Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

The city of Okta was famous as a tourist destination, so this place had a lot of inns. But among them, Sakura knew that the Spring Dragon’s Rest was the best as they were the only ones who had access to a natural hot spring.

Other than this inn, only the house of the city lord was connected to this hot spring. So obviously the cost of using it would reach sky high.

But money was obviously the last thing that Weiss cared about. And as Sakura was praising the natural hot spring non stop without any break, Weiss felt that she should definitely check it out at least once.

So before going anywhere else, they first went to the Spring Dragon’s Rest inn and got a room there. The cheapest rooms of this inn were always completely filled without any vacancy. But at the same time, the most luxurious and super expensive rooms had very few guests, so they were almost always available.

That was why Weiss had no trouble finding a room. She had obviously booked the best one and this ultra expensive room had its last guests almost a year ago.

But after booking this room, none of the people immediately started to enjoy what this massive room had to offer. And the reason for that was very simple.

Even though they were definitely excited about this ultra luxurious room, they were even more excited about the weapons and katana that they were going to get soon.

And as they would be visiting a forge next, after returning from there, all the people would definitely be a bit sweaty. So bathing before going to the blacksmith was not a good idea.

So with that in mind, all the ladies were planning to enjoy the natural hot spring of this inn after returning from the weapon shops.

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The city of Okta had hundreds of Blacksmith shops and thousands of experienced blacksmiths. But among them, three shops stood out.

All three of these shops were supposed to be the best of this city. They had a large number of standard blacksmiths and all of them had crafted high grade items to be sold in the shop.

So these three shops were reliable and were visited by many people. But there was something that rivaled and even surpassed the fame of these three massive weapon shops.

And that was the Seven masters. All seven of these masters were experts of blacksmithing. They were not any regular master blacksmith and instead, they were standing at the peak already.

Any weapons that they casually created was better in quality than the ones created by the master blacksmiths with all their might. And each and every one of these weapons were sold for an astronomical sum of money.

And Weiss, Sakura and everyone else were planning to visit one of the seven masters. And this master in question had the ominous title of Master of the Ghost Hand.

Sakura had read about this title but she had no idea how this master had managed to get this title. So she was actually looking forward to meeting with him.

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The workshop of the master Ghost Hand was supposed to be in a remote corner of this city. He did not have a shop of his own and he mostly worked on making weapons after getting commissioned by someone. His fees was extra high but still, he always had a decent number of customers.

But as the men and the ladies came near the house of master blacksmith, they found that his house was completely silent.

Even if no one had came to book a weapon from him, there should at least be the sound of him using his hammer to forge a weapon. But even that sound was absence.

So Weiss immediately guessed that the situation was not right. Now Weiss felt that before coming here, they should have gathered some recent information and news from the inhabitants of this city.

But everyone including herself were just way too excited about the weapons. So in their excitement, they had forgotten to do this very basic thing.

But now that they were already so close, Weiss felt that returning now would be a great waste. So she had ended up going toward the house anyways.

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As Elise went forward and knocked on the door, no answers came from inside. Elise called out to the people inside this time and knocked again. And finally, someone realised that their door was being knocked and came to open it.

The person in question was a young man with a sickly look. He was quite handsome but with how sick he looked, any sex appeal was useless.

Seeing the group of handsome men and gorgeous ladies, this young man was startled for a moment. Then he managed to forcefully calmed down and asked why they were here.

Elise was told to handle the conversation here so she did exactly that. She talked with the young man and told him that they were here to ask the master Blacksmith to make all of them a custom weapon.

This should be a request that Master Ghost Hand got quite often. But the reaction that this young man showed was extremely bizzare. He looked both sad and happy at the same time.

Noticing the bewildered looks that he was getting, the young man opened the door wide and welcomed everyone in. Then after all of them had settled down on the couch, this young man started to speak and explained the current situation without any lies.

It turned out that Master Ghost Hand had lost his hand muscles due to some kind of problem and now, he was unable to even lift this hammer and swang it. And without doing that, there was no way he could make any weapons.

After learning that, everyone present here felt extremely bad for the master. And then Weiss told the young man that she had some knowledge about medicine from the faraway land. And hearing this, the young man’s eyes lit up. He had also already introduced himself as the grandson of the Master Ghost Hand.

So he was able to take Weiss and everyone else to here his grandfather was. Now it was time so see if Weiss was capable enough to cure this legendary blacksmith or not.