Yuichiro quickly nodded, sensing that his teacher seemed to be in a rather foul mood.
Tetsu no Sosuke was indeed in a bad mood. A successful forging should have been good news, but not being able to find his reward was downright frustrating.
In the end, he sighed and told Yuichiro to put the weapon away for now, then turned and went back to the furnace.
He had lost the Hammer Sheath during his earlier battle with Akaza.
Now that he had made another breakthrough in his technique, it was only natural that he should restore his own weapon to its complete form.
He melted the iron material and began forging.
But the moment his first hammer blow fell, he knew where the Golden Ratio Scale had gone.
It was nowhere else—it was right before his eyes.
The iron material was still the same iron material, but now all its stats had appeared before him.
It was similar to the progress bar that appeared beside the iron material during smelting.
The stats were arranged before his eyes like a ruler, with every target value already set.
All Tetsu no Sosuke had to do now was raise each attribute according to the benchmarks provided by this ruler. Once everything matched perfectly, he would have the golden ratio.
"The Golden Ratio Scale... it isn't a ruler made of gold. It's a scale for the golden ratio."
Tetsu no Sosuke's first reaction was excitement, but once that excitement passed, he grew a little disgruntled.
If something like this existed all along, why couldn't you have given it to me sooner?
You put me through so much misery over the past few days!
Still, there was no point thinking about that now. At least the appearance of this scale would make his future forging