Your sword, my lord.
The knight holds out the Dukes Orichalcum sword to him, and the Duke takes it back and places it at his hip where it rightfully belongs. He then continues to walk forward in a hurry. I follow after them too.
The Duke doesnt say any word until we return to Bodes castle from the from the lobby of the Earl of Selmars castle thanks to the Field Walker used by one of the Dukes Adventurers, which worries quite a bit.
Lord Michio, first and foremost, allow to apologize to you. There is an old-fashioned tradition that the Earl of Selmar is upholding: a tradition that the castle of the Earls of Selmar has been build with Shield Cent in order to prevent Adventurers from being allowed inside of it. I have completely forgot about it, and I had no idea that he is going to bring that up in the first place.
After arriving back in Bode, that was the first thing that the Duke complained about to .
As for the story about Lord Michio being an Adventurer, I think that it is most likely that he heard about it from one of the maids that have been delegated to co here to Hartz Duchy from my ho. Thinking about it now, I should have forbidden them from ever talking about this to anyone.
It is a little late for being remorseful now that the deed has been done, but I was definitely careless as well.
That might be true, but still, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that the Earl of Selmar, my own uncle, would co up with this kind of harassnt and discrimination towards soone whom he only just t.
Cassia shares the sa opinion as the Duke, and while I do agree with them wholeheartedly, then theres still sothing that I fail to understand no matter how hard Im thinking about it: what was even the point of this sudden accusation towards the Duke and Cassia? Everything started going south from that point onward, but I fail to grasp why would he do sothing like that to his own family? Even if they dont like each other all that much, then shouldnt family mbers support one another?
Still, I was surprised that Lord Michio changed his job to Explorer. I have to admit, when you suddenly offered to have your Intelligence Card checked just like that, I have broken into a cold sweat like I havent done in quite a while.
You and both, man. You and both.
I thought sothing like that might happen, so thats why I decided to do that.
It is not impossible to change your Job from Adventurer to Explorer, and honestly, that might not be such a bad idea when you consider the fact that there are still so places and the aristocratic clans, families and houses that still abide by the old custom of not allowing Adventurers into their aristocratic hos to the Adventurers being considered as unworthy of being in the sa place as the nobles. Nevertheless, if you have truly foreseen that such a thing might happen, then I feel that I must congratulate you all the more. Well done, Lord Michio, as expected of soone as excellent as yourself. If I may ask this of you, was that the reason for why you didnt co straight to the castles lobby, but ca here from the outside? Because you lost the ability to use Field Walker?
The Duke is making his own assumptions and drawing his own conclusions, which honestly works out perfectly for . You see, this is one of those tis when my worrying does actually pay off, because thanks to that and worrying about the worst-case scenario, I ended up coming to the Bodes castle from the outside.
If I did arrive in the castles lobby, that wouldve caused the Duke and Cassia to think that I was still an Adventurer, which would only worsen my situation during the Intelligence Card check. But thankfully, the worst possible outco has been swiftly avoided.
While it mightve been by chance, ultimately things did turn out all right in the end.
That it did, and once again, we have you to thank for it. By the way, since you no longer have the ans of travelling anywhere you want by yourself, then how are you going to go back ho? Should it be necessary, I can send one of my Adventurers to take you back to Quratar if you want.
Thank you for the generous offer, but that wont really be necessary. My friends from my Party are already waiting for outside, and theyre going to take back.
I properly decline the Dukes offer to turn one of his Knight Adventurers into my personal taxi.
Normally in this world, the process of changing Jobs needs to be carried out by visiting the temple of the Guild that focuses around the Job that you want to acquire and praying at the temples altar. So if I changed my Job from Adventurer to Explorer and wanted to change it back to Adventurer, then I would have to do it at the temple belonging to the Adventurers Guild. I am still unsure about the most crucial thing: whether I can visit any temple in order to change my Job or do I have to visit a specific one in order to make that happen, but for the ti being, it would probably be a good thing to not let the Duke and Cassia know that worries like that are whats currently being on my mind.
Now, as for the ring that you have retrieved from Heinz the Bandit the other day, then it is just like I told the earl of Selmar: I took it to the Armor Shop in order to get it appraised, and after the process was finished, it turned out that the ring was indeed a Ring of Determination. We never agreed on the price that I would offer you for selling it to , right? So what do you say for twenty gold coins for it? Would that price be okay with you?
Yes, definitely. I am grateful for your consideration.
Twenty gold coins? If he willing to offer such a price so readily, then I guess this ring must be more valuable than I was giving it credit for.
Putting aside the possibility of the Duke feeling extra generous due to how we were able to wipe that smug smirk off of the Earl of Selmars face, I tried to recall the prices of other accessories that I know about and calculate the possible market value of the Ring of Determination, an all of my calculations are leading to believe that its regular market price should be around one hundred thousand Nars, so that ans that the Duke is offering twice its price!
We didnt have to wait too long for a Knight with a drawstring bag to arrive, almost as if the Duke predicted that I am going to accept the price that he was offering to . The Duke took the bag from the Knight and handed it over to after he inspected the contents of the bag to make sure that not even a coin was missing from it.
Well then Lord Michio, thank you for taking the ti to go visit the Earl of Selmar with us today. It didnt exactly go as planned, but the most important thing is that it didnt end up in a complete disaster.
When I receive the drawstring bag from the Duke, Cassia expressed her gratitude to as well as she headed back inside to the castle. I am glad that I got to sll the sweet fragrance of her perfu until the end.
In that case, I am going to be taking my leave as well.
Of course, and thank you for your help today. I hope to see you again soon, Lord Michio.
Now that Cassia has left and returned to the castle, there is literally nothing left holding down here anymore, so I was also on my way, walking until I left the castle premises, but I didnt stop there. Just in case if I was being followed by soone, I decided to continue walking until I left the city of Bode and then made my way all the way to Bodes Labyrinth.
How far has the exploration of this Labyrinth progressed?
Up to the tenth floor.
I talked to the Explorer stationed at the entrance to the Labyrinth to gain intel on how far did the Exploration progressed and then headed inside.
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