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Chapter 833: The Heretic among the Dwarves, His Childhood Sweetheart

Blaze came to the royal city of Asgard. The heroic warriors used this place as a huge training ground, and they grunted and laughed as they beat the products from foreigners - sandbags.

This is also a good culture brought by foreigners from another world. At least it is better than using real swords and guns to seriously injure both sides.

Although the Heroic Warriors are immortal and can be resurrected, they are all flesh and blood before death. It would be bad if the royal city of Asgard was covered in blood.

In order to prevent the Einherjar from causing trouble, Blaze deliberately wore armor.

There is no way. The nature of the Heroic Warriors is to respect the strong and be arrogant. They will challenge without hesitation anyone who looks like a weakling but dares to step into the Asgard Royal City.

Blaze came here to find Marika. The work on the Fast territory was handed over to the three knights of the Royal Knights, while Marika focused more on the construction of Asgard.

The Giant Royal Family expressed their understanding of the lord who skipped work shortly after taking office, but it would be better if he did not do it again next time.

Strangely, Marika was not in the royal city, but Blaze did find the throne that had been polished to a sparkling shine.

This was the seat prepared for him. It was where the second-generation One-Eyed Balder used to sit. In order to prevent him from harboring any resentment, the old throne was torn down and replaced with a new one.

Blaze himself is not that narrow-minded. Besides, Balder is hung in the underworld of Helheim and tortured by Hela every day. Even if he is really angry, he would have calmed down long ago.

This is obviously Odin's trick, creating a feeling of "I have already solved the reason why you don't sit on it."

After wandering around the royal city, Blazer still couldn't find Marika, so he had no choice but to go to the dwarf workshop.

Under the rule of the second generation One-Eyed Balder, there was a terrible headless dwarf workshop in Asgard, which was full of headless dwarf corpses and the dwarf Hawkins with only a head.

After Baldur was overthrown and swallowed by the Ouroboros and fell into the underworld of Helheim, the evil place of the Headless Dwarf Workshop was destroyed in the Fall of Asgard and replaced by a new forge.

Blaze was very curious about this forge because there were no dwarves in Asgard.

The dwarves were from the same era as the elves, but unlike the elves’ long heritage, the dwarves never recovered after their wisdom was taken away by Balder, and disappeared into history as if they were extinct.

It is said that the dwarves hid in the wine cellar in the mine, kept company with the metal, drank all day long, and didn't care about the end of the world. When the wine was finished, the dwarves died surrounded by the ore.

The funny thing is that only the heretics among the dwarves who had no interest in forging and ironmaking continued the dwarf race.

Blaze came to the forge. The door frame was particularly high, and it was decorated in a typical Gianes style.

Now he knew who the dwarf was.

Not to mention he also heard a quiet cough from inside.

"Mary~Ka~" Blaze took off his armor, pushed open the door and walked in.

He immediately saw Marika, who was covered in dust and dirt, standing by the stove.

She was not wearing the gorgeous silver armor. If this symbol of honor given by the giant royal family was also smoked black like her heroic face, she would probably feel ashamed to meet the giant royal family. So she was wearing a [Cooling Vest], but the white vest was also smoked dirty.

Hearing Blaze's voice, the leader of the Royal Knights, Lord Fast, the Red Dragon Marika, like a guilty child, turned his back to Blaze and furtively threw the thing in his hand into the fire, then turned around and looked over.

Marika was stunned by the familiar appearance of the boy, and it took her a long time to react.

Although her face was blackened by smoke, that smile made Blaze hear the crisp sound of wind chimes in the wind and smell the warm fragrance of flowers in the flower fields under the sun.

"Long time no see, Blaze."

"Hmm." Blaze looked away and scratched his cheek awkwardly.

He always complained that he couldn't take off his armor, but after taking it off, he felt like he was naked and everything was exposed. In the past, he knew his face was hidden under the helmet, so it didn't matter. But now...

"Are you the rookie dwarf forger that Master Hader mentioned?"

"Ha, ha!?" Marika's voice, which was always hoarse and low, suddenly rose a degree, showing the leader of the Knights' calmness. "He told you that. He obviously took the things!"

"Ah~ Is that the case?" Blaze murmured, his brain working rapidly, trying to figure out the ins and outs of it.

"You want to be a blacksmith again?"

Under Blaze's questioning, it was Marika's turn to feel awkward. In the end, she did not choose to lie. While observing Blaze's reaction, she nodded cautiously and entangled the ten fingers of both hands in front of her lower abdomen.

Marika's reaction is also the classic uneasy reaction of the Gianes towards their childhood sweetheart.

As a hybrid of dwarves and Gianes, the red-haired Marika was treated more like a dwarf before her body fully developed.

When talking about dwarves, the first thing that comes to mind is blacksmithing, so it is natural for Marika to face the [blacksmithing requests] from her neighbors.

There was no malice in those requests. They wanted to enable Marika, an orphan, to have a good skill to make a living. They even built a small forge for Marika at their own expense.

These good intentions were a headache, Marika really tried to swing the hammer and forge iron in the flames. Unfortunately, as a half-blood, Marika did not inherit the dwarf memory that seemed to be engraved in her blood, and she blew up the furnace in a few strokes, destroying the entire forge.

At that time, [Hermes's Traveling Hat] was still working on the then-ridiculous [Teleportation Tower Project]. Areas not unified by the Eternal City were still in the midst of a melee between city-states. The economy of any kingdom was not very good, and that small forge and its complete facilities were a considerable investment for the neighbors in Balkan City.

Although the neighbors all comforted Marika, this incident still left a big psychological trauma on her, so much so that even after receiving the blessing, she still wanted to be a blacksmith.

It was Blaze who spent a lot of effort to get Marika to do what she wanted to do, and Marika became a knight, but [Forger] still remained like a scar in Marika's career column.

Marika felt guilty towards Blaze because she had promised Blaze that she would not force herself to be a blacksmith.

And she had no way of explaining to Blaze why she wanted to be a blacksmith again.

(End of this chapter)