"Devils?"
Hearing the key word in Xia Nan's words, Barn's expression paused.
His gaze instinctively shifted from the bundle on the ground to the black-haired youth, who was wearing only a shirt.
"No wonder..."
No wonder not only had his armor been ruined on this trip back, even the weapon he used had been damaged.
But he remembered that when they had first met last year, the other party had still been a hard-up Adventurer who could not even afford equipment, right? How long had it been? He could actually treat devils as proper opponents now?
Barn was astonished by the speed of his improvement, while his own professional discipline made him suppress the curiosity in his heart and stop asking further questions.
With a look, and after receiving Xia Nan's permission, he bent down and drew a Steel Fork from the bundle, examining it carefully.
As a professional blacksmith born from a Dwarf Clan who had run a shop for many years in a major frontier town for Adventurers, his experience could not be called anything but rich. He had also handled a fair number of weapons and equipment from infernal devils.
Barn knew the characteristics of these infernal pieces of equipment clearly, and he also understood how to handle them in order to bring their value to the greatest extent.
The rough skin of his fingertips, tempered by molten fire, gently brushed over the Steel Fork that refracted a cold metallic gleam. A faint sound rippled through the air.
He introduced Xia Nan to the relevant information about these pieces of equipment from Baator before them:
"The second layer of Baator, Dis, has mineral deposits so rich that even across the entire multiverse, they rank among the very best. Those endless, vast mountain ranges—if you were to simply