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Snow fell from the cloudy skies, covering a beautiful mountain range. The mountains shone brightly, as if they were made of glass. However, they were all covered by blue colored spirit stones, highly valuable materials imbued with the element of water and ice, that had grown over eons of absorbing the ice that constantly fell over these magic-imbued mountains of old.
A small house with a stone exterior and wooden interior rested near the top of the tallest mountain, completely isolated from any other living being in kilometers. And there was a small chimney, letting out a lot of smoke, expensive coal stones and magic imbued ores were being burned there.
Inside of the house, a small, young-looking woman with long light blue hair and fiery orange eyes looked into the furnace in front of her, as she dexterously handled a piece of ingot she began to slowly melt with the fire and shape using a hammer. Her small size and cute appearance would fool many into thinking she was younger than she truly was, and also physically weaker.
However, her sleek yet muscular arms were no joke, and the muscles in her torso sweating constantly as she shaped the metal before the flames of the furnace were no joke either. She wasn't the daughter of a dwarf forger for nothing.
CLANK!
CLANK!
CLANK!
She sighed, as she looked at the piece of metal, it was slowly shaping itself into the pointy end of a spear, she quickly imbued magic into her hammer once more, putting some more incantations and mixing runes and magic into the metal.
CLANK!
CLANK!
CLANK!
"Phew…"
She quickly grabbed the piece of burning metal with her bare hands, as they were covered by a protective layer of mana, and then she conjured ice, covering the metal in an instant and absorbing all of it eat. It quickly hardened into a sharp and pointy end of a spear.
"Done… With this that princess from that one Dwarven Kingdom will be satisfied… I imbued it with Piercing Magic that can ignore a small percentage of defense…" She sighed. "But it is odd for Dwarves to be into spears, she's a strange lad, that's for sure."
A small Spirit appeared behind her, resembling a little lizard covered with scales made of crystal ice.
"Felicia, they sent you something new."
"Huh? What this time? And who?"
"Old friends, apparently.
"Oh?!"
The little witch quickly stood up, cleaning the sweat from her forehead, and walking straight to her living room. There, a large magic device resembling a box was letting out some white smoke, the sign of something having been teleported in there.
She quickly grabbed the thing sent to her; it was a Small Dimensional Box. In the box, a paper was attached to it, saying some words that made her remember old friends.
"Hello Felicia, it has been truly a while since we talked. I've recently gotten a second kid, his name is Zephyr. My daughter ended breaking her sword in a fight we had against True Demons. I was thinking if you could enchant it after I fix it. I've sent you the materials ahead of time. Be careful whenever you open the box. Kind regards, Faylen."
Felicia finished reading the paper as she raised an eyebrow.
"Can't believe this woman already got herself a second kid and I haven't even found a man myself… Maybe I should try to get a kid too, huh?" She wondered, looking at her small spirit.
"I mean, you're a hero, you could just walk to that nearby town and get yourself a husband if you wanted." Said the spirit.
"Yeah but that's boring, I want an interesting one. Preferably not a dwarf." Sighed the blue haired beauty, quickly looking at the box in front of her. "So True Demon Materials, huh? In what sort of trouble has Faylen and her family gotten into this time? If there are really True Demons showing up like nothing, and her daughter fought one of them, then this must be serious…"
Felicia suddenly got slightly concerned. However, if the mail said they were fine, then perhaps they were fine. Pointlessly worrying wasn't something she often did.
"Well, let's check them out."
She quickly waved her hand as a door made of ice opened behind her in a mere instant, grabbing the box and walking through the door, finding herself within a completely different space, a palace made of ice.
"Your Palace of Ice is as big as ever, Crystal." She said, looking at the enormous Ancient Ice Dragoness sitting right in front of her.
"Huh? What with this visit out of the blue, Felicia?" She wondered.
"I've got you a big surprise. I know you're a junkie for weird stuff… hehehe. Look!"
Felicia opened the box, as an enormous and demonic aura surged from within, the Ice Dragoness was shocked, stepping back in surprise.
"What the…?! True Demon Energy?" She asked in surprise.
"I've got materials that cost a fortune, for free! My friends are the best!" Laughed Felicia. "The only thing I need to do is enchant a weapon with these items…"
"But this amount of energy… those are not normal True Demons, Felicia!" The Dragon said.
"Yep she's right." The small lizard at Felicia's side said.
"Hey, hey, I know. There's some shady stuff going on back in the continent where they are… But it is not like I am going to get there just to investigate. I am no longer a Hero after all. I've retired." Said the witch, quickly beginning to smoke from a pipe. "Time to refine these babies…"
The ice dragoness and the small ice lizard at her side sighed, facepalming.
"Her adoration for rare materials and crafting has no end…"
"Yeah, she hasn't changed one bit…"
As her two Familiars lamented having made a contract with such a woman obsessed over materials, crafting, and alchemy over saving the world, Faylen sighed in relief, looking at the teleportation device.
"Looks like things were teleported without problems… I wonder how's Felicia doing."
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