Artificial Fantasy

Chapter 85: Completion

After Kazu's new build, it's my turn to finish mine. By the time we get back downstairs, we see Arthur and Razul waiting at my station. Right behind them is a [Beastfolk] guy in our age wearing overalls, a brown shirt, boots, and goggles. That guy is <Mach> and in real life, he's sort of a maintenance man to some Airsoft guns that Razul's team were using for their games.

After I visit their clubroom and explain about my build here a few days ago, Mach becomes interested and agrees to help me on assembling everything as well as do a quality check on the parts to see if everything works as I intended.

While he already did the latter, he wants to do another check today before he doing a full assembly. Of course, I introduce him to Kazu and Azul since they spent upstairs on the former's build, and surprisingly, he's great with kids! And I only say that because he has two younger siblings he loves at home. And they seem to share the same love with engineering... Huh.

After that, I let Mach check on the parts that I've finished building as promised and wait for his response. To be honest, I'm a bit nervous since there's a chance that the quality of a part is lower than the others. And since [Blacksmithing] doesn't have any form of making duplicate items at once, I fear I may need to build it all over again.

Eventually, I hear him sigh and turn towards me.

"What do you know? Not only you managed to put all of the parts' quality between 18 to 20, but there seem to be no signs of physical faults around each of them," Mach says. "If I was a quality checker, I would put all of them into mass production."

My eyes widen, as I realize what he said. "So that means..."

"Yep!" he says flashes a thumbs-up right in front of me and smiles. "These parts are ready for the assembly line! At least that's what my Dad says all the time."

I can't help but pump my fist in the air like Arthur. But still, my dream weapon is about to be finished!

"Just give me an hour to finish this and your compound bow will be completed. If you like, you can help me with the assembly since this is your creation. I have a skill that lets me finish faster if I have someone from my friend list to help me with the assembly."

Well, I did add him after his initial check, so I accept it and got to work on finishing the build.

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Wow, this is the first time I see Wind as invested in crafting as much as I do. Then again, we did promise to become stronger. Besides, once he's done with his weapon, we'll be ready to go back to do two missions:

1. To get payback on those [Link Ants].

And 2. To find out more about my mysterious book.

We're getting closer now to our end goal. I can feel it!

"Um... Hey, Kazu."

My eyes widen and turn to Azel as they're staring at me.

"Have you been thinking of going on your separate way from your brother someday?"

My eyes widen at that question. " Not exactly. I don't even know if I'm ready to see my brother off to college if he ever decides on one. Although, I also wish to not have to rely on him all of the time..."

I shake my head after saying all of that from my head.

"Why are you asking that now? Are you thinking the same for your Dad?"

"Yeah. Not only do I want to see if I can take on [Isekai] on my own. My Dad is going to be very busy for the Renaissance fair and I don't want to disturb him because of me," they answer. "Thankfully, my birthday is coming up and if I get a high grade for the test, I get to play it solo!"