Hidden genius: Black belly snake

Chapter 255: First rate talent Part6

The next day morning, Kosa bid farewell to Tang Yue and returned back to the village at the break of dawn.

Since his daughter had to anyways survive in the city all alone, he wanted her to be more independent and courageous and forced himself to not linger around her and fuzz on her unnecessarily.

The young girl even managed to grab an apprentice position all on her own. So he had faith in her capabilities and her common sense.

Gazing at the old man's back and his disappearing silhouette along with the carriage, Tang Yue couldn't help but feel slightly regretful.

This might really be the last time she was seeing him. Unbeknownst to her, a small tear drop rolled down her cheeks.

Xander, who was standing near her, tugged at her robe immediately.

Tang Yue absentmindedly lifted the small devil and put him on her arm and shoulder like she usually did.

The devil then extended his small hand and wiped that tear away with a warm smile on his lips.

I am here for you, my dear. He said inwardly.

Tang Yue, however, didn't notice it and soon the trio prepared their belongings and headed to the 'smithy'.

"Did you really manage to get an apprentice position, Yue?" Charlotte asked.

"Heh. You will see." Tang Yue silently rubbed her temples.

Charlotte was confused but she soon understood what Tang Yue had meant.

"This!!!" She exclaimed in surprise as soon as they arrived. 

One look at the drunkard and his nonchalant attitude, she already wanted to punch him.

The place was extremely bad and worn out. They even had to fix the door.

Charlotte frowned and wondered why Tang Yue always had such shitty luck.

"At least we can freely stay here and I can practice smithing on my own." Tang Yue patted her.

Charlotte sighed and helped Tang Yue clean the place. 

Of course, the little kid and little blue both lazily settled in a corner like Kings waiting for their servants to finish up.

Tang Yue then ruffled through the parchments and smithing technique scrolls she had purchased yesterday and peered into them curiously.

These were much better than Yana's personally scribbled notes and she was able to understand a lot more things clearly.

Unlike the elven lands, where the alchemy techniques, even the basics could only be learned from a master, knowledge was much more freely available here.

But that didn't mean that anyone could learn smithing on their own and start making weapons.

Scrolls like these only taught the bare minimum and the basics for different techniques. 

Tang Yue would utmost be able to craft a low-grade weapon after studying these scrolls.

In order to comprehend and execute higher-level smithing techniques, a guide or a master was irreplaceable, irrespective of the talent of a person.

Tang Yue did not worry about these things at the moment.

After clearing up the smithy, she first started from the basics. 

Before she tried anything else, she wanted to craft another long sword out of the simple and common iron ores.

She wanted to experience the same forging process again and thoroughly absorb and memorize the feeling of the elemental essence, mana, and the metal mixing together in concert.

Charlotte helped her man the blast furnace and Tang Yue quickly arranged all the materials and started melting the iron ores.

Hot burning fumes immediately roared inside the furnace and the atmosphere in the old run down smithy instantly changed.

"Eh? What the hell?" 

The dwarf, who was completely sloshed, slightly opened his eyes and peeked to see what was happening.

"Who are you? Wha What" Before he could finish his sentence, the man again fell into his drunken stupor.

Charlotte and Tang Yue didn't even spare him a glance and continued doing their own thing.

After the ores were thoroughly melted and the impurities were removed, the duo then carefully poured the molten mixture into different molds.

Not many molds were available in the smithy, but there was a long-sword, a dagger, and a saber mold.

And thankfully, these molds also had the instant cooling runes.

So Tang Yue used these three for now and quickly prepared three raw unrefined weapons. 

They looked extremely brittle and lifeless, but nevertheless, she nodded in satisfaction.

This was where the real work started.

She now needed to carefully circulate earthen elemental essence with the metal and hammer everything until they perfectly balanced each other.

She placed one of the half-baked weapons on the anvil, starting first with the dagger and started hammering the piece of metal.

CLANG. CLANG. CLANG.

Loud rhythmic metallic sounds reverberated in the small smithy.

Charlotte, half-expected the drunkard to wake up from these deafening noises, but the dwarf weirdly turned around and started sleeping even more comfortably.

His snoring sounds echoed loudly rivaling even the hammering noises coming from the anvil.

Charlotte scoffed at the lazy bum and focused her attention back on Tang Yue.

She looked absolutely stunning, as she worked hard with a hundred percent focus on the task at hand.

She couldn't help but admire her. 

Only certain people can look good irrespective of the body they currently possessed and Tang Yue was surely one of those people.

As she absentmindedly gawked at the young dwarven girl, Xander loudly cleared his throat.

"Stupid, stop staring. I will peel your eyes."

"The fuck?" Charlotte, unable to digest those vicious words, immediately turned around in shock.

She thought that the kid would act as if he had not said anything but the damned jerk was staring back at her, with full animosity.

"Aren't your parents somewhere here? Why don't you go out and find them." She snapped at him.

But the smug kid didn't even bother to reply to her and coldly snorted.

Hmph! Charlotte stopped wasting time on the little scoundrel and returned back to what she was previously doing.

She shamelessly cupped her face with her palms and stared dazedly at the young dwarven girl busy at work.