chapter 3 The blacksmith

"...-oh it's you ,good to see you ." said Arden

"you have that new sword for me yet ?"asked Damien

"yep, came in this morning..." Arden pulls out a sword wrapped in leather from under the counter and instead of unwrapping it he pulled on the sword and it cut straight through leather "pretty good sword huh?" he put it down on the counter .

Damien leans over the counter ,"how much 10 gold no 11 right ?" he asks almost sarcasticly.

"just 1 ..." whispers Arden as he put one gold coin down on the counter

Damien looking at him in a very confused manner takes out 1 gold's worth of copper coins ,"so...that's a hundred coppers right?" and he stacks them neatly on the counter infront of him in stacks of 10 "there you go Arden "Arden slips the single gold coin under the table and put all 100copper coins in a leather pouch tied with a string and puts the pouch on the sword as he walks to the back.

"Arden ,what's wrong I counted them myself it's a hundred coppers "asked Damien baffled at this point

"happy birthday kid ,now go before my daughter realises you're here "says Arden as he give Damien a wink and a smile. Damien turns around and as he's about to open the door it swings open and a girl runs straight into him and they both fall over .

Arden turns around to his daughter on the floor with Damien ,"Aria get up" she rubs her head as she gets up ,"hey Damien!!!!"she says in her normal excited tone

"Daddy ,Daddy, Daddy look here ...see I told I'd do good didn't I !!!" she shouts as she forces a slip of paper Infront of Arden's face

"honey you know I can't read "Arden looks at his daughter in confused happiness.

Damien turns around and takes the paper from Arden "magic power 45 ,tri-elemental affinity fire water and earth all on equal level ,that being level 4 ,pretty damn good if I say so my self ,what do you think Arden ?"

For the following few minutes they chatted and Arden congratulated his daughter ,Damien was at the door about to leave again when Aria shouted at him to wait ,she ran as fast as she could up the stairs to her bedroom and grabbed a little box and gave it to her dad .Arden looked at it with intrigue and turned to Damien "kid,come back in an hour no more ,no less ,got it? "

"yeah I hear ya' ".Damien raised his hand behind him as if waving with the back of his hand as he went to explore the market ,many people didn't like him because he never knew his parents and the old lady that took care of him died when he was 12 ,most people see him as an outsider but Arden and aria weren't the only people nice to him but they were the ones he liked most ,he didn't like many people that was just his disposition after about an hour he made his way back to Arden's house and as he opened the door a blast of heat which also felt cold hit him head on and the discomforting feeling grew as he made his way to the back as he walked forward he noticed the sword and pouch that he left there by accident ,he grabbed them and carried on as he grew closer he could hear the clanging and beefing of Arden's hammer as he approached the forge and just as he opened the door the feeling disappeared Arden grabbed Damien by the hand and cut his finger at the tip and let out a few drops of blood onto a burning red piece of metal .The metal instantly turned blue and solidified ,Damien didn't make a sound instead he looked in amazement and awe ,Arden reached for the blade with his set of steel tongs but the tip of the tongs melted as it touched the iron ,Damien instinctively grabbed the blade and screamed in pain it burn his flesh but as it burnt his it started to disapate and before he knew it both the pain and the sword where gone.

Damien passed out from the pain and Arden woke him up a few hours later when he'd cleaned everything up .

Damien shot up as he saw Arden he looked down at his own hand which was completely fine "what happened?where's the sword ?"

"Stand up..." said Arden as he reached for his hammer

"stand up kid..." Damien rose to his feet and as he stood up Arden took a swing at him with the hammer only for him to flinch and hear a clang as if Arden had hit something metal.When he moved his arms he realised that he was holding a sword but it wasn't there before that as Arden put down his hammer the blade moved back into Damien's arm ,Damien looked down in complete and utter shock ,what the hell was happening to him and why ,he ripped of the sleeve of his shirt and pulled of the leather armour covering it and there was a small black swirl around his wrist he flexed his forearm and hand but nothing happen ,then he had remembered what Adren had done swinging his hammer at him it mad him almost angry ,Damien balled hist hand into a fist and without realising it was holding the sword once more .

"It's a rare stone called spirit stone only its owner can use it after it's been refined when you die so does it that's why I had to cut you finger ,the sword is a part of you now ,not too long ago it fell from the sky 1 of my delivery guys found it and gave it to me ,I gave it to aria and she said she wanted you to have it ,happy birthday kid you got something most people don't even believe exists that's all the explaining I can do for now but when you get home pack all the essentials only and you might wanna do some hunting ...oh and leave your chain here I have some work to do with it ...." before Damien could say anything he was pushed out the door and when he tried to go back in the door felt heavier that a boulder, so he decided to take Arden's advice he did some hunting went home smoked most of the meat had something to eat and learnt more from the system about his new swords finally he packed up some clothes and food put it in his backpack saddled up his horse ,put on his armour and went to bed with his armour on...