Keen to go out with the three of us, she accidentally forgot to lock the door and Lisbeth rushed around the city in a hurry. What's more, if a customer comes to the store while I'm away, items in the store may be stolen.
I rarely do this kind of thing, but I don't know if it's because of my new friend Shino, or because I've talked to Asuna, but her atmosphere is completely different from what I've seen. However, it was a very clumsy situation where the customer accidentally forgot to lock the door and the customer came to the store without an owner. I have to go back quickly.
"That's why I wasn't careful!!"
I squeezed through the crowds and ran through alleys. When I reached the edge of town, I changed direction and ran farther. I ignored people's strange looks and continued running, turning many corners. As I continued to do this, I saw a shop with a water wheel, but Lisbeth kept running and stopped in front of the shop.
Customer reactions can still be felt inside the store. He was probably staring at the contents. However, customers must have been confused because no matter what they thought, the owner didn't show up. This is because when you come to a blacksmith shop, it is normal to talk to the owner first.
"First, I must go in through the entrance and apologize to the customers inside for my absence." The tension of how to deal with the terrible customers rose in my chest, and the sound of my heartbeat reached my ears.
However, if she quit now, the owner of Lisbeth's arms store won't be able to do her job. For the time being, I have to go in and apologize to the customer.
"OK..."
After taking a deep breath, Lisbeth put her hand on the familiar door and opened it with force. Then he walked into the store and suddenly apologized.
"Sorry to leave the store! Welcome to the Lizbeth Arms Store!"
Lisbeth lowered her head and frowned, trying to see what kind of curse would fly towards her, but no matter how long it took, no curse came.
When I looked up in confusion, I saw a male player staring at the swords on display in the shop. He didn't look like an advanced player, but Lisbeth knew immediately that he was completely different from other players.
The male player has black hair, the same black coat, black trousers, boots, and a one-handed sword on his back, but on his shoulders is a white fur, and a dog wrapped in a shell, the color is completely opposite . His equipment is to ride a small dragon that looks like a. This element tells you that you are different from other players.
(Wait, is it "Animal Tamer"?)
Previously, I overheard a story about a player and a monster called "The Tamer." For a while, Lisbeth looked forward to the appearance of a "tamer" with monsters, but had nothing to show for it.
This incident not only annoyed Lisbeth, but also made her suspect that there was no such thing as an "animal tamer" at all. ——The suspicion in Lisbeth's heart was completely shattered at this moment.
"Welcome. How may I serve you today?"
The "tamer" was still staring at the one-handed sword stand, but not long after, the little dragon on his shoulder turned to Lisbeth. When the jewel-like crimson eyes met, Lisbeth was stunned for a moment, but then, the man who was the master looked at Lisbeth with a look as if he was aware of something: the rice field.
"Ah, are you the shopkeeper?"
Lisbeth trembled when she heard the man's voice and nodded immediately.
"Yes, it seems that you are equipped with a one-handed sword, so you are looking for a one-handed sword."
"Yeah, but I don't want anything from the store, I want something customized."
Lisbeth's eyes widened involuntarily. The market price of customized weapons using special materials exceeds 100,000 Cole. It's not that I couldn't accommodate that person's request, but if I gave a price, I'm sure he would be completely disappointed with the amount.
"The metal market is going up right now, so prices may be a little higher."
The man shook his head and smiled proudly.
"I don't care about the price. I just want you to make the best sword you can make right now."
Lisbeth's eyes widened again. Maybe I was making that man's pale face when I showed him the price of a custom weapon.
"Even if you say that, you still have to give me a specific target value for the property."
The man said with a satisfied look: "That's it." Then he took the one-handed sword from his back and handed it to Lisbeth.
"I want you to build a sword with equal or greater performance than this sword."
Lisbeth stared at the sword raised by the man. Since it is wrapped in a scabbard, its true form cannot be seen. Since the performance of the sword could not be confirmed without pulling out the scabbard, Lisbeth temporarily took the sword from the man's hand - the next moment, Lisbeth stumbled and almost dropped the sword to the ground. The man's sword felt unusually heavy.
In this game, the weight of objects will feel lighter or heavier depending on the player's muscle strength value. With such weight, the sword requires considerable muscle strength, and the person wielding it has already gone through it.
As a blacksmith and warhammer, his physical strength has increased, but not to the extent required to wield the sword. Even if I owned this sword, I could never wield it.
Lisbeth held the sword with both hands, placed the sword on a nearby glass stand, and gently removed the scabbard. This is a sword that shines with black and silver light. If you open the window to see the details, it is classified as a one-handed sword, and the correct name is "Seeker Expositor". No creator name. It is not made by blacksmith players, but dropped by monsters.
"There are two kinds of swords, or weapons, in this world." One is a player-made weapon made by a blacksmith like me. The other is monster-dropped weapons that can be obtained during the adventure, such as weapons dropped by monsters or found in treasure chests.
Among them, if you open the window of the player's homemade weapon and view the details, you will see the name of the player who made them, but this black and silver sword does not.
This means it's the latter monster dropped weapon, but the stats listed in the details are far superior to our own player-created ones.
As for player-made weapons, sometimes extremely powerful weapons appear, but in terms of weapons dropped by monsters, sometimes there are "Magic Sword" and "Holy Sword" level items. This interpreter is a value that allows us to mock our player-made weapons. This man is a magic sword user.
"This number is too ridiculous. Isn't this a magic sword-level thing?"
"I wish you could make something like this, but I don't know if you can."
Lisbeth let out a barely audible sigh. Even if I were asked to make such a thing, I might not be able to make it right away, and the possibility of such a magic sword being born is close to zero. Here there is no choice but to endure with the weapons available.
Lisbeth hurriedly walked to the counter, picked up a one-handed sword from the back of the store, and handed it to the man. That sword is the best sword I've ever made. If I give this to him, he will be satisfied. Sure enough, I couldn't reach the magic sword.
"I don't know if this is the best masterpiece I've ever trained."
She took the sword from the confident Lisbeth and looked at it with interest, then moved away from Lisbeth and waved it gently. However, after shaking a few times, the man tilted his head and began to examine Lisbeth's confident work.
"It's just a little bit of light, isn't it?"
“Well, the metal used is speed-based.
The man said "Hmm" and shouted at the monster on his shoulder. At this time, Lisbeth noticed a strange horn shaped like a big sword growing out of the monster's forehead.
"Rerun and try swinging the horns on this sword."
"Uh, hey, what are you going to do?"
"I'm testing the stamina and I want to see how good it is."
"What are you talking about?" That sword is the strongest sword in this shop, far more powerful than the swords dropped by the surrounding monsters. The horns of such a small monster would break if hit by something like this. Lisbeth said to the man in panic.
"Hey, wait a minute! If you do this, his horn will break!?"
"I don't know what will happen. However, the horn has proven to be more durable and powerful than the Expositor I used. I will test it to see what happens to the sword if I hit it with the horn, what happens to the sword."
This is simply unreasonable - before Lisbeth could say anything, the man ordered Hongliu and placed Lisbeth's proud work on the table.
The dragon descended from the man's shoulder, its huge sword horn flashed, and it aimed at Lisbeth's sword. Clumsily, the dragon's horn broke - just when Lisbeth was about to scream, the dragon swung the horn down with all his strength and hit Lisbeth's confident work hard.
In an instant, a spark effect was created between Lisbeth's confidence and the dragon's horns. At the same time, Lisbeth's sword split into two and flew into the air.
"Uh, my sword is broken——?" Just when Lisbeth was in a daze, the tip of the broken sword collided with the wall, making the same metallic sound and falling to the ground. After a few seconds, it exploded into light. The blue figure turned into polygonal fragments and disappeared.
"Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Lisbeth let out a scream and grabbed the remaining hilt of the sword. The words irrevocable appeared on the hilt of his homemade sword.
"Repair, can't be repaired?"
The next moment, the sword hilt also turned into a light blue figure, turned into polygonal fragments and disappeared. Lisbeth watched her confident work disappear so easily, feeling as if her body had lost all strength and fell to the floor.
Immediately afterwards, huge anger surged in Lisbeth's heart. When the anger reached its peak, Lisbeth stood up and grabbed the man who was the little dragon master.
"What are you doing-!!"
"The man looked impatient." I guess I wouldn't have expected anything like this to happen.
"Wow, shit! I didn't expect that I would be defeated by this guy's attack!"
"No! That means my sword is duller than I thought. I mean that's Ra!?"
The man turned his face away from Lisbeth.
"Ah, well, well or rather, if I got hit by this guy's horn and it broke, I guess the same thing would happen to the Expositor"
After gritting her teeth, Lisbeth let go of the man and put her hands on his hips.
"I'm telling you, if you have the materials, you can make a sword that will smash your monster's horns and your sword to pieces!"
The man reacted suddenly and half-opened his eyes.
"Haha, I really want to ask for someone who can break both my sword and this guy's horn."
Lisbeth felt her face heat up with anger. Your face is probably red right now.
"Then I will be with you from beginning to end!"
"From beginning to end?"
"That's right! Everything from getting the materials to making the sword out of those materials!!"
The man frowned slightly. At the same time, Xiaolong's expression also became a little surprised.
"In this case, this guy and I are enough. If we become a burden, it will be troublesome."
Lisbeth gritted her teeth. This man was licking me thoroughly.
While I dedicated my skills to blacksmithing, I also continued to improve my warhammer mace skills and am now known as the Mace Master. So I have no problem even if it turns into a fight, and I'm not weak enough to worry about this man.
"Please don't make fun of me. I am still a Master of Messer."
The man responded, put the sword on the shelf back into its scabbard, and put it on his back.
"Where would I go if I went with you?"
Lisbeth searched her head and took out the information. Some time ago, news spread among the blacksmiths that a giant dragon living in the mountains to the west of the fiftieth floor had precious metals stored in its belly. Of course, this is a quest of some kind, but the reward for the quest is a precious metal item that the blacksmiths want, and Lisbeth wants too.
"And that metal is very rare and has never been discovered before. If you use it, you can create a magic sword holy sword level sword that has never been made before." Lisbeth said. You need it to make the sword this person wants. Of course, I'd have this guy do something to the enemies along the way.
"There seems to be a dragon in the mountain to the west of the 50th floor. It feeds on crystals. You should be able to make
The man whispered "dragon" and raised his head slightly.
"There's a dragon on the fiftieth floor. You must come with me."
Lisbeth smiled proudly. According to the story, it seems that in order to obtain rare metals, the companionship of a master blacksmith, the blacksmith player, is required. So even if this person says this, he can't get the metal and has no choice but to go home. Lisbeth smiled as if she was mocking the man.
"If you want rare metals, it seems you still need to go with the blacksmith. Even so, do you want to go with that lizard?"
The man glanced at Lisbeth and sighed helplessly.
"I understand. But please keep quiet behind the scenes."
Having successfully broken the man's heart, Lisbeth grinned.
"Even if you don't hide quietly in the shadows, with my ability, I shouldn't be afraid of the crystal-eating dragon. Let's go quickly, okay."
"I'm Kirito. So, my name is"
"My name is Raylan. As you can see, this is Kirito's familiar.
Suddenly, a strange "voice" sounded in her mind, and Lisbeth looked around in panic. The tone was similar to mine, but I couldn't identify the girl who seemed to be speaking to me from somewhere. There was only Kirito in black, carrying a small dog-like dragon on his shoulders, and himself.
"What was that sound just now? Kirito, did you hear it?"
Kirito said nothing and pointed at the little dragon on his shoulder. Lisbeth's eyes widened when she saw Kirito's actions.
"Well"
"So he's the one who started talking to you."
"Eh!?"
Lisbeth was surprised and unconsciously raised her voice. The [sound] just now seemed to be coming from a small dragon on Kirito's shoulder. However, I haven't encountered a talking monster so far in my life in Aincrad, running the Lisbeth Armory and occasionally going out into the wild to fight monsters. In other words, I didn't hear the monster speak at all.
"Is the monster talking!?"
"To be precise, it's like telepathy, speaking directly to our brains, so it understands us and has a heart like a human. Please don't be so rude to me."
Lisbeth blinked several times and stared at the little dragon that seemed to be talking to her, but she was surprised when the "voice" sounded in her mind.
"I beg you, uh"
"Wow! I actually heard [the sound]!"
"So I'm telling you, this guy can talk."
"Hey, don't ignore me. Blacksmith, what's your name?
Being asked her name by an entity that was not supposed to speak, Lisbeth moved her mouth slightly, looking confused.
"Ah, I'm Lisbeth"
"Is it Lisbeth? From now on, I'm relying on you.
"Nice to meet you, Lisbeth."
Lisbeth didn't quite understand what happened and nodded.
After that, Lisbeth went out with Kirito and others, locking the door firmly this time. And when she headed to her destination, the 50th-level mountainous area, Lisbeth encountered something unexpected there.
I heard that this was a mountainous area, so I thought it was a place like rocky mountains and fields, but it turned out to be a land of ice and snow, with blizzards just like icebergs in the real world.
Unexpectedly, Lisbeth was wearing ordinary clothes and was not cold-resistant, shivering in the cold wind and snow. Moreover, because he was wearing a skirt, his bare feet were exposed to the wind and snow and were extremely cold.
"Well, there's no way that's an ice and snow zone."
"If I heard about crystal-eating dragons, I might think of icebergs."
"Didn't you prepare any extra clothes?"
Kirito remained calm in the face of the blizzard, but Lisbeth was not surprised. What surprised Lisbeth was that Lei Ran, the little dragon who had been perching on Kirito's shoulder when he was in the city, turned into a dragon several times larger than herself as soon as he appeared on the field. I never thought that such a little Lilan could change so much. When I walked out of the court, my eyes were wide open and I couldn't move.
But it's so cold now, there's nothing we can do. if it is like this...
The next moment Lisbeth thought this, her vision suddenly turned dark. At the same time, the body felt like something was covering it. I hurriedly reached over to see what was going on. When I confirmed what was covering me, I found that it should be the winter coat that Kirito had taken out.
"This is"
"Use it. It's warm, isn't it?"
Lisbeth nodded unconsciously. The winter coat Kirito gave me was surprisingly warm, and when I put it on, the coldness I felt before almost completely disappeared.
"hot"
"I'm glad I did. But okay? If you're at your limit, you should ride on Lelan's back."
Lisbeth shook her head and stood up next to Kirito.
"You don't have to do this. It's okay."
"I see. Lisbeth looked cold, so I was worried."
Lisbeth said without looking into Kirito's eyes.
"If you want to throw it away, Lizzie can too. Let's go faster. Even if a dragon comes out, you can defeat it with your dragon."
"My name is Raylan. Remember, Liz
Lisbeth was surprised by Lirun's "voice" and turned towards Kirito's dragon Lirun.
"I'm sorry, Lilan!"
Just like that, Lisbeth turned towards Kirito. Lisbeth walked on, thinking it would be strange to go on an adventure with such an eccentric man.
After walking on the snowy road for a while, the top of the mountain came into view, and Lisbeth's eyes lit up. The blizzard has stopped, the sky has turned into a calm snowy sky, and countless crystal pillars poke out from the surrounding snow. It's like a crystal garden.
"beautiful"
Just when they were about to approach the Crystal Garden, someone suddenly choked Lisbeth. Lisbeth turned to Kirito in surprise.
"What are you doing?"
"Have your teleportation crystal ready so you can escape at any time."
Lisbeth replied: "I understand." Then Kirito stared at the top of the mountain and said.
"Besides, it's dangerous here, so it's just me and Raeluen. When the dragon appears, Liz hides behind the crystals around her. Never show her face."
Lisbeth was sullen. My level is already over 60, and this level is level 50. The enemies that come out are not that big of a deal. Even if it's a war, there shouldn't be any tough battles.
"What? My level is also high and I can handle the battle——"
"it's useless!!"
Kirito suddenly shouted into Lisbeth's mouth. Kirito's black eyes stared at her, but Lisbeth immediately understood that she was really worried about herself and herself. I paused holding my breath. After a while, Kirito opened his mouth slightly and whispered.
"Sorry for raising my voice suddenly. But do you like it?"
Lisbeth nodded without arguing. Kirito smiled, gently put his hand on Lisbeth's head, said "Let's go", and passed by Lisbeth. Kirito was followed by Rylon, a dragon that was larger than him, but Rylon stopped and said to Lisbeth on the way.
"Kirito misses you more than metal and swords. Do you understand?"
After Lisbeth nodded, she saw Kirito's back and chased after him.
I figured fighting dragons was just a way to take a break from work like blacksmithing. .But for Kirito, this is really a battle of life and death. No, not for Kirito, but for all players in this world, the battle in this world is always a battle of life and death.
I guess the reason I don't feel this way must be because I keep gaining experience points for leveling up by crafting weapons. However, Kirito has always been in the harsh battlefield, and he has crossed many lines of life and death while fighting there. That's why he was so angry.
Thinking of this, Lisbeth felt a little regretful. She came to this mountainous area to meet the dragon just to take a breath and feel the momentum here. The next moment, a roar like a raptor sounded near the top of the iceberg, as if it was about to pierce the silent air around it. ——The dragon appears.
