Master Of None

"Have you noticed that young girl?" Mordant pointed slowly toward the carpenters. From what he had seen, the girl was not making any sense. She was creating strange parts without any plan.

"No, but that doesn't look like carpentry. Look at the golems." Walker started to see the similarities between the golems and the carpentry parts.

"So that little girl is making a golem out of wood. Is that possible?" The question was loud enough for many to hear. It started a debate amongst the crowd which is exactly what Ignus had intended. He could carefully listen to the arguments around to learn the answers.

"That was sneaky, but I like it. I can hear many saying that it is not the materials but the runes that matter. Therefore, I would assume she has that seed as a core?" Morant looked carefully at a large brown seed on the girl's work table.

'Century tree seed

The century tree is a tree that can only ever live up to a century. They will grow as large as the environment allows. The energy they have stored within them is enough for them to live for the entire century without needing to absorb large amounts of earth elemental mana. The century tree is known for attracting water and earth affinity monsters due to the powerful fruit it creates when it withers.'

Walker shared this appraisal with the two royals dragons and Onyx. they thought that it was a very wise choice for a core. "It has plenty of mana condensed within. The runes she uses will most likely be earth and water which are perfect for wood. Whatever she makes she will be able to impress people. But why does it look like she is making wings?" Onyx spoke up to enhance the appraisal from Walker with his own curiosity.

"Those my little brother, are the wings of a lava diving bat. She is making a lava diving bat golem out of wood with earth and water affinity. It's bold, complicated, and fits the woodworking and mechanical categories. She may be…" Walker lost his ability to speak when he saw the girl start to work on the century tree seed.

"She is using true spirit forging. And so is the boy next to her. They are twins!" The realization that the two siblings were twins caught Walker like a slap to the face. The two were both creating parts of the same golem and using true spirit forging techniques. But where it differentiated was more amazing.

The girl had called over an earth spirit while the boy had called over a water spirit. The two elemental spirits were helping them with the mana to carve water and earth elemental runes on to the century tree seed. The more runes they carved, the more the seed seemed to smooth and change. It wasn't a tree seed any longer. It was becoming the first ever wooden golem core that many had seen.

Was it unheard of to make a golem out of wood? Now. But it was something many times harder and respected by any craftsman. Yet, these two young children were doing it with ease. "Brother, from what I can gather, they are two surviving children of the fire back home. They escaped and came here." Onyx had listened to the gossip around to find the answer.

"Really? That's great!" Walker was even more invested in the twins winning a prize now. Mordant and Ignus felt left in the dark so Onyx managed to explain to them the past incident with the carpenters building in Diamond.

"Then these two have literally risen from the ashes to compete here today. That is a story worth telling when they win an award. They will win." Ignus had already given them his support after hearing that they braved the flames of death to continue on in their trade. It was something every fire dragon did in their own way. Trial by fire.

"The true spirit forging techniques seem to have spread to a rune carving spirit technique." Mordant made this observation within the other crafting materials. He saw a few of the crafters had grasped the ability to carve runes with the addition of an elemental spirit's mana.

"It is, I wonder if that is a partial adaptation of true spirit forging or a new way to create overall.' Walker wanted to dig in to things more but was stopped when he heard a loud bang and the sound of shattering metal.

"And as we expected. The first piece has shattered. There are many chances to overload a material with mana through the forging process. The blacksmith must regulate such things. There are still many hours left. Begin again!" The king of the deep caves encouraged the dwarf that had shattered a sword to start again.

"I'm glad there are healers around today. That blacksmith could have lost his hands or worse." It was natural that Walker would worry. He almost wanted to go and check on the blacksmiths himself.

"They are fighting through the fires to create. Those are scars that prove their dedication and pride." Ignus followed with his own views. He respected those that struggled for strength. This was a place where he found himself being impressed over and over.

"Oh, there is your wandering blacksmith. He had begun to spirit forge." Since Mordant was still looking for the spurt forging techniques, he had caught the wandering blacksmith beginning to forge properly.

"So he is the one with the assistance of the dragon golem you told us about. He also has one of each elemental spirit and multiple sets of tools he appears to be forging. All in twenty four hours…" Ignus could not doubt the skill level of the wandering blacksmith. He was about to make one set of forging tools for each elemental affinity as rewards for the competitions. However, there were also other tool models for leather working, wood working, and tools Walker had never seen before.

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