Slayers 2 Swords and Blacksmith — Katana Upgrade Path

Where is the blacksmith in Slayers 2?

Hidden Mist Village holds the blacksmith, and ProGameGuides is the source that pins it there: once you can enter the village and have 500 Wen saved, the Iron Katana upgrade becomes available. The village is also where the forging, refining and dungeon NPCs live.

Getting there is the part nobody documents well. The sources we could verify name Hidden Mist Village, list it inside Muzan’s night rotation and confirm the world is one connected map with no loading zones, but none of them gives a turn-by-turn walk from the starting area. Your practical tools are the map and fast travel unlocked by the Book of Guidance and the Lost Pages, plus the community route maps that follow the same roads. Set a spawn point once you arrive, because you will come back repeatedly.

The village is a mid-game hub rather than an early stop. If you are still short of the 45 level exam gate, the leveling route matters more than any vendor, since the blacksmith cannot sell you anything useful before your level supports the content that drops upgrade materials.

What does 500 Wen buy at the blacksmith?

500 Wen is the one blacksmith price with a written source, and it covers the Iron Katana upgrade. The same source prints the figure as 500 yen, which is a currency-name slip rather than a second currency, since every redeem-code source spells the game’s money as Wen.

The two 500 Wen numbers are the trap. One buys a Regular Katana from a vendor, the other pays for an upgrade at a blacksmith in a different village, and guides quote the same figure for both jobs without saying so. If you walk into Hidden Mist expecting a cheap katana off the shelf and find an upgrade fee instead, that is why.

Everything beyond that table is undocumented. No verified source breaks the blacksmith tiers into a price ladder, and none lists material counts per upgrade, which is exactly the sort of table a competitor wiki fills in with invented numbers.

Should you farm Crude Iron or buy it from players?

Farming nodes is the recommended route, but that advice comes from a single competitor wiki rather than an independent guide, so treat it as a working assumption. What is confirmed is the loop: mine the nodes, refine what you get, then hand the result to the blacksmith for tier upgrades.

Two parts of that loop have real support. Refining runs through Hagane in Hidden Mist Village, and the Crude Iron Ingot itself is a confirmed Final Selection clear reward rather than a random drop, which means the slowest bottleneck has a guaranteed source at the end of the exam. The same wiki notes that mining nodes sit in dangerous zones, so route planning around them matters more than raw speed.

The buy-from-players side has no data at all. No source we could verify publishes player-set prices for Crude Iron, ingots or any other trade good, so a claim that buying is faster, cheaper or safer cannot be checked either way. There is also a cost to guessing wrong: community advice warns against dumping Crude Iron Ingots as junk loot, because the same item that looks like vendor trash is also a required unlock material for the post-exam katanas. If you are short on Wen, sell the surplus elsewhere; the money guide covers what actually has a price.

How do you forge Enryu, Shinkage or Tengoku after Final Selection?

Clear Final Selection and you receive 1x Crude Iron Ingot, then take it to Yagane in Hidden Mist Village and pick one of three katanas: Enryu, Shinkage or Tengoku. Each blueprint costs that single ingot, so one clear equals one sword.

The reward flow is the part worth internalizing. The Sisters hand over the ingot with the rest of the clear package, and the exam repeats every two hours on even hours, so a player who wants a second katana is looking at another full run rather than a farming loop. Nothing in the sources suggests the three swords can be obtained any other way, and none of them is sold by a vendor.

Choosing between them is harder than it should be, because the published data makes them look identical. The weapon database lists all three with the same values, +1.25 Additional Damage, a 1.02x damage factor and +0.9 Block Points, which means the decision comes down to how the moveset feels rather than a stat difference, at least until someone measures them properly. That value table comes from one database, so treat the matching numbers as a single-source claim instead of a settled fact.

Keep the ingot if you are not ready to spend it. It is also an upgrade material, and there is no vendor in the game offering a swap.

How does the Shotgun Schematic work and what does it cost?

The Shotgun Schematic drops from the Lost boss inside the Final Selection exam at roughly 5 percent. The shotgun itself is crafted for about 10,000 Wen, which is the largest single weapon cost with a written source, so budget before you chase the drop.

The fight sits in the exam’s underwater cave section, which is also where community guides place the Submerged Key for the parkour dungeon, so the dive is not optional if you want to finish the run. The boss page covers the route into the cave, and the Final Selection walkthrough covers the ten-step order around it.

Whether the Schematic can drop again on a later exam run is unresolved. No source claims the item becomes permanently unavailable, and none confirms a repeat, so the safe reading is that it is exam-only content you should grab on your first clear rather than something to postpone. The 10,000 Wen crafting fee is the bigger practical obstacle: it is several times the price of the regular vendor katana, so a player who chases the drop without saving for the craft ends up holding a schematic they cannot use. One video also claims the tanto, spear and shotgun are Slayer-exclusive while the cutlass and gauntlets work for both factions, which is a single-source claim and not something to plan a build around.

Which early weapons should you get first?

The cutlass from Zuko is the first upgrade worth chasing, because it drops free at roughly 20 percent and carries Quick Draw. A Regular Katana at 500 Wen is the cheap stopgap if the cutlass refuses to drop during your 7 to 10 grind.

The opening quest chain reportedly hands out a starter blade for free, a claim that traces back to one competitor wiki and gets repeated by aggregator pages without any independent confirmation, so check your inventory before spending your first Wen on a replacement. After that, two community guides disagree in a way that is easy to misread. One recommends buying the Regular Katana to shorten each farming loop, while another warns against buying a rusty katana because bare fists may hit harder. Those two claims may not even describe the same weapon, so the useful takeaway is narrower: confirm the name and the stats at the vendor before paying.

Weapon power is also only half the progression. Levels give skill points and quest gates, while weapon and breathing moves unlock through mastery earned by using them, so a better katana does not skip the grind on a style you never play. The skill tree guide covers where points go, and the Zuko boss entry covers where the cutlass comes from.

Is there a complete tier price list or an upgrade failure rate?

No. There is no reliable full price list for the blacksmith tiers, and no source outside one competitor wiki mentions an upgrade failure rate at all. The only origin we could trace is that single wiki, and no independent site repeats it.

The tell for a table like that is provenance. None of the pages carrying it says where the figure came from, which patch it describes or who measured it, and none of its numbers matches a figure that can be traced elsewhere on this page. When a number has no origin, the useful move is to read the blacksmith’s own dialogue, which is the one interface guaranteed to show the current price and material list for your account.

What weapon lines exist and what do their stats look like?

BloxInformer’s weapon database is the most complete published list: it covers the katana family plus spears, tantos, gauntlets, sickles, scythes, war fans and the shotgun, with damage and block-point values for several entries. Treat it as one strong source rather than gospel.

Two entries in that database matter beyond raw damage. The Axe and Mace is not a katana and sits under Uncategorized Weapons in your inventory, yet it is mandatory for training Stone breathing: you must be holding it, and it only drops from the Stone Trainee at 7 percent. The same database confirms an Ocean Wave Katana and a Flame Katana exist alongside the three post-exam swords, which is a useful reality check for anyone who reads a “best sword” list and assumes it covers the whole game.

Missing from the table are the values the database never published. If a weapon has no damage numbers there, this page does not invent them, which is why several of the ten weapon families are named but not ranked.

What is this page based on?

This page is built from Community Verified material with several single-source figures flagged in place: ProGameGuides on the Hidden Mist blacksmith, Gamezebo’s Final Selection walkthrough, the BloxInformer weapon database and allthings.how’s Stone breathing route, cross-checked on 2026-09-23. The tier price list remains unpublishable.

The Crude Iron farming advice is the weakest claim here, since it rests on one competitor wiki, and the Fancy Katana vendor location is disputed between a location guide and the weapon database. Everything else traces to at least one named guide, and the numbers this page refuses to print, the tier price ladder and the upgrade success rate, come from a single source that no independent site repeats. Check the blacksmith dialogue in game before spending.