Chapter 29: Roads Uncharted & Secrets Unveiled
Gimli's face went flat, unimpressed, his beard bristling with disbelief as he slammed his hammer down on the glowing steel anvil,
the ring of metal cutting through Hannah's explanation.
He barked a short, rough laugh that rumbled like distant thunder, shaking the small smithery's rafters.
"Explode on direct hit?
Lass, you're madder than a goblin in a gold mine.
I don't make no fancy toys that blow up in your hand—ain't got the skill for somethin' that ambiguous, and neither does any smith this side of the capital.
You need wild, unregulated explosion magic for that kind of firepower—stuff only royal battle mages or rogue enchanters mess with,
the sort that gets you hung for treason if the crown catches wind.
That tech don't belong in a common smithery like mine.
Ain't no dwarf in Southbrook dumb enough to forge a weapon that could take their own hand off before it even hits a monster."
