Chapter 180 - Welog Town (1/2)
”I wonder what he sent me. I doubt he stupid enough to do anything that harms me,” thought Balthazar as he selected to save the video, he had recorded of his meeting with Sengo. With that done, he immediately contacted Jack and asked him to return to the room.
”What happened? Did you accept his claim?” asked Jack as soon as he entered the room.
”No, why would you think that?” asked Balthazar pushing a chair to his cousin.
”I just got doc.u.ments in my mail indicating that I was given the shares that he had promised,” said Jack showing him the doc.u.ments.
”Oh!” said Balthazar as he looked at them. ”The man is much more scheming than I thought. He had prepared to give these Jack just so that he could avoid pressure from the family. I guess I have to be careful with him if I come into contact with him in the game,” thought Balthazar. He also remembered that the Divine Swords managed to become a force on par with some super guilds in vita-nova.
”I didn't sell the name or accept to any of his conditions. He was actually just passing on a message,” said Balthazar. ”Anyway, I didn't call you back to discuss about the incident. It is currently in the past and I don't want to discuss anything about it.”
”Oh! So, you don't want anything? Why did you call me, then?”
”I wanted to talk to you about a few things. Not the issue that happened with the guild. Let me start with saying that I want to put aside the quarrels that we had with Rudra and others leaving your employment and start fresh,” said Balthazar. He realized that the quarrel with his cousin was something others could use to get Jack to do stupid things against him. He had to do something to nip this issue in the bud. If Jack had not been family, he would have preferred to convince him by force rather than talk to him. So, he decided to convince Jack and try to reduce the tension between them.
”What's wrong with you?” asked Jack raising his eyebrows in surprise. His cousin who was just ordering him a couple of minutes ago became nice and accommodating all of a sudden which had him perplexed. He began to wonder if something happened in these few minutes of discussion with Sengo which changed his cousin's behavior towards him due to the friendship between him and Sengo. In the next second, he thought that he could use this chance to force his cousin to agree to better terms with respect to the guild.
”Nothing's wrong with me,” frowned Balthazar shaking his head.
”How about you give me few shares of your workshop and we could consider it even. I will even put in a good word to Sengo and his friends about you,” continued Jack without looking at Balthazar expression which was getting worse with every word.
”How come this idiot only thinks of using influence for getting things,” thought Balthazar as he moved towards Jack. He lifted Jack up by his collar and began to shout, ”Listen Moron! I am only trying to reconcile with you because you are family and you are just a mild annoyance. But recently you have been crossing over from being a mild annoyance to a threat. Your friend, Sengo is sending a message from Ryan Rowley who I believe was in cahoots with the Nirbaadh pirates.”
”People will want to use any way they can to go against the family and our quarrel which somehow became public information feels like an opportunity to them. Guess what I am saying is to be careful and inform me or at the very least elder Oliver, your father before you become a patsy who would end up being labelled as a traitor,” he continued to shout at Jack whose eyes were wide open in shock as he started to realize the situation.
”I will handle this issue and the things that arise out of it for now. Be in touch with Sengo, but make sure no information goes out. I am doing this only because you are family and a bit naive about these things. Don't get tempted by any offers. Even though elder Max escaped, he ended up dead as he foolishly let out information to others and he got the easy way out. It would much worse, if he ended up in the hands of the family. I hope you get it,” said Balthazar as he pushed his cousin back on to a chair and got out of the meeting. He hoped that Jack would change and sent a mail to D.i.c.k about fake IDs for himself and his friend before he logged in to vita-nova.
He sent a message to Rudra to inform him that he handled the issue that came up and he needn't worry about it any longer. He also warned about the Divine Swords guild leader Muramasa who started the whole issue for a friend as he was worried that Ryan could still have others in the guild whom he could use against Crimson Realm and suggested to perform some recon of that guild.
He then went to the store and see if he could get a hold of any designs. He came to know that Hammer managed to create a silver original glaive of level 15 and took the design. He also came to know that the weapons that he made were quite a hit and they could do with more of them. He decided to get to the Welog town instead of forging. It would get dark in the game in a couple of hours and he could work on forging at that time. Apart from that he hoped to get higher level designs, even black iron ones are fine as long as they were higher leveled as they gave more experience on production.
It was an area which was to be newly explored. It was mostly a vast forest around the town with a few mountains towards the south, but there were two active volcanic mountains that were a few kilometers tall at that place which were quite famous in his previous life. These volcanoes keep spout lava every day in small amounts.