After several minutes I managed to reassure Hakoon. It turns out that since I left, he has been looking for me and has been asking for me in the adventurers guild every day, to the point that the adventurers already know what to answer when they see him around.

All this is because I mentioned the A-Z ingots to him, as it is a material impossible to find or manufacture. Its creation process was lost several hundred years ago. The only known thing is its name and how to treat such material.

I knew it was strong but not that lost its manufacturing method. Hakoon: It is a sadness for many blacksmiths like me, only one person knew its method of creation, but some greedy fools wanted to steal it, in response this person confronted them and was killed when he revived he forgot the manufacturing method and asked to be locked in prison and that when he entered a corrupted state, they would kill him. ... what happened to the guys who wanted to steal his formula? Hakoon: Some say they were arrested, while others claim they escaped, stealing the few stocks of A-Z ingots with them. It is said that there are only 1000 of those ingots in AETHER. They are as valuable as resurrection items but not as valuable as ARTEFACTS. I see... it's a sad story. Hakoon: No doubt, many smiths tried to recreate the alloy, so they gathered the few stocks to study it, but the only thing they managed to create was the titan ingot, but all smiths agree that compared to A-Z, it is far inferior, even so, it is the most that have ever been created. Now I understand better your madness to look for me. Hakoon: I'm sorry for being so crazy; I was afraid you had told another blacksmith, and he would try to kill you to steal your ingots. I understand your concern, but if someone tried to kill me, I would be the biggest idiot.

And I'm not lying. If people surrounded me and wanted to kill me, I wouldn't hesitate to use the ARTEFACT to kill them all.

Hakoon: Haha, I'm glad to hear that. Well, let's move on to the important thing. If you came all the way here, you want me to make the sword for you, isn't it? Exactly, and as you may have guessed, I want you to use the A-Z ingots for its manufacture. Hakoon: Perfect, you want to use the ingot to make the edge of your sword more resistant or as a support for the main body. Can't you do both? Hakoon: If you had more ingots, yes. What if we use 10? Hakoon: 10?! You only need 3 to create a sword. No one would use ten ingots to create a sword in their right mind. I would. Hakoon: What? I would use ten ingots to make a sword. I have more than enough. Hakoon: .... you're kidding, right? I'm serious, look.

I place ten ingots A-Z on Hakoon's counter for him to look at.

At first, Hakoon is static, but he moves like a robot a few seconds later and looks at the ingots as if he were a palaeontologist. He lifts the ingots and looks at them so closely and fervently that he even trembles.

Hakoon: ...boy. Yes? Hakoon: ...thank you. Why? Hakoon: For a blacksmith, using this material is an impossible dream to achieve, and you are giving me several ingots and asking me to make a sword. How could I not thank you! There's no need to thank me; if you want to thank me, then make a sword capable of cutting a raid boss. Hakoon: No problem. What shape do you want on your sword? Katana's shape is fine. Here's the gold for the job. Hakoon: Keep it! What? Hakoon: You're giving me such amazing material to work with. How could I charge you for doing this! Are you sure? Hakoon: Absolutely! Okay, tell me how long it will take you to make that sword. Hakoon: Two weeks... no, one week! I'll finish it in one week! I'll work on it day and night without a break! All right, calm down, Hakoon; I'm sure other customers also want your swords. Hakoon: Screw them! Let them hold on for another week! Okay, okay, then I'll leave you with the materials and go, remember to use all the ingots in the sword. Hakoon: I will! A material like that needs to be used to its fullest!

With that said, I say goodbye to Hakoon and go to eat. I'm not afraid that Hakoon will take the ingots and escape. If he were a bad person, he would have sent people to look for me and rob me instead of going every day to the guild to ask if I was there.

Now I have to wait until next Saturday to pick it up. I can't wait to see the result.

As I start dreaming about the appearance of my future sword, my stomach starts growling, indicating that it's time to eat, so it's time to go to the restaurant.

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Once we finish dinner, Kawaii and I go to our apartment to rest because today has been a very hectic day and tomorrow will be the same, I'm going back to the mountain and explore that cave, who knows, maybe something is interesting, as, for the vulture eggs, I will look in the nearby mountains to see if there are nests available.

As soon as I pass through the apartment door, I take a bath and then lie down on the bed and sleep, this day was like a roller coaster of emotions, and I deserve a rest.

Good night. . ╯ω╰