Chapter 52. Time for the party (part 1)

It's been 11 days since I made the printing discovery, those were some busy days for me, I printed around 8 hours every day in the enchanting room, and over 1000 books later I managed to level up my enchanting skill once again.

I think I'm the first person in history to run through so many levels in one skill.

Maybe I'll find a way to cheat the other skills as well and be a master of all trades.

Unfortunately, while I did have a higher level in my Enchanting skill, I couldn't advance further. I didn't have a level 3 book that I could copy, nor did I have enough lapis to grind through the cursed book.

Speaking about lapis, the Prince is getting more suspicious of me since the ore is disappearing at an unnatural rate, but the fact that he needs those cursed books in a limited time, makes him look the other way.

While enchanting was fun when I was alone, I also snuck around the busy palace to see if I could take some souvenirs with me once I was gone.

And I was a little disappointed.

One of the more interesting rooms I found was the armory. There were stands with iron and even diamond armor beside the walls.

I suspect the diamond ones will be taken at the party tonight, so I can't take those, but I'm sure two iron armored sets will not be missed.

Another interesting but harder to get in the room, was the precious materials room.

In there, I found all the materials for brewing that Froggy used. And for a sultan who liked to flex his wealth, he has a surprisingly small amount of ingredients.

I think I had more ingredients from the skeleton fortress than what they have here.

There were also a few chests with different kinds of ores that would've been helpful when I wanted to craft a pickaxe.

I didn't take any items from those places, at least not yet. I'll wait until night when everyone will be in the ballroom and nobody to guard the rooms.

Even with all the work I went through, I still decided to go through my tunnels and cover up any useless ones. There's no reason to risk the whole tunnel system being found by accident.

At night, I and Froggy did some drills in the tunnels while I showed him every entrance to the system.

He was pretty shocked by how much I managed to dig while also working on the surface.

And when I told him that it used to be bigger than this, but covered them up, he refused to believe me.

At times like this, I miss Bobby and his reactions. Even though he started as a common villager, the fact that he went to the academy and studied for a few years, made him truly realize how unusual things were with me.

Froggy is a smart guy as well, but he lived half of his life in a small town that was destroyed and the other half in isolation. Even when he got an education here at the palace, it was filtered and forced.

And that's not the best way to memorize information.

But it didn't matter, we were going through plans trying to find the best ones we could possibly think of.

I even found the stools for the horses. We thought of the idea of making us and the horses invisible and rushed through the gate. But in the end, we threw that idea out.

The horses would make too much noise when they moved, without taking into consideration how they would react when they became invisible.

We want to take some horses, but we'll buy them from the city, or worst case scenario, steal them.

I wouldn't feel good, but with such a high risk for this escape, there's no time to second guess.

Today was the day of action, we were nervous as a normal person would be in this situation, so we tried to distract ourselves with any way we could.

Froggy over-prepared with potion brewing, and surprisingly even went outside to train with the sword.

As for me, I went back into the enchanting room and continued to make cursed books, after all, I won't have access to so many resources after I leave.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to take the printing tablet with me. The system doesn't accept it as a stackable item, and I don't have enough space in my inventory to take it.

So I'll most likely burn it once I'm done with it. It feels like a waste to destroy such a good product, but it did its job the best and I'm very thankful for it.

For the next few hours, I kept grinding at my Enchanting skill when suddenly I heard a loud horn from the outside.

I was confused, Are we being attacked, or did some guests arrive earlier and this is how they announce them?

I opened the door and saw the guard very tens looking around carefully.

That is one of the options out the window.

"What's that horn signaling?"

"I don't know specifically sir, but it signals that something is approaching the palace that could be dangerous."

"So we're not being invaded right now."

"Oh no, there would be a lot more noise if we were attacked. One horn means to be on the lookout for one enemy, that can be dealt once found."

I was impressed with their system of warning and its effectiveness.

This method was probably used in my world as well before long-distance communication was invented.

I went back into the obsidian room and looked at my setup on the table.

"The noise outside will make the guards patrol more often, which is not a fun thing to happen. I think I've had enough enchanting for today. Better clean things up, before they arrive at this room to inspect it."

With a sigh and heavy heart, I put everything back into the box, and brought it in the corner of the room, then with a Flint and steel I made some fire.

Since it was on an obsidian block it wouldn't spread anywhere, and it would have a short lifespan.

That was until I threw the wooden box into the flame.

The wood started to get darker and darker while getting consumed by a growing flame.

"Thank you for your help, unfortunately, this is the only way I can let you go."

I then made a small praying gesture and waited for the fire to die out.

It took a while since wood is still a source of fuel. But once I was sure all the wood was gone I placed a block over the fire to extinguish it immediately.

"This world never ceases to amaze me."

Right as I was about to leave, some guards wearing diamond armor barged into the room and looked at me.

They didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, we just looked at each other in silence.

Then without saying anything they looked all over the room before leaving in silence, with me still confused about what happened.

"They sure move fast."

I mumbled to myself as I exited the room.

The hallways were full of guards and servants, that went in and out of different rooms. This made me feel tense as everyone else so I decided to see what Froggy was doing.

I checked the brewing room, but he wasn't there, next I went to the garden and saw him swing the wooden sword like he was though.

"Looks like the tension is eating you up, are you ok?"

Froggy stops and finally sees me.

"Yeah I have a lot of energy that I need to get it out, and training is the best solution that came to mind."

"That seems fair. Do you know what the guards are looking for?"

"They already searched this area, and from what they told me it was an Enderman that sounded the alarm."

"An Enderman? What is a monster like that doing in the middle of the city? I thought they didn't like populated areas."

"Yeah, that's why everyone is confused and looking for the monster, they don't want to scare the guest somehow."

We stayed like this for a few more hours, we kept talking or swinging swords until one of the servants came to us with some clothes for us to wear to the party.

I looked at mine with awe, it was a green medieval suit with golden ornaments all over it, the shirt was plain white and the pants were as complicated as the top part.

"I didn't know you can craft something like this."

Froggy was as surprised as me with the complicated suit he got himself. It was a long purple robe that had the design of a potion effect, a hat that looked similar to his old witch hat but this one more elegant and stylish.

I tried to put the clothes on me and that's when I realized how they managed to do this. My armor slots didn't register those clothes as armor, which means that it was made without the help of the system. I don't even know how can they make so many details in a world that are encouraged to use the system every day.

Do they melt metals on their own, to they build a furnace system different than the actual furnace?

So many questions that I don't have the answer to. Maybe I'll look for some of them next time I'll get a chance to use a royal library.

But since I can't use the inventory to get the clothes on, I have to use the old-fashioned way to do it.

It wasn't a comfortable experience, especially when every part of my body had edges, but it was done.

I brought out my inventory to see if there were any changes in the armor slots, but it was as empty as I expected it to be.

Does that mean that I can make myself into an onion of clothes and equip the armor to have more defense the usual?

Maybe a test for later.

Froggy looked satisfied with his outfit, he looked like an elegant witch if that even was possible.

"I think we should go to the party before we start the plan. Once the other nobles will see us, they'll be satisfied enough not to look when we disappear."

Froggy nodded his head in understanding and headed to the big ballroom.

While I went to the tunnels and started to loot where I could.

From the armory, I took an iron sword, from the kitchen I took some cooked food.

But the most precious items I got from the precious materials room. Gold, emeralds even some diamonds were going into my inventory without any regrets.

It was a quick and stealthy job, so in about half an hour I had everything that I needed, as I suspected the guards were just patrolling, not stationary at one door.

With a calm demeanor, I walked towards the party, nobody was suspicious about my arrival, and no alarms were raised.

I arrived at the room and I was surprised. I saw the room beforehand but it gave a different atmosphere when dozens of fancy people were occupying the space.

Froggy was already taken by some nobles, and I could see how uncomfortable he felt by his face.

But he was trained to deal with nobles, so he wasn't that helpless, just overwhelmed. I'm probably in more trouble than he is since I don't know their culture, and who knows if I'll insult someone by saying something wrong.

That's why my plan was to stay as close as possible to the walls, where tables filled with food and drinks occupied the space.

It was interesting to see how they managed to design the cubic-shaped food in such a way that I would consider it art more than food.

I filled my plate with what caught my eye and ate while observing the party.

From time to time, I hear someone shouting whenever a Nobel comes through. It was interesting to see everyone's different styles and funny names.

Suddenly I hear a name that interests me.

"FROM THE STONE KINGDOM, PRINCESS ELIZABETH MENDING AND HER COURT!"

This was the first group that came from another Kingdome, and everyone looked at the door.

I was also curious to see one of the royal family besides the Sultans.

She entered with a powerful presence, blonde long hair, and a fiery red dress. She was followed by her guards in diamond armor each fully enchanted.

I'm sure they don't have the best enchantments like the Sultan's, but their presence told a message not to be taken lightly.

The team wasn't big, so I could see that someone in the group didn't have any armor, just some fancy suit.

But who was in that suit, took me by surprise.

"Bobby, what are you doing here?"