Volume 2: Chapter 13 Introduction
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"Good Afternoon everyone. Thanks to the principal, we will now skip lunch and proceed to the introducing you to the rules and how the school generally works. We had it planned that after the speech finishes, we would do introduction, lunch and then some simple demonstrations for you, well forget the lunch and the demonstration since I will finish everything with the introduction. After this go home and wait for the official start of the school tomorrow."

The school posted a name board on very floor of the stairs, you basically search for your name and you can find out the room you are assigned with. If you can't find your name on that floor then ascend until you find it. If you can't find it then you can ask the staff at the office on the fifth floor, they won't tell you which floor or which room you are assigned it but only mention if you are enrolled. It is mostly a small test on the student's attention to detail, a small prank and mostly the staff being lazy to look up the students record, since they have a list of all the student's name with some kind of hex code that leads to the student's files. A system implemented by the principal apparently, which would remove the clutter on the staffs desk.

I know about this since I didn't pay attention to the board names and went directly at the staff office to ask which room I was assigned with, thinking it would save me so much of the trouble. The staff were used to it since most new students do this, I'm glad I was the first one who went there since I heard some screaming when I was making my way down, along with some guy who was thrown down the stairs. Maybe he got angry at the staff and tried to force them to look up his records but the staff got annoyed and threw him away. I overheard from the students going down that the staff got so annoyed that they closed the staff room for the rest of the day. At the very least when I went there they are still entertaining guest, if I went there a couple of minutes later then the climb to the fifth floor would have been a huge waste.

After slowly making my way down, carefully checking board after board, I found out that my classroom is on the first floor. That climb up to the fifth floor really was a waste of time. If I just ignored that and checked the boards the first time then I would have been sitting in my classroom, relaxing until the teacher arrives. It's like having to figure out the number combination lock but you got smart and started the combination from the last 9999 one down to the first, only to get it unlocked on the 0001 combination.

The classroom is not that big but I have at least 20 classmates including me. It doesn't use an arm chair but rather the long tables with 2 students each sitting on what seems to be a swing chair connected to the bottom of the tables. All of us here are dudes except for the single lady dwarf next to me. I was here late so I am not sure why there isn't anyone sitting next to her. I am not really interested in a relationship so I won't talk to her unless she ask something, the only reason I sat next to her is because of the position of this table. I always sit near the middle of the room since its a goldilock choice. However, I only sit on the edge of the middle row not the exact center of the room. This way I won't have to worry about passing people every time I need to get out. It won't matter though since there are only two columns and 6 rows of tables in this room.

It seems like I am not assigned to the head blacksmith sophie's class. That is good, very good. She looks like the type to skip simple steps and teaches like 'do it like this, like this. Why can't you understand something so simple!?!'. That would be fatal for new students and especially for those who knows absolutely nothing about blacksmithing like me. The one who is in charge of the class I'm in is a dwarf middle-aged man, I say middle-aged but I don't have a reference and only judged it based on the number of wrinkles on his bald forehead. Even though he is bald, he still has a glorious braided beard with a few of big metal clips that has weird looking symbol designs. Those must be runes or the like, something like fire resistance? That would explain how they keep their beard unharmed while standing in front of a blazing forge all day.

However, as expected of a dwarf blacksmith. He has a good looking buff arm muscles, I can't see his hands since he has thick leather gloves but I assume it is rough from all the hammering he does. He has a large build with nice solid muscles, I wonder if I can build up something like that future but if he got that from just doing his work then it should be very unbalanced. I mean they are mostly standing while mostly using their arms. At best they would have monstrous upper body strength but the lower body should not be able to keep up. Now that I think about it, he never mentioned his name. Are we supposed to skip it and just refer to him as teacher? It doesn't really matter that much.

"The rules of this school is simple. Don't kill, Don't steal, Don't cheat. Other than that then go ahead and do what you want, within common sense. Fighting other are also not prohibited or rather they are encouraged. Go out there and fight until you are satisfied that way you can waste all that annoying energy out of class. Don't worry we have great healers to treat you, don't try to hold or make grudges though since that would lead to you all trying to kill each other. Ah, I forgot to mention this but you can also challenge teachers to fight. If you win then you get a small bonus point to your grades. Be prepared though since all teachers here can hold their own against a metal golem solo."

Is that part of the requirement for being a teacher? Being strong enough to fight against metal golems and fend off battle hungry students? I don't know how strong metal golems are but I still haven't gotten accustomed to my new body. I mean I can do some simple fights like the one with that annoying alchemist but against real close combat fighters, I don't know how I can hold up. As a defensive fighter when I was a human, judging the speed, angle and movement of myself and the enemy is critical, it could be the difference of a parry or a dodge. When protecting it is preferable to parry since dodging might make the attack hit the one you are protecting but I don't have to worry about that fighting alone. The only problem is, I don't have much means to attack. I keep up with my daily exercise so I think I got a bit more flexibility and power since I got this third life but I don't really have proper attacks I can use.

"Now, let us start on the introduction on the tools and equipment you need to know about blacksmithing. This is a hammer, you hit people or things with it. Depending on the material and enchantments of your hammer, you can do a lot of things with it. Some raw materials can only be processed if you have certain enchantments and a certain type of hammer because of this we have blacksmiths who only process certain types of metal that their hammer can handle."

Is there a use-all general hammer that can handle all types of material? If there aren't then I have to stick to one type of material too. It somehow feels wasteful to turn down customers because I can't process the material of their choice but if I buy different types of hammers to accommodate such occasions it would be expensive. Maybe I can find out the most used metal and buy a hammer that can handle that, this way I would still have a large customer base. When I reach my retirement age or have a big enough fame and money, I can switch to those specialized field and charge super mega expensive. This way I can work less in my later years and still gain huge money but the downside is that I have to do a lot of small jobs that pay less during my start. Everyone is like that so I can live with it.

"This is a tong, you use it to hold hot metal. The standard ones are enchanted with an [Anti-Slip] on both the end of the tongs and on the handle. The only enchantment that varies for the tongs are the the [Heat Resistance], buy one with a stronger [Heat Resistance] as you can afford and need it. I have been teaching for quite a long time so if someone wants to make a dirty joke about it, I will use that tong to tear off your nipple."

I wonder who the unlucky idiot will be the victim of a hardcore nipple pinch. Even if you warn someone about such a thing, or rather especially if you warn someone, there will be a lot of horny idiots that would joke about it. It's the work-all tool but I can see the teacher has a customized one, the handle has a fully closed knuckle shield and the part that squeezes the metal to a hold is changing shapes as he uses it on different things, it conforms to the shape of whatever it's supposed to hold.

"This is an chisel, there are different kinds. Like the hammer it can be made from different types of materials and enchanted with different kind of things but unlike the hammer it is much cheaper since it's much smaller and easier to make. It's also the things apprentice enchanters first make so 90% of the chisels you buy are probably made by them, be careful of their durability."

A hit and miss item, huh. Considering for what it's used for it really is a hit and miss item. There should be some kind of shop that guarantees the qualities for these kind of things right? I don't want something like this bursting apart as I hammer it down when I am working. hmm, I'll think of what to do when I see the prices. In these kind of situations is where I wish I got some kind of appraisal skill.

"This is a punch, a joke about it would also be granted with a punch. It's basically the same as the chisel. You don't need to know the difference, only know what kind of effects using a certain type would produce. Feel free to experiment on what to use, if it makes the shape you need then we won't bother you to use whichever."

I see an idiot doing a punching pose near the back, at least one idiot confirmed. I can't wait to see you flying through the sky for it. That is also one person I will try to avoid unless I can use him for something.

"That is about it for the tools. You can create most stuff with these things. I will show you the demonstration tomorrow at the shop. Now go home."
"Teacher you haven't introduced yourself yet!"
"Call me teacher, if you have to time worry about names every time you come in a shop then use it to refine your work more, DISMISSED!!!"

It's that same idiot who is making punching poses, he hasn't joked about the punches but already got sent flying by one on the first day. It looks like this will be a somewhat amusing class.

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