A choice

Lucifer woke up and groaned as his body was still sore, he looked around the room and saw that he was in a black room with only a bed and a small nightstand. He sat up and the door instantly opened and Scarlet walked in.

"Congrats on winning you were excellent out there and even though there were no rewards for winning the tournament I will still give you some good things, " Scarlet said.

"First things first here" Scarlet threw a notebook at Lucifer and then continued " that is a notebook filled with information on another one of my passive abilities and even though its good I'm giving it to you because your mind should be strong enough to handle it now that you broke through to the martial core realm your actual reward is much better depending on what you choose" Scarlet paused and looked at lucifer before she continued.

"You can pick the first option and receive a weapon from the hero's grave in my realm, or you pick the second option, and before I say what it is you need to understand that while this is technically the better option by a lot you will have to go through hell and even though I can guarantee you won't die besides that I have no control over what happens to you.

*sigh* The second option is I cash in a favor from an old man who despite having less than a hundredth of my power is arguably much scarier than me. A lot of people including all of my friends would rather fight me in my own realm than even offend this man. His name has long been forgotten but people call him the Undying Skill Master, people call him this because he has mastered some of the most important skills besides fighting. He still owes me a favor from a couple of centuries ago and if you choose the second option I will cash it in and get him to teach you whatever he can using whatever method he thinks will work the best but he is undoubtedly the most serious man I have ever met when it comes to his skills so I suggest if you take this that you absolutely do not make any dumb jokes or even laugh in his presence. Now decide which you want" scarlet said after explaining the second option.

Lucifer didn't even have to think despite his teacher's warning even though she knew he would never choose the first option and if he had any doubt then it left as soon as he saw a notification appear in front of him.

[ Emergency Quest issued ]

[ Quest requirements: accept the second option ]

[ Reward: nothing ]

[ Penalty for failure: system shut down, all stats -19 including hp, loss of bloodline, -99% rationality, -99% intelligence, and when at 1hp unable to move, see, hear, taste, and feel ]

Lucifer ignored the outrageous penalty since he was always going to pick the second option and the quest just made him feel even better about his choice since the system put so much importance on it.

" Of course, I'm picking the second one there's no way id give up such an opportunity even if it was just meeting someone that special it would be better than some weapon I will eventually outgrow," Lucifer said.

" thought you would say that. alright, good luck" Scarlet said as she stomped on the ground two times and a small but beautifully crafted small stone hammer that had a wood handle. Scarlet looked at the hammer and then finally after a while grew enough confidence to put her qi in it from the small hammer, the voice of an old man angrily responded "what".

"heeey um I'm sorry if you are busy but I wanted to use that favor you owe me to get you to teach my student whatever you can with the skills you think he can learn," Scarlet said like she was trying to sound normal but she was very nervous.

After a long silence before a sigh could be heard from the hammer "fine whatever if that's really what you want then have them touch the hammer and hurry up, I'm busy".

Scarlet quickly grabbed Lucifer's hand and hurriedly said "good luck" before putting his hand on the hammer. Lucifer was immediately sucked into the hammer and found himself in a dark room where the only light was coming from a forge. The light only let him clearly see a blacksmithing table and anvil with various wood and stone tools on them he could feel that the room was incredibly small and the only other thing in the room was a painting of a man that looked horrible he looked like he had not slept a day in his life, underneath that painting was another painting that depicted a week and feeble looking man with a phantom behind him that had a golden suit of armor and was giant but both men had the same face but lucifer found it hard to believe they could be the same person.

Lucifer suddenly heard an old man say "listen up brat your only test to prove you are worthy of learning this skill is to make a usable weapon until you complete this test you will be stuck here with no food or water but with those paintings, you will be unable to get tired and are unable to die from starvation or thirst id say good luck but I don't want to lie to you".

The voice then disappeared and lucifer was left alone in this room but he was determined to pass and it shouldn't be too hard even an idiot could eventually make a functioning weapon but first lets see what I'm working with. Lucifer touched the blacksmithing table and saw this.

[ Perfect blacksmithing tools ]

[ set effect: the perfect blacksmithing tools have looked through your brain and surroundings to find the perfect weapon that you can craft with materials around. The tools will display an image of your current weapon, and if anything else is made or the weapon is not perfectly made then anything made will disintegrate upon completion so that nothing lower than your standards is achieved ]

Lucifer was about to throw up he didn't even know what some of these fucking tools were called let alone what they did how the hell was he supposed to make a perfect weapon, and what materials Is this damn table talking about there was absolutely nothing he could use lucifer tried to dig the black rock that made the room but even when using his full strength he had only managed to hurt himself and the same was true for everything else in this room. Lucifer spent hours trying to get anything but there was nothing Lucifer still didn't give up though and after a while, he thought about a genius idea and tried to open his inventory but his hope was crushed.

[ Access to inventory is currently blocked ]

[ No cheating allowed ]

Lucifer almost broke down after that but he was incredibly stubborn and tried absolutely everything, eventually, he touched the table one more time, and a hologram of a gorgeous katana that was a similar size to ifrits sword and appeared to be completely made of a dark material that looked like some type of bone.

After Lucifer knew the outrageous weapon he had to make he just sat down and kept thinking of anything and trying it after days he had tried looking and trying anything he was out of ideas so he just sat on the ground with his back resting on the table he just stared at the katana thinking of even the most ridiculous thing it could be made of and after a couple of hopeless days he finally thought of something that could work and he immediately felt like an idiot for not thinking of it sooner.