God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Almost an hour later.

Keith stood in front of a medium sized house. His eyes were fixated on the separate room that was built beside this house and he could hear the sounds of metal hitting metal from where he was standing. He felt slightly nervous but he still walked over to the room and knocked on the door.

"Coming!" a gruff voice shot out, but the rhythmic metallic sounds did not stop for ten more seconds. Once it did though, Keith heard some footsteps until the door suddenly opened up.

Alvlin looked straight as Keith as he was standing at the same height and then his gaze moved to Keith's hands.

"Hmm, what do you want?" he asked as his gaze went back to Keith's face.

Keith silently took out his Inquisitor badge that he had received two months ago and showed it to Alvlin.

"... but I didn't do anything?" Alvlin said as he frowned deeply before grumbling, "I bet those smelly nobles went around accusing me for things I didn't do. Tch, smelly bastards."

Keith smiled and shook his head, "Nah, I'm here to offer you some work. I want you to sign a pact with me. One where I'll give you ideas and help with making designs while you do the work. I'll pay you for the materials and also your time. You'll also receive fifty Chrons the moment you sign the pact or contract or whatever you'd like to call it."

Alvlin raised his eyebrow and stared at Keith, trying to figure out if he was lying or not before nodding, "Well, how did you learn about me and why do you want to work with me specifically?"

"Can I come in first?" Keith asked, his smile still plastered on his face as he waited for Alvlin to let him in.

Which he did. Alvin nodded and moved aside to let Keith in before locking the door behind him.

The room was pretty simple. It had one large furnace, two anvils, a drum filled halfway through with water for quenching purposes, a barrel of oil and then there were more than ten hammers hung up on the walls. Keith also glanced at the large basket filled with iron ore and then turned to face Alvlin.

He watched Alvlin move the anvils away from the thick wooden logs and sat on top of one before pointing at the other, "Come sit."

Keith nodded and sat down before he got back to business, "I learn about you from General Bett and he gifted your revolver to me when I needed it and was broke too. It helped me out a lot, mind you. But as time passed and I learnt more about revolvers, I realised that the double action function that you created, is revolutionary.

Unike manual revolvers, we don't have to pull the hammer back on our own and as far as I've seen, most people use their free hand to pull the hammers. As for the ones who use just one hand to operate the weapon, they use their thumb to cock the hammer but this takes time.

This time is very precious when we're in a combat situation and your double action mechanism solves every problem. Having this while in actual combat is like having a great advantage. As for the reason why I picked you, it's not yet decided. Consider this as an interview of sorts and as long as you pass my tests, you'll be picked." Keith said and waited for Alvlin's answer, which was a simple nod.

"Alright, firstly I want to know about your family, your financial status, about your problems and lastly, your awakened ability if you have any."

Hearing the list, Alvlin took a deep breath and noddeed, "Got it. My wife died while giving birth along with my child. I'm currently living alone and I bury myself in work to keep my mind off the depressing thoughts. I have quite a bit of money in savings... around ten chrons. I usually sell my weapons to store owners with a simple formula in mind. Twenty percent more than the cost of all raw materials.

As for problems... well, the smelly nobles are putting dirt on my name and then there's another group of bastards that are trying to force me to make weapons for them. Which I can't do since they're civilians. I can only sell my weapons to reputed store owners who have the badge of permission from the empire.

If I go around distributing my weapons to random people, I'll get thrown in prison." he said and then took out a small iron bar that was as long as his finger. He glanced at Keith and the iron bar began to bend slowly.

"I can control metals... that's my awakened ability. I can't make them fly and all that, but it helps me with my work." he said and waited for Keith's answer.

Keith nodded as he closed his eyes, acting like he was thinking deeply but all he did was look at Alvlin's status info.

[User Status]

Name: Alvlin Bragus

Physique: Grade C

Genetic Physique Type: Instantaneous Burst

Awakening Status: Awakened

Awakened Ability: Ferrokinesis

Ferrokinesis: The ability to manipulate iron and iron-based metals as if they were clay, allowing the user to shape objects at will.

Keith opened his eyes and smiled, "Great, it'll be a pleasure to work with you, Sir Alvlin." he said and took out a carefully rolled sheet of paper from his pocket and unrolled it before showing it to Alvlin.

"Feel free to read it." he said and gave it to Alvlin, who took his sweet time to go through the terms and once he was done, he nodded, "Okay, sounds good but why do you want free access to my workshop?"

"Well... you see, I have some interest in blacksmithing myself but thanks to my job and a few other reasons, I'm unable to pursue what I want. So yeah, I want to treat this as a hobby and learn things slowly."