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"How to say?"
Chun rolled up his sleeves and subconsciously took out the forging tools.
"You want me to help you?"
"No, today happens to be the day of the Molten Fire Festival."
Hephaestus patted the one-eyed girl's shoulder and reminded her.
"You deal with Loki's family more often. Do you want to invite them to the festival?"
"Well... never mind."
Chun thought for a moment and shook his head slightly.
"In fact, they prefer to cooperate with the Guberniu clan. I just went on an expedition with them."
The Gubernui clan is also a clan famous for forging.
In fact, the product levels of the two families are similar, but the service methods are different.
Hephaestus is good at manufacturing uniform standard equipment and maintaining excellent quality.
The Gubernui clan prefers to customize according to the adventurer's strength and fighting style.
Therefore, the latter is more favored by the powerful Loki clan.
The weapons and equipment of the high-level elite adventurers in the clan are almost all made by the Guberniu clan.
Only the lower and middle level members would use the products of the Hephaestus Familia.
"But I heard that Sword Princess was invited."
Suddenly, Chun seemed to have thought of something and spoke with interest.
"The person who invited her is called Su Ye. If I remember correctly, this is the name of that little brother, right?"
"Yes."
Hephaestus was stunned for a moment, as if she couldn't understand how Su Ye could know the members of Loki's family.
She is also a popular adventurer with the title of "Sword Princess".
"Really... I think this kid is pretty good."
Tsubaki showed a look that said, "As expected."
"He can do whatever he wants just because he has a handsome face. I wonder how capable he really is."
"Don't make it too hard on him."
Hephaestus heard the eagerness in her words and said helplessly.
"You are a Lv5 senior adventurer, and he has only registered for a short time."
"What about forging?"
"Compared with you, the most powerful blacksmith in Orario?"
"At least we can produce something decent at this Molten Fire Festival."
The tall girl with a healthy complexion shrugged.
"After all, even I haven't stayed with you for so long."
Hearing this, Hephaestus couldn't help but retort.
"Isn't it because you always yelled 'Newly made weapons must be tested with real weapons' and then often went to the dungeon and didn't come back for several months?"
"Well... I am at my current level thanks to this."
Chun didn't care about this at all and was even proud of it.
"When does the festival start? I can't wait to see my work."
"He specially invited Jian Ji, it can't be that he wanted to make a fool of himself in front of her, right?"
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The venue for the Molten Fire Festival was paved by renting the entire arena.
Because the quality of the forging work needs to be demonstrated, an open space and the indispensable... target are needed.
The arena run by the Ganesha clan meets all the above requirements.
Not only does it have an empty and spacious venue that won’t be crowded even with thousands of people attending.
It can also provide living monsters captured from dungeons.
These monsters are kept under strict control by the Ganesha family to ensure that they do not escape and cause trouble in Orario.
This kind of "monster economy" is the only one in the entire maze city.
Because the Ganesha family is also the organizer of the "Monster Festival", the guild has granted them special permission to take charge of this business.
After the Molten Fire Festival began, except for the Hephaestus family who had booked the entire venue.
Only those who are invited by clan members can enter the arena and participate in the festival.
At the entrance of the arena, there was already a line of people waiting for their identities to be verified.
Just then, the team became confused due to the arrival of an adventurer.
"It seems that Miss Aisi is very popular."
Feeling the burning gazes coming from all around, Su Ye said without changing his expression.
The person walking side by side with him was the Sword Princess in casual clothes.
Her long golden hair fluttered with her steps, her fair skin was inadvertently exposed, and her beautiful face was no less beautiful than that of a goddess.
It was no wonder that some male adventurers stared at Su Ming with murderous eyes.
"Yeah."
Aisi responded lightly.
She probably didn't realize what "popular" meant.
"But thank you for inviting me."
"You've already thanked me before, Miss Aisi."
Su Ye asked while registering the visitors.
"By the way, why did you accept my invitation?"
The blonde swordswoman answered without hesitation.
"The weapon... was taken for repair."
"I need to find a spare weapon before the next expedition."
After thinking for a while, Ai Si added.
"It'd better be cheaper. Repairing weapons is very expensive."
"God has already reprimanded me several times."
As the elite main force in the clan team, Aisi's weapon is naturally a high-end product tailored for the Guberniu clan.
If equipment of this level is damaged... it would be time-consuming and expensive to repair.
No wonder Loki reprimanded Ais for this.
"Will [Sword Princess] also be troubled by money matters?"
Su Ye asked with some curiosity.
Ai Si looked at him calmly, opened her red lips slightly, and said a number.
"Forty million faris."
"What do you mean?"
"The cost of repairing the Sword of Despair is also my current debt."
"...Okay, I think I understand."
Su Ye looked at the Sword Girl beside him with sympathy.
This amount of money is enough for any commoner in Orario and his entire family to live a prosperous life.
Who would have thought that this beautiful girl owed such a huge sum of money at such a young age.
However, with Sword Princess' fame and strength, it is estimated that the debt will be cleared in the dungeon soon.
"In that case, I have a small request."
After thinking about it, Su Ye suggested.
"The work I'm using for the Molten Fire Festival today happens to be a sword."
"I wonder if Miss Sword Princess could be the tester of this sword?"
Chapter 21 Clozo's Magic Sword
"Today, we gather here to present our best works to the goddess!"
At the opening ceremony of the Molten Fire Festival, Tsubaki, as the leader of Hephaestus's Familia, naturally took on the responsibility of giving a speech.
As the words fell, flames like lava erupted in the arena, celebrating the opening of the festival.
"It is said that this guy is half dwarf... Is it true?"
Su Ye looked at the tall and plump clan leader and couldn't help but be amazed.
Logically speaking, mixed-race children should have more obvious racial characteristics.
For example, Aegina has the long pointed ears and emerald eyes that are unique to elves.
A mixed-race child with dwarf blood will always be shorter than a normal human...
However, their leader is almost on par with the goddess and is definitely a "giant" level existence among the dwarves.
Just when Su Ye was puzzled, Chun in the distance suddenly turned his head to a certain angle and swept his eyes over.
"Discovered?"
Su Ye raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly to Chun, whom he had met several times before.
Just when he was about to submit his work for the exhibition, Chun walked towards him.
"Su Ye, I hope I remembered your name correctly."
Chun casually stretched out his hand towards Su Ye, acting very familiar.
Her arrival made Su Ye, who was already the focus of attention because of his trip with [Sword Princess], receive even more enthusiastic gazes.
"You have a good memory, Captain Tsubaki."
"Then I'm relieved... Is that the work you're going to exhibit today?"
Chun's eyes fell on the item wrapped in cloth in Su Ye's hand.
Judging from its shape and length, it should be a two-handed sword.
"Yes."
Su Ye nodded. It was not convenient for him to use the ability of the inventory in public, so he took out his equipment in advance.
"I was just about to submit my application for a showcase."
"Haha... why bother so much."
Hearing this, Chun suddenly became interested and her voice became noticeably excited.
"I can take you directly to the testing site. The person who will be the tester is Miss Sword Princess next to you, right?"
Aisi, who had been on standby mode since a while ago, finally came to her senses and nodded slightly.
She had some impression of Tsubaki, but not much.
During the expedition, Chun also followed the Loki family team.
They were just a logistics team and didn't often come into contact with Ai Si, who was in the assault team.