The Greatest Defence

Even when playing games, I've not always been a fan of heavy armours and weapons, I'm a speed over strength person, is it from getting addicted with flash? No, I think the timing of your attack is more important than its strength, if the strength of the attack is delivered and the timing is wrong, you can get a counter-attack and because you lack speed things might get complicated on the battlefield. You can beg to differ for all I care, that's my take.

"It's been three hours Gilland, three hours. Have you not seen a thing you want?"

Even though I was getting tired, at this point I don't mind going to the dungeon in some fancy clothes.

It was night already and the smithy was already closing. Blacksmiths were already rounding up their works and packing up.

"Do you not have anything apart from all this?" I asked. I wanted something slim, something that would hug my body and would show off my muscles.

He looked at me, his eyes I could tell were observing me.

'Does he know... did Clifton tell him? Is that why he doesn't want to pick anything even though he has seen countless enchanted grade equipments.'

"I'm sure if we go over the ones you checked before, we will find out that you've missed something you like, should we?" He said.

For some reason, it felt like he was hiding something. We've gone into all the chambers except one.

"How about we check that last chamber?" I asked, pointing to the room in the last corner of the right side of the upper floor.

"That place is for scraps, you'll find nothing there." He said with a pretentious smile that didn't go away unnoticed by me. Was it because of my nature of work back on earth, I could tell he was hiding something.

"Master Orel, please just show it to him," Avery said, out of the frustration my stubbornness gave her.

Was I being stubborn for just no reason? Was I blindly hoping that there was some hidden treasure? No No No. It was all thanks to Anastasia's intuition.

***

>Three hours earlier<

"Oi, Goshujin... I can sense something powerful."

'Ana...I'd like to be left alone.'

"It's different this time...let me go and check it."

'Huh uh, I thought you couldn't leave where I am because you are bounded to me?'

"Dumb Goshujin, it's a certain metre..." She said and floated away.

I watched as Avery gladly admired the armour sets all around her and since she didn't have a weapon yet she was going to pick one too. She wanted almost all the armours she saw but the blacksmith had already made one for her based on special order from the Duke himself, he mentioned himself and left me to check around.

~Plop~

Anastasia appeared before me, and immediately they left.

"It is just as I suspected." She said.

'What is?'

"You should come to see for yourself..." She said, dragging my hand after her.

We reached the door of the last chamber on the right and were about to enter when a man stopped us. I wondered how I didn't even see him coming.

"That place is restricted, young Lord." He said and escorted me back to the chamber the blacksmith left me, he escorted me without my permission. Then I knew, that whatever was in that place, is a big deal.

I turned and grinned, 'How could I even forget...'

"Forget what?... Ahhh, as expected of my Goshujin sama, you know how to put your power to good use."

From the entrance of the chamber, my eyes riveted into the room I was going to check. It was like seeing with binoculars, everything unveiled clearly before me, it was all scraps, scraps of metals, abandoned weapons, and failed creations.

"Focus more to the left side..."

Could she see what I am seeing? I wondered as I did as she said and then, I saw a golden liquid floating inside a glass, the liquid was like a thick liquid that kept shaping and reforming, it wasn't hung, it was floating was what even delighted me more.

"Young lord, what are you doing outside." The Blacksmith's voice immediately averted my gaze.

"I couldn't find what I needed..." I responded to him and looked at Avery.

She didn't disappoint my expectation. Black and red was the colour her armour was covered in. From the beginning of her neck down to the beginning of her waist, the black-coloured armour covered every part even down to her hands, a long skirt that looked like the silky skirt of her samurai stood gallant on her lower body and was red and from her back her black tail was wriggling out. In her hand was an axe, the handle was just the right length for a girl.

Avery didn't have a tail so it had to be the armour.

"Should we look at other chambers to see if there's something the young Lord will love."

Hence that was how we got to where we were.

***

The big old blacksmith gently pushed the door of the chamber as expected of the hidden treasure, the old and loud Creak proved that the door hasn't been opened for a very long time. A breeze of dust blew out immediately, causing all three of us to cough shortly.

It was dark and had a gloomy atmosphere and the equipments were so rough and rusty. I took some time to play dumb by looking around before throwing my eyes towards the glass, it was covered with a black cloth and like an enticed fellow I marched towards it and pulled the cloth.

Seeing it up close was even more interesting.

~Pak~

~Pak~

The golden liquid suddenly got restless and began to hit the glass. The first hit was startling such that I took a step backwards.

"What in the world is that?!" Avery said as she drew nigh, even she was amazed. Her eyes shone with delight.

"I have never seen such existence. Master Orel, what is it?"

"This is a biometallic armour." He said after a sigh.

"Huh? what does that even mean?" She tilted her head like a clueless puppy.

'It means an armour that was made from biological properties you dumb fuxk...' I wished I could have said that, but I needed to play dumb too.

"It's an armour that was made with the heart of a beast and one a mineral that has the ability of replication." He replied.

"What beast?" She asked again, not even letting her breathe pass away after his response.

"A dragon...the gold dragon."

My mouth dropped, no I meant that, my mouth literally dropped where I was standing. This guy fuxking made an armour with the heart of a dragon? How's that even supposed to be possible, I thought dragons were supposed to be like overpowered existence.

"A gold dragon's defence is second only to the defence of a platinum dragon."

"But Platinum dragons does not exist?" Avery said

"That is why what you see here is the most defensive armour in the entire world."