As we continued, Moon revealed a more and more strained look.


    After all, she had to maintain the magic mes that were being used to heat the metal to make it malleable.


    The amount of mana she needed to maintain these mes wasn''t a small amount, so she was slowly being drained by having to maintain these mes. It really was hard for her to keep going.


    It was just a good thing that before she ran out of mana, I said, "Alright, that''s enough."


    Moon let out a sigh of relief and released the mes at that moment.


    Ivarnded onst blow to the metal and finished forming the de.


    The moment that the mes disappeared, the metal quickly cooled down and returned to its hard form.


    At this point, even if Ivar wanted to forge it, he wouldn''t be able to do a thing to it.


    All that would happen is that it would break the hammer just like before.


    But seeing this de, I gave a satisfied nod.


    Now it was my turn.


    Instead of carving right into the de, this time I pulled out a bag of powder and a brush.


    Even if I wanted to carve into the de, it would have been impossible with how hard it was. Unless I was able to gain some kind of magical strength that defied all expectations to be able to carve into this de.


    Though whether I had a tool that could do that was still a doubt.


    Still, that wasn''t what I had been nning to do in the first ce.


    This powder that I had was a special powder that I had prepared for this duel.


    This powder was made from a mixture of special ores and herbs, creating a catalyst that would absorb mana at a rate far greater than before.


    The powder that I had sprinkled into the runes carved before was only a low grade powder. It was actually the weakest form that I could have brought out, out of all the ones that were in my head.


    The one that I had taken out now…was an upper middle catalyst.


    Without finding more materials, this was already the highest level catalyst that I could take out.


    But the effects of this…were without a doubt shocking.


    It took me a while to finish drawing the runes on since I had decided to go all out.


    A total of eleven different runes.


    At this moment in time, this could be considered a sword that could even kill gods.


    But that was only because this was the beginning of the game.


    If it was measured in levels, this was a sword that was around level 50 while everyone here was currently only around level 20.


    There was no doubt that this would be considered a divine weapon.


    The only thing that I had to worry about was not having enough mana to finish this weapon.


    But luckily that was where the Dwarven King came in.


    He had provided quite a few magic stones. These magic stones came from A Rank monsters, so the mana that they contained wasn''t small.


    These would be more than enough to make a god killing sword.


    This time, I didn''t even need Moon''s help to use the magic stones to fill the runes with mana.


    Since there were these magic stones, all that was needed was a gentle nudge for it to happen.


    I had been practicing my mana control this whole time, so I was able to do this on my own.


    As the mana flowed into the sword, Moon couldn''t help revealing a shocked look.


    That was because she could sense the amount of mana that was in the magic stones and how much of it was being transferred into the sword.


    With this much mana…this would be without a doubt a terrifying weapon.


    The mana easily flowed into the runes that I had drawn, that was the effect of the catalyst.


    It didn''t even take much mana on my part to induce this.


    The mana inside the magic stones almost seemed to flow out the moment that the connection was filled.


    This was just how powerful this catalyst was.


    When all the runes were filled, the magic that was contained within this de reached an incredible level.


    This was without a doubt a divine weapon.


    All that was left was to sharpen the edge of the de and finish it off.


    Once again, I needed Moon''s help.


    This was an incredibly hard metal and unless we used magic, it wouldn''t work.


    My mana alone was far from being enough for this, so I needed her to help me.


    She had used this time to recover her mana, so she was able to help me with this.


    Moon used her mana to cast a strengthening enchantment on the sand stone, so it was able to grind down the edge of the de.


    The grind stone was able to easily smooth out the edge of the de to form a sharp de.


    After grinding it a few times, I gave a satisfied nod as I looked at the sword.


    Then I turned the de around and put a little mark at the bottom of the de.


    I had never done this before because I never thought much about the des that I had made before, but this time…it was different.


    This was a de that I had put my heart into, one that I felt was a fine work of art.


    It was with this de that I understood why craftsmen would put their marks on the works that they were most satisfied with.


    It was a way of passing down their name.


    It was a way of marking their pride.


    It was even a way of saying that this de was like their children.


    When I finished putting that mark on the bottom of this de, I turned to find that Drogath had also finished with his de.


    It was time for us to test our des against each other.