Chapter 39: Negative Comments
In Yumesaki's view, items like these Magic Swords didn't actually have any major difference from hand grenades or missiles.
They didn't even have much of a difference from magic scrolls.
This thing they called a Magic Sword was completely like hanging up a sheep's head to sell dog meat—the name simply didn't match reality.
Yumesaki couldn't understand it; this world clearly had gods, and there was even a god of blacksmithing like Hephaestus, so why were they so disappointing when it came to weapons?
Thinking about this, Yumesaki couldn't help but click his tongue.
"Do you have some kind of dissatisfaction with my family's weapons?"
Right after Yumesaki clicked his tongue, a voice suddenly echoed in his ear.
Yumesaki flinched and turned his head, seeing a one-eyed goddess with red hair and an eyepatch standing right in front of him, staring at him intensely.
This person was none other than the god of the Hephaestus Familia... Hephaestus.
Seeing the other party staring intently at him, Yumesaki said casually, "There's no dissatisfaction whatsoever."
"Oh, really? Then why did I get the feeling that the way you looked at my family's weapons was completely full of disgust?"
Hephaestus had just returned from outside when she spotted an unfamiliar god standing in front of the door to her weapon shop.
At first, she thought this person had also come to buy weapons for the children of his Familia.
However, she quickly realized she was thinking too much.
Because the moment this person looked at the weapons inside her shop, his face was completely full of disgust.
He hadn't even been able to stop himself from clicking his tongue.
This made Hephaestus rather irritated. The weapons inside the shop were all forged by her children, strike after strike of the hammer, so being looked down upon by an unfamiliar god naturally made her highly dissatisfied.
Therefore, she immediately stepped forward to question him.
Facing a Hephaestus whose face was full of interrogation, Yumesaki felt that his actions just now had been a bit careless.
However, he was still very curious, so he directly spoke the honest truth, "Actually, I'm not disgusted by the weapons in your shop, but rather disgusted by the weapons in all of Orario."
"Hah?" Hephaestus stood there dazed. Disgusted by the weapons in all of Orario?
Where did this god come from? His talk was incredibly big.
She had truly never seen him before.
Yumesaki continued his words, "Take that Magic Sword as an example. I don't understand why a Magic Sword has to be a consumable item. With your forging techniques, you should be able to forge a powerful Magic Sword that won't break."
"Do you mean an Unbreakable Magic Sword?" Hephaestus asked.
Yumesaki shook his head, "I mean the kind of Magic Sword that doesn't need to consume one's own power, can unleash massive strength, and also won't break."
Hephaestus shook her head firmly, "How could such a thing possibly exist?"
Yumesaki asked back, "Is a thing like this something that even a god like you has no way to forge?"
"Of course I can." Hephaestus certainly wouldn't let someone look down on her, "However, that would no longer be a Magic Sword, but rather a Pseudo-Divine Weapon, or even a Divine Weapon."
"Hah?"
Yumesaki had a bewildered face. A thing like this was actually called a Pseudo-Divine Weapon?
Whan't a Pseudo-Divine Weapon supposed to be a type of weapon that was a bit more exaggerated?
Could it be that he had overestimated Hephaestus's power?
Noticing that the god in front of her seemed to be looking down on her, Hephaestus became rather angry.
She hadn't expected that she would one day actually be looked down upon by a god as well.
"You are a god in the system of death, what do you know about forging? The weapon you described involves unbreakable characteristics, and also involves amplification and durability—that is something only a Pseudo-Divine Weapon can do."
Yumesaki commented in a negative tone, "I don't feel like this is something only a Pseudo-Divine Weapon can do. This is just an ordinary weapon, why bring up Pseudo-Divine Weapons?"
"An ordinary weapon? How could an ordinary weapon possibly do this kind of thing?"
"Really?"
Yumesaki thought for a moment, used Telepathy Magic, and then contacted Esdeath, who was currently inside the Dungeon.
"Give me a bit of your blood."
"Sure, how should I give it to you?" Esdeath agreed without saying much.
"Just draw the blood out from your body, I'll take it myself."
Without saying much, Esdeath used her fingernail to scratch her own skin, and drop by drop, blood seeped out through the skin.
In the next second, this blood disappeared.
More accurately, this blood was transferred by Yumesaki using magic, moved right into Yumesaki's hand.
Yumesaki carried Esdeath's blood, then handed it over to Hephaestus.
"What is this?"
"A drop of blood, but also a type of weapon?"
"Hah?" Hephaestus looked bewildered. She accepted the blood offered by Yumesaki and then examined it, her facial expression instantly turning serious to an unprecedented degree.
Because she discovered that inside this drop of blood, there was a cluster of miraculous power.
"Come with me."
She directly pulled Yumesaki along, entering her Familia's shop, heading toward her special forging room, and then began to examine this drop of blood.
After about half an hour passed, Hephaestus finally understood this drop of blood.
"Inside this drop of blood, there is a type of magical beast blood, right?"
"Correct." Yumesaki nodded.
"What weapon is this?"
"Demon's Extract. A weapon made by utilizing the blood of a specific magical beast. As long as the person who drinks it doesn't go mad, they can obtain the power to control ice."
Yumesaki said calmly, "If the wielder goes mad, they can even freeze a whole country. Do you think this is a Divine Weapon?"
Hephaestus had a conflicted face, "Being able to freeze a whole country, logically speaking, this already falls into the scope of a Pseudo-Divine Weapon, or even a Divine Weapon. But I don't detect any Arcanum inside this blood."
Arcanum—that was the foundation of a god. If one wanted to forge a Divine Weapon, then a god had to use Arcanum. A god who did not possess Arcanum was completely incapable of forging a Divine Weapon.
Yet the object brought by the god in front of her right now completely shattered that fact.
This made Hephaestus find it hard to believe.
"How exactly did you do it?"
"I'm not the one who did it." Yumesaki shook his head, "This thing was done by someone else. That's why I don't quite understand—why is it that a thing another human could do, you, Hephaestus, cannot do?"
Hephaestus: "Ah, well... I'm very sorry, but I really can't do it."
Yumesaki continued his words, "Then about this Magic Sword thing, the fact that it can turn out to be a consumable item truly leaves people speechless. Shouldn't a Magic Sword be the type of weapon that lets the wielder slaughter in all directions and be a powerful weapon?"
"Besides, the weapons you guys forge, other than being unbreakable, hard, and sharp, actually don't have any other attributes."
"They don't even have magic attributes yet."
"Backward, it's really too backward."
Hephaestus looked at Yumesaki, whose face was completely full of emotion, becoming even more at a loss for words.
Why exactly was this person so emotional?
Yumesaki also quickly realized that he had lost his self-control. He coughed once, then said, "My apologies, I was a bit emotional just now."
Hephaestus's eyes flickered. She shook her head, indicating that she didn't mind Yumesaki's loss of control. On the contrary, she looked at Yumesaki with a face full of appreciation.
"It's very clear that you are also a forging enthusiast."
Yumesaki: "Ah, well..."
This was a huge misunderstanding. He just felt that this aspect of Orario wasn't quite like other worlds, so he subconsciously gave some negative comments, that was all.
Toward forging, Yumesaki didn't have much interest.
It could even be said he wasn't interested.
"By the way, are you a god who just descended to the Lower World? Why is it that I've never seen you in the Upper World?" Hephaestus asked curiously.
Ah, this sentence seemed to have been heard somewhere before.
Yumesaki couldn't help but comment negatively, "There are so many gods in the Upper World, have you seen every single one of them?"
"That's also true."
Hephaestus felt enlightened.
Don't look at how the gods lived in the Upper World for hundreds of millions of years; the gods familiar to Hephaestus were only those few, and most gods had only been seen once.
There were even some gods whose names had only been heard, but who had never been seen.
Not recognizing the god in front of her was actually very normal.
After Yumesaki and the other party exchanged a few words of small talk, he stood up and left.
He still planned to continue looking around Orario a few more times.
Time passed in a flash, and quickly night arrived.
Esdeath, Mez, and Suzuka still hadn't walked out from inside the Dungeon.
Yumesaki took a brief glance using Clairvoyance Magic, finding that instead of walking up, these people were actually continuing to walk down, having slaughtered all the way to the twentieth floors in the Dungeon.
It could be seen that Esdeath was feeling joyful this time, slaughtering until corpses lay strewn everywhere, and everywhere there were Magic Crystals dropped by monsters.
Within a short time, it was highly unlikely they would return from the Dungeon.
Yumesaki was also too lazy to wait for them. He came alone to a famous restaurant in Orario.
The Hostess of Fertility.
In the original story, the Loki Familia frequently came here to hold banquets, so Yumesaki estimated that the dishes here should be very good.
Therefore, he came here to taste it.
After entering the restaurant, a cat Beast Human girl who possessed a cheerful and optimistic personality came to greet him.
"Welcome to The Hostess of Fertility nya, is the customer coming for the first time nya?"
"It's the first time." Yumesaki nodded, looked around, then pointed to a position near the window and said, "Is anyone over there?"
"No one is there, please follow me nya."
Under the cat Beast Human girl's guidance, Yumesaki walked to the position and sat down. The cat Beast Human girl immediately offered a menu sheet, "May I know what the customer wants to eat nya?"
Yumesaki didn't look at the menu sheet at all. He said calmly, "Give me all the signature dishes in your shop, one portion each."
"Hah? All of them nya?" The cat Beast Human girl seemed a bit surprised. It should be known that the portions of the dishes in their shop were not small; after all, adventurers were a group of people who had large food portions.
"Correct, all of them." Yumesaki nodded with certainty.
The cat Beast Human girl looked at Yumesaki once more, drawing back the food menu, "So that's how it is, I understand nya, please wait a moment nya."
After finishing her words, she turned and left.
Yumesaki waited for a bit, and dish after dish was served like flowing water.
Yumesaki picked up a piece of steak that had been fried, then took a firm bite of it.
Mmh... the taste, how should he put it, was indeed very good.
However, it was only limited to that. The main reason was that the quality of this meat was not as good as the quality of a Danger Beast, but their homemade seasoning was executed terribly well, very appetizing, covering up the deficiencies in the quality of the meat.
No wonder this restaurant could be so crowded, highly popular in Orario; it turned out it really possessed capability.
No wonder Loki would come here to hold celebration banquets.
If it weren't for the fact that Yumesaki had eaten better things, it was highly likely he would also become a loyal customer of this restaurant.
But for now, Yumesaki could only say it was very good, and he would come occasionally.
As for becoming a loyal customer, there was absolutely no need.
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