Kurt had entered one of the elven structures, it had a smoking chimney coming out of it, there was an anvil, and chisels. It was a small blacksmith outfit. Kurt doubted the fires would produce many blades, the goblins had huge forges, and a couple of them, while this seems more appropriate for one at a time.

"Pete, and ohhh," bowing, "Lord Kurt, what brought you here?"

Pete, who was the one guiding Kurt, "Lord Kurt, may I introduce Spellsmith Blake, Lord Kurt has some questions about his blade, and you were the one to make it."

"Mostly, it was a team effort, is something wrong with it?"

"No, I don't think so," said Kurt, " I just don't think I'm using it to its full potential, and was hoping gaining a bit of understanding would help, I am curious about how your magic works."

"Hmm, you don't intend on sharing the knowledge," said Spellsmith Blake.

"Sharing?"

"Well we have secrets, but you are the lord, but I would have to demand the secrets stay with you, and are not traded," said Blake.

"I have no idea how I'd even do that honestly."

"Well, then do you have any questions? Pete you can go, thank you for welcoming our guest."

"The pleasure was all mine, If you'd excuse me Sir Kurt," said Pete, Kurt nodded.

Kurt unsheathed his blade, then pulled out some of the water to show him.

"I see it's not working as we intended."

"I haven't really done anything."

"I think we should take this outside of the settlement."

The two found a place in the grassland that seemed open enough for Kurt to show a swing. He formed both the thin slice and the full wave.

"Yes, nothing has really changed. But I assure the counter spells are working, you don't have to do anything about that," said Blake

"Well, carrying the water is much easier, the divot at the top actually helps a lot. I was told it was expected to enhance this technique."

"Ohh it was, but we didn't know, hmmm, your magic is strange. I think you can make an adjustment. But are you actually putting any mana into the blade here?"

"Huh."

"I mean it sort of seems like you have all the mana in the water, and none actually in the blade, so it's not even activating."

Kurt thought about it, and tried to just put his focus on the blade and some of the writing started to light up. "Ohh, now I feel like an idiot."

"No, no you have a particular technique that works on any blade, you have never held a spell blade before have you?"

"This is actually really my first real blade."

"You're kidding," said Blake.

"Nope."

"Well, okay, try again I guess."

Kurt did, but it wasn't working right, he could put the mana in the blade, which seemed to give more power or use his technique he couldn't combine it.

"Well, it is about skill in the end, you have a bit of mana you have yet to control, I think you have an idea of what to work on now."

"So how does the lettering work?"

"Hmm that's difficult to explain, in fact a lot of being a spellsmith is figuring that out, we have a rough translation to many scripts, and the spellsmith have some natural poetry in them. It's a lot about intent, and knowledge of how they work together."

"Huh," said Kurt.

Blake went to a sandy patch in the ground and drew a few symbols, "like this roughly translates to power, but power has many actual meanings, physical power, influence, concentration, big movements. So just putting this power on a blade doesn't really do anything. You have to complete an idea, and intend to do so, and understand the underlying syntax of it."

"So trial and error?"

"It is like making an instruction for the blade, there is an art to it. If I'm being a little experimental, it could fail or just be weak, or perhaps stumble on something extremely powerful. But we have some scripts that are tried and true. Pretty much all of your scripts are active by just use, passively. The water enhancement seems to not work the same as your magic. Actually can you say, shi va kai"

"si va kai"

"Close, shi va kai" Blake said slowly

"shi va kai"

"Perfect, can I see your blade my lord," Kurt handed the blade to Blake. Who rubbed some of the lettering, and a part started to barely change. Blake was giving it some effort. Then relaxed his face and handed the sword back to Kurt.

"Okay so what you do, but now say that when you push it, shi-Va-kai, and think cold."

"Cold?"

"Yes very cold."

Kurt took a swing and the full blast of his Crescent wave came out, usually he would immediately put, "shi-Va-kai" Kurt said, and the form started to crystallize, Kurt'S blade started to glow, and the push forward but before it went too far the water was turned into a sheet of ice.

"Good work!" said Blake, "I think that will help you a lot."

Kurt made a smaller line with his sword, "shi-Va-Kai", he whispered under his breath while swinging, and the line became a crystal structure, with sharp pointy edges, before it shot forward.

"Ohh, yes, I guess, that actually seems really nasty."

"What does it mean? The words."

"Roughly, 'ice spawn touch', or 'cold spirit kiss' like I said there is a little poetry getting all the translations to mean about the same, and we are translating that to you with a goblin spell from my language… and it doesn't even exactly translate in my language, so it probably double bad for you, I'm sorry, I'm basically instructing the blade to freeze the water as you can see. or you are upon invocation instead of infusion like it was. That basically all I did was switch that part."

"I see, thank you, this will help, he started repeating to remember, "shi-Va-kai, shi-Va-kai."

"You're very welcome sir. Are you interested I think I can show you some basic scripts, if that what you want, and I would like to make that change, a bit more permanent, with a true adjustment."

"I do, and we can."

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