Chapter 1404 Oh Brave Heroes! The Time of the New Trials Is Fast Approaching! Part 2

Aradval? Why, yes, I have it here with me. But why Aradval? Could it be!? You finally want to witness the perfected version of that one party trick “Melting the walls like cheese with hot knife!? Does that mean it’s finally time to unleash it? Even though you have almost killed me the last time when I demonstrated that with the floor in your workshop?

「Yes, that’s right, Sanraku. For you see, only the God Master is the one who can deify the Heroic Weapon. But conversely, if you can’t do that, you cannot hope to be a God Master.]

「Oh? Ooohhh? I-I see……]

「Remember the five Colored Dragons? Or better yet, remember that Heavenly Emperor Dragon? No! You see, as luck would have it, Aradval is not satisfied with a prey like that……! Yes, that’s right! The dragon-killing spear has never actually killed a genuine dragon!]

Huh? Is that supposed to be some sort of a bug? Should I call the Professor in here? Or maybe Bansai-san? I guess that Mirei-san would just say “I don’t know anything” with a smile on her face and reject the call. Because this matter is starting to feel more and more confusing with each passing minute.

「Sanraku, a dragon! Go out there and hunt me down a real dragon!]

「Huh? A Dragon? You mean like, the Usurper Dragon? That kind of a dragon?]

「I have no use for useless small fries like that!!!]

Whoa there now, just wait a freaking minute! The Usurper Dragon is a super strong boss monster who was giving even our group a good run for our money, even including the Dragon Princess! And we are talking about THAT Dragon Princess! Maximum Firepower! And Maximum Speed! THAT Usurper Dragon, you know!? Oh well, the next time we meet, I’ll be sure to just take off to the skies and toss it around like a stupid lizard it is……

「Sanraku! Listen to me, Sanraku, and listen well! Go out there and defeat a True Dragon for me!]

「True…… What now?]

「A True Dragon! A creature with fang and talons as sharp as razors! A creature with wings weaved out of pure fantasy! While it’s true that Aradval got to burn the Colored Dragons, those things are just distorted legends, not the real deal itself! Listen up, Sanraku! Listen to me! What is Aradval!? What is the Bright Spear Hypothesis “Brionac” ––––––!?]

「Hey, look here! A party trick! See? The walls are going to be melted down like cheese with a hot knife.]

「You fool!? What the hell do you think you’re doing–––!?]

「Calm down! Calm down, you stupid eggplant! Engrave this image in your mind! Let it sink in your memory! This is what the Aradval Rebuild and “Brionac” are truly capable of! This is what they are going to be remembered for……!!]

「I get it! But that’s not nearly good of a reason to melt the walls and destroy the tools around my workshop!!!]

Break throws her hammer right at me, with a murder intent burning so bright that only by mobilizing all of my skills I was able to avoid being pummeled to death by her. Now I just needed for the situation to start to cool down a little bit, while also making sure to get as much information out of her as possible. But rather than cooling down, I was getting a feeling that the atmosphere in here was only starting to heat up!

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About five minutes later.

For the time being, the summary of the Break’s story seems to be as such. And it took her a while to calm herself down enough to relate it all:

・ It would seem that she has the opportunity to achieve the very pinnacle of blacksmithing arts in the form of “God Master” at blacksmithing.

・ The conditions for changing the job is to “deify the Heroic Weapon or rebuild one of them entirely (or reverse of that process) to the next stage of its evolutionary path!

・ In other words, if Break wants me to cooperate with her on that, we are going to be using Aradval Rebuild as our base.

・ But doing that is way easier said on paper than done in real life! Because, even if you try to evolve a Rebuild weapon (or reverse it, for that matter) as it is, it there is a high probability that you are going to fail miserably! And of course, if you make even the slightest of mistakes during the forging process itself, the weapon that you are trying to strengthen is going to shatter and it will be lost forever!

– So, in order to prevent that from happening, you need to sublimate the essence of the Heroic Weapon itself! In the case of Aradval Rebuild, it would be the essence of a spear that is capable of killing a Dragon!

·Here is where the true uphill climb begins. Because as a matter of fact, there is no such thing as a genuine dragon around, no matter how hard you look for it. And the subspecies of dragons are not going to cut it here, either. So no Ancient or Ancestral Dragons —- we need a genuine dragon in here. The real deal.

・ It would also seem that we were unable to understand the truth about the burning spear all this time. Sleeping deep in those flames, behind the tremendous heat there is also a mighty thirst that is yet to be quenched.

・ My Master! Find the sword from the skeleton of the giant spear and chase the shadow of the Wolf, and then defeat the True Dragon! Although there is nothing more that might sound like the right thing to do here, this particular theory seems to be the one that is the most fitting to our current situation.

・ Defeat a Dragon and then defeat a True Dragon. It would also seem that fancy monsters already started to appear secretly all over the map, while remaining unnoticed by the vast majority of players……

・ Huh? What’s that now? You have no idea what I am talking about? You are so disappointing sometimes, lad……

Yeah, let’s go to the hospital, Break!