chapter 10

"come" the old man said while waving his hand and Arowen complied

in the back of the shop there was a smithy on the far corner at the right and it looked to be normal, key word looked, cause it wasn't normal, if i say that it was used a long time ago to forge the legendary black swords of the one piece world would you believe me hun, of course you would i am the narrator after all and i don't need to lie to you, the rest of the space had normal house hold furniture and a small kitchen. at the left corner was another door and once inside he could see a bunch of stone shelves that had ingots of all kind but that wasn't their final destination at the back of the room there was a row of stone chests, Arowen doesn't know but these chests were made of sea stone, the hardest known material of the one piece world that can restrain devil fruit users, there was 5 chests in total and the old man proceeded to open them one by one and started explaining there content

"i will make you a weapon that is suitable for you out of one of these 5 materials

the first one, you maybe familiar with it is sea stone, known as the hardest in the world even though i have seen harder things, it is best used for blunt weapons, i can also make sharp weapons with it but i don't recommend" an bone white slab of stone was in the chest, it looked similar to the chest in color and texture so he thought

'are those chests made of sea stone?!!'

"the second one is a fire dragon back spike, the species it was taken from have bony spikes growing from their spine, they are very good at piercing weapons like rapiers and spears, and as a bonus it gives fire damage and leaves some nasty wounds hehe" this time it was a red red thick spike like that of a porcupine but larger and had thorns along its body

"third is blood vein iron, this material is found at center of the heart of a titanic rock whale, i don't expect you to know it, but the whale is its name suggest is very huge even bigger than this island and feeds on lava at the bottom of the ocean, extremely hard to find even harder to kill, this piece of iron grows inside its heart, the longer it lives the better the iron it produces, this piece here i found from a dead whale and from its size it lived for a long time, it can be used to make anything really, but the procedure is a bit complicated" the iron is twice the size of his head, black in color and had red lines going through it like veins

"this forth baby here, is the pearl of a rainbow clam, this species is even rarer than the whale, if you meet one one in a million year you must be the luckiest person in the world, it was payment from some brat"

'roger you were really a great man *sigh*'

"it also can be made into anything but more suitable for sharp weapons, the process is less complicated than the blood vein iron, if you don't mind a flashy weapon" the pearl was the same size of the iron but glowed with rainbow colors, it was rejected on the spot by Arowen

"and last is this little marvel, yellow mercury, it cannot be found in normal places, the person i bought it from found it in a frozen tundra island deep underground dripping from the ceiling into a pool made out of it, the method to make it into a weapon is very complicated, and it can be made for flexible weapons, like soft swords, bow string, or weapons that use threads and strings" as the name suggested the chest was full of yellow liquid akin to mercury

"its your choice, i like you lad! so i gave you such a generous offer, you better be grateful"

Arowen was already stunned by the rare materials, and their variety, he never saw such precious and fantastic things, even their description was wonderful, he didn't know of them aside from the first two the sea stone is obvious and he already knew dragons existed in one piece but the others he had no idea, the third and forth material to his knowledge must come from that legendary place, the dream of all chefs of one piece the all blue, as for the last one he didn't even bother to think of its origin, but he was caught in a dilemma

'can i afford it though!!' he had an ugly expression and the old man was starting to get annoyed, he already showed his cards and the brat was standing stunned there wasting his time

"hurry up! would you, i ain't got all day"

"that is emm! i don't think i can afford the materials much less your expertise" the old man was stunned by his response, it had slipped his mind but then he got angry

"you think! this old man needs your pocket change!"

"huh!" Arowen was stunned one more, his savings of over two years, the highest sum he had in his life was called pocket change and before he realized it, his pouch was in the old mans hand

"i will take this, as a deposit, and when you come across some rare material in the future bring it to me, so now hurry up and choose"

this time Arowen wasn't surprised, he already expected him to be some old monster, but what he heard made him very happy, as long as he came across something interesting during his stay in this world he will fulfill his promise, if he finished his mission before, then the old man could only blame himself, Arowen didn't have that high of a moral anyway and so he went on his way to choose