Steins castle, Greyfield region, southern part of the Hartage kingdom.
In a big room dozens old mens are now eating their dinner. They are all elder of the main family. The current head of the family is now sitting in the main host seat .
The steins family elders and the head ate dinner together if they are present in the steins main family's castle.
The head of the steins family is an extremely old men . He is 92 years old which can be said to be very old compared to any mortal human in this kingdom .
He had wizened white hairs , fatigued eyes as if they witnessed a lot , which now wanting eternal sleep , a time ravaged face and a midget body size .
1st elder said , "Tommorow the first battle between us vs. the Hussar kingdom will begin at 'Waterkoo'. I hope we can destroy these Hussar bitches."
4th elder added, "Yes , how dare they try to assassinate our kingdoms king , even though we don't like him and can't for his death but we will never dare to think about something so dishonorable act like an assassination!"
7th elder said in a deep voice ,
" Well luckily he is still alive or else the Hussar kingdom would have take the chance of the kings death which will definitely cause a civil war for the throne . All the prince would be busy killing each other's and Hussar kingdom would have cut more land from us like 100 years ago . "
2nd elder looked at the old head of the family and said respectfully,
"Great Patriarch, Duke Cilic of this southern parts of the kingdom is also sending a lot of materials in the western battlefield. He ordered all of the nobles and rich people's including us to donate in his vault for the war efforts. "
Old head of the family , Patriarch Gavin Steins nodded and said in a low weak voice .
" It is our moral obligation to help our kingdom in it's times of need. Although we are forcefully demoted from our ancestral noble title by this king but we still have all the possession intact. As for the title we will get that back eventually. Send war fund according the they way others are sending.
Also secretly start to stock up food as much as you can , but not let others get a wind about it . The war will only get bigger from now on . When the war reach in this southern part from the western part , then food will be controlled by kingdom authority , so fill all wearhouses from now on ."
While the patriarch and the elders of the Steins family were discussing while eating ,there was a knock at the door.
"Who dares to disturb while the elders are busy ?" 6th elder said angrily.
From the other side they heard ,
"I am butler dossoseris . Forgive my rudeness lord but it is an emergency. "
1st elder said with a calm voice , "Come."
The butler quickly vowed the patriarch and other elders and kneeled down.
1st elder ordered him to describe about the reasons for his intrusion.
"Lord , Just now Viscount Koros of the colos family from colos city told us via a magic conversation artefact that today at afternoon Baron Mordaer Steins's daughter wished his majesty to die infront of the crowd. This matter happened in a very crowded place so he can't prevent it from spreading. Many people there are now mad at Steins family and are suspecting that we are behind the kings failed assassination! " The butler said in fear .
Everyone present was so shocked that they failed to react at time.
The head of the family ,old Gavin Steins was so shocked at this that he felt a heart attack instantly . He tightly clenched his left breast in pain and agony.
3rd elder saw this and immediately shouted ,
"Quick , call the lord medic magi now ! Patriarch is facing heart attack !"
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Greg's Tavern and hotel ,3rd floor room number 321 .
Aetius took a quick shower and sat down in his bed . He had a very smiling faces now . Of course he should ,what a day that was ! He sold 2 rank 1 magic monster corpse for about 243,000 gold coins , received bounty money of these 2 magic monster which was 54,000 gold coins !
He now had an awesome amount of gold coins in his system space storages. After eating at 'Meat&Spice he had gone to market for shopping . He brought some different types of normal clothing's , parchment paper, ink , feathers , an alchemy pen mind writter etc .
Now he has a total of 310,000 gold coins . He looked at the floor and give a command , POUR IT ALL OUT .
Soon his bedside rooms floor was full of golf coins . Which made a small pile of gold coins and almost filled half of the room . The room was previously white because of light stones .But now it is sparkling in a beautiful yellow light !
Seeing this his lips made a sharp curb of delight and joy ! Just 3 days ago I only had 1 gold coins . But now , It is more that 300 hundred thousands !
'With this money I can ensure my safety to a certain extent and also prepare for the future . If i didn't awaked within the next year , then this money will help me to ran away and live somewhere as a rich men .'
Is this how it feels to those dragons who said to live in the mountains of gold and wealth ?
West of the Illariyan subcontinent is full of dragons ,giants , trolls etc . There are some fearless common human hunters who call themselves 'the dragon slayers', who go there to hunt rich wealth lover dragons and steal their wealth . But almost no daring hunters came back alive !
He picked all the gold coins and stored 300,000 in system and 10 thousands of gold coins in ordinary storage bag .
Because of the shopping of the daily necessities , It is now almost 10 pm . And he happen to feel a little hungry too . So he headed straight to the 1st floor for a meal and hear some news alongside with it . After all he booked a room in this hotel for a year to hear some free news and rumors .
Today's food menu of the tavern was , two big good quality bread , a small bowl of rice , a fried chicken breast , a fried egg , a small cup of soup , some small fried fish and some vegetables .
Although not so much tasty and expensive like the big luxurious restaurants but it is okay and I really enjoyed it very much .
While eating I was also consuming others talks with my ears too . Most of them are talking about Tomorrow's war in the 'Waterkoo' .Some are talking about Melena's drama . Different people are talking different version of stories .
Some are saying that Melena is proud that her father personally tried to assassinate the king,
Some are saying that Melena was not a girl but Baron Mordaer Steins himself who wished his majesty to be dead.
Some are saying that Melena is a dark witch and needs to be burned at stakes.
Some even saying that Melena is a whore that they saw at a red light district !
' Wow not even a day passed ,but people came out with a lot of extreme types of conjectures . I am sure Melena will be in a real trouble right now !'
It's close to 11 now . Now I should go and sleep . I will have to go to school tomorrow for class .
Not founding anything new in the conversations of the tavern he decided to go to sleep in his room .
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While Aetius was sleeping happily in his room , Steins family however didn't had that luck .
Baron Mordaer steins Shallow water castle was breached by a group of angry mob at midnight . They wanted the baron to die in their hands for not teaching his daughter how to respect his royal majesty.
But they didn't find anyone in that castle. All servants and maids ran away with the baron into the colos family's castle .
It is now midnight. Baron Mordaer steins was awake now and was taking care of his one and only daughter. Baron Mordaer steins loved his past wife a lot and she died while giving birth to his daughter Melena .
Before her death , she asked baron to take care of her . The baron was very young that time and received many marriage proposal's but he rejected them all .
Now Melena was in severe pain in her chest for the soldiers kick and
had a very high fever .Baron sat besides his daughter who can't fall asleep for pain and fever . Baron also can't sleep while his daughter was in this state.
" Don't worry my little angle, you will be fine soon . They have given you medicines ,you will feel good soon . Try to sleep ." Baron Mordaer steins was caressing his daughter's head to let her feel comfortable .
On the other side , the main branch of the steins family also had no sleep and discussed this matter all night and eventually came up with a decision to act quickly before the news reach southern part of the kingdom.
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Aetius woke up at 6am in the morning . Although he prefers 6 hour sleep but he now sleeps for 7-8 hours after he came in this world . Well it is also not bad thing as it makes you feel fresh and lively . Compared to the most of the ordinary peoples who sleeps more than 10 hours a day , it is way good.
He quickly gone to the bathroom and had a quick shower.
The thing about him is that he loves to take bath from time to time . On average he takes 3 shower sessions everyday. He is not like those 'germaphobes' ,who are obsessed with sanitation and feel compelled to clean excessively .
He is not a 'clean freak ' but loves to take shower if he has chance .Well it is not bad to have some good habits .
He will go to attend class today , so he must hurry up. He quickly wore his new school uniform which he brought just yesterday , put all the study material like paper , ink bottle , feathers in his space clothes bag .
He gone to the first floor and ordered for a meal . He had 1 extra meal left due from 2 days ago , so he can order that .
He quickly ate his breakfast and left the tavern . unfortunately , he didn't heard anything new at tavern during his breakfast time .
He got up on a very fast ox carriage and headed straight to the colos school.
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Celine ,was a bit lost recently . Aetius no longer bothers her like he used to throughout the schools 3 year . Celine should be happy that her long wished dream has become a reality .
But she didn't felt happiness anymore .She felt like she lost an important part of her soul from her . She would look at her girls dormitories rooms carpet or mail box attached to the door, where she would occasionally found Aetius's love latter's .She would time to time look at the window where Aetius would stand to take a small glimpse of her . She would look at her classrooms door where Aetius would come to harass her .But she longer saw him anymore .
'I should be happy that he has forgotten about me , but why I am sad ?' She has asked that question a lot in the past 6 day's , but had no answers .
' Didn't I was the one who always wanted him to get out of my life and forget about me ? He no longer care about me , he no longer love me anymore . Why am i now sad , just why ?'
Six days ago , after the vow in the sacred names , he has changed completely into the one whom I always wanted him to be ! But why I am not happy about that .'
Celine , can never find the answers of this questions .
Sina , a pink haired girl who happens to be Celine's friend said .
"Celine , what happened to you ? Why you are always gloomy for the past few days? Did something happened ?"
"Nothing ." Celine replied aggressively .
" Did you know , Melena from class 3 wished his majesty to be dead Infront of a lot of people yesterday . My grandfather gone there to participate in an auction . He saw it all ." Maria said in a bewildered manner .
Hearing it not only Celine and Sina became shocked but everyone who was gossiping were also become surprised and asked her to say in details .
They knew that a powerful noble girl named 'Melena' reads at class 3E . She always boast about her noble family in this school . No one dares to argue with her fearing her powerful family background.
Melena never likes study but would just show off her expensive items in the school .The headmaster would always stop and warn her if she tried to do prank at her classmates or on the jr. students .
Maria received this news through a letter sent by her grandfather at night . To warn her not to mix with her .
Most of the students still didn't know about this . As this incident just happened yesterday at late afternoon when most of the students already returned to the school before school gates shut down at dusk .
Maria surrounded by a lot of students of her class started to say ,
"My grandfather is the great master alchemist of this city , Alchemist Pyhroince . He was invited by the colos city beasts bidding point in a magic monster auction yesterday ."
Hearing her saying 'magic monster' everyone present become more interested .
Like magi , magic monsters can also use magic . They are very dangerous and very cunning .A single corpse of a magic beasts would cost at least 10 thousand of gold coins !
With 10 thousands gold coins, you can buy a small land in the main city ! Very few can have a land in the main city . In this world common people can only earn 10-100 gold coins only . Even for rich people's it is an astronomical amount !
Many of the students of class 3A to class 3C had mana tip-off before . So they naturally want to know about magi and magic beasts .
" There a rank 1 speed type kobold magic monster was prepared to auction ."
" Speed type !"
A handsome boy of class 3C exclaimed . He is Yorioner .He is 13 years old . He is a speed type mana tip-off . He still remembered that fateful day .
6 years ago ,
Yorioner was 7 years old kid back then . He was a very active child who would always play with his friends .
one day , he was playing with his friends in a grass fields , he suddenly felt itchy in his both foot ,but he still continued to play . Suddenly he started to run at a very fast speed .
He felt as if he's leg's are about to break off . He looked down at his legs while running ,they seems to become a little red all of a sudden .Soon he passed out .
When he woke up ,he saw his parents who are very happy to see him wake up. There were a lot of people in the house right now . A person in white robes came to him and touched a mana stone in my legs.
The mana stone is a very beautiful transparent glass stone . It seems some gaseous things are inside it which are constantly moving around inside the glass walls . As soon as my legs touched with the mana stone , the gaseous things inside started to move towards my skins direction in a slow manner !
The white robed men looked at my parents and said that I had mana tip-off and I can become a magi in speed or related type in future ! All of my parents were very happy and my neighbors also congratulated them .
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"Yes , a rank 1 speed type magic monster kobolds women corpse was displayed in the auction! It had half of it's body like a dog . It had dog tails , dog ears , dog like legs and foot . It was 7 foot tall ! "
Some young boys started to dream some perverted things instantly. After all they are at that age .
Kongbaer, the tall boy who reads in class 3C couldn't help but wonder ,
"If I could be there , I could've saw that beautiful kobold women."
"It was dead , you idiot. Don't tell me your are in dead women's." Rosa , the silver haired girl said in disdain. Kongbaer is her boyfriend. So she is feeling disgusted more than any student present here.
"No no no, I was just saying! It's not something your are thinking hehehe." Kongbaer quickly got close to Rosa and explained it to her.
Maria and others didn't pay any attention to these lovers and requested Maria to continue.
Maria fixed her round glass and continued,
"A lot of powerful people's are attracted to buy it . Including famous restaurant 'Meat&Spice' master chef also tried to win that kobolds body to add a kobold menu in his esteemed restaurant!"
A lot of students eyes started sparkling when they heard about the most famous food restaurant in this colos city. Only very rich and nobles of this city can afford to eat there .
" One of the chef 'Meat&Spice' is my father's friend .A few months ago, he cooked a sea magic fish for our whole family while we gone there. I will never forget the taste. It felt so good that I always look forward to going back there . He told us that he can cook 14 types of magic monsters meat , the head chef can cook 43 types of magic beasts meat !"Ethenuies
said proudly to his classmates.
Maria continued,
" Melena of class 3C was also participating in that auction. She despite being warned by the auctioneer, boasted about her noble family and told that Steins family is a marquis family. So they expelled her from the auction house. "
" Hahaha good , she once tried to attack me using her dangerous magic ring , luckily headmaster Benito stopped her then . " Orsterberg said in laughter.
" Yeah , that bitch always show off her expensive items and her great noble background. She just argued a little with me and wanted to attack me too . Like Orsterberg, headmaster also stopped her from doing so ! " Erinaine started to remember her quarreling with Melena about who has more jewelry then other.
Maria looked that her classes students are asking to tell the rest . So she continued ,
"Then she was kicked out of the auction house. Outside the auction house some soldiers came to arrest her for spreading false rumors about Steins family aristocratic ranking. She angrily cursed his majesty to be dead ! A soldier kicked her so fiercely that she had gone unconscious while bleeding ! "
Hearing this all the students of class 3C ,who are now listening to Maria , become angry at Melena .
" How dare she wish his royal highness to die ! " orsterberg exclaimed.
" Good , that soldiers did the right thing kicking that bitch . If I were there I would have killed her Instantly ." Yorioner said angrily.
" That bitch , I hope she will be guillotined in the city square today. ' Erinaine said in harsh tone.
"If it were a orphan like me , They would have killed me on the spot . All because of the fact that she is from a noble family." Celine also said in lost .
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Aetius got down from the ox powered carriages and paid 90 silver coins . He is now Infront of the colos school gate . Many students are going In and out of the gate now . Looks like I have made it in time .
Many students saw that Aetius who was missing for 2 days came back in a expensive fastfoot ox powered carriages . They also noticed expensive school clothes in his body and started to discuss it among themselves.
"Hey, isn't that lovesick that always chase after Celine like a dog . Why I think he changed a lot after getting beaten by Celine and her classmates?"
"Yeah , he has changed a lot after making a vow in the name of 'Sacred flames'."
" Man I laughed hard when I saw him getting beaten into pulp . He hastily took a oath because of intense beating and he vowed that he will not love Celine anymore! "
" I felt sad for this guy back then . Many teachers saw him getting hit by class 3C students, but no one teacher stopped them . They just walk away as if they don't care if this guy lives or dies ."
" Look at his shirt, It is a very expressive clothing . Looks like he won a lot money from a lottery ticket recently."
" I thought he would die . After all how can a men love a girl and stop loving her just a moment later ? He luckily didn't died after making a vow ."
Aetius heard these discussions about him , but he didn't looked at them .
'Class 3C's five boys who beat my bodies past owner and forced him to take a vow in a sacred name to not love Celine anymore . Which resulted in his death and my entry.
I will kill those 5 brats of class 3C . It will be my gratitude to the past Aetius who's body has given me a second chance in this fantasy world. '
Aetius's blue eyes started to pump some red blood veins around the eyes , which looks both beautiful and also terrifying.
Aetius came infront his school dormitories room . But he suddenly remembered that he lost his keys.
'Oh , I really forgot that I lost it when those magic monsters kidnapped me . No problem, There are nothing of use there . Just books of this year's, paper, ink and some clothes.
I will go to school stuff room after school finished to receive a duplicate keys of my room . They always have duplicate keys of the school every rooms door .
Anyway I will live in Greg's Tavern and hotels from now on . I can easily buy anything I need . So that is not important now . School classes will start within 10 minutes. I should go to my class now .
After all, I have become a filthy rich kid with more than 300k gold coins from just 1 gold coins dirt poor . Ha ha ha.'
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7:30AM .The great plains of the Waterkoo, western part of the Hartage kingdom.
Border between the Hartage kingdom and the Hussar kingdom.
After a day long rain , the grasslands was now full of life and vitality. The morning sun made this plains in a great scenario.
But people who are standing facing each other had no time nor interest in enjoying this nature's beauty as they are fearing for their own lives.
Two great armies are now separated by 30 kilometers of grasslands . East side was holding a flag of a castle in the back of giant 3 headed bird .This is Hartage kingdom side.
Other west sides flag was illustrated with a big moon . In the moon was the map Hussar kingdoms . This is the Hussar kingdom.
The hatred against each other can easily be seen. 100 years ago , Hartage kingdom lost war against the Hussar kingdom and lost one-third of it's ancestral lands.
Hartage kingdoms king back then committed suicide out of shame and forbade his sons from burying him until the Hussar kingdom is destroyed.
Next king was smart and sought help from Novgord empire immediately. Novgord empire was happy to enter the war as Hussar kingdom was a part of Auspice alliance, their archenemy. So they will not let Auspice alliance grew more stronger .
By the intervention of the Novgord empires , the war was over and both parties remained in their area of control.
The hatred against the Hussar kingdom is not a simple thing . The war made Hartage kingdom from a great power in this middle subcontinent to a middle class power . After losing that great war , Hartage kingdom formally joined the 'Novgord alliance' as Hussar kingdom received a lot of material support in that war by the Auspice empire and it's alliance .
For more than 100 years Hartage kingdom was sharpening their weapon's for revenge and waiting for the destruction of the Hussar kingdom.
Today , the first battle will broken out in this great 'Waterkoo' plains . For the war that they have been eagerly waiting for centuries. The shame of last war can only be washed away by the blood of the hated enemies!
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7:50 AM Colos school, colos city , northern part of the Hartage kingdom.
Aetius entered in his class 3E . Now all the students are busy talking about Melena's tomorrow's drama.
'Looks like Melena's immature act has spread like a wildfire. '
Aetius found an empty sit in the last benches and sat down . He bring out his paper , ink bottle and a sea hunchback ducks white feather from the space clothes bag in his table .
He loves to stay alone and doesn't like much noice like these teens. After all he was in his late 20s when died in earth . So , he was much mature then the kids in his age.
'Looks like Augusto didn't came today . ' Aetius looked around for Augusto, his only friend both in this class and in this school. After last class incident, he decided not to mix with the rich and noble families teens as they are a bunch of troublemakers .
Aetius was attacked two times one after another by them in a single day , but the headmaster nor anyone came to save him and stop these brats .
'I was so happy when the black robed men won the sound path magic monster instead of the headmaster. Hahahaha . ' Thinking about the auction house incident where the banshee was won by the black robed necromancer, Aetius was laughing in his bench to his heart content .
"Hmm , looks like you are feeling great about something. Are you happy that Melena, the person who attacked you back then was now in trouble?"
Aetius saw a teen who was wearing round glasses came to his seat and sat besides him .
Amon , this bastard. What he is doing here?
I changed my voice into the Aetius's voice and replied to him ,
"Is that something to be happy to?" Of course I am happy that Melena become public enemy number one. But I will never reveal that . There's no reason to do so .
Amon looked at me and said seriously ,
"You really changed after that vow . You become more mature like an adult. You look more health then a week ago ."
What this bastard wants ? I don't want to talk with this sleuth piece of shit . I decided not to answer his questions. What if Melena returns and knew that I laughed at her trouble. Although chances are low , but I needs to be cautious. I can't trust this sleuth bastard.
Seeing that Aetius is not replying to him , Amon looked around and said slowly ,
"I know that you are angry at me because I used a magic artefact on you that day . Truth to be told , I had no bad intentions .
I was just checking if the headmaster will stop me if I used it against you . Because Melena could use it against you without receiving any punishment. If I had any bad intentions, I could've have killed you .
How about it , I have already learned about the snake incident from Julie. I will tell you that , so let's be friends ? "
I have no interest in the snake cult incident nor with making friends with these aristocratic bastards.
I can easily spend some gold coins to hear about the snake cult from an info suppliers. Which will be more accurate and errorless then some teens eye witnessed storytelling.
I don't wanna entangled my self with this rich and nobles seed as they are full of trouble. This Amon is a sleuth who enjoys solving riddles. This type of guy is not good for me .
"I have no interest in both . Just leave me alone." I said casually without even looking at him and got busy drawing a banana In my paper . I really miss banana, I have not seen it in this city.
Amon shook his head in gloomy face and left to his seat at the first bench. He left behind a sentence before going,
" I hope you will forgive me . I have a feeling that , we can become good friends in future. After all we both have one thing common , we unlike other students love to know mysteries of the giant titanoboa , even though it is something related to the heretics."
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Panthrou , is now standing in this huge battlefield with a one handed sword in his right hand and a small round iron shield in his left hand .The shield can barely cover his whole body .
Panthrou is from a small town under a baron family Hannoie's rule in ural region of the west of the Hartage kingdom.
His father was a 6th son of the baron of Hannoie family . So Barron back 7 years ago gave his father a small land in the town and kicked them out .Then Panthrou was only 12 years old . He didn't liked that his father was ousted from the baron family. He missed his life at baron's castle and always wanted to be a baron not a rich men .
He is now 18 years old . He didn't married yet . He does small business in the town to help his sick mother and his drunk father.
Even though baron gave us a lot of gold coins (100k) , but they were eventually finished as my mother was sick for years now and my father always remain sad and drink alcohol.
Just a few days ago , he along with all the peoples of the west of the Hartage kingdom received an decree that Hussar kingdom send an assassin to kill our king , but failed. So the king asked all male from the age 20 to 30 to join the war against the Hussar kingdom.
He is only 18 years old , so he is not forced to join . But he was excited to join this war . He volunteered to join.
He knows that war is the best place to earn merit . If you can earn good deeds in battlefield, you can be awarded with noble title and lands .
He is a hot headed men who wants to regain his past noble life . So he volunteered to join the war . Even if he dies , he will have no regret as the deceased peoples family who joined the war will receive a lot of money . He believes that his parents will live a happy life.
He is eagerly waiting for the war to begin . He can see a hugh sea of enemies is the far distance away .
He is in the middle of the Hartage kingdom soldiers line . There are so many soldiers around that he is confident to crush the Hussar bitches followers.
He is now wearing an iron helmet which can barely cover his orange hairs , a body armour, iron gauntlet in both hands .
When he was a child at the baron's castle, he used to train with swords . So he is not like most of the people present here who are new with it .
' I will kill as many Hussar bitches followers as possible to earn war merit . I will become a baron and definitely cure my mother's illness by a lord medic magi .' Panthrou was thinking to become a noble and accumulate wealth to make a famous medic magi to heal his mother.
He is now standing at the middle of the Hartage kingdom army . He can see giant trebuchet, ballistas, catapults are being loaded with giant eocks by the engineers .
The attack will start by the normal soldiers at the beginning, then the powerful magi and churches powerhouses will clash. We have to survive and kill as many enemy as possible till then .
For every enemy soldier killing , they will receive merit points . Using these merit points you can exchange a lot of equipment, props , weapons . Even magic weapons and holy artefacts can be exchanged!
Ahooooooo...
Soon he heard the famous war horn of the Hartage kingdoms blood boiler sound .
He started to feel bloodlust and madness suddenly. It felt like he would die if he can't kill the enemy .
Not only Panthrou, but everyone present had the same feeling rising from their mind .
It is because of the legendary horn of the war . This horn is called, ' Blood craving war horn '. It is a legendary item made from an extinct spirit beasts horns . It makes people's who hears it's sound wanting blood of enemies.
Soon , all of the soldiers of present rushed towards the enemy. The enemy also started to run at the direction of Hartage kingdoms soldiers.
Huge 100 ft. trebuchets started to lunch huge rocks at the enemies. Ballistas started to shoot iron balls at the approaching enemies.
While running at the enemy Panthrou felt his strength has risen a lot .The shield and sword in his felt like it has no weight!
"Yes , I am very lucky, a magi is using a spell where I am now . I can now only focus on killing the bitches followers." Panthrou shouted in madness and joy .
The mages and preist of both sides are helping thier armies using many kind of spells . They are now using many AOE spells to buff their sides soldiers.
Panthrou is very lucky to stay under a mages spell range .
The closer Panthrou gets , the more opponents trebuchets and ballistas attack they started to face .
A huge rock just turned a dozens of soldiers Infront of him into meat paste! Luckily a mage used a spell to destroy it or he would have killed too.
He looked at the sky while running. The sky is now full of many types of spells . The opposite sides priest and mages are trying to attack us using spells but are not successful as our sides mages and priests using spells to defend us .
'Meteorite shower, snow , ice , lava , arrow , storm , trebuchet projectiles are constantly thrown at our direction. But our side will not let these to fall on us . our sides priest have created a huge barrier to protect us . Mages of our kingdom are also sending many types of attacking spells toward the Hussar kingdoms armies. '
Seeing this Panthrou become excited and shouted loudly,
"We will take our revenge and kill all the Hussar bitches followers!"
Hearing Panthrou, people who are close to him who are running toward the enemy also shouted in unison. The effect of war horn is still there so they are all in a state of bloodlust.
Because of the mages spell effect he is feeling very light and free as if he is now completely naked !
He charged at a skinny enemy who can hardly hold a one handed sword with both hands . That enmey is surely a newly conscripted peasant.
Panthrou quickly slashed his sword at the enemies legs and made him fall into the ground in pain. Then he stabbed him in his heart and killed him .
"Easy one point !" Panthrou shouted in joy and started to kill another one.
Both sides clashed with each other and the war that will burn this whole middle subcontinent officially started.
[ note : I will use my book supporters name as character in this noble . Panthrou is a generous person to support my new book using power stone ]
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"Roll number 169"
Aetius , "Present."
Aetius was now busy drawing a bananas picture in his paper . He loves banana a lot . In his past life , before becoming ill , he would eat at least 1 bananas everyday.
'Is it because it is far away from the seas that there are no banana ? Now that I remember, I also happen to not seen any coconut too . I am really far from seas . '
He was never good at drawing in his past life . In this life , he is also not good at it too . He just drawing to pass the time in this class . Teacher will say his words and get out . They have no time nor interest in teaching this class which is full of naughty and careless students .
Aetius is struggling in drawing . Pages after pages are being wasted but he still failed to draw a proper banana .
'This is too boring . during the class, the school gates are closed , so I have to stay here till 12 pm . I have a lot of things to do . '
Teacher Baden said , " Today I will take an selection exam . From this class, who can secure highest marks will be participating in the national math championship . I have already taken the selection exams from 3A - 3C yesterday. Today I will take it from class 3D-3F. Starting from this class .
Many students who are not paying any attention suddenly became excited. This is national maths competition. They will receive a lot of Fame and fortune if they can win it .
Aetius however was completely oblivious of this and was busy drawing a banana .
Soon teacher Baden distributed question paper in every students bench .
Teacher Baden also put a paper in Aetius's bench where Aetius was busy in failed attempt to draw a banana properly.
Teacher Baden saw it and shook his head in disappointment. But he still didn't care and left after doing his job .
'The hell ! I can't even draw a simple bananas! '
Aetius saw the question paper . He was tired of failed drawing attempt, so he was looking for something fun . He saw the question paper and mocked ,
'What a simple childish math . Well I happen to be free now , so let's answer it . '
Within 5 minutes he finished answering all the questions and gave it to the teacher Baden .
Aetius was the first to answer and finish. Teacher Baden sighed in disappointment and thought,
'This brat maybe submitted a empty paper . Even though you are not good , just at least try a bit ! "
The teacher looked at the Aetius's answer paper and become shocked. He quickly read it again from the beginning to the end but still failed to find any mistake.
All the questions are out of the this years books , so teacher Baden didn't doubt that Aetius copied from book .
He looked at Aetius who happen to starting to draw his ugly bananas again .
Teacher Baden came close to Aetius and looked at him seriously . The brat is still trying to draw a banana but it always failed. He is throwing the failed drawing to the dustbin and using another paper to draw . It doesn't seem like he has any pain to destroy papers at all .
In this world white paper is very expensive. Only rich people can afford them . The school only gives yellow paper not white paper .
But this guy has no remorse and keep wasting it as if it is valueless.
Teacher Baden asked a math riddle to Aetius ,
"If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?"
Aetius looked up and saw teacher Baden asked him a question. He knew the answer and said it as if it is a piece of cake .
"Zero." Then he started keep doing his drawing.
Teacher Baden become shocked. This is a high level math riddle which will easily caught any math genius. Once a friend of him asked him this but he failed to answer . But this brat answered it as if a children's thing !
Then teacher Baden gone back to his seat and waited for the rest of the students answer submission.
After half an hour later he collected all the answers papers forcibly from all the students and said In an authoritative voice ,
"I will announce the results, In this class , among you a student succeeded in scoring 100 / 100 . Which is the highest and even class 3A's roll 1 Nider only scored 71 ."
As soon as the students heard that , they all started to discuss among themselves.
Amon , "Julie congratulations, I didn't knew that you are a math genius! "
Julie ,
" Me .....!? Isn't that you ?"
Aaron,
" Amon stop joking, I have seen Julie's answer paper, she hardly wrote a single page . It is definitely you ."
Amon ,
" I will score high but not 100/100 as I only answered one-third of the questions. So it's definitely you , Aaron ."
Aaron ,
" You are daydreaming Amon . I never like to study . You know me, I hate maths specially , they make me feeling suffocating!"
Amon thought and said thinking,
" If it's not you then it maybe a joke from the teacher?"
Teacher Baden said with a smile ,
" We have a math genius among you and I am very optimistic about his participations in the national math championship. Mathematics young genius Aetius . "
Aetius who was was distressed for failing to draw a simple bananas was trying his best but still failed.
Suddenly, he felt a lot of stares at him ! He looked ahead and saw whole class was looking at him in disbelief and shock .
Amon's mouth was wide open in disbelief. Julie was looking at him with a kind smile . Aaron who would always sleep was looking at him with his eyes wide open .
With a sudden attention he also become dumbfounded and didn't understand.
" What the hell happened? Why they are looking at me as if I am an alien . Well technically I am an alien but why I suddenly attracted their attention ? "
Teacher Baden looked at me in a nodding gestures and said proudly,
" Aetius is a math genius in this year's batch ! "
Me ? math genius?
...
I finally understand the crux of the issue . I was just drawing my favorite fruit banana. I didn't paid much attention to the teachers words . When he gave me question paper, I thought it is just a normal class test . So I answered them as I was frustrated to fail to draw a simple bananas.
But it turned out to be a selection exam for the kingdoms math championship. what are the benefits?
I was curious about this so I asked,
" Teacher what is kingdoms math championship?"
. Teacher Baden gave me a kind smile and explained it in details ,
" kingdoms math championship is an old competition like swordsman championship.
It is a competition which gives both teenager fame and award's. They will have their names erected at the math genius stele . In more than 100,000 years history, there are at least 100,000 names are erected there .
The winner of it will be awarded with a legendary item and 1 million gold coins . He can also apply to join 0-9 tower , where a famous math cult named 'divine number eternal reverence ' works . They are famous for worshipping numbers . In our kingdom they are very famous and respected ."
Listening it , everyone in the class including Aetius became shocked.
Everyone was dreaming to write their name's in the stele . They were dreaming how great it would be if they became a magi and came back thousands of years later and saw their names in the stele .
Aetius was however was dreaming to own the legendary item ! A legendary item is can be used by ordinary men without any problem. Although it has a small numbers of usage, after which it will become useless. But it is a thing he needs the most now .
Also if he can become a math genius, then he can also avoid joining the army if he didn't awaked! This is great .
Although I was mediocre in math in my past life and never became first in my class whether it is school , college or university not to mention in the whole nation. I was like those guys who were happy as long as they can pass the math exam .
But this worlds math is very poor and backward compared to my past world. The math of this 3A is very simple. A 8 year old kid would jump in joy if he founds these maths in his exam ! Class 3A is the highest education of this kingdom.
'Hmm , it will be not bad if I can win this competition. In one hand , I can win a lot of gold coins and a legendary item , which will become my trump card .
On the other hand , I can avoid joining the army by the excuse of joining the '0-9 tower' . This way I don't have to run like a dog and be chased by the colos family. Perfect.
As for winning the competition. Hehehe I can save all kind of math books within a few minutes and I will never forget . All thank to the system ! "
Seeing Aetius's happy face teacher Baden nodded and said ,
" Are you feeling interested in math recently? Looks like you will do great at the competition. Although you may not win as it has a very big competition , but it will be a great things for you . You can get to know a lot of famous people of this kingdom . This will be very beneficial for your future job choice .
Tommorow, there will be no class in the school but a competition among Class 3A,3B,3C,3D,3E,3F . Viscount Koros colos will personally come to witness the competition. The winner may be invited by the viscounts castle for lunch . Whoever wins will become the colos family's representative in the grand competition.
This competition is not a small thing but a very big opportunity. So work hard ."
Teacher Baden encouraged Aetius to work hard for Tommorow's class 3's competition and left .
All the students came to Aetius and started to congratulate him .
Amon said in a surprised face ,
"Wow you are a math genius! I never thought about that ! I thought it would be Aaron . Tommorow you must defeat all classes math genius, my bet is on you !"
Julie said shyly,
"Aetius good luck. I have a big math book which I brought from a market, I can lend it to you , if you want !"
Aaron said with a happy face ,
" I never dreamed that you would be the one to score high . I thought the four eyes( Amon) would be the one . I will also bet in you , so you must win it ."
I was also not impolite and replied their congratulations with gratitude.
I was regretting just one thing ,
' I wish I could bet on myself .'
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9:00 PM . Colos family castle
Melena finally woke up . She had been in pain for half of the night . Thanks to the medicine, the soon felt good and fall asleep. Now she is feeling much better. Just a little pain in her chest and a little headache left .
She saw that she was on a luxurious big bed and the room was not the her colos school special bed not the shallow water castle bed . It is very different.
She saw a men was sleeping in the chair close to the bed . His upper body was leaning on her bed and his lower body was on the chair.
"Papa!" She called out loud .
Barron Mordaer steins was sleeping beside his daughters beds chair . When he heard his daughter's call , he quickly woke up .
" My daughter, how are you feeling ? are you still feeling well ?"
Baron Mordaer steins quickly came near his daughter and checked her heads temperature with his hands .
"Papa I am feeling better then before . Papa I was impulsive and made mistake. I am sorry , I caused you trouble." Saying so she started to cry .
Baron quickly embraced his little angle and said ,
"Don't worry my little angle. It is nothing. Just come with me . You didn't ate anything since yesterday. You must be very hungry."
She looked at her father and said in an feared expression,
"Papa , will the guillotined me ? I don't want to die !"
"No one can harm you as long as I am alive ."
Baron said with a smile , but if you look closely you can see an uneasy feelings in his eyes .
Soon baron took his daughter to the colos family dining room.
Coincidentally, Viscount wake up late today and was just started to enjoy his breakfast .
In this world , ordinary people mostly eat 2 times a day . Only rich and nobles eat 3 or more times .
Viscount saw baron Mordaer and his daughter entered the dinning room and said with a smiling face ,
"Hahaha , what a coincidences, I happen to wake up late today. So I just sat down to eat . Come please seat . Chef prepare two more meals ."
"Thank you viscount Koros for your generosity. I will always indebted to you. I am ashamed to trouble you ." Baron Mordaer steins bowed and said respectfully.
Melena also bowed to viscount. Although she is feeling disgusted to bow to a small Viscount, but she followed her father gestures. She is also greatful to viscount for giving her and her father shelter.
Viscount shook his left hand and said in smile ,
"Hahaha , it is nothing. It is my moral obligation to help a nobleman in his times of need . How is miss Melena feeling now ?"
Melena showed courtesy towards the viscounts , she bends her knees while bowing her head towards the baron like a proper noblewoman.
She replied politely,
"I am now feeling well . Thanks to the viscount Koros's concerns for me."
....
11:45 AM , Colos school.
Ding.... ding.... ding.....
Hearing the bells 12 continuous low chimes, the literally teacher left and all of the student started to go to their dormitories rooms.
Aetius was tired of drawing the banana and called for a day . He is now going with Julie . She said that she had a big math book with a lot of math . I agreed to take a look .
The boys are forbidden to enter in the girls dormitories, so Aetius is now waiting infront of the girls dormitories entry point. Whether that book is good or bad , it doesn't matter. He will copy it in his system or brain within a few minutes .
While waiting, I saw someone I hate very much , Celine . She is entering into the girls dormitories with her 3 friends .
When Celine saw me , she came near me with an ugly expression.
"You bastard, after staying away for a few days, you started to do your foolish act again ? Don't you remember how you crawled to my foot to beg and made a vow ? Stop doing your nuisance."
'This bitch thinks herself as a miss universe for whom boys will wait Infront of the doors ? Fucking bitch , let me become strong I will make you cry in blood . Now I must not talk with this bitch , maybe something unexpected will happen. '
Aetius decided not to reply her and waited quietly for Julie .
Rosa , a white haired girl got irritated seeing that Aetius is not answering Celine's question and shouted,
"You bastard, don't you have any respect for a future wind path mage ? Didn't you learned that it is a basic courtesy to reply?"
'Fvck you and your fucking courtesy. I will not answer your any questions. I have no interest arguing with you bitches. '
Aetius knows that there is no benefit proving his innocence to them . It will only turn into a quarreling if he talks with these girls . He is just standing here waiting for someone. They are the ones who are looking for an opportunity to start a quarrel.
Seeing that Aetius was not replying anyone, they become frustrated. They are looking for a way to want to know Aetius's inner thought throw an angry argument.
Celine said putting on an air ,
"Hmph , you better leave me alone or you will truly die at my classmates hands ."
Then they left giving me disgusted looks .
These whores wait for me to become strong, I will pay you back for everything you are doing .
Soon , Sina , a pink haired girl with a childish face came to Aetius who just was with Celine and other's.
Aetius saw her approaching towards him . The first thing about this girl that attracted him was her big boobs .
'So big , how old is she ? ' That's what came in his mind .
She said to Aetius,
"Hi , I am Sina. A friend of Celine. I have to tell you something."
Aetius saw no malic in this women's word and said casually,
"Go on , I happen to be free now ."
Sina , looked around and said in a low voice,
"Aetius, since the day of your vow to the eternal flames , you changed and stopped talking with her . Since then she remained gloomy all day long and her studying has also fallen a lot ."
What that has to do with me . Isn't I am doing what that bitch always wanted that dead fool to do ? Now why is she sad ? Don't tell me she will be happy if she saw me dead !
I said in a cold voice,
" What's that has to do with me ? I don't care if that whore lives or dies. "
Sina was stunned. Her beautiful childish face showed a look of wonder . She said ,
" Did you really no longer loves her ? I really love to dream about you and Celine's love life ! Can a oath really break these feeling so easily? "
I didn't bother to listening to her nonsense and said happily,
" Hahaha . You are really a romantic type women . How many boyfriend's do you have ?"
" Me , boyfriend! " She blurted out in this sudden question. She actually has a lot of male friend's not only in her class but also in colos city . She loves to talk with boys very much as they praise her and gives her many gifts .
" Well whatever, Please leave me , My soul never loved her or will never love her . I hope you found your answers."
Well that's true that I never loved her but that dead fool did . So it is not a lie at all . Also who in their right mind will love a bitch like Celine?
Sina left toward her rooms but the question of Aetius was still buzzing in her head , "How many boyfriend's do you have ?"
Actually she never thought about that . Sina has a lot of boys who would also try to talk with her . But she treats them all as friends , never saw anyone as her boyfriend.
Aetius's shook his head and keep waiting for Julie .
As soon as Sina left , Julie came to Aetius with a very thick book that Aetius ever saw .
Aetius saw that julie is sweating heavily as she bring the book . Aetius took the book in his hands and felt a good weight.
'Its at least 5 kilograms! What is written in it! '
"Sorry Aetius, It was in a trunk that I forget where it's keys was . So I searched and bring it here . This book as a lot of mathematics. My grand father brought it from a capital's merchant 70 years ago . It contains a lot of mathematics formula , rules and description. My father gave it to me to while sending me here. He feared seeing it's size , so he never opened it . I never opened it too for 3 years after entering in this school. You can have it . I hope can use it well and do great at your competition. "
I checked it and saw that this book has 3 thousands pages in it full of myriad of maths ! It will take many hours to save it in my brains .
This book alone will be enough to study all maths available in this kingdom. I will not need to go to different libraries for searching for maths in this world . Although maths of this world are simple for me , but they have a lot of types of them which may confuse me . So this book will help me to saving my time a lot .
I suddenly thought something and shoved my right hand in my pocket. I didn't bring out my space bag in open but entered my hands in it in my pocket. I soon bring out a beautiful gem embedded mirror out of my pocket.
This mirror was on banshees space clothes bag. I have a lot of gold now and this mirror was taking place in the system space . So I put it in my space clothes bag thinking of selling it . I can receive tens of thousands selling it .
But I think it will be not a bad thing to give it as a gift to Julie. She is a mana awakener in a support type . So it will be good to befriend with a future magi . She is also very simple minded, so she will be a good friend of me . I can easily manipulate her for my own advantage. This mirror will work as an investment!
As soon as I bring out the mirror, it started to shine brighter under the sunlight. Julie's eyes were dazzling seeing it . I gave it to her . She looked at me as if saying is it for me?
'This is a gift from me to my best friend . If you refuse I will feel sad ." I said with a friendly smile .
She started to admire the beauty of the mirror and started to cry .She also saw a lot of the girls are also staring at the mirror in a wonderful expressions.
' What's the matter? ' Aetius asked her .
"Thank you Aetius, no one ever gifted me something so beautiful and expensive gift . I cried in joy , so don't mind ."
Aetius also calmed down and said goodbye to her . He will now go back to his hotels room at Greg's Tavern.
Amon , who watched it all from afar. Saw Aetius going out of the school gate and get into a carriage.
He opened a small note book and wrote on it .
[ Aetius , gifted an expensive gem embedded mirror in exchange for a cheap book to Julie. He is a person who loves to reward his friends who help him wholeheartedly.
It is a mystery how he got that luxurious mirror. He no longer stays at school. maybe started to work somewhere.
Aetius is a mysterious guy . The changes started after vowing not to love Celine .
I am sure he wants to make Celine feel that she made a wrong decision to kick him out of her life . So Aetius is now taking risks to make Celine fell sad as much as possible by becoming a successful men !
He will prove to her that a non magi can become a powerful prominent men.
I think Aetius was always good at math , but didn't like to show off as he would be busy chasing after Celine. Now he is taking the opportunity of the kingdom math championship to make Celine feel regretting about her poor decision.
It will be beneficial to be friends with Aetius. He is a person who will pay his friends who help him as much as possible. Even if he doesn't become a magi , but he will be an important person in the future .]
...
Aetius left the colos school and got on a very fast rhino powered carriages.
Because of the war , the horses are all taken away by the kingdom. Even now they are still buying it like a madman.
Horse's are very easy to both fast and can be tamed in the shortest moment.
'Hmm , I need to do some business. What to do ? "
Soon the carriage came infront of a public toilet. I got down and paid the driver. As for why I came infront of the messy public toilet not Infront of the Greg's Tavern is for hiding my identity.
"I quickly paid 10 silver to a guy who collect toll from the public toilet users . If you use a toilet, you have to pay 10 silver coins. Although these toilets are public toilet, but these shameless people loves to earn a lot of money from this . Well it is a very profitable business indeed .
The public toilet area is very big . A lot of people are going in and out of the toilets. I waited a little in line and soon entered in a toilet.
The toilet was ugly . It smells like shit for real . The last user definitely didn't washed it properly.
I didn't wanted to stay here for much longer . I quickly brought out the black robes from my system space storages and wore it . Staying here is courting dead . I quickly got out of the toilet and came out of the public toilet building.
"I need to change my clothes to somewhere else next time ."
Greg's Tavern was just 10 minutes walk from where I am now . I started to walk towards there . As a very old building that was here for long tome ,Greg's Tavern is close to the main square of the city.
There are a lot of shops in the streets now . I decided to walk around a little and look for something that will be helpful for me .
Soon I came infront of a alchemy prop shop . The signboard is very old and wornout. It is clear that this is an old shop around here .
I pushed the door open and it started to rang at that time . A bell was hanging out from the ceilings and was touching the doors upper shard edge .
A girl in a kirtle dress came to me and bowed to me .
"Good afternoon sir . Are you looking for something? I can help you to look at your desired items."
I changed my voice into an old mens one and said ,
"Show me attacking and defensive alchemy artefacts ."
" Please follow me , sir ." With a smile , she led me to a certain way . Along the way , I saw a lot of alchemy prop and artefacts.
Soon I came to a room full of different kind of alchemy artefacts displayed in shelves.
Different size , colored rings , pocket watch , paper, stones , glasses, hairbrush, bones , hand fans , sandals, clothes, belts etc full packed here .
A young men came infront of me and asked with a smile,
"Sir , we have a lot of defensive and offensive artefacts here . Do you have any preference or plans to buy anything specific?"
"Show me the best offensive and defensive alchemy artefacts you have. top 10 defensive props first ." I also saw a lot of things around which will take a lot of times to look at . So I said to show me the best stuff they got .
Soon the young boy ordered some servants to bring the items. He invited me to sit down in a chair . He also asked if I would love to eat or drink, but I refused.
Soon , I saw the items . There are a cane , three rings , a bracelet, an eye illustrated amulet, a pendent with a fire symbol in it , a wig , a paper with an inscription and a broomstick .
I fiddled with them a bit and asked him about there working a
ways.
1. The cane : I love to walk around freely, so I didn't asked about it's specifics. It is not ideal for me.
2. Ring number 1 : It will create a powerful wind barrier around me for 10 minutes. This barrier can defend against a rank one attack once only .It is a single use item .This rings price is 5,200 gold coins .
3. Ring number 2 : This ring can make me invisible for a few minutes. Single use artefacts . It's price is 9,800 gold coins.
4. Ring number 3 : This ring can heal deadly wounds at a very fast speed . It can fix and heal a broken torso within 10 seconds. This artefacts can't regrow completely lost body parts or connect and heal the severed limbs. It is a single use item . This ring costs 12,000 gold coins.
5. A bracelet: It is a black chain bracelet. It is very slim but has a weight of 1 pounds . This chain bracelet will cover my body with thick iron like ironman for 1 minutes only . It is a single use item . It will cost 8,000 gold coins .
6. An eye illustrated amulet: This a amulet will make my eyes look at darkness as if it is a day . I can see clearly things at darkness with it for an hour . It is also a single use prop . This amulet will cost me 2,700 gold coins.
7. A pendent : A fire symbols pendent which will make a fire wall 1 meters ahead of me. Single use artefacts . It will cost 3,300 gold coins.
8. A wig : This wig is made of brown small hairs . It can save it's wearers from a mind type rank 1 attack once . I can only use once only . It will cost 7,700 gold coins.
9. A yellow paper with inscription : This defensive inscription can create a dense fog around it's surroundings for a minute. Single use item. Will costs 4,000 gold coins.
10. A broomstick : I didn't asked about it's ability.
The problem with alchemy artefacts is that they are all single use item. After using it once , you can't use them again .
Unlike magic artefacts which can be used for a long time and you just need to charge them by mana crystals or your using mana in your body .
Although these Alchemy props are cheap but they are not very good .
" Except the cane and broomstick , I want them all ."
I wore the rings in my right hands 3 fingers . Packed the rest in my space clothes bag.
Then , they showed me their top 10 offensive artefacts. There are a big sword , a scythe, a pair of iron gloves , 5 different types of rings with various shapes and color, a toothpick and a small bottle full of liquid.
1. the broadsword: It is 6 ft. tall and very heavy so I didn't bother to ask about it .
2. The scythe: It is a 5 ft. tall scythe. The weight is around 10 kilograms. It is also not my type so didn't wasted time inquiring it .
3. A pair of iron gloves : This is a pair of gloves made from chainmail . It will inflict 10 times of power output then the usual punch strength. After 1 minutes of ability activation, it will become a normal chainmail hands armour. The price of this is 2,000 gold coins .
4. Ring number 1 : It is a very small ring with a blue color above it . It will throw a powerful water arrow at the enemies . One time use prop. It's price is 11,000 gold coins.
5. Ring number 2: A big ring like a small birds egg . It will weaken an enemies strength by 50 % .It is ineffective against magi or magic monster. Duration time is one minute only. Single use item. Price is 2,000 gold coins
6. Ring number 3 : This ring will make your opponent unmovable for a short moment. It can make a rank 1 enemy unmovable for 10 seconds. Single use artefacts. costs 10,000 gold coins .
7. Ring number 4 : This ring will make people surrounded you feel inexplicable fear suddenly. Single use item . cost's 10,000 gold coins.
8. Ring number 5 : It throws acid liquid at your enemy who is near you . Single use artefacts. Costs 8,000 gold coins.
9. A toothpick: This can turn into a big wooden javelin and move forward at a very high speed . It's a single use item . costs 12,000 gold coins .
10. A bottle of liquids: This is a very high temperature fire essence. Once it gets out of the bottle, it will burn it's surroundings in an huge orange flames . It is an AOE alchemy prop. It costs 20,000 gold coins .
Except the broadsword and the scythe , I took them all . Now fingers had a lot of rings on them . Except for the two thumb fingers and right hands index fingers, all my fingers are groomed with beautiful rings .
"Why they are all single use item?"
The young salesman described in a formal voice,
" Sir , alchemy artefacts are not rechargeable like the magic items which can be charged with mana crystals or like holy artefacts which will need prayers and recitation to recharge. That's why they are all single use artefacts. "
" Then do you have much stronger artefacts then the ones you showed me? " Aetius asked to inquire .
The salesman smiled and said ,
" This are the best alchemy artefacts available in our store . Our store is one of the oldest one in this city . If you are not satisfied here , I can guarantee you that you will be more disappointed after going to other stores .
If sir wants rare and powerful items , them I will suggest you to go to the artefact auction house. They will auction off very powerful alchemy items evey month . there will be 1 or 2 magic or holy items auction in each session."
I become interested and asked him in the old mens voice ,
" Which family runs it ? When will be the next auction?"
The salesman though a little and said ,
" The artefact auction house of our city is run by ducal family, 'Gustav family'. Although it is not in the top 3 but it is not bad .
Every months first weekend is the date of the artefacts auction. It will be held after dusk in a grand big hall .
Today is Wednesday, 2nd of November, 41th year of the King Ronald era . So it is 4 days away for the next grand auction."
This kingdom's year counting is weird. They count it by the rulling time of a Monarch. King Ronald is rulling for 41 years now . That's why it is 41st year in the calendar. Only month and dates go on normally.
The thing that this auction house is not in the top 3 is the biggest issue for a mysterious person like me . If it was top 3 auction houses, then I could have felt some psychological comfort . So I decided to go but not join in the bidding .
Total amount was 127,700 gold coins . That was a huge amount but I had no pain. These artefacts are not good but they can save my life at a critical moment.
The shop owner came back from his house and saw me buying a lot of their goods in bulk . He became ecstatic and invite me for a cup of tea . I politely declined. Luckily the owner of the shop had some conscience and took only 120,000 gold coins.