Strongest Hammer God novel Chapter 133

"Good!" Mandrake shouted. "Then, let's get right into it!"

Kyle looked around the small room. "In here?"

"Yeah, why not?" Mandrake asked. "You just have to learn how to manipulate your Ether. You can train the actual technique later."

"Okay, then, how does it work?" Kyle asked with an excited smile.

His first technique!

Mandrake took out his rapier and cut a couple of fist-sized stones out of the walls.

He threw one of the stones to Kyle, who caught it.

"Since you don't have a weapon with fitting arrays, you need to learn it the hard way," Mandrake said.

Kyle nodded.

He had learned quite a bit about smithing, and he knew that good weapons needed Formation Arrays on them.

Formation Arrays were diagrams that automatically manipulated Ether.

For example, Fennek's swords had Formation Arrays on them.

Since Fennek was a Squire, his Soul was significantly weakened, which meant infusing weapons with his Ether was extremely difficult and straining.

If he wanted to use a Squire technique, he would need to create a certain kind of Ether and then infuse it into his sword.

The Formation Array would take that Ether and spread it across the entire weapon.

Like this, Fennek didn't need to envelop his entire sword with Ether. He just needed to produce the Ether on his hands.

The sword took that Ether from his hands and spread it.

Fighters and Knights used these kinds of weapons to allow them to make use of their Souls without actually having to actually use them.

Of course, the downsides were that these weapons were quite expensive and that they could only use the techniques the weapons were designed to use.

Kyle didn't have any of these issues since he had a powerful soul.

He could use his Soul and techniques with any object.

"Earth Smash is a pretty simple technique," Mandrake said. "It's so simple that I can even use it with your big hammer, which isn't made for this kind of weapon."

"You could say it's just a special way of swinging it."

"Almost every Adept knows this technique, regardless of Elemental Affinity. Technically, it's a technique for Earth Affinities, but everyone can use it."

"In fact, you don't even need to be an Adept to use it. Being an Adept just helps in learning the technique quicker."

Kyle nodded.

"Alright," Mandrake said, showing the stone.

Then, the stone started to shine with a subtle brown light.

"You do that. Do you know how to?" Mandrake asked.

"I think so," Kyle answered.

Next, Kyle used his Soul to infuse the stone with Ether.

The next moment, the stone shone with a white light.

"No, not like that," Mandrake said. "You're not turning your Ether into Elemental Ether. You're just using regular Ether."

Kyle blinked a couple of times.

He had used his Affinity several times before to refine metal.

He had always done it this way.