Chapter 179 - The Trigger Crossbow
“An unordinary alchemy weapon?”
Prome’s comment left Dave shocked in the entire day. Somehow, Dave already had an answer for where the weapon came from. But this answer was too unbelievable to anyone, including himself.
Yet he could not get rid of the answer from his mind. It remained there like an unanswered math puzzle, waiting for someone to reveal the already existing solution.
Angor returned home and planned to craft several dozens of golden bolts. It would take him some time to do so.
After removing his robe, he lifted his inner sleeve and revealed the alchemy weapon affixed on his wrist.
It was a small crossbow bound to his wrist joint. But compared to a miniature hand crossbow, this weapon looked more complicated. It was made of over six major parts and countless smaller ones.
All the parts were assembled together to create such an automatic, long-range alchemy weapon—the Trigger Crossbow.
Upon reaching the cave wall where the shop was located, Angor saw the door of the shop tightly shut. A lock was placed on the door. Usually, Dave lived in the shop even when the shop was closed for business. It seemed that Dave was not here.
Angor could only go back home.
To his surprise, he saw Dave in front of the gate of his villa.
From afar, Angor noticed that Dave was looking at something in his hand with the help of the lamplight around the gate.
“What’s up? I went to your shop and missed my mark,” said Angor as he removed his hood and greeted Dave with a smile.
Dave looked troubled. “I came to… say sorry.”
“Sorry?” Angor opened the gate and signaled Dave to come in. “For what? You said something funny behind my back?”
Angor prepared Dave a glass of water and joined him on the sofa.
“Yesterday, you would have dealt with Chloe Brothers if I didn’t call Toby like that.” Dave looked really ashamed now. “The Chloe Brothers might bring more troubles to you. I’m so sorry!”
Angor was a little surprised. He then he smiled again. “Killing and tricking each other… isn’t that how the wizarding world goes around?”
“But I’m still sorry!” Dave lowered his head to avoid Angor’s gaze.
Angor remained silent for a while. “Alright then, I accept your apology. Let’s forget it. I’ll deal with Chloe Brothers. I already saw them today, and they tried to run away again. If you want to amend your mistake, tell me something useful about those two.”
Dave nodded. “The Chloe Brothers aren’t a big deal. I don’t think they would attack you again, but you should stay careful nevertheless. The real problem is the Red Butterfly.”
“Red Butterfly?”
Dave briefly explained Red Butterfly’s connections with other people.
“… Master Prome said that Red Butterfly didn’t really have a deep relation with Vice, like how everyone else believed. But Vice isn’t the only one related to her. She had several more admirers. If they team up and come for you, it’ll be really bad.”
“I… see. I’ll keep that in mind.”
Fearing that Dave would only grow more worried, Angor did not comment much.
“Give me the information of those people through your transmitter next time. Oh right, I need to ask something too,” said Angor as he decided to change the topic. “I want to buy materials, and maybe sell an alchemy weapon at the same time. Can you give me an appraisal for it?”