235 Arwen’s anger I

In Agoria, he was constructing steamboats. Compared to the airships, submarines, and the undefeatable navel force they had in his time, the steamboats were primitive technology to him.

At the current moment, they had neither the resources nor the technologies to build an airship nor submarine. But for the next couple of years, the steam boats could dominate this current world.

The design of the steamboats was a simple one. With the help of the dwarves and Reghys, he showed a group of people in Everlight how to build a steam engine. The group was handpicked by Knight so they wouldn't leak the secret of making these engines. To make the engine work, the three were required, water or salt water from the ocean, life energy stone, and a special type of rune to create heat from the life energy stone without damaging the other parts.

Ken saw his granddaughter drew this rune at least a hundred times and because of that, it wasn't hard for Ken to teach Nikalas the rune. The rune would guide the heat from the energy stone to the water to create steam that would push the boat forward rather than the traditional sails that used the wind to go from one place to another.

Knight ordered only to use steam engines to create warships at this moment. He didn't trust the people of Agoria to give them steam engines because someone could steal the engine and weaponize that against them.

However with the coins, Ken gave it to the shipbuilders in Agoria, they could build at least fifty big boats to go fishing and transport goods, since they needed boats as soon as possible. They were also building cargo ships and training people from Everlight to manipulate the wind, so they could control the sails rather than depending on the natural direction of the wind blow.

Ken planned to build concrete boats and give them to the people of Agoria but at the moment, people hadn't found any use for the limestone and because of that, no one was mining limestones. He planned to go to Emir and find a limestone deposit after they root the water spirit in Emir.

"Hey, Vivian"

Knight came into the apex hall and saw Vivian was stepping out of the apex.

"Whoa"

She was startled as she didn't notice Knight entering the hall.

"General Knight, you almost gave me a heart attack"

When she first met Knight, she was shocked beyond words as before she went into a coma, a grandmaster beast was like a god-level being.

"Aren't you going to Agoria to pick your new recruits?"

both of them plunged into the chairs as Vivian shook her head.

"Not yet, let Nanbu train them the basics"

"Have you talked with Nikalas?"

"Yes"

"What did he say?"

"Surprisingly, he encouraged me to do so"

His eyes widened in surprise as she smiled

"He said it would be good for my mind to do something else other than spending all my time with him and talk about the past"

"Well, he was right, just be careful and dont try to do anything stupid in anger, you hear me?"

Knight didn't want her to go and mess with Harold because of what he did or didn't do to Nikalas.

If it wasn't for the Cold Moon Palace behind Darlene, he would let Vivian walk all over Harold and until they become powerful enough to destroy the Cold Moon Palace, they had to put up with Harold.

"I heard about everything, General Knight, I won't risk the lives of everyone here for the sake of my anger, trust me"

The smile disappeared from her face and replaced with the gloomy expressions

"Good, just be patient until we can take on that sect, and then, you can do whatever you want to Harold"

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"Joel, I don't think anyone's coming to welcome us, let's just go to the place and finish our task"

At the moment Arwen and a small group of elves were wearing magical masks standing on the border of Mairis.

They could have gone straight to the Capital of Mairis using the teleported but Joel insisted on informing the king about their visit because unlike the other kings, Enrico had a policy stating that any visitors from the other kingdoms should inform him in advance. Even though they could enter Mairis without informing King Enrico, he might take it as a sign of disrespect in case Arwen and his group were found out.

So Don didn't want to take that unnecessary risk, so he already sent a messenger informing them about their entry. 

"Look"

As Arwen finished complaining, Joel pointed at the sky and they saw Prince Rodrigo flying towards him on a giant eagle.

"What is he doing here?"

Arwen heard about his fiasco with Don and he was glad that Don kicked his ass.

"Where's your king? I was hoping to meet him again"

It was the words that came out of his mouth when he landed on the ground.

"Prince Rodrigo, we didn't expect that you would come to welcome us"

Rodrigo grinned and threw a large piece of meat at his eagle

"As I said, I was expecting King Don and since he's not here, why did you come here?"

He paused for a moment and said,

"Let me guess, you came to check out the warehouse"

Joel nodded 

"That and"

Seeing he's hesitating, Rodrigo frowned as Arwen nudged his elbow to speak out

"To visit the Red Lavender"

"bwahaha"

The moment Rodrigo heard Joel, he burst into laughter

"There's no shame in needing a hot lady or ladies after a long trip, my friend, come let me show you the way"

Rodrigo winked as he laughed.

"And you might be Captain Arwen? Am I right?"

Arwen was surprised and couldn't guess how he recognized him since he was not wearing any armor or had his bow in his hand.

"I am, Prince Rodrigo, how did you know?"

There was a hint of admiration in Rodrigo's eyes as he shook Arwen's hands.

"Probably by now, the whole empire might know your name, Yvonne made sure of that"

"Why am I not surprised?"

Arwen shook his head and smiled.

"Come on, let's talk more in the Lavender"

Before Joel could tell him what their real motive was, he jumped onto the eagle and motioned them to come aboard.

Rodrigo hoped to see they would hesitate in fear but they calmly came to the eagle and jumped on its back and surprised him. Compared to Knight, the eagle was nothing to be afraid of.

"Bufty, let's go"

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Since they were flying, Arwen could only see the aerial view of the kingdom Mairis. The kingdom seemed to have pleasant weather and it was surrounded by the sea as Mairis resembled the shape of a triangle from his point of view. Interestingly, if someone wanted to reach Mairis through the land, they had to go through the bridge that connects Mairis and Ishikara.

Because of this, enemy troops would be unable to surprise attack Mariris through the land. Arwen could see that Mairis has a huge fleet of warships that could obliterate Agoria from the sea without even their troops stepping into the kingdom.

After flying for a few more minutes, the eagle landed on a tall building's rooftop and when they landed, a couple of beautiful girls wearing revealing dresses came running towards them.

"Welcome, your royal highness, we missed you, and oh? you brought friends"

The girls grinned ear to ear as Rodrigo wrapped his hands around them

"show my friends the Vip treatment girls"

"Of course, your royal highness"

As they said, more girls came running to them out of nowhere and dragged them into the building.

And when they entered the building, their hearts skipped a beat as they saw a couple of elven girls dancing on the stage in front of a couple of noblemen.

Arwen felt anger and regret seeing them like this but soon, they wouldn't have to do this job.

After the girls made them sit on the large sofa beside Rodrigo, another set of girls came carrying a tray full of fruits and drinks. When Joel opened his mouth to speak, the girls put a slice of papaya into his mouth and prevented I'm from uttering any words.

"Prince Rodrigo, do you know the owner of this establishment?"

Since Joel was busy swallowing the fruits, Arwen asked Rodrigo

"I do Captain Arwen, why do you ask?"

Looking at Arwen's serious face,Rodrigo motioned the girls to leave the place as the girls left quickly and closed the curtains on their way out.

"We are not here to see the warehouse, Prince Rodrigo, we are here to buy these girls"