Chapter 66: Slander (1/2)
Chapter 66: Slander
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[Fang]
Quality: Uncommon
Attack: 7 – 13
Effect: Armor Break +4
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This was a pair of decent curved daggers.
At least the stats were pretty good. As an uncommon item, it should be considered middle-grade. The armor break attribute was very useful after all.
The other hidden attributes would have to wait. It took a high appraisal level to see through them. But based on Marvin’s experience and after a short examination, the initial estimation was that the material used for these daggers was pretty good, they were durable and the edge was pretty sharp.
The only shortcoming was that they hadn’t been used in a long time; they weren’t even oiled.
This was the consequence of a lack of maintenance. After receiving the daggers, Marvin first started doing some simple maintenance, making them even sharper.
The friendly red copper dragon gave Marvin a pair of scabbards. The scabbards were made from some unknown leather. They felt very soft and were very suitable to sheathe the sharp curved daggers.
Marvin rested for a bit in the Professor’s territory before bidding farewell to this kindhearted red copper dragon and continuing his journey north.
It only took a bit over half a day after leaving the mountainous area before he arrived at the Moonlight Forest.
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The Moonlight Forest was part of the Wood Elves’ Kingdom. It seemed to have been an agreement between the original Elven Kingdom and the Three Ring Towers’ wizards to have this place as a frontier.
This was equivalent to a wood elven outpost in the south, also acting as a buffer zone between the elves and the humans.
There were some half-elven villages scattered there. In fact, half-elves were very unwelcome. Elves definitely rejected them and humans looked at them differently. Thus, adult half-elves usually had their own villages.
The elves in Moonlight Forest were mainly merchants in charge of dealing with the surrounding human forces, and considered talking as reasonable.
They were different from some conservative elves living deep in the elven kingdom. They still hadn’t forgotten the glory of the High Elven 2nd Era Rule. They had always considered mankind as the lowest kind of lifeform, comparable to gnolls and kobolds.
The Moonlight Forest had close ties with the Three Ring Towers in the north, with two hot air balloons flying every week in direction of the Three Ring Towers.
Hot air balloons were dwarven technology but were reproduced by the Three Ring Towers’ wizard craftsmen. They were used daily in the Three Ring Towers and the surroundings. You could always see hot air balloon caravan in the sky.
This was considered a unique East Coast scenery.
Marvin was a bit unlucky when he arrived; the relay station’s hot air balloon had just flown away.
He could only endure and wait for the next one.
Marvin managed to buy a ticket very easily after showing his baron emblem issued by the South Wizard Alliance. Nothing happened while waiting.
Three days later, Marvin was sitting in a hot air balloon, on his way to the Three Ring Towers.
A day and a half later, Marvin successfully arrived in the Three Ring Towers region.
A sharp tower was getting increasingly closer. Under the control of a somewhat low level wizard, the hot air balloon slowly landed onto a vast open space.
Finally arrived at the Ashes Tower of the Three Ring Towers!
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Ashes Tower was huge, and Magore Academy was but a small part of it.
After Marvin got down from the hot air balloon, he followed the signs toward Magore Academy.
He soon arrived in front of the Academy, but he still needed to line up to enter the Academy.
There was a checkpoint in front to verify each visitor’s status.
‘What day is it? So many people are visiting Magore Academy?’
Marvin was stunned by the number of visitors.
A lot of those people seemed wealthy. They should be nobles from the nearby East Coast.
They were followed by their whole family. A family with more than ten people definitely had a young child.
‘Turns out it’s almost time for the apprentice recruitment.’
Marvin suddenly realized. No wonder there were so many people today. He had no other choice but to endure and wait.
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Magore Academy was Ashes Tower’s apprentice wizard nurturing ground.
Like the other Academies, it was in charge of receiving apprentices with magical talents from the South Wizard Alliance and training them to be qualified wizards.
Marvin’s younger brother Wayne had to leave White River Valley to study in Magore Academy because of his outstanding wizard aptitudes.
When Wayne took a trip home after their father’s death, six month ago, the Marvin from back then had yet to notice anything strange.
That 9 years old younger brother had already displayed intelligence and a way of thinking that didn’t match his age.