Chapter 175 Elven Express, the Purpose Must Be Fulfilled (1/2)

Standing before the training field as he received the letter from the hand of Ling, Joshua opened up the envelope of the letter and roughly browsed through its contents.

Almost all was good news.

According to Alphonso, Joshua's reputation had spread from the north all the way to the capital of the Imperial City. He was currently known to many noblemen now. As an Upper Gold tier that had not reached the age of thirty, those nobles and merchants believed that Joshua would definitely attain Supreme-tier soon in the future. Some of them even believe that Joshua could reach the realm of the Legendary tier. Because of that, those former nobles and forces who took advantage of the previous count's death by attempting to seize some of the assets of the Radcliffe family were now showing Joshua some respect, by returning all the assets that they stole from the Radcliffe family. They even presented those assets back to Joshua along with their deepest apologies.

Some of the merchants who supported Joshua's stingy uncle tried to seek protection from the other nobles. Yet now, they were all on their knees, begging for his forgiveness. Well, they did not dare to run, and no one would shelter them. Furthermore, a future Supreme-tier warrior would become the future commander of an army; a future general; or a person that leads a nation.

Well, even the two counts of the Empire, two leading noblemen families, might not be able to create a Supreme-tier being after using all available resources they could get in the world.

No one could afford to offend a man with such great future over such a small profit.

As Joshua's representative in the Imperial City, Alphonso had absolute control over the industry and assets of the Radcliffe family. Initially, as a small businessman, he would need to rely on connections if he ever wanted to participate in the early spring auction. Now, he actually received an invitation from the organizer of the spring auction. Of course, he knew that all these he had now was because of the opportunity that Joshua had given him, as well as the reward of his own correct choice he did back then. Therefore, his words for Joshua would always be filled with respect.

”Not bad.”

After reading the letter, Joshua nodded with satisfaction and kept the letter back into the envelope before handing it back to Ling. ”I hope everything will be smooth for him. I hope he can purchase that thing for me too.”

Standing behind the side of Joshua while holding the envelope in his hand, Ling asked curiously, ”What exactly is it are you looking for, Master?”

”A certain kind of Mystical Item that can summon the monsters from the abyss. But it's hidden so deep in the dark that most people can't find out about it… Well, we can't afford to let that item fall into the hands of the others in order to prevent a catastrophe.” Ignoring the doubtful expression of his Divine Armament, he continued to ask, ”What about 03 now?”

”Everything is good, Miss 03 is very satisfied with the environment here. Well, she would occasionally complain that our buildings will not move. However, our servants have been pushing her around on a cart, allowing her to look around our place.”

Ling shrugged. He seemed to know what his master would ask afterward. So he continued, ”As for Ying, she is currently taking care of your warhorse… However… the horse has fallen asleep again. There seems to have a strange change, something is different though…”

”Fell asleep… again…”

Upon hearing that, Joshua could not help but feel a bit troubled. As his warhorse, Black had proven itself to be very reliable. In the previous encounter with the Dark Tide, not only did it not show the slightest fear in it, it charged towards the daemons, trampling them to their deaths. Although Joshua had not been bringing it out into recent battles, the horse appeared to be growing stronger still, especially after the last time it was corrupted by the presence of Chaos. It seems that after Black was purified several times over, some sort of bloodline in Black had been stimulated. Ever since then, it had been abnormally tame.

After returning from the dwarven settlement, Black had become strangely quiet. Its situation had become similar to Ying's previous situation. It would just fall asleep from time to time.

”Is it normal to go to sleep before advancing into a new tier?”

After grumbling slightly, Joshua went deep in thought.

To awaken the bloodline of a warhorse was a problem commonly discussed among knights in his previous life. There was no doubt that it would require special ingredients and potions for it. Even though Joshua did not know about potions and alchemy, however, as a warrior who always rode on the back of horses, he just happened to know about such potion and the method of making it.

Although some of the ingredients were extremely precious, there were many merchants who had recently contacted him in the territory. Hence, it became relatively simple to attempt gathering the required raw ingredients together.