382 8.10 Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT??!?" asked the Sheriff in total shock as he sat in his throne as the men at arms poured the copper coins that they had carried in the sack that had a few holes in them on the floor before the former.

"I ASKED FOR GOLD AND YOU BROUGHT ME COPPER COINS INSTEAD?!?!" the Sheriff was astounded at the mountain of copper coins that were heaped on the mezzanine floor of the keep.

"This is it, Sir. This is the payment of tax from Robin, the leader of Band of Vagabonds, from the 154 adventurers for the payment of 2 months. There are more than 300k copper coins to represent 308 gold coins, sir."

"Won't it be much easier to carry around 308 gold coins instead? Why in hell damnation do you accept such payment?!?!" the Sheriff lowered his tone as he rubbed his forehead just by looking at the mountain of copper coins that were scattered around.

"We were about to reject but Robin did mention about King Richards in one side of the coin and the coronation. He said, 'coppers is still money, right?'" explained one of the men at arms.

"Yes, Sir... By the way, there are 3 Lords riding mules that came by and were staying in the 2 storeys wooden hearth, I suppose. They were wearing a fine overcoat and a green coloured paper party crown with 4 coloured gems around it. I think they are the newly appointed Baronet and Baronetess."

"WHAT?!?! BARONET AND BARONETESS?!?! How come I didn't hear about this before?" asked the Sheriff as he continually massaged his head and scratched his balding head like a monkey looking for lice.

"Yes, Sir... I heard that they are just plain commoners but they owned more than 550 pieces of land over 12 settlement. Imagine it, sir, just at the age of 10 could own so many pieces of land in between York and Leeds. They looked like commoners but their demeanour is more towards the nobles." explained one of the men at arms as he was piling up the coppers that had been scattered loose.

"Yes, Sir... I agree with what he said. I don't think it is right to collect any more taxes from them, especially when the nobles are around. They owned more than 550 pieces of land and we ourselves do not even own a piece yet after working for some years now." said another man at arms solemnly as he looked at his feet.

"Let me be the one who decides on it and not any of you. If really a Lord was staying with them, it would be a humiliation for us to collect any taxes and they are not obliged to pay any too." said the Sheriff.

"One more thing, sir. The Lords told us to call Robin as Sir Robin. Was he being knighted before by His Majesty?"

"WHAT?!?! HE WAS KNIGHTED?!?! WE GONNA BE IN DEEPSHIT!!! Did anyone check his background yet? Robin's full name and his family tree? There aren't so many Robins in England, right?"

"I'd get to it, Sir. Hope it is not or else he would be storming into this keep and hanging us by our balls through our throats." One of the men at arms said as he groped for his crotch and making sure his carrot and balls are still there after saying that.

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Meanwhile in Roguemoor.....

"*Ahem*... Could you come here, for a moment?" gestured Will.I.Am to one of the serfs that were employed as a herder for the chicken and ducks.

"What is it, my Lord? Is anything the matter?"

"Have you received the Secret Blessings already?"

"My Lord, I have not..." the serf replied by replying negatively but at the same time nodding his head and smiled through his rotten, missing teeth.

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"Alright, keep up the good work, man. I would like to see what else we could do for this settlement." Will.I.Am said casually as he and the two girls walked around the settlement and reached the gates of the nobles and the Church.

Wearing the overcoats and the green paper party crown on their heads, they breezed through the gates as the guards opened it up and let them pass through without even batting an eyelid.

Normally in these settlements, there weren't any merchant stalls but only a small marketplace where the sellers would be doing their trade for the local produce and for its 500 settlers. It was quite mediocre and the prices are comparably cheaper than the bigger towns and cities.

Will.I.Am had assigned 3 traders to 4 settlements each to assist in selling the eggs and milk to other towns and cities. They would buy and pay directly to the trio and whatever price they sell it would then be their profit.

In that way, the trio would receive a steady fixed income of 201 gold coins daily and if it runs for a straight 30 days, they would earn 2040 gold coins each.

Its a fail-proof system after paying the salary of the serfs at 2 gold coins a month.

Right now the trio was inside the Church was paying some coppers towards the alms bowl and were finding out if any of the Monks would leak any information on the recent robbery and what the next course of action from the Church.

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Meanwhile in Camp Salvation.

"Hey, lovely... Since we have a few thousand if these poor quality gems, I would like to turn these into fair and good ones. I would be back soon, OK?"

"Silly boy, off running to daydream and sleep again, is it? Go lah... Do your own thing. I'm going to find Stef and JL and have a sparring session with them. Why can't we have our own time together, huh?"

"Sorry lovely... I want to see how these perfect gems look like. Hah hah hah... We got free gems, so we might as well fuse them for our own use, right?"

"OK silly boy, don't be too long ok."

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I checked the new inventory of poor quality gems and found that we have24808 rubies, 25888 emeralds, 14428 sapphires and 15678 diamonds. I decided to make the first 500 fair gems before turning them to good ones.

I went to the Fusion Chamber and took out 4 kinds of 1250 poor quality gems and placed it aside for this fusion. It would be 5 cycles for each gem and by the time I finished the 5 cycles of fusing, I had an equal number of 4 types of 250 fair-quality gems.

I rubbed my hands together, not for the cold but for the anticipation for the fusion of good quality gems. I placed 50 of the fair quality rubies in each slot, closed the door and pulled the lever.

*DING* Fusion Success. 50 nos Good Quality Rubies Attained.

"Woohoo...!!! Finally, good quality gems, come to daddy...!!!" I made a quick calculation that if I need to make the perfect ones, I need to turn all these poor ones to become fair ones first. Right now, let me finish making the good ones first.

I repeated the process for the rest of the gems and the announcements that follow was really music to my ears.

*DING* Fusion Success. 50 nos Good Quality Emeralds Attained.

*DING* Fusion Success. 50 nos Good Quality Sapphires Attained.

*DING* Fusion Success. 50 nos Good Quality Diamonds Attained.

"Hah hah hah... I could move on to make the Perfect ones with these 50 good quality gems. Come on Fusion Chamber, don't let me down."

Since there are only 50 good quality gems, it would only be able to fuse into 10 perfect quality gems. I started off with the rubies first and repeated the process and cranked the lever. The duration was a tad longer than usual but when I heard the announcement, I can't resist shouting!

*DING* Fusion Success. 10 nos Perfect Quality Rubies Attained.

"WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER...!!!" Finally, after so many months of the toiling in using this Fusion Chamber, at last, I did it..!!! Perfect quality gems that could enhance +80 points per socket for Attack, Defense, Damage and Hit Points for Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires and Diamond.

It may be small but definitely, it is significant since our weapons and armours have so many sockets. Hah hah hah... We're in luck a d in the roll, baby!!!