I, Vil Craft, decided to live freely.

I managed to leave the royal capital using a teleportation magic tool. Just as I was about to start living freely, I found a girl being attacked by a monster in the forest. With one swing of my hammer, I knocked the monster out.

"Well, little miss, are you alright?"

In the depths of the forest, there was a beastkin girl in front of me. She looked to be about 7 or 8 years old. A wolf, perhaps? She had pointy ears and a broom-like tail. Her hair was a messy blue, and her body was thin.

"You're injured, aren't you?"

She had a severe injury. Her left leg was missing, and the wound was fresh. Probably bitten off by the bear monster just now. Her right arm was limp.

"Is your right arm not moving because you were born that way?"

"..."

The girl was extremely cautious, staring intently at me. Well, I suppose that makes sense. From her perspective, I must seem like a strange man who appeared suddenly.

"Your major injuries are there. You also have some bruises and contusions... Oh? On your neck..."

The wolf girl quickly covered her neck, but I saw it clearly. There was a thick leather collar.

"I see, you're merchandise. A slave trader's."

Upon closer inspection, the girl had a well-formed face. She would probably sell for a high price among enthusiasts. But the merchant... as I thought that, I noticed a large pool of blood nearby. He must have been eaten.

"Right, I don't have time to stand here. I'll fix your injuries, miss."

"..."

Her wolf tail puffed up and stood straight up. No matter how I looked at it, she was suspicious of me.

"I won't hurt you... but I understand that you can't trust me right away."

She looked at the dead merchant and nodded. If I remembered correctly, when a slave trader dies, the one who finds them takes possession of their property.

"Miss, don't move for a moment."

"Eh?"

I channeled power into the divine hammer Mjolnir in my hand. On the back of my hand was a sun emblem.

The golden hand—that was my ability. It housed five unique production skills. I had used super-refinement earlier, and now I would use a different skill.

"【Destruction of All Things】... Level 1【Disassembly】"

Power was transferred from the sun emblem through my middle finger to the divine hammer Mjolnir. I lightly tapped her collar with the hammer, and the collar fell to the ground, coming apart.

"Eh!? W-What did you just do...?"

Ah, she finally spoke.

"I tapped your collar with my hammer and activated a skill."

"Amazing... I couldn't see anything."

Is her eyesight bad too? I'll just heal her all at once later. What I used just now was one of the production skills that the golden hand possesses, 【Destruction of All Things】. As the name suggests, it's a skill that perfectly destroys anything the hammer touches. Since using it directly would be too powerful, I reduced its power and used it as 【Disassembly】. Why is destruction considered a production skill? Destruction is a necessary process for creation, so it's a power that leads to making things.

"They say if a slave's collar is removed, their head will fly off..."

"Yeah, so I disassembled it. Now you won't die."

If I wanted to kill her, I wouldn't have needed to disassemble it. I didn't do that because I wanted to keep her alive. I hope she'll relax a bit now...

"...Thank you."

Oh, she's surprisingly honest, even though she was cautious.

"You're welcome. May I heal your other injuries?"

"Y-Yes... Healing, like healing magic?"

"Nope, a production skill."

"Production... skill?"

I brought the hammer to her thigh.

"!"

Ah, she's scared because I broke her collar with the hammer.

"Don't worry. I won't kill you."

"...Okay."

I could see she was scared, but her pain seemed even worse. Various parts were missing, she had bruises, and her arm didn't seem to be working.

"Skill activation. 【Complete Repair】."

I gently tapped her thigh with the hammer. At that moment...

First, her torn-off leg grew back. The bruises and contusions disappeared. The large amount of blood she had lost evaporated and vanished, and the color returned to her face. Moreover, her immobile arm became movable.

"Wh-Whaaaaaaat!?"

The girl was astonished.

"I guess it's surprising when a leg suddenly grows back, huh? Sorry for startling you."

"Eh, ah, um, yeah. What just happened!?"

"Complete Repair. With a tap of the hammer, I fix everything that's broken in an instant."

"Whaaaaaaaaaat!?"

Oh, she's full of energy now, maybe because her bleeding stopped. Super-refinement. Destruction of All Things. Complete Repair. In addition to these three, there are two more. I possess production cheat skills.

"I want to hear your story, but it's already nighttime, so I'll prepare for camping first."

"Ah, no, it's not that it's night right now, it's just that we're in..."

I tapped a nearby tree with my hammer.

"【Refinement: Tree → Log House】."

As a single tree glowed brightly, a large wooden house was completed. What I just used was super-refinement, the same skill I used the other day to turn stone into gold. Using wood, I refined it into a log house. The girl stared in amazement.

"What... What is this? Big bro... what are you?"

"I used to be a blacksmith."

"Bl-blacksmith...? Wait, can blacksmiths... do something like this?"

Well... I guess so.

When you think of a blacksmith, you imagine someone hammering away at iron to forge a sword.

"I'm a blacksmith with a bit of a special circumstance."

"Is that so..."

"Let's go inside. We can eat and talk there, Wolf-chan."

After staring at me intently, Wolf-chan spoke.

"...Poro."

"Huh?"

"That's my name. Poro."

"Poro-chan, huh? I'm Vil. Vil Craft."

"Big bro Vil..."

Big bro, huh? It feels a bit embarrassing and awkward.

Poro-chan looked at me and bowed her head slightly.

"Thank you for saving me!"

...Thank you, huh? It's been a while since I've been thanked for something other than making things. It's not a bad feeling. Yeah, not bad at all.

"You're welcome."