80 There Is Only One Truth (1/2)

Drester, northern gate. 15:33

Daniel and the rest of his group had just managed to come back from their journey up north, and were now waiting to get into the immense city of Drester.

At the gate, the usual fifth rank guards stood in wait.

”I've just finished counting..” Said Ligart after suddenly appearing right next to Daniel, and scaring the people in line around them out of their wits.

Daniel had felt someone crossing the one way portal within his pocket dimension, so he wasn't scared in the slightest. He turned to look at Ligart, and after putting his hands on his shoulders, he said ”Great, I knew you would be perfect for this job. What is your estimate?”

”I would slap the back of your head.. If you weren't stronger than I am..” Responded Ligart through a sideways look. He then calmed down, and continued ”About forty thousand weapons of decent quality, seven thousand weapons of good quality, and two thousand high quality weapons.”

”What's your value estimation?” Asked Daniel immediately after hearing Ligart's response.

Alis and Heimart turned to look at him with a strange expression.

Ligart said ”Really?.. It's not that hard of a calculation.. The price for weapons of decent quality usually goes from two hundred and fifty gold coins to seven hundred and fifty, good quality weapons go from seven hundred and fifty to two thousand, and high quality weapons go from two thousand to five thousand.. We could sell them in batch for nineteen millions at the very least.”

Daniel noticed the weird looks of Alis and Heimart, and after a soft sigh, he said ”I've never went to school.. I know nothing about weapons or their worth, except for the cheap ones you can find in the streets.”

Ligart immediately felt bad about his previous comment, but he didn't show it on the outside. Instead, he pretended like it didn't matter, and started to explain the weapon's classification and value.

”You probably wouldn't have known this even if you did go to school. Weapons are divided into five categories, which are used to indicate the overall quality of work, materials used, and durability of the weapon. These categories are Lower, Decent, Good, High, and Perfect..”

After a few minutes of explanation, Daniel had caught up with the general knowledge of weapons value and classification.

He stood in place with a pensive look for a few moments, then turned to look at Ligart and said ”We should keep the high quality weapons in case other people will join. It seems unlikely that we would be able to provide everyone with a perfect quality weapon.. So we should build a weaponry and store there the high quality ones.” He then turned to look at Alis and said ”Can you take care of that?”

”No problem.” Responded Alis promptly.

Once again, Daniel turned to look at Ligart and said ”The rest of the weapons should sell for at least fifteen millions, but that's a low estimation from what you've told me. We will sell the weapons in batch.. But not to a merchant. We'll sell them to an auction.”

”That's not a good idea. The bids usually start low.. There is a good chance that the weapons will go for under their value due to the fact that not many bidders will have armies to whom they need to provide equipment to.. I was thinking about selling them to the military instead.” Responded Ligart.

Daniel smiled at him and said ”Don't worry, I have my methods.”

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Legion's recruitment office. 17:05

”I'm here to report the completion of a mission, and complete my registration to the legion.” Said Daniel to the clerk behind the desk.

The man took a sheet of paper from under his desk, and said with an indifferent voice ”Here, fill this in.”

On the form a few informations were required. Amongst them was the type of mission, whether the mission was a group mission or an individual one, name of the group, number of participants, objective of the mission, and a full report of what had happened.

It took him ten full minutes to finish.

Luckily the line for this particular counter was basically non existent, and aside from his group members, Daniel was the only one there at the moment.

Heimart was the only one of the five that had taken thirty minutes to finish, due to the fact that, being the leader of the group 'The Aimless Adventurer', aside from filling the same form for the completion of the mission that the others had to fill in, he also had to fill a form to report the behaviour of the group during the mission.

They were all aware that other groups which belonged to the legion had probably already reported on their behaviour, so Heimart didn't dare to let any detail out. Included their clash with the groups from the other parties, and their motivations.

Daniel solved Jerigh's problem with writing a report by simply creating a thin layer of stone with which he covered his palm, and controlled it into writing the report in human language.

Once the man clerk noticed Daniel's and Jerigh's names, he sprung up from his chair and rushed into a door placed on the wall behind the counters.

”Wow.. that guy is really eager to give us our medallions” Said Ligart sarcastically.

Unfortunately, ten more minutes passed uneventfully.