Dwarves were a stubborn race.


    That was also to say that their dispositions were stubborn of course, but they were also stubborn in the results of their work.


    Consequently, they wouldnt undertake work that they themselves couldntprehend, but even so it would take time toplete even if they epted it.


    A report came from those dwarves. It said: Furnace done, round up a mountain of mages and bring them here.


    In other words, it meant that magic would be used together with them forging the katana, but it wasnt like they could simply just go out and gather mages.


    Currently, Ogress was polishing its golem soldier n that had yed a leading role in the former Manesh. Mages were necessary for that, but


    Oh my, shall we go?


    Guinevere herself was the one to propose it.


    The steps they needed to take right now, although its magic, were more about the practical implementation of it than the theoretical side. Since Guinevere was going, that meant that a substantial part of the court would be going to the dwarven vige as well.


    However, the dwarves werent concerned with things like kings and queensing to their vige.


    And so, Ca absolutely cant drink alcohol.


    They had to take precautions in advance. It wasnt like dwarves were irrational, they probably wouldnt make a pregnant woman drink alcohol.


    Together with Shizuna, Ca rode on a specially made suspended carriage.


    Since Guinevere was riding on it as well, it was quite like a gathering of VIPs.


    So, what are you two hiding?


    Guinevere suddenly asked them a question. She turned her Dragon Eyes to Shizuna.


    Eh, I-Im not hiding anything.


    There is something, but I cant say it now.


    Unlike Shizuna, Ca, her long-time acquaintance, answered her.


    Oh my? Does this secret have something to do with Ria by some chance?


    It is rted to Ria, so I will talk about it after talking with her.


    Hmm? Well, so long as it doesnt break our friendship.


    It sounded insincere, but Guinevere felt lonely.


    In particr, not getting between friends was an emotion burden for her. It was a childhood trauma.


    Defended by golem soldiers, the group faced the dwarven vige. Just then, Irina joined them.


    It appeared that Maal sent them a letter by sting it down the road with Irina in her orichalcum armor on Rudolphs back.


    Onee-chan!


    With a bang, Irina embraced Ria while holding onto the letter from Maal.


    What!?


    Seeing the letters contents, Ria clenched her fist.


    Irina, is this true?


    Yeah~


    In the letter, it said that Maal was getting married.


    The groom was her childhood friend who had participated in the recent war.


    Uuu~aaah~


    On Matsukazes back, Ria suffered.


    Shed somehow wound up bing a queen, so she wasnt able to easily participate in her friends wedding.


    Fio~, prepare a present to give her. Food would be great if possible, Ill write a letter.


    It felt like her friends were all getting hooked up. Gig was also about to be the marriageable age for an ogre here soon


    Ah~, maybe I should have a proper wedding with Ca


    If she didnt properly exin the Dragons Bloodline, Cas child would end up being treated as illegitimate.


    Even if it was something that should be a happy thing, her troubles just kept on increasing.


    The night on the day after they reached the dwarven vige, the four were finally able to have their meeting.


    Ria, Ca, Shizuna, as well as the dragon, Irina.


    There, Ca quickly exined that she had sprouted the manly feature and mated with Shizuna.


    (Hmm.)


    Ria thought about it. Assuming that Shizuna was pregnant, that wasnt the problem. If it was Cas child, shed love it as though it were her own.


    The problem was why she wasnt able to do it herself when they had done it.


    Seeing Ria lost in thought, Shizuna felt uneasy. Simply put, shed cheated on her.


    However, Ria didnt care about that.


    Ca and Shizunas child is the same as mine. Dont worry. However


    Rias expression changed and she scowled at Ca.


    The next time this happens, Ill be watching. Rather, Ill be joining you.


    Understood.


    Understood what!?


    Shizunas shout echoed through the night.


    Rather, how about we do it now?


    I dont mind, but


    Shes pregnant! Dont strain her body![1]


    As something rare, Shizunas opinion was actually epted.


    Since theyd let the dwarven vige know they wereing this time, the head foreman as well as the formal actually came out to great Ria and her group.


    The head foreman looked at Ca and spoke.


    Youre a beauty for a human. Whose bride are you?


    Mine.


    The head foreman shifted his attention to Ria, whod responded immediately.


    Humans have marriages between women?


    No, Im a special case. By the way, I have another bride, and a fiance.


    I see.


    The dwaf quickly let go of the topic and consented.


    Well, its fine. Nowe and take a look, what do you think of this fellow?


    As for what the head foreman took Ria to, it was a semi-spherical furnace in the center of the vige.


    Thats amazingly big.


    Let alone weapons, it looked huge enough to produce a giant ships deck.


    Umu, we needed a furnace like this to process the dragon fang. Moreover, its not just a furnace.


    The dwarves had started researching something rted to a furnace that could be called a godly furnace.


    It started out normally at first, they made a furnace from heat-resistant bricks, but it wasnt able to perfectly resist heat.


    A temperature of that level wasnt able to process the dragon fang.


    So next, they tried a mithril furnace. Since mithril could be given magic enhancements, it could withstand even higher temperatures.


    And so the dwarves took out theirst resort. First off, they made a made a building of heat resistant bricks outside with arge scaffolding frame. Coating the inside of that with orichalcum, followed by hihiirokane, they made areas that could produce heat directly in the furnace.


    For fuel, they used charcoal from the world tree. Theycked enough with just that to be the fuel, so they nned to supplement it with magic.[3]


    Raising the temperature inside the furnace without raising the temperature of the furnace itself. Its difficult.


    Such a feat could be done with hihiirokane.


    However, that requires a lot of mages


    And thus they needed Maneshs mages to be mobilized.


    Looks like itll be pretty hard


    Ria said it like it was someone elses problem, but it was to make her weapon from the god dragons fang. As a godying weapon, it could be called a sacred treasure.


    It wouldnt be an exaggeration to say that all of the dwarves in the neighboring areas had gathered in order to make it. Moreover, they had only built the furnace needed to make the weapon.


    Well then, lets go~


    Ka~y


    The ones to put the fire into the furnace were Guinevere and Irina. The charcoal made from the world tree ignited splendidly, easily causing the furnaces temperature to exceed several thousand degrees.


    However, even that still wasnt enough.


    Its my turn now.


    Ca began chanting. Simultaneously, countless mages began chanting cooling magic.


    Thermonuclear Darkness Exploding Hell.


    A me of darkness filled the furnace.


    Ria put the fang into it with her bare hands.


    The heat gradually tenderized the fangs form. When she took it out, the fang was shaped into a katana with a mallet.


    It was a specially made mallet using a mixture of putting orichalcum into adamantium. Once it hit the fang several times, it lost its shape.


    Next!


    Yes!


    Sweat couldnt even drip down her face as it evaporated as it appeared. If she were to breath wrong here, her lungs would be burnt and she might die.


    It was a scene simr to being a single step away from hell.


    By the end of the day, just by turning the fang into a metallic form, all of the mallets had broke.


    The entire following day was spent on fixing them.


    And so once again, they forged the fang, stretching, lengthening it, and folding it.


    A mysterious material was inside the fang, causing sparks to scatter about.


    The people being Rias yes-men were dwarven master artisans. Among them was the foreman.


    If one were to speak about katanas in the area, then that would be the leading expert.


    Although this katana was in the shape of a katana, it couldnt be called a truly forged katana, as it had neither a core metal nor edge metal and was simply a fang folded into the shape of a katana.[4]


    Even its handle and guard were all made from the single fang. Magic was used for their formation.


    Then, Ca and Guinevere gave the de that was in the form of a katana the various bestowals that were in their knowledge.


    Normal weapons would only be able to hold as much as two or three bestowals, but this katana sucked in mana infinitely.


    Lets leave around twenty percent open. Well have Serge add space-time magic when hees back.


    Yeah~. But even I had to say that we made a nonsensical weapon. Ria, can you even use this?


    Even Guineveres mana would run out after swinging it several times.


    Rias mana was ridiculously huge, huge to the point she couldnt use it all, so it was a suitable weapon for her.


    Now that theyd arrived to the final phase, it was the dwarves turn.


    Beautiful


    Ria gazed at the katana, enraptured by it.


    From her birth all the way until now, she didnt think something could be so perfect


    You should give it a name


    In this world, famous weapons had names given to them. Most were given names when theyre made with references to their origin, but many kinds would be given afterwards as well.


    Wouldnt ck Dragon Katana Valis be suitable?


    When the head foreman said that, many of the dwarves nodded in agreement. Certainly, most people would agree with using Valiss name.


    However, Ria had long since thought of a name.


    This katana is named Godly Katana Gach.


    Gach.


    The was the name of the sole katana producer in the vige, the foremans name.


    Staggering, the foremanGach, stepped forward. Tired from sharpening the de day in and day out, his face so so tired that it almost couldnt be thought of as looking like a dwarfs.


    T-to use my name


    Nagasone Kotetsu is a smiths name as well. If you werent here, I wouldnt have been able to make this katana. Thats why, Gach


    Saying that, Ria held the jet ck katana over her head.


    I will use the name of the person who put the most effort into making this katana! I name this katana Godying Gach!


    The dwarves were a stubborn race. That was well known.


    However, what wasnt so famous was how much stock they put into emotion.


    For the strongest weapon born from the god dragons fang to receive a dwarfs name The meaning of that was understood by every dwarf.


    Like a wave expanding outwards, everything grew loud.


    Their cheers of joy were like an explosion.


    The dwarf foremen pped Gachs back.


    Together with the katana, his legend was born.


    Well, you did a good thing.


    The feast continued for three days and nights. Finally liberated from it, Ria and her group returned to road leading to Manesh.


    Gah was not on Rias waist as she sat on Matsukazes back. It was too powerful, it couldnt be used normally at all.


    As for what were on Rias waist, there were was Nagasone Kotetsu and two short swords made by Bach.


    Guinevere had called out to Ria from inside the carriage.


    Dont say that, I wouldve just named it Valis if it didnt turn out right.


    Seeing that Fio and Shizuna didnt quite understand what Ria meant, Guinevere exined to them.


    In other words, Ria gained all of the dwarves support just by naming a single katana with one of their names.


    Dwarves were obstinate.


    As well as simple.


    Yeah.


    As expected, Shizuna had be pregnant after all.


    Her morning sickness was awful, so they sometimes had to stop the wagon for her to vomit on the roadside.


    Ca mysteriously hadnt been showing any of the symptoms of early pregnancy, but that might just have been because of her constitution.


    Thanks to that, we were able to receive the dwarves full cooperation towards creation of the golem forces though.


    Guinevere was satisfied with that.


    In truth, Ogress had all kinds of people other than humans affiliated with it, including demi-humans, ogres that took pride in their strength, beastkin, and dwarves.


    Theyd have a considerable united front, even when ites to fighting against the demon kings army in the approaching Millennium.


    Its so nice, Onee-chan. I want a special sword too.


    Irina said that, but her orichalcum sword was already special enough.


    Everyone thought that, yet no one actually retorted back to her about it.


    Well, couldnt you call yours Valis? Valis actually made it after all.


    Hmmm.


    Irina, not quite agreeing to that, pped her hands.


    Then Rudolph!


    Wau!?


    The one most surprised about that was Rudolph.


    Youre always helping me, so I thought itd be a cool name!


    No, thatd get confusing, wouldnt it be better not doing that?


    It mightve been in their imagination, but Rudolphs face also looked like it didnt want that.


    Well, Ill name it Onee-chan then!


    (Wouldnt it be alright to just call it Excalibur already?)


    Ria thought that, but then just came up with a name.


    A golden orichalcum sword. Although therge sword Irina used held tremendous destructive power, it was a little hard to handle.


    How about Orfvre?[6]


    Hmm? Whats that mean?


    In thenguage of another world, it means goldsmith.


    Heeh Un, I like it.


    Like that, the Holy Sword Orfvre was born.


    By the way, the katana that Ria named Gach was called another name by the dwarvester on.


    That was: [Pride of the Dwarves].