I Want To Be A Magic Sword Blacksmith! - Chapter 7

At first, the monster threat was more devastating than anything else.

After all, that giant ant is a crisis for the village.
Anything else alongside it would be overshadowed.

However, a human who continued fighting that giant ant gradually increased his presence without taking a step back.
Finally, he even surpassed the fact that the village was in crisis.

At least in the eyes of the village chief’s daughter, Gyariko, she could no longer see anything but the picture of Eiji’s fighting.

“Eiji……! Who are you exactly..….!?”

The other dwarves just put their hopes on Eiji and cheering him to save the village.
However, Gyariko was the only who could not help but question Eiji’s identity.

She wondered how could he fight the monster so well?

Eiji hits the giant ant while avoiding its attack with his beautiful defensive body movement.
Each time he did this, the sword would break and he grasp a new one, but this action itself was a divine feat unthinkable in common sense.

In the first place, that giant ant wouldn’t just sit still and let him slash it, but also counterattack.
Its vicious jaws could easily tear a human, so Eiji must not take even a single bite.
And in fact, the iron ant’s jaws never touched Eiji even once.
That’s why he keeps fighting until now.

It was a situation where if he was hit even once, it would be over, and on the contrary, Eiji had already hit the opponent many times.
Moreover, he hit the same spot perfectly with unmatched accuracy.

How much skill and mental does it takes to do such a thing?

Even at this moment, Eiji was doing something that would make a normal person go insane.
Gyariko now had a clear ominous feeling about him.
Why is he so strong?
Are all the humans like that?
No, it shouldn’t be.
Various questions were running through her mind, and her spirit was about to burn out before the person who was fighting.

Then something rolled down at Gyariko’s feet.

“This is…..!?”

The sword’s handle, snapped off at the base.

It was Eiji’s price for deepening the giant’s ant wound.
Eiji himself has already taken up the next sword and continues to fight resolutely, but Gyariko focused her attention to the wreckage that was thrown away and picked it up.

And then, she attempts something.

“Blacksmithing skill 『Apprehend Status』”

It was a basic blacksmithing skill that could be acquired with a relatively low skill level,
The skill was activated on a finished blacksmith product to instantly examines the target’s condition.
It was a skill for reading the durability and damaged parts of the item used to perform maintenance.

However, this 『Apprehend Status』had a special trait.
The amount of information that can be read increases in proportion to the blacksmithing skill level, and the accuracy also increases.

A person with a blacksmithing skill level 1,000 could read a lot more accurately than a person with a blacksmithing skill level 10.

In particular, there was a special item that only those with a blacksmithing skill level over 800 could read with 『Apprehend Status』.
And that is the user history.

The target to be read― this time, she could trace back and confirm the people who have used the sword were.
Its original purpose was to check who had used the sword with care and who had damaged it by handling it recklessly.

However, the one who uses 『Apprehend Status』right now is Gyariko, who has a blacksmithing skill level 1100.
It’s easily exceed 800.
Because she has such a high skill level, she may be able to further advance the “user history” and extract more detailed information.

“『User History』…… The most recent user of this sword is Eiji”

It is a given.

Gyariko has seen with her own eyes that he wields this sword and boldly fights the village’s crisis.

“The most recent user’s details…… the sword skill most closely related to the sword. If it’s only that skill’s level, then……!”

With Gyariko’s blacksmithing skill level 1100, she might be able to take a peek at it.

“……!?”

And she succeeded.
The broken sword told her. How much skill does the swordsman who wielded it have.

“Eiji’s sword skill level is 3700…..!?”

Eiji’s secret was revealed by using 『Apprehend Status』.
It was an extremely high number.
Gyariko was proud of her own blacksmithing skill level 1100, but Eiji’s sword skill level far exceeded that, even though it was in a different skill system.

――With a skill level of over 1000, if it were a sword skill, you’d be qualified to be a hero!

Wasn’t that what Eiji himself said?
Then, who exactly Eiji, whose sword skill level exceeds 1000?

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“Eiji!”

A young male dwarf shouts out as he throws a new sword.

“This is the last sword! There isn’t a single sword left in the young lady’s workshop!!”
“Is this for real……?”

Eiji wrinkles his brow as he receives according to what he says is the last sword.
The wound on the head of the giant ant had deepened considerably with repeated slashes, but even so it was still going to take a lot more to break through the solid shell.
And yet, he already ran out of weapon.

Eiji and the giant ant.
Their feet were already full of the wreckage of the broken swords.

“I guess it’s about time to end”

He intimidates the opponent who should not be able to understand language with words.
Even if it was an insect-type monster with no intelligence, it was devoted to its survival instinct and reacted sharply to his intimidation.

“I will end it next time. You too, come at me with all your might”

He held his last sword in the upper position and closed the gap gradually.
Eiji was more cautious than ever, perhaps because there is no more chance if broke it.

And even the giant ant, which should have no intelligence, was swallowed up by the tension created by its enemy.
If it didn’t finish its enemy here, it would die.
This was clearly conveyed to the insect’s crude brain.
That’s why the iron ant vomited.

“Formid acid!?”

That is the iron ant’s trump card.
When it encounters a powerful enemy that it cannot kill with its jaws alone, it attacks with a powerful acid fluid from its mouth.
It is a strong acid that melts the skin, flesh, and even bones instantly if it was exposed to human.
The acid was shot toward Eiji.

“Be careful, Eiji!?”

Gyariko screamed.
However.

“I’ve been waiting for that!!”

Eiji swung his sword, not at the ant’s body, but at the acid fluid coming at him.

“Sword skill『Water Breaking Slash』!”

It can be learned with a sword skill level 700. It was a skill that created a vacuum rupture by swinging the sword at ultra-speed that could even cut water.

Due to its characteristic, the formic acid shot by the iron ant was easily cut in half.

“It’s not over yet! Sword skill『Early-Summer Rain Slash』!”

Next, he uses a sword skill that shoots a series of sword attacks. A dizzying rain of slashing attacks falls.
It was a sword skill learned at level 200, which is a relatively basic skill, but each of its slashes has the effect of 『Water Breaking Slash』.
The simultaneous use of the 『Water Breaking Slash』and the 『Early-Summer Rain Slash』is an advanced technique.

And with that special move, the formic acid was cut into small pieces and turned into mist.

“A mere ant with stupid head couldn’t notice it……”

The formic acid, which has become a mist, is easily blown away by the wind.

“That you are in the downwind”

The mist of strong acid, which dissolves anything, hit the iron ant itself, who shot it.

“Aryaaaaaaaaaa!?”

A horrifying scream leaked out from the giant ant.
As expected, even the monster seems to be damaged by its own attack, and its strong shell is dissolved by the strong acid and bubbles up.

“With this, even the shell that it is proud of must have softened considerably. Especially the wound that have deepened after being hit continuously”

The iron ant’s head.

The sword cut that had deepened at the expense of dozens of iron swords have become even more fragile thanks to the dissolving effect of the formic acid.

He was ready for the final blow.

“……『Breath of Break』”

Eiji raised the last iron sword with one hand.
Gyariko saw his figure.
The sight of Eiji and his swordsmanship reminded her of a scene in the past.

The young human hero who had saved her when she was a child.
The sword movement of that hero and the movement of the sword dance in front of her eyes overlapped perfectly.

“Sword skill 『Ittouryoudan』”

The blade was swung down, causing a huge crack to run through the unbroken shell of the iron ant, and sunk deeply into it.
From its head, the giant ant splattered bodily fluid that could not be judged as blood, and fell down while writhing in agony.

“Aryaaaaaaaaaaaaaーーー!?”

Its death’s agony echoed.
The slash that cut nearly half of its head was fatal, and the impregnable monster was finally defeated by the iron sword made by the living.
The giant ant never moved again with the iron sword stuck in its head.

“He did itーーーーーー!!”
“He wonーーーーーー!!”

The dwarves cheered as the whole surrounding erupted.
Everyone rushed to Eiji to rubbed and praised this hero.

The crisis was over.
The predicament that would ruin the dwarf’s village was solved by a human.

Among them, there was only one person who stood there in a daze.
Gyariko could not help but be perplexed by the coincidence of the memories that flooded her mind.

“Eiji…… are you perhaps……”

The one who saved her from monsters five years ago……

“…… The hero of the human race?”