This is because many ladies and girls in their village and also in the neighboring villages have already shown interest in staying with Tim who was a widower, but his father always rejected these women because he still thought about his mother.
After all, as the only blacksmith in the region, Tim had a very good income, Jack was also eager to learn the profession from his father in order to continue the family's blacksmithing and so he thought that many women would come after him too.
Of course, he also wanted to help his father who was getting old, but he knew it was no use rushing things because being a blacksmith was a profession that took time to learn.
After Tim came home later in the afternoon Mark and Ron arrived at their house, the two of them were badly hurt and looked really furious, Tim called the hunters to enter his house quickly and Jack got a glass of water so that the two could get together to calm down.
"What happened to you two? It looks like you guys had a fight."
"That's exactly what happened, Tim, we fought with the hunters in the other villages nearby, we went to the other villages today to ask what had happened that no hunters had gone to help Jack in the river."
"In the first three villages, it seemed that the women who came back from the village had not even told the hunters what had happened when they thought about speaking after they had recovered from the shock they already thought it was too late and decided to say nothing."
"So we were furious about it, but we couldn't do anything in these villages and they looked like they were telling the truth and that's why we went to the other villages."
"In these two other villages the women were more responsible and warned the hunters in their villages, but the hunters told these women that Jack must surely be dead because of the lions and they were only protecting the village if the lions attacked the village their."
"In these villages, we were disgusted and fought with the hunters who were very irresponsible, first because some of these women who were in the river were their wives, and second because they were cowards and convinced themselves that Jack was dead because they were afraid of lions."
"That's right, knowing that the lions could have attacked their village and the other villages if Jack hadn't distracted them and survived until we arrived."
Hearing this, Tim and Jack were also irritated by the irresponsibility of these hunters that almost caused Jack's death, their job was precisely to protect their village and hunt wild animals, but out of fear they decided to just protect their village and ignore Jack who he had saved the women from their villages.
"These hunters are irresponsible, and the women in the other villages were also blamed for a disaster that almost happened, so I am no longer going to sell weapons, armor or anything else to the hunters and these women in these villages."
Hearing this Mark and Ron agreed and thought that these people would regret being ungrateful and not trying to help Jack, after all, they would receive armaments and Tim's gratitude if they helped and now they would be able to use the services of the best blacksmith in all the villages.
Tim and Jack again thanked the hunters who faced problems again because of what happened to Jack, and the two left for their home too, after a few hours Tim and Jack also calmed down and went to sleep.
So another day started and when daybreak Jack was away from home in a quiet place practicing with his sword, he knew he was not as good as the soldiers of the kingdom, much less the knights of the king.
But Jack trained every day for 5 years and now he was doing his various movements without shaking his hands, and he had also gained the muscles needed to stay in a fight, and his hands were also callused for a long time by constant practice and also by hammered in the smithy.
What Jack wanted was just to be able to defend himself and defend his father too, he didn't think about becoming a soldier because he had to inherit his father's blacksmithing, and Tim also said that Jack should stay away from the capital city, despite not knowing why Jack always obeyed his father.
It was because Jack had trained with the sword so long that his father made it for him that he had survived when the lions attacked, he knew he could use the sword and so he had confidence in attracting the lions for the women to flee.
After killing a lion for the first time even though he knew that the lion was already seriously injured, Jack discovered that he really liked to fight, and Jack also admired Mark and Ron a lot, especially after the two saved his life.
Jack knew he couldn't become a blacksmith in the next few years because he still hadn't learned enough, so he decided that he wanted to become a hunter and help Mark and Ron while continuing to help his father in the workshop in the morning.
Jack knew he wouldn't be a hunter in the future because he would inherit his father's workshop, but he wanted to learn to hunt and help Mark and Ron when they had to go on a hunt and he too would be happier if he did.
Being a hunter in the kingdom of Andaria was a very dangerous job because the village where they lived was more than 30 kilometers from the forest, so wild animals rarely appeared, but also because it was far from places with the army, the forest was almost a paradise for animals.
So the job of hunters was to hunt wild animals and also harvest medicinal plants that only grew in the forest, although it was a rewarding job it was a job where you could die any day.
So Tim only sold those few swords and armor at a lower price to hunters and not to merchants who wanted to make a good profit in the capital city.
So with Tim saying he would no longer sell to hunters and women who were in the river in other villages that didn't help Jack, Mark and Ron knew that the other villages would struggle with that because Tim helped hunters a lot by selling weapons and quality armor for a lower price.