《RE:Smith》 Prologue [Death] Well, I guess this is it. After 92 years Karl Haridron finally dying. I lived quite long so I dont really mind dying all of my friend have already died so I just need to follow them. Good thing that I wrote that damn will so my students children cant do what they want with my stuff. I would love to see their reactions when will is revealed by my attorney. I earned quite a good amount of coin with my skills. I forged masterpiece level swords and other metalwork, most that I sold personally to people who valued my works for other reasons than their cost. I did it to deny greedy politicians and other thrash from owning things that I made. Still even after pissing off many politicians they gave me title of "national treasure", hmm... I guess they didn''t really have a choice as I am... well was only one who reached that skill level. They still called me a "dwarf" behind my back as an insult. It is true that my height is only 1,4 meters but if there were real dwarfs in this world I would be taller. That "nickname" might have also been reason why I decided to dye my hair and beard orange like in one of the fantasy stories that I did read during my childhood. My choice of colour surprised many and even my own family needed couple of months to adjust. Only thing that I would change in my life was the death of my wife. I know that her death was an accident but I really would have wanted to live longer together. Dying at age of 41 is just too soon. After her death I have not had any interest in love but I would still occasionally go relief myself at local red-light district. I am sure Elise would forgive me, she knew that I needed company at least once a month. If I were to be greedy I would also change how my children grew up. Only one turned out alright while other I seem to have spoiled rotten. Haaa... raising children is really difficult. Woah! Looks like I finally died now I am just like those ghosts in movies. It feels really strange to float over your own corpse... OK, enough of this! What happens next? Arrg! Too bright! Who is trying to blind me? Huh? Answer me! ???: Sorry, sorry. I forgot that human eyes don¡ät like bright lights. This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it K: (who is that bearded old man that looks like he just came out of smith?) ???: I look like this because I am god of smiths and craftsmen. My name is Tyonta by the way. K: You can read my mind?! (He can read minds? Wait, what he is a god?) T: Yes. Do you find it that surprising? K: YES! T: I will stop then. As a show of good will as I have something I want you to do. K: Sure. What is the thing that god like you would want me to do? (Hopefully it is not one of those tasks that are mentioned in fantasy books) T: Straight to the point? You sure don¡ät waste time . K: I would just like to know what happens next. As it seems that you will decide that I thought that asking about the task would be easiest way to find out my future. T: You sure are sharp one aren¡ät you? The task is simple one I want you to go to another world and spread art of metalworking in that world. K: That is the only thing I need to do? No need to rescue the world or kill demons? (Phew, it seems like this god is not like the gods in books) T: Yes. I will need you to just spread skill of metalworking around that world. To help with your task I will even give you body that can live hundreds of years. I will also give you knowledge of my runes that can give magical power to the weapons they are engraved. I would be pleased if you also spread those runes to people of that world. K: So you just want me to work on metal in that other world and teach others about metalworking and runes? T: Yes K: Then I am in. I would give my left arm to be able to work on metal again! I could not do it for 20 years as I got too old and fragile. This might really be regarded as god¡äs blessing. (This seems almost too good to be true) T: Well, I am a god so it is not too far from the truth. As you have accepted this mission of mine I will now send you to that world but you will be born as a baby so it might take some time until you can do your craft. K: Wait, what T: Too late. Have fun with your 2nd life. Chapter 1 [Birth] Ugh! It hurts! Why it hurts? I dont understand. I cant even move. It is like my body doesnt listen to me. Aah! Now I remember that god said I would be reborn as baby. Does that mean my body doesn¡ät listen me because I am baby? I cant even open my eyes. ???1: agrawf jheapg gneiapf ???2: hrase hrewa *Smack* That hurt! Someone just hit me! Who hits babies? My body reacted to that by crying. Seems like I can¡ät fully control my body yet. Why dont I hear voice of my mother? She should have just given birth to me, is she dead? Also why am I smelling cum and sweat from around me? ???1: ghiea heiaog. Grag htatoy! ???3: geaf Oh! I feel someone lifting me. Ouch, it hurts! Dont hold me like a cat! Dont you know how to hold babies, idiot? Where are we even going? I have been ¡±flying¡± for about five minutes now and still he is not stopping. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. ???3: geay jhyts! Aagh! He dropped me! He just dropped me! At least I didnt break anything as I was dropped on something warm and living. At least I think it is living as it moves under me. ???4: geat gheh Hey! That was sounded like female? It came from really close but sounded really weak, why? I can¡ät open my eyes yet and I feel sleepy. I don¡ät even know what race am I. That god Tyonta said that it would be one with long lifespan. Well, I guess I will need to find that out after I wake up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello reader! If you find spelling errors please tell me. Discovering surroundings Yaawn. That was good nap. Where am I right now? I am on some hard surface maybe a floor. OK, now that that is clear let¡äs test my body and find what kind of race I am. *stretch**stretch* It seems that I have two arms and too legs. Thank god I didn¡ät born as an some alien race with tentacles or something. ???5:kuikgk lig ???6:kug kudf? ???4: uykf kuyf Woah! People are talking close by. All of the them sound weak and it seems all of them are women. My eyelids seem really heavy but maybe I can open my eyes today. *slowly opening eyes* WOAH! What is this place? Why am I in place that looks like cave? Rocks everywhere! Only things that aren¡ät rocks are few small humans and metal gate at the cave entrance. There isn¡ät even beds! Also why do these people wear rags and collars here? Ok ok, lets organize things. Firstly these people seem to be women but they likely aren¡ät humans. Their faces give feeling that they are adults but their bodies are really small. They all also seem to be sick or injured so maybe this is place for sick so that they don¡ät spread their disease to others. If I am right and that gates height at the entrance is little under 2m these creatures seem to be between 1m and 1,3m meters. Maybe these creatures are dwarves? That could explain their height and why I am with them. That god did really give me body that can live longer than human one if these dwarves age like those from fantasy books. Secondly those collars that they have, might be mark of slavery. Those collars might even be magical ones to prevent slaves from fleeing or breaking collars. If that is the case then I am in REALLY shitty situation. New born slaves are not likely to live long unless miracle happens especially if slavery here is like what it was back on earth. Reason why I didn¡ät hear my mothers voice after being born might be because she died. It is actually the most likely scenario as slaves that don¡ät work aren¡ät really worth anything so they will not receive any medical help from their owners. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. That is sad really. No use being sad! Next thing. Third thing that I noticed that is really strange in my opinion is that most of the stuff here is made of bronze while rest is wooden. Is this world still in bronze-age or is there something else going on here? Even collars that people wear here are made of bronze! Well, now I am hungry. Let¡äs see what happens when I cry. K: Waaah! Waaaah! ???5: gearyr eahar! Go geagf. ???6: Humph. Geage. Ooh. It looks like someone is coming here. Hmm.. That wet sock like thing that she has what is its purpose? Also why does she put near my mouth? Aaah, now I understand I need to suck on it to get my meal. If I remember correctly something like this was done in Earth too when there weren¡ät anyone to breastfeed a child. *gulp gulp gulp Burp* Ups. Well at least now I feel full even though I am not sure what I just drunk. Also that woman who gave me that seems to be happy. She smiled a little when I burped, it looked really cute. Damn, now I feel sleepy again. It looks like exploring more will have to wait until I wake up again. *snore snore snore* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading. Please do point out grammatical errors if you spot them :) DAMN!! I hate finding my own mistakes after releasing chapter Examples of markings that I have used and will use in future During conversation K: (geafega) <- MC thinking K: geagreah <- MC speaking *stretch* <- MC moving Outside of conversation K: geagae <- MC speaking geahehah <- MC thinking *stretch* <- MC moving Learning One month later I have finally started to understand what is happening here. To put it simply Dwarfs are slaves and most of them go mining every morning while children and sick ones are left to the ¡±jail¡± as I call it. ¡±Jail¡± seems to be simply a old mining tunnel that has been mined empty and converted to house slaves. There are guite a lot of slaves in this mine.I have seen about 100 dwarfs here but I am not even sure that this is the only group that works in the mine. There could be several hundreds of dwarfs in these mines. From the actions of people I have found out few things. There is old dwarf that has little bits of grey in his waist-length brown hair. He might be named Grumni and seems to be boss of dwarves. He also doesnt have beard like you would expect from dwarf. Maybe there is a reason for it? Also the name of the woman who takes care of me is Danci. She has short dark-brown hair that you would not expected her to have. Her eyes are light brown and express her emotions really well. You could call her beautiful but you would need to look over the dirt that everyone here seems to have. At least I think that ¡±Grumni¡± and ¡±Danci¡± are their names as I still dont understand the language too well. I have only managed to pick up some basic words like ¡±eat, sleep, morning, night, food¡± But it seems that both humans and dwarfs speak same language. There also seems to be different dwarf that younger people follow. He is young looking one and has short pitch black hair and short beard. Even if he is aggressive guy he still seems to listen Grumni like son listens to father so most likely he isnt evil or bad person. I havent heard his name but Grumni calls him ¡±boi¡±,what does that word mean? I would love to find out. I have only seen two humans here older one is around 30 and second one is about 20. Older one of them is someone that dwarfs dont seem to fear. He even talks with Grumni without clear distaint that you would expect from someone at his job. As his job is to oversee that dwarf-slaves stay in-line and dont try anything. Other man gives feeling of a thief or bandit but he also seems to be one of the people who oversee dwarfs while working. He also comes to the ¡±jail¡± at random evenings to take a dwarf girl or woman with him for a night. Those women always return with clothes ripped and tears running down their faces. He most likely rapes those women, but I am not 100% sure as I still cant understand everyting that is happening. I was surprised when I heard his voice as that is the same voice that I heard right after I was born. Most likely he is also the one who slapped me that time. Maybe my mother died while he was raping her? I really want to beat him up but I need to grow up first and that will take long time. -few weeks pass by normally- Ooh! There is something happening! Humans are busy and have given us better food and rags today. What could be the reason for this. Danci lifts me in better position in her arms as I still cant move. While all other dwarfs form a line. Is there going to be some sort of inspection or why are they lining up? Is somebody important coming to the mines? Why would someone rich come here? Just as I think about it small man wearing black robes walks in. Those robes remind me of wizards in games. Maybe there is wizards in this world? Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. He walks slowly and grins as he sees dwarfs. Then he stops near the gate and bows slightly towards the way he came in After him comes a man who wears some sort of armor. He looks average in every way but his armor stands out. When he come closer I realize that his armor looks lot like the bronce cuirass armor that Greeks used in ancient history. The one that is shaped to look like well toned human body, six-pack and all. Other than cuirass he also has basic looking arm and leg protectors also similar in Greek-style. He also holds helmet in his armpit. That helmet also looks to be made of bronce. All of his armor is engraved with elobrately made symbols and pictures. If he has armor like that he must be important man as till now I have not seen anyone wear armor. He also had decorated bronze sword hanging on his hip. Behind him came 10 large men who also had similar bronce armor but lot less impressive than what he had. Those 10 men seem to be guards that protect the first guy. I will just call the important man ¡±lord¡± to differentiate him from others. I will also call robed man a ¡±wizard¡± until I find who he really is. After talking to wizard lord comes towards the line dwarfs have made. He then starts talk to Grumni like he were Grumnis friend. Maybe lord and Grumni have known each other for longtime? Maybe he really has as I still dont know how slow dwarfs age and Grumni seems to be old even as a dwarf. After few minutes of talking lords face goes dark and he marches towards the wizard guy. Lord starts to yell to the wizard and wizard seems little panicked. After ordering guards to do something lord ordered that wizard were to put in shackles. Guards come back after a while with younger overseer and drag him front of the lord. Lord tells something to the overseer and overseer starts desperately begging. Hearing overseer beg lord seems to get angrier and angrier until he takes his sword out. At that moment overseer turns around and tries to escape but lord cuts his head of with single strike without a problem. Again he starts to yell orders to the guards who start to drag wizard away. After most of the guards have left lord bows lightly to Grumni. Grumni seems to be surprised by lords actions and also bows while rambling about something. Lord the raises back up and starts walking away while saying something to Grumni. That something seemed to be order to relax as dwarf-line spreads out back to normal free-tim groups. Next day older overseer comes over wearing clothes that seem similar to the ones that wizard had when lord visited. Maybe he got a promotion or something? Grumni talks with him for a while and only stops when interrupted by some guy who has business to the overseer. After a while older overseer stops visiting jail but food and clothes get better. There are now even some medicine given to sick dwarfs. Did the lord order something to be done to help dwarfs? Why would he do that? Well, I am not getting any answers until I learn language so I better continue learning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading. Please do point out grammatical errors if you spot them :)