13 Blacksmith, but it's not what your expecting

"Wait!" Sydra called out, seeing who was pointing a sword at him. "The name is Sydra, I was sent here by you guild master to explore the burial ruins.." He said pulling the webs away from his face so they could see him.

"We did hear about someone with that name, but who is this then?" The guild member asked swinging his sword towards Cidre.

"My name is Cidre Swagger, I got lost and accidentally entered the building before meeting up with Sydra," Cidre said calmly, also pulling the webs off his face. When the guild members saw his red hair they knew he was telling the truth. After all, Cidre was the only one in the entire town who had red hair, so he was quite well known.

"Oh... Well, that's boring." Said the guild member putting his sword away. "Do you mind following me to the guild master, he has been looking for you for the last week?" He said looking at Sydra.

'Week?' Sydra thought looking around 'That means we must have been in a temporal zone. Dang it, does that mean I only have a few days left in the Inn? I really need to make a permanent place to stay.'

"Sure, I need to talk with him anyway," Sydra said in acknowledgment, standing up to get the rest of the webs off himself.

"Do I need to come to?" Cidre asked, doing the same as Sydra.

"No, the guild master has only been looking for Sydra. As long as you didn't take anything from the burial chambers then you are all good." Said the guild member. Cidre turned to look at Sydra for confirmation.

"Go back to your great-grandfather, and I'll show up later to drop off the materials," Sydra said, talking about the spider's abdomen.

"Got it, then I will see you later," Cidre said, running off to get back.

"Alright, the guild master is over this way." The guild member said leading Sydra back into the main square of the temple ruins. It seemed it had indeed been a few days, as the path was already completed and people had set up tents. Entering one of the larger tents, Sydra saw Robert bent over a map and crossing parts off it. Looking up from the map, Robert smiled wildly when he saw Sydra.

"Brother!" He exclaimed, walking around the table and grabbing Sydra's hand in his. "Here I was getting worried that something had happened to you in the burial chambers, after such a long time not seeing you."

"Yeah, I heard it had been a week for you guys, but it was only half a day at most for me. Temporal zone and all, you know how it is." Sydra said nonchalantly.

"Temporal zone?!" Said Robert shocked "I can't believe there is one here. Did you find anything else in there?" Robert asked.

"Yes, but we should be alone for what I'm about to show you," Sydra said, looking back at the guild members.

"Understood," Robert said looking at his two guild members "Please step out, and don't allow anyone to enter here unless I call out." He said as the two members stepped out.

"Now then, brace yourself," Sydra said placing his hand on Robert's shoulder and sending him into the Arbor Sanctum. After Robert was sent in, Sydra sat down in meditation to follow him in.

"Holy crap, what is this place?!" Robert said aloud, looking over the side of the island down at the world.

"This is my Arbor Sanctum, which I also use as an inter-spatial storage," Sydra said, floating down to Robert.

"Woah! Where is your body?" Robert said in shock at the sight of a floating Sydra.

"Haha, at the moment I can't travel here with my body because I still need a return point left on Phisloke, or I would end up stuck here. Once I get my connection rank up with the shadow void cloak I wear, I'll be able to come here with my body. At that point, I will build a palace and my Guildhall up here. But that will take a while." Sydra explained to Robert.

"You have a shadow void cloak? How did you get one, those are incredibly rare?" Robert asked, curious of who Sydra really was.

"It was given to me by the old man who raised me since I gained my nature spirit form. That old man left me with the cloak and some good coins on my sixteenth birthday and just disappeared. But that is beside the point, the real reason I brought you up here is for this." Sydra said pointing out the large pile of ingots, sitting on top of it all was the blacksmith's hammer.

"What's all this... Wait, don't tell me you actually found the blacksmithing manuscript?!" Robert asked, looking at the hammer on top of the pile.

"Of course I did, I couldn't let you down when you only gave me one job. All that ore is also the ten percent I owe your guild as states the contract." Sydra said, looking at Robert's reaction.

"What's that hammer?" Robert asked still looking at the hammer. " It is giving me this feeling of immense pressure."

"Haha, go ahead and try to pick it up, if you can I will give it to you," Sydra said, as Robert wrapped his large hands around the hammer and tried to lift it. It ended up budging, but only by a smidge.

"Haha, I guess I am not worthy." Robert said stepping away from the hammer "But if I can't pick it up, you definitely can't, so what are you planning to do with it?"

"If you feel the aura around the hammer, you can tell it is meant to be the hands of a master blacksmith. I plan on selling it to your blacksmith, so he can craft me lots of daggers with it." Sydra said, imagining a Guildhall weapon room filled with only daggers. 'One day...' Sydra thought.

"Oh? That's a good idea, if you want we can head over there now?" Robert said, looking around the island once again.

"Okay, hold on a second," Sydra said, leaving the Arbor Sanctum and calling Robert out with him. Leaving the tent the two of them headed to the Fluttershi that Robert had parked under another tent.

"I have gotten better at driving this thing in the time you were gone," Robert said proudly hopping into the front seat. On their way back to the town, Sydra saw Cidre walking down the path. Stopping Robert, they picked him up and continued on. Cidre was soon trying to not throw up in the back.

"By the way, Robert, I'm not sure if you would be interested or not, but while we were exploring the burial chambers I also found a map of the Emerald Sea Forest that shows nine other places that will probably also have places similar to the Plasma temple ruins. Cidre and I are going to head to them all to see what we can find. Do you want to join us?" Syda asked, bringing up the map.

"Really?! I'd have to check with my wife Gracie about it first. Will it just be the three of us?" Robert asked.

"Yeah, you said that once the six kingdoms learn of the possibilities of all the secrets hidden within the forest they wouldn't hesitate to come over. I was thinking we have your guild members continue exploring the forest without knowledge of this. That way we can go under the sight of the kingdoms, and your members can also find other things that we miss. Such as that valley of rare flowers I found." Sydra said, looking back at Cidre who was on the floor in the back holding his stomach.

"Haha, I like the way you think, it's like your thinking a hundred chapters ahead in life." Robert said, "As long as my wife is fine with it, I will gladly take you up on that offer." Pulling up to his Guildhall Robert hopped over Cidre who was still laying on the floor and ran to convince his wife.

"What the hell is up with his driving?" Cidre said, wiping the spit off his dirtied face.

"Not sure, by the way, I am pretty sure someone stepped in shit, before coming in here, and now it is all over your face," Sydra said, pulling a mirror he had gotten from the burial chamber and showing it to Cidre.

"Great, just what I needed," Cidre said rushing off to the warehouse.

"Guess I have to find the blacksmith on my own," Sydra said climbing out of the Fluttershi. "Hmm, I should probably look for a plume of smoke or maybe a sweaty dwarf?" He said to himself. Searching the sky, Sydra was able to quickly locate the plume of smoke he was searching for. Heading over, he reached the blacksmith's forge in five minutes. The forge was located next to the river that ran through Emerald Pine Valley, and it resembled an open porch. If most open porches had giant smelters and hammers all over the place.

Stopping at the entrance of the forge, Sydra saw a young female water spirit carrying a shovel of coal over to the smelter. She had neck long blue hair that has put up in a ponytail, as well deep piercing aqua eyes. She was wearing a purple skin tight which showed off her curvy features, and a short maroon skirt that allowed one to admire her long legs. She wall also very tan, most likely from working in the forge all this time.

"Excuse me, I am looking for the guilds blacksmith. Do you know where they are?" Sydra called out to the water spirit. Stopping in her tracks she looked over at Sydra and studied him.

"I am the blacksmith." She said as she continued to carry the coal over to the forge. Being surprised, Sydra said something he shouldn't have.

"Your not a dwarf?" He said.