JULY 3. 3567
"After those 4 elves death, soon the army will have to go to netherlin to stop that demonic creature weakening the elven army on the border up north and soon the demonic army shall takeover the elven territory and I shall claim the throne as my reward for helping those filthy creatures destroy the holy church of elv"
The man laughs certain of his win.
"Hah! you really are dumbass, as if they would give the throne nor even reward you for helping them"
A ragged voice of a woman echoed in the basement of the man
"Oh shut it you shitty hunter, I will be rewarded by them, they even swear on their god"
"Hah! you really are dumbass aristocrat, since when have demonic creatures honored thier promises, no your just scared that the curse of contract will kill you if you don't comply"
"You Bitch!"
The man slaps the woman in the face
"Soon after I become king, I will offer them your shitty body and I'll have fun seeing you getting fucked to death by those demonic creatures since you like fucking another race so much"
The man sinisterly smirked at this beaten and chained up eleven woman
"Soon, just you see"
As he say that he looks at the farthest door in his basement.
Behind those doors was something very sinister, a path to the denovin's nest
𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗼 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿
When I woke up, I saw Cynthia making her bullets for our quest.
Looking around the room, I can see that the dagger and a high amounts of rations put in the side.
Then I decided to pick up one of the daggers and ask Cynthia
"Hey Cynthia, do you think we can use these to kill the queen"
"How exactly?"
"You just have put mana in it then you just have to throw it before it explode"
"Hey dumbass, mana doesn't work that way, the moment you fill that mana stone it will explode immediately"
"Just imagine it as a defective reusable magic wand"
"However it can be used differently just like how I use it"
"How I made my bullet are easy, I just almost fill up the mana crystal then put them in my cartridge then when I want to fire it, I infuse my gun with mana then when the firing pin meets the cartridge the mana crystal fills up an explosion will occur"
"You can also use wind magic to speed up the bullet too but multicasting is hard to use even me"
I put back the dagger on the table near the poisoned food
"So do we need anything else? there's still time before the the meeting"
"Hmm...if they those two elves doesn't suspect anything, then lets buy more rations for them, take at least 1 gold from my ring"
"I see...then I'll buy them also by the way, how many bullets can you make right now?"
"About 67 of them"
"Try to save most of them, we'll probably need half of them for the queen, should I get you a knife or something?"
"Buy me sabre, the bayonet at end of gun is detachable so I already have knife for stabbing"
"Okay then"
I put on my black coat then my black hooded cloak left the inn but as always it was hot because of my triple layered black clothes.
While I bought a small amount of rations and started looking for a blacksmith.
After exploring a bit away from the main road, I eventually found a blacksmith called 'Naz's blackshop' and entered the shop.
When I entered, I saw man making a sword at the corner at the room ignoring me.
I started inspecting the weapon racks for a sabre and eventually found one.
It's handle had a bronze-like color while its edge was slightly curved.
Exactly what I needed, so I ask the black smith
"Hey how much is this?"
"67 Silver"
Although I knew nothing about this worlds economy, I knew that 67 silver was quite a lot for the common people.
The conversion rate goes as follows:
1 Silver = 100 Copper
1 Gold = 100 Silver
1 Platinum = 100 Gold
1 Royal Coin = 100 Platinum
In the past, this might be the most impractical currency but since transmutation exist, the copper, silver and gold was easy to obtain as long as you met the value of it.
Royal Coins are only given by royalty and the material its made off is not known among the common people
"67 Silver? a bit expensive for a sabre"
"Hah! you blind boy, it's material may look like steel but its actually made from magisteel"
Magisteel was a steel infused with a dense mana that will coat its edge making it possible to infuse the weapon with various elemental magic
"There quite rare now a days because of the high mana needed to make one and people opted to use resins instead since it was cheaper"
"But magisteel was a more versatile making it more lethal with people that has multiple elemental magic"
Now that I think about it, Cynthia is able to cast fire magic and wind magic so this sabre will actually be helpful, I wanted to haggle the price down however I did not know a thing about haggling nor is he someone who's willing to haggle
I sigh in resignation
"Alright 67 silver it is"
"Thank you for patronage!"
A slight smile appeared of the bearded man.
I returned to the inn to find Cynthia changing her clothes and as always I ignored her naked body and gave her the sabre.
"No reaction again!"
However for some reason, she got more pissed off and started glaring at me while I was explaining the sabre
"What do you want me to do? stare at your naked body"
"At least make an expression!"
"I prefer not having an expression since I found it quite tiring"
"Then how- you know what? nevermind..."
'I can never win with this woman, if I stare at her body she gets mad but if I ignore her body she also gets mad'
I sigh internally at myself because I found it quite hard to even smile.
We left the inn and went deep in the forest where the denovin's nest is located and eventually found the two elves waiting for us.
I examine the two elves for their dagger and it seems they noticed it too
"I guessing you found out about knife too?"
"Yeah thanks to Cain, he noticed the crystal was rigged"
Apperantly the elven priest was called Cain.
We discussed what the calm, tall elf told us last night when the sinister looking elf and the two of them left
"I see...so we need to work together to find evidence then"
"Yes"
"Then let's start by introducing ourselves, I'm Noelle, an adventurer and paladin of the church of elv"
"Cain, priest of the church of elv"
"I'm Hugo and this is Cynthia"
Cynthia just nodded at them
"Nice to meet you, then shall we go?"
"Yes, I think its best to do so"
After a small introduction with each other, we went inside the big hole which was the entrance to the denovin's nest.