318 7.46 In Search Of A Town Portal

"A portal eh...How comes it is not stated here in the Maps...oh there it is...how could I overlook it. It looked like a door here. Come take a look JL, is this the one you mentioned smack here in the big city?"

I handed the map of our current location to the group and everyone peered at it and Jean Lethal conformed it was a portal. We were right in the middle of cities around is such as Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster, Scunthorpe, York and Harrogate.

"Sir...Leeds is the nearest to us and it seems to be in bold and that means its the bigger cities than the rest of the ones here. These towns which are around us seemed to be not in bold but also serves as a town as well."

"Sir, I had been to Scunthorpe before and it was a very big town with its own Mayor and there are several marketplaces and trading districts there as well. The city was quite enormous too. I had seen quite a lot kf other adventurers too and they set up their own trade stalls in the common marketplace as well."

"Sir, use this fishing line to find out the distance and we can calculate using this map measurement guideline here." Will.I.Am handed me a piece of fishing line as long as a foot long and I used it to Mark our current location against the towns.

"Hmm, Leeds seems to be about 23 km from us, Wakefield is 20km, Barnsley is 27km, Doncaster is 29km, Scunthorpe is 54km, York is 34 km, Sheffield is 46 km and Harrogate is 40 km. You're damn right boss, we are smack in the centre of these cities and I could even purchase their home and away soccer jerseys when we are at that town."

"It means to say we need to go to Wakefield to enter a portal at their Inn to make a journey out to the other bigger cities, am I right, JL?" Matilda asked as a 20km trip would almost take a 4hr trip on normal walking speed and slightly over an hour on Cruising Along.

"It sure is, Matilda. It certainly would be that way. Do you think there's a refinement place over at Wakefield? If not, means, we have to head to Leeds directly which had a higher chance of finding such refinement establishment. It wouldn't hurt to ask around in Byram." Jean Lethal was saying as the chances of such an establishment would only exist in bigger cities.

"Let's ask the people there tomorrow at Byram. Maybe they could give us some information that we need especially from the Smithy. It's late now, the balance food we just cover it with the food cover and we could warm or up and make breakfast tomorrow."

"Sir, we still have crabs and clams, would it be okay for me to prepare a seafood chowder? We could have them with muffin and scones left over here. The chops we could have them for lunch later on. I just need to smoke them for a while before I store them. It would make a good breakfast tomorrow."

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"Proceed with your plan, Will. You'd be alright if you stay back in camp here to prepare dinner for our guests later on in case we make a trip to Leeds?"

"Thank you, sir, no problem. I'd prefer to stay back and I could tend to the farm and starts weeding them. Those soil nutrients and compost made the weeds grow wild. There are some weeds that I would just leave them be. They are the wild spinach leaves."

"You had done a good job, Will, alright we three had something to discuss and you may 5ake your rest once you had settled with the dishes and the food here. It's already past 9 and you should have a good read afterwards."

"Boss, any plans for a hearth soon? How many pieces of stones or wood to make the floor?" Jean Lethal asked as he can't wait to have our own hearth here to store our equipment and a place to sleep peacefully without getting wet with dew every morning."

"We need 5 stones to make a stone slab flooring and 1 log makes 4 pieces of planks which can be made into a wooden hearth in no time. The trees spawning time is 1 minute and we would get leaves and silkworms as well."

"A plank would be 1-foot x 3 feet and if we make like the hearth before, which is 24x24, we just need 8 x 24 planks. It's a total of 192 planks from 48 trees. We can get to work on those and we would need a plan from tomorrow onwards. To gather resources first or to head for refinement later."

"Boss, we just make the hearth first, as for the refinement, we would be able to do it anytime. That place is not going anywhere."

"Matilda, a 24x24 hearth would be okay for the 4 of us this time or you want to make something bigger than this? 48 logs would be enough to create the floorings alone except for the walls and roof. Another 24 logs to make the walls and 48 to make a flat roof. That makes about 120 logs altogether."

"A 24x24 hearth would be fine, we would all be sprawling on the ground with our sleeping bags after all. Hii...Hii...Hii...And I would be chasing everyone off the hearth if I need to change my clothes or something."

"Here's 500 gold coins to make your refinements. Keep it with you first. I would still continue to make the poor quality gems before I hit 100% to produce fair quality gems. I need to make 400 poor quality gems. Such a difficult system to begin with. I wonder if those other gem crafters had easier and straight forward ones or not. Hahaha."

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The next day, after breakfast with the dwarfs, we headed to Byram and asked about refinements from the smithy.

"Good morning, my good Smithy, we would inquire if you can provide us with some advice on weapons and material refinement. Would we need some ornaments to complement the refinement?"

"Well, young adventurers, the ornaments would enhance low-level weapons and armour unlike those that you are equipped with. As for refinement, you could head to bigger cities and inquire about the prices. The prices are the same across the board."

"How about town portals then? Do they have over here?" Matilda asked in anticipation since she would be able to get her weapon enhanced at the big city soon.

"Oh, we don't have a town portal here. Not every settlement has a town portal. You may purchase a map of this town if you wish. The nearest town portal that I heard of would be in Leeds. That's the nearest and they have a refinement stall there as well."

"Oh...thank you for your information. It's very valuable and vital indeed for our journey."

"Well, in cities as such, there are a lot more variety in weapons and armour if you'd like to upgrade any of them. The smithy can afford to carry more items there. Look around, there might be a lot of offers and more things to see too."

"Thank you, my fine smithy, we would be heading back to our camp first and definitely would be heading there in the evening tonight." I thanked the smithy and we made our way out and into the market place.

"Boss, are we going there tonight, as you had spoken just now?"

"We could leave after dinner, right, ring leader. Leeds is about 2 hours on Cruising Along. We should be able to make it back by daybreak if we leave by 9 pm tonight. Furthermore, the smithy did mention there are a lot more things to see over there."

"Hmm, how was your Essense and Wisdom levels are right now?" I asked since only they could reveal how their levels to me.

"Boss, I'm only Level 3 Cheng 8 of Opening Chi and I have a total of 36 points unassigned yet and 36 points assigned.

"I'm at level 4 Cheng 6 of Revolving Chakra and I have 48 points unassigned and 72 assigned. By the way, isn't there a place where I could reassign my attributes to whichever I liked them to be?"

"Eeehhh...?!? You had told me that there is no way for us to assign the attributes and now you said we could assign them? I got a lot of plia signs besides my attributes and hasn't made any yet. You told me it's automatically assigned."

"Hii...Hii...Hii...that was before. This is now..."

"Haiyyaaaa...why do you make things so difficult...