Wordsmith 2

It was a small bar in a large city. There were about 15 patrons, but two were arguing. Nobody knew what it was about, but for some reason after sitting in the bar for 20 minutes one of them approached the other and started yelling at them. As they started looking like it would get physical, a glass on the table burst into a hundred pieces. They both stopped what they were doing and looked around. Everyone else in the bar was just as surprised at what had happened. But not one person in the corner. He had a heavy cloak on and was drinking a water from a clear glass. It was high quality glass and must have not come from the bar. The 2 men approached and asked him how mighty he felt, making that glass explode. The man in the cloak did not say anything, but behind the 2 men who had come up to him, the glass was being repaired, and filling back up with the liquid that came out from it. It could not have been the person in the cloak. Both their hands were on the table in fist and he didn't even say anything. The two men looked around for who was using wordsmithing, but as they did glasses all over the room were breaking, 3 or 4 at a time. It must be a team of wordsmiths and the two left the bar to continue outside. In an instant, all the glasses repaired themselves and filled back up. The man in the cloak left shortly after. It has been 10 years sense Brutus was unable to find help for his friends, and with no family or friends to come back to, he roamed the country. Brutus did not meet many people, and he tried to keep to himself, but he had many revelations about wordsmithing. Brutus now wore a large dark green cloak, though he knew he could change it's color at any time to fit the situation. Brutus found a blacksmith in the town he was in. He asked if he could smelt all the iron ore he had for 20,000 coins. The blacksmith told him it would cost more than 20,000 coins just to run the forge, but Brutus told him he did not need the forge. The blacksmith took him out back and asked him to show him what he could do. Extract Impurities. Become Iron Ingots. Brutus turned to the blacksmith who had a look of shock. Not only did Brutus not point at the ore, but he had turned many down of it to ingots in only a few seconds. On the sides of the ingots were piles of a black dust. Brutus apologized and turned back to the ingots. Collect Impurities. Float. Become Solid. There was now a floating ball of blackness in the air. The black smith was more amazed. Brutus asked for 20,000 coins again but the blacksmith just looked amazed. The ingots and the impurities merged back into a pile of ore. The blacksmith lost his look of amazement and asked Brutus, 20,000 coins? The ore went back to being ingots and a ball of impurities. The blacksmith handed over 20,000 coins. It was enough iron to last a few months. The blacksmith would be able to make more swords with this much iron, and with the impurities taken from it, they would be much high quality swords. The iron ingots Brutus made had a noticeable shine compared to the ingots the blacksmith made the other day. This is how Brutus spends his days. He gets something to eat in the morning, walks around the city till noon, eats in a bar and then makes a little money. 20,000 coins would be enough to last him a few weeks. Brutus had a backpack on that he put the coins into, along with a single loaf of very hard bread. As Brutus walked down the street some more, he was approached by a small boy. He must have been something like 6 years old. Brutus was running from village to village when he was that age. The boy asked if Brutus was a wordsmith. Brutus told him he was. The boy wanted Brutus to teach him how to do such powerful wordsmithing, but Brutus refused. Then the boy asked if Brutus could help him with something. Brutus remembered how he needed help back then but everyone refused, so he agreed to this. Brutus followed the boy to a home in a back part of the city. There was a tree that had fallen down onto a fence. The boy explained that his parents were fighting with the neighbors because the neighbor's tree fell on their fence, and they had a small dog so they needed a fence, but the neighbor did not want to remove the tree or fix the fence, so the tree had been fallen for a month. Brutus knew what to do. Stand Up. Fix. Fall. The tree fell a different direction and into the house of the same yard it was in. The boy was very exited. The tree alone must have weighted several hundred pounds, and to push it onto the neighbor's home was a bonus. Even the fence was fixed. The boy thanked Brutus and offered him something to eat in his home. Brutus accepted. A few hours later the boy's father and mother came home at the same time and saw a strange man in a large dark cloak sitting at the diner table. A clear thief if ever they saw one. But they did not know why they were calmly speaking to their child and an assortment of objects spun in the air around the room. Brutus greeted the people who walked in and told them something that might cause them grief happened in the back yard. They both looked out and saw the tree was gone and the fence was fixed. Brutus told them to look over a little. They then saw part of their neighbor's house destroyed by the tree. The boy explained everything that happened. That Brutus was a powerful wordsmith that moved the entire tree onto the neighbor's house with 2 words. Brutus felt his welcome was a little over extended and began to leave. He was stopped by the parents who asked him to teach their son wordsmithing. They told him he was always going on about how he would become the most powerful wordsmith ever, even coming home some days with scratches all over his arms and dripping blood. Brutus looked at the house and asked the boy if he wanted to do things like that. The boy quickly said yes. Brutus crushed his expectations quickly. He would not be able to do something that big for maybe his entire life. The boy still wanted to follow Brutus. This is how Brutus gained his first follower. Brutus was allowed to stay in their home for a night. He used Become Bed on a couch and laid down. Sometime in the night he was woken up by pounding on the door. Brutus went to answer it and told the man there to stop. The man was angry because he just got home and found his home to be destroyed by a tree. It was the neighbor. Brutus explained that the boy told him what happened and he simply rectified it. The parents had nothing to do with it. The man did not believe that Brutus alone could have moved the tree onto his house. Brutus walked outside and pointed at the mans house. Collapse. The entire house became a pile of wooden boards. The neighbor looked in horror as his house was turned into rubble. Brutus told the man that his house and all of his possessions would become like that if he heard anything happened to the family. Fix. The house went back to normal, save for the tree having destroyed the back. Brutus told him the tree part was his own fault. Brutus went back into the house and slept for the rest of the night. In the morning Brutus and the boy left the town. The boy's name is Arnold.

In a small village far to the east, Brutus has been with Arnold for a little over a month. Every day the boy is using wordsmithing on things they pass. Mostly using Float. Brutus had to take a few more jobs than normal, and every time he tells Arnold to come with him to see the uses of wordsmithing in society. The village they are in chops trees from the forest nearby. Brutus and Arnold are planing to stay 4 days here then leave. While looking for a job, Brutus takes Arnold to the mill. There they use the power from a river to cut the large trees they fell in the forest into long sections to build houses with. There is a man in his 30's working the mill and a young girl about 5 years old moving smaller pieces of wood into a pile. Brutus talks to the man while Arnold talks to the young girl. Brutus ask him for 5,000 coins to cut the wood for him that is in his possession. There are already 13 trees ready to be cut, and it would only take a few days to do himself, and there is not a large demand that he do it quickly, so he refuses. Brutus then lowers the offer to 4,000 coins and is rejected again. Brutus lowers it to 3,000 coins and is accepted. Brutus ask how many pieces he wants each log to be in, and is told two. Brutus points to the logs. Split. All 14 break apart. Just like all of his other clients, the mill worker stares in amazement and goes back to his house to get 3,000 coins. Arnold comes up to Brutus. He ask if they can take the girl with them. Even sense her mother died she has been forced to work with her father in the mill and has not been able to leave the village her entire life. Brutus remembers when he was 5 years old. Running from town to town still trying to get help for his friends. Not having parents or any family to turn to. Not even able to return to his home. The man comes back and apologizes for taking so long and hands over 3,000 coins. Brutus ask him if the girl would be able to come with him and Arnold during their travels. The man refuses stating that his wife and the girl's mother died a few years after her birth and she was all he had left. Plus the work at the mill is getting harder every day and in a few years he will not be able to do it himself. Brutus ask him how many trees he cut in 5 years. The answer is a large amount. Brutus ponders it for a bit and looks at the forest. The man and the little girl do not believe what they are seeing, but Brutus is reaching out with both his hands. Separate. All the branches fall from the trees. Separate. Nothing seems to happen. Form A Pile. All the trees that had the branches fall off of them are making a pile on the other side of the river. This wordsmithing must have used thousands of down, maybe even tens of thousands. Brutus turns to the man. He tells him 5 years of trees have been piled there and ask for a conformation. The man counts them and confirms there are 5 years worth of trees cut down and in a pile. Split. All 5 years worth of trees are now cut down the center. Protect From Rot. Brutus explains that now even though the trees would normally rot after a while having been cut down, they would not. 5 years of work are now completed for him. The little girl goes up to her father and tells him she wants to be a wordsmith too and see the world like Arnold has. The man has lived a hard life of working at the mill every day sense his wife died, and now he was working his daughter to the point of hating him. But now thanks to the stranger he would have 5 years of not having to work. 5 years of peace, and if his daughter went with the stranger, one less mouth to feed. The stranger was well talented, he made 3,000 coins in a few seconds from him and did the work equal to 5 years worth in only a few more seconds. Plus he already had a kid with him so he was likely not some pedo. The man accepted, and with his daughter jumping with joy at the new prospects in her life, Brutus has gained his second follower. The girl stayed with her father one more night and Brutus and Arnold stayed at the inn. The next day they left together. The girl's name is Beth.

About 3 month later and after visiting 2 more small villages and staying a week, Brutus and his followers have come across a rather peculiar seen. It looks like bandits have attacked a village and are rounding up all the children. Brutus tells Arnold and Beth to wait behind some trees as he bends down. Form Sword. A huge sword as long and as thick as Brutus's body appears from the dirt. Become Steel. The dirt turns into steel from his words alone. Harden. This effect is not visible, but Arnold and Beth have seen this kind of thing done before. Sometimes they wonder why he doesn't just make iron and sell it, but Brutus says it would be unethical. Brutus walks up to the town at a normal pace. He holds out his sword and says something to a bandit who runs at him. Brutus moves the huge sword with ease and stabs the bandit. All the other bandits are now closing in on Brutus. Arnold and Beth can hear him ask something about a raid on some town, but they do not understand some things he is saying. Brutus yells out to not look and Arnold and Beth close their eyes. They can hear yelling followed by screaming and the sound of metal clashing at high speed. Brutus has cut down all 8 bandits. They did not know about the raid on his town, even after he showed how easy it was for him to kill them. Brutus turned to the children who had been rounded up. With a swing of his huge sword, Brutus is able to break the chains they are in, and then he goes over to the adults. These kids were too being taken to be made slaves. The adults are thankful to him and ask him to stay in the village a few days to see if more come by. Brutus tells them he was planning on staying for a week and then he gets Arnold and Beth. They do not have much, but there is a small feast for Brutus as thanks. Brutus declines and picks up two sticks from the ground. Become Stand. Brutus places them both into the ground. Spawn Skewed Roasted Pig. Between the stand a roasted pig appears. This is something Brutus has done on very few occasions. Only two other times has he used this ability of his, and only when after 4 days of nothing to eat for Arnold or Beth, and even then he himself did not eat from the food he spawned. The villagers looked in amazement. They had heard about powerful wordsmiths, most of them could even use it, but to see something coming from thin air, it was something they had never even heard possible. Brutus told them to dig in and if they needed it he would make more. Arnold and Beth joined in too. For some reason, the roast pig was made perfectly well done, even though Brutus rarely cooks when they travel. Some of the kids looked at Brutus and at the two children he had with him and then they were jealous. These 2 were following a great man. Brutus still had his thick cloak which concealed most of his face. A boy about the age of 11 came up to Brutus and asked if he could travel with him. He could not wordsmith, but he was a strong fighter. Someone approached Brutus and apologized. The child was an orphan when his parents both died in the forest from mysterious circumstances. When Brutus was 11, he was already very powerful of a wordsmith. Not close to his current level, but still much further than any normal person. But this kid was unable to use wordsmithing, and he didn't look too strong either. Arnold and Beth both wanted to let him join though. Another fighter would be useful for when bandits attacked them and Brutus could not hold them off. Secretly they knew Brutus could take on any amount of foes. He went from unequipped to killing 8 people with a sword as big as his body. They really just want another friend to travel with. This is how Brutus got his 3rd follower. Brutus walked around the village while saying Form Wall and Become Trees and finally Harden and Fire Proof on them. Brutus had made a wall around the entire village except for at 2 ends of it. The wall was about 5 feet tall and according to Brutus it would be protected from things like arrows and blunt damage, plus it would not burn. Brutus spent 6 more days in the village with Arnold and Beth as he made other improvements to the village before leaving on the 7th day. The child's name is Charles.

Brutus, Arnold, Beth, and Charles are in a small city now. They are going to buy a wagon for them all to ride in now that there are four of them. Brutus was able to carry food for 3 people when it took then a week or two between towns, but with one more person and the same travel time it was too much. Brutus found a job to do for quite a bit of money and showed everyone while he did it. Fixing things with wordsmithing was not hard to do, but building a house was unheard of. In addition to having to move things that might weight dozens of down, sometimes hundreds, there would have to be thousands of parts to move. Arnold and Beth had seen it before, but for Charles this was the first time. Become House. Brutus said this while pointing at the materials on the ground were the house was supposed to be built and they all started moving and assembling into the shape of a house. The man Brutus took the job for walked inside the house after a while came out and told him it was great, something he had never seen done before. Building this house would have taken years. Brutus was paid 6,000,000 coins for building the house and he put them into his backpack. He also gave 1,000 coins each to Arnold, Beth, and Charles to spend how they wanted in the city. Charles is still looking at Brutus in disbelief. Brutus had made the wall around his village some time ago, but this house was much more complex than the wall. The three kids ran off to buy candy and Brutus went to buy a wagon. The materials on the ground must not have been enough to make the house with, and Brutus was very tired. He should have expected it though if it takes years to make a house for them to not have all the materials at one time. Though it could not be seen under his hood, Brutus was sweating. Creating materials out of nothing was the hardest thing for Brutus to do. It would be fine if it was just one thing, like the roasted pig, but hundreds of parts for a house creation was on another level. Brutus bought the largest carriage he could. It would take a few hours for all his wordsmithing strength to come back to him so he would have to make due with the largest they had. In addition to this, he also bought two horses to pull it. Brutus paid 400,000 coins for the carriage and another 300,000 for the horses. Brutus used Fix on the carriage as he went away just to be safe. He bought some hay for the horses somewhere else along with tools to use. The carriage would be able to seat 6 people inside and had space for two drivers, and had plenty of space on the back for storing things. Large amounts of hay were stored on the underside. Brutus made some other improvements to it while he waited for the children to come back. When the children came back, they then went to the market to reserve food to buy soon for the next month. They would be able to have ice storage in the carriage for meat, which would be the first time they had something like that during their travels. They stayed for a week and a half to make sure nothing was wrong with the horses and left. During the week and a half they lived lavishly unlike the very rugged living of the past few weeks. Brutus did not eat very much though and stuck to the very hard bread he kept with the coins in his backpack. This is how Brutus got his 4th and 5th followers. The horse's names are Fritz and Schultz.

Only two weeks later the group arrives at a new town. They do not need to stop, but Brutus is starting to acquire quite the large amount of followers, or relatively large because for 10 years he was alone in his travels. The town is on the side of a mountain, and would be a village if not for the expanding horizontally off the mountain. Buildings were being supported by large beams and under them were more buildings. The mountain had many rich ores in it, and here of all places many wordsmiths gathered to train on the mountain. It would be impossible for the buildings to be made like they were if not for wordsmiths helping out. When Brutus arrived with the carriage, he was disappointed to see that the only way out of the town was back the way they came, but still, they would stay a week or more in the town. Brutus still had plenty money from the building of the house, over 5,000,000 coins, so they got the best rooms they could get at the inn. Brutus looked for work, but many business had contracts with wordsmiths already. Brutus did not know what was going on with having so many wordsmiths in one place, so he went up the mountain to see what the big deal was. As Brutus went up the mountain, he started to be able to see a fort. There was no reason to have a fort so far from the border, so it must be something really ancient, but it was in good condition. Brutus finally reached the gate and knocked on it. A pig faced man came to the gate and yelled down at Brutus from above to move the lantern to gain entry. The pig faced man then held a lantern over the edge of the wall. It was too high to reach, so Brutus used wordsmithing on it. Spin. The lantern began to spin and the pig faced man grunted. A few seconds later the gate opened. The pig faced man told Brutus if he wanted work he could find the man in the blue hat. Brutus looked around and saw quite a few people pointing at things and saying harden over and over again. Sitting in a chair was another pig faced man with a blue hat. Brutus went over to him. Brutus told him he was new and did not know what to do. The blue hat pig face explained that they were making high quality swords and armor strengthened by wordsmiths to be sent to the neighboring country. The orcs would make the swords and armor and the wordsmiths would use harden on it. Brutus asked what he would get payed, and was told he would have to take a test first. Brutus agreed and went to take the test. Brutus had skipped the 5 years old test due to the incident of his childhood, so now he was interested in what test they had. It only made sense that if a metal existed that could not be effected by wordsmithing, another that could only be effected by wordsmithing did too. The goal was simple, use ascend on the orb to make it go as high as possible. This would ensure it came straight down and the distance it went up was the measurement for how strong their ability was. Brutus had a fine control over his ability, so he started small. Brutus made it go about 20 feet up. The black hat pig faced man got someone to get a ladder and look at it from above and they had Brutus do it again. Brutus made it go 50 feet this time. Angry, the black hat pig faced man got someone to get another ladder and have Brutus do it again. This time it went 100 feet up. They did not have a high enough ladder so they decided to time it. Someone came over and made it go 30 feet up and they counted how long it took to fall. Brutus used all his strength this time and sent it up. 20 seconds and they started to wonder what happened. 1 minute and it was very strange, but it was ascend, it would only go straight up. 5 mintues later and they gave up. It must have been blown by the wind. But then they remembered that only wordsmithing can effect it. They gave up and set Brutus at a high grade pay. Brutus worked for a little while using harden on the equipment, and about 4 hours later a huge crash was heard. Everyone gathered to the testing area to see a huge whole in the ground. They could not tell how deep it was. Brutus just laughed, such an easy test. He knew he was better than most everyone else, but for this to be the test that 11 years ago people worried about how well they would do. Brutus asked for his pay and said he was leaving. The orcs and wordsmiths tried to make him stay, but Brutus had children in the town and he was already there for several hours, they might be starting to worry. Brutus revived a few hundred coins and left. It was really not worth it. Back in the town, Brutus met up with Arnold, Beth, and Charles. They had all been practicing their wordsmithing while Charles practiced with a sword. Brutus told them about the people at the top of the mountain and the race of orcs. None of them had ever heard of orcs before. The next day a wordsmith came down from the mountain looking for Brutus. They wanted him back. They would give him anything he wanted. Brutus could make indestructible swords and armor with that ability, so they must absolutely have him. All the children were with him and wanted to know exactly what he had done to be so special, so Brutus told them about the stone he sent up for 4 hours and it seemed to be impressive. The wordsmith laughed, most people only got a few seconds, the most he had ever seen was 15. To reach 4 hours was unheard of. Brutus thought maybe it hit a bird which slowed it down. Brutus still declined and told the wordsmith to look around, he had children to look after. Brutus was then refereed to the orphanage were they would take good care of the children for him. At this, the children had looks of disuse of their faces. They could not believe someone would say something like that. Brutus however had a different face. It was one of hate. How someone could cast aside their friends that depended on them was beyond his understanding. Become Mud. The wordsmith sank several feet into the ground. There was a farting sound as the mud beneath him came up to allow him to sink further, and soon he was already at his waist. The children then laughed at him. Brutus called for the children to leave him with. They were not going to stay in this town any longer. Brutus took a visit to the orphanage before leaving to look at the children there. It was a horrible place. To the wordsmiths, they must have been satisfied just getting rid of the children anywhere. Brutus dropped a 1,000,000 on the desk of the office and told the old woman not to let the wordsmiths hear about this donation and then left. 1,000,000 coins was a big amount of money, and while the orphanage ran off the donations of the community, it would be able to buy some much needed improvements with this. Brutus and the children left a few minutes later. Overall, the trip was a waste. They only spent 2 days there. At the bottom of the mountain, or at least at a flatter spot, they stopped to talk about what had happened. As they were doing this, some people started to come from the mountain in full metal armor. One of them yelled out. Brutus had such great power and yet he wasted it on this kids, even giving a fortune to that orphanage. They had killed everyone in the orphanage shortly after Brutus left and now they were going to kill him and the children with him. Brutus pointed his hand at the men coming down the mountain when he felt something pierce him. It was the first time he saw something like this, a bullet. Brutus had seen bows and arrows before, but never once in all his travels did a bullet hit him. Blood was pouring from the wound, but he could not command the bullet to leave. The men yelled again. They were orcs, masters of the wordsmith immune metal. His wordsmithing was worthless on their guns. Brutus saw them trying to reload the gun and he decided to run at them. Brutus yelled for the children to get back into the carriage as the made a sword from the ground. The bullet was hurting him, and if he did nothing, he would heal over it, plus he did not have any armor on. There were about 20 orcs in full armor in front of him, most of it surely made from wordsmith resistant metal. Brutus picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at the orcs. Detonate. The rock exploded and took out 3 of the orcs, but by this time they had already reloaded the gun. They hit Brutus again who could not dodge in time. The just must be many times faster than any gun he has faced in the past, and the bullet resist wordsmithing so he could not destroy it mid flight. With two bullets in him, Brutus was easily hit by an orc's great-sword, then he was pulled up from the neck and mercilessly cut in half. His organs fell over the ground as the children screamed inside the carriage. The man they each held as hero and invincible warrior had just been killed in front of them, and they were next. Brutus's body was thrown to the carriage and the children were to scared to move. Though something was already starting to happen to Brutus. Most of his insides had fallen out, and with them the two bullets. Brutus felt he could not kill the orcs because the town relied on them to provide the wordsmiths reason to stay, and if the wordsmiths left, the town would disappear. But the orcs killed the orphans and he knows what might have just been a bluff to be true by the way that acted against him. There was no room for mercy. From inside Brutus's upper half, thousands upon thousands of black worms wiggled outside of his body. The children froze looking at him just like the orcs did. None of them had seen something like this. Slowly, the worms got bigger and Brutus started to regain his organs, then down to his pelvis, and finally his legs. The longer he was healing the faster it became. Brutus was soon back to standing on his own two feet, looking at the half of him thrown away and his other organs on the ground. Brutus suddenly realized he did not have pants on and the children were looking at him. Brutus told them to look away quickly. They did not and could only look at Brutus with looks of horror. Just what was he. They knew he was powerful beyond belief, but what kind of demon's power was that. Brutus looked at the orcs who had the same look of horror as he ran towards them. Spawn Sword. A huge sword was in Brutus's hand as he cut down the orcs and their armor in single hits. The sword must have weighed over a hundred down to do such damage, and the orcs were still frozen in place. Brutus killed the last one before they even moved. It was over in 10 seconds from the first dead to the last. Spawn Pants. Brutus looked back at the children looking at him and issued this command. He was only 15 in this world, but the children were between 5 and 11. Plus Brutus was technically thousands of years old. Brutus walked back to the carriage and dropped the sword. He sat down outside it looking at the children. What was he going to do now. After a few hours of them looking at each other without saying a word, a girl about 8 years old came down from the mountain. She was one of the orphans and saw all the dead orcs and came to thank Brutus for what he did. She told them that they came in just after he left and they saw the money and started violently killing everyone. The little girl hugged Brutus and thanked him again. Brutus hugged her back, still looking at the children in the carriage. This is how Brutus got his 4th human follower. The girl's name is Emma.