Novel Full Chapter 1652: Back to Business
Chapter 1652: Back to Business
Whoosh!
Appearing within the Teleportation Hall of Meltierre Empire’s Blacksmith Guild, a faint sense of nostalgia appeared on Valyr’s face as he took a brief look of his surroundings.
“Been a while since I’ve been here,” muttered the young man to himself with a slight chuckle, only to then take note of the staff member that had been looking at him ever since he arrived.
“Sir Ylvar, right?” asked the staff member, a hint of trepidation in her voice.
Seeing the young man nod in response to her question, the woman faintly let out a sigh of relief. “I’ve been informed by Director Byron to have you head to his workshop the moment you arrive.”
“Is that so?” The young man raised his eyebrow at those words, recalling that he had only given the man a heads-up regarding his arrival in his message.
After confirming that Ryvrthe and the other Forsaken were on board with the idea of naming the town New Ecalos, the young man eventually decided to head back to Meltierre Empire, seeing that he had neglected the request the empire had given him for months already.
Though, he had only made that decision after confirming Algerie Kingdom’s willingness to aid Ryvrthe in fully fleshing out the town, a perk from one of the rewards he received from the Myriad Prodigies Tournament aside from the large plot of land attached to the previous plot of land he owned.
’With enough time, effort, and advertising, I’m sure it won’t be long until New Ecalos turns into an actual city,’ thought Valyr to himself as he soon nodded at the woman’s earlier words.
’Let’s just hope Byron isn’t mad at me for neglecting to work on the request for so long.’
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“…Where have you been?”
Adding a few final touches to the edge of an armor piece he’d been working on, Byron eventually placed his hammer to the side as he turned to look at Valyr with a hint of exasperation.
“I know I told you to take as much time as you want while working on the request…”
“…But have you ever wondered if there’s such a thing as taking too much time?”
“I admit that I was in the wrong here,” replied the young man with a wry smile, being reminded that it had been over eight months since the two last saw each other. “I should have at least given you an update on the request from time to time.”
“Yet you didn’t.” Byron had a slight frown. “Instead, you chose to ask about the tournament, as well as the situation on the frontlines.”
“Are there any changes to both?” asked Valyr, acting a bit more shamelessness for the meantime since it was the current topic.
“You…” Though the frown on the man’s face deepened, he still relented as he let out a faint sigh. “The date I’ve given you for the tournament being held here hasn’t changed.”
“Considering how much time has passed since then, there’s only about half a year left before the Nine Heavenly Pillars Tournament starts.”
“As for the situation on the frontlines…” Closing his eyes for a bit to gather his thought, Byron let out yet another sigh as his expression became calm. “It’s greatly improved compared to the last time you asked me about it.”
“Thanks to more people being equipped with the armor set and the arquebus you’ve shared with the military, it took far less effort for our side to reclaim the territories we’ve lost during the ambush.”
“In fact, I’ve heard that they’re planning an operation to reclaim the remaining territories we’ve lost in one fell swoop a couple months from now.”
“I see.” Giving the man in front of him a look containing both gratitude and apology, Valyr knew that he now had to show Byron proof that the past eight months the latter spent waiting for him weren’t wasted.
Whoosh!
With that in mind, the young man went ahead and took out the flintlock he upgraded back in the inheritance out of his spatial bracelet, which unsurprisingly caught the latter’s attention the moment he took it out.
“Is that… still an arquebus?” Briefly entranced by the ferocious aura the flintlock let out, Byron took in a deep breath as he gathered his bearings. “The design of the entire thing looks a bit different from the one you shared with us.”
“It is.” Valyr nodded with a smile. “Consider it as a version of the arquebus that satisfies the empire’s request.”
“Of course, to differentiate between the two, I’ve given this a different name, which is a flintlock.”
As those words left his mouth, the young man went ahead and explained the difference between the two to Byron, which was pretty much the firing mechanism that the arquebus and the flintlock used.
Explaining that the flintlock he was showing him was actually the first arquebus he had crafted, the young man then gave the flintlock to Byron a bit, allowing the latter to examine it in order to get a better idea of how it differed to the arquebus.
Of course, considering that he now had his hands on it, the man went ahead and used an identification skill on it, only to then look at Valyr as if he were a monster.
“…Is this the reason why you took eight months to finally return here?”
Hearing those words, the young man merely smiled, letting his silence fill in the blanks in Byron’s mind.
“Though the firing mechanism I used for this one is undoubtedly superior to the one on the arquebus, it’s not what I plan on using for the empire’s request.”
Retrieving the flintlock back from Byron, Valyr went ahead and voiced out his thoughts to the man on how he planned on complete the empire’s request.
“Instead, I plan on using a simplified version of the mechanism I used on the flintlock,” he said. “If anything, the only difference between the two is that the simplified version is a tad slower to arm.”
“Aside from that, it still completes the empire’s requirement of forgoing the need to light a fire.”
“How about the empire’s additional request?” asked Byron after that, faintly nodding at Valyr’s plan.
“The one that could target a larger area?” Valyr replied with a question of his own, to which the man nodded in response.
“I’ll think about it when I’ve completed their first request,” said the young man after that, only for a slight grin to appear on his face a few seconds later.
“But first, I suppose I should take the opportunity to obtain some Technology Points from the guild.”