CHAPTER 27

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

I turn 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 by yourself only when you are 10 years old, until then you can go out with other hunters and you can 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 ever known and I have no intention to die young. If I face any danger, I will retreat and even if I m ambushed, I m resourceful enough to get out alive. You can 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 thought I would like to refute it; my lord, he is right. The boy invented something he calls smoke bomb, it creates a fog curtain seven meter ( 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 get out to the balcony and I took out a fake smoke bomb, looking down it is about 10-meter ( 33 ft ) distance, I would have no problem casting and I throw it down the balcony just when it is about the hit the ground, I cast Sambrar (fog cloud). A big cloud of white smoke spreads rapidly in 7 meter ( 20 ft ) in diameter. When lord sees this he is astonished by it, he gets inside then sits on his chair for a few minutes then he gets up from his chair and 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, turns around and says

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“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 big smoke as this one but it is much easier to make it. The small ones can make smoke curtain 3 meter 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 distil 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 would drown the place it was burned in white smoke so you need to peel it to use as firewood. It needs more work than other trees, that is why they don’t use it as firewood, but this bark becomes so useful for me when it is turned in to a fine dust, because it becomes highly flammable. If I make them orange size rather than golf ball size they might create 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 dragon of my money to buy materials enough to make 1000 of them. I spent 45 gold dragons for the sugar the rest of the materials only took 13 gold dragons and the last 2 gold dragons was used to lease a storage for 2 year and in the last 2 year I had made around 300 of them.

“ I have around 100 of them I can sell 80 of them my lord. I think 1 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 3 gold dragons, I mean for every 3 of them you get 1 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 in day time if you do not come back before sun goes down you will lose it.”

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