Chapter 51 - Ores Arrived (2/2)

What even astounded Knight Philip was that even the militiamen were given a set each… Did these things not cost anything?

“They’re all old antiques. They will degrade the longer we keep it, so we don’t have to hide it and might as well use it to increase our combat ability,” Gawain laughed, “To be honest, there could have been even more of these, but some of them were either spoiled and could not be used anymore or that they had lost all the contained magical power, which is quite a pity.”

“Super gear… They’re all very valuable,” Knight Philip was even stuttering as he said, “These things… there were hardly any of these enchanted items in the whole of Cecil territory! ”

Amber was holding her arms as she stood at one side. “That naive, excited look of yours… He is 700 years old. What’s so strange about him having a secret stash of money? Whose grandfather wouldn’t stash some silver coins under his bed… Ah ah, it hurts!”

Gawain grabbed Amber’s ears as he dragged her aside. She was making threatening gestures as she shouted, “Let go! Let go! Haven’t you heard that an elf’s ears are super sensitive! Let go of me!”

So this disgrace to the elves remembered her half-elf bloodline, huh?

Knight Philip looked at Amber, who was being taken away, with a serious and proud countenance. “Our clan believes in the god of warriors and knights, Kehr. We never keep things for ourselves!”

Gawain was quite surprised as he looked at the young man, thinking that it was no wonder he so scrupulously abided by the knight’s creed, that even when compared against his peers, he seemed so pedantic and rigid. So he was a believer all along… much better than a certain someone who believed in the Goddess of the Night and always had to spin up some prayers.

“With these things… even if we were to face the ‘aberration’ again, it’ll be much easier this time.” Knight Philip was still sighing over the new equipment. Then he said suddenly, “Oh yeah, we can give the blueprint to the craftsmen in Tanzan Town, even if it’s more expensive… ”

“There is no way to reproduce it.” Gawain expected Knight Philip to bring this up. In fact, that would be how any typical soldier would think upon seeing these equipment. They would want to mass produce these ancient treasures. Knight Byron was no exception, but unfortunately they were destined to receive disappointing answers. “These things are based upon the ancient Gondor Empire’s magical knowledge, and they require the purified magical power from the Well of Deep Blue. Magic power produced by modern magic focal points or magical power wells are too impure and too low in energy level to drive these things.”

Knight Philip’s jaw opened as he immediately realized what it meant. “In other words, these things…”

“Every time you expend one, you won’t be able to replace it. Even as long as the magical power is exhausted, they will become ordinary equipment because they can no longer be recharged. And because they have been rusted and corroded to varying degrees, they might even perform worse than the typical equipment nowadays. They would have to be brought back to the furnace.”

The young knight looked worried. “What should we do then?”

“Before we get to that stage, we just need to make good gears ourselves.” Gawain smiled and patted his shoulders with a confident look.

Regardless of whether he could really do it or not, he had to smile as though he was a knight that was very confident of the future. Besides, Gawain was really quite confident.

As long as the Dark Wave did not break out of nowhere, there was still room to maneuver.

Just then, from the corner of his eye, he saw another small figure running towards him.

It was Betty, the maid, who ran up to him again. She looked up at Gawain and said impetuously, “Lord! Miss Rebecca is looking for you!”

Gawain gave a blank expression. “What matter is it now?”

Betty thought carefully for a moment and said aloud, “I forgot!”

Gawain: “…”

Why couldn’t this girl remember anything besides cooking?

Gawain shook his head and thought it was already a consolation that the little girl could remember who she was supposed to call, and that he should not demand too much of her. He asked her where Rebecca was and went there with Amber. At least Betty did not forget where Rebecca was waiting for them…

It was not until they reached the location that he realized what Rebecca called him for——

The first batch of ores for testing had been transported from the iron mine east of the camp.

The first advance party included a blacksmith and several apprentices, as well as the basic materials needed to build the smithy. But ensuring survival was of top priority in the beginning phase of camp construction, so Gawain slowed down the mining plan for the eastern mine. Until the advance team’s living spaces were settled, he then sent people to the east to collect some ore for testing. These people set off in the morning and finally returned to the camp with some collected ores.