Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

The mine was a really fruitful business, it would earn him 500 Gold Coins per week, and he didn't even have to pay any tax thanks to his relationship with the Royal Family. Also, because the villagers were dwarves, they had a special status that allowed them to work without getting too much taxes either.

Before, it was the noble who owned the mine who took most of their money, but since he had abandoned it and didn't do anything to save the mine, he had lost all his shares of the mine. Adam had also been expecting that noble, Viscount Malo, to try something to get the mine back, but until now there hadn't been anything.

Well, better for that noble. If he could bear to lose a Silver guard, and couldn't even take back that mine, he was a minor noble whom Adam could crush in term of strength, be it the noble himself or his troops.

If his information as right, then the price of his equipment would definitely be below 1000 Gold, between 300 and 700 Gold, depending on who the blacksmith was. But to request equipments from such a blacksmith, he would have to prove himself, and then fetch the ingredients himself, so it would take several days, or maybe even a week.

That's why, money really wasn't much of a problem, all he had to do was to find a competent enough blacksmith, and then it would be easy.

Adam had asked around where he could find such a talented blacksmith, and he was troubled by the answers. He really, really wished they had told him Alorge Mountains, it would have made sense and it would have been easy…

But no matter who he asked, they all told him that the only forger talented enough to meet his standards was a young Orc in Buwog.

The problem was, Buwog did not really welcome Northmen. The factions of Light and Dark are said to be enemies, but they almost never fought through history, it was more about their beliefs and customs.

But Buwog and the Coldlands… even before the factions were created, the two powers were enemies. Hell, even before the creation of Buwog and Coldlands, the Orcs and Northmen had waged many wars against each other.

In the whole world, their races were among the ones that hated each other the most, probably only equaled by Light Elves and Dark Elves. But even for them, they were now part of bigger powers, Light Elves had allied themselves with Foxkin and Dark Elves with Catkin, so the conflicts between the two powers were minor.

That's why, Adam was reluctant to go to Buwog… Well, not Buwog itself, but rather Yam, it's capital. Most of the kingdoms within Buwog were mix, and so they were more welcome toward Northmen. However, in the capital, just to earn the right to enter the city he would have to prove his valor, and once inside it would be even harder to meet the famous Orc Blacksmith, Morbash.

It was actually the same in the Coldlands Empire, Baugh, who was an Orc, was able to live and work as an adventurer in Azure Sky Kingdom, despite being an Orc. However, if he wants to enter Fjora, then it will get much harder.

Unfortunately for Adam, Morbash was in Yam, so he had no choice but to enter there. At first, Adam had thought asking Baugh for help, since he is an Orc and as an SS Class he should have some authority there, but apparently he couldn't help him, he wanted to avoid the Capital as much as he could.

Adam didn't poke his nose into his matters, only telling him he could ask for help if he needed any. Baugh help would have made it easier, but he would still be able to do it, even without his help.

It's just that it would take more time and be more difficult, but it would also be a much funnier adventure. Anyway, since his brother was on the way of recovery, time wasn't one of his problems anymore, and thus he didn't worry about it too much.

Since he had learned his brother was definitely going to be saved, Adam felt such a heavy weight had been thrown off his shoulders, he was much more free now, and the world regained its lost colors. Even his parents looked so happy, more than they ever did in the past few years.

There was a happy atmosphere in their house that had long disappeared, even when they laughed before there always was this strange feeling that something wasn't right. But now, it was all gone.

Now in the game, Adam headed for the teleportation array. Once again, this would be annoying. Teleportation arrays weren't just all connected to one another, they each led to specific destinations, and the distance and numbers of destinations would depend on the array.

The biggest array in the kingdom was the royal array, which was capable of sending someone to Buwog, and it could only be activated by the king, Henry. Normally, Adam would have been able to use it, he and Henry were friends after all.

However, Henry was currently on his promotion quest to become a Legend, and so he wasn't available, meaning he had to take the more common array, which wasn't able to send him to Buwog.

Instead, he had to first go to Fjora, which he did. As he arrived in the city, the cold air of the north made him smile. Because of his class and race, the cold never felt bad, it invigorated him instead.

But now wasn't the time to enjoy the weather. The teleportation array in Fjora was definitely powerful enough to send him directly to Buwog, into Yam. Actually, this array as connected with the Capitals of every Racial Power in the world, as well as the capitals of every major power such as kingdoms within the Empire.

However, because Coldlands Empire and Buwog belonged to different factions, one needed a special pass to go from one capital to another, which he didn't have.

The Coldlands Empire was on the extreme north of the continent, and Buwog was at the extreme South. In the South East, there were Cassifon and Blackheart, with Alorge above. This meant he couldn't go to Alorge, he would either have to wall through the entire Blackheart Mountain or Cassifon, both of which were much bigger than any continent on Earth.

However, the two regions were separated by the Kloss Canal, which would allow him to go all the way down south, to the Mirage Desert, which acted as a natural defense for Buwog.

But again, this would be a long ride on a boat, and it would be quite long.

However, a little up North of Buwog, slightly to the East, there was Aldeneid, to which Adam could teleport. Aldeneid and Buwog were only separated by the Mirage Desert, so all he would have to do would be to go through this desert to reach Buwog.

This was the shortest way, but also the most dangerous. The part of the desert where he wanted to go was filled with monsters that are at least Level 70, and some go even above Level 100. If he didn't stick exactly to his road, which was hard because of the many mirages, then he would face Level 150+ monsters.

On the contrary, the part of the desert Adam would have to cross if he used Kloss Canal would be way less dangerous.

So Adam had to choose between time and safety. After a few minutes of hesitation, he closed the map Queen Skade had given him with a sigh, and paid for a trip to Eleyrius, capital of the great Aldeneid Empire.