Thursday, August 4, 2016

Chapter 8: Morningstar (Part Two)




Here is the promised second part of the eighth chapter. Forgot to post it. 





TL: Shova Translations




EDs: Intenseinfantry2520 (Fragrant pig is lost in the pleasure of college project deadline)






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The business of "Hammer of War God" was booming. Although it only sold a knight sword, a knight halberd and a knight’s heavy armour (Which was the full capacity of Frost) in a month, it not only recovered the cost of original investment of 10,000 gold coins but also earned a profit of 3,000 gold coins.

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Lazy afternoon sun shined on the quietly flowing Pass River, the broad river surface looked like it was covered with golden coloured scale. 

A team of knights equipped with armour and halberd were leisurely, patrolling along the river.  The head knight was wearing a dark green breastplate, and the rest were wearing khaki-coloured Farborg knight outfit and the standard cavalry breastplate.

The knight dressed in the dark green armour was Keith, that pieces of armour always made him proud, the dark elf knight armour breastplate, was soaked in the blood of the black elves, and after adding the shield inscription, the defensive power of the armour very excellent.

After Kate arrived at Farborg, knight commander Lord Pennington looked after him, letting him lead a Ranger cavalry knight squad. Normally one squad of Farborg ranger cavalry has 50 to 60 cavalry soldiers, but with only the status of Platoon Leader, Kate can only lead 20 cavalry soldiers at the most.

Ranger cavalry was between the heavy cavalry and light cavalry, usually wearing half body armour. Their choice of a weapon was a heavy halberd, so they were often called halberd cavalry.

Ranger Cavalry usually patrols around 300 miles around Fort Farborg, going out in the wild for the survival training for a week or so. When the patrol team encountered any thieves and bandit or even monsters, a squad of Ranger cavalry was sent first to annihilate it. If the sighting of an enemy brigade was reported to the fort, Ranger cavalry was the one to be sent to scout. But Farborg has not seen war for decades, and now Ranger cavalry has become more of a cavalry officer training.

This was the third time Keith has led the Rangers Squad since his arrival two months ago in Fort Farborg. The Sun was shining, there were several fishing boats on the River and from them, songs seemed to float around. The riverside was the green and had glossy fields; the magical forest in the distance also appeared peaceful and tranquil.

Keith was very relaxed and happy, this was like a vacation, and the only fly in the ointment was that he never even saw the shadow of any bandits and thieves, everywhere around there was a peaceful and prosperous scene. 

Keith, who has been out there for five days, did some mental calculation and he waved and cried: "Squad return!" All halberd cavalry knights made the U-turn and started to walk toward the Farborg fort.

Farborg knight regiment had the total of 7000 people, with 2000 cavalry and 4000 infantry, 1000 miscellaneous soldiers. After all, it was a second-tier army, hence the troops led much more peaceful days, resulted in the battle efficiency of the lord Pennington’s knights, to be average.

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Rogge and others have already to the life of Farborg, that is, to find out the local brothels and the pubs, which was full of adventurers, mercenaries so there were likely to be quite a few fights. In addition to being noble, they had the backing of Lord Pennington so they were not afraid that they will offend anyone.

While in business, some of the good magical products were sold, especially after the Blue Crystal armour, was bought by the younger son of a duke in 10,000 gold coins, the fame of "Hammer of War God" quickly began to rise. 

Rogge saw that the dwarfs were too leisurely, so he forced/lured them to make some equipment without the magic inscription for sale. The craftsmanship of the dwarves was highly sought for so when each of the batches of products come out, even without any magic inscription; they are snatched immediately.

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At this time in the third floor of the "Hammer of War God", Rogge and a small group of adventurers were having a business transaction. This group of adventurers had nine people and had the standard adventure team combination, Warrior, Ranger, Archer, Mage, priest, rogue everything, that is expected to find, that is one or two of each. They had just returned from the magical forest adventure with, the harvest to exchange for some equipment.

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What made Rogge’s eyes shine was the bag of magical silver with, he was watching the sack full of magical materials, around two pounds of silver, and some rare metals and precious stones, such as a piece of ore, dark in colour with the glint of Venus.

Rogge recognized that this one was a high-grade star gold ore. This gold was different from ordinary gold, because it had the mysterious correspondence with the stars in the sky, and was an indispensable raw material for making space-related magic and equipment.

There were also monster crystal, fur, although precious, were far less than those ores.

The fiery red bird feather worn by the female mage in the team caught Rogge’s attention. With the spiritual force, Rogge found that the feather had extremely sturdy but agile fire magic fluctuations.

The adventurers settled on one extremely beautiful (the common features of all hammer of war god products) magic bow, decorated with platinum wire and purple gold wire winding into the bow. What matched with this bow were three pale-green Hama arrows, (TL: they are supposed to be legendary evil-destroying arrows. If you want to know more about them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Yumi)

The arrows had two white dragons that were purely carved with magic silver, whose four wings expanded on to become the arrow’s tail feathers. Seeing that arrow, the eye of the young female archer shined brightly,  holding the bow and arrow tightly refused to let them go.

The female magician was fascinated by a charm increasing bracelet. With the superb craftsmanship of the dwarf and Frost's superb skill, Franco's artistic taste, and the deep understanding of Lawrence and Rogge’s on the dark side of a human heart, this bracelet was extremely ingenious in combining the meteor stone and magic silver.

The entire bracelet was entirely transparent with the tinge of dark blue, and under the influence of charm magic, the starlight appears and disappear from time to time. With this bracelet, it was like putting on the night sky on your body. The female magician’s eyes became as deep as the night sky. Of course, a simple mosaic technique can also achieve the similar charm effect with increased range effect actually.

While shopping, women no longer make any sense was surely a good saying. Fortunately, the strength of these adventurers was good, but they were not very good at understanding the goods.

Rogge was sweating like pig, the fat in his body was trembling (it was not known when it started, but Rogge’s fat can be shaken at will) he had the pained appearance while killing the price a little bit.

After adding two half body armour, four long swords and thirty armour-piercing arrows, the deal was finally completed. And the read feather became Rogge’s spoils.

In all fairness, Rogge’s products were fine, worth the price. The main source of the money-making lied in the low-priced purchasing of the loots of the adventurer. For example, this time the only piece of star gold ore was the priceless treasure, not far from hundreds of thousands of gold coins. That bag of magic silver was worth of 10,000 gold coins and as for the monster crystal, they were more than 10,000 gold coins. Not to mention other unknown metals and the inexplicable red feathers. Rogge’s intuition told that the more we do not understand something, the more valuable it is.

Rogge finally understood what “A good horse that does not eat the night grass does not get fat.”

As Rogge finally sent this batch of suckers with great difficulty, several people leisurely strolled inside and walked into the VIP room, and Lawrence nodded and followed.

 Rogge just put on the professional smile, ready to say hello. The man who was leading the group took off his robe that was covering his head, the blonde colour of the hair jumped out and illuminating the whole room, the smile was as bright as the sun after the rain, the light even stinging the Rogge’s eyes.

He held out his hand and said: 

“Nice to meet again, I am Orpheus Von William.”






1 comment:

  1. did he come to befriend him ? recruit him ? or to arrest him ? i am curious :D

    thx for the chapter ^^

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