Auden’s Blessing
Taking out a thick metal plate, she quickly prepared a new solution and poured it over the surface.
I grabbed a hammer, several powders, gemstones, and carving tools, working at top speed—setting gems, carving, casting, polishing, sprinkling powders, machining, assembling components…
Finally, Yanshasa raised the vial of solution and the knight’s longsword, while I lifted a metal shield engraved with the emblem of the Aesir tribe. At the same moment, cheers and applause erupted from the crowd.
“I never thought crafting physical objects could look like magic,” one of the judges said after things quieted slightly, rising to his feet. “It’s unbelievable… the entire process took forty-nine second