Once Jasmine’s tasty dinner found itself in the depths of our stomachs, we visited the outpost’s armory where multiple blacksmiths were stationed. As Heretic had promised, we could make use of their repair services for free, and we did exactly that. My armor was nearly ruined back when the spearwoman stabbed me, and my fight against the water elemental Wizard didn’t help much either.
Lucille’s heavy armor was completely unusable, so we also gave it to them. Each of our blades could also use some maintenance since we sliced quite a few bodies apart. A dull blade wouldn’t fly considering the mission that Black Fang dropped on us.
Lucille would transition from heavy armor to light armor, though, so her armor getting repaired was just me being opportunistic. They offered to do it for free, so I made use of it. As for what kind of armor she was going to sport going forward… It was one that she peeled off of a random dead woman in the cavern, of course.
A Rare rarity armor that had a self-repair spell imbued in it. She had to inject her mana and it would automatically repair itself. A perfect light armor for the Berserk woman, also because it didn’t have the bonus stat penalties that heavy and medium armor would bring with themselves. On the other hand, it didn’t offer bonus stats as being in civilian clothes would, and furthermore, her running around naked or in underwear would provide the greatest buffs, but I not only didn’t want my lover to run around in the nude, she was also too low level to do as such. If she insists, I’m ready to discuss it once she gets into the level of thirties.
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As for the rest of the stuff we looted from the corpses, our aim was small items that held great value like trinkets, necklaces, rings, daggers, etc since Black Fang only allowed us to take what we could carry in our arms.
Ayame got herself a wakizashi, which was basically the eastern version of a long dagger, or more accurately a short sword. According to her, it was needed to combat tighter spaces, and also as a general backup. My lovely samurai said that she was still looking for an odachi, the bigger and meaner version of a katana, which she would use against giant monsters where her current blades would lose effectiveness due to their small size.
I was looking desperately for rare artifacts like my storage ring, but I didn’t have much of a success in that department. Sadly we didn’t have a great deal of time on our hands to scavenge around at all, and most of these people were opportunistic nobodies running around with Junk or Common rarity gear, let alone expensive artifacts.
Blossom and Seraphiel both got themselves a dagger each, Aurora settled on grabbing a Rare rarity Wizard’s Staff, replacing the cheap one I bought her after she drank the Wizard Potion and turned into an Enchanter.
We brought all of the loot to the armory too, and shamelessly asked them to be repaired. They offered, and we capitalized on the offer, naturally.
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It was time to move out once dawn came. I debated about waiting in ambush for Selene and Cedric to settle our differences once and for all before they could become a thorn in my side during the second round but ultimately decided against it. If they were smart they’d already left the outpost during the dark of the night, and if not they likely secured a sizeable escort for themselves.
We were on the eastern side of the Greenvale duchy, which bordered the Beastkin Confederation, while our destination where we would meet with the rest of the team and the Veil Walker examiner was a good bit to the west of us.
Silverwind, the duchy where our mission will take place is on the western end of Greenvale, so we will have to cross the entire duchy in a horizontal line. A good bit of journeying was ahead of us.
My storage ring was full already with goodies, but a bit of travel supplies still found their way inside. Lucille and Ambition would also carry two big bags on their backs full of additional supplies for the journey.
As for Ambition and her team, we remained strictly professional with each other. They seemed to be nice people, but they were reserved and anxious around us. I’m confident to say that if they weren’t much less effective without us around, they would be traveling without us. However, their horrible team composition kind of forced their hand once they experienced how amazing it was to fight with a Wizard, Healer, Enchanter, Assassin, Berserker, and a Samurai.
I elected not to use my [Warp Gate] unless necessary. I didn’t know if someone was watching, especially with Black Fang’s increased interest in us. Furthermore, I didn’t want to give the elves an even bigger reason to not trust us. Even while traveling to the destination I caught them glancing at us, and me especially, as if worried that I would order their execution all of a sudden.
It felt a bit bad for my fragile heart, but I somehow managed to deal with it.
The destination we were told to gather at was only a couple of day’s worth of travel from us. Well, if we estimate using the slowest member of the party, namely my bubbly pampered princess. If she wasn’t part of the group, we could’ve traveled at least 50% faster, but no one held it against her. Not only was she an amazing addition that any sane team would love to have in their midst, but we weren’t rushed for time either. After all, the rest of the teams also had the same amount of time to get there, so we would only be waiting for a while if we were too swift.
The days passed peacefully and without hiccups, which considering the fact that the greenskin invasion was still raging in the duchy, could be said to be a giant accomplishment on the elves’ and Blossom’s part.