Between The Strongest and The Weakest Family
Chapter 10: Zeke The Blacksmith

Baron Raven went with Reinherz to blacksmith, during the journey Reinherz was surprised to see his father passing through several blacksmiths in a city crowded with people who according to Reinherz the more crowded the store means the better the product.

"Why did you pass some blacksmith?"

Baron Raven looked at his son who always asked out of curiosity to be smiling, actually Baron Raven's goal was to go to the blacksmith place of his old friend.

"it's not the place we're going to, I'll introduce you to the best blacksmith in town"

Reinherz recalled talking to his father and his mother in the hall of the administration building, his father calling someone named "Zeke" who was probably the one his father was going to visit.

Baron Raven has not greeted his friend for a long time, he invited Reinherz to stop by the food store to buy something for Zeke and Baron Raven offered his son to snack, Reinherz who heard his father go to the food store was happy, they also stopped by the food store and bought food to eat with Zeke later, Reinherz who saw his father smiling when buying food, it shows that the man named Zeke is the closest person to his father.

But as Reinherz walked with his father, Reinherz realized he had reached the entrance of the eastern Phantom Harlow town, later Reinherz wonders if the man named Zeke is not part of the residents of the Phantom town of Harlow, but Reinherz saves the question for later and all he can do is follow where his father went.

The soldiers guarding the entrance of the city saw Baron Raven and a little boy they had not known walking to the eastern entrance of the city, without long they immediately held a firm attitude and greeted their master simultaneously.

"Greetings to Sir Raven"

Baron Raven who saw his soldiers greeting then replied to him and ordered them to behave as usual again, the soldiers were astonished because Baron Raven had never brought a child with him until one of the soldiers dared to ask Baron Raven.

"Sir Raven, may I ask who is the little boy next to you?"

"oohh this is my son Reinherz"

The soldiers were surprised they immediately bowed their bodies and greeted Reinherz.

"Sorry Mr. Reinherz for not recognizing you" said all the soldiers simultaneously

"ah.., it's okay lately there's been this kind of thing" Reinherz said in a joking tone

Even the soldiers already knew the purpose of Baron Raven coming out to the east gate, Baron Raven would definitely meet Zeke, the eastern guard soldiers often encountered Zeke as they also stood guard for Zeke's safety on Baron Raven's orders.

"Sir Raven, do you want to see Uncle Zeke?" said one of the soldiers

"Yes., I want to make something for my son"

The soldier was a little worried that his master was going out the gate night and night, and one of the soldiers offered to escort Baron Raven home.

"Sir Raven, do you need an escort?"

Baron Raven who heard the words of one of the soldiers who cared so much about his master made him Baron Raven a little pleased, even though Baron Raven actually did not need an escort.

"No need, but thank you for worrying about me"

"Are you sure?"

Baron Raven walked past them, then Baron Raven waved his hand saying "No need, because we are the strongest family".

The soldier who heard him smiled with pleasure because his master said confidently to walk alone, they appreciated his master who was so full of authority and strength.

"Okay sir, may you go home safely" said the soldiers

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Baron Raven and Reinherz walked together towards Zeke's residence, but Reinherz was curious what kind of person Zeke was.

"What kind of man's father is Zeke?"

Baron Raven who heard his son say only Zeke was not accompanied by the word uncle, making Baron Raven have to teach his son a little manners, Baron Raven then hit Reinherz on the head.

Dang!

"Aaawww.., sick dad!"

"Based on a bad boy, you should call him uncle, learn a little manners if you meet your father's friend"

"eeerrmm..., okay dad"

Baron Raven then returned to the topic, as they walked his father told him about Blacksmith named Zeke, Zeke is a Dwarf, and his father was a, his father met Zeke when he was in a mountain near one of the Dwarven's works, when his father's distress came to help him there, Zeke is one of the best Blacksmiths his father knows to date, but Zeke is stubborn and picky customers, because Zeke wants his work to be appreciated not just as a tool, but even though he's stubborn, Zeke is a good man according to his father.

"Zeke is also a very strong man because he is a former military captain of one of the Dwarf's works"

"ohhhhh...."

"But for some reason Zeke was more comfortable being a Blacksmith and eventually he left his position as captain"

Reinherz became impatient to see Uncle Zeke after Reinherz heard the story about him, during the trip Baron Raven chatted with Reinherz so as not to feel they were close to Zeke's house and also where he worked

Zeke's house looks very simple next to his house there is a blacksmith and also his pet cage, Reinherz saw there are some round-shaped mountain goats whose legs are very stocky and large horns, Reinherz said, it was a Durin goat, the name Durin taken from the ancient Dwarf language with the abbreviation Durkhan Rikshin with the meaning War Goat (Goat of War), the name Durin, the Dwarves usually use Durin to fight because he is very strong to hit the enemy with his horns, but Durin can also be used as livestock they have a very sweet and delicious milk and have a distinctive milk aroma.

"dad is this really Uncle Zeke's house?"

"Yes right.., I'll knock on the door"

Baron Raven then knocked on his door, Zeke heard it but Zeke was so unwilling to be disturbed at night that he was so annoyed that a guest with insignificant affairs came at night.

Zeke then shouted for the person who knocked him to leave immediately "I DO NOT RECEIVE GUESTS AT SEGINIIIIII TIME!!!!!!".

Baron Raven and Reinherz heard Zeke shouting loudly, but Baron Raven was used to Zeke's behavior, Baron Raven replied in a friendly tone

"What about your old friend?"

Zeke who heard the voice instantly recognized him and rushed towards the door and opened it straight away, Zeke immediately looked at the smiling Baron Raven, Zeke immediately hugged Baron Raven warmly Baron Raven whose body was taller immediately lowered his body to be able to hug, hugging according to Dwarf tradition is a form of friendship.

"ooooohhhhh....., Raven I haven't seen you in a long time, how are you?"

"Hahaha.., I'm fine"

Baron Raven and Zeke greeted each other warmly Reinherz who saw him being seen something else from his father, when the two were already greeting each other, Zeke saw a small child beside Baron Raven.

"Raven is this your son?"

"Yes, his name is Reinherz"

"Include my name Reinherz uncle Zeke" said Reinherz in a polite tone

Zeke who saw the polite Reinherz then smiled and held Reinherz's head and stroked him.

"Ahahahaha"

"ugh..."

Zeke knew what Baron Raven meant when he brought his son, so Baron Raven wanted to make the Dagger of Moonlight Stone.

"Zeke I'm here as usual to get you to make me something"

"Ahh.., I already know you want to make a Dagger for your son right"

"Yes right"

"All right, let's go in and sit down"

"Ooohh yeah, I brought food for you"

"oooohhh, thank you, as always you're very kind, not like you met me ahahahah"

The three of them enter Zeke's house, Baron Raven and Reinherz sit on a wooden long chair carved nicely by Zeke himself, then Zeke brings warm drinks for Baron Raven and Reinherz to drink.

But Baron Raven sees Zeke is not as usual Zeke this time it looks like he is in trouble because something after knowing the intention of the arrival of Baron Raven, Baron Raven also wants to know the details because it concerns his son's goods.

"do you think you want to say something, Zeke?"

Zeke who heard Baron Raven said like that Zeke couldn't hide it anymore.

"*sigh*\, this concerns Moonlight Ore\, lately where my usual Moonlight Ore mines a lot of A Rank monsters roam\, this is what really bothers me!"

Baron Raven who heard it had to rack his brains again because he had to send one of the Night Hawk leaders to be able to escort Zeke to mine the Moonlight Ore as soon as possible, the making of the Dagger with Moonlight Ore is very long so it must move quickly, while the problems that have occurred lately also greatly make Baron Raven worried, after a moment of thinking Baron Raven made a decision.

"Well I'll send Ragnar and some soldiers to escort you faster"

"ooohhhh thank you"

Inevitably Baron Raven will tell Zerith to guard the Phantom city of Harlow first while Ragnar leaves, which Zerith and Reed should have left for the capital to go on a mission, so it's just Reed first.

After the matter for Moonlight Ore was temporarily finished, finally Reinherz who from earlier was just speechless and heard the conversation the old man finally got his turn as well, then Zeke looked at Reinherz who was just speechless.

"Reinherz, one of the ways that you can use the Dagger of Moonlight Stone is by Mana Flow injection, eat it from that you have to show your Mana Flow right now"

Reinherz who heard it was shocked because he had not learned about Mana Flow at all or anything else.

"WHAT!?, I haven't learned that at all and I don't understand either!"

Baron Raven then looked at Reinherz and in fact this was his first lesson from his father.

"Rein, this is your first lesson from father, you must learn [Mana Circulation] right now, you won't be able to go home before you can base from [Mana Circulation]!".

"AAA!!!!".

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The Skill Dictionary

Name: Mana Circulation

Type: Magic

Requirement: None

Description: Mana Circulation is the first step for a person to be able to control mana well, The better Mana Circulation a person the better the person controls all types of Magic