Invisible and formless, impossible to pin down.
A place that seemed safe could turn deadly with the slightest touch.
And with that as a foundation, there was so much they could build.
Yuichiro put his mind to it, imagining hidden projectiles, spiked floors, chambers that sealed shut independently, poisonous gas... The possibilities kept coming.
Tetsu no Sosuke simply put Yuichiro in charge of the traps for the time being, while he oversaw the work himself.
Then he began to consider whether he could take his forging to another level...
Three days later, Tetsu no Sosuke sighed.
He couldn't.
Whether he liked admitting it or not, his forging skills had already reached a peak.
He couldn't speak for everything else, but when it came to forging Nichirin Blades, few Swordsmiths alive could compare with him.
Even incorporating Heavenly Artisan techniques was unlikely to help him improve again anytime soon.
Chapter 441: Signal
The fact that he could hardly improve his technique was not the worst news.
Worse still, they had found only two of the nine locations recorded on the Silk Scroll. The remaining seven had left no trace.
He wrote to Ubuyashiki Kagaya to ask about them, but the reply was disheartening.
They couldn't find them!
There were plenty of possible reasons. Times had changed, mountains and rivers had shifted, or the places might not even lie within the country's borders. They could be anywhere in the world.
Finding two legacies left by the nine Heavenly Artisans within the country was already a stroke of extraordinary luck.
Finding them all was clearly nowhere near as easy as they had imagined.
Ubuyashiki Kagaya said the search was continuing. They had begun working backward from maps of the modern era, examining ancient maps across the centuries for any remarkable matches, then comparing