Abe the Wizard - Chapter 22

Chapter 22

In a blink of an eye, a dark figure holding a long sword suddenly burst out through the waving curtain of the carriage—It was the Knight of Marshall . The second before the servant’s swords made contact with the carriage driver, a powerful flash of combat qi shot out from his sword, cutting the servants and their horses into two . Fresh blood exploded from their bodies meters above the ground . The place was raining in blood, and the few servants up the back were drenched .

The servants were terrified, yet the Knight of Marshall did not show mercy . He hopped from the carriage and slashed a servant head off with his long sword in mid-air . Before the servant even had time to react, his brain had already flown out his skull and landed in front of Joshua’s horse .

Joshua was stunned by this horrific scene . His body started to feel weak, and he fell from his horse on the spot .

In a split second, the Knight of Marshall had already annihilated 10 servants . The other 5 were no longer on their horse holding their long swords, but shivering on the ground . Their opponent was an official knight that understood how to use combat qi . After witnessing the fighting power of a knight, these everyday servants would remember this traumatic experience throughout the rest of their lives .

Abel was also stunned by the Knight of Marshall’s viciousness and directness . Normally, the Knight of Marshall always wore a smile on his face, but what had just happened gave Abel a completely new impression of him .

“Sir… . you are a great knight . I am the eldest son of lord Joel . I demand to be granted the title of Noble prisoner of war,” stuttered Joshua to the Knight of Marshall .

The title “Noble prisoner of war” as a way to treat nobles who had committed war crimes during that period .

According to the knight’s system of rule, winning or losing a battle was not the most important factor . What mattered was that they gave their best performance and faced their opponent with glory . Therefore, being a prisoner of war for a knight was not such a shameful thing .

On top of that, most knights held great economic and political power . After they became a prisoner of war, all they need to do was to pay a ransom to be released . For example, if a higher ranking knight high-level lord had been captured, the lower lever knights were obligated to turn themselves into hostages in exchange for ransoms .

Lastly, these battles were common back in the days, so being captured as a prisoner happened often . Therefore prisoners of war were often treated kindly and released only on based the condition of a ransom .

Knight of Marshall sneered at the hopeless novice Knight who was shivering on the floor in front of him before even giving a fight . The Knight of Marshall wondered if he should deal with this situation according to the noble treatment of granting him the title of noble prisoner of war .

“Joshua?” Said Abel as he hopped off the carriage . Looking at Joshua on the floor, Abel never could have guessed this noble brother had gotten people to attack him because of such a small conflict .

“You know him?” Knight Marshall asked . He had vaguely sensed the reason for this attack, but even if there were conflicts in the city, a knight would rarely gather a bunch of people and planned an unexpected attack .

After thinking to himself for a while, the Knight of Marshall decided to let Abel have the say on what happens to Joshua . It would also be a good chance to trained his decision-making skills, or so it was intended .

“Able, how do you want to deal with him?” asked the Knight of Marshall .

Abel didn’t care if Joshua was dead or alive . Whatever the decision was, there wouldn’t be a benefit in harming this pitiful prick . That being said, Joshua wasn’t completely useless . Abel decided to take advantage of this, and by “take advantage, ” he was hoping that the Knight of Marshall wouldn’t mind him making some extra money .

“Let’s bring you back to the castle, Joshua . I’ll let you enjoy the title of noble prisoner of war”

After the Knight of Marshall had heard Abel’s word, he gave out a faint smile of satisfaction . Abel did not act according to his anger but decided to take advantage of Joshua’s wealth to contribute to the development of the castle .

Abel’s train of thought was pretty simple, Joshua’s flighting abilities were miles behind him . If Joshua was a real knight and was able to pose a threat to him, he would have chosen otherwise, because an enemy is always better when dead .

Abel then took the 5 surviving servant’s belts off their waist and tied it around their hands .

Other than that unlucky horse who had been chopped into 2 pieces by the knight of Marshall, Abel and the carriage driver threw Joshua and the captivated servants on the 11 surviving horses . After the horses had lined up, they began to move while Abel sat on Joshua’s blazing red color horse following from behind .

Joshua was tided to the first horse in the line . Although his belt had also been taken off much like the other servants . Abel internationally did not use it to tie up his hands . This is because if he tries to escape, his pants would fall off . But Joshua was not stupid, he would not dare to escape in front of an official knight .

It was only until now Joshua had realized he had attacked the owner of Harry’s castle, and that person whom he called “little blacksmith” would inherit all of Harry’s castle . At that moment Joshua knew, the first thing he would do after he returns to his castle was to kill the servant responsible for spying Abel .

After they returned to Harry’s castle, Abel gave the captives to Lince the housekeeper . Housekeepers were responsible for settling the ransoms . Other than that, they would not question a single thing since it was the noble’s problem . All they need to do is to identify the captive’s status and negotiate the amount of money they need to pay with the other party’s housekeeper .

Soon, Abel had resumed his daily schedule . Every morning after breakfast, he would exercise and forge metal at the blacksmith shop . At night, he would return to the castle to practice the knights breathing techniques and follow with a good night of sleep .

Just like this, another month had gone by . Abel had forged over 5 long swords of 100 skills only using the technique of this world . He did not use any special carburization or dipping fire techniques . This is because the only rule of forging in here was to make master Bentham happy . No matter how good your secret techniques are, the fundamentals were the most important . Thus, through Abel’s respect for fundamentals techniques these past months, he had been greatly praised by master Bentham .

One morning when Abel was at the blacksmith shop, he was called by master Bentham to go to the master’s private office .

Abel followed master Bentham into the room within the office, and from the top corner of the room, master Bentham took out a thick heavy book from a metal box . “My teacher was the dwarf forging master, master Robin . During the time dwarfs and human allied to combat the Orc, thus every day I was sent off to practice forging with the dwarfs” said master Bentham .

Master Bentham’s eyes began to sparkle as he recalled the good old days . It seemed as though as he was mumbling to himself as he told Abel the stories about his past .

“Those were the best days of my life, every day I could learn something new . The dwarfs were some of the most gifted beings when it comes to forging, and through thousands of years of perfecting their forging techniques it is was truly unlike others . Legend has it the most powerful dwarfs were used to responsible for making artifacts for the gods . ”

“Other than making normal weapons, Master Robin could also make magical weapons . I remembered when I saw magical weapons for the first time . I knew I would dedicate my life to be a blacksmith . I remember telling my self that, one day, I would also want to make weapons like this . ”

“I tried very hard to master all the things master Robin taught me, and only on the day I mastered all of it, I asked master Robin if he could teach me how to make magical weapons . he rejected me without a second thought, said I didn’t have the talent for it . ”

Master Bentham got a bit emotional from his speech, “However, master Robin did give me one last hope when I finished all my studies, and that is this magical weapon forging guide . ”

“After I searched around in the guide, I realized that the reason why I could not make magical weapons is because of spiritual power . A person’s spiritual power is the main thing when it comes to unleashing the magical force within a weapon . Yet, most people who possessed spiritual power would become a wizard . No one would want to be a blacksmith… until I met you . ”

Abel had suddenly been moved by these words from master Bentham . All this time, he had been seeking information about wizards, and it is the first time he had heard a person directly talk about magic to him .

“Abel, I am already old . I know I could never be able to forge a magical weapon in this life, but you are my student, I hope you can one day be able to forge a magical weapon . ” Said master Bentham with eyes full of hope .

“Master, I will try my best” Abel nodded earnestly .

Master Bentham picked up that enormous Magical weapon forging guide in an almost ritualistic manner and passed it on to Abel’s hand

The book felt heavy on Abel’s hand . Just like the legend has it, even though dwarfs were short, they always believed they were the descendants of the giants . Therefore they tried to make everything as big as possible, and this book is a beautiful manifestation of that .

When Abel opened the book, he realized the information was very straight forward . First page: fire magical weapons . In the middle of the page, drawings were depicting both sides of a sword . On the top, there were strange markings, while on the handle of the blade there was a concave area with marking saying “put fire magic gem here” . At the bottom of the page, there was information about the function of fire type magical weapons . Fire potion’s formula and the fighting power of the weapon .

The second page: ice type magical weapons . The layout was the same as the first page . Drawing of depicting both sides of a sword in the middle, and explanation and formulas about ice magical weapons at the bottom .

The third page was about lighting magical weapons, and the fourth page was about toxic magical weapons .

There were only 4 pages in this book . Abel thought to himself self “the dwarfs are ridiculous, they must be stupid to make such an enormous book with only 4 pages of information . ” But looking back at master Bentham’s sincere expression Abel did not say it out loud .