Even though these quasi-king grade weaponsmiths still have a long way to go to become king grade weaponsmiths, it was not very hard for them.
As long as they work hard, they would become King grade weaponsmiths within a decade or so.
"From now on, these 101 quasi-king grade weaponsmiths will be refining only low-level legend grade weapons. Tunmil, give them the high-level materials for that."
Ajax glanced at the 101 grey-dwarves, who were all old and among them, Tunmil, the dwarf advisor, was also one.
After thinking for a moment, Ajax felt that other than 300 young grey dwarves, he had to nurture these 101 old grey dwarves, whose chances of becoming the King grade weaponsmiths were high.
So, he ordered the old advisor Tunmil to share the high-level materials for weapon refining with others.
"Yes, protector."
"Thank you, protector."
All the old dwarves who became quasi-king grade weaponsmiths thanked Ajax with faces full of respectful looks.
"As for others, you don't have to worry about your weaponsmith grade and just continue to work hard. You will be given enough resources to practice your weaponsmithy."
Giving all the good things to only a few grey dwarves would make others disappoint, jealous and envy.
So, Ajax didn't want that to happen as he tried to be fair and square.
"Protector, you don't have to worry about the other grey dwarves that might get jealous and envy those who are getting all the good things. Because they knew that it was for the welfare of the world."
One of the middle-aged grey dwarves shouted in reply to Ajax's words because it could sense what's bothering Ajax.
"Yes, protector."
"You just have to do what you want to do to upgrade the grey dwarf world and they will support you."
"Yes, protector."
Soon, all the grey dwarves started shouting in support of the middle-aged grey dwarf's words.
'Huh?'
Ajax was surprised to see such good support from the grey dwarves but he still felt that sooner or later, someone would show dissatisfaction over his partiality to those who have good weaponsmith rank and talent.
"It doesn't matter. Every dwarf's weaponsmith rank and potential will be evaluated soon and depending on that, you will get the set of weapon refining resources."
Nevertheless, Ajax didn't want to give that chance to any of the grey dwarves. So, he wanted to follow certain rules.
"Lurmer, you will be doing that. You can pick whoever you want and finish it within a week. Do you understand?"
Ajax didn't want any grey dwarf to speak as he directly gave the order to his second dwarf followers because he was neither in the 300 young dwarves nor 101 old dwarves.
"Yes, master."
Lurmer nodded his head in response.
"Okay, everyone. You can leave now."
Even though Ajax wanted to know the increment in the potential of the young dwarves, he thought about the evaluation report that would be prepared by Lurmer in a week and rejected the thought of asking the young dwarves about it and asked everyone to go back.
"Yes, protector."
Soon, all the grey dwarves left the protector castle and went back to their houses.
"Come."
After they left, Ajax called his contracted spirit beasts that were waiting for him in the distance.
"You are all looking powerful."
Looking at his contracted spirit beasts in front of him, Ajax was proud and satisfied to be able to have such spirit beasts.
All the spirit beasts in front of him had a minimum strength of rank 6 and were just waiting to awaken their own bestial laws and cultivate them before entering into the King realm.
"We want to enter the next invasion, master."
"When is the next invasion, master?"
"The only way I can awaken a bestial law is through fighting."
All the contracted spirit beasts were waiting for their next invasion and asked Ajax about it because a spirit beast can quickly increase its strength through fighting.
So, everyone was asking about it.
"Everyone, calm down."
Ajax shook his head as he calmly said, "For the next one month, there will be no invasion for the spirit beasts as you are losing control of yourself and letting your bestial nature take over you."
His initial proud and satisfied looks on his face disappeared when he saw how bloodthirsty his contracted spirit beasts had become. So, with a face full of seriousness, Ajax berated all the spirit beasts.
He wanted his contracted spirit beasts to fight but he didn't want that mindless killing to control them and he noticed they were becoming bloodthirsty which was obviously not a good sign.
"..."
All his contracted spirit beasts became silent with Ajax's words.
"You are becoming more and more bloodthirsty with all these invasions and killing. So, those who can control this bestial nature of yours can continue following me into these invasions."
Ajax calmly replied to the contracted spirit beasts.
It was not a bad thing for a spirit beast to become bloodthirsty as it would only increase its strength; however, for Ajax, it might not be a good thing because if these spirit beasts lose control over their senses amidst the fight, they would not differentiate between the friend or foe.
Nevertheless, Ajax didn't want his contracted spirit beasts to suppress this bestial nature; instead, he wanted them to take full control over this bloodthirsty nature of theirs.
"So, what do you say?"
After explaining all his thoughts about the bloodthirsty nature, Ajax asked his contracted spirit beasts about it.
"We will master it, master."
After understanding Ajax's concerns, all the spirit beasts nodded their heads and agreed to control their bloodthirsty nature before going on any invasion.
"Good."
Ajax knew it was an easy thing for his contracted spirit beasts because they were still in the starting stage of this bloodthirsty nature.
Nodding his head at them, Ajax continued, "While you are at it, I have some gifts for you that will help you increase your battle prowess."
While saying these words, Ajax took out the items he bought in the trading realm.
'Roar'
Hearing that their master had brought them some gifts, all the contracted beasts became excited and roared at the sky.
"First, everyone will be receiving a re-culitvation technique and it is up to you whether you want to re-cultivate or not because once you successfully re-cultivate, you need to start your cultivation from the start."
"However, it will be much faster and you can catch up to your original cultivation within no time."
"As for the benefits of the re-cultivation, your battle prowess will increase drastically in the same realm and you will be awakening a special re-cultivated artifact or weapon."
"So, decide for yourself. Also, re-cultivation might help you with your bloodthirsty nature because, after re-cultivation, you will become into humanoid beings."
"Zan and Dan are examples of the re-cultivated spirit beasts. So, you can see how powerful they became after their re-cultivation for yourself"
In a short time, Ajax said all the benefits of the re-cultivation technique and the only disadvantage of it was to start over their cultivation once again from the beginning.
In the end, he even pointed at the golden bear kings as an example.
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