1 Beginning of a lonely path
In a small village, a boy about 13 years old is hitting heated iron with a mallet. Sweat is dripping from the boy's head towards the ground and vaporizing before touching the ground.
"Ivor, you need to use more force"
"Yes, Sir"
After hitting the steel and reheating it again, repeating the process few more times then dipping it into the water to quench it. Ivor took the blade outside and look at it for any cracks, Fortunately, it did not have any.
"Ivor, you have to sharpen the blade now"
"Yes, sir"
Ivor walked to the whetstone and started to sharpen the blade, creating a longsword. After sharpening the blade, Ivor started to create a hilt out of wood and attaching to the sword creating a proper longsword.
The man instructing Ivor walked over and grabbed the sword, he began to inspect it and tested the sword, After a while, the man looked at Ivor.
"Ivor, this sword is ok"
"Thank you, sir!"
*Congratulations host for creating his first sword!"
[Host has been Rewarded, Look into the inventory for more information]
Huh, a System? Ivor stood in front of the man in a daze, The man seemed to have noticed Ivor began daydreaming.
"Ivor, you can go, Stop dreaming!"
"hu... Thank you, sir!"
I should go to the forest before returning home. Ivor headed towards the forest and sat on a rock that he occasionally visits.
"System"
[Hello host, Welcome to the system]
"System, Who are you?"
[I am the Blacksmithing System, I will help you with your journey of Blacksmithing]
[Host has currently 2 rewards in his inventory, would you like to see them?]
"Please, Show me"
[Host: Ivor]
[Age: 13]
[Cultivation: 2nd Stage of Qi Cultivation]
[Potential: Below Average]
[Mantra: Earths Mortal(4th stage mortal technique)
[Techniques: Basic Mortal Blacksmithing]
[Inventory: Novice Gift Package, Tool Package]
"System open Novice Gift Package"
*Ding
[Congratulations Host]
[You have Received: Earth True Blacksmith Technique]
[Earths True Blacksmith Technique(High Earth Grade): This technique is a Blacksmithing Technique that allows you to create Earth grade weapons, and a side effect of this technique is that it absorbs the Qi around you while creating a weapon]
[You have Received: 10th stage Qi cultivation Realm]
[What use is of technique that you cannot use without a sufficient realm stage]
[You have Received: 200 Stacks of Iron, 200 Stacks of wood, 100 stacks of Silver Iron, 100 stacks of Purple wood, 50 stacks of Golden Iron, 50 stacks of Yellowwood, 25 Stacks of Black Iron, 25 Stacks of Spritualy Burned Wood, 5 Stacks of True Iron, 5 Stacks of Spiritual wood, 1 Storage necklace]
[Storage necklace: Named the Mortals Space, this necklace space increase by cultivation stage and realm.]
[Mortals Space: 150 Cubic meters]
"ha.. ha ha ha, With this I can become Immortal and protect my Family, My family won't struggle anymore and my sister doesn't need to marry anymore like she wished, hahaha."
"System, open Tool Package"
*Ding
[Congratulasions host!]
[You have received: Mortal Blueprints for 3 different types of Swords, Spears, and knives]
[You have Received: High-Earth Grade Mallet]
[You have Received: High-Earth Grade Anvil]
[You have Received: Material Heating Fire Technique(Mid-Earth Grade)]
[You have Received: High-Earth Grade Whetstone]
[You have Received: High-Spirit Grade Planning Table]
"System, what are different types of grades?"
[There is the Mortal Grade which equals to Qi cultivation, Beyond Grade equals to Foundations stage, Spirit Grade is equal to Golden Core Cultivator, Earth Grade is equal to a Nascent Soul Cultivator. There are more stages but the host has not come across anything in that level]
"Thank you"
I have reached the 10th stage and can fell getting close to breaking through to the Fondation stage I can be considered a powerhouse in the village and prevent my sister from becoming a mistress.
"Just thinking about that scummy Wei family makes me sick"
The problem is that the Wei family has a Foundation stage cultivator and is the mayor of the village.
Ivor started to head towards the mountain and found a cave, this space is a place where Ivor comes to cultivate to exclude himself out of the village to not get distracted from others. Ivor took out the anvil, whetstone and mallet also started to study the Earth True Blacksmith Technique. Ivor got up after Spending 4 hours comprehending the Technique and took out a stack of basic materials given to him.
Ivor looked at a blueprint for a Long Sword and placed it on the planning table, Ivor started to heat the iron and followed the blueprint's instructions then he grabbed the mallet but he could only use little power of the mallets due to his stage. Ivor continued to hit iron and realised he was absorbing qi very fast and refining the qi each time hit the iron or used the whetstone to sharpen the weapon, it was all the movement he was doing, that absorbed the Qi efficiently.
"Ha...ha this is refreshing but unfortunately I absorb it too slowly, my talent is not good enough"
Without Ivor knowing, 10 hours had gone by and it was night, but Ivor was too focused and was in the bring of establishing his Foundation. In the next few moments, Ivor just finished his 5th Longsword and broke through to Foundation Stage.
*Ding
[Congratulations For Creating a Low-Mortal Weapon]
[Congratulations For Reaching Foundation Stage]
[Host has been rewarded with a Beyond Grade Sword Technique]
[Host has been rewarded with Beyond Grade Blueprints for Swords and Spears]
[Host has been rewarded with Material understanding Book]
"HAHAHAHAH" shouting like a madman and deep joy
"Thank you, system you have changed my life!" Ivor shouted sincerely.
Ivor took all his equipment and placed them in the storage space and the storage space had increased by 20 cubic meters creating 170 cubic meters of space. Ivor walked outside of the cave looking at the sky and thought to himself, its night that's weird sister would usually come here and get me for dinner?
Ivor started feeling something was wrong then he suspected it was the Wei family causing trouble. Ivor knew they usually won't cause much trouble because his father is a 9th stage qi cultivator with merits to the army but he worried for his mother and sister because they were not very strong, any battle might have an effect on their health.
Ivor started rushing but couldn't also contain his excitement of showing off to his family, Ivor started to run faster back home through the forest thinking of the struggles they have against the Wei family and showing his blacksmithing skills to the other blacksmith.
Closer he was getting to the village he started to smell smoke, this made Ivor panic since there had recently been bandit attacks.
Ivor made it to the edge of the forest seeing the entire village on fire, he stopped for a second to comprehend what was happening, then he got back to his senses and started to run towards his house, his house was near the centre of the village and he continued to run, running past the blacksmith where a dead body sat, that is his teacher's body.
The teachers' name is Smith, he was named this by his father hoping his son was going to become a great Blacksmith but now there is nothing but a burning building and a man covered in charcoal.
Ivor kept running towards his house with tears in his eyes. The loss of his teacher upset him greatly, Ivor noticed a house that is burning.
Ivor rushed into the burning and found his family, Ivor did not move. He did not know what to do. His father was in front of his sister and mother on his knees with a sword in hand stabbing to the ground supporting his body looking like a fallen soldier on a battlefield.
His mother and sister behind him, dead they had died by biting their tongues it was clear, they looked like they had struggled to escape from someone grasp and bit their tongues so they can't be defiled and die from this tragedy.
Ivor fell onto his knees looking at the hugging mother and daughter with fear in their eyes, the fallen father and few corpses around them. Ivor couldn't handle it he just stayed on his knees staring and crying but the fire around him was dehydrating him.
It started to rain heavily outside which started to put the fire out but all the houses had burned down and without realizing his family's corpses had burned.
he wasn't normal, and a fire wasn't able to hurt him however he could feel the heat and his clothes were burned to dust.
