Chapter 295 – Working long hours again.

“So this is it?”

“We’ll have to make do with it, without a proper forge we won’t be able to create the parts that easily and it’s easier to modify this one than to make a new one from scratch.

“Aye, so Boss, have you decided on what we will be making?”

“Yeah, a very thick double door.”

“A double door huh? Does the City Lord need one for his home or something?”

“I guess that could be a good excuse for now but …”

Roland and Bernir had arrived at what looked to be a fully functional smithy. It did not belong to the dwarven union and was created for the city lord instead. Their location was in one of the guard towers’ upper floors. This area was intended for Roland or another blacksmith that only performed tasks for Arthur. Now that he had officially taken up that spot this was kind of his working area. While the tools were inferior to the ones he had back home it was a proper workshop that they could use.

“There is more to it?”

“Yeah, listen up, this can’t be known by anyone, we could get into trouble if the union finds out.”

Bernir wasn’t sure what this was all about as he only got asked to get his butt over here for some work. Working on a large gate or door wasn’t anything special after creating many working weapons and armor, this wouldn’t really be much of a workout for either of them. Nevertheless, his mouth opened wide after he realized that the true reason for them making the door was to bring it into the dungeon.

“There is another dungeon inside the dungeon?”

“Yes, but never speak about it to anyone, not even your wife, the fewer people know about this the better.”

“Uh… sure.”

Even though Roland was inclined to trust Dyana with things like this, there were ways of making people talk with the help of potions or magic. Even if she didn’t want to, she might have not had a choice in the matter. The only reason that Bernir was finding out about it was that he was needed for this short expedition. Both of them needed to discuss the thing between them and a dwarf’s insight about dungeon walls would be much appreciated.

“I’ve already prepared the blueprint, I was thinking about something like this but first I need to tell you about the spot it has to go…”

It wasn’t really a problem to design a door for the dungeon. He had already seen several of them inside of it and just mimicked the design to be somewhat similar. It would be a simple thick double-sided door that opened to the inside of the mine. Normally he would have liked it to be the reverse as it was always harder to break down a door that opened outwardly.

However, there was a chance of the dungeon walls pushing in from the sides and blocking the way forward. If the door was aligned in such a way it could get easily blocked by the dungeon rocks. Roland continued to explain everything to Bernir without leaving out the fact that this door would be shoved between two dungeons.

“So this is what it’s all about…”

It didn’t take long for his assistant to put one and one together. He instantly knew what was happening here and his confused face started grinning.

“Hehe, I knew about the mining area but didn’t know there was a B-rank dungeon down there, no wonder the city lord is trying to keep everything under wraps!”

While Bernir never really asked about what Roland was doing down there in the dungeon, the increase in rare minerals and metals was obvious. Now that he knew about the secret dungeon entrance and that they would be creating a large door to go through it, he was ecstatic.

“Haha, those fools! They would never get to do something as exhilarating as this!”

Roland smiled faintly as he saw the passionate gaze in Bernir’s eyes. It was clear that he was a proper craftsman that saw this as a chance to further his craft. Not many people were fortunate enough to create projects like this. They needed to make the entrance look like something that belonged in a dungeon.

Luckily for them, it wasn’t strange for entrances that were made from new materials to appear in a dungeon. These magical underground locations were constantly expanding and created everything via a type of creation magic. It was quite random and even if it was obvious that the door was created recently it wouldn’t give their ploy away.

“I’m glad that you are full of vigor but we have to complete this in less than three days.”

“L-less than three days?”

“Yeah, we need to get the dimensions right and make sure that we can assemble the parts inside of the dungeon as the whole door will never fit into our spatial bag, so don’t expect to sleep much.”

“Aye…”

Bernir’s drive was reduced slightly when he heard that they had to prepare everything within around seventy hours. While the parts in themselves didn’t need that much handling they all needed to be bulky and thick. They needed to cover the whole length of the dungeon walls which complicated things.

“Let’s get to work.”

All the materials that he could muster from his broken-down workshop had been carried over here. The rest had been procured by Arthur and his people which was hard as they didn’t really want the dwarven union dwarves to know what they were up to. It would be hard for them to figure out what they were doing after getting a list of required parts.

“I’ll tend to this smelter, haven’t used one of these in years… Think I’ve been spoiled by all the runic equipment, hehe.”

Bernir chuckled while getting ready to melt some materials. Of course, Roland would speed things up with all of his magic and perhaps this would destroy some of the tools that were here. Thus the two got to work, the sounds of hammers hitting metal echoed through the tower but no one was able to go see what was happening. News of soldiers guarding the new runesmith workshop reached the ears of the competition but they would not find out what had happened even when they tried later.

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“You are late.”

“No, we are not.”

Roland gave out a sigh while looking at the group of five adventurers that he was supposed to accompany into the dungeon. They had arrived about five minutes late which was already a demerit in his mind. However, he couldn’t pinpoint the reason for them being late but it probably had something to do with the stench of alcohol the two dwarves were giving out.

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The two reminded him of the meeting with Arthur three days ago. There he was ‘informed’ about the three-day deadline he needed to prepare all the tools for this new expedition. This already put him in a bad mood but then he was also reminded of the union dwarves that knew about the mine. Just as he expected they wanted immediate access to it but were denied by Arthur.

For the time being, they were forced to wait but there was no way of telling what they would do. It was not probable that they would follow them into the dungeon at the moment and the Guild Master gave out an order to close down the dungeon until the Platinum Party goes through it. This gave him some time to erase his tracks but luckily the dungeon mostly did that for him.

The only potential thing that could give him away was the sensors he left in the walls to further his mapping device. Even if those were discovered, there would not be any repercussions. With Arthur’s backing and even the guild master on his side, even if someone found the runic devices he would have a good excuse. Everything that he did was ordered by his new partners in crime, having the magical tools in the walls to create a map was not against the law, it was actually a good way to earn money that he would get to after the entrance was created.