A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 124: Winter Times

Chapter 124: Winter Times

When I go into work that day, they could tell what I had been doing not long ago and gave me a knowing look. I was embarrassed so I just hid away in my work area and did some orders that came through for some ornamental daggers for some nobles.

Thankfully for me, both the heat of the fires and due to me being physically active, I wasn’t affected by the cold. Also, the daggers were custom orders by Runaq and Triteas, they specifically asked for me to make them so I spent most of the day on it. I couldn’t quite finish them all but all that was left was to insert some decorations into the hilt.

Also, before I left, I spoke to Harmur about the restaurant and asked if we could all go there for breakfast one day. He liked the idea but said that I would be paying which I was more than happy to do so for them, after all, they gave me the knowledge to create things, to create tools that people would use to help others. Even if... Even if that purpose was war...

Shaking those thoughts out of my head, I went back home and had dinner with Cythistia and her family. Later that night, we had a load of sex and made a mess of the bed as usual.

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The following morning my maid dutifully helped me warm up for the day by clearing me of my morning wood as I was waking up.

Unlike yesterday though, I didn’t spend my time just fucking and instead just went for a couple of quick rounds with her before I went back to my normal routine of taking a bath, having breakfast and then going to work.

Apart from having to be woken up by such a sexy maid in such a pleasurable manner, my days went about as normal.

I did take a day off at some point to get some more winter clothes as I had to borrow some from one of Cythistia’s cousins. I did return the clothes later that day when I came back after getting my own.

Like that, days passed like normal. With work being the only real part of life that would have some difference purely because of what I would be making. Otherwise, it was just eat, sleep and fuck, and I mean, who wouldn’t enjoy such a lifestyle?

Also, I did bring everyone out to ’The Golden Eggs’ for lunch. I wanted to bring them out for breakfast but I couldn’t as not everyone was in at that time so it was scheduled for lunch instead, which is fine. It just seemed to be a great place to have breakfast is all.

Not much else happened over the next few months. I did go on a couple of dates with Cythistia every now and then. I did execute another prisoner to sate my hunger and met up with Runaq and friends who thanked me for the daggers and for also making them usable.

See, normally when someone asks for an ornamental piece, you make it just that, ornamental, but what’s the point of that? If you ask for a blade, then no matter what its purpose is, it should still be able to be used as a blade, otherwise, why make it?

Anyways, we spent a bit of time together after that and they asked if I would like to come to the twin’s birthday party to which I said yes. Of course I would go to my new friend’s birthday party, it would be incredibly rude not to.

The only problem was what would I get them? I wanted to make them something like I did for Cythistia, but I wasn’t sure what to make them. So I asked their husbands for some insight.

They suggested that I make them some form of jewellery, the only problem was that I wasn’t well versed in making such things. They told me it was fine as I had a month until it was their birthday.

It was probably also a good time to expand my crafting knowledge from just blades to intricate items like jewellery and armour. I would obviously start with jewellery first since that was what I wanted to make.

The day after that I asked if I could learn to smith other things besides sharp weapons and they were more than happy to teach me.

It started out simple in the first week where they taught me the variations between making weapons and accessories. Most of it was the same, it was just the mould that was different and then shaping the metal afterwards that was different.

The reason being because I had to think about what kind of decorative design I wanted to have, and yes, we have moulds for the general shape of the items like a ring but we don’t have and moulds for an intricate or ornately designed ring. This is because if we did that, due to the way that molten metals work, it wouldn’t set quite right and would come out looking a bit weird.

Hence why they were teaching me hot to carve things out to make the details I, or whomever ordered anything, ordered. I seemed to be really good at it, to the point that it genuinely surprised them as you’re typically not supposed to be this good.

I think the reason that I’m so good at this is the way my father taught me how to write is something that normal people are supposed to learn. I think it he called it the ’Astral Runecraft’ or something. It was basically some sort of all-encompassing versatile technique that seems to be applicable to almost every situation.

Over the next few weeks, my skill in creating accessories increased, so much so that Harmur even said that I could probably take the next examination test and pass with flying colours. I told him I’d do it after the Snowhide’s birthday party and he was fine with that arrangement.

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I had finished creating the twins a pair of matching hairpins in the form of little Chibi rabbit faces. I wasn’t sure what exactly to make so I just went with an over exaggerated cute hairpin mad out of some gold, silver and some tiny mana stones for the eyes. It was rather simple but I had spent most of my time practicing, so this was the best I could do given the time frame.

It was now the day of their birthday and I was heading over with Cythistia to attend. And since I was bringing her along, she also decided to bring them a small gift.

When we arrived at their family manor and were greeted by Rayla.

"Ah! You’re finally here Traytora!" She waved at us as we arrived.

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