Chapter 213 The paddler blueprint
Chapter 213 The paddler blueprint
Four days later, the merchant fleet set sails leaving the docks.
Theo and one hundred members of the First Army went along with the ship, setting out to King’s City.
During these days, Roland and Margaret had come to an agreement, Theo could come to her shop to request any amount of gold royals. The amount would then be deducted from the price of the steam engines, in addition, Roland also needed to pay an additional one percent of interest.
This time the amount of saltpeter and ore was two times that of the previous transport, but with the deposit for the transformation of steamboats, Roland had still received more than 2200 gold royals. Which was a monthly sales income Ronald almost wouldn’t even dare to dream of during the Months of Demons – even by selling one month of ore, he would also only have gotten an income of three hundred gold royals.
When the caravan had left, Maggie’s day for temporally leaving Border Town had also arrived.
In accordance with the agreement made with Ashes, she would travel to the islands in the Fjords, bringing them news about the West.
Roland wrote an especially long letter which Maggie had to take along. In addition to expressing his wish for cooperation, he hoped that the 5th Princess could dispatch some auxiliary witches who could come and help him. In the letter, he did not address himself as her brother but as the Lord of Border Town and now after killing Duke Ryan, Lord of the Western Territory. Although the possibility that the other side would go along with his requests was minuscule, he still wanted to give it a try – anyway, spending some time writing a few more words wasn’t an effort at all.
The farewell took place in the castle’s backyard, all of the witches were present.
Nightingale gave her a small bag of dried fish; while Lightning gave her a package of ground pepper.
The other witches were also reluctant to part, they all stepped forward to caress and stroke her feathers, and hugged her goodbye – acting the same as if it was time for a battle and they could be parted forever.
"Rest assured, goo," Maggie said, raising her head. "I’ll be back soon, goo!"
"What if Tilly does not allow you to come back?" Lightning asked worriedly.
"Goo…" The pigeon shrank her neck and pondered over it for a while, then shook her feathers. "In that case, I’ll just sneak back, goo!"
"Then we have come to an agreement," the little girl promised earnestly,
"If you come back, I’ll personally catch a bunch of birds and roast them for you to eat. There is also the honeycomb we discovered last time; I will wait for you to come back so that we can pull it out together."
"Goo!" She nodded again and again, "has reached an agreement goo!"
What good words could I say? Roland standing at the side was also overtaken with emotion. It has only been a month, but Maggie has already become one of us. Well done, Lighting!
"Well, Good-bye everyone goo!" Maggie flapped her big wings, after running a few steps she slowly rose up, circled them two times then gradually disappeared into southeastern horizon.
"She will reach the island smoothly." When Roland saw the small point slowly disappear, he couldn’t help but worry about her.
"Yes, there won’t be any problems," Lightning agreed without hesitation, then crooked her head, "there shouldn’t be… right?"
After sending Maggie away, Roland quickly went back inside, busying himself with the daily work.