which is already formed unexpectedly.
“I need to make a best one!” He speaks to me like this, “your lapping way is a good idea, the sword made by this way is very sharp, but the tenacity absolutely can’t match your requirement.”
“Then what should we do?” I ask, besides this way that I read on the magazine in the former life, I do not have any other great ideas with me.
“Rest your heart! I have a good idea!”
A month later, under the master’s hard work that he even forgets to eat or sleep, my sword is finally finished!
“You look!” I watch the master takes out my sword from a kind of white solution, “I have finished this with my final touch!”
I take over the sword with my both hands, look at the whole black long sword, my heart is filled with all kind of feelings…
“I lap the sword more than ten thousands times with your lapping way!” the master has the fanaticism in his eyes, “in the final time, I put in the spiral way that I just think of to make it. In this way, the sword is not only sharp but fully tenacity!”
“Spiral?”
“That’s right! The spiral way makes the lapping sword body to have the tiny spiral curves. In this way, the tenacity will reach the extreme point. It absolutely can take the advantage in the hard hackings! As what you told, I add some small teeth on the back of the sward. I make some adjustments on the blood grooves as well.”
I stroke on the sword body slightly, I feel that the blood in my body can’t help burning…This is my sword!
“Thank you, Master,” I say, “it is only you who can make a sword like this.”
“No need to self-effacing, Hah hah,” the master looks at me, “this weapon should not be called sword. Can you tell me what is supposed to be called?”
“I knew that I can’t fool you!” I scratch my head embarrassed, “it should be called mountain knife, Germen mountain knife.”
“Mountain knife?”
“Yes, it looks like that there will be one more product added to master your weapon list?” it is so not careful, I even speak German out. I change to another topic immediately.
“Huh huh, that’s right.” it seems like that master does not care about too much, “that the output of the black iron is no more a problem now. We can have more hands to make the weapons. As a matter of fact, the design of your this weapon is very good.”
How can it be not very good? This style of mountain knife even looks like very simple, but its every line and change are full of German people workers’ intelligence and inspiration, in my former life, this is the standard equipment for the special troops.
“This I give you privately myself.” the master hands me a dagger, “they are the same style!”
“Thank you very much!” I take it over, “I still have something to trouble you.”
“What it is, just tell me.”
“Please make some more swords for me.”
“Make… some more?” the master’s eyes becomes inert, he sits on the ground, “I will lose my life if I keep working like this…”
“You misunderstand what I said.” I pull the master up in a hurry, “just the simple ones! Just the simple ones!”
……
I wrap the nitrated fish skin on the sword’s handle, tie it up with silver threads. The fish is angled from the lake around, its meat is very tough to eat, but its skin is very suitable to put on the handle. It is not only beautiful, but sweat-absorbable and anti-slipped as well.
“Boss,” Waldi has the envy on his face, “you are very fierce! It seems like that you know everything.”
“Have you finished watching what I am doing?” I say, “have you finished the drawing of the map to the spirit there?”
“I have!” Waldi takes out the map, “but I don’t know how to wrap this thing no matter how I watch!”
“I will teach you this after I come back from Wensly there.” I gather the map and put it up, “I don’t have too much time left, I have to hurry back to the Saint Capital before my next birthday.”
“Why?”
“I will be sixteen on next birthday.” I reply, “I will be conferred a title and territory as a noble. I don’t know where Your Majesty Krimer will confer upon me.”
“It will be the best that they confer us this land upon you.” Waldi laughs and says, “then we don’t need to pay the tax.”
“Dream about it!” I tie the dagger around my leg, “I am leaving!”
……
Actually, it is not that far to go to the place where the elves live, but it takes me more than ten days to walk to there! It is not because I am lazy, that is because Waldi that stupid-head draws the map wrong direction…
“Finally I am here…” I lie down on the grass and breath heavily and deeply, “Damn Waldi! See how I will take good care of you when I get back there.”
“Don’t move! Human!”
I turn around and take a look, several male spirits circle around me, they get ready to set off the magic!
“Wait!” I jump up, “I am here to look for somebody!”
“We elves don’t contact with humans.” one of the elves says, “you’re lying!”
“I don’t lie!” under the menace of the force, I raise my both hands high in the air, “I’m here looking for Wensly!”
“Wensly?” the spirit keeps saying, “we do have several here!”
“It’s the Wensly one who just got back here not long ago!”
“Who are you? Tell your name.”
“Kone Cada.”
“You’re lying! Kone Cada has the black eyes!”
I have no choice but to take down the crystal contacts from my eyes…
I always think that the place where the elves live must be very peculiar, but after Wensly takes me to tour around for a while, I know the reality has a big difference from my thought.
The elves build the tree houses connected each other with the vine ladders, they don’t have too many decorations on, but they match with the environment to a perfect harmony. It looks very gentle, this match very well with spirit that no desire character.
It looks like that Wensly is very happy, she talks a lot to me on the way…
“That’s my home in front.” Wensly points at a very huge tree house and says, “my Mom is at home.”
“This?” I ask her, “it’s much bigger than the rest!”
“That’s because the elders of our people will often have the meetings with my Mom right here.”
“Have meetings with auntie?” I don’t understand, “so your Mom is an elder too?”
“No!” Wensly smiles and says, “she… is… the queen.”
“The Queen?! Then Wensly you… are… the princess?”
“Can’t I be?” Wensly flies into the sky, “don’t I look like one?”
“Mmm… Headache…” when I think about that I live with the princess of elves for several years, but I still don’t know her identity, I feel that I am kind of losing face, “then Waldi them…”
“Waldi is the son of the dwarfs’ leader! And Wen them are all the same…”
“What… Damn… You guys are all the wolves in the sheep sk
ins! Watch my punishment!” I reach my claws out to chase Wensly. Wensly turns around and flies away.
“Ai-yo-ai-wei!” it is not that easy for me to catch the flying around Wensly finally, but I don’t pay attention to my steps, I fall down in front of the tree house door.
"Mama, Kone comes to visit us!" Wensly shakes off my hand, she flies to the side of auntie spirit and says.
“Oh, it’s Kone.” auntie is still that pretty, “let me take a look, do you harm yourself anywhere?”
“Mmm, nothing, nothing.” I say embarrassed, I keep shaking my head to let the auntie’s hand off my head. Even though I am not an adult according to the body, but there is no other teen can match up with me in mentality. Even like this pretty auntie spirit, I am still no willing to let her to pat on my head, “how are you, auntie?”
“Huh huh,” Auntie smile slightly, “it looks like that our Kone is growing up!”
“Heh heh…” I have a smirk.
“Then you go to have a meal with Wensly first, auntie still has something else to do now.” auntie says, “auntie will come to talk to you tonight.”
……
“Can’t make any more progress after reach the third grade?” auntie asks me after she gives my body a check, “how do you feel about yourself?”
“Mmm… there’s no problem at all to use the third grade magic.” I recall and say, “but the magic power can’t increase no more, thus I can’t use any forth grade magic.”
“Is it fluent to use the third grade magic?”
“Very fluent!” I nodded my head, “I can keep setting off several fire balls in a row!”
“It’s like this,” auntie bends her brows, “can you let auntie to think it over?”
“That’s alright!” I say, “I’m not in a hurry at all.”
After I see auntie off, I walk down the tree house. Well, it’s not that bad to take a walk.
“What are you doing?” I don’t know where Wensly comes from, “if you have nothing else to do, I will bring you to go to see my babes!”
“That will be great!” anyway, I am not occupied and have nothing else to do now.
Wensly brings me to a small lakeside, she is pleased with herself.
“Is this the lake that you looked at when you were little?” I ask.
“No just that!” Wensly speak in a hurry, “can you wait for a little bit longer?”
I lie down on the grass by the lakeside, I look at the sky of the summer night, “what else are you going to show me?”
“You look, this is it!”
In the summer night, the blinking stars hang on the sky, the fireflies shake their glowing bodies flying out of the grass one by one. From the sky to the ground, the growing lights are everywhere.
“Shh…” Wensly puts a finger in front of her lips, the lights shine in her eyes, she sits down by my side slowly, “don’t make any noise to bother them.”
I can’t deny that this scene is really beautiful, but the more attractive thing to me is that the expression Wensly has right now. Over here, the light sadness is no more shown in her eyes, what she has right now is only the happiness and the joyance.
“Do you still remember what my name means for?” Wensly asks me in a low voice.
“I remember,” I answer her, “it’s the little things flying around now.”
“No taste, this is firefly! They are my friends too.”
“I know.”
“What do you know? Black-eye idiot.”
“I know,” I say, “the fireflies are your friends, the lake is your friend, the stars and the moon in the sky are your friends, and the now slowly blow-pass wind is your friend too.”
“…...”
Looking at Wensly’s astonished expression, I suddenly find out, she… is very beautiful.
“Teach you a song, do you want to learn?”
“Great! What song it is?”
“…The dark sky curtains down.
The shining stars accompany.
Bug’s flying, Bug’s flying.
Who do you think of.
The stars in the sky tear.
The roses on the ground wilt.
Cold wind blows, cold wind blows.
Just want you to be my side.
Bug’s flying. Flowers’ sleeping.
It’ll be great to be a pair and a pair.
Don't be afraid of the darkness.
Don't be afraid of the heart-broken.
Don’t care tiredness or not.
Don’t care which direction…”
Wensly sings the song that she just learned in a low voice, she puts her head on my shoulder and falls into sleep sweetly…