Black Smith

"Thank you for leading our people, hastily solved our problems and defending this once beautiful military city before." They bow in unison and grateful to Xiang Monji"

A few moments later, they went back to their work after being grateful to their newly appointed lord.

Xiang Monji obeserve for a while and try to deliberately come up a way to make things easy aside from replacing the defective tools.

To his amusement, he find it pitiful that the farmers were using a crooked rake, a broken hoe, a dull sickle and a wooden bucket that has a leak at the buttom.

"Interesting"

["Pfffft, I would say that it is intriguing that these people would continue to work with a defective gardening tools."]

(talking to himself)

After his prudent observation, Xiang Monji Fly in the air heading towards the blacksmith shop. He didn't use space magic called teleportation, it might arouse suspenscion and also he doesn't want his people knew that he can use magic.

Magic like sorccery, witchcraft, magic incantations and magic spells are foreign or doesn't exist in the first place in this world, yet spells and curses are commonly known in this Murim world.

Touch on the ground, in front of him is the *crooked blacksmith shop that he describe in his song on his very first arrival in this city.

(*see chapter 25)

In his song he describe it not only as crooked, but also a house/shop that stores a debris metal. The debris he refers were scrap metals, which are his weapons and armors that are end up being a junk in his store.

"Ayo! Ayooo! Naa tawo?" Speaking vernacular in his previous world indifferently.

The door is slightly open, he went inside to check if there was someone around. The inside is cleaned and furnished, the weapons and armors that are arranged on the right side of the wall well organize and neat. It's quite opposite on the outside appearance of the store.

He take back his words,

["You can't judge a book by it's cover, and it's proven true wherever the world you stand"]

He look and touch these ordinary weapons and armors. He made a remark,

"But still, there's no way this junk can be sold"

Suddenly a kid which is around ten years old appear, he step in and refute what Xiang Monji has said. With his uptight and boisterous personality. He charge towards him with a mean look and confront him for the insulting remark.

By then he pointed his middle finger towards his face.

"You..., you... take back your words kid, my father craft these swords and armors with his blood and sweat"

In truth, the weapons and armors were pick from the battle field. There are always swarm of beast attacking the city from time to time. And those spoils were taken from the dead soldiers defending the city from the wave of beast.

Mostly these weapons and armors are broken from the bloody battle, after the battle of invasion end. Someone would pick it up at night and fix it in their workshop, and if it is beyond repair, these metals are melted and make something new out of it to be sold in their store.

He knew that the items displayed were junked, no matter how polish and luster the weapons and armors are.The stench of the items displayed seems to abide the reeks of blood from the beast, no matters how many hours were poured tinkering and cleaning the items displayed, the rusty smell can still be felt.

Xiang Monji look at his middle finger, touch it and then he pinch it. The kid retract his middle finger, when he felt a slight pain.

Again he was going to say something on his face, but before he was able to speak, his mouth was sealed by magic cast by Xiang Monji.

The Magic doesn't require incantations. He just have to think about it in his mind, say the word, and the magic will be cast.

(mouth sealed) "Mmm....mmm..uhmm" His veins were showing in his forehead while fuming from anger.

flick his forehead softly,

"Silencio kiddo, I don't want to hear a single rant of yours"

He took a candy from his space inventory,

"Kiddo you see this candy, go look for the owner and I'll give you this sweet looking candy"

He slap the right hand of Xiang Monji where the candy is held in front of him, and the candy plainly inclined to fall sharply on the ground.

glare at Xiang Monji,

"mhmm, mhmmmm....., mmmm" "mhm, mahm, mhm" "mmhmm, mhmmm"

("You're dead meat to me, I'm going to call my dad" "dad, dad" "dad" "there's a kid bullying me"

He ran away further inside to drag his father, from his workshop.

He grin, "Noice!"

A few seconds later,

The owner of the smithy came out enrage,

"WHO DID THIS TO MY SON?"

"I did, what can you do about it?"

"PREPOSTEROUS!"

"Don't be edgy old man, you might die early"

"My son would never pick a fight in the first place"

"Kid, you better get out of my place right now if you don't have any business with me."

"Actually I have business with you"

"Kid, I have no time for child's play I'm busy right now"

"I'm afraid that you can't refuse my offer old man, your son's mouth is sealed by me"

"Tsk"

"What do you want from me?"

"Your quick to *read the air old man"

(*understand the situation his in)

The old man shouted at Xiang Monji out of anger and thinking it's just an ordinary person.Due to his verhement anger he wasn't able to asses the person and shout at him twice.

When he saw his extravagant cloth, arrogant tone and domineering presence. He lower his tone and try to be courteous while, chasing him out and rejecting his unreasonable demand.

He just doesn't want to deal with the noble's and those rich man. In the past, he used to be a blacksmith before in the Capital, and then conscripted to be a foot soldier in the white dragon clan as a repairman. And back to the present, he knows the personality of those guys well and doesn't want to deal with them.