Ch7: The forge
(A few days later)
"And this is the forge." Ruby said, as we entered the massive room.
"Nice." I say, taking in a location that would be more fitting to the lonely mountain Erebor than what is, effectively, a middle school for warriors.
"Now, remember, you will have to make the weapons yourself. Imbuing your weapon with your aura links you to the weapon and allows you to wield it with greater skill and strength." Ruby told me, no matter how socially challenged she is, once it comes to weapons, she is surprisingly composed.
"I think we should start with Anne." I say, heading to the materials storage.
"Let's start then!" She said, again displaying her boundless enthusiasm.
I chose to use a lightweight, burn-dust infused metal alloy for my cutlasses, they were to be straight for most of the length and have a pronounced curve towards the tip, along with a trapezoidal handguard instead of the classic curved design.
After about seven hours, we had finished forging Anne. 'I really would've thought that this would take longer,' I mused, 'But then again, this IS Remnant and I am working with someone who is probably much better at doing this than anyone else in the school.'
Four days later, on friday, I had finished my knife and was ready to show it to Ruby, who was sad about me forcing her to wait while I made some… additions to the blade. It was, essentially a k-bar with a clipping system to allow it to snap to Blue Death and act as a bayonet. And there was something else.
"Ta-da!" I say to Ruby, flourishing the knife as much as I can before holding it out to show her.
"Why's there a bipod on the bottom?" She asks, confused.
"Because I'm just that good."
"Ookaay?" She says, still horribly confused.
"Plus when I'm using it as a bayonet, it'll actually be a bipod."
"Then why didn't you just add a bipod to the gun in the first place?" Ruby asks, again, confused.
"You honestly would not understand."
"So pretty much the same reason you added a scope to Marxman?"
"Yep."
"Alright then." And thus the conversation shifted to other topics as we walked back to Ruby's home.
"So, what was life like back where you're from?"
"Honestly, it probably wasn't all that interesting, especially compared to being a hunter. Not really much else that I can remember though. I can remember that I was just starting to regularly attend a shooting range. i think I was planning to go into engineering or some sort of design-based industry. I can remember world news, movies, but not much of my actual life, sorry."
"It's alright. You've got something to work towards here now. It'll be alright."
"Yeah, your dad is AWESOME, by the way."
"Yeah, he is."
"I mean, it's a great deal: I get a roof over my head, food, and a small allowance, and in return all I have to do is become a Hunter. Granted becoming a Hunter isn't exactly the easiest thing to do. But still, you have an awesome dad."
"I know."
Eventually we started discussing various weapons and techniques from Remnant, and a few from Earth, although I tried to direct the discussion back to Remnant to avoid talking too much about some of the more… unsavory parts of human history, and nukes. Eventually I'll have to talk to them about stuff like that, but not now.