Making A Sword

"Dang - Dang - Dang!"

"I'll make sure this weapon is ready before morning," Aiolos placed his focus on smelting a sword out from the materials Hansen and others brought back in the evening. Because he's the one that graced them with his crest, this is what he, a God, has to do.

The time has to return to two hours ago when he's dismantling the resources they collected. 16 vials of processed herb extract are placed on the table, with three Slime Cores, Magic teeth, and two cavern essence. All of them are used to craft a variety of functional medicines.

As for the bones of the six corpses, they're crushed before piling inside a sack. There's a god near them that willing to pay a copper crystal for the bones of every two corpses. Six corpses here equals to three copper crystals.

The meat from the beast will be sold to the Meat Grocer, where Yesha bought some wolf meat earlier. This god is known as Lucros, a lower-tiered Food God alike Tetros. While Tetros loved bread and fruits, Lucros fancies meat from all creatures.

Once, Lucros sold his collection of 100-varieties Meat Salami that cost a silver crystal a slice. That merchandise is cleared from his shop within 10 days.

"What is this?" Aiolos was going to process the ores into a usable ingot. But the red hue from this ore seems different compared to the other metal ores.

"God's Appraisal!" Aiolos stares at the ore using some of his power. The information quickly entered his mind once the shade of secrecy is removed.

"Lower-Heaven Iron?" he grabs the ore in hand to compare the hardness between them. Although he is a Crafting God, that doesn't mean he sees such an ore before.

All available resources, especially the Tianyuan Iron, came from the Heaven Dungeon. They've been collected little by little until the city he's standing here was built. Although the supplies managed to keep up with the demand right now, that is only applicable to Tianyuan Iron.

A Lower-Heaven Iron like this is counted as a rarity to a lower-tiered God like himself. Not only it's said that the ore cost godhood power to smelt, but it also fed on the blood of a God when smelting. An ore like this usually only found at the 10th level dungeon, which is an impossible feat to his crest holders.

He took two hours to remove the impurities, and two more hours to form the outlook of a sword. Four more hours later, the blade undergoes the sharpening process by feeding on his blood.

In the morning, when Hansen and the others returned with some bread from Tetros' Grocer, they're questioning about Aiolos' sluggish condition. A quarter of his blood has been sucked out by the Lower-Heaven Iron unconsciously.

But in return to his effort, a beautiful, red sword about Hansen's arm length sits on the spacious table.

"I called... This weapon... Scarlet Blood," he struggled to finish his word before his crest holders went to the dungeon.

"How can you follow us into the Heaven Dungeon like this?" Alrune and Pharcis hold Aiolos back to the chair and poured a bottle of stamina potion and health potion into his mouth.

"That's Hansen's new weapon. Use it carefully and remember to not losing it. This material is expensive." the health potion brought back some color on his face. The stamina potion also gave him some extra energy to speak, but that's all it could do for him.

If he wishes to recover for all these ailments, only a product suitable for a God can be used. That means they'll have to purchase potion made from Lower-Heaven herbs. One that made from common herbs could only have a tenth of the effect compared to when used on a human alike them.

"What did you do? How can you be this weak out of sudden?" Alrune, the girl in a white robe and silvery hair with a ponytail, asked. Even her battle staff is left on the floor to hold Aiolos with both hands.

The timid girl, Pharcis, only knows how to cry. She kept wiping he tears using the sleeve, with another hand holding her gauntlet. Although she's a close melee fighter like Hansen, she's actually a timid lady.

Pharcis came from the same Chenyang Household as Hansen. She's counted as his half-cousin if it's not because of the messy family relationship. Long straight hair in brown, Pharcis often let her hair down to copy Tetros' hairstyle. In appearance, she's the same height as Hansen, wearing a long green sleeve top with short pants and steel-capped shoes.

Yesha is counted the plainest between the three girls. She had a tomboyish short hair just reaching her neck, also in brown colors like Tetros and Pharcis. Because of her job as the thief, she preferred a suit of a tight robe with a long hoodie cape.

Last but not least, Hansen, the 1.7m tall youth with hair shorter than Yesha but the same in color. He loves wearing armor like Aiolos, and value his armor more than his own life. In fact, if it's not because of Alrune, he'll lose 10 out of 10 swords in the dungeon exploration.

"Just made sure you keep the sword with you. I'll go back to rest." He weakly made his way back to his workshop.

"It's the first day of the month. Are you not following us into the Heavenly Dungeon?" Hansen asked. It was a unique entry pass that can be used twice in a month.

But when inside the Heaven Dungeon, a God only allowed to use 10% of the godhood power. That means a God is unable to protect itself from all possible threats. They'll also lose their immortality when entering the dungeon, making them able to be killed.

In the ten thousand years of record, there are over 1,000 Gods who died under the hand of the mortal. And of course, most of them are nothing good or foolish.

Of course, when there's a restriction, there's a reward. When Giver and Holder of a crest entered, a specific drop can be expected from their kills.

It is a treasure cube known as the Xuanwu Shell.

So far, there is no limit on how many boxes can be obtained in the two days the party is inside. But one should always beware because the timezone continued to flow when they're moving from one level to another.

And there's only an entrance teleportation stone, but not an exit stone.

That also means an exploration with the god as a party member may start at any level. But they'll have to return passing every upper level until they reach the surface.

"I'm not going today. Let's make it tomorrow," Aiolos said. He's too tired today, and there's still work to do after he wakes up later. Furthermore, because there are 11 ores left unprocessed, he'll have to work overnight again later to complete his crafting quota.

"Aiolos, rest well. We'll come back a little earlier today," Alrune said while holding Aiolos' fingers. The two other girls followed and gave him a hug before they left with Hansen.

"Huh..." he lied flat on the hard mattress made from slime's gelatin body. It was so far the most economic mattresses sold by another Low-Tiered Crafting God, Barcus. It only cost Aiolos 15 copper crystals and a short Iron Dagger.

The few hours sleep rejuvenates him enough to continue. The 11 ores quickly smelted into 22 pieces of melee weapons. It takes him a moment to be surprised by the speed he completes his craft.

"What's happen? The ores seem to be easier to work with today." Aiolos inspects the weapon he made. If it was before, making 12 weapons in 6 hours is the best he can do. And he's ready to keep what's left until the night to starts again.

But today, he's capable of crafting 4 weapons in an hour, which is doubled what he usually capable of.

"Did Alrune give me a Crafting Potion instead of the Health and Stamina?" he chuckled. To him, no matter what the girls give him, it won't be something that harms him.

After collecting the weapons inside the god's Spatial Dimension, he left his Sanctuary with three spatial sacks. The spatial dimension only works on god's personal craft, which made him incapable of storing other materials inside.

Of course, certain gods are capable of rewriting the law of the space, such as Micos, the Trade God, Spatius, the Space God, and Aiolos, the Craft God. But although they're capable of rewriting the law, it doesn't mean entirely.

Micos only capable of doing so within his Trade Shop, and Spatius, on his crest holders. Aiolos is capable of doing the same to an Item-Box but limited to ten items. Because the corpse of the beast is counted as an individual category, keeping ten means taking over all ten available space within the box.

But because the herb of the same species has no individuality, stacking them is possible. And in exchange for this flexibility inside Heavenly Dungeon, the Item-Box is incapable of holding products made from the outside.

That includes bread, potions, and weapons.

"Hey, Lucros! I have some meat today. Interested?" Aiolos waved the sack with meat before this Food God.

Lucros often seem loving while he smells the flavorful aroma that came out from the meat he cooked. Of course, that includes raw materials.

"Oh... Iron Boar! Your boy is growing up, unlike mine," Lucros sniffed the raw flavor that comes out from releasing the knot. His finger pointed at a chubby crest holder sitting behind his counter, who's trying hard to remove the layer of wax protecting a square block of ham.

"Slushie! I told you to not remove the wrapper before it matured," Lucros gives the chubby crest holder a knock on his head.

"Four copper crystals!" Lucros lifted four fingers up before Aiolos.

"Deal!"