Two days after that meeting, and after much running and being chased by investigators, Jin finally returned to the Tower City.
He was sitting at Hans's place as usual, but he was holding a tablet for the social communication system within the Tower, and his face appeared distracted and drowned in thought. Hans looked at him, and his mind was filled with wonder; he hadn't seen the boy in a normal state for two full years now.
Hans: "What is wrong with you? I see you distressed and drowned in thoughts."
The boy slowly raised his eyes and replied with an extinguished calmness: "Nothing, just a loss of passion."
Flashback ...…
Jin: "Mr. Director, even if my magical attribute is Darkness, what pushes them to chase me like this?"
Albert looked and hid much speech behind his silence.
Albert: "Boy, finding someone with the Darkness attribute with that level of skill, and specifically the Void skill… this will make them chase you in all parts of the earth."
Jin: "I know I annoy you with my many questions, but… I feel I must know the actual reason."
Albert sighed, and his mind engaged in thought for moments.
Albert: "Have you heard about the system of Stories, Titles, and Professions in the Tower?"
Jin: "Yes, I might not have heard anything about Stories, but Titles and Professions, I have."
Albert: "That boy Lucian, his profession is… (Heir of Light)."
In the present time ...…
Jin was looking at the browser while his mind remembered that speech; he was searching for sword designs. He looked at his eroded sword; although that sword was made of Orichalcum, it had eroded because of that day, and the tip of the blade was broken; even the Wyvern blade had broken into pieces.
Jin: "Is that old man in his workshop now?"
Hans: "Mostly. It is eight in the evening; he likes working at night."
Jin stood up and went to Borin's workshop, and entered to him. Borin was sitting on the chair in front of the furnace; his eyes were wide, and he sat almost motionless; he appeared to be completely daydreaming.
Jin: "Are you okay, old man?"
Borin looked calmly: "Nothing, I feel a loss of passion in the current period. I think you feel this too."
Jin laughed lightly, then placed his weapons in front of him.
Borin: "Your weapons are completely destroyed. Boy, that sword is an (SS) weapon of the Earth rank, but you destroyed it almost at the beginning of your career. What was happening with you during that period?"
Jin: "Haaa? Do you really not know, you mischievous Constellation? Generally, the Temple of Darkness and the Temple of Light, investigators from both sides were chasing me for days. If I had fought them to kill, the weapons wouldn't have broken like this."
Borin smiled a faint smile: "You are truly miserable, you random one. Aside from this… I don't have materials to make a similar sword. I don't possess energy ingots or Orichalcum; maybe there is some ancient cold steel."
Jin thought for moments: "Hmm… I have a question. Is frost steel suitable for using Dark Magic skills?"
Borin: "What do you mean? Weren't you using Shadows and Black Magic only during fights?"
Jin: "I thought of something. Instead of releasing a normal Aura blade, why don't I condense Dark Mana and fight with it instead of normal Mana? Instead of explaining, do you know Captain Yami?"
Borin: "Who is this?"
Jin: "He is an anime character... damn it, why am I explaining, watch this."
Jin gave the tablet to Borin.
Borin looked and spoke while scratching his beard: "Hmm… he is a mischievous man. He uses a Katana? Using a Katana, in reality, is not easy to bring out your true level with, especially since it is a single-edged sword (blade)."
Jin narrowed his eyes and spoke like a beetle: "Why don't we try?"
Borin: "Tsk. You, making a good sword to customize the release of Aura attacks needs a material extremely sensitive to energy. Orichalcum is not sensitive enough; were it not for this, I would have reshaped what remains of the sword."
Jin: "…I have an idea."
After a while on the table, the boy placed a white board and began drawing.
Jin: "Look, after hammering the Orichalcum until it becomes pure, we will manufacture the lower half of the blade. But instead of melting layers on top of each other directly, we can make a trench inside the blade, and pour white steel inside it because it is extremely sensitive. Then we heat the blade again and hammer it until the steel is fixed inside, the Ori in the lower half, and the crust of the upper half."
Borin looked while narrowing his eyes: "Boy… were they slapping you on your buttocks or what?"
Jin looked at him for moments, then looked at the ceiling and spoke like a sage: "Slapping? It produces a loud sound. Generally… the sword specifications are as follows:
Blade length 80 cm, handle 29 cm, width at the base 3.8 cm and at the tip 2.8 cm, and the thickness of the blade is 1 cm at the base, and the curvature will be 3 cm. Do not forget that the trench will be fused into the entire blade. The handle is preferred to be of Black Ash wood, and we will decorate it with crimson-colored Mana silk. And the guard (tsuba) will be of Black Steel. Oh, by the way, we will enhance the metals with Mana during their melting to increase efficiency. Yes, maybe it won't work with Orichalcum, but maybe it will work."
Borin looked for moments while narrowing his eyes and examining the boy carefully.
Borin: "Boy… are you an engineer or a graphic designer?"
Jin: "Me?"
Jin looked at the ceiling and spoke like a sage again: "I am a human."