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    Ambil suddenly brought us to the depths of the city itself, where we found ourselves right in front of the entrance leading to Hephaestus Divine Forge! Well, the first one of many.


    "Wait, is this for real?! We found it much quicker than we thought!" Rita celebrated. "Alright, now how do we get in?"


    "Calm down for a minute, dark elfdy." Ambil sighed. "As of right now, we can''t enter, not even in your wildest dreams. This is the entrance of the first divine forge which my family has protected for generations. However, we do not possess the ability to enter it."


    "I see…" Mark nodded, analyzing things. "I wonder if this is… Wait, can nta enter easily at least? She''s the sessor."


    "She can try, and that''s why I mostly came here." Said Ambil. "This is a sacred pce where many of our craftsmen in our families grew and developed, this ce used to be a secret forge where we crafted magic weapons, our family used to be the ones that supplied the world''s greatest armies with their weapons. But over time, as the Demon Kings perished and heroes never came back, our family''s business declined…"


    Ambil then walked towards the gates, gently caressing them with his old, rugged hands, covered on many bruises and sighing.


    "This Forgery, although we could not enter, blessed us with their Divine mes, which we used to make wonderful items. However, such mes stopped appearing hundreds of years ago." Ambil sighed. "I don''t know why… And recently, there had been rumors around town about a group of shadowy people trying to find the Forge. I am worried that our legacy might soon be taken away from us by malefic hands. nta, can you touch this gate and prove you''re who you are? I… don''t want to have my hopes crushed again, so prove to me that you''re who you say to be, so I can finally hold some hope with confidence…"


    "Okay…" I nodded, giving him a gentle smile. "Let''s do this then…"


    I touched the gates while closing my eyes, hoping for something to happen. However, the only thing we got was a lot of silence…


    "Nothing happened…" I sighed.


    "Looks like that thing might be too old or something." Rita said.


    "T-Then…?" Ambil seemed disappointed.


    "Well, let''s not give up yet." Said Mark. "She definitely has the Subss, we all can see her Status, and-"


    "The sessor…"


    Huh?


    Did I heard something?


    A whisper…


    "You''re here…"


    It is a whispering voice!


    "At longst…"


    "Hello? Is there someone there?" I asked the gate, knocking on it.


    FLAAASH!


    Suddenly, the gate began to glow, shocking everyone with me after that anticlimactic silence. The carvings glowed with bright red colors, the jewels emanated a divine aura, epassing the carvings and suddenly making them turn alive.


    The mes behind the anvil suddenly started zing, moving on their own, until finally, they emerged from the carvings, an intense heat engulfed our entire bodies, making us feel slightly sickly as we nced an entity emerge.


    FLUOOOOSH!


    "W-What''s going on?!" Lily cried.


    "Ugh, such intense heat…" Nieveined.


    "W-Woooah!" Acorn was amazed.


    "A being made of mes?!" Mark stepped closer to me.


    "Hmmm…"


    The entity slowly took the shape of a huge, muscr being,pletely made of red mes constantly flickering around. Their only two eyes were red and made of jewels. Its height was over five meters of height.


    "T-The Guardian…! The Divine Guardian of the Forge!" Ambil gasped, suddenly kneeling. "Oh guardian, it is an honor to finally see you!"


    "Oh, a descendant of the Protectors of the Legacy…" The entity made of mes spoke.


    Itsposition was simr to Fire Spirits, but of an incredibly high quality and power. It was perhaps a Divine Spirit on its own, something simr to the Great Spirit of Nature and Harvest.


    "G-Great Spirit?" I asked her.


    "I can see it, yeah." She spoke. "That guy''s not a Great Spirit, he''s a Special Kind of thing, a Divine Forge Spirit, although he doesn''t rule over the spirits of each element like us Great Spirits, he does have almost an equal amount of power… However, he looks shattered, and weakened."


    "Very well, so where is the Sessor?" Asked the Forge Spirit, ncing around. "Oh, it must be you, isn''t it?" He pointed at Brisingra. "A girl wasn''t what we expected but well, you''re a dwarf."


    "No, sorry, it''s not me…" Brisingra sighed.


    "Wait, then you?" He asked, pointing at Mark. "You''re a strange being, I''ve never seen something like this before, but you wield mes! Don''t you? And those burly arms and strong physique! It has to be you, right?"


    "Stop pretending to not know and ept that nta''s the sessor." Mark said angrily, crossing his huge arms.


    "Hi…" I smiled gently, as the Spirit gave me a single nce and then facepalmed.


    "HAHHH… I can''t believe a Dryad from all things would be my master''s Sessor! Just what is going on with this word?! Has nobody else made a Heroic Weapon yet?! In all these years?!" He startedining. "A delicate Dryaddy with no inch of strength, no mastery over the hammer, and absolutely no resistance nor affinity with fire became the sessor?! Preposterous!"


    "Do you have to be so rude?" I asked while raising an eyebrow. "And I am not a Dryad anymore. I evolved into a Hamadryad, and then an Yggdryad, and now I am an Yggdragon!"


    My body suddenly started to change shape quickly, Ambil suddenly fell into the ground in shock as my transformation slowlypleted, turning me into a gigantic, over fifty-meter-tall dragon made of wood, stone, earth, vegetation, and covered on countless golden scales made of spiritual metals, with sharp ws, an intimidating set of fangs, and shing green eyes.


    "Hoh?" The Divine Forge me was surprised, ncing at my entire body, as I quickly conjured golden mes into my hands, the mes of Life.


    "And I can control some mes too! Thank you very much!" I groaned, showing what I was made of.


    "Heh… Hah… HAHAHAHAAH!" The Spirit started tough. "Now THIS is something out of left field! To think the sessor of Yggdrasil would also be my master''s sessor… This is… unprecedented!"


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