Grave Keeper of the Fallen Kingdom

After Scarlett Argen left, I lay on the deck and rolled on the floor, crumpling the paper she had left behind.

– Tsk. stop getting sick

My ancestor looked at me as if he was pathetic and said.

“Ah-oh! Why did you ask me to teach you that!”

Ren unfolded the paper, grabbed the top with both hands, paused, then crumpled it up again and put it back into his pocket.

The next place to meet and the time of the appointment were written on the paper.

– He had a long way to go before learning the moonshot anyway. Don’t worry.

“That’s not the problem. The problem is that I have to keep seeing her.”

It would have been better if it had been someone else from Argen.

Her characteristic madness.

It was because it was expected that if the object turned towards me, it would cause a lot of trouble.

[Crazy]

You are madly obsessed with something.

# The concentration on the obsession becomes very strong.

The fourth daughter of the direct line of the Argen family, Scarlett Argen.

Since childhood, she has been obsessed with swordsmanship, and at the same time felt a maniacal pleasure in beating, winning, and killing opponents.

As a result, he became stronger than others and has already acquired the skill of a high-ranking knight.

‘That must have been because of that characteristic.’

Even when she was in the family, she was the madman who tried not to get involved as much as possible.

But now I’ve fallen into a trap from which I can’t escape.

– Not bad for you.

“What do you mean by that?”

– Do you think training with senior knights is common? Even more so, Argen’s swordsman said everything. You guys aren’t even at the level of a knight right now.

“Is that training? Should I teach her?”

– Learning while teaching is a bigger law. Do not think that teaching is just service.

“As I teach… learn… … .”

I touched my chin as I pondered over my ancestor’s words.

“Then did your ancestors learn something by teaching me?”

– I? Do you learn to walk by teaching your baby to walk?

“I’m just-“

– No. You are not even at the baby level. At first, he was a very inhuman scum.

I just spoke out.

In the end, it would be a bruise against me.

“I am working hard.”

– With hard work… … .

I dragged my hard body and forcibly raised the sword.

– Why is the posture of holding the sword like this… … .

As I focus on the sword, the voices of my ancestors chattering from behind somehow sound like background music.

I’ve finally reached this point.

Leaving behind the pride I felt from within, I swung my sword until the night passed.

* * *

Cormir.

It is the city that supplies the most weapons among the brilliant kingdoms.

It is a territory managed by the Travis family, and iron supply and demand were very smooth as there was a deep iron mine in the area under their jurisdiction.

Because of this, the blacksmith’s development accelerated and eventually became the gathering place of the best blacksmiths in Brilliant.

“Is this it?”

Many people are walking downtown.

The stalls of the buildings lined up on both sides were stocked with fairly good quality weapons and equipment, and the further you went in, the hotter the street became.

The place I stopped at was a smithy called ‘Dragon’s Brazier’, which is said to be run by the most outstanding smith among many smithies.

It’s so huge and hot that it’s a pity to compare it to other smithies.

All kinds of braziers were roaring and blowing fire, and the repeated sound of hammering was heard more clearly than anything else.

Kang!

Upon entering, I was distracted by the sound of hammering, which was so cool that I could hear it clearly.

In a daze, I turned my gaze to the epicenter of the sound and walked along it.

Kang!

A muscular man wields a hammer in front of a roaring furnace.

Kang!

Like a machine, the muscles wriggle and the arms move in accordance with the constant movement.

Kang!

‘That person… … .’

It was definitely ‘Caleb’, the most outstanding blacksmith in Cormir.

The master who runs the dragon’s furnace, and a master with the best metallurgy.

Kang!

I watched his forge from a distance from Caleb so as not to interfere with his work.

‘He’s a great performer. Even to me, who knows nothing about this side of work, I feel different from other blacksmiths.’

pop. pop. pop.

Beads of sweat ran down the bridge of his nose and fell to the floor.

When I came to my senses, Caleb stopped hammering and was looking at me.

“Who are you?”

I bowed my head at his question and greeted him.

“My name is Len Argen.”

“Ah, that is the person the lord requested. It’s Caleb.”

He took his outstretched hand.

The power you feel in your hands is no joke. The hot, rough skin he felt was a testament to how long he had held the hammer.

“So you want a weapon? Have you thought about anything? Whatever shape you want, whatever characteristics you want.”

“I can’t come up with anything specific yet.”

“hmm… … , is it.”

Caleb wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned around to walk.

“Follow me.”

“What I was doing was… … .”

“It doesn’t matter.”

The faint emotion in his voice was clearly bittersweet.

‘what? Didn’t you like it?’

For that reason, the sound of the hammering I heard was so wonderful.

Well, I don’t know much about metallurgy, so maybe there’s something wrong.

“Now, these are the works I have been working on. If you see something you like, you can take it here.”

Swords, armor, and shields hung here and there… … .

Even at a cursory glance, the quality of the equipment was incomparable to anything else.

Of course, it might be that I don’t know because my eyesight isn’t that great, but by my standards, almost all of the weapons were good enough that I could just take them.

“Everything looks good. however… … .”

“what?”

“I don’t really feel anything. I wanted to find a sword that was like my life partner. ha ha ha. Did I sound too dreamy?”

It was a bit of a joke, half serious talk.

He wanted to stop using those cheap swords that would often fall out and crack.

Travis made the proposal quite confidently this time, so I had a little hope that I might be able to find my soul mate.

But could such a thing be possible?

All of the swords here are great, but my heart is blown! couldn’t pull

What would be different if I asked Caleb to make a new sword?

“You don’t have to worry too much. hmm… … , Let’s just pick one here.”

“Is that so?”

“yes.”

Do I really need to wait for Caleb to make me a weapon?

It’s probably not that different in quality from the swords here.

“Okay. Oh, and he told me to show you the graves of our masters. Can I see you now?”

“Is that okay?”

“Originally, I don’t bother showing it to outsiders, but I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re a gravekeeper.”

Heading to the cemetery, I was able to hear a lot about the cemetery from him.

Caleb’s mentor, Carter, is also said to be buried there.

Carter was the greatest master of all time, and his successor was Caleb.

‘It seems indifferent, but somehow strange.’

At first glance, it seems to miss you, and it also seems to be sad.

‘It looks unstable… … .’

It didn’t really suit the insecure look of that big body, but it felt that way.

“Here it is.”

Quite a few tombs have been built here and there.

Each tomb had one weapon in it, and some tombs had multiple weapons in it.

“Our smithy always makes a weapon to be placed as a tombstone when it dies.”

“okay.”

I looked around with a curious expression.

Swords, swords, axes, spears, halberds, and other weapons were lined up, and the names of the blacksmiths were written in small letters.

“and… … .”

Unknowingly, an exclamation flowed out of me.

It is said that the weapons here are not managed at all.

Some weapons were decades old, while others were new.

However, there were definitely weapons that were still alive with the sharpness that would cut you if you put your finger on them.

“If there are so many weapons, can’t there be people who are aiming for them?”

“hahahahaha, it can’t be. It’s better to rob the blacksmith’s warehouse upstairs than rob this place.”

I nodded meekly.

“That makes sense.”

The blacksmiths did not choose the weapons to be placed on their tombstones because of their masterwork.

When he first said that he chose a weapon instead of a tombstone, he thought it was natural, but he soon realized that it wasn’t because of Caleb’s answer.

“Wouldn’t it be much better to give the masterpieces they created to outstanding knights to make their names known?”

“Well, it’s just locked underground and rotting here.”

“yes.”

After inspecting the grave, I stood in front of the grave of Carter, who was said to have been Caleb’s teacher.

A pure white specter slowly emerged from the coffin.

This old man, who boasts as much muscle and body as Caleb, looked at Caleb with melancholy eyes.

– Disciple, you stupid disciple… … .

Hearing that voice filled with worry, I immediately looked at Caleb.

However, he was just looking at Carter’s grave with a nonchalant appearance.

– Why are you doing this because of this old master… … .

I wanted to ask him what he was talking about, but I hesitated because Caleb was by my side.

Can I reveal my abilities to him?

[Subquest – Carter’s sincerity]

[Caleb, who was promising, began to deteriorate rapidly after Carter’s death. But in the end, he seemed to get out of his wanderings and work fine, but Caleb’s inside doesn’t look fine. Carter wants to convey his sincerity to Caleb.]

[Reward – Eternals]

As soon as I saw him, I wondered if a quest would appear.

It’s about conveying Carter’s sincerity… … .

Should I just use the code right now and tell him Carter’s true feelings?

But my intuition was telling me not to.

‘I’ll have to approach it a bit slowly.’

Wouldn’t it be nice to get a little closer to Caleb and listen to their circumstances?

“Caleb.”

“Why is that?”

“I have a question. This is not as a guest at the dragon’s brazier, but as a gravekeeper.”

“… … ask me.”

“How was your relationship with Master?”

“Why are you asking that?”

“that… … .”

At that time, Carter continued talking as if he had heard our conversation.

– It was like family. Whoops, yes. It shouldn’t have been. So that guy… … .

We had a problem because we were like family.

I needed to find out a bit more.

“… It was because I felt the longing in Caleb’s eyes. There was so much emotion in the eyes looking at Mr. Carter’s grave.”

“… … Master and I were like family. So I relied on it a lot and followed it. Master was always by my side.”

That was something I already knew.

What the hell is wrong with Carter reacting like that?

“After Master passed away, what change occurred in Caleb-nim’s heart?”

“There is nothing like that. It was just hard for a while. Did you see it all? stop going back now The hearth has been left empty for too long.”

“All right.”

Is it because you brought up a story about your teacher?

There was something disturbing about his back.

‘I can’t just go on like this.’

Maybe they’ll let me in here again.

[Code – Carter]

– Uhm… … ?

Carter let out a groan as if he was taken aback by the sudden psychic pull, and then entered my body.

“this… what… … ?”

– This is my ability. Don’t you want to see how your disciple lives?

He flinched at the word disciple.

“report… I want… … .”

– Then don’t say anything and follow me. I will move my body

Still, as if he had grasped the situation quickly, he felt no resistance from Carter in controlling his body.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah yes! going.”

Caleb sat down in front of the brazier that the apprentices had been working hard to heat, and started playing the bellows again.

I begged Caleb’s pardon and agreed to stay here for a while, then stood back and watched his bellows.

As soon as Caleb went to work, he began to concentrate as if he had forgotten the existence of me.

‘The concentration in that short moment is amazing.’

– Does that look great?

‘Isn’t that great?’

-Your eyes are troll eyes. Take a good look. How full of nonsense that pathetic fellow is.

In a scene that seemed to have been seen somewhere, I turned around and saw Carter floating behind me.

Is it an illusion to see someone else’s image overlapping his image?

‘No matter how you look at it, he’s good at it.’

– Hey! over there like that! oh my! Eh! Tsk tsk!

I had to listen to that nagging alone until Caleb’s bellows and forging were finished.