The Amber Sword

TL: The resolution of this battle finally appears. For the different types of rarity of items, I will now classify them as ‘XXX-ranked rating’. Let’s hope I don’t forget that rule lol.

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Chapter 17 – Cleaning the battlefield.

————— Princess POV ——————-

“A knight’s duel?” The silver-colored hair princess could not suppress a smile when she heard that, impressed that the Black Knight was able to think of a tactic to try and delay the time. But she soon sighed and turned her head towards the scenery outside the window in a daze, looking past the floating dust that was visible in the sunlight. She frowned with worry as she thought about a number of things—

[Give up one’s honor? Throwing away your pride as a knight to avoid battling the ‘Dark Blooming Roses of Madara’? … This land has been plagued by war for centuries, and is now hardly loved by its citizens, but did that youth change their hearts when he led them?]

The princess did not know that her prediction would become reality. She looked back at Oberbeck and they both did not speak for a long time.

“The Wise King, Erik, our first ancestor king led citizens from Kirrlutz to independence in order to battle the unending corruption in the empire. Our country was formed for the sake of defying the nobles’ arrogance and greed.

He kept it well hidden away. His current status was still a Highland Knight and anyone who recognized the statue would make things problematic.

[They are a lot of rules binding the knights.  A light punishment for breaking them is losing the title, but a heavy punishment would be the equivalent of burning witches alive. That shit isn’t a joke.]

He then flipped over Xelsa’s body and checked his neck and hands. He did not find any necklace or rings, but a frost-coloured glass bracelet.

[… Glass Bracelet?]

“Elemental Bracelet!” Brendel was stunned and quickly pulled it off his body. Even though the game stated it as a ‘Bronze-ranked rating’, this was highly useful as it could add on damage to close or ranged combat with a certain amount of elemental damage.

[The lowest tier for this kind of bracelet is 25 OZ, and it can do an additional 4-4 elemental damage! The Thorn of Light is only 9-9 damage without having critical damage.]

Brendel suppressed the immense delight in his heart. This item was as expensive as the extremely rare ‘Silver-ranked rating’ items in the game, and an item that he could not afford at the height of its popularity.

[Attack damage is life. Especially when it comes to melee professions in the early stages. Sadly this can only be used by level 20 and above so I can’t use it for now…]

He tucked it away carefully into his bag, giving it more importance than the Thorn of Light.

[Even though the Thorn of Light is a legendary weapon, it’s only good for Iron-ranked tier swordsmen. Once I go beyond that level I need to find a better replacement for it… Especially with the toughness of the sword… The fights against the Black Warriors’s two handed swords made me feel uncomfortable since my blade is so much thinner. The bracelet is different in this aspect, and I can’t think of a better replacement for it before level 40.]

Finally, he determined that he did not miss anything from Xelsa’s body and stood up and sighed. The rewards from this battle were excellent. Besides gaining 770 XP, the equipment that he received was enough to increase his overall rating by two times.

If he was able to get another elemental ring and bracelet, he would be able to form a pure attack build and defeat a dragon whelp in the Vierio region before level thirty. He unsheathed his sword and blow on its edge, acting as though as the dragon’s treasures were already in front of him.

But after a moment, he went back to his normal state and stopped having delusions.

He checked his surroundings and discovered that most of them had brought back something, especially Leto and Mano who were more experienced than the other mercenaries. Their targets were the necromancers, and getting one or two alchemy items from them aided with their personal strength.

Brendel checked the timing again after the entire battlefield was cleared. The time taken from the start of the battle was forty-five minutes. The militia was also done with their search. He quickly checked the surroundings as he felt that Madara’s undead riders could appear anytime at this moment. The gargoyle could only scout one direction at a single time, so they had to be quick.

The refugees had already gone ahead in the gargoyle’s directions, led by a few veteran mercenaries. With the gargoyle scouting ahead, he was not worried that the refugees would run into trouble. He called out to the mercenaries and regrouped with them, and they rode off to find Freya.

Right up to this point, his plan was progressing considerably well, and the only thing left was to play hide and seek with Madara, until the moment where the star constellation of ‘King of Knights’ appeared. He took out the deer statue and raised his head to look at the sky.

TL: Brendel is accusing Xelsa for having impure motives like delaying the battle so Madara’s undead can discover them, and that is against the spirit of a fair duel. Also, it seems like lots of people kind of forgot what happened to that necromancer back then where he stole that spider ring. Imo, Brendel will most likely troll the enemies whenever possible and hardly engage in a fair fight, especially when he’s leading that group of refugees..

TL 2: Actually I have no idea what this 4-4 and 9-9 means. 4D4? 9D9? But 9D9 sounds ridiculously high for DnD damage, and I find it strange that there’s no minimum-maximum damage fluctuation. Head scratch. I might not want to include future weapon damage numbers as I feel it will detract the seriousness of the story.

Edit: Let me explain why I find that having numbers is bad. Typically DnD will first apply attack rolls, i.e 21 > 20, and damage rolls next (9-9 + 1 strength*stats modifier + bonus damage . So if Brendel nicks a black warrior, he does -72 damage (it was stated somewhere one or two chapters ago). If he strikes at the chest (attack roll 30 > 20), he does the same damage.

Only when he does maybe like head thrust (attack roll 40 > 20, perfect critical), he does 144 damage.

Does that sound ridiculous? So even if I see through the text with “The Amber Sword in-game calculation”, the numbers 4-4, 9-9, makes no sense to me. I am very much in favor of removing such numbers because the author has never stated his ‘system’ properly as far as I know of.