I just shook my head and said, "I was just lucky enough to chance upon these runes and the technique to engrave them. I don't have any other runes."
All of the dwarves looked at me with narrowed eyes as if they didn't believe me.
After all, I had taken out these amazing runes, so it wouldn't be strange if I could take out a few more.
But I wasn't going to just give them everything that I had.
They were my future trump cards and it wouldn't be good to take them out early.
Seeing that I didn't react at all even with all of them staring at me, the dwarves had no choice but to give up.
Since they couldn't get more out of me, they just went back to the rune.
They asked me all kinds of different questions, but there were some that I didn't answer deliberately.
Unlike before, rune smithing was something that had great potential and it wasn't something that I wanted to give them that easily.
Alloys would eventually be discovered on their own, but rune smithing was impossible to develop unless they found that thing…
In a few years, the dwarves would open up some ruins that had a book on runes. That would allow them to decode and learn the rune language, which would give them the ability to develop runes on their own.
I was even considering taking that book for my own since I knew exactly where it was and how to get to it…but until the situation had settled and I had more free time, it wouldn't be time to get it yet.
After all, even if I did get it, it would just be taken by me since I wasn't strong enough right now to defend it.
So it was better not to open that can of worms.
After answering their questions for a bit, I gave a live demonstration.
They brought over the pieces of the mithril armour that had been cut earlier and after cutting it a bit more, they put two separate pieces down on the table in front of me.
First, I just used the dagger alone to cut through the chunk of mithril armour held by a single dwarf hand.
There was no resistance at first, but then the dagger was slowly stopped by the mithril armour.
It still made a bigger gash than the gash that the Dwarven King had made with his sword which made him reveal an awkward smile.
It seemed that even without the runes, he still would have lost this forging duel.
This really put into perspective just how strong the alloys I had introduced were.
Then for the second chunk of the mithril armour, I used a bit of magic to activate the sharpness rune on the hilt and just that sharpness rune alone. There was only a single rune that was glowing on this dagger as I held it over that chunk of mithril armour.
Then in one swift motion, I brought the dagger down on the chunk of mithril armour.
There was no resistance at all from that mithril armour as the dagger cut right through it.
Then…it cut right through the table as well since I didn't stop it in time.
The table split in half and fell apart as the dwarves moved back to avoid it.
The dwarf that had been holding the piece of mithril armour to supply it with magic quickly released it out of fear that his hand would be cut as well.
There was a loud sound as everything just fell to the ground.
After that…the dwarves just looked on in shock.
They looked back and forth between the table on the ground and the dagger in my hand with the same shocked looks on their faces.
It was as if they didn't know what to make of this…until one dwarf said.
"How incredible this is…"
As soon as he said this, all of the dwarves suddenly rushed forward as if they wanted to grab the knife and examine it, but I quickly moved away from them.
After all, I still had the rune activated and if they grabbed it, they might be cut by it.
The dwarves revealed a bitter look at first, but then they realized what I was doing and stopped moving forward.
Instead they quickly brought over another table for me to put the dagger down.
When I saw this, I let out a sigh of relief and put the dagger on the table before backing away.
I knew what was about to happen, so it was better to evacuate before it did happen.
As expected, they all started fighting over the dagger.
They all wanted to pick it up and test its power with the rune activated, so this time an actual fight broke out between the dwarves.
But once again, the Dwarven King came in and took the dagger from them.
The title of Dwarven King wasn't an empty one as he easily took the dagger from them with his strength. Then with his prestige, they had no choice but to give up and let him test it for them.
The Dwarven King held the dagger in his hand and brought it up in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.
As he did, he slowly injected a bit of mana into the dagger and lit up the first rune.
He brought his other hand up to the blade of the dagger and reached a finger towards it.
Before his finger could even touch the blade of the dagger, there was a cut that appeared on his finger and a drop of his blood fell onto the dagger.
The Dwarven King didn't react at all to this and just said with a smile on his face, "Beautiful. This truly is a beautiful work of art."
He immediately turned to me and asked, "How much for this blade?"
As soon as the other dwarves heard this, they all acted like they had been woken up by something.
After a moment of being stunned, they quickly surrounded me and offering me prices for this dagger without a single trace of respect for the Dwarven King.
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