Chapter 42 Hidden trouble and a new yet old workshop. (1/2)

Two pale crescent ht sky The sky was free of clouds which let everyone see a blanket of bright stars that seemed to stretch into infinity

A certain person was sitting in a roo the person’s shadoay The person looked to be aan exquisite tunic There were various precious ge a costly looking necklace

He wore a kind of large padded shoes of black leather, the toes were round and gored over the foot with colored material The sleeves on his tunic were puffed and there was a kind of cap to the side with a white feather in it On one of theith what looked to be an insignia

It was clear from the man’s appearance that he was so letter and was already on the last page The er at it The parche of fire uild won’t cooperate anyht Those peasants dare resist? I need to acquire those assets at a lower cost before it is too late”

Theat the piece of paper that was going up in flames He continued to stare at it till it finally turned into dust The moment it did a knock was heard on the door

“Enter”

Thea shi+ny suit of ar off the chest plate that had so the ar He had the sa, it was clearly a noble house eed to

“My lord, the merchant council has now become more aware of our moveuild refuses to cooperate “

TheHe raised his hand h report from other sources so he didn’t need to listen to this

“I know We must alter it, pull out for now, and let them think that they were successful Not like they can do anything even if they know that ere responsible They have no valid proof or the rank to call for a court hearing Commoners will always be peasants with no actual power ”

The ht reht The noblee cabinet filled with various liquors He took his ti himself back in a more comfortable chair Thea word

He waited through the whole ordeal The lass and started to slowly sip it

“They know their place, they won’t be foolish enough to act against uild doesn’t want to act ill just hire soht’s eyebrows quivered slightly as he listened to his lord talking

“My Lord, do you htly

“Yes, their et the job done and they won’t abandon their mission like those useless thieves I still have some time before he can return from the border, three… no two years… this city's assets have to belong tofurther and then looked at the knight that was just standing there The lass filled with red liquor at the knight The lass shattered all over his suit of ar for!”

“Yes ht did his salute and walked out of the roo he made sure to call up some maids to clean up theainst hihtly duties

The two silver ers Soon a new day dawned bringing new events with it

Roland had his work cut out for hier was very serious about his contractsIts re-evaluation took soood reason to invest more resources into Roland This reason would be his third class as solary attempt Roland wasn’t sure when his boss found out but it was no use hiding his increased worth anyer was happy to hear about the Runic Blacks and protection He would be moved to a different location where he could train his craft in peace The only downside of this, he needed to actually produce usable runic equipht drop in the percentages he needed to pay for his ite runes wasn’t all that hard for him Most of the proble the crafting process The hard part was the s tools Even soreed to an extension of the contract by a year From what he calculated it would probably take hier a ave hi The nu runic scrolls went down after his promotion If you wanted to level up with a specialized class you needed to focus on its skills and proficiencies The only other ould be getting a lot of rune scheot all the way up to a runes smithy to continue There was no reason for him to leave if the assassination attempts stopped The contract stated that the company would pay a fine and Roland would be able to cancel it This was only if harm came to him due to his involveot used to living in the shady warehouse and he would already besomewhere else Of course, it was another unused warehouse with a similar layout but with fewer cobwebs this tih the company abandoned the repairs on the other one and outfitted his neorkshop with better tools

Roland was now sitting in his new office It looked strangely similar to the old one, this really was just a less run-down version of the older building He placed the two skill books that he received as co went up to level 2 but this wasn’t enough to rabbed the corresponding skill book and began reading it It was sie quest but not quite A person could so skill books but it wasn’t by a set point Due to this there was no reason to save it till he got his skill up to level 8 The reader would get a hidden nuiven skill and if it was enough it would just go up

The skill book he read while changing his class went together with a lesser fire resistance rune This one also caram, the one here would be quite useful for his current class It came with a ‘Lesser Fortitude’ Rune This rune would increase the user’s endurance by a flat a

He already knew that he couldn’t stack too many pieces of equipment like that onto one person Armor that raised the user's stats like that came at a cost It would temporarily lower the maximum number of mana by a set number

For instance, if soloves with that fortitude enchantment Their mana pool would be lowered by a 100 points This meant that a person with that amount of mana could theoretically have 10 such runes on his equiph A person would start feeling a strain if their mana went below 30 That was the usual cutoff at which the cons outweigh the pros Of course, there were some ways to lower the mana costs, one was monster cores the other was skills Thanks to Roland’s ‘Runic Master’ skill he could wear ular adventurer

Due to these conditions, most runesiven piece of armor You’d mostly see sets divided into; Gloves, boots, helmets, chest armor, and pants or skirts To this, you could throw in a belt and soated the type of enchantories First were the self-sufficient ones that didn’t require the user’s mana Second, the less desired ones that cahtly Even with there only being those two types there were further subcategories of theed at special runic shops and worked for a li it

The type that cost the e themselves with the ambient mana in the air They were also the hardest to rate a sufficiently large mana core into the item Such a process was kept secret by the more advanced runesmiths The only rumor he heard was that you somehow melted the mana stones into the items How you did it he didn’t know, if he switched classes he et such a skill for free