Chapter 124: Tsubaki Collbrande

It was a week after the devastation, the city's crime rate lowers as criminals fear that these two meteorites were no coincidence. Some of them went out of the city as they fear that the next one would be them, while some of them just hidden from the public. Any assassins and bounty hunters that are still alive and have known of Ye Han's wanted poster didn't dare show themselves in the public in fear that Ye Han would kill them, they change jobs and went incognito.

Ye Han oblivious to how the assassins and bounty hunter are thinking was on his way to the famous Hephaestus shop while carrying a giant leather pouch which holds one giant black dragon scale, he hasn't gone to a weapon and armor shop before as he could create his own weapon and armor which rivals god's creation. But he was still interested in how they create weapons and armor, Ye Han thought that he should make this once in a while hobby. He went to the Tower of Babel where the main branch of the Hephaestus shop is, the Hephaestus Familia rented the whole 4th to 8th floor of the Tower.

He went to the 4th floor first to see what cool armor and weapon. he could see the 4th and 5th floor was where the beginner blacksmiths of the Hephaestus familia put their items and sells them. He went to an armor shop and saw a couple of unique designed armors ranging from light to heavy, some of the light armor cost ranges from 8,000 valis to 30,000 valis while heavy armor cost around 15,000 valis to 40,000 valis. Ye Han could see how rich a blacksmith could be if they always get a 100% success rate in creating the items.

Most of the armor and weapon in the fourth floor were made with common level materials while once in a while Ye Han could see an armor that was made from rare material of infant dragon scale, but the armor created from the infant dragon scale was not up to the normal standard it was below standard. The normal standard of an armor made from a lvl 2 infant dragon scale could withstand a few strikes of a level 3 adventurer while below standard it could only withstand one strike of a level 3 then it would be destroyed.

The strength and weakness of armor would depend on the skill of a blacksmith, Ye Han shakes his head as he saw how bad this armor was made even if the material was rare kind. He continued his sightseeing as he saw different kinds of armor and weapon that would fascinate a level 3 to level 0 adventurers, as the style of the armor and weapon were one of a kind while the materials were somewhat good. Ye Han notices that he took so much time in his sightseeing that it was almost lunchtime, he promised his family that he would be there for lunch.

Ye Han went to the 8th floor where he could meet a friend who was a Hephaestus executive that could contact their goddess of smith Hephaestus, as the black dragon scale he was carrying couldn't be meltdown by magical or regular fire. It needs to be a heavenly flame that could make something out of this legendary material. He went inside the store and felt the atmosphere was a bit hotter than the rest of the floor. Ye Han could hear sounds of materials getting hit, as he walks toward his friend's workshop. He was going to knock on the door, but it was opened so he just slowly pushed it open and could hear the metal hitting sound going louder.

"Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Ye Han saw a girl with brown skin, long black hair, red eyes hitting the heated metal with her hammer, he smiled as he sneakily went near her. She was concentrated in pounding the heated metal as she had an order of armor from a customer, after a minute she stops pounding the metal and put it again into a furnace which has a flame temperature of 2795 Fahrenheit. She breathes out in relief as she wipes the sweat on her forehead, the moment that she turned around is the moment Ye Han spook her out as he said

"Bo!"

"WAAAAA!"

Tsubaki screamed from surprise as she didn't hear someone was coming, she sighed in relief when she saw it was a friend. She smiled as she hits Ye Han in the shoulder and said

"Bro! You scared the crap out of me!"

"Haha, You were defenseless! Little Sis"

Ye Han smiled as he remembers that he met Tsubaki about 2 years ago, she was in a dungeon raid as a familia hired them to repair their armors and weapons in the dungeon. The process of the dungeon raid was alright at first until an unexpected ambush happened and block their way, Tsubaki and her fellow blacksmith were tired from repairing a lot of equipment. a Lizardman with a sword was gonna slash Tsubaki's face-off, she tried to dodge it. But failed as she stumbled from the muddy floor, she mentally sighed as she thought "Stupid Dungeon". While she closed her eyes, she heard of a falling man sound.

"MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!!"

Tsubaki opened her eyes and saw a goliath breaking the roof of the 20th floor, Ye Han was riding the Goliath's body. Before he was riding the goliath, he was fighting the Goliath in the 18th floor. he wanted to see how durable the goliath was as he saw in the anime how durable and quick regeneration the Goliath's body was. So he kept on smashing the goliath down like a hammer hitting down a nail except with a Ryuyi Jingu rather than a hammer. He kept on smashing until he broke through two floors and went down where Tsubaki and her fellow comrades were.

The Goliath squished the Lizardman into a meat paste as Ye Han pierced the magic crystal of the Goliath, it turned into the dust which made Ye Han covered in dust as he said to Tsubaki

"Are you ok?"

".....I'm ok...."

The flashback ends here as Ye Han could feel someone poking his cheek, he shrugs his head as he saw Tsubaki poking his cheek and saying

"Hello? Orario To Ye Han, are you here?"

"I'm here!"

Ye Han slaps Tsubaki's finger and drops the giant leather pouch in his back, he pinches Tsubaki's cheek as he said

"I need a custom set of armors made from this material."

"Eeeh,,, Please stop....I give....up...bro..."

Ye Han stops pinching Tsubaki's cheek as she glared at Ye Han while gently rubbing her cheek. She opened the pouch and saw one black giant dragon scale, she was shock and surprise as she blurted out

"Black Dragon Scale?"

"Yes, and it came from a higher level than the one sold in the black market. I need your goddess to create my order of armors as no ordinary flames could melt this type of scale."

Tsubaki nodded as the moment she saw the scale, she knew she couldn't melt this black dragon scale unless it was her Goddess's Heavenly Flame. She said while turning off the furnace.

"Come with me, I take you to my Familia's Goddess, Hephaestus sama"