Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

Of course, the blacksmith Muramasa actually forged more than just these three weapons.

Since Shirou made a fortune from the auction, he simply started forging all sorts of weapons as he pleased, using them as practice.

He didn't discard most of the unfinished or failed products; instead, he gave them to the old blacksmith and let him dispose of them as he pleased.

This can be seen as Shirou repaying the old blacksmith for taking care of him all along.

The old blacksmith, however, did not accept this favor. He secretly took Shirou's weapon to auction or sold it directly to someone, and then invested the money he earned into the forging workshop to provide Shirou with a better environment for forging weapons, or simply to buy some rare materials.

The large amount of glaze stone that Shirou used to forge the Blade of Victory was obtained by the old blacksmith through his own channels at a high price.

However, he never brought up his own contributions to Shirou. Instead, he silently poured all his heart and soul into Shirou, treating him like a disciple.

Shirou lived up to his expectations and became active in the blacksmith world as the blacksmith Muramasa.

Unbeknownst to many, the blacksmith Muramasa was even given the title of "God of Craftsmen".

The forging masters of the mining tribe did not refute this highly provocative title. The current "God of Mining," who was at the pinnacle of forging, even went into complete seclusion after seeing Muramasa's forged weapon, and has not appeared in people's sight since that day.

It is evident that the influence of blacksmith Muramasa in the blacksmithing world was almost at the very pinnacle of his time, and no one could question his position.

However, none of this mattered to Shirou himself.

His purpose in forging weapons was purely to experience the joy of forging and to hone his sword magic.

Forging itself can further enhance his magic, and at the same time, it can also allow Shirou to further understand the essence of the sword and enhance his swordsmanship.

Through such rigorous training, Shirou's forging skills improved to a certain extent. However, he unknowingly reached a bottleneck, unable to forge weapons of divine quality.

Although Shirou once failed to project a divinely created treasure when he tried to project it.

But a projection is just a projection; it cannot reach the realm of gods, which is also a limitation of him as a mortal.

But forging is a more direct path, and Shirou unknowingly reached the pinnacle of mortal life on this path.

Only a ravine lay before them, a barrier that would soon lead them to an inhuman realm, but this ravine was practically a sheer cliff.

In an instant, Shirou almost instantly understood the thoughts of those legendary sword masters, and even the water god and sword god of this world.

It was so close, yet we missed it by a hair's breadth, and ended up way off.

Shirou finally experienced the kind of pain that only geniuses could understand.

He was deeply troubled by this, but he also knew that his troubles might never be resolved in his lifetime.

But this does not mean that Shirou will give up his goal of forging a divine treasure.

Or rather, he became even more determined to forge a divinely created treasure, because it would be a tremendous test and an extremely attractive path for him.

If one day we could forge Saber's Excalibur...

Just thinking about this one thing made Shirou instinctively excited and unable to extricate himself.

Of course, Shirou couldn't spend all his time forging; what was more important for him right now was learning the Light Blade from Kyrie.

Compared to before, his swordsmanship is now quite impressive, and the speed of his Silent Katana is at least three times faster.

Even so, Shirou still hasn't reached the level of the Blade of Light.

He was confused about this and didn't understand why.

Kyrie Irgen offered no explanation, only instructing Shirou to continue training and use his body to understand the true difference between the Blade of Light and the Blade of Silence.

Time passed by gradually.

Before she knew it, Alice's tenth birthday was fast approaching.

Alice was born in the year 405 of the Ankylion calendar. She was two years older than Rudeus, and naturally three years younger than Shirou.

Her tenth birthday means that Shirou is now thirteen years old.

Turning ten is a special birthday.

Nobles had a custom of holding large banquets and celebrating their fifth, tenth, and fifteenth birthdays.

When Shirou turned ten, he received congratulations from his family and had many celebrations.

Alice's birthday was naturally celebrated in an even grander way, with the entire Boreas clan enveloped in a warm atmosphere, and even various families and nobles were invited to attend.

But no one expected that an unexpected person would appear at this banquet.

That is the current second princess of the Asura Kingdom, Ariel Anemoi Asura.

Chapter 143 First Encounter with Princess Ariel

The Boreas family held an extremely grand banquet and made extensive preparations for Alice's tenth birthday, making the entire Boreas family castle very lively.

As Alice's swordsmanship teacher, Shirou naturally had to prepare for her birthday, specifically, to prepare a birthday gift.

Shirou once gave gifts to Rudeus and Sylphie. The gift he gave Rudeus was a projected short sword. Although it wasn't anything special, Rudeus was very happy to receive it.

As for Sylphie's birthday, Shirou didn't prepare much; he simply taught Sylphie some cooking skills.

So essentially, Shirou has almost never formally prepared gifts for anyone.

As the eldest daughter of the Boreas family, Alice's status and identity would not allow others to give her simple gifts.

If I need to give Alice a gift, I must choose it carefully and not give her anything cheap.

Shirou pondered this for several days and finally came up with a good idea: to give Alice a weapon he had forged himself as a gift.

However, his reputation as the blacksmith Muramasa is now too great. If the weapons he forges are too outstanding, it will easily lead people to associate him with Muramasa.

Therefore, weapons cannot be forged using the usual methods; it is best to forge weapons using less common methods.

Just then, Shirou happened to have this idea in mind. He had reached a bottleneck in forging, so he thought about many interesting methods for forging weapons.

It includes not only the Noble Phantasms of Heroic Spirits, but also some things that are even more interesting than Noble Phantasms.

For example, by imitating the black keys of the original world, a weapon could be created that only requires the injection of magic to form a sword body, making it easy to carry around in daily life.

If it were something like that, giving it to Alice as a birthday present wouldn't be considered impolite, would it?

As Shirou painstakingly devised a plan to recreate a weapon like the Black Key in this world, time passed little by little.

Every morning, Shirou learns the Light Blade from Kyrie Irwin, and in the afternoon he teaches Alice swordsmanship. In the evening, he goes to the workshop to forge weapons.

They lived a life that could be described as a repetitive cycle.

Shirou's current skill with the Light Blade is probably only at the very beginning.

Just like Izuru, whom I fought before, she had just glimpsed the threshold of the Saint level, but was still a long way from becoming a true Sword Saint.

However, he is at least making progress step by step, and it is believed that given enough time, he will surely be able to master the true Light Blade and become a Sword Saint.

In addition to Shirou's own swordsmanship, Alice's swordsmanship has also improved considerably.

Perhaps the battle with Izuru greatly stimulated her.

After returning to Boreas Castle, Alice devoted all her time to honing her swordsmanship, becoming a completely different person from before.

What's most astonishing is that Alice has become much more serious about even her other subjects, including literacy.

This is clearly the biggest growth the young lady has ever experienced.

The gap and comparison with peers are often the most effective ways to promote personal growth.

Of course, Shirou's leading and exemplary role as a teacher undoubtedly had a huge impact in this process.

Every time Shirou teaches Alice, it's not just about swordsmanship; it's also about teaching her principles and ways of life.

Alice used to be like a rabid dog, showing a fierce attitude towards anyone who looked down on her, and even physically assaulting them.

But Shirou told her that this behavior was wrong.

Power is not for showing off or for instilling awe and fear in others, but for improving oneself, constantly surpassing one's own limits, and even the limits of the world, on a road with no end in sight.

Moreover, Shirou himself did just that.

Although he was very strong, he was never arrogant and often gave swordsmanship instruction to the knights and swordsmen of the Boreas family, and mingled with the common people.

Children are easily influenced by those around them and naturally imitate those they are close to.

Alice saw his behavior as she had seen her grandfather, Sholos, and was subtly influenced, becoming more serious and better able to control her emotions than before.

However, Alice's personality is ultimately unchangeable; she remains as irritable and impulsive as ever. It's just that now, in moments of irritability and impulsiveness, she won't immediately resort to violence. Instead, she will try her best to remain calm and refrain from violence until she truly loses her temper.

In short, the changes in the young lady were visible to almost everyone in the entire Boreas family.

The members of the Boreas family now highly regard Shirou and even consider him a member of the family.

Therefore, even if Shirou simply prepared an ordinary gift for Alice on her birthday, no one would say anything; in fact, they would think that this is the proper attitude between family members.

However, Shirou himself was still too serious. He wouldn't allow himself to do anything impolite, so he racked his brains to come up with a birthday present for Alice.

……

Alice's birthday arrived quickly.

On the birthday, the mansion’s main hall and the atrium leading to it will be open to the public.

As one of the four great lords, Boreas would receive gifts from all over the territory and invite nobles from the towns to come.

Because Sauros was an unconventional military officer, the initial plan was to adopt an unregulated buffet style of eating and drinking, and even allow commoners to attend. However, such a shameless approach was obviously impossible to pass. In order to stop him, Philip suggested that it be made more convenient for nearby middle-ranking nobles to participate, so it was changed to a ball.

This approach effectively discouraged most ordinary people from attending the ball, leaving it only open to middle- and upper-class wealthy merchants and nobles with experience at such events.

On this day, the people in the mansion were busy preparing for the banquet.

You can see a maid with dog ears running down the corridor.

Generally speaking, maids should be strictly forbidden from running, but this house seems to be quite special. When things are busy, even the maids run without hesitation, and they sprint at full speed.

To avoid blocking the way, Shirou walked along the edge of the corridor.

He hadn't seen Alice for several days.

It is said that Alice, who is the main character of the banquet, has been receiving special training in etiquette and manners these days, so she has even had to put aside her swordsmanship lessons.

Alice is, after all, a noblewoman, and even the eldest daughter of the Boreas family. She can't afford to be too rude in terms of basic aristocratic etiquette.

Whether for Alice's sake or for their own pride, the Boreas clan will do everything they can to ensure Alice performs well enough.

However, Alice's etiquette training soon hit a bottleneck.

Rather than calling it a bottleneck, it's more accurate to say that there's been absolutely no progress.

Ms. Edna, the etiquette teacher, was exhausted but made no progress, and could only try to significantly increase the training time.

This is why Shirou didn't see Alice for several days.

Considering Philip's attitude, Shirou felt that he probably wouldn't have a chance to see Alice before the birthday party started.

So he simply started training the Blade of Light on his own.

However, because his usual routine was disrupted, Shirou couldn't concentrate for long even when he was practicing, so he simply went to the forge to forge his nearly completed black keys.

Despite being called a black key, this is actually just a magical item with black key properties.

The main body is just a cube the size of a sword hilt.

Simply by injecting magic, the sword can appear out of thin air.

It's somewhat similar to the lightsaber in Star Wars.

However, unlike the principle of a laser sword, Shirou's idea for creating this sword came from his own sword magic, or rather, it was simply a replica of sword magic onto a magical artifact.

Although it is an extremely complex prop, it is not expensive at all. However, due to the complexity of its handmade production, it is unlikely to be mass-produced. It would make a very nice birthday gift.

After finishing the processing and forging of the black keys, Shirou left the forge, intending to explore the castle and see if anyone needed his help.

Shirou still really enjoys helping others.

Shirou soon spotted a troubled figure: a girl with long blonde hair wearing an elegant but not particularly glamorous pale red dress.

She was looking around, clearly a first-time visitor to the Boreas family estate, and somewhat lost because the castle was so enormous.

Shirou realized that the other person probably didn't know how to get around the banquet hall, so he immediately asked, "Miss, do you need my help?"

"Oh?"

The blonde girl was taken aback by Shirou's sudden appearance. After seeing his simple yet earnest face and glancing at him, she smiled slightly. "If you could, could you tell me how to get to the Boreas family's forging workshop?"

"A forging workshop?"

Shirou was taken aback when he realized that such a noble lady would want to go to such a crowded and chaotic place as the forging workshop.

Seeing his reaction, the blonde girl smiled and said, "I was just curious about the forging workshop in Boreas and simply wanted to go and take a look. After all, I've heard that the Boreas clan are all brave and skilled warriors, so I imagine their weapons must be excellent."