The conversation between Charlotte Lacosta and Magnus Dayne was limited to the various building and islands that now made up Quatre Iron Lotus and the various shops on the islands. To be honest, Magnus was thoroughly bored waiting for his present, but he knew that the Yonko had built it. He had used the blueprints he sent with the Raven and he had actually built the cursed forge from legend. He would be able to bring actual curses to life now. All the thoughts, ideas, and legendary weapons he could make; were making his head spin now. Finally Charlotte came to a complete stop outside a building named “Magnus’ Cursed Forge.” The sign was absolutely brilliant; Charlotte tossed him the key to the door and disappeared back into the streets. Magnus was finally home. Stepping through the doors lead him to the first part of the forge, the selling area was as big as a forge itself with a set of stairs that lead up to a Raven’s keep to send out letters, orders, and messages throughout Paradise. A couple of Magnus’ older works lettered the walls each made with the sigil of the Direwolf engraved onto it somewhere. The door directly towards the back next to the long oak desk that held his raw materials, forging hammer, and now his backpack was made of oak as well. That would lead to the demon faced forge with the flames of hell and demonic energies. That is where he would spend the next couple of days forging forward with his Tonfa idea for his newly accepted ally. They would make anyone who saw them envious, but The Cursed Blacksmith had various items of his own creation to make, remodel, and curse before he could dive into the tonfa for Junbei von Echo.
Magnus pulled out his two leather bound notebooks, which held designs and curses within their pages, and he pulled out his forge apron, his King’s Blade, and the raw materials he just bought on his journey to Quatre Iron Lotus. He started off the process by carving the wood into a large perfect circle for the foundation for The King’s Shield design he drew up on the voyage to the island. The perfect dark complexation of the Rosewood would match the dark color of the titanium that Magnus was about to use to forge the star and bashing ball on the center of the shield. Once the foundation was completed, he pinned on some of the straps and the two small knife hostlers up underneath the shield next to the shield handle. He gave it a look over and held it in his hand like he would in a battle.
“Definitely going to be a bit heavier with the titanium bashing center, but it will be stronger and more durable than anything else I used.” Magnus thought as he grabbed the two bars of raw dark grey titanium. He looked into the now burning orange flames of the demonic forge mouth. Pulling a hanging ceiling handle, the flames burst forth into an icy blue color as he put on his glove, grab the tongs, and went to work on the metal for the shield. After about two hours work in the forge, Magnus came out, pinned the bashing helm, and the rest of the titanium edging and cover to the rosewood base. After giving the shield a polish and feel, Magnus placed The King’s Shield against the wall on the desk just outside of the door of the forge.
Taking The King’s Blade into his hand, he flipped to a remodel design of the blade that Magnus had drawn up about two years ago. The blade was never remodeled, because the blacksmith had a lot of other projects and tournaments to participate in. Now he was finally getting to the remodel, The King’s blade was unsheathed and placed on the workshop table. Taking the left over titanium from the previous project, he set them into the forge inside a melting pot. He knew he would need more titanium for the hilt, and he knocked of the golden guard, titanium handle, and tossed them into the melting pot onto top the already melted titanium. Looking at the excellently crafted blade, Magnus began to think of how he would design the guard and hilt for his new blade. After some thought, he poured the molten golden titanium into a mold of a normal standard guard with two wolves howling around the blade with a wolf paw on the end of the hilt. After the molten titanium cooled, polished, and black leather wrapped around the handle; Magnus knocked the hilt and guard back onto the blade and swung it around a couple of times to get the feel for it.
Satisfied with his new remodel and newly created shield; Magnus placed just the blade of Longpaw into the icy blue flames of the Demon forge. Before walking out of the forge, he tugged onto the ceiling handle again and the lames burst up again in an eerie green color. The blade got red hot just before Magnus pulled out the blade and began to engrave into the blade almost instantly after pulling it out. The beginning of the engraving was a number of smaller runes in the slight dip into the face of the blade. The flames died back down to normal color before Magnus was done with the first part of the cursing process on the blade now known as Longpaw. Taking the blade back in his hand, Magnus tossed in some white powder into the flames. The flames in the demon forge mouth turned into a deep purple color that could pass for a match on the color of the flames produced by his Blessing.
The purple flames licked the blade of Longpaw while Magnus placed it back into the flames to heat back up for the next phase of the cursing process. The difference between forging an entire weapon and a curse places a huge serious on the body and psyche, but Magnus was just producing a curse, which was a lot easier. The next part of the runic language that the curse was based in was fully based on the ability of devil fruit consumption. Once the blade was ready, Magnus pulled it from the flames and began to engrave the runes needed on the opposite side that held the first part of the curse. Now Magnus had read a lot about this forge within his studies to finding a way to bring a curse to life, and he knew how to enchant curses with that ability and when not too. This particular curse was one of no sentient status. He spent the net four hours reheating, engraving, reheating, and engraving back and forth through the process of engraving the second layer of the curse that was needed. Finally after the second layer of the curse was finally finished, he felt a spark of power flutter to life underneath the Viking-like runes!
“Damn, what a fucking beauty!” Magnus shouted as he sat down in a side chair in the light of the demonic flames. He was sweating a bunch from his hard work, but he knew he needed to finish through one more round of heat treating and engraving. The final parts of the curse were just to imprint the thirst for Devil Fruits within the blade. This would make the weapon acceptable to Devil Fruit consumptions. Leaving the massive forge area, Magnus walked over to the far side of the main area towards the staircase and went to bed. He slept for maybe four or five hours before heading back down stairs to the forge area. He picked up Longpaw before placing it back into the flames of the demon forge. The metal needed to be at the perfect temperature for the final phase of the curse, because the former runes couldn’t be altered in the slightest.
This final process would take at least ten hours to complete, and the engraving work would hurt those joints and bones straight down into the hand. The final runes had to be places on both sides of the blade within the other sentences and layers of the curse’s foundation. They would intertwine the whole magical sequence together to place the curse rightfully onto Longpaw without an trouble what-so-ever. The runes burned with a dark blue glow as Magnus finished up the wonderful work on the first curse made in his brand new forge. He knew after his check-list was done; he would begin on Junbei von Echo’s tonfa which would be the first curse he would actually bring to life within these walls.
“Mustn’t get too ahead of myself already.” Magnus thought as a little drop of sweat hit the blade with an angry hiss.
The engraving and reheat took every bit of energy and time that Magnus Dayne had left. Once the engraving and blade were completed, Magnus polished and sharpened the blade to perfection. He would take the blade in both hands before swinging it around in the air, and he made sure to swing with both hands as well as striking out on a dummy before sliding the weapon back into its sheathe. Longpaw and the Shield were side by side when Magnus’ little baby Den Den began to ring from within his bag.
“I wonder” Magnus thought as he pulled the little Mushi out of his bag and answered. The face expressions and voice tone on the other side of the Mushi was shady at best. The conversation was carried out in such a hush and sketchy tone by the time he was finished with it. He didn’t know whether to believe the man on the other line or what. He was telling tales of a very specific Devil Fruit that Magnus Christopher Dayne was after.
“Bloody Hell.. Could it really be that easy?” Magnus spoke as he fell back into his chair by his workshop table. The Devil Fruit was supposedly in Paradise. The designs for Junbei’s new sentient Tonfa rattled through his brain as the new thought of the devil fruits began to cloud those design ideas.
Standing up next to his worktable in the main part of his forge, Magnus flipped open the notebook labeled 13 Month Series Designs. The pages were filled with weapon designs and curse incantations that would go into the decision for the 13 sentient cursed weapons that he would create for himself and the people he deemed worthy enough to be granted one of those legendary pieces. Magnus pulled out the rest of the raw material from underneath his work bench. He placed them all out in front of him on the work table and looked it all over. He let the tales of Devil Fruits and mysteries disappear from his mind, and he did this to clear the way for the long horrid work he was about to put into making one of these sentient blades. Magnus Christopher Dayne would walk upstairs, change out of his old clothes, and into something a bit more comfortable before lying down to pass out for seven hours. When he finally awoke from his little nap on his sleeping cot, he changed into some blacksmith clothes before placing on his apron again to begin work on the tonfa for Junbei von Echo.
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