Limits. Limits Chapter 37

The next day, I woke up very excited and went straight to the blacksmith's workshop . Grond was already there working on his ingot . I needed to wait for him to leave . He had the same pattern of behaviour everyday . He would create one ingot, then take a break and leave for a while . In the time he was absent, I would create couple of moulds for my daggers . I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing, so I would store the moulds in my house instead of the workshop .

At about 9 . 30am, Grond left the workshop and I went straight to the table with soft clay to create my moulds . It would be possible to create a weapon with a mould that has an imprint on one side only but that was not what I wanted . I wanted the dagger to be perfect and therefore I had to create a closed mould . It wasn't difficult to do so, I just had to create two halves of the mould separately and then connect it together before baking it .

I made a thick square from the soft clay and pressed the dagger inside . I then took the measures of that square and created another one with the same dimensions and pressed that on top of the other mould with the dagger inside .

I now had a closed mould that would perfectly define curves and edges of my dagger . Of course I had to get the wooden dagger out before sealing the mould and baking it . It was not really a problem as long as the mould was not sealed . I opened it and carefully retrieved the dagger . I also made a small hole in the mould through which I would pour molten purified steel .

With all of that done, I sealed the mould and baked it . It would have to slowly bake for about 10 minutes and therefore I had time to start another one . It took me about 3 minutes to create a mould and each mould would bake for 10 minutes so I only could make 3 moulds in the time that Grond was absent .

After a bit more than 20 minutes I had my 3 moulds . I took them back to my house and stored them in a corner where no one would notice them easily . When I returned to the workshop, Grond was already there doing his ingot . He was a bit surprised that I was not in when he returned but didn't ask about anything . He probably thought I took a break as well .

I finished my 2nd ingot and then had some lunch . After that I dd my 3rd ingot and again finished around 12 . 30pm . Grond was no longer surprised that I finished earlier and although he might be slow he wasn't that stupid to not notice that I took shorter breaks than him .

I went out to train my skills as usual and catch some fishes . This time I wanted to study them, not eat them . I had to create a net to be able to catch more of them at once . It would also save me some time compared to using a rod . At the river, I could see schools of fishes swimming around . It was spring, a season of new life so fishes went out and were more energetic . I set my net in a place where the fishes with the ability to absorb light were and waited for some to get close .

I didn't have to wait long and that was due to my behaviour a.n.a.lysis . I applied that training to anything that moved now, whenever it was a fish or a human . I caught 3 fishes and looked at each in great details . I saw nothing out of ordinary, so I decided to cut them open . Maybe there is something different inside and it is not the scales .

I didn't have to wait long and that was due to my behaviour a.n.a.lysis . I applied that training to anything that moved now, whenever it was a fish or a human . I caught 3 fishes and looked at each in great details . I saw nothing out of ordinary, so I decided to cut them open . Maybe there is something different inside and it is not the scales .

When I opened the fishes one by one, I compared what was inside between the fishes I caught . I could see no obvious differences, even though I check very thoroughly . Maybe I caught ones that didn't possess this ability . I wasn't discouraged though and decided to roast the fishes and eat them . I didn't want to waste food for no apparent reason .

I set up my net again before I ate so that I would be able to catch them sooner . I ate the fishes which were not big and went to check on my net . The were again couple of fishes swimming around . After a while I pulled the net and got out 4 fishes this time .

I checked them and could find nothing out of ordinary . I didn't cut them open because I didn't want to waste fishes and I couldn't just eat all the fishes in the river . I released the fishes back into the water and had a sudden idea . I already learned how to throw weapons and therefore fis.h.i.+ng with the old style dagger I had on me would not be that difficult, if I use skills from the art of stealth .

I tried to spot the fish with the ability to absorb or avoid the light . I waited for about an hour before I found such fish . They were quite rare but now that I found one, I started calculating its behaviour . I retrieved my dagger and got ready to throw . When the fish swam opposite to my direction, I threw the dagger with one swift movement . I threw it quite hard as I didn't want the water to displace the energy or change its direction .

*Plum*

*Plum*

The dagger went into the water and it was fast enough to stab the fish through . I retrieved the fish and took out the dagger . I looked at it's scales and it seemed to be ordinary . I took off some of the scales and again examined them in greater details . I also tried to place them in front of the sun and see if this had any affect . To my surprise they were just normal scales .

That was a good thing and a bit bad . Good because I didn't want to wear clothes made out of fish scales . Bad because it was not scales, so it had to be an ability that the fish knew . Otherwise, how else would that work? I opened the fish up and check the insides . Again it was the same as the other fishes I caught . Now I was sure that it was an ability that some fishes would be born with .

I didn't give up, I had another idea . I would watch these fishes and their behaviour . Maybe this way I would learn how they can achieve that effect . But watching the whole school of fishes swimming around would be to tiring and to taxing on my mind . I needed to separate couple of such fishes and introduce a predator .

I went back to the village . I wanted to visit Nick and ask if he could get me a shovel . When I arrived at Nick's place, I asked him "Can you give me a shovel?" . He looked at me and said in a confused manner "Did you kill someone again?" to which I replied in anger "Just because I need a shovel, it means I killed someone?" to which Nick said "No, then why do you need it?" . I said "I need it to dig out a trench . I want to try something out and if I'm successful, it will help me a lot in my training" . He was even more confused and said "Digging out a trench will help in your training?" to which I said "Yes, can you get me that shovel or not?" .

Nick said "Sure, I can get you a shovel . Wait here I will be back in a while" . He then melded into shadows and disappeared . I wondered how can he just meld into the shadows . It was similar in effect to that of the fishes with this weird ability but it seemed that the method was completely different . After a while Nick returned with a shovel and handed it to me while saying "Here you go" . I thanked him and went out .
I went back to the village . I wanted to visit Nick and ask if he could get me a shovel . When I arrived at Nick's place, I asked him "Can you give me a shovel?" . He looked at me and said in a confused manner "Did you kill someone again?" to which I replied in anger "Just because I need a shovel, it means I killed someone?" to which Nick said "No, then why do you need it?" . I said "I need it to dig out a trench . I want to try something out and if I'm successful, it will help me a lot in my training" . He was even more confused and said "Digging out a trench will help in your training?" to which I said "Yes, can you get me that shovel or not?" .

Nick said "Sure, I can get you a shovel . Wait here I will be back in a while" . He then melded into shadows and disappeared . I wondered how can he just meld into the shadows . It was similar in effect to that of the fishes with this weird ability but it seemed that the method was completely different . After a while Nick returned with a shovel and handed it to me while saying "Here you go" . I thanked him and went out .

Back at the river, I dug a hole that was about a metre deep and couple of metres long . With my strength, digging that kind of hole was not a problem . After I dug the hole, I created two gates from thick branches . I wanted the water to flow through this pond and keep it fresh all the time but at the same time not let the fishes trapped inside run away .

My plan was simple . I would catch couple of fishes and put them inside this pond . Out of these couple I would have 2 or 3 that had the ability to absorb or hide away from the light . This way I would have only a few targets and it would be much easier to keep track of them .

Next, I had to dig channels to and from this pond and let the water flow in . I would have to wait at least a day before the hole I dug was clean and the natural current took away all the debris and lose earth .

After I did the chanels, the water rushed through and filled the pond . I installed the gates at both the entrance and exit and watched as the water flows . After a while of watching, I decided it was time to go back to my house and rest for tomorrow . I still had to read Great Scriptures of Evil Medic before I went to sleep, so I had not time to just watch the water flow .

When I returned, I went straight to the bed and read the book . I had many things planned for the next day . Things like creating my daggers from the moulds that I created today or trying to catch some fishes with the "avoidthe light" ability and putting them in my pond . Not long after, I fell asleep . The next day, I woke up very excited and went straight to the blacksmiths workshop . Grond was already there working on his ingot . I needed to wait for him to leave . He had the same pattern of behaviour everyday . He would create one ingot, then take a break and leave for a while . In the time he was absent, I would create couple of moulds for my daggers . I didnt want anyone to know what I was doing, so I would store the moulds in my house instead of the workshop . At about 9 . 30am, Grond left the workshop and I went straight to the table with soft clay to create my moulds . It would be possible to create a weapon with a mould that has an imprint on one side only but that was not what I wanted . I wanted the dagger to be perfect and therefore I had to create a closed mould . It wasnt difficult to do so, I just had to create two halves of the mould separately and then connect it together before baking it . I made a thick square from the soft clay and pressed the dagger inside . I then took the measures of that square and created another one with the same dimensions and pressed that on top of the other mould with the dagger inside . I now had a closed mould that would perfectly define curves and edges of my dagger . Of course I had to get the wooden dagger out before sealing the mould and baking it . It was not really a problem as long as the mould was not sealed . I opened it and carefully retrieved the dagger . I also made a small hole in the mould through which I would pour molten purified steel . With all of that done, I sealed the mould and baked it . It would have to slowly bake for about 10 minutes and therefore I had time to start another one . It took me about 3 minutes to create a mould and each mould would bake for 10 minutes so I only could make 3 moulds in the time that Grond was absent . After a bit more than 20 minutes I had my 3 moulds . I took them back to my house and stored them in a corner where no one would notice them easily . When I returned to the workshop, Grond was already there doing his ingot . He was a bit surprised that I was not in when he returned but didnt ask about anything . He probably thought I took a break as well . I finished my 2nd ingot and then had some lunch . After that I dd my 3rd ingot and again finished around 12 . 30pm . Grond was no longer surprised that I finished earlier and although he might be slow he wasnt that stupid to not notice that I took shorter breaks than him . I went out to train my skills as usual and catch some fishes . This time I wanted to study them, not eat them . I had to create a net to be able to catch more of them at once . It would also save me some time compared to using a rod . At the river, I could see schools of fishes swimming around . It was spring, a season of new life so fishes went out and were more energetic . I set my net in a place where the fishes with the ability to absorb light were and waited for some to get close . I didnt have to wait long and that was due to my behaviour a.n.a.lysis . I applied that training to anything that moved now, whenever it was a fish or a human . I caught 3 fishes and looked at each in great details . I saw nothing out of ordinary, so I decided to cut them open . Maybe there is something different inside and it is not the scales . When I opened the fishes one by one, I compared what was inside between the fishes I caught . I could see no obvious differences, even though I check very thoroughly . Maybe I caught ones that didnt possess this ability . I wasnt discouraged though and decided to roast the fishes and eat them . I didnt want to waste food for no apparent reason . I set up my net again before I ate so that I would be able to catch them sooner . I ate the fishes which were not big and went to check on my net . The were again couple of fishes swimming around . After a while I pulled the net and got out 4 fishes this time . I checked them and could find nothing out of ordinary . I didnt cut them open because I didnt want to waste fishes and I couldnt just eat all the fishes in the river . I released the fishes back into the water and had a sudden idea . I already learned how to throw weapons and therefore fis.h.i.+ng with the old style dagger I had on me would not be that difficult, if I use skills from the art of stealth . I tried to spot the fish with the ability to absorb or avoid the light . I waited for about an hour before I found such fish . They were quite rare but now that I found one, I started calculating its behaviour . I retrieved my dagger and got ready to throw . When the fish swam opposite to my direction, I threw the dagger with one swift movement . I threw it quite hard as I didnt want the water to displace the energy or change its direction . *Plum* The dagger went into the water and it was fast enough to stab the fish through . I retrieved the fish and took out the dagger . I looked at its scales and it seemed to be ordinary . I took off some of the scales and again examined them in greater details . I also tried to place them in front of the sun and see if this had any affect . To my surprise they were just normal scales . That was a good thing and a bit bad . Good because I didnt want to wear clothes made out of fish scales . Bad because it was not scales, so it had to be an ability that the fish knew . Otherwise, how else would that work? I opened the fish up and check the insides . Again it was the same as the other fishes I caught . Now I was sure that it was an ability that some fishes would be born with . I didnt give up, I had another idea . I would watch these fishes and their behaviour . Maybe this way I would learn how they can achieve that effect . But watching the whole school of fishes swimming around would be to tiring and to taxing on my mind . I needed to separate couple of such fishes and introduce a predator . I went back to the village . I wanted to visit Nick and ask if he could get me a shovel . When I arrived at Nicks place, I asked him Can you give me a shovel? . He looked at me and said in a confused manner Did you kill someone again? to which I replied in anger Just because I need a shovel, it means I killed someone? to which Nick said No, then why do you need it? . I said I need it to dig out a trench . I want to try something out and if Im successful, it will help me a lot in my training . He was even more confused and said Digging out a trench will help in your training? to which I said Yes, can you get me that shovel or not? . Nick said Sure, I can get you a shovel . Wait here I will be back in a while . He then melded into shadows and disappeared . I wondered how can he just meld into the shadows . It was similar in effect to that of the fishes with this weird ability but it seemed that the method was completely different . After a while Nick returned with a shovel and handed it to me while saying Here you go . I thanked him and went out . Back at the river, I dug a hole that was about a metre deep and couple of metres long . With my strength, digging that kind of hole was not a problem . After I dug the hole, I created two gates from thick branches . I wanted the water to flow through this pond and keep it fresh all the time but at the same time not let the fishes trapped inside run away . My plan was simple . I would catch couple of fishes and put them inside this pond . Out of these couple I would have 2 or 3 that had the ability to absorb or hide away from the light . This way I would have only a few targets and it would be much easier to keep track of them . Next, I had to dig channels to and from this pond and let the water flow in . I would have to wait at least a day before the hole I dug was clean and the natural current took away all the debris and lose earth . After I did the chanels, the water rushed through and filled the pond . I installed the gates at both the entrance and exit and watched as the water flows . After a while of watching, I decided it was time to go back to my house and rest for tomorrow . I still had to read Great Scriptures of Evil Medic before I went to sleep, so I had not time to just watch the water flow . When I returned, I went straight to the bed and read the book . I had many things planned for the next day . Things like creating my daggers from the moulds that I created today or trying to catch some fishes with the avoidthe light ability and putting them in my pond . Not long after, I fell asleep .