Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"The blacksmith hall is just near the place where you trained your spear tricks, just a couple of streets away from that place," Shin explained before adding, "As for gold coins, the entry fees isn't that big, I recall it was near 10 gold coins. We have sold all extra equipment at the village and you can afford practicing there."

Shin then transferred 10 gold coins to me, I received the system notification and agreed upon it without delay.

"Will this be enough?" I asked in doubt.

"Yes, they will suffice, and when you manage to make more equipment then you can sell them and fund yourself. Until then, we will try our best to hunt equipment from monsters here," Shin replied.

I nodded and then I said:

"Good luck then."

"To you too."

I then moved leaving the adventure hall. I met more players the deeper I walked inside this town. It seemed more players had reached level 10 every minute. 

I felt astonished by their numbers, as this was only one of many small towns scattered in this world. How many players played in this game then? That was unbelievable.

I walked for around half an hour, and finally I managed to stumble my way into the place where I met my master. I glanced for some time at that empty area of land where the training hall was occupying with complicated feelings. 

This small experience here helped me a lot without knowing that, and it saved my life as well. I took a deep breath as I moved towards the next street reading each building sign. The street next to the one the spear training hall was at didn't have any blacksmith hall, and then I moved to the next one. 

This time, my luck was good, as I easily found the building. I didn't need to read any sign at all, as the building had a huge hammer statue in front of it. It was an obvious indicator for the identity of the building, and as I neared him I read its sign to make sure of my guess. 

I entered the building at once, where I was welcomed by complete silence and a contrast emptiness to the outside.

"What are you doing here, adventurer? Are you lost? Here is the blacksmith hall."

I turned to look at the sound which came from behind me all of a sudden, I was startled by it as I was really lost in this building. I already crossed the entrance hall and entered into a wider hall that seemed to be prepared for meetings or something. 

I found a young NPC who was a decade older than me, wearing a long gold cape as he stood there at the entrance which I just came from. That was weird, because I didn't see anyone there a moment ago.

"I'm sorry, I just came from outside and found no one there."

"Oh, no worries, I'm here now. How may I help you?" he said.

"I want to learn blacksmith, so I came here to do it," I said as I felt awkward as someone got caught sneaking around.

"Oh, that's good, adventures like you always try to level up first before they try to come here, after all you aren't a lifestyle player, right?" he said.

"Yes, my main class is spearman," I replied.

"Oh, that's nice, but to practice blacksmith you must first acquire a blacksmith lifestyle class, which will cost you 100 gold coins." He said.

"No, I have already that class, I just want to start learning it," I replied to clear out things.

"Oh, that's better then. Follow me please," he said.

I moved behind him going back again to the main entrance that I just came from, where he went to stand behind a desk as he said:

"Oh, I didn't introduce myself, my name is Lary."

"Hi Lary, I'm Agatha."

"Oh, what a nice name. Tell me, do you want me to explain everything to you or you already know your stuff?" he said.

"Please explain everything, I hardly know anything about this class," I replied with some embarrassment, as I felt stupid to come here without even collecting some basic info from Shin and my team.

���Oh, that's nothing to be embarrassed with, I advise you to record what I'm going to tell you, so you can return to it anytime," he said.

"Record?!" I asked with loss at first before my mind knew he was referring to the video recording function, so I added, "I activated it, you can speak now."

"Oh, that's just perfect. First of all, I must speak about the well known ranking system that we use here. Blacksmiths make different kinds of equipment, and so the rank of any blacksmith is determined by the grade of the weapon he can make. 

Blacksmiths are divided into white, red, silver, gold, blue, black, and lastly green, and these can be recognized by their cape. As for mine, as you can I'm a gold blacksmith, that means I can make gold grade equipment," he said.

"What level of equipment can you make?" I asked, pointing to his cape.

"Oh, all blacksmiths can make any level of an equipment, as long as you have the design and materials needed for it. the grade of your equipment, however, is determined by your skill," he replied.

"Then it must be important to have a lot of designs and many materials then," I said.

"Oh, you are right, but blacksmith isn't an easy class, or cheap. You will need a massive amount of coins to buy enough designs for you and materials for your trials," he said.

"Trials?"

"Oh, you don't expect to succeed each time you try to make an equipment, do you?" he said with a frank surprise on his face.

"I didn't know there are failures," I muttered as I realized how expenses my class would be, and that only meant more pressure over myself and the team. Now I understood why Shin was in such a hurry to push me learning this stuff, and also going out to gather more gold.

"Oh, listen well then, if you have a success rate of ten percent then you are considered a fine blacksmith. You have to learn how to live with failure here, or else you won't make it," he said with some sympathy in his tone. 

His words made me despair, as this very low success rate was really frustrating to any person, and I wasn't an exception.