I refined and transformed the st two materials into pure blocks as well before taking a break to refill my drained energy reserves. As I waited I wrote down some of my ideas on cursed tools in my notebook that I crafted for this exact purpose. While I trusted myself not tet importaails I felt that it was always a good idea to write stuff down just in case. In a manner of speaking I was writing a tome on cursed energy that used what I knew from my time oh as well as what I discovered on my own here.-

  For example I wrote down my theory that all cursed teiques had aal affinity and that it ossible to use those elements. My evidence of this was of course the fmes Sukuna was shown to use as well as my own fmes. While my teique was called hells fe it didn't actually use fmes like a traditional fe would. Despite this my falna clearly beled my fmes as aension of my teique so my theory was that each teique might also have aal affinity.-

  Admittedly this was a rather flimsy theory as I certainly didn't have enough information to say for sure. I also had other theories and jectures in this notebook like my experiments on cursed tool crafting and even my attempt at uanding the bck fsh phenomenon. To be specifically WHY bck fsh caused a curse user to experience a state of enlighte. If it was just a rare event that caused an attack to be way strohan it had any right then that was ohing. But I couldn't uand how it caused something clearly mental or spiritual to happen with a physical event.-

  How a bck fsh occurred was expined in the manga but the reason it did what it did was not clearly defined or even addressed merely accepted as being the way it was. Anyways once I refilled my energy reserves naturally I grabbed the bloaterial to move onto the step. First I fused the goliath tooth, deep iron and skull sheep boerials together into a dull dark yellow-grey material that I shaped into a standard arming swords shape. The crimson coral I then fused into the final shape visible on the bde and handle as a vibrant red swirling pattern.-

  For the finer details I carefully added grooves on the handle frip and a smooth round pommel. The final step was to add a razors edge and fully solidify the on. I drank a potion and got to work imbuing the properties chosen into the ons materials fully. I had secretly included a small cursed stone ihe pommel to empower these properties before leaving my touchmark and calling it dohis entire process took me the rest of the day but I was done before the sed day which was faster than I told Ogun.-

  I could only shrug sihis was the first on I had crafted from scratch since I was level one so obviously I was a little off. I had in fact expected it would take me a full day and a half to plete but it only took me a day so at least I khis now. Still I had extra time and some extra materials as well so I figured I may as well make a sheathe as well. I added [Durability], [Resistant] and [light] to the kobold hide sheathe that I put the sword in. -

  When Hroldar and Ogun showed up in the evening of the sed day alongside the level four I was waiting in the upper floor of the church writing in my notebook.

  "Didn't take you for the sort to go keeping a journal." Hroldar said surprised.

  "This is a notebook, not a journal. I use this to keep tray ideas and discoveries not for personal business." I expined calmly while finishing the sentence I was writing before closing the book.

  "Oh? Now that sounds like a valuable thing to possess indeed." Ogun said with an ied look.

  "I doubt it sihe ehing is in code and only I have the cypher. Even if you somehow figured out the code I also made sure that I used nonsense words that only I know the meaning of as well in it." I said with a scoff.

  "Rather extreme lengths to go to for something without value." Ogun pointed out but I shrugged.

  "I value my privad this notebook does possess my ideas and discoveries so having it get stolen would suck quite a bit. May as well make stealing it a poihing then. Anyways the swords ready, I [Red current] by the way." I said reag o me and tossed the sword and sheathe to the level four.

  He caught it and with a nod from Ogun uhed it to be looked over. Hrhtly touched the edge with his fiip before sug in a breath as he started bleeding without even feeling the cut until it was too te. Ogun curiously ran a finger along the ft of the bde to try and feel any imperfes but obviously there were he level four was just marveling how great the bde felt in his hand during this time.-

  "Truly remarkable work, even with my ck of experience appraising ons I tell that this is a masterwork." Ogun praised.

  I shook my head "It is my best piece so far but not a masterwork, my level is far too low to make such a thing unfortunately." I said holy.

  "Theres o sell yourself short d this bdes almost as good as my axe and that's a bona fide first grade on." Hroldar said seriously.

  "I didn't say it wasn't an excellent on , just that it was no masterwork. The high quality of my crafts es from the treatment I give each of the materials and the sturdiness of my creations. But as far as properties go I'm afraid those that I imbue are quite g in parison. Not poor mind you just far more normal for a level two smith. As it stands right now I have mu for improvement in that regard so as I said it's not a masterwork." I said seriously.

  "That's a surprisingly well reasohought process. Not to say you don't have a det head on your shoulders but you seem to have a few stones rattling around up top normally." Hroldar said with a chuckle.

  "Yeah I get that a lot, wouldn't ge it for all the valis in the world though si lets me think more freely than you normal folk." I joked with a smirk.

  "Aye, a bit of madness is a makers mark my Da always said. Never uood it till I became an advehough." Hroldar said with a toothy grin.

  "Well as much as I'd like nothing more than to chat idly for the few hours we do have some matters to attend to still." Ogun said and calmly and Hroldar dropped off the other half of my payment in another sack before they said their goodbyes.