Chapter 421 Hephaestus
pain.
It was as if something was constantly stretching his brain, and indescribable pain was swirling in his brain.
Shirou Emiya covered his head and opened his eyes with difficulty.
It seems like I messed up again.
One shouldn't be so immersed in forging.
Shirou Emiya condemned himself in his heart. If he met some people with malicious intentions, then he would be a lamb to be slaughtered by those people if he fainted without any defense.
Emiya Shirou pinched the bridge of his nose and tried to cheer himself up.
I don't know how much time has passed, but the swelling and splitting sensation in my head is making Shirou Emiya feel uncomfortable.
"Squeak—!"
At the moment when Shirou Emiya woke up, the door was pushed open. It was a beautiful woman in men's clothing with red hair, an eye patch on her right eye, a white top, black trousers, and black over-the-knee high-heeled boots.
With a hint of surprise in her eyes, she looked at Emiya Shirou who had just sat up from the bed.
"Thanks--"
The moment Emiya Shirou saw the beautiful woman in men's clothing appear, he immediately thanked her.
The fact that I was able to appear here safely was naturally the result of the help of others.
"Do you feel anything strange physically or mentally?"
She walked slowly to Emiya Shirou, pinched her chin with her hand, and looked at Emiya Shirou who seemed to be fine and fell into deep thought.
"It's just a slight headache, nothing else is a big problem."
Shirou Emiya shook his head in response to the beautiful woman in men's clothing, then he immediately thought of something and his expression changed slightly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to watch your forging process. If there's anything I can do——"
Shirou Emiya apologized to the beautiful woman in men's clothing in a very sincere tone. Regardless of whether she minded or not, peeping at others like this was not a good thing in itself.
What's more, Emiya Shirou also learned her forging skills. Perhaps this was the forging skill passed down from her ancestors, a skill that she relied on for a living and could not be passed on to others.
No matter what, Shirou Emiya's behavior was not good.
He could have left without being noticed by the beautiful woman in men's clothing, but he chose to secretly learn the forging skills from others. Shirou Emiya deeply condemned himself.
"No, this is nothing, but do you really feel nothing but a headache?"
She has lived in this world for more than 100 million years. Although there is no genius in her family who can understand her forging skills, it does not mean that there has not been a genius who can understand her forging skills in the past 100 million years.
Otherwise, she would not know what consequences would result from understanding the forging skills of God in this way.
Because the geniuses she met suffered irreversible brain damage after seeing her forging skills.
Some of those people either became mentally ill or had completely forgotten all the forging skills and were no longer able to learn them.
In short, after that, she seldom displayed her forging skills in front of ordinary people.
However, apart from the headache, Shirou Emiya didn't seem to have any other sequelae, which surprised her a little.
Emiya Shirou nodded affirmatively.
After going through so many things, Shirou Emiya is very clear about his physical condition.
There are only three major injuries on my body now.
The first is that even with the help of the Holy Grail, Shirou Emiya has no way to repair the irreversible damage to his soul.
Even now, whenever Shirou Emiya used projection magic, he would feel severe pain all over his body, but he had long been accustomed to this kind of pain.
Even when activating the Infinite Sword Works, Shirou Emiya was able to act as if nothing had happened.
The second is the vitality that Avalon has no way to replenish due to constant over-exploitation.
The tangled mass of white hair on one's head is a reflection of one's weakening vitality.
The third is the opening of the markings. Shirou Emiya has been overdrawing his future.
This is also one of the reasons why Shirou Emiya was able to grow to such strength in just a few months.
Of course, even though he was extremely aware of his own physical condition, Shirou Emiya did not retreat when facing danger.
"It's really strange!"
Seeing Shirou Emiya's answer, she didn't ask any more questions. If everything was really fine, then it must be a good thing.
She was just afraid that Shirou Emiya might have some aftereffects that she didn't know about.
"My name is Hephaestus, the goddess of forging—"
Seeing that Shirou Emiya didn't seem to have any major problems, Hephaestus began to introduce herself.
From the look in his eyes, Hephaestus knew that Shirou Emiya did not recognize her.
After all, in this world, the number of gods is relatively small compared to humans, but there are still so many of them overall.
It is impossible for everyone to remember all the gods, not to mention that many gods rarely show their faces.
If you don't tell me your name, many people may not recognize me.
For example, there is a virgin goddess who always comes to my place to eat and drink for free.
"My name is Shirou Emiya—"
Shirou Emiya also got off the bed and responded to Hephaestus politely.
"Hephaestus? Isn't that the god of forging in Greek mythology?"
Shirou Emiya had a lot of doubts in his heart.
As it stands, Shirou Emiya is not familiar with Greek mythology.
But the reason why he did this was because he understood that Hephaestus was the god of forging in Greek mythology when he heard about it, and it was because he still had an empty shell called "The Small World Surrounding the Sky" in his hand.
The forger of this shield was Hephaestus.
Naturally, Shirou Emiya thought of the meaning of this name at the first moment.
But, the goddess of forging?
Isn't Hephaestus a man?
Although he had such doubts, Emiya Shirou did not show it.
After all, when they were at Tokyo Butei High School, Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin were real people, Jeanne d'Arc was already in her thirties, and Vlad, who was a vampire, turned into a werewolf.
Shirou Emiya was used to the fact that other worlds were somewhat different from his own.
What's more, in that parallel world, Mordred also stated that King Arthur was a woman.
Since Arthur could be a woman, it doesn't seem so surprising that Hephaestus, the god of forging, is also a woman.
However, if he really is the God of Forging, then it doesn't seem strange that he fell into a coma after absorbing the god's forging knowledge.
Hephaestus naturally had no idea of Shirou Emiya's mental activities.
"Okay, since you are fine now, you should explain why you appeared in my forging workshop!"
As a god, she naturally would not take such trivial matters to heart, but there were some things that she had to ask for clarification.
That is the god's own forging workshop. If everyone could enter her forging workshop as easily as Emiya Shirou, then wouldn't she, as a god, have too little dignity?
She is not some giant goddess who has to go to work every day. She doesn't know how much she can earn just by selling weapons.
She still needs to ask clearly about the matters concerning her own workshop.
Chapter 422: The Blood of God Has No Effect
"Well, if I say that I opened a door and accidentally came to your workshop, would you believe it?"
Shirou Emiya scratched his head, not knowing how to explain to Hephaestus.
Lying is something that Shirou Emiya is extremely bad at.
He is better at impressing others with sincerity.
"Really?"
Hephaestus looked at Shirou Emiya with interest. Although this sounded like a lie, judging from Shirou Emiya's expression, he was not lying.
Having lived for over 100 million years, it's impossible that she can't even tell a lie apart.
"Do you remember what that door looked like?"
"It's a simple wooden door with no patterns on it and a gradual black bottom. It looks heavy and exudes a weird atmosphere. No one wants to open it."
Shirou Emiya recalled carefully, and it seemed that this door was different from the one he saw at first.
You have to know that when you first saw this wooden door, it was extremely dark, but now the black color is gradually fading away, revealing its original appearance.
"That doesn't sound like a lie."
Hephaestus nodded slightly.
It might be a prank by some god, but she didn't know which god would do such a thing.
"You have a good talent for forging. Did you forge that armor?"
She didn't doubt Shirou Emiya much, nor did she have any hostility towards him.
After all, in this world, gods act with their own entertainment as the priority, experiencing everything in the underworld, including food, interests, friendships, art, and even illness.
To gods, the meaning of many things is not important to them.
"no--"
Emiya Shirou answered Hephaestus very sincerely.
However, if the raw materials were given to Shirou Emiya, he would be able to create [Devil's Haunting].
Although he has always been projecting weapons, he has a good idea of how to forge those weapons.
Of course, Shirou Emiya had no way of forging the weapons from Pojun Academy.
Because that is the manifestation of other people's souls, it can only be forged if their souls are given to Shirou Emiya, who will then have the skills to forge the souls into weapons.
"Eh?"
Hephaestus did not expect Emiya Shirou to answer so straightforwardly. After all, since he could understand her forging skills, his forging level, or in other words, his forging talent should be very high.
She thought that the [Devil's Haunting] that covered Shirou Emiya's entire body was forged by him.
To be honest, after so many years, she has never thought of directly using living creatures to make weapons. At most, she would forge the claws, bones and the like of those creatures.
This kind of technology aroused her interest. In the past 100 million years, she had never seen such an innovative forging method.
Of course, after a brief review, Hephaestus was also able to directly forge living creatures into weapons.
For the gods, this skill is as easy as drinking water.
It is even possible to carry out advanced improvements to make the finished weapons more refined and sturdy.
"I have only forged this weapon—"
As soon as he finished speaking, the reverse blade appeared in Emiya Shirou's hand.
There are no special patterns, no powerful abilities, it is just a simple and ordinary samurai sword with the blade turned against its original position.
But it is this weapon that has accompanied Shirou Emiya through several worlds until now.
No matter how many weapons Shirou Emiya obtained, he never changed.
"What a sword!"
Hephaestus looked at the sword that appeared in Shirou Emiya's hand and couldn't help but sigh.
It’s not because the material used for this sword is so high-end or the forging process is so superb.
No matter how strong Shirou Emiya's talent for forging is, it was his first time forging a weapon, so there would definitely be some shortcomings.
The steel used for the reverse blade is just the most common iron.
But Hephaestus saw it. She saw that the sword was infused with the forger's state of mind and will.
