CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 27

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Maester Luwin was angry and sad because of what I said, but he accepted my decision and dropped the matter. After he left the room, I looked at Rodrik and the lord; they looked very pleased and happy. I turned around and faced them.

"My lord, I think Ser Rodrik told you about the gate pass, he said he had an answer, but we came here in a hurry, so I couldn't hear them."

"I will give you permission to go alone only when you are ten. Until then, you can go out with other hunters and join Rodrik when he is going for safe patrols. You can maybe join him when he is going to suppress small bandit groups, but you can only observe, can't join the battles."

"My lord, can I speak freely."

"I allow it. "

"I can accept everything you say, my lord, but I want to hunt by myself. I don't want to go with others. I might be a child, but I'm not stupid. Everyone in this room knows I'm going to become the greatest swordsman this world knows, and I have no intention of dying young. If I face any danger, I will retreat, and even if I'm ambushed, I'm resourceful enough to get out alive. You could ask Rodrik; he witnessed it. "

He is a bit shocked by my arrogant claim, but he turns to Rodrik and looks at him with a questioning stare. Rodrik, with a heavy sigh, "Even though I would like to refute it, my lord, he is right. The boy invented something he calls a smoke bomb, and it creates a fog curtain seven meters ( 20 ft ) in diameter. If he used that, he wouldn't have any hardship running from bandits."

"I want to see this smoke bomb. I will decide after that."

We got out to the balcony, and I took out a fake smoke bomb. Looking down, it was about a 10-meter ( 33 ft ) distance. I would have no problem casting, and I throw it down the balcony when it is about to hit the ground. I cast Sambrar (fog cloud). A big cloud of white smoke spreads rapidly 7 meters ( 20 ft ) in diameter. When lord sees this, he is astonished by it. He gets inside and then sits on his chair for a few minutes. Then he gets up from his chair, slowly goes next to the fireplace, and starts playing with the burning timbers inside it. He doesn't say anything, but from his face, it is easy to understand he is deep in thought. After a few more minutes, he turns around and says

"Will you give us the production method of those things? "

"I will not, my lord, it is not easy to make these things, but I will sell you a smaller version of it. It doesn't create as much smoke as this one, but it is much easier to make. The small ones can make smoke curtains 3 meters in diameter."

Actually, it is really easy to make those things. Other than the sugar, every other material is cheap and easy to procure too, but I'm not going to waste my time making those. All you need is sugar, wax, flint stone, and snow tree bark for a real smoke bomb. I would need phosphorus, but I don't know where to acquire it. I know fertilizer has it, but I never learned how to distill it, so I needed something that could replace it, and I found it in a herbology book. A northern tree called snow tree.

It is usually not used as firewood because if you burn it while it has its bark, it will drown the place it was burned in white smoke, so you need to peel it to use it as firewood. It needs more work than other trees, which is why they don't use it as firewood, but this bark becomes so useful for me when it is turned into a fine dust because it becomes highly flammable. If I make them orange size rather than golf ball size, they might create a smoke screen close to my spell in size, but they will become too cumbersome.

Because I knew when I used it, someone was going to ask to buy it; I had used 60 gold dragons of my money to buy enough materials to make 1000 of them. I spent 45 gold dragons on the sugar. The rest of the materials only took 13 gold dragons, and the last two gold dragons were used to lease storage for two years, and in the last two years, I had made around 300 of them.

" I have around 100 of them. I can sell 80 of them, my lord. I think one gold dragon is a fair price for this marvel."

"It is too expensive. I will give you half a dragon for it."

" For my lord, I will do this: 4 smoke bomb is three gold dragons. I mean, for every 3 of them, you get one free. "

He thought about a bit, then said, "deal, bring the 80 of them, then you will get 60 gold dragons for it."

" As for the gate pass, I will give you one, but you can only use it at day time. You will lose it if you do not come back before the sun goes down."

I show a big smile and say with a happy voice, "thank you, my lord. I cannot thank you enough, my lord." I bow down to him and leave the room.