Chapter 217 - Advancing Soon
Keller sure showed enough sincerity.
Looking at the dark stone in his hand, Rhode gasped. It seemed like his guess was indeed correct. He had assumed that this newly appointed president of the Merchant Association naturally did not want to hand over this position to other people. In fact, when he discovered that the Keller family and the Jade Tears mercenary group were related, Rhode felt very puzzled. He remembered clearly that later in the game, the Keller family would be of important stature in Deep Stone City, and they were also loyalists to the King’s party. Rhode had also completed a quest to protect the Keller family caravan that was sending out weapons from the Country of Light to the Munn Kingdom. Why would they suddenly support the Country of Light? Was the Keller family actually planning something big behind?
Now that things were finally clear, Rhode finally felt relieved. This matter was not actually done by Keller himself, so he didn’t care too much about this. Of course, he still stayed vigilant and didn’t completely trust Keller’s words. As the saying went, all merchants were sly; if they weren’t sly, then they weren’t a merchant. There was no way for a merchant to tell the truth. But as long as Keller stood on the right side, Rhode wouldn’t mind it. After all, it wasn’t something he needed to worry about in this moment.
One of his demands was that he wanted a shop under the Keller’s family name. Although the Keller family did mining business, they also had many other related industries. This time, Rhode had asked for the Keller family’s shop that forged and sold magic weapons. Though Keller couldn’t bear letting it go, he still agreed. In any case, mining ores was the Keller’s family main business, and forging weaponry was just a side industry. He himself also very clear the reason why that shop could forge magic weapons wasn’t because they had the craftsmans; instead, it was due to the forging table that had been handed down from a long time ago. When a weapon was forged on that forging table under the moonlight, the weapon would turn into a magic weapon. Keller had sent his men to investigate this forging table before, but the investigation yielded no result. On the surface, there was nothing special about this forging table beside looking a little bit old, but the magic weapons that were forged on this table were created with different magic effects. The strongest magical effect would occur when the weapon was forged on the full moon. To the contrary, when the weapon was forged on the new moon, there wouldn’t be any magical effects on the weapon. In fact, Rhode’s Blood Tears was also forged from it. It was rumored to be forged by a skilled and powerful blacksmith in ancient times under the blood moon that only appeared once every five hundred years…
And that was what Rhode wanted.
Although the loss of this forging table made Keller felt somewhat distressed, thinking about his entire family future, he could only comply with Rhode’s request. Of course, Rhode also did not intend to leave the forging table there. When he returned to the stronghold, he would bring it with him. Keller had never moved the table before because he was afraid of damaging it, but to Rhode, it wasn’t a problem at all.
In addition, Rhode also made another request. He hoped to obtain the black stone owned by the Keller family.
Hearing Rhode’s request, Keller did not hesitate and agreed. Compared to the complimentary magical effect of the forging table, the black stone owned by the Keller family was only something that they accidentally found in the mining pit. Because of its strange shape, they decided to keep it as a memento. There was nothing special about it; they only used it to commemorate the ancestors of the Keller family up until now. If Rhode wanted it, there was no problem giving it to him. Of course, Keller also curiously asked about what Rhode was planning to do with this stone, but Rhode’s answer made him feel a little bit surprised. Rhode said he just thought the stone looked good, so he wanted to take it back to make it into a statue…
Based on his instinct as a merchant, Keller always felt that Rhode wasn’t telling the truth. However, there didn’t seem to be any conspiracy in his actions. Even if Keller made an excuse and rejected him, Rhode still wouldn’t seem to care about it. That’s why Keller eventually no longer thought about it and agreed to Rhode’s request.
However, Gillian was different. After interacting with her for some time now, Rhode found that he really liked her way of thinking. Just like himself, she solved problems through a player’s point of view and was adaptable to evil means. If he could summon her, then no matter what happened in the future, he would not have to do things secretly like a thief, just like the previous incident with Frank. It was still okay doing it once or twice, but the pressure would be too much if he could only rely on himself continuously.
It did not mean that there were no other cons in summoning her out. Since her level was really high, there would be a penalty for summoning a spirit beyond his level. Previously, Rhode had suffered a great loss after summoning her once. This time he would have to consider how to thoroughly avoid similar problems from happening. Before, the penalty was only deducting some EXP points, but what if he became weak in other attributes? That would make him cry to death.
Then, what should he do?
Looking at the summoning circle in his hand, Rhode fell into deep thought…
Translator’s Note: The Core Card of the Ten Strongest Spirit Deck and Core Card in the group deck are different. In the group deck, the one ranked first is automatically selected as the deck’s Core Card. However, the Core Card of the Ten Strongest Spirit Deck is chosen by the player and the summoned spirit’s rank didn’t matter. In other words, the Core Card in the group deck is the Captain, while the Core Card of the Ten Strongest Spirit Deck is the General Commander.