When Lu Xiao walked out of the woods, a small blacksmith shop appeared next to the ruins of an abandoned temple.
A skinny dwarf with a beard stood in front of the iron felt, concentrating on tapping the red iron embryo, seemingly unaware of the arrival of Lu Xiao and others.
After Mimir's previous explanation, everyone in the group knew why this dwarf appeared.
Lu Xiao pretended not to know anything, put on a surprised expression and said loudly: "It's really strange that there is a blacksmith shop here."
"Dang~"
After the last knocking sound, the dwarf who was immersed in his work turned around and glanced at the small bag on Lu Xiao's waist as if unintentionally.
"Guest? How can I help you?"
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself."
Compared to the rude Brock, this dwarf is quite elegant in his words and deeds and does not look like a blacksmith who does manual labor all day long.
"My name is Sindri, one of the best blacksmiths in the Nine Realms."
Recalling Brock's self-introduction, Lu Xiao couldn't help but smile secretly in her heart.
'Honest man.'
Yongzhen greeted Sindri politely: "Hello, Sindri, we are travelers traveling through the nine realms."
"My name is Yongzhen, these two are Lu Xiao and Tamamo Mae, and this is Xiaofen... and Tou."
"Hello!"
Mimir shouted dissatisfied: "Madam, I have a name after all!"
When Sindri saw the dirty human head fixed on the wolf's back, a look of disgust was evident on his face.
"Uh~ Can you please take this head further away? It's too dirty."
"Hey! Sindri, don't you recognize me? I'm Mimir!"
Sindri took two steps back subconsciously: "Of course I know you. Your state is completely different from the last time I saw you."
Trying hard not to look in Mimir's direction, Sindri took a deep breath to adjust his mood.
"Okay, let's skip the topic of heads."
"If you have weapons and equipment that need maintenance, I can help you for free."
The Xuanyuan Sword is a divine weapon that has the ability to maintain itself and does not need a blacksmith to maintain it.
The Ulu Tai Sword that Yongzhen got from Ai Cui is different. Although its strength is amazing, considering the special structure of the Tai Sword, it will eventually wear out after being used too much.
In order to train Yongzhen, Lu Xiao gave her the task of dealing with the monsters and monsters she encountered while going down the mountain.
The skin of the mountain monster is as hard as rock, and some individuals can even extend the spells on the rune pillars to themselves to further enhance their defense.
The thin tachi is prone to wear and tear after being chopped many times. Sindri appeared at the right time.
"Wow~"
Seeing the Ulu Tai Dao handed out by Yong Zhen, Sindri exclaimed with joy when he saw Lie Xin.
"Incredible material, excellent magic-guiding properties, high strength, and the forger's craftsmanship is also very exquisite. This is an almost perfect work."
"...The only drawback is that there are too many stains on the knife, let me take care of it first."
Just like Mimir said, Sindri has a mysophobia, and he wears special leather gloves on his hands when he is blacksmithing.
It is not to isolate the splashing sparks, but simply to protect the hands from direct contact with blood-stained weapons.
Compared with the big-hearted Lu Xiao, the meticulous Yongzhen is already very attentive to the maintenance of weapons. After every battle, he will do the most basic maintenance and cleaning of the sword.
But in Sindri's eyes, this level is still not enough.
"Dang~"
He raised a special hammer and tapped it lightly on the blade, and the surface of the tachi, which was stained with many stains that were difficult to remove, suddenly looked brand new.
Mimir complained mercilessly: "Sindri, when will you get rid of your mysophobia? You actually solidified the highest level cleaning spell on the forging hammer. You are quite boring."
After cleaning up the stains, Sindri began to truly maintain the weapon.
"You don't understand. If you have the opportunity to try to zoom in on the water droplets right in front of you, I believe you will be as wary of everything around you as I am."
'Isn't that a magical version of an artificial microscope... Emotional guy saw small bugs at the molecular level?'
Lu Xiao did not forget the purpose of searching for Sindri. He chatted without leaving a trace with Yongzhen who was waiting for the weapon maintenance to be completed.
"I don't know where to look for more suitable arrow shaft materials. The wood guide properties found in the wild are too poor."
Sindri raised his head and glanced at the two of them: "Boy, I have an arrow here that has excellent magic-guiding properties."
After finishing the maintenance of the sword, Sindri rummaged in the leather pocket on his waist.
He took out a lot of tools one after another from the seemingly small pocket.
"No, not this."
"Not this either."
"This...oh!"
For some reason, Sindri took out a still alive fish from his pocket. He threw the fish to the ground in a hurry, with a look of despair on his face.
"...It's time for me to clean my backpack."
After a while, Sindri finally suppressed his nausea and found what he wanted from the bag.
"That's it!"
Sindri placed a bundle of green bows and arrows on the small table.
"The number of arrows made from the first mistletoe in the Nine Realms is relatively small, so try to use them sparingly."
Lu Xiao remained calm on the surface, taking off the folding bow from his arm armor, picking up a mistletoe arrow from the table and placing it on the magic bowstring.
Just as Sindri said, mistletoe's arrow magic-guiding performance is very good, and the magic power Lu Xiao injected into the arrow body has almost no attenuation.
"Whoosh!"
He tentatively shot the arrow, and the arrow accurately inserted into the trunk of a tall tree.
Under the influence of magic, the entire tree exploded from the middle, and debris flew everywhere. Sindri hurriedly hid under the seat to avoid being affected.
Lu Xiao refolded the long bow with satisfaction: "The accuracy is very high, almost no error, very excellent craftsmanship."
After paying with the rune stones previously obtained from the mountain monster as reward, Lu Xiao and others were ready to continue traveling, but Sindri stopped them at this time.
"Guys, please wait a moment, I have a...question to ask."
Sindri's expression was a little unnatural. He pointed at the small bag on Lu Xiao's waist: "I feel a familiar magical atmosphere from that package. Can you let me see what's inside?"
Lu Xiao smiled secretly in his heart, took the Rainbow Bridge Stone out of the bag and placed it on the table in front of Sindri.
"Rainbow Bridge Stone."
Sindri's expression was a little complicated, he was nostalgic but also a little confused at the same time.
"Is this made by Brock? My brother who never cares about hygiene."
Lu Xiao nodded and said: "Yes, we want to travel between the nine realms, and we entrusted Brock to help us create this key."
Sindri touched his chin thoughtfully, 'Why would Brock risk offending Asgard to build a rainbow bridge stone for a stranger? Is there anything special about this group of people?'
Tamamo looked at Sindri's appearance and skin color in disbelief: "Are you Brock's brother? Why do you look nothing like each other from head to toe?"
Brock's skin is blue, while Sindri's skin is a normal gray-brown dwarf, and the appearance and personality of the two do not seem to be similar at all.
Sindri spread his hands: "Although I don't want to admit it, he is indeed my brother, but we parted ways long ago because of different ideas."
Tamamo looked at the hugely different faces of Sindri and Brock, and a term he learned from the Internet not long ago suddenly popped into his mind.