Ragon: You are telling me that a brat like you is at the level of basic knights?
Asta: Yup.
Ragon: 'I have to be careful and anger him.' Well enough talk let's get something to eat.
Asta nods and the duo leaves for a restaurant called bink's sake.(Reference) They arrived and sat at a empty table.
Ragon: Kana, get me some fresh deep swamp koi fried and chopped... And.. what do you want kiddo?
Asta: Some crunchy with a bowl of noodles.
Ragon: a bowl of odon noodles and some palitian beef.
A small girl with a bandana and nods with a salute and goes to the kitchen.
Asta: This place gives a good vibe.
Ragon: Ofcourse it does, this restaurant has been running for a few decades now. I was one of main investors as well.
???: More like a main customer.
From the kitchen, a old man with long moustache and braided hair comes out. He is wearing a apron and some gloves.
???: You have been 3% percent of our overall income to say the least.
Ragon: Are you complaining now perov?
Perov: Never. Business has been booming since you became the top runesmith in the city... Your arm.
Ragon: Just some accident. Meet the kid first.
Asta: Hello.
Perov: Did you have secret grandchild or something? I don't remember you getting married.
Ragon: Hey don't say that. *Goes into slight depression* You didn't have to reveal the cruel truth.
Asta: I am his student, also the one who saved from dying.
Perov: Seriously? *Turns to ragon furiously* You almost died you tiny feeted land fish?
Asta: That's quite a name.
Perov: He got that when he faced a turtle and lost in a race.
Asta looks ragon who looks very embarrassed. Suddenly a loud boom sound comes from outside and then a strong wind with dust and debris.
Asta: The heck is going on?
Asta walks out to see two people throwing magic at eachother like crazy. One was boy wearing a red witch hat and orange cloak while having a wand in hand. The other was tall girl with a grimoire in hand and yellow hair wearing a full sleeve coat, a pair of pants with some boots and cloth band on the forehead.
???: I am gonna beat the hell out of you Little punk.
???: Shut up you giantess, I am gonna blast you to the hospital today.
The boy raises his grimoire and holding the wand and summons a rain of fireballs, the girl uses her grimoire to create a dome of rocks to save herself.
Asta: These punk, the restaurant will take damage if that hits. *Brings out his grimoire* cyclone blade.
The grimoire opens and pages flutter like crazy until it reaches a bunch of pages somewhere before the last, the pages lit up and with a swipe of his hand, a blade of wind travels towards the boy and slams into the magic circle above him, cutting the circle into half before shredding it. Asta lunges forward and hits the boy with a straight punch to the face.
Asta: TAKE THE FIGHT SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU MORON.
The boy flies like rock and bounces across the road before coming to a stop after hitting a fruit stand. He lay there on the ground, blood coming out of his nose while being covered by crushed fruits.
???: The ****.
The girl looks through a hole in the done, asta turns in rage and slowly walks to it.
Asta: You better come out of yourself or I will drag you out.
???: Heh? In your dreams you tiny kid, go drink you-
Asta's brow furrows, he enhances his hand with ki while creating a coating with anti-magic and slams his small fist into the dome, his fist smashes through , he grabs the girl's collar and throws her into a bundle of hay. The crowd is shocked at the insane strength of a barely 11 kid while Ragon and perov look at him from inside the restaurant.
Ragon: I ain't threatening him ever again.
Perov: You shouldn't.. he will pick you up and dry you in the sun if you dare
Ragon: Should I pay the fruit stand and hay owner?
Perov: Let it be, those kids are probably going to get detention by their teacher today. Maybe even the hospital for the boy.
Ragon: Whose kids are they?
Perov: Nimus.. he picked them up from the his cousin's house. That kid what is his name?
Asta: It's asta.
From the main gate, asta walks in and sits down at the table again.
Asta: the fireball hit the sign.
Perov: WHAT!!!
Perov and his workers then had to stop the fire from burning away their sign, luckily there was reserve scroll for spell ' water flow' and they had it stopped quickly.
Ragon: that spell. Did you take from the bandit's?
Asta:no.. I got enough space for three spells after absorbing his and decided to use one.
Ragon: Hoh? Your grimoire is quite interesting to say the least.
Perov walks in while his workers went back to their duty.
Perov: Thanks kid, I am sure they would have burnt the whole storeroom if you had not stopped him, the guy to the side also had his attic on fire but we stopped it.
Asta: I only did what I must.
Perov: Then eat all you want. KANA GET US OUR SPECIALITY.
The girl walks out of the kitchen few minutes later with a plate of giant pizza? (Obesity intensifies)
Asta and ragon are till their stomach was full and returned back to the workshop.
Ragon: Come with kiddo.
Ragon took asta with him to the underground basement, asta looks in astonishment at the giant hammers and weapons that lay on the ground.
Asta: those hammers are twice my size, how do you even use them master?
Ragon: those are not my hammers, they are failed products, that is my hammer.
Ragon points to a one handed hammer with black colour hanging near a anvil.
Ragon: You said you wanted to make a weapon for yourself right? This will be our first practical lesson.
Asta: But your arm?
Ragon: You will be the one making it kiddo, I gave you the entire theory work while we coming to the city.
Asta: But I have never tried it myself.
Ragon: Didn't you make your grimoire with just theory? Also I have no shortage materials, so go wild.
Asta through hesitant and nervous, agreed and decided to make the weapon he could think of, the demon slasher katana. Luckily he has seen blacksmiths in land of sun make some.
He first lighted a small fire in the forge under Ragon's supervision, added the coal and tried to find some iron to create some quality steel. Ragon looks at him with curosity as he had not seen such a technique a lot.
Ragon: 'is that a steel made like those in surging wave islands? How did he learnt to make those?' Are you trying to create steel?
Asta: Yes.
Ragon: There is some better iron in that corner, leave those scraps alone.
Asta took a bunch of iron ores, heated then up and smacked them with a hammer again and again repeated the process as ragon told him, then he melted the iron at very high temperature in a blast furnace alongside some coke and limestone which ragon had in stock, asta managed to create pig iron.
A variety of process were made like blowing air into pig iron at high temperatures which asta did with some wind magic(he can choose to use anti-magic or normal version, anti-magic one takes 10 times the amount of mana compared to normal.) sometimes he overheated the furnace but ragon with his blacksmith magic helped control the heat and remove impurities from the metal, then asta begin heating and hammering the steel to fold it into a katana. It took over 2 hours of work for a decent katana to be made but ragon Just smelted it again in front of asta and made him do it again in his own.
Ragon: 'I barely managed to learn how to hammer just enough to not break the metal at that age, but this kid is already folding it. I will make sure his first weapon will be masterpiece.'
Over 6 hours later, asta finally managed to create something that got ragon's approval unknowing of the fact that he created a katana that even the blacksmiths of land of sun will treat as high rank among themselves.
Ragon: That thing will last a long time, let's move to the new thing shall we?
Ragon pushed asta aside and took up his own hammer.
Ragon: Watch this kid. This is runesmithing.
Asta watched as Ragon used mana to create rune and embedded them in the sword with his hammer, one by one the polished shining katana was being shaped into a something out of asta's expectations.