Chapter 240: The competition is fierce Part2

The bright and warm rays of the morning sunlight flickered through the window and Tang Yue was still persistently hammering at the sword.

Kosa looked at his daughter with worry written on his face. He felt as if he had acted very foolishly and rashly.

"I shouldn't have put so much pressure on her." He worriedly shook his head.

"I should have at least let her have a good night's rest before bringing her to the workshop."

While a normal sword took only a few minutes to perfect, a common-grade sword took at least a few hours to perfect.

Not to mention a low-grade or mid-grade or high-grade sword. Each of those required not just time but also valuable resources and sky-high talents to forge.

Since Tang Yue had already exceeded the 6-hour mark which was considered average for forging a common-grade iron sword, her talent was clearly very low.

Kosa was happy that she was finally able to smith something and improve her mana control and earthen essence control, but unfortunately, it was nowhere close to what was needed to be a superior blacksmith.

Kosa sighed and patiently waited for his daughter to finish. For him, it didn't matter if she was fast or slow or if she was talented or not.

He was only worried that she would work herself to the bones.

Talent and skill were often things that people were born with. 

Only he knew just how much his daughter had worked hard even to improve this much, overcoming that hurdle she was born with.

Unfortunately, it was still not enough. Only endless hard work and failure awaited her in her future. 

While others could cruise through these basics, his daughter had to suffer even with the bare minimum.

Kosa shook his head. "This child is always doing things just to make me happy." 

"I need to discourage her." He thought.

He stood up tiredly and was just about to say something cruel and mean when Tang Yue finally put the hammer down.

She let out a loud exhilarated breath and turned towards the old dwarf, with a big old smile on her face.

"I am done, father." She smiled like a small child.

Kosa blinked awkwardly. 

One look at her beaming and proud face and the old dwarf didn't have the heart to discourage her as he planned.

He could only helplessly walk forward and take the sword from the anvil, before giving her an encouraging nod and a few sweetened words.

"This is amazing, child. I am so proud of you. This is the first sword you have personally made."

"Shall we try selling it in the market or do you want to keep this for yourself?" He smiled lovingly and patted her head.

But the old man suddenly stopped in his tracks. 

Tang Yue was saying something in response to his question, but he was clearly not listening.

"This… This…" He stammered and carefully observed the sword in his hands.

Earlier, he had only taken a superficial glance at the sword so he hadn't noticed anything different.

But now that he had held it in his hands for more than a minute, he could naturally tell the difference.

The sword that he was holding in his hand was not an ordinary common-grade sword!

It was in fact a low-grade sword with an additional agility boost!!!

Just how the hell did she manage to forge a low-grade sword with just iron ore as the raw material???

Kosa looked at the sword and then at his daughter.

Am I really holding a weapon with a special trait in my hand? 

And that too one which was personally forged by my daughter? He shuddered.

"Oh, my dear." He put the sword on the anvil and pulled his daughter closer, hugging her tightly.

Tears streamed out of the old man's eyes. "Just how hard did you work child, when this old man was not looking." He trembled.

Tang Yue smiled and enjoyed the warm affection. 

"No father. Don't worry. I think I had a weird inspiration in the labyrinth." 

"I suddenly had a feeling that I could do all these." She explained.

"Ah…" The old dwarf speechlessly looked at her. He thought about something for a minute and then spoke again.

"Ok. But if anyone asks, don't give them this answer. Just tell them that you practiced a lot and finally succeeded."

"Ok, father." Tang Yue obediently nodded.

Even without him telling her, she was anyways planning to give that answer to others. 

Unfortunately, since he was her father, she obviously couldn't tell him the same lie.

"Ok. Ok. You have already strained yourself too much for one day."

"Sorry I dragged you here in the middle of the night."

"Why don't you go and rest today?" 

"I will first clear the ores in the mine and then hunt some beasts for dinner." The old man shoved Tang Yue out of the workshop and started cleaning up on his own.

Tang Yue looked at him with a gentle smile. The old man had clearly forgotten that he too hadn't slept for the entire night! She sighed and shook her head.

Xander chuckled at her silly reactions. He wanted to rush forward and pinch the lovable idiot's cheeks.

He didn't mean for her to work so hard and actually learn blacksmithing, but somehow things had turned out like this.

What a strong innate talent!

Not only was she able to grasp the basics of alchemy but she was also able to smith a graded weapon.

Only someone with a high affinity to the fire elemental and the earth elemental could achieve such a feat.

Why are you working so hard? Do you want to be my queen that badly? He looked at the woman lovingly and chuckled.

He had conveniently forgotten that specific 'incident' that implied otherwise.

Just because he had forgotten, it didn't mean that his love rival had magically disappeared.

Standing next to Xander and looking at Tang Yue with a warm and doting gaze was a certain elf vixen hybrid.