Chapter 2

The next two days were really difficult for Vi. If he were to describe his current condition, it would be the worst hangover of his life. Add to that the fact that his muscles have not grown, but they seem stronger. It's a strange feeling, but the feeling when he touches his shoulders, the texture felt more solid and nothing different from what he was used to. However, the pain throughout his body prevented him from checking more closely. So he mostly lay down, ate, although it was associated with a really bad pain. Until a day came when his condition did not improve. After settling down and making it usable, he went to the workshop and there, sitting right on the anvil, Viego turned a steel hammer in his hand and stared at it, while he conducted an internal monologue.

(Viego) - "It was stupid. Really. It is impossible to hide. While I was thinking, or rather considering the options, it was a miraculous power. But as you can see it consumes energy. Since I am an Asgardian and an Elf, I should have quite a lot of mana. Though old Vi, he didn't practice magic or anything like that. So I can have a little less mana than an Asgard mage, I don't know. Whore. I could use a system, then I would scan people and have easy access to this information. Ah ... "

Finishing Vi's thought, he struck the hammer on the nearby workbench and looked at it again.

(Viego) - "Better to think, it would be nice to have some way of measuring this energy. The best way would be to use something small like a needle, but needles aren't profitable and producing that amount is just silly. Maybe I will think otherwise, one-handed swords are the best-selling merchandise. It is a commodity that will always sell, even if someone is using a halberd or swordfish as their main weapon. He always carries a one-handed weapon on his belt as a spare. So there is always a stay for her, God bless Odin ... or just out of place. A plus for Odin, or actually one of his ancestors, for inventing a set of weapons. So the best idea is to measure power with swords. "

Then Viego got up and quickly went to the warehouse, which was in the room adjacent to the shop section of the building, so after passing through the shop, he entered the warehouse and took the remaining one-handed swords (Gladius) to the workshop. Then he put them in a box in front of the anvil and counted how many he had in total.

(Viego) - ,, 15 ... Not enough for sale. So I'll have to create more. Holidays only end in three days, as far as I remember. Thor and most of the city are celebrating Victory Week, so 3 days. Before I have to open a shop. I can't upgrade everyone right away because not everyone has that many gold coins. Currency. Asgard has 3 types of coins, gold known as Goldir, silver Siris, bronze brivir. However, everyone just calls it gold and so on. So no problem, 1 gold value = 100 bronze and so on. So good."

(Viego) - ,, Currently, the price of one Gladius or other one-handed weapon is 30 silver coins. The price is very low as I am not the only blacksmith in town. And the profit per piece after production costs is only 5 silver coins. Very little. If a meal at the cheapest tavern costs 8 silver coins, it's not quite a good meal. "

(Viego) - ,, Old Viego produced a pathetic 3 swords a day, but we not only sell swords. But armor is fucking good slavery exists in Asgard. Which is a bit weird as I wouldn't expect this from a deviant Odin DXD or MCU after becoming the grandfather of the king's conquests. Though old Vi never knew Odin and rumors would point to DXD versions. Though no one rules out that despite being a DXD version, he cannot also be an old-fashioned ruler who only sees Profit. Hard to say.".

(Viego) - "A slave, however, requires money, and I can forget about the workers. I need loyal followers and according to memories. The slave will die sooner than he betrays his master or disregards his orders. Slave runes. May I never end up like this. For now, the best step will be to make a remament, i.e. a list of all goods. It should take me about an hour, and then I can check what's missing from the store. And forge as much of this commodity as possible by the end of the day today. And before going to bed, use "Upgrade" on the swords. And before the Upgrade, I'll have to find my father's Metal and Ore book. Go to work! "

For the next 40 minutes, Viego kept a list of all the goods he had. And unfortunately it was not too much, it was barely enough to fill the shelves of the store for one opening. When Viego looked at the list, he reread it, walking towards the workshop to sit back on the anvil and think.

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x15 one-handed swords. Type Gladius. (Although they have a more Nordic appearance and are called Wordir. However, they look almost like Gladius.)

8 small steel shield

5 large steel Shield

6 Medium Leather Shields

13 leather helms

8 leather armor

15 leather pairs of pants

23 leather gloves

5 helmets for students of the Asgardian school

8 Helmets for Asgard soldiers

5 plate armor for the Asgard turtle

12 plate armor for students of the Asgard school

20 plate gloves for both types

15 armor plate pants for both types

10 Steel Halberds

26 spears with a steel point.

7 heavy two-handed swords

15 two-handed axes

5 single-handed axes

2 Rapiers

200 shots with a steel point

6 short bows

3 long bows

8 daggers

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(Viego) - "It's really not much. I remember Walter, the father of the body's original owner. When he ran the shop, he had hundreds of copies of each weapon and armor. I remember he even had workers and other buildings outside the city. However, the wars of Odin and his daughter, although this knowledge was kept secret for a long time by Odin. They took a lot of workers, and eventually my father. And that tells me something about the period I'm in since Thor is already young and probably of a similar age to me. I'm not sure."

(Viego) - "From what I remember. Hardly anyone buys armor from me, mostly Valkyrie and warriors, from nearby Academies. Because they are often broken when swordsmen use techniques. I think they are using some kind of combat aura, I don't know much about that. But the fact is, I have to spend the last three days creating Gladius and spearmen. I upgrade at least 3/4 of the goods. Work. I should have upgraded to 10 Gladius before sunset.

Working on creating one-handed michas turned out to be something fun and interesting for him. Especially since the memory and memories of "Old Vi" make him know what he is doing. And he can fully enjoy the process. In addition, he found that his muscles, although not visually changed from the outside. they work much more efficiently, and the blows felt stronger than he remembered.

Viego thought his muscles hadn't grown by "Upgrade", but just turned into higher quality muscles. This means that if he had had Asgard muscles before, now he had either higher-class Asgard muscles or something better. Viego was not sure because there is no system and there is no rare knowledge of the physiology and anatomy of the body. So Viego could only develop theories. But in order to better understand the nature of his power, it is necessary to build his knowledge. But to do this, money is needed.

As Viego noticed that it was getting darker, he lit the candles and quickly finished fitting the hilt to the last Gladius produced today. And then Viego, still holding the recently manufactured weapons, walked over to the chest in which he kept the swords produced today, and with the chest of swords he placed the chests in front of the anvil on which he was sitting. And he thought.

(Viego) - "Only six pieces, this is new to me. So it is understandable that so little. I'm not Vi's old man. But it's hard. Let's try to improve this batch of goods. Maybe I have enough energy to improve these arts. . "

Then, seeing that all the windows are closed, and the book he has taken out from under the counter of the shop where his father usually keeps it, lies next to him by the anvil. He looked again at Gladius, who was still in his hand. And his appearance was fairly simple. The color of the blade steel was dark, visually it looked like dark gray steel. The handle looked fairly simple, with the circular logo of Vi's workshop. In the form of a sword and an ax stuck in an anvil. And a round head at the bottom of the handle.

(Viego)-Upgrade.

The sword was briefly surrounded by white light, like a pokemon in its evolution. Although it may be more like the white symbiote that suddenly appeared on the entire surface of the sword, then disappeared.

An almost identical weapon appeared in its place, but the blade was much darker, almost black. And the hilt, made of plain gray oak, looked much more solid now, and though Viego did not recognize wood. It seemed much nicer to the eye and was now more gray and white. Maybe the evolution of the oak. Viego did not know. However, he decided to look in his father's book in search of the steel into which the new weapon had been turned.

The search did not take long due to the numerous bookmarks in the book. So finding a more specific steel was no problem. This book contained steel from all 9 kingdoms and the various metal ores needed to make them. Where to find them and much more. A real encyclopedia and a family treasure at the same time. And Viego knew that only Odin had a second copy of this book. So Viego promised to watch over her.

(Viego) - ,, Dark Steel - Made of metals obtained in Vanaheim .......... discovered ........ Its strength exceeds ordinary steel, but the process of its creation is extremely difficult and expensive ......... The production process is as follows ....... "

Viego was fascinated by learning about metals, it was really interesting for him. The author of the book even described the history of wars that broke out because of blacksmiths capable of producing this steel. However, that was a really long time ago and now Dark Steel is not unusual. Once upon a time, however, even ordinary steel was something truly precious and unique. It was delightful for Vi to learn about history this way. So he decided to stop reading for a while and see how many swords could be improved before being really weak.

It turned out, however, that after 6 swords only a slight headache hurt him and only when he handed over some swords from the store. He found that his daily limit for unconsciousness and clear mind was 11 one-handed swords. He could certainly improve a few more plays, but he still wanted to read and learn new knowledge. The memories of "old Vi" are getting blurry, so it's better to get some knowledge yourself.

That's why Viego gladly closed the new merchandise in a new, larger box, which he placed next to the bed. And after reading a few chapters, exhausted, he went to sleep.