*Ting Ting! Ting!*

The sounds of hammers striking on metal echoed the surrounding as Makani shoved coal into the furnace.

*Ting Ting! Ting!*

The sweat from his brow has been constantly falling from the intense heat of the forge. Makani had sprouted and his once scrawny arms had become thick and well toned.

It has been eleven months since he became one of the apprentice of Rudolf the blacksmith. Ever since he became an adventurer his life has turned from a easy relaxed life to a life full of hard labor.

The day Makani arrived at Rudolf the blacksmith's shop, he was awed by the dazzling weapons and armors that are displayed in the shop. Makani was excited and anxious to meet his master so that he could learn how to create the weapons that bewitched him. But sadly instead he became the mule of the shop.

Makani sleeps on the hay that the horses in the stable ate. He slept along with the other junior apprentices named Theo and Karl. The two who arrived a few months after Makani, were also used for hard labor. Everyday their daily routine would be to wake up and made sure that the forge wouldn't run out of firewood or die out.

From time to time when the stock of firewood in the shed are about to run out, Rudolf the blacksmith would task all of the junior apprentices and Makani to go to the forest to retrieve more wood. Doing this exhausting task was Makani's favorite because he would take the route to the forest that would take him through the market place.

The market place in town is a bliss for Makani because he's able to see all sorts of interesting things that are brought by adventurers who came from far away places. One day while passing by, Makani realized that any merchant class adventurer can lay down a mat with various objects on it to sell their merchandise away.

That realization gave Makani an idea, since he himself is a merchant class adventurer he'll be able to sell things at the market place. But there was one problem, Makani has nothing of value to sell in the market.

If only his master had taught him how to forge anything. In Makani's mind since his master would refuse to teach him how to craft weapons or armors, he decided to take things in his own hand.

For several weeks, Makani saved up scraps of metals that were usually thrown away by his master. Since it would usually be thrown away, Makani decided to hoard the scraps so that he'll be able to use them as materials.

Late at night in secret when Rudolf the blacksmith fell deeply to sleep after getting drunk with the senior apprentices, Makani decided to try his luck with forging.

Makani brought out the scraps of metal pieces from his Dimensional Storage ring and placed them on the ground.

Since the forge has been maintained by him before everyone went to sleep its temperature was still at its hottest. Makani placed all the metal scraps inside a thick crucible to melt all the metal down so that it can be combined into large pieces of metal.

After all the pieces of metal had melted into a hot orange like goo, Makani poured the molten metal into a mold. Then after the molted metal had cooled down, it turned into a thick piece of rectangular metal.

Makani repeated the steps until he ran out of metal scraps. After the rectangular metals had cooled down Makani began hammering away to try to create something out of it.

Many hours later, the results of his attempts was a success. Out of the scraps that he hoarded for several weeks, Makani was able to create five daggers.

'This must be because of [Enhanced Crafting ability]' Makani thought to himself. After finishing, Makani made sure he hid all traces of evidence of his attempt to forge. Makani stored all the five daggers he made inside his DS ring and went to sleep.

**

It was early morning and the smell of manure and the unwashed mare lingered in the air.

Makani woke up with a smile on his face even though he had little sleep. He put on his scarf and his hat which made him look like he has a pair of fox ears. The thick hat was much convenient because it would keep him warm from the cold wind that would usually blow through the town. Ever since he arrived at Rudolf's place he was more relaxed on the fact of being human.

When ever he worked on the forge to keep it at a high temperature he would remove most his clothes. Hiding the fact that he's human didn't matter anymore because everyone in the shop knew.

Makani checked the stable and yelled at the two.

"Theo! Karl! Get ready we'll be leaving for the forest to gather more wood for the forge."

Even though he knew he had to go to the forest to retrieve more firewood for the forge, it was exactly how he planned it to go.

"Let's go or else master will become angry!"

Makani shouted at the two again who were more junior than him with a commanding voice. Having someone to boss around made Makani feel powerful.

In the beginning of his apprenticeship with Rudolf the blacksmith, he had hated his life because he was the only junior apprentice and the senior apprentices would belittle him. Now that he was a bit more senior to the two apprentices, he has someone he could demean if he wanted to.

In Makani's mind, doing what the senior apprentices did to him would mean going down to their level of manner. Since he experienced such treatments Makani didn't want to treat the two as such.

Makani grabbed the ax and placed the head over his shoulder.

"We're coming!"

Both Theo and Karl shouted as the bumped into each other trying to run to where Makani stood.

Makani began to walk while pulling on the reign of the horse that pulled the cart while Theo and Karl followed from behind.

"Big brother Makani, are we going to go through the market again this time?!"

Asked Theo eagerly as he gave a big grin.

Theo Dab a half Orc half Demi-human likes seeing all the food in the market. His dream is to one day go travel all through out the lands and try all the different food. But since he was born in a poor family, he decided to become a blacksmith because crafting weapons and armors was a stable job as an adventurer.

"Yeah! I want to see all the pretty ladies in the market specially the apple lady! Her breasts are so . ."

Karl gave a weird dazed look to the distance and began day dreaming about the apple lady's large bosom as he continued to follow Makani.

Karl Dil is a simple dwarf who has a strange fascination with women that has a certain bust. He became Rudolf the blacksmith's apprentice because his family belongs to a long line of blacksmiths.

As they passed the market place to head towards the forest where it was safe to collect firewood Makani stopped and turned towards the two.

"I forgot that Master told me to do something! You two go on ahead and I'll come to you when I'm done. Don't forget to fill the cart!"

Makani handed the reign of the horse to Theo who is much more responsible that the Karl. As Theo and Karl went their way towards the forest, Makani went back to the market place.

Makani decided to change what he was wearing and put on a hood. He also wrapped his lower face to prevent being identified by people who knew his master. As he arrived at the market he picked a spot and placed a mat on the ground.

Immediately he secretly took out the daggers he made and placed it on the mat.

'Now all I need to do is wait' Makani thought to himself.

An hour had passed and none stopped to look at his weapons. As he waited he decided to shine the daggers one by one. After another hour an old fragile looking demi-human wearing a fancy coat stopped by. The old man has a long thick silvery tail and would wag from side to side as he observed the daggers that Makani had on the mat.

The old demi-human gazed at the daggers with admiration. Makani observed the old fellow and noticed that there was a person behind him. The person behind him stood in idle as if waiting for something.

Makani wondered whether or not he should say something. But before he could speak the old fellow began saying something.

"Such magnificent craftsmanship! What kind of Holo parts did you use to create this?!"

The old man began making comments and asking questions. Little did he know that Makani had only used scraps of metal that he had collected.

Behind the wrapping around Makani's mouth a grin appeared. The old fellow continued to speak and turned to the person standing behind him to whisper something.

After saying a few words to the person behind the old fellow, the idle man instantly handed the old fellow five large bag of coins. The old fellow presented the bag of coins

"I would like to buy all for my collection! How would 5000 gold each sound?!"

Makani was astonished at the old man's offer. He was so shocked that words couldn't come out of his mouth. Not even his master's finest weapons and armors would exceed the cost of 10 gold coins. To think that the weapons that he made from scraps would be bought in such a high price.

The silence that Makani made gave the old man the expression that his offer was too low so he made an additional offer.

"I guess you didn't like my offer but I must have these fine daggers to my collection! I will offer 25000 gold coins each!"

Hearing the second offer almost made Makani's eyes almost popped out from the overpowering surprise. Makani instantly replied to the offer before the old man had a chance to change his mind.

"Deal!"

Makani extended his hands and shook the old fellow's hand.

"Thank you for accepting my offer lad. Since I did not bring enough gold coins with me, shall we go to the adventurer's guild to complete out transaction?"

Makani nodded his head and wrapped up his daggers to carry to the adventurer's guild. After the transaction, Makani had a big grin on his face.

If he didn't see it on his adventurer's card, he would not believe the amount of coins he had. 125000 gold coins was something he couldn't imagine to have in such a short amount of time.

While he was walking with a grin on his face as left the adventurer's guild, Makani realizes he now has the coins to buy the book that would teach him about summoning.

Makani withdrew 200 gold coins. Enough to buy a few books and maybe some extra things for himself.

Ever since he gained the abilities from the Manas that he had swallowed, he had gained the [Summon Onion Golem ability]. But without the knowledge of summoning he didn't know how to use the ability.

Makani ran to the [Magik and Kaft Bookstore] that sold few books about summoning, mostly alchemist books and as well as other books.

Since the end of the war with King Kai and the gods, the knowledge of magik had been reduced to a tiny degree. Summoning through out the lands has been the only magik that are known. The cost of knowledge through out the lands are very expensive. The prices of books that contained magik or any alchemic information would often double sometimes triple the prices of high tier items.

*Ding ding*

The sound of a bell chimed as Makani entered the store. As he entered the Young lady who worked at the counter welcomed him.

"Ahh it's you again!"

"Hello. ."

Makani greeted meekly.

The young dog eared lady at the counter has become familiar with Makani. For months he has continuously been coming in and out of this particular store.

Makani's love for books caused him to visit stores that sold books frequently when he would have some time for himself. Makani missed the academy's library because of all the free books that he could read.

Since he hadn't any coins to buy any books, he would visit the stores from time to time to browse in and out of books which caused him from time to time to kicked out.

The managers of the store would some time kick out Makani instantly because they knew he would not be able to buy any of their merchandise.

"Are you here to browse again? If so I'm going to ask you to leave."

The young dog eared lady named Joy warned Makani.

Makani walked directly to the counter and placed a large bag of gold coins.

"I would like to but the [Basic Summoning] book please."

Seeing the large bag of gold coins in front of her, Joy wipe her eyes in disbelief.

"How. . Never mind I don't even want to know. This would be 60 gold please, but since you're a merchant class adventurer it will be 30 gold coins. Is there anything else that you would like?"

Hearing Joy's question made Makani realize that he could buy many things that he was not able to buy before he became an adventurer. It was also convenient because of the merchant class advantages. Makani looked around the store and a book caught his attention.

Basic alchemy potion making. Potions through out the land are very expensive. Majority of high tier Fighter and Support adventurers wouldn't be able to afford the usage of potions often because alchemist through out the lands rare.

To be an alchemist, one would need lots of resources. Ingredients, supplies and many other things. Most alchemist would literally die of hunger because they would run out of supplies to fund their creations. Even if an alchemist have the required items to create potions, the success of actually making a potion is very low. Since the true books of alchemy had been lost over the centuries, these books are just notes that newer generations of alchemist have written which weren't as effective as the ones a long long time ago.

Potions through out the lands are considered to be only bought by the few very rich adventurers that would be able to afford them. If Makani can some how become a successful alchemist he'll be richer than he already was.

"I want the [Basic Alchemy: Potion making] book please."

"The original price is 100 gold but with your merchant class discount it would be 50 gold coins please. Thank you."

Makani was in shock that he had just used 80 gold coins in under an hour. It would have been more if he wasn't a merchant class. 80 gold coins is considered to some master craftsman as months worth of work.

Makani grabbed his books and stored it inside his DS ring. While walking out of the store, he realized that he totally forgot about Theo and Karl. Instantly he hurried to the forest to see how they were doing.

But before he headed to the forest he spent the some of his gold on ingredients, supplies equipment for making potions and other things.

**

In the outskirt of Pea town where it is said to be the safest forested area, Theo and Karl had been taking turns chopping wood while the other loaded them into the cart. It had been hours since they started their work and their big brother Makani hadn't arrived yet.

"I wonder what big brother Makani is doing."

Asked Karl who was loading the wood into the cart.

"Don't worry about it. Our big brother is doing master's task. It must be something hard.

Theo replied as he swings the ax into the tree's trunk. As the ax hit the trunk the tree began making a cracking sound which was a sign that it was about to fall over. Theo and Karl moved out of the way as the tree steadily fell to the ground and made a large thudding sound as the entire tree landed.

*THUD!*

The loud thud could be heard through out the entire forest. As it fell on the ground, Karl and Theo began hearing loud snorting sounds from afar. The ground beneath them had began trembling.

"What as that?"

Theo asked Karl as he continues to hear the snorting sounds.

Karl looked around to look from where the noise was coming from and as he scanned the area he saw a cloud of steam coming towards them.

"Icicle Boars!"

Karl screamed in a panicked tone.

"Icicle Boars? Are they tasty?"

Theo asked curiously as he looked at Karl who looked very scared at the moment.

"They're very dangerous Holos that roamed near Pea village. My uncle was savagely stabbed by them to death with their sharp diamond like tusks."

Karl began climbing the nearest tree as he told the short story about his uncle.

As the group of Icicle boars came closer to them, Theo saw how fearsome these Holos looked. There were three of them and all were as big as the cart that they brought from the stable.

"W-what do we do?!"

Theo asked as his voice began to tremble.

"Climb!"

Karl screamed from above who was almost at the top of the tree that he was climbing.

Theo began climbing as fast as he could. When the boars arrived it began skewing the mare that was pulling the cart that they had. After the group of Icicle boars had killed the mare they began eating it then turned their attention on the cart.

Two of the Holos began trashing the cart while the biggest out of the tree started ramming on the tree where Karl and Theo had climbed up to.

The two could do nothing but hold on tight on the tree for their life and hope that these monstrous Holos would give up and go away.

**

Makani merrily walked to the forest as he read the [Basic Summoning] book that he had just bought from the [Magik and Kaft Bookstore]. As he continued to read the last chapter, he understood why he couldn't summon at all. To summon a creature, a summoner must have catalyst. Almost all summoners used large gem stones to summon creatures that would aid them in battle.

Also the better the quality of the gem stone the stronger the creature that's summoned. Luckily as he passed through the market place on the way to the forest where Theo and Karl is suppose to be, Makani saw and bought a high tier gem stone.

The gem stone that Makani had bought came all the way from the Kingdom of Komohana. The gemstone gave a shiny red hue and is as big as his fist.

Makani stored his book back in his DS ring and brought out the big red gemstone that had just bought. He began saying the words that he read from the book.

"I call upon thee creature from another world to serve and protect. Follow and obey until my time on this world has ended. Onion Golem!"

Suddenly a large shadowy figure about 8 feet tall appeared being encircled by bright straight lights. As the light began to swirl faster and faster it gave off a vibrating sound.

Then suddenly a flash of blinding light engulfed the area where Makani stood.

**