156! Training from Myth Dwarves (2)

"Hey! Bofur! I'm ready now! Let's start the training!!!"

Klaus directly barged inside the tavern of all dwarves and announced his progress, everyone present there looked at Klaus with little shocked faces

Bofur looked at Klaus's eyes and after giving it some thought replied

"Ok then, I will be one you teach you about Blacksmithing, Glor will teach you about Runes and Dori will teach you enchantments

Follow me, let's start with blacksmithing..."

Klaus nodded and followed Bofur to his smithy, Bofur said nothing from then on and directly picked up a hammer and the bars of iron from the side and started melting it with lava by the side

Klaus noticed the rhythm of the whole process from melting the bar, cooling it to the right temperature and then hammering all weak points

The iron was folded again and again till it achieved right thickness while still keeping it hot

'This seems amazing...'

Even Klaus looked at the whole process with awe written all over his face, if he saw all this right from start it would have been pretty normal

But after reading all those books and those eyes he was able to see the true importance of the whole process

'This is a peak of perfection! Every hit of the hammer is maintaining balance and temperature...

Predicting next place for hammering while noticing the temperature of that place without even touching it

Just by sheer experience and instincts as blacksmith he is calculating the temperature, strength, time limit within micro seconds

At this rate the impurities and all faults will be removed without any question...'

Klaus analysed everything from his eyes and noticed that every hit of hammer was perfect and the strength behind those hits was perfect

The iron was getting purified to purest form a weapon can have, but it wasn't just that currently what Klaus was seeing was literally breaking the limits of the iron metal

It was without a doubt comparable to steel right now

Klaus noticed the atmosphere in the smithy had turned extremely hot comparable to breath of a dragon

But at same time there was a chill in the room because of those hammer strikes and the slowly forming edge of blade

'What kind of monster is this guy?'

Klaus suddenly started the increasing pressure on atmosphere with each strike of that hammer

The air pressure was increasing every moment, but still Klaus kept on watching that amazing process

This was unity of man, metal and the world, this was the peak every blacksmith wanted to reach

Finally the whole process finished and Bofur took out the perfected blade to Klaus

"Amazing..."

[Legendary Grade Nameless Blade!]

Klaus muttered on his own seeing the blade and experiencing it with his own head, the heat of flames and hammering was still inside the blade

"Can't believe this was made by just iron..."

Klaus touched the smooth surface of Sword and sharp edge with own hands and there was nothing but awe in his eyes

Bofur looked at Klaus with a smug face and took out a big pile of metal bars from the back side of the storage and ordered

"We will start with most basics, try to change the shape of all kinds of metals

Feel the metal, experience it's softness, experience it's hardness, experience the sharpness and weight

After you have reached a certain mastery over all these metals we will move to the next stage!"

Klaus hearing this immediately questioned with a panicked face "But what about technique, I don't know any technique!?!"

Bofur turned around and replied "Techniques are just for newbies and those who want to limit themselves on their own

A true man working with metals doesn't need such things, just feel the metal, your instincts will tell you the right path"

Saying that Bofur left the place and closed the doors of smithy again, the fairies and Noir were already enjoying life outside so there was no tension about them

And now as Klaus was left alone in dark smithy with nothing but flames and a pile of metals

Klaus directly took out his own mythical hammer with his hands and observed the right weight and strength of hammer then picked the same iron bar and started hammering while heating it with nearby flames again and again

This process took much longer than Bofur, Klaus had literally no experience this was his first encounter with raw metals and smithy flames

Klaus kept on hammering and heating but right in the middle of the process the upper side of the metal became cold before Klaus could reheat it again

"Fuck!"

Klaus tossed the metal aside and took out another iron bar and started repeating the process once again

But this time while hammering because of his worry that he is being slow and the metal will become cold again

He missed the weak point of metal and instead hammered the wrong place with inaccurate strength

The whole metal bended right from middle with a stretched space in middle

"Dammit..."

Klaus tossed the iron again and restarted the whole process again, this time the 'metal' element inside Klaus started reacting

A very dim mana of metal elements started surging out from his hands and hammer

This time Klaus didn't miss the weak points but missed the correct timing, this whole process of 40 minutes got destroyed within seconds

But Klaus wasn't enraged instead he just simply tossed the metal aside and started focusing on another bar of iron again

This whole process took 23 months until Klaus finally managed to gain somewhat of mastery over all elements

Klaus hairs have grown a lot and currently he has tied all hairs on his back but still two bangs were covering sides of face

Bofur was sitting at the corner with an interested and expecting face, Klaus kept hammering his piece of dark adamantite

His hammering was showing the presence and pressure similar to Bofur in the past and this time the silvery aura of metal elements could be seen and felt very clearly from Klaus

Klaus finally managed to turn the adamantite bar into a piece of fine bracelet with perfect curves and smooth curve endings

[Epic Grade Nameless Bracelet!]

"Good..."

Klaus looked at his first perfect creation with a satisfied face, Bofur nodded with satisfaction and took out his hammer and said

"This is good, now then let's change your posture and move to perfection, show me your blacksmithing!"

Klaus nodded with understanding and took his hammer and started striking a heated metal bar

As he was doing that the strikes of hammer were quite good but Bofur still pushed Klaus's chest little forwards and shoulders a little backwards

The front knees bended and the left hand and right leg in straight curved position, after this small change as Klaus struck with hammer

A clear spark appeared from clash of adamantite and the hammer, the ground before Klaus directly cracked because of sudden increase in pressure in his hammer

Klaus stopped and looked at the place with shock, Bofur nodded and said

"A small change in man's posture can make big storms in the world, remember that, now feel the heat!!!"

Klaus nodded and started striking the hammer again with same posture, after some non stop of for weeks he instinctively started noticing the right posture for right strike and temperature

This time the whole year passed without any rest, Klaus managed to gain a perfect understanding over all metals and minerals

Bofur spended every single moment of his last 5 years with Klaus teaching him about everything and correcting every problem with his experience as living legend

And with Klaus's hammer of creation he managed to gain understanding and perfection of blacksmithing with experience of 50 years

Klaus honed the basics directly into his very soul, Klaus's body had become very toned every muscle and tissue in his body was perfectly visible in front of flames of smithy

"Perfect, this much is enough for being a blacksmith, there is nothing more to learn the rest of just practice and experience..."

As Bofur said that there was a look of great satisfaction in Klaus eyes as he opened his mouth while approaching towards him