Chapter 9: Deal

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Edits........ Fragrantpig89 and Intenseinfantry2520

Chapter 9: Deal


Under the light of the golden lion, almost everyone looked dull. Not only because of his face, that looked like the sun god, but also because of his outstanding life experience, the excellent strength, and also the king's demeanour, bringing the feeling of spring breeze in people's heart.

Behind Orpheus, there was a person submerged in black flame, waiting in silent anticipation. Even the golden lion’s light couldn't cover up the burning anticipation in the face. 

The face in the flame was clear and cold, and people dare not stare but it was engraved in their heart.

 When some of the noble debauchees sneaked a peek from time to time, they would look away hurriedly as if they were burned by the black flame. 

The black mage robes could not hide Erika’s body, her straight legs, rich hips, slender waist, with the soul-stirring curved bulge chest, all the while, turning people turning into beasts.



Rogge, Lawrence, Franco and Emmett's were sitting in a cramped manner, and the sudden visit of the Golden Lion was a surprise.

A few people rushed to greet Orpheus, prepared the seat and called to bring the best of the refreshments.

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The Gold Lion sipped tea and there was no blemish it his leisurely movements.

A guard opened a small pouch and poured out dozens of small gems of various colours on the table in front of the group.

 “I have come here to talk about the possibility of a partnership,” Orpheus smiled and said.

“These gems are worth around 50,000 Gold, and as my deposit.” The room suddenly fell quiet. “These gems are worth about 50,000 gold coins, as my deposit.”

Rogge finally took his eyes off the gems and calmed down his mood and said: "Matter that you could not handle, there is a low probability that we could accomplish.”

No sooner had the words came out of his mouth, Lawrence rushed up to Rogge, and pounced to cover Rogge’s mouth: “ Don’t mind him, if you have any matter, please say freely to me and I Lawrence despite any dangers and difficulties shall not refuse!” Even though the mouth was fervent, his eyes were actually staring at Erika.

Orpheus was looking around the room, especially at those noble debauchees with great interest, and had not found anyone dared to stare at Erika in such fascination, ignorant are really fearless. In the eyes of a few people, Lawrence was beginning to show his amorous glow. Orpheus clearly felt that the murderous aura behind him was spreading.

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“Of course, my cooperation is also conditional.” Orpheus made a gesture and a person behind him spread a large map of sheepskin on the table.

He reached out and pointed to a castle sign in the centre and said, “This is an abandoned small castle, in the territory of my Bavarian Duchy, recently is occupied by a group of thieves.

“This castle is 415 miles southwest of Fort Farborg. Next, to the castle not less than 10 miles is a magic forest. Although the geographical location is not important, there are two small towns and dozens of villages nearby, I do not want to give up my thousands of people, so I need you to take back the castle.”

“These gems worth 50,000 gold coins are your starting expenses. As for whether you are going by yourself or take a heavy knight brigade, I don’t care. However, the commission period is half a year.”

Orpheus added, “As long as you capture that castle, I will have my father seal that land to you.  Then you will be the noble with the land. Moreover, I will invest 100,000 gold coins in the "Hammer of War God", as an investment. Of course, I would want 50% of the profits. Haha.”

A few people were so excited that they immediately surrounded and began to study the map. They studied the map for a long time, but naturally, they could not figure out anything. 

Orpheus smiled and looked at it, a guard behind him faintly revealed his disdain.

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At this, Emmett suddenly looked up and asked, "We do not have a single soldier, and how do you expect us to defeat a group of thieves group? Ah, yes, how many thieves are there, is there any relevant information?”

 “You just remembered to ask about the information now?” Erika said coldly, hearing this, Emmet immediately flushed red.

 "Those thieves are actually a brigade of Silver Snow Fox  Mercenary group of Rowen Duchy,” Orpheus unhurriedly answered. “They are about 500 people, and their battle prowess is very good.  Of course, in the past six months, there is the possibility of them continuing to increase troops.”

Rogge pondered for a moment and asked: “These thieves or, mercenary, even though they were good, but they should not be anything in the eyes of the golden lion, if you personally go there alone, then,  it is enough to scare them away.”

 "This is just a small test. If you do well, I hope that the Grand Duchy of Bavaria can have a few more loyal generals,” Gold Lion smiled and said.

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"The Duchy of Bavaria?" the pupil in the eyes of Franco immediately shrank.

"Yes, the Duchy of Bavaria.”

There was a sharp decrease of temperature in the air, the quiet undercurrent surging.

"Duchy of Bavaria has fine foot soldiers, strong and fast like a cloud. That is, Your Excellence Orpheus, have many subordinates to pick up for this work and you are picking up us?" Lawrence said with rare serious tone. 

"Although several of us do not make every effort to succeed very much, we have this self-knowledge about us. Also, we brothers do not have any great ambitions, drink every day, play with the girls and having a comfortable life. You are not lacking in staff, for you to expect us as manpower, right?”

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Orpheus scanned several nobles debauchee, and said “I really appreciated you in the ‘Oak Grove’ Pub, and thought that you have the capability in you. 

Moreover, only in a short period of time, the ‘hammer of war god’ has become prosperous; naturally, it was not without efforts." “Governing a large country is like cooking a big fish. Its big to manage the world, and small to manage a weapon shop, for both it is nothing more than to grasp the human heart."

“Life is just a few dozens of years, living with the best wine, equipped with a famous sword, being jealous by all, he paused for a moment and continued, but 

also to fight for a  beautiful woman in the world." "Now imagine, women, if there were thousands of them with an alluring smile? Now as long as you pass this small test, the opportunity is in front of you. What do you think?"

Suddenly everyone was excited!

Rogge suddenly raised his head and stared into the eyes of the golden lion, even though the light stung his eyes he did not retreat.

"I will do it" Rogge slowly said one word after another.

"Rogge, "Franco sighed. "How can I just let you go to your death alone? I have to get your money back after you die."

"Beauty is the joy all over the world!" Lawrence was was in full swing. Immediately hormones filled the room.

Emmet who was sitting in a chair, in a posture, However, the chair could not withstand it and gave away, splitting into two. Emmet smiled, embarrassed to say anything.

"So, I will wait for the good news.” Orpheus waved his hand, turned and left.

Erika suddenly stopped in her track and stared coldly at the debauchees. Several people immediately felt chills, and started to shiver but found that they were unable to move their body.

Erika sneered, the black flame flashed, and several noble debauchees' bodies were slowly raised in the air. The cold voice sounded in their ear: “I don’t know why Orpheus values you so much. With your current strength, you are no more different than a reptile. Even after a few years, how strong can you become? Then again, you few clowns, you dared to look at me with those kinds of eyes!” 

They did not hear her chanting but in front of four head, there suddenly appeared a large hand, and they were very heavily slammed to the ground.

Erika turned and left, and the black flame jumped as if it was laughing at the people crawling on the ground.

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People slowly started to be calmed down and looked at each other.

“Rogge, just why did you promise so fast?” Emmet asked.

Rogge's face was red. “Orpheus, is the real power, one of the best in the league."

"He is from one of the great noble families in the Alliance, and it is also said that there is a waiting period of five days to visit him. And it is rare to see that such a person has a liking for us, and how can we miss such an opportunity to curry favours.”

Others too felt the same way.

As for possible treason of Orpheus, Rogge and others didn't care, if they really rebel, the Bavarian Duchy had a greater chance of winning. After all, 

Orpheus’s mother was the sister of the emperor of Austro-Hunagry, one of the three powerful countries. 

"Maybe we can also become a founding hero or something like that," Lawrence said suddenly while daydreaming of grandeur. Every one began to contemplate deeply. As for Keith, "Bliss, we can escape this kid. " Emmett insidiously said.

"The more people we bring this time, the better. I think we should also organize a mercenary group, such force are good for such things," Franco suggested. 

They reconsidered their plan and split up for the action. 

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As the days passed, Rogge and the company began the recruiting, preparing for war. Since the inception of "Hammer of War God", the shop has gotten the profit of more than 20,000 gold coins, and with the 50,000 gold coins given by Orpheus, they can equip a troop of hundred people. After testing capable mercenary or out of boredom, Rogge hired 30 skilled mercenaries in a month, thus a preliminary mercenary corps was organized. 

As for the name of the mercenary group, the group kept on bickering and at the end of the day finally passed the name of "Dragon and Beauty" with 4:1 vote. The one vote against the name was of Franco, the only one of the few who had a real artistic taste, but unfortunately, the power of a lone person was not enough.

But what frustrated Rogge was the intelligence. So far the bandit group that occupied the small castle, their specific number, their leader, the ability, the equipment was not clear. Even the terrain near the castle was not very clear. This was not to blame them; after all, the guys just debuted in this scenario and didn't know where to start to engage in intelligence gathering. After the two scouts sent to the scene had no news, they began to feel restless and fidgety. After several deliberations, they finally decided to bring all the people to scout once.

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Chapter 8: Morningstar (Part Two)

Here is the promised second part of the eighth chapter. Forgot to post it. 

TL: Shova Translations

EDs: Intenseinfantry2520 (Fragrant pig is lost in the pleasure of college project deadline)

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The business of "Hammer of War God" was booming. Although it only sold a knight sword, a knight halberd and a knight’s heavy armour (Which was the full capacity of Frost) in a month, it not only recovered the cost of original investment of 10,000 gold coins but also earned a profit of 3,000 gold coins.

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Lazy afternoon sun shined on the quietly flowing Pass River, the broad river surface looked like it was covered with golden coloured scale. 

A team of knights equipped with armour and halberd were leisurely, patrolling along the river.  The head knight was wearing a dark green breastplate, and the rest were wearing khaki-coloured Farborg knight outfit and the standard cavalry breastplate.

The knight dressed in the dark green armour was Keith, that pieces of armour always made him proud, the dark elf knight armour breastplate, was soaked in the blood of the black elves, and after adding the shield inscription, the defensive power of the armour very excellent.

After Kate arrived at Farborg, knight commander Lord Pennington looked after him, letting him lead a Ranger cavalry knight squad. Normally one squad of Farborg ranger cavalry has 50 to 60 cavalry soldiers, but with only the status of Platoon Leader, Kate can only lead 20 cavalry soldiers at the most.

Ranger cavalry was between the heavy cavalry and light cavalry, usually wearing half body armour. Their choice of a weapon was a heavy halberd, so they were often called halberd cavalry.

Ranger Cavalry usually patrols around 300 miles around Fort Farborg, going out in the wild for the survival training for a week or so. When the patrol team encountered any thieves and bandit or even monsters, a squad of Ranger cavalry was sent first to annihilate it. If the sighting of an enemy brigade was reported to the fort, Ranger cavalry was the one to be sent to scout. But Farborg has not seen war for decades, and now Ranger cavalry has become more of a cavalry officer training.

This was the third time Keith has led the Rangers Squad since his arrival two months ago in Fort Farborg. The Sun was shining, there were several fishing boats on the River and from them, songs seemed to float around. The riverside was the green and had glossy fields; the magical forest in the distance also appeared peaceful and tranquil.

Keith was very relaxed and happy, this was like a vacation, and the only fly in the ointment was that he never even saw the shadow of any bandits and thieves, everywhere around there was a peaceful and prosperous scene. 

Keith, who has been out there for five days, did some mental calculation and he waved and cried: "Squad return!" All halberd cavalry knights made the U-turn and started to walk toward the Farborg fort.

Farborg knight regiment had the total of 7000 people, with 2000 cavalry and 4000 infantry, 1000 miscellaneous soldiers. After all, it was a second-tier army, hence the troops led much more peaceful days, resulted in the battle efficiency of the lord Pennington’s knights, to be average.

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Rogge and others have already to the life of Farborg, that is, to find out the local brothels and the pubs, which was full of adventurers, mercenaries so there were likely to be quite a few fights. In addition to being noble, they had the backing of Lord Pennington so they were not afraid that they will offend anyone.

While in business, some of the good magical products were sold, especially after the Blue Crystal armour, was bought by the younger son of a duke in 10,000 gold coins, the fame of "Hammer of War God" quickly began to rise. 

Rogge saw that the dwarfs were too leisurely, so he forced/lured them to make some equipment without the magic inscription for sale. The craftsmanship of the dwarves was highly sought for so when each of the batches of products come out, even without any magic inscription; they are snatched immediately.

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At this time in the third floor of the "Hammer of War God", Rogge and a small group of adventurers were having a business transaction. This group of adventurers had nine people and had the standard adventure team combination, Warrior, Ranger, Archer, Mage, priest, rogue everything, that is expected to find, that is one or two of each. They had just returned from the magical forest adventure with, the harvest to exchange for some equipment.

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What made Rogge’s eyes shine was the bag of magical silver with, he was watching the sack full of magical materials, around two pounds of silver, and some rare metals and precious stones, such as a piece of ore, dark in colour with the glint of Venus.

Rogge recognized that this one was a high-grade star gold ore. This gold was different from ordinary gold, because it had the mysterious correspondence with the stars in the sky, and was an indispensable raw material for making space-related magic and equipment.

There were also monster crystal, fur, although precious, were far less than those ores.

The fiery red bird feather worn by the female mage in the team caught Rogge’s attention. With the spiritual force, Rogge found that the feather had extremely sturdy but agile fire magic fluctuations.

The adventurers settled on one extremely beautiful (the common features of all hammer of war god products) magic bow, decorated with platinum wire and purple gold wire winding into the bow. What matched with this bow were three pale-green Hama arrows, (TL: they are supposed to be legendary evil-destroying arrows. If you want to know more about them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Yumi)

The arrows had two white dragons that were purely carved with magic silver, whose four wings expanded on to become the arrow’s tail feathers. Seeing that arrow, the eye of the young female archer shined brightly,  holding the bow and arrow tightly refused to let them go.

The female magician was fascinated by a charm increasing bracelet. With the superb craftsmanship of the dwarf and Frost's superb skill, Franco's artistic taste, and the deep understanding of Lawrence and Rogge’s on the dark side of a human heart, this bracelet was extremely ingenious in combining the meteor stone and magic silver.

The entire bracelet was entirely transparent with the tinge of dark blue, and under the influence of charm magic, the starlight appears and disappear from time to time. With this bracelet, it was like putting on the night sky on your body. The female magician’s eyes became as deep as the night sky. Of course, a simple mosaic technique can also achieve the similar charm effect with increased range effect actually.

While shopping, women no longer make any sense was surely a good saying. Fortunately, the strength of these adventurers was good, but they were not very good at understanding the goods.

Rogge was sweating like pig, the fat in his body was trembling (it was not known when it started, but Rogge’s fat can be shaken at will) he had the pained appearance while killing the price a little bit.

After adding two half body armour, four long swords and thirty armour-piercing arrows, the deal was finally completed. And the read feather became Rogge’s spoils.

In all fairness, Rogge’s products were fine, worth the price. The main source of the money-making lied in the low-priced purchasing of the loots of the adventurer. For example, this time the only piece of star gold ore was the priceless treasure, not far from hundreds of thousands of gold coins. That bag of magic silver was worth of 10,000 gold coins and as for the monster crystal, they were more than 10,000 gold coins. Not to mention other unknown metals and the inexplicable red feathers. Rogge’s intuition told that the more we do not understand something, the more valuable it is.

Rogge finally understood what “A good horse that does not eat the night grass does not get fat.”

As Rogge finally sent this batch of suckers with great difficulty, several people leisurely strolled inside and walked into the VIP room, and Lawrence nodded and followed.

 Rogge just put on the professional smile, ready to say hello. The man who was leading the group took off his robe that was covering his head, the blonde colour of the hair jumped out and illuminating the whole room, the smile was as bright as the sun after the rain, the light even stinging the Rogge’s eyes.

He held out his hand and said: 

“Nice to meet again, I am Orpheus Von William.”

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Chapter 8: Morningstar ( Part One)

Here comes the part one of the eighth chapter. Was down from viral. Real bad. Now feeling little better so there will be no such absent. This is long chapter so we are dividing it into two. But the second chapter will be out soon.

TL: shovatranslations

Eds: Intenseinfantry2520 ( Fragrantpig89 is busy in college project)

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Farborg was more than 700 miles away from the Rhine City. It was a major city that had the population of 200,000. Because of its strategic location, it was the second tier military city of the Rhine Alliance in the western borders. Even more so, it had the great role in impeding the magical creatures danger from the magical forest rushing into the fertile Pas Plain.

The Farborg was situated in the middle of the flatlands, and the Pas River surrounded the city. More than 100 miles to the South of the magical forest, Fort Farborg became the most important supply depot for many adventurers and monster hunters.

The area of the Magical forest was almost equivalent to the entire area of Rhine Alliance. It was vast, reaching to the Pyrenees in the west, sea in the south, and covering the entire Red rock peninsula in the east. The total area of the forest was about 1 million square kilometers.

Since there was rarely any large scale of monsters activities in the edge of the forest, numbers of trade route were in those outer rims of the forest, therefore also becoming the paradise for thieves and bandits.

The "Hammer of War God" weapons workshop had been open for a month. Initially, the given name with such rich dwarf characteristic was for nothing but to benefit from association with inborn artisan dwarfs, but now there was indeed a dwarf with his four apprentices working in the workshop inside.

The weapon workshop occupied a three-story building, located in the most prosperous neighborhood of Farborg. The first floor was allocated as the weapons storefront, the second floor was the adventurer's paradise, and the third floor, frost was originally intended to be used as a laboratory, but it was rejected by everyone, and was used as a VIP room for some of the big customers and displayed some of the high-quality products by Frost.

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A small building not far from the “Hammer of War God”, was where Rogge usually spends his weekdays, and where Frost’s workshops and laboratories were located. At the moment, in the spacious laboratory, which was more than 200 square meter wide, there was a large and complex magical array drawn in the ground, which was emitting a colorful halo in the room. In the middle of the array, bluish-white magical flames were hissing and engulfing several pieces of handcrafted golden knight armor, forging them in the magic flame till it was red hot.

Frost carefully took out a piece of armor with a pair of iron tongs and placed an inscription with magic silver in a specific position. 

A burst of flame flashed, and the inscription was firmly integrated with the armor. Rogge busily handed over a little bottle of blue liquid, which was full of an adult Wyvern blood.

Wyverns were fierce, agile, and had a good magical protection. It was very hard to deal with an intermediate-level magic. Many parts of the body can be used as magical materials, and blood can increase magical protection to a small extent.

Magic silver, because of its very good ductility and excellent absorption of magic, is an indispensable material for making magical instruments.

However, because it is relatively rare, the price is not cheap. The price of general magic silver is about ten times that of the same weight of gold.

When the blue Wyvern blood was dropped in the piece of armor, the armor piece, like sponge absorbing water, rapidly absorbed the blue blood. That piece thus becoming shining light blue.

Rogge took a piece of armor and put it in the flame. After all the pieces were processed, Frost recited an incantation toward the flame in the array, and a pair of light blue wings were gradually formed in the magic flame. The wind wing went around the flame, slowly rising upward, it started to go faster and faster.

“Boom” a sound rang out, and flames shot up, rising suddenly like the tide. However, when that flame reached the ceiling, there was a white flash and it was blocked from exploding out of the room by a magical array placed there. 

Firestorm came and disappeared in a blink of an eye. 

Leaving behind few blue pieces of armor on the ground. After the fusion with wind magic, the weight of the entire piece is reduced by 60% due to the support of the magical energy of the wind.

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At the request of Rogge, each piece of armor was added with a little magic silver and Frost once again cast an ordinary illumination magic over it. This time, the entire armor began to appear translucent light blue; and the inscription formed by the magic silver just radiated a blue light.

"Hey, this looks much more attractive, Golde! You came just at the right time; I wanted to talk to you.”

“Make these armor pieces into half-length of the knight armor, yes, this is the style of the most popular Paladin armor this year.”

“Oh, and the chain connecting the pieces should be of gold.  The helmet and the armor, add some golden pattern decoration in the edges. Call Franco, he has the similar knight armor, that you can base this armor.” Rogge cheerfully shouted.  

Dwarf Glode actually thought otherwise: “That may not be good. The armor pieces should be intertwined together with fine steel wire! The most important thing for armor is protection! Protection! I don’t want to ruin my reputation!”

“Then put a layer of gold outside the steel wire! Then it will be ok, right?”

“You know what? Put the layer of gold in all of the chains from now on. The most important thing is that this armor should fetch us good money. Add this layer of gold and you can have a decade worth of ale!”

“Tell Lawrence to select a cape that is worthy of this armor, the best. Glode, you have till the day after tomorrow to get this done!! If I don’t see the armor, forget about drinking!”

“Yes, this armor should be called the Blue Crystal armor, of course, the name will not be carved beforehand, if the guest wants another name, you engrave their choice of the name in the armor. Ten gold coins per word.”

Carrying the pieces, Glode went downstairs mumbling. Between conscience and the ale, he finally chose the latter. His mouth cursing: "Vampire! Pig!! Miser! Man shaped dragon!”

Rogge insisted on selling only the high quality, and high price products. His argument was: "The person who can afford these equipment does not care about money! As long as it is something that looks good, they won’t care how much.”

“What kind of people are our best customers? Not those who have money and who can judge the quality of goods, but the sons of nobles and aristocrats who have money but nothing to spend money on, such as Lawrence. Who does not want to earn their money? So, we do not sell the right ones, but sell only expensive ones.”

Secondly, all the armors that Rogge produced paid great attention to the appearance, decoration and some unrealistic gimmicks. For example, this blue crystal armor was extremely lightweight, it was only the equivalent to the weight of heavy leather armor. 

The physical defense and magic defense effects were as good as a magic armor.  But that illumination inscription placed in the armor, after the fusion only had the role to make this Blue crystal armor appear with the effect of translucent, lighter, softer and attractive, but without the slightest practical effect. As for those decorations that Franco designed, they instead increase the weight, which didn’t help in any way in a combat.

However, Rogge said: 'This armor you see, this is what paladins wear. Is it sold to a real Paladin?  Of course not. Which Paladin will wear this? Who we want to sell is to that the nobleman's son who wants to be a Paladin, do you expect them to venture into dangerous caves? They will put this on to go hunting. So style and taste are very more important, which will let them act like a hero in front of those ignorant girls.

“Hammer of war God” is not preparing to become a major arms dealer, but to become like the purple Angel jewelry, Shangri-La hot spring, a brand for noble.”

Everyone listened speechlessly. Since then “Vampire Rogge” nickname spread like a wildfire.

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