Chapter 144 - 144. 384 Blacksmiths To Complete 135k Pieces Of Equipment? (1/2)
”Good morrow my good brethren. Did you miss the both of us?” greeted a Bruce as he stepped into the Castle grounds and I sighed a huge sense of relief seeing those 2 who had returned after their scouring in the three cities; Northrup in the North, Emerald City in the East and Westinghouse in the West.
”Good Lord... I thought you were being kidnapped by some bewitching ladies and kept in their high towers and waiting for me to rescue the both of you...!!!” I can't contain my excitement as I rushed forward and clasped both of them on the shoulders.
”Wow... You seemed to be stronger than the last few days that I met you. You had been working out something or doing push up on the Missus lately?” Blake joked as he rubbed the part where I had clasped him earlier.
”Eh... Don't tell me the points I allocated earlier could even make a strong Blacksmith like Blake winch.” I thought to myself and Ceres the system was silent as if her battery had gone flat or something.
”Well, as a usual brother. I had to forge all those Level 3 iron ingots to make those low-level weapons for Aermagh and you could imagine how many pieces I need to forge for each piece.” I defended myself and thought that's the only plausible reason I could give at this moment.
”Talking about iron ingots, it does seem you do have quite a lot of iron ores in your smithy? I don't mean to be rude or to test your integrity but it seems you have an unlimited supply.”
”Furthermore, you had not taken a single piece from me to forge and those iron ores were sitting there looking so lonely and lost. I had not been forging myself, and frankly, I'm getting to be a bit lazy myself since I'm entirely dependent on you. Hah hah hah... ” stated Blake with his usual unlit pipe in his mouth.
”Don't worry about it brother. It is a small thing. So... Tell me about our trip to the 3 cities. From the looks on your face it would be terrific news, am I right? Huh... Huh... Huh...?” I ribbed Blake and Bruce as if we were three kids who liked teasing and playing the fool.
”Dear Brethren, let me tell you. This Macleod's Lucky Badge that you had asked us to wear, is indeed lucky... We never believed our luck when we approached the military advisor of those cities and when we showed the Level 3 weapons and armour, it was immediately appraised.”
”Their current weapons were unable to cause a scratch on our shields but our daggers were able to slice their two-handed greatswords just by running the tip of the blade against their weapon. Even their shield was halved and it was like cutting through paper.”
”Even the current Level 3 weapons and armours are superior to their current ones and of course, we didn't tell them about our Level 4 Iron weapons and armours that were currently being used by our adventurers. Hah hah...” Blake added as he inhaled his pipe even though it was unlit.
”Alright... So what have you for me this time, brother?” I was eager to see the sets of weapons and armours that I had not seen from other cities and I was a bit excited to see its design and so on.
”We were at Northrup when we had our first deal and we had weapons and armours for 4 classes. Paladin, Berserker, Ranger and Pikeman.”
”4 kinds of body armours were given to us, a breastplate, a half plate, studded armour, chain mail shirt, a small buckler, medium shield and a bronze aspis.”
”The design on the aspis was very eye-catching and it had two spaces where the pikeman would be able to wield his pike and shield at the same time.”
”This small buckler is small enough to be slipped through the forearm and it is being used by the Rangers. It would be used to deflect Arrows and it would be fitted over their left forearm.” Bruce showed how it was wielded and I saw that it was quite initiative.
”Here's something new I have not seen before. It has a nasal helm and a half-open mail coif and it was an all-rounder armour for all the 4 classes.” Blake handed it to me and I saw that it would need the same number pieces of Iron ingot to forge a half plate.
”Next are the weapons. Pretty basic requirements here. A one-handed sword for the Rangers and Pikeman, two-handed greatswords for the Paladin and Berserker and a two-handed Warhammer with a 3-meter chain at the end of it.”
”This Warhammer could be thrown, swung or wielded. Last but not least, a spectum for the pikeman. Just the head would do and the staff would be inserted. It would be cumbersome to transport a 2.5-meter long pike, wouldn't it?”
I looked at the collection and counted there are 4 body armour, 3 shields, 1 helm, 4 weapons. A total of 12 collections for Northrup.
”Boss, Northrup wishes for 2500 breastplate, 2500 half plate, 2500 Studded Leather armour 2500 chain mail shirt, 2500 small bucklers, 5000 medium shields, 2500 aspis, 10,000 helm and coif, 5000 one-handed swords, 5000 two-handed swords, 2500 Warhammer and 2500 spectum pike heads.”
”That's a total of 45,000 pieces and we managed to get an average of 1.5k per item and we had a 70% deposit of 47 million and 250k credits out of 67.5 million credits.” Blake described as he took out his notepad and made clear of the figure.