Chapter 51: Welcome To The Fold, Krad.
Sen told Clinton that it would infuse it's dragon Qi into it. And it's going to help forge it easily. Since anything forge in trial here belongs to the forger, Clinton decided to put his all.
Clinton as usual after bringing out his hammers, suspended the metal in air and bathed it with the whispering flame.
"What! What technique is that, he is using is innate flame with heating it to molten state. Does he want to destroy the metal?"
"I don't know, let's continue watching."
"Narvek let's do this shall we?" Clinton smirked.
["Sure"]
Actually Clinton can now element forge without Narvek but this metal is different. He needs Narvek's guidance. After checking the veins of the metal which was as usual red and green, something was different. The veins were coated in ember colour, the red lines were pulsing like as if it was overloaded.
["Hammer it but don't let it be hard nor soft."]
The hammer hit the metal and it buzzed, then another hit, and another hit, and another hit. The metal kept buzzing hit by hit, as Clinton was infusing yang Qi to wash off the impurities. Clinton for the first time spent 10 minutes on purifying a metal. Then after it was 100% purified, the metal glowed red.
"Sen pass your Qi."
Sen had been absorbing Clinton's Qi and modifying it to dragon Qi with the use of its ember vein. Now with abundant Qi, it was now passing it to Clinton while Clinton was infusing it with the other essences he had in him. With the large hammer hits Clinton was now giving the metal, it buzzed more loudly but the sound could not pass the barrier. Clinton hammered down heavily while infusing numerously Qi into it, and also modifying the veins of the metal. The metal was glowing brighter in red.
["Clinton I have another suggestion. Remove the whispering flame and coat it with Sen's Qi and infuse every essence in your bloodline into it."]
"How is he doing this? I have never seen a technique like this before. The metal has gained life I can feel it. His forge-success will be over 70%" Di Yizu couldn't help but be amazed.
Little did they know that Clinton has not infused life force to the metal, but he kept overloading it with essences. After the metals was filled, Clinton suddenly infused a little amount of life force as Sen told him to do so. As the little life force entered the metal, the green vein absorbed it and little by little, the over-abundant essences in the metal was rapidly absorbed by the life force as it was forming a soul, while the lighting died down.
"Did he fail?"
"Who knows?"
The metal formed a soul it self but was weak, so it kept absorbing the essences to nourish it self. This continued for up to 30 minutes.
{"I can feel it it's coming alive and strong. Since hammering can make it stronger, hammer it!"}
"Narvek should I?"
["Yes"]
Clinton raised his hammer in his right hand and infused it with a large amount of life force, and essences,then he hammered down. A loud bang resounded, even though those outside the barrier couldn't heat it, the barrier vibrated violently as well as the floor of the room. This drew the others attention. The metal responded with a proud dragon roar as a very red light shone. Clinton immediately cut himself on the palm and dropped his blood on the metal, and a connection was formed.
"Soul-forging?" The two elders eyes shown with shock. "This does not make sense."
{"Hey you, who are you?"} The metal asked through telepathy.
{"Wow! Since you understand human language, I forged you. I have dragon bloodline, my friend here is also a dragon. Why don't you join us?"} Clinton proposed.
{"Hello my name is Sen, I will name you Krad"} Sen joyfully introduced himself.
{"Hmm, I will decide what I will turn to myself, with your rich bloodline, I will surely evolve in the future but since you have me now, get rid of all the weak Weapons you have. I can't be with weak tools."} The metal said with pride.
Smiling, Clinton replied. {"You are my first weapon."}
{"Good, let me transform."} After saying this, the metal started morphing and transforming. After a minute of transformation, the metal turned to a dagger of about 35 metres, with a little dragon head as the handle, and the body of the dragon including the arms formed the body of the dagger while the tail was the pointed tip at the end of the dagger. The dagger had a red head and a shining black curved body. On the black body, red glowing lines originating from the handle to the little sharp arms of the dagger, and to the tail. Clinton grabbed the dagger. "
Welcome to the fold, Krad." Clinton said aloud, smiling.
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