Chapter 270: Victory (3)
Terms used in this episode:
Executor Sword – This is a reference to a myth-rank equipnt called Jin Myung Hwang’s Conduct Sword in the MMORPG, Lineage 2. This sword is known to be expensive because of its long and complicated crafting process, to the point that it beca a term in other gas (in Korea) for any sword or equipnt that is extrely hard to craft.
Even a well-behaved cat would first head to the fireplace – a proverb similar to ‘A fair face may hide a foul heart’. It ans that even if a person looks and acts good, they may still do or think of sothing bad.
There were no specific regulations prohibiting mbers from dating or marriage in the Guardians of the Holy Cross.
Therefore, there were many married people who had children like Carn, and there were many mbers who were interested in dating like Manuel.
“Fufu.”
“Huhuhu.”
Carn and Manuel silently laughed as they faced Jude lying on the bed with disheveled clothes yet had a rather shaless look, and Cordelia who was sitting on a chair by the bed but had even more disheveled clothes as she slightly avoided their gaze.
‘Their clothes are a ss.’
‘Lady Cordelia has so marks on her neck and clavicle.’
Manuel and Carn only spoke to themselves as they studied the other side’s gaze and facial expressions.
Cordelia wiggled her fingers as she turned away her blushing face, while the brazen Jude stretched out his hand and grasped Cordelia’s hand.
‘Lady Cordelia is flustered.’
‘But her facial expression says that she likes it.’
A shy but sohow joyful – no, a proud expression.
She looked very cute with her head down as she slightly turned her gaze to look at Jude, and then turned her eyes again at their clasped hands before giggling.
‘We have to hurry and get out of here.’
‘We have to finish this quickly.’
Carn and Manuel thought the sa despite not exchanging glances, so the two proceeded with their topic.
“This is the statent that General Kamael told us to deliver.”
Manuel handed over so docunts to Jude who was sitting on the bed.
The docunts contained information on the distribution of Malekith’s corpse which was the biggest loot from the battle, and also included the transportation and storage costs.
‘Hmm, as expected. This statent is very much like Kamael.’
Kamael had an upright personality, so the loot was distributed accurately according to one’s contribution.
He also attached the calculation formula and the basis for how he calculated one’s contributions.
‘We have the biggest share.’
Individually, Landius had the largest share, but the two had the biggest share when combined.
Moreover, Jude and Cordelia’s shares were not significantly smaller than that of Landius in the first place.
If Landius had 10, Jude and Cordelia had 9 each.
‘As expected of Kamael.’
He included in one’s contributions not only the battle with Malekith himself, but also the process that led to this battle.
As a result, the shares of Jude and Cordelia naturally grew.
‘We dealt the last hit.’
Jude passed the docunts to Cordelia who was looking at him with curious eyes and a happy smile, and sent her a magic.
[We also have the largest stake in the Dragon Heart.]
[Really?]
[Yes, really. It’s written on the last page.]
At Jude’s words, Cordelia quickly turned to the last page, and her smile grew bigger as if a flower had blood.
[It’s real.]
The Dragon Heart of an Ancient Dragon.
It was not in perfect condition. The Dragon Heart had been exposed to the destructive power that ca from Ascalon, so it broke and shattered into pieces.
But still, it was the Dragon Heart of an Ancient Dragon.
Each piece was like a powerful magic weapon that had trendous power.
[Hehe, hehehe.]
What will I do with this?
What shall I make with these pieces?
Cordelia couldn’t stop smiling as she imagined it. Because this was reality now.
[Hurray for reality. Reality is the best.]
If this was a ga, if this was Legend of Heroes 2, the loot one could get from defeating Malekith was quite few.
Sothing like that.
But that was not the case in reality.
All of Malekith’s corpse could be taken.
[Even after getting a full set, it seems like we can form an army wearing dragon equipnt from the remaining loot.]
Cordelia smiled and spoke via magic, and Jude nodded right away.
[That’s right. In the ga, one had to work with guilds in order to get at least two myth-rank dragon equipnt.]
[Yes, that’s why I like it.]
Cordelia couldn’t control her excitent as she even trembled.
Myth-rank dragon equipnt.
Those could only be made from the parts of an Ancient Dragon, so they were the most expensive items among the crafted items.
‘It was the so-called Executor Sword in Legend of Heroes.’
Malekith was the only Ancient Dragon to have appeared directly in Legend of Heroes 2.
Therefore, it was impossible to craft a myth-rank dragon equipnt in single-player mode.
‘Because it’s not sothing you only collect once.’
However, it was not easy to craft it even if one played in multi-player mode.
Malekith received various adjustnts in multi-player mode, and he was a raid boss that was difficult to defeat even with a guild full of rotten waters who were fully prepared. The drop rate for materials was also ruthless no matter how many tis one defeated Malekith, just like in single-player mode.
‘It’s sothing that a huge guild can only decide to craft as it also takes a year to make.’
Therefore, even Outboxer009 and Yellow Storm, who were the most rotten among the rotten waters, had only known of its existence, but never actually owned any myth-rank dragon equipnt.
‘But this is reality now.’
We defeated Malekith only once and got its full body.
How many tis would we have to defeat Malekith in order to get this amount from the ga?
100 tis?
200 tis?
[Hehehe.]
[Fufufu.]
Jude and Cordelia exchanged dark smiles as they rejoiced once more.
Even if it was not myth-rank equipnt, it seed like they could do a lot with the amount they would receive.
‘We’re going to have a lot of money.’
The parts of an Ancient Dragon was pretty much the final boss in terms of scarcity.
Even one small scale was expensive.
[Are we going to be really rich?]
[We won’t be just rich as we’ll be as rich as conglorates… no, maybe we’ll even be as rich as oil magnates?]
[Ha. I’m so happy. It makes very, very happy.]
Money can’t buy happiness?
Not true. Those who lack money can be happy.
Cordelia was so happy that she trembled, and Jude turned to Carn and Manuel before saying.
“Thank you very much. Please relay our gratitude to Kamael-nim too.”
“We will. And… as stated in the statent, it will take a considerable amount of ti to transport Malekith and the Dragonflights’ corpses from the island to the mainland. We estimate it to be at least seven days.”
“Yes, we understand that it will take ti.”
In fact, it would only take three days if all the 7 southern families stepped forward, but Kamael did not trust the 7 southern families.
The reason why they were able to lead the 7 southern families was because of the common enemy nad Malekith, and of Carlos’ legacy, Dragon Sword Ascalon.
Now that Malekith was defeated, it was impossible to completely trust the 7 southern families.
‘It may take ti, but the most reliable thod is…to call the knights from the Guardians to deal with it from start to finish.’
Jude nodded again before he impulsively pinched the cheek of Cordelia who was still imagining happy thoughts, and then he turned to Carn and Manuel who were quick-witted enough to not drag it any longer.
“Then, we’ll be on our way. I hope you two have a great ti.”
A great ti.
Carn snickered as she quickly left with Manuel, and Jude applauded in his mind the two for their quick-wittedness.
“Jude.”
“Yes, Cordelia.”
Cordelia giggled and crawled back onto the bed instead of continuing to talk. She lied next to Jude and closed her eyes, snuggling into his arms.
Their heartbeats and body temperature.
Their sll that tickled the tip of their noses.
Jude kissed Cordelia’s head before he stretched out his hand and hugged Cordelia by the shoulder. He slowly closed his eyes, feeling Cordelia’s warmth and softness.
‘It feels really nice.’
Just lying like this.
It’s okay if we rest like this for a few days.
Because we’ll be really busy in the future.
They had to build facilities and hire craftsn needed to mass-produce dragon equipnt, find the legendary craftsman who could make myth-rank dragon equipnt, and other things they had to do with the money they would get in the future.
He decided to forget all of it for a while. Jude cleared his thoughts and only focused on Cordelia who stroked Jude’s chest and smiled again.
“Good night.”
“Yeah, good night.”
It was still dayti, and there was still so ti before nightti.
But Jude and Cordelia whispered that to each other and fell into a deep sleep.
***
Three days later in the morning.
Count Bayer and Count Chase faced each other with satisfaction.
Because after three days of heated discussion, they succeeded in condensing the list of candidates for grandchildren nas into ten.
Five nas for boys and five nas for girls.
“Well, shall we call it a day?”
“Fine, we have a lot of other important things to do.”
The two of them got up from their seats and moved to the downtown area of Argon Port.
It was to look at baby items that was as important as baby nas.
And at the sa ti.
Unlike Jude who was still lying in bed, Cordelia looked healthy as she chased after Kajsa and Scarlet while wearing a disguise. She was tightly hugging a paper bag to her chest.
‘She looks like a squirrel.’
A squirrel with a lot of food in its mouth, and was in a hurry for fear that soone might steal it.
As Scarlet smiled happily like a mother, Kajsa snickered and said.
“Let know if you need more later. I’ll show you where there’s even better stuff.”
“Uhh… thank you.”
When Cordelia shyly thanked her, Kajsa said with a furtive – no, a sly smile.
“It will be a good study material.”
A study material.
A very good study material.
In fact, Scarlet didn’t quite agree with that.
Because Kajsa’s taste was very bad for studying.
“Focus on the things I recomnd rather than what Kajsa recomnded, okay?”
“What the-… Hey, what you recomnded is too plain, okay?”
“What do you an by plain? And you, I told you to call unnie, right?”
Scarlet and Kajsa began to argue, but Cordelia did not intervene.
Because she had seen this scene every day for the past few days, and she just wanted to go back to the inn as soon as possible.
“I know the way from here on out. Thank you very much for today. I’ll see you two tomorrow.”
Cordelia bade farewell to her friends, or to be exact, her unnies, and she skipped towards the inn while Scarlet and Kajsa who were arguing then laughed out loud.
“Even a well-behaved cat would first head to the fireplace.”
“You’re right.”
Argon Port as well as the south – no, the entire S?len Kingdom, was buzzing with the news of the Ancient Dragon’s defeat.
And one of the people who actually defeated Malekith was thinking of sothing completely different.
“Well, they’ll have a great ti, right?”
“Yeah, a great ti.”
“You speak as if you’ve had a great ti yourself.”
“Hey, what do you an by that? What are you talking about?”
“You know what I’m talking about.”
Kajsa growled when Scarlet laughed, and Cordelia ignored the commotion behind her – no, she was not paying attention to them in the first place, so she hastened her steps.
And around ten minutes later.
Upon arriving at the inn, Cordelia quickly entered the room and took out the contents of the paper bag.
Audiovisual materials recomnded by Kajsa, and books recomnded by Scarlet.
Cordelia first opened the book that Scarlet recomnded, titled ‘70 Shades of Abyss’ in yellow letters on a red cover. Because she was very interested about the part she had seen at the bookstore earlier.
Gulp.
After glancing around, she opened the cover and focused on reading.
“Ueueue.”
As she read each and every sentence, Cordelia let out a strange sound as her legs lightly shook.
Her cheeks were red and her breathing was getting rough, but she couldn’t take her eyes off the letters.
Because vivid images were being drawn in her mind.
Really? For real?
They seriously did this?
Things that she never imagined.
And that was why it was so exciting.
Cordelia swallowed hard again before briefly imagining it in her mind.
The male lead as Jude, and the female lead as Cordelia herself.
If I reproduce the scene that I just read…
Cordelia inwardly scread. No, she had no choice but to actually let out a sound with her voice.
Because she heard soone knocking from the door.
“Cordelia? May I co in?”
“Eh? EEEEH? Ah! Yes!”
Cordelia closed the book loudly and jumped up from her seat as she almost fell down, but she wasn’t called a beast for nothing. She managed to sohow balance herself while hiding the book behind her back, and pretended to be as calm as possible – no, she faced Jude with a red face as she sweated profusely.
“W-what’s the matter?”
Cordelia pretended to be fine, but it was only for a short while. Because the scenes she had just read began to fill her mind the mont she faced Jude.
And Jude, who knew what Cordelia was thinking just by looking at her eyes, coughed and looked away.
And that was why he found Kajsa’s recomndations sticking out of the paper bag on the table.
“Ahem, ahem.”
He pretended to not have seen it.
He also pretended to not know what Cordelia was desperately hiding behind her back.
Because privacy was important.
“J-Jude?”
“Uh, yes. That…uh. We got a ssage while you were out.”
“A ssage?”
“Yes, so, but not all of them, will be arriving at the port soon.”
“Wow, really?”
When Cordelia brightly asked, Jude nodded his head and continued.
“Yes, so let’s et them soon.”
The dwarven craftsn living in Argon Port.
They were the ones who had been struggling to et Jude and Cordelia for the past three days.
‘Please! Just one scale! No, only two scales!’
‘If possible, so teeth please!’
Because it was none other than an Ancient Dragon.
For the dwarves who were artisans since birth, these were all the material of their dreams.
“Then, we’ll have an advantage?”
“It won’t be just an advantage.”
Jude would simply sell it at a higher price – he did not have such a one-dinsional thought.
He was going to get much more than that.
“You look absolutely evil.”
“Isn’t it a trustworthy smile?”
“Yes, a really good one.”
The dwarven craftsn who lived in Argon Port.
Before they et the legendary craftsman who was able to craft myth-rank dragon equipnt, they needed to cleverly talk to – no, they needed to coax so ‘friends.’
“Then, I’ll be waiting outside.”
“Eh? Uh… yes. I’ll be out soon.”
Jude left the room, and Cordelia breathed out in relief before she quickly hid the red book under the bed.
And around an hour later.
Jude’s plot – no, his deal that would have a huge impact not only for the dwarven artisans of Argon Port, but also for the 7 southern families, finally began.
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