Danmachi-Hell's forge

Tiona stayed for a bit after that and chatted with me about my new magic(the ice in case you forgot somehow). She wasn't fishing for information or anything but genuinely wanted to know about it just because it was interesting. She even gave a few suggestions on how I might use it in combat though one of them was not something I could do at the moment. Specifically using the ice to cover my close range while my flames went for long range. To do that I'd have to be able to use both regular cursed energy and it's positive form at the same time.-

I knew it was possible since Gojo from JJK was able to pull it off to create the imaginary technique: Hollow purple. That said I was no Gojo, who I would like to point out was considered a genius with almost no equal. He also had a built in cheat in the form of the [Six eyes] that meant he could sense and control cursed energy to ridiculously potent degrees with very little training. [Six eyes] wasn't a technique but rather a mutation in the eyes of a Gojo clan member that gave abnormal abilities, sounds familiar doesn't it?-

While absolutely not on the same level my own [Soul gaze] could be considered a similar mutation to my eyes. This of course begged the question "can I replicate the [six eye] with my own eyes?" The answer to which was complicated. The simple answer was probably. The long answer was that while it should in theory be possible due to my cursed technique it would either take a stroke of luck the size of which is unlikely or a long long long ass amount of time reverse engineering a theoretical outcome.-

Don't even get me started on the risks involved since the eyes I would be experimenting on were my own since literally no one else had eyes based on cursed energy mutation in this world as far as I knew. Reverse cursed technique could regrow a missing eye or repair a damaged one but if I fundamentally changed my eyes without it being counted as damage? What then? I go fucking blind that's what! The risk is simply not worth the payout in my opinion so obviously I am NOT going to fuck around with my eyes in the attempt.-

Also I couldn't exactly just rip my eyes out and experiment on them since then how the fuck would I know if I succeeded or not. Anyways Tiona's idea was unfeasible for me at the moment as I simply couldn't use the two energies at the same time yet. One suggestion she made though was interesting and totally doable for me. She suggested that I try to create a cage of ice to trap whatever I was fighting in a small area under my control. Eerily similar to a domain in fact, though more physical and less weird metaphysical.-

Still the idea was interesting if nothing else and something I took note of. She eventually left and I spent the rest of the day arranging the materials to create a new weapon for myself. We were quite wealthy thanks to the commission work I took and the "start up" funds from the war game with Apollo that we hadn't gone through but instead added to. Because of this I was able to buy a few choice materials to recreate my weapon that had unfortunately been lost when I unleashed my reversion technique for the first time.-

To make my weapon anew I chose Goliath tooth, Green dragon fangs, Bloodsaurus claws and Spartoi bones. Bloodsaurus were big red T-rex looking motherfuckers that reached about five meters tall and were highly violent, it was a level four monster. Spartoi were basically charcoal grey skeletons with small horns that while level four were dangerous mostly because they only ever appeared in groups. The Goliath tooth was going to be the core of the weapon as it was the strongest being from a monster rex. The rest I planned to refine as far as I could before blending them together into an alloy that would serve as the body of the weapon.-

Unlike my previous weapon however this one was going to be a cursed tool and not a simple one either. I managed to convince Hestia to allow me the whole next day to craft this weapon by trading a whole day of inactivity for it but it was worth it. When I entered my workshop the next morning and piled the materials at my feet as I sat on my chair my mind focused. I grabbed the large yellowed tooth that belonged to a Goliath and closed my eyes as I sank my cursed energy into it.-

"Hell's forge!" I spoke the incantation and cursed energy like black and blue flames erupted from my palm and seemed to consume the tooth.

I didn't let my technique run wild however but bridled it to my will and forced it to obey me as I sent it into the tooth to find the impurities and cast them out. The tooth whitened at visible speed as this happened and shrank in size from nearly that of a basket ball to about the size of a grapefruit.-

Once pure I condensed the remaining material into a sphere the size of a tangerine before setting it aside and grabbing the Green dragon fangs of which I had four. Each fang was easily six or seven inches long and two inches thick with smooth white colorations. I hadn't canceled my technique when I swapped the Goliath tooth for these fangs so I was able the immediately get to work on them. First I fused them together like water flowing across my palms and then I got to work refining the impurities out while strengthening the material just as I had the Goliath tooth.-

I paused my work to down a lesser mana potion, the same sort that had once almost killed me from energy overload. Thanks to this once I restarted my technique I had plenty of energy to get the rest of the materials refined and ready for the next step. First I fused all the materials other than the Goliath tooth into a dull dark grey colored alloy. I then shaped grabbed the Goliath material and shaped it into a narrow handle and comically small head of my previous weapon with many odd holes in it.-

The purpose of these holes became clear when I grabbed the large alloy sphere and began to layer it onto the Goliath material. It flowed into the holes improving the structural integrity of the weapon before I began to shape it into it's final shape. The familiar half hammer half axe shaped head appeared and the handle thickened and lengthened with a small orb at the pummel that I would hollow out for the cursed stones in a bit.