Chapter 63: Am I That Irresistible?
“This musket… what’s the situation?” Anse lightly tapped the armrest with his fingertips, his expression doubtful.
“Sir, you may not know, few people on the Faerun continent can manufacture muskets and gunpowder, the Kingdom of Amn is said to have received support from a Mechanist Organization to possess so many muskets…” Sidney patiently explained.
Firearms technology on the Faerun continent mainly originates from Lantann, as early as the 14th century of the Valley Reclamation Calendar, but due to conflicts between magic and physical laws, early muskets had extremely high failure rates, and relied on Lantann’s gunpowder, leading to persistently high costs.
In recent years, a special professional called Mechanist has gradually risen, they not only master firearms technology, but can also manufacture powerful war weapons, sought after by various forces.
Muskets seem useless, but have long range and strong power, their damage is 1d12, higher than most martial weapons, on par with great axe.
The key is that ordinary people can also use them, forming scale, the deterrence and power are both quite strong.
For those nobles and rulers, professionals are hard to control, but musketeers are completely controllable.
“Mechanist…” Anse’s gaze was deep, he knew this class.
Mechanists include alchemist, cannon master, field artificer, armorer, their inventions and magical items are used by both peace and war sides.
Their presence is not strong in the background, but reality is different, these people’s existence is likely to stir up the continental situation, ignite endless war, adding frost to the already troubled Toril.
He shook his head, thinking about these now is too far.
Besides muskets, the prices of other items on the list are not high, two wands at 200 gold coins each, ring of water walking 260 gold coins, the most valuable are two swords, Unspoken Sword 900 gold coins, magic greatsword 520 gold coins.
Sidney did not explain, he believed that Anse as a spellcaster definitely understood the reasons.
“Your appraisal seems inaccurate.” Anse looked at the brief evaluation on the list, “This bow and war blade carry weakening curse, if the user can’t withstand it, life will be damaged. This hand-and-a-half sword called Unspoken Sword has toughness and wind slash properties…”
Sidney and the old appraiser exchanged a glance, their faces somewhat unnatural.
“Sigh, it’s all because of Magic Net Instability…” Sidney generously admitted.
There are mainly three ways to appraise magical equipment: appraisal, long-term concentration wisdom or attunement, experience and knowledge, Silver Scale Bay is a small place, without appraisal master, mainly relying on appraisal or equipment with appraisal.
However, with Magic Net chaos, appraisal can’t be cast, only relying on experience, knowledge and testing, errors are large, when unsure, can only give a low price.
“I say, you record.”
“Good.” The old appraiser was eager, he didn’t necessarily fully believe, but verifying or reverse-engineering through results is much simpler than appraisal.
A few minutes later, the old appraiser re-priced the magical items.
Unspoken Sword 1250 gold coins, magic greatsword 630 gold coins, these two are very excellent equipment in the same grade, will only become more sought after.
Other things’ prices didn’t change much, because they are really quite useless.
“Total 4135 gold coins.”
“Mm.” Anse handed the list to Brat, his face calm, but in his heart felt these battles were not fought in vain.
He has no sign-in system, can’t live forever, blindly cowering will only miss countless opportunities, when risk is not high, should go for it.
Otherwise, when facing crisis or gradually aging, can only lament that legendary is getting farther from oneself.
“Are there any good quality wands, useful magical items, bring them out to see.” Anse considered himself not a miser, earning money is for spending.
“Please wait a moment.” Sidney’s face immediately bloomed with a smile.
Moments later, the long counter was filled with various magical items, each with an appraisal document beside it.
Sidney stood behind the counter, smile with a bit of pride, confidence overflowing: this is the foundation of Waterdeep’s old noble.
“Sir, hearing you have an exotic warhorse, perhaps these two items you can use.” He pushed forward a pile of leather and metal glowing faintly with mana, “These were originally to be taken to Waterdeep, but the steward required me to keep them for two days temporarily.”
“Saddle? Horseshoes?” Anse said in surprise.
“This was sent by a renowned noble knight, in exchange for a set of Waterdeep property and ship tickets for the whole clan. A fine quality saddle, a uncommon quality horseshoes…” Sidney introduced endlessly.
Anse smiled, so the so-called noble foundation comes from “robbery”, Baldur’s Gate encountered disaster, many rich merchants, nobles or professionals fled to Silver Scale Bay, had to sell assets.
He stepped forward to pick up the appraisal document, but didn’t fully believe, instead using the opportunity to use dice for appraisal.
【Magical Item: Iron Cavalry Saddle】
「Type」: Curio
「Rarity」: Fine
「Mount Protection」: Attack rolls made against the mount have disadvantage.
「Stable Rider」: Your riding posture is more stable, won’t dismount involuntarily.
【Magical Item: West Wind Horseshoes】
「Type」: Curio
「Rarity」: Uncommon
These horseshoes four as a set. Attach to a horse or similar creature’s hooves with magic command, removal also requires so.
「Levitation Force Field」: During the period all four horseshoes are attached and active, the creature levitates at 4 inches（10 centimeters） above ground, and can move as normal. This allows the creature to pass through or stand on non-solid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava.
「Free Movement」: It ignores difficult terrain and leaves no tracks.
In addition, the creature can travel up to 12 hours per day, and won’t suffer exhaustion from long travel.
“It can run on water?” Anse’s eyes showed surprise.
“Exactly, with them, you can fully ride horse galloping freely on Chongsa River.” Sidney’s eyes flickered, constantly calculating in his mind.
In his view, this thing is the ultimate dream of all knights, he didn’t believe anyone could resist such temptation.
Anse took a deep breath, calming his mood: “How much?”
“Iron Cavalry Saddle is free gift, West Wind Horseshoes… 41,000 gold coins, absolute historical lowest price, normally you can only try luck at auction.” Sidney’s gaze never left Anse’s face.
Anse’s breathing stalled, didn’t respond.
Uncommon quality magical item selling for tens of thousands gold coins is no problem, the problem is he has no money.
“This thing… application is very narrow, if only on land, my horse… can’t use it.” He tried to convince himself.
“You’re being narrow-minded, what about cliffs and mountains, swamps and deserts, ice fields and lava, even if you don’t go to those places, jumping too high in combat easily twists ankle, moreover traceless is hard to track…” Sidney pretended not to see his idea, just kept selling.
“I have no money.” Anse waved hand to interrupt him.
“No problem.” Sidney smiled with wrinkles all over face, “Magaster Family wants to hire you as family teacher, to teach underage young masters and ladies, compensation negotiable, but absolutely generous.
During this period, you can use them unconditionally, repay slowly.”
Anse supported forehead with hand, pretending to tidy hair, mind a bit chaotic:
‘Why all use this move, am I that attractive? Just buying something, even job found for me?’
Although he is a sorcerer, digging innate magic all relies on character card, truly can’t “teach” others.
