Chapter 9 (2/2)

Not being ones to care for whatever a carriage looked like, Kite and Elric walked onward. But Jerry stopped often to look upon these carriages and clicked his tongue in wonder and envy.

The residential area here had beautiful plazas of their own, though it was a shame that as beautiful as they were, the arrangement of the statues in them were extremely disorganized. The statues were masterpieces in their creation, but they were grouped together without a central theme in mind and looked disharmonious as a result. A closer inspection of these statues revealed the names of their donors. A majority of them were aristocrats, no doubt.

Only Jerry thought these statues looked beautiful. Kite and Elric couldn't care less about them.

Strolling through these streets, the three marveled at the variety of shops there were littered about. Occasionally, the three would find a quaint cafe where two or three servers would wait upon a customer at a time. Were it not for Elric's full stomach he would've been tempted to walk into one of these cafes and sample their wares.

Next up was the commercial district, yet another thing Waldsk was famous for. Both sides of the streets here were lined up with all sorts of stores, something Elric and Jerry were excited to see, but not Kite. He attempted earlier to try to pull the two away from this area, but both resisted.

“You can go back first if you don't like it.” Argued Jerry, effectively shutting the young knight up and forcing him to come with. There was no way Kite was going to return by himself to face Flania's wrath.

As the center of trade, Karth was in the unique position of having wares from all over the world. There were things that even Jerry didn't know, subsequently causing him to be fiercely interested in perusing the wares of each store. The wares from the eastern nation of Monteda piqued his interest most, especially the delicate-looking porcelain and the gorgeously soft silk.

Jerry actually bought an item, but it wasn't either of the products earlier. Instead, it was a bottle of Karuta perfume. Kite and Elric's eyes bulged at the astronomical price attached to the perfume the moment they saw it, but Jerry kept swearing up and down that the item was actually cheaper than usual.

Unsatisfied with the products being sold here, Kite wandered down the street and chanced upon an antique store. It was in this store that he stumbled upon two rapiers from the Sramos Duchy. Located in the mountainous range in the northwestern part of the continent, the duchy was blessed with an abundance of natural resources. One of those resources was a very special type of mineral called cloudite. Known as 'metal in cloud form', the metal, when alloyed with steel, gave the resultant alloy malleable yet durable properties.

Cloudite, unfortunately, was a very spa.r.s.e resource. Finding enough of it to produce a weapon was quite difficult, which was why Kite was surprised to see it. He was definitely going to buy it! Fis.h.i.+ng out the rest of his money and taking a loan from Jerry, Kite made the purchase and bought one of the two rapiers, much to Jerry's amazement. Was a weapon really worth such a hefty price?

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