Blacksmith

After waiting for a few more minutes, two figure materialised in front of me. The figures were none other than Luna and Mia of course.

As expected, a word Otherworlders in green color was above their head.

Both of them were also surprised at the sudden update as well as my new eyes.

After talking to them about our future plans,both of them suddenly took out their guild card, after looking at the notification they got, both had a frowning faces.

"What's wrong? Did something happened in your guild?"

I ask, wanting to know the reason for their troubles.

"Our guild, Crystal Guild found a labyrinth. So they are summoning all members to explore it."

Luna said while frowing as the timing couldn't be worse.

"Labyrinth? What's that?"

I asked, after all this is the first time I am hearing that term.

Luna, after hearing my question, type something in her guild card. I'm guessing she was asking her Guild Leader about it.

"According to our Guild Leader, a labyrinth is just like a dungeon. But it has more floors and higher difficulty. A low level labyrinth can have 100 floors. Unlike dungeon that can be conquered, labyrinths will disappear after a period of time if no one enters or discovered it. It will also dissappear once all the floors has been explored. And the difficulty can be determined by ranks. If one people enters it, the ranks of the monsters and beast will be the same as that person who enters it. If it is two or more, the ranks of the enemies the same as number of people on the same rank. For example is if 50 people enters it, and the majority of their ranks is 100, with the other members lower or higher ranks, the labyrinth will pick the 100 rank as the rank of the monster or beast."

"I see..."

'This is problematic, most npc and players right now will at most rank 90 or higher. Adding the fact that the labyrinth has a 100 floors or even more, the estimated time of exploring all floor is 1 month as the minimum. Adding the exploration speed, the speed of killing enemies and conflicts in a team if it arise, the time needed to finish it might be even more.'

"Kreo let's go back now. Our guild is hurrying us to come over."

Mia said to me in a hurried manner.Nodding at them, we started running back to Ironwood Town.

Since our speed had greatly increased, reaching our destination only requires less than an half an hour.

Upon reaching the gate, we saw many carriage line up filled with women. Most of them has the word Native while few had Otherworlders on top of their heads. Apparently only players can see those words and cannot be seen by npc's.

Luna and Mia said their goodbyes to me before joining them.

I stayed at the gate for a few more minutes watching the carriage that they rode dissappear on the horizon.

I walked towards the most famous blacksmith on the town, for one reason. To acquire the sub-class, Blacksmith.

Upon entering the workshop, I saw many weapons with different uses, forms, and colors. I can also see many armor on armor stands.

Clank! Clank!

I heared the sound of metal hitting at the backside of the workshop hidden in a metal door.

Knock! Knock!

The sounds of metal hitting stops after a few minutes.

Creak~Clink!

When the mettalic door opened, I saw a middle aged man holding an iron hammer in his right hand. If I look closer, I can see small rune at the edge of the hammer.

"What do you want boy? A new weapon? a new armor or a custom made one?"

He asked in a deep voice.

"I'm here to learn about blacksmithing sir."

I said in a respectful tone.

He looked at from feet to head before laughing loudly .

"Ahahaha!! An elf huh? Now that I look closely, your ear is much shorter, so you're a half elf, quite rare. What is even rarer is your masculine yet lean body.This is amusing indeed, okay I will teach you on how to become a basic blacksmith, but everything will depend on you got it, Half-Elf?"

He told while patting my shoulders.

"I will do my best."

I said in high spirit.

"Good, now that's the spirit. Come boy, my workplace is back here."

He said while entering the room behind the metal door.

Not feeling any malicious intent from him, I also followed behind him.