15 Chapter 15: Crossbow (1/2)
The next morning Caesar woke up extra early to prepare for the meeting he had with all of the other high ranking council members.
Caesar walked towards his closet and opened it, after rummaging through the clothes inside Caesar decided to pick out an outfit that had a large raven black overcoat engraved with golden lines on the shoulders and the tail of the coat. A long sleeved black shirt that had many military badges located on the right chest and golden chains that ran across it from the left side of his abdomen to the right, along with tall black military boots and slender white gloves. To tie it all together Caesar put on a black military cap that had golden lining around the edges.
Caesar went in front of the mirror and nodded with approval, he walked outside of his room and headed towards the main hall of the manor. The sound of heavy and rhythmic footsteps echoed throughout the hall as Caesar walked.
After walking down the stairs Sebastian greeted him with a smile at the door. ”Young master, your carriage is already prepared. Lord Crowley had some important things to take care of so he will not be able to make it to the meeting, however, he did tell me to give you his apologies.”
”Thank you, Sebastian, will you be staying here to take care of the children?” Caesar said as he started walking through the door. After Caesar exited the manor and started getting on the carriage Sebastian replied: ”yes, we can't have them go hungry can we?”
Caesar smiled slyly, ”I will be back in the evening, please prepare me some delicious food for when I get back”
”As you wish young master” Sebastian replied as he did a graceful half bow. Caesar closed the carriage door and sat in his seat, he stroked his chin in contemplation ”Hopefully the king can arrange for at least a handful of good engineers… I'm hoping that with their help the Ballista can be completed within a few hours.
While Caesar was in deep thought the Carriage nearly almost arrived at the desired location.Expensive looking carriages already littered the entire street, Citizens were bustling about and whispering to each other.
”What are all these nobles doing here?”
”I hope everything is okay… not every day do you see over 8 noble carriages”
”Oh my, look at that carriage with the gold feathers. Is that the king?”
Caesar's carriage parked and he stepped off, Caesar walked towards Roy's blacksmith shop first. In front of the door were a few nobles that attended the meeting last night, after seeing Caesar the noble's eyes lit up and walked over.
”Mephesto, it took you long enough. Where are your weapons?”
Caesar smiled and said ”We need to wait for the king to arrive, only half of my weapon is complete the other half is going to require the king's aids”
”I see… We will wait out here for the weapons we don't want to get ourselves dirty” They said as they looked at the dusty blacksmith shop in disgust.
Caesar smiled slightly and said: ”The king should be arriving shortly, just stay in your carriages and I will call you out when it is time”
”Okay, we will do that then” The nobles nodded and headed back to their carriages.
Seeing that they left Caesar stepped through the doors of the blacksmith and immediately the sounds of loud hammering invaded his ears.
”Clang”
”Clang”
Caesar walked through the familiar shop and approached the counter, in the back of the shop Caesar could see Roy hammering down on an extraordinarily long bolt.
”Ahem” Caesar cleared his throat loudly to get Roy's attention
Roy's Hammering suddenly stopped and he turned around towards the counter, He lifted the goggles off of his eyes and walked towards Caesar ”The week isn't up, why are you back already?”
Caesar patiently replied ”I need one or two of the bolts early for testing, I hope you don't mind. Of course, even If I am dissatisfied with the quality I will still pay you for the fifty you create”
Roy looked at Caesar suspiciously for a second before he pointed to the side ”there's three right there already created, you can go ahead and use those”
”Pleasure meeting you again Roy” Caesar said as he picked up the three large bolts effortlessly and headed towards Danny's workshop.
After Caesar left the shop Roy was dumbfounded at the fact that he could lift those huge bolts alone, Even he himself could not carry more than one but Caesar carried all three and effortlessly to boot?
Roy shook his head helplessly and thought ”I'm going to get a headache if I keep thinking about that weird noble” Roy started to go back to forging.
Caesar brought the three bolts to Danny's workshop and let them lean on a tall tree. Caesar entered into the workshop and walked to the counter, he could see Danny putting pieces together and creating something big. Caesar sat on Danny's desk and folded his legs, he decided to patiently wait until he was done.
About 5 minutes later Danny finally looked up to see Caesar sitting on his desk staring at him… Danny yelped in shock and yelled ”w-what are you doing here?”
Caesar hopped down from the desk and replied ”Nothing much just here to ask you a few questions”
Danny regained his composure and breathed a sigh of relief before looking at Caesar inquiringly
”What questions?”
”If I could give you a few other talented and seasoned engineers do you think you could speed up the process of the Balista?”
Danny started contemplating and replied: ”yes, the more the better, however, you would need to show them the blueprints so we don't have any mishaps”
”That is easy, do you think you could complete one Balista in three hours?”
Danny widened his eyes in surprise… ”Three hours? It depends how much manpower you give me, if it's not at least eight to ten people then I'm afraid not.”
Caesar nodded, ”I'm not actually sure how many engineers will arrive. Although I am certain that there should be quite a few”
Danny's interest was piqued as he asked casually ”Where are the Engineers from?”