The rumors were already spreading far and wide, like words without legs traveling more than a thousand miles.

    The rumors spread by Baron Rothschild had reached the Pisa Blacksmith Guild as well.

    “Damn Florence bastards. What? Are they saying we’re inferior in skills to them?”@@@@

    “Did they boil their sense of reason with stew or something?”

    There was no need to stir things up with the neighboring guild.

    But the master of the Pisa Blacksmith Guild, Gildo, was no longer able to retain his rational mind after hearing these rumors.

    “I heard one of the senior craftsmen from the Florence Blacksmith Guild said that the Pisa craftsmen are so incompetent, they would only be apprentices in the Florence Guild.”

    Most craftsmen endure a pitiful apprenticeship for about ten years, restraining their youthful desires and romantic distractions, grinding away like dogs in order to eventually become masters.

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