"This…" The duke was surprised by the young man's request.
"Wow, you really know how to ask for sothing, eh?" Jack comnted.
"I can't make this decision, but I can give my recomndation," the duke explained. "Your achievent in the Trade Association is pretty competent, so I think you will have a high chance of being invited into our kingdom faction with my recomndation."
"I will expect no less," Dylan said as he folded his arms and leaned back onto his seat.
Jack must admit this younger man did know how to display a stylish deanor.
"Now, do you mind…?" The duke asked Jack.
Jack was puzzled at first by what the duke ant, but realization soon hit. "Oh right," he said as he took out the three pieces of Fragnt of Map.
During their ti in the carriage, Jack had actually tried to fuse the three pieces together. Normally in past gas, when a set of items that can be combined into one piece were brought together. They would automatically fuse, or at least they would send out an indication of how to fuse them. However, in the case of this Fragnt of Map, there was no reaction whatsoever even when he touched the three pieces to each other.
He even wondered at the ti if these three pieces were indeed the correct matching piece, or there were other versions of Fragnt of Map. Peniel ca and inford him that nothing happened because he didn't possess the required skill to perform the fusion. She however did not know the specific skills required for it.
Jack gave the three pieces of the Fragnt of Map to duke Alfredo. He soon heard voice notification.
"Congratulations! You have completed the first part of the chain quest: Duchess' Cure, Fragnt of Map pieces, receive rewards of 2 gold coins, and 30,000 Experience points."
Sohow he was not so thrilled hearing the rewards. He looked at Dylan. The boy did nothing but be a distraction and a bait, and he received an upfront paynt of 20 gold coins. While he had trudged through a long quest, and he only got a frigging 2 gold coins? Wasn't this a bit unfair?!
"What?" Dylan asked when he noticed Jack's stare.
"Nothing," Jack said to him.
Peniel who sensed his feeling, said, "I told you already that the individual quest of a chain quest is not much. The real reward is at the end of the chain quest. Now quit your moping already."
Jack turned his attention back to the duke who was holding the three pieces of Fragnt of Map. "You have a way to restore them to their complete state?" Jack asked.
"Yes. I've studied my one piece previously when it was still in my possession. It required a master Scroll-maker who also possessed master runecraft skill, or two masters of each craft working together, in order to restore these fragnts."
"I see, and I suppose you know such masters?"
"We have many in our kingdom," the duke replied as he stored the fragnts. "I will take them to the one I trust."
Jack nodded. "So what do you need
to do in the anti?"
"Nothing, I will inform you once the process is done, and share with you the information from the complete piece."
Jack heard a voice notification at the sa ti, "automatically receive chain quest: The Duchess' Cure, part 2, wait for duke Alfredo's news."
That was unusually easy, Jack thought, he only needed to wait. Well, he would never complain if things went easy. There would be plenty of ti that things went difficult.
"Before I forget, here," duke Alfredo gave him a coin pouch as well.
Jack accepted it with puzzlent and inspected it. The inside was 32 gold coins. "This…"
"I knew you had used your private coins to get the fragnt in the auction. This is to reimburse you. I should have given you more, I just never thought there will be another party that is willing to fork out such a huge amount for this fragnt as well."
"Do you have an idea who that other party was?" Jack asked.
Duke Alfredo shook his head. "No, I only know that they were outworlders, and they accessed the auction from a facility in Thenident. It was another city of our country, far away from here."
"Um… about the coins used to obtain the fragnt, I…" Before Dylan could finish his sentence, the duke gave him another coin pouch. There were 37 gold coins inside.
"Uh, what about my 10% interest?"
"Bro, didn't you just receive a 20 gold coins profit? Isn't that already more than your paltry 10%?" Jack said with exasperation.
"That was compensation for using
against my will," Dylan grumbled, but he didn't pursue the issue further.
"We should separate from here," the duke said. "It will be better if we go out of this place individually. This place was mine, so I am sure of its security, but we don't know if anyone is watching outside of this place. I will leave first. You three take turns to leave at different tis. The two of you keep the concealnt coat, only take it off once you have reached a place where you are sure is safe."
After giving his instruction, the duke left the room.
He heard Dylan whistled. "This place is his? Not bad… Can I co here another ti?" He asked marquess Fernando.
"You are not even able to enter this noble district freely," the marquess reminded him, which caused his face to turn gloomy.
The marquess chuckled, "don't worry. The duke is always good at his words. Once you are invited into our kingdom faction, you should be able to enter this district freely. You still have to pay if you want to co here though. But co look for
if you want to visit, I got a free pass here, so I will be able to bring you along… If my mood is good."
"Ahaha, if you need anything from another city, just tell . I will get it for you," Dylan uttered cheerily.
So this was what a businessman was like? Jack thought. Good thing for him this ga world put more emphasis on fighting skills, rather than trading skills.
They loitered around for a bit, with Dylan and the marquess enjoying the various beverages at the bar counter. Seeing that they enjoyed their ti so much, he guessed he would need to be the second one to leave.
"Okay, I will take my leave first," Jack told marquess Fernando.
The marquess replied half-drunkenly, "see you-hic, take care…"
Then to his new young friend, Jack said, "catch you later, just Dylan."
The young man responded by giving him the middle finger without looking over.
Jack left the building and went towards the office tower where commander Quintus was at. He still needed to report on the completion of his faction quest. The last ti he went there was by carriage, so he didn't morize the way. Good thing there was a map system in this world. The layout of the district was visible in his map interface once he had walked through the area once. Furthermore, there were markings on the map to show important places, so he had no problem finding his bearings.
He first found a place desolate of people. After making sure from his radar that there was no one nearby, he took off the concealnt coat. Before he took off the coat, he had activated the Orb of Disguise. So when the coat was off, it was Unrivalled Arcaner who was seen. The radar showed no people, but he still preferred to take precautions. In this case, if there was still soone spying on him, it will be his disguise mage that was seen.
When he thought about it more, he actually hoped that the Cult of Phobos did have soone seeing him right now. Maybe they would end up going to Death Associates causing troubles when they couldn't find him. After all, his Unrivalled Arcaner persona was still registered as that guild's mber.
After walking for so distance, he looked for another deserted alleyway and turned back to Storm Wind after making sure that no one was around.
He finally arrived at the guard tower, but there was a different officer behind the desk. He guessed probably commander Quintus was not always there to take care of faction mbers. He submitted his quest completion and got 20 silver coins, 10,000 Experience points, and 50 rit Points. He received an additional bonus of 150 rit points for successfully getting the item that the duke was interested in.
He was now halfway from becoming a Baron. He also noticed that the real value of these faction quests was on their hidden goals. The rit points received from fulfilling the quest requirents were trivial. The bulk of rit points gained was if they managed to perform well.
He asked the officer for another faction quest but he was told at the mont there was none available. So it was as commander Quintus had inford him, nobility faction quests were limited. Jack asked the officer how he could find out if there was a faction quest available. The officer simply told him to co every day to check.
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