Anton’s father and sister finished eating their lunch but before they left to continue their business in the village hall Anders asked his son about his opinion on hiring the man and his son as their guards.
“I’ll abide by whatever your decision will be Father. You know more about these things. What about their traveling situation?”
“According to Lucas, that’s the man’s na, they have their cart. He and his son Devon got their horses, and their cart will be pulled by a single horse. His wife’s na is Nemina and his daughter, she is your age, is called Lunelle. Since you’re fine with my decision, I’ll talk to him. I will also tell him that you’re a mage so they will know who and what they’re protecting.”
“Fine with
father.”
Anton, his father, and Anna went to the village hall to continue their business. He sat down beside his father and watched him buy broken weapons and armor from the farrs who traveled from the surrounding farms near the village. He saw Anna doing the sa thing with the won but the things that she was purchasing were old, torn, or worn-out clothes that used to belong to either rich rchants or nobles. He wondered how the villagers got hold of those clothing and why they were keeping them.
Anders received sellers about every thirty minutes which according to his father was a sign that almost all of those who wanted to sell things to them had already done so. After about an hour Anton saw a man wearing leather armor enter the hall.
“That’s Lucas. I’m going to talk to him and his son in the inn. It will take us an hour or so since I will also be treating them to lunch. Stay here and accept the things that the villagers and farrs will sell you and tell them I’ll be back after an hour to tell them how much I will be paying for their things.”
Anton nodded and waited for the villagers and farrs for their things. Twenty minutes passed and an old farr and his wife ca in carrying a bundle. The farr walked towards him.
“Young man, are you the one who’s buying all those old broken weapons and armor?”
“Yes, grandfather. Do you have sothing to sell us?”
“I brought a couple of swords but I don’t know if you’ll buy them. They’re too worn out and the other one is broken in two. I’m kind of ashad to even show you these old things but I need the coin.”
“You don’t have to be ashad grandfather. We will buy all weapons and armor even if they’re too old or too broken. We’ll pay a good coin for them too.”
The old farr then took his things from the bundle that he was carrying and the weapons were indeed very old and worn out and one sword was broken in two.
“We’ll buy your swords, grandfather. We will need to wait for my father though he is talking to soone and will be back after an hour.”
“We’ll wait here. We traveled a couple of hours to sell these old things and we’re happy that you will still buy them. I wished old Norman had co with us. He was too ashad to bring his broken sword as well.”
“That’s a pity. We’ll buy everything even if it's too worn out or broken. I wish the surrounding people didn’t hesitate. Selling these things to us is better than keeping or throwing them away.”
Anders ca back and Anton told him about so of the farrs surrounding the village hesitating to sell them their weapons and armor because they were ashad that it was too worn out or broken.
“We should hire soone to send the ssage to the surrounding people Father. This old grandfather is also selling his things and I told him we’ll buy it even if it's too old or broken.”
“My son is correct old sir. I thought I made it clear when I had soone send out the ssage to people.”
“Your ssenger did arrive and told us that soone is buying old weapons and armor but they didn’t ntion about you buying too broken things as well. I reckoned that a lot of farrs would have co if they’d known.”
“Well, we’ll stay here in the village until tonight so if those farrs receive the ssage, they can still co here to sell their things.”
“Father go ahead and pay soone to send the ssage. Our coins will help everyone a bit.”
Anders smiled at his son and the old farr told Anton’s father that he had raised a good son which made Anton flee the hall and he could hear the farr and his father laughing. He went back to their room to continue playing the ga at least until dinner.
Anton’s father told him that he hired Lucas and his son to be their guard and they would talk about their employnt later during dinner before he left.
Before that dinner though, Anton was able to defeat the boss of Act III, phisto, reached Pandemonium Fortress, completed Outer Steppes and Plains of Despair, and also defeated Izual. He reached level twenty-eight and two more levels he would reach level thirty. He spent three hours doing all of those and Anton spent about an hour practicing mana manipulation outside the Rogue Encampnt.
After practicing his spell Blizzard so many tis, he was beginning to beco confident in using the said spell in the real world utilizing it to summon huge amounts of water filled with mana. A few more hours would still help though.
Anton minimized the ga and went downstairs when he saw that it was seven in the evening. When he arrived in the common area, his father just arrived together with Anna, their new guard Lucas, and his family.
Anders chose a corner in the common room where they have a modicum of privacy since they would talk about sensitive matters. They asked the inn waiter to join a couple of tables together and they ordered a lot of food.
“Anton after dinner I would go ahead and talk to the innkeeper about our request for their cook to prepare a lot of food for us for you to store before we leave tomorrow,” Anders said to his son.
Anton’s family sat at the table to wait for the food while Lucas and his family joined them. He saw that Devon and Lunelle were staring at him with eyes very wide while Nemina, Lucas’s wife was polite enough not to do the sa thing. An urge ca to Anton to suddenly shout “Boo!” at the two young people but held that urge off since he didn’t want their new relationship to start on a sour note.
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