Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 12 Ice River City

The caravan traveled all night, and arrived at a majestic city just after dawn on the third morning.

Glacier City is a huge city with 10,000+ residents. There is a big river near Glacier City. Every winter, this river will be covered with thick ice, so it is named Glacier, and the city near the glacier is named Glacier. city.

Because there is a big river that can transport goods by water, the economic situation of Ice River City is much better than that of Ice Stone City.

When the river is not frozen, Glacier City is the transportation hub for the entire northern part of Nord. Hundreds of thousands of merchant ships will stop here and transfer their goods to other cities.

Among the nine provinces of the Nord Kingdom, the center of the Snowwind Province is Glacier City, where the Garfield family that rules the Snowwind Province lives.

This winter Baron and Rhodes chose to spend the winter in Icestone City instead of Ice River City, mainly because the prices in Ice River City were too high.

Ice River City has a lot of business and trade, and the income of ordinary people is higher, resulting in much higher prices than Ice Rock City.

At the end of autumn, after a period of ideological struggle, in the end, for the sake of gold coins, Baron took Rhodes to live in Ice Stone City instead of the more lively Ice River City.

This is also Rhodes' first visit to Glacier City.

Arriving at the gate of Glacier City, Rhodes was shocked by the sight in front of him. The 20-meter-high city wall was all made of big black stones cut into cubes.

He didn't expect cities in this world to be of such a scale. Standing under a city wall more than 20 meters high, it was hard for him to believe that such a majestic city could be built with such backward conditions without the development of industry.

"It's spectacular. There are not many cities like this in Nord, but this city is the only one built entirely by Nords." Baron walked to Rhodes and said.

"Then who built other huge cities like this?" Rhodes asked curiously.

"I only know one thing. For example, the legend of the city of Dragon Fire in Nord was built by ancient elves and Nords in ancient times. It was a dark age, and dragons ruled most of the land in the north. They enslave the Nords and Elf of the land and demand that they build magnificent palaces and castles."

"Then where are those giant dragons now?" Rhodes asked again, this piece of history that he had never heard of before aroused his interest.

"Later, a hero appeared in the Nords who killed the leader of the dragon and led the Nords to overthrow the rule of the dragon. That hero was the founding emperor of the Nord Kingdom, and his descendants are now the Nord Kingdom. The royal family, I don’t need to continue talking about it.” Baron explained.

Rhodes probably knew about the subsequent history, but he did not expect the royal family of the Nord Kingdom to have such an origin.

"Didn't that hero leave his name in history?" Weber suddenly asked with relish.

"You all know his name, he is the Holy Spirit August." Hammer added.

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After arriving in Ice River City, the caravan will sell goods in Ice River City and also buy goods and transport them to other cities for sale.

Rhodes was worried that waiting for them would take a lot of time, preventing Baron from lifting the curse in time.

However, since the caravan will still be on the same road with them, Weber and Baron finally decided to rest in the city for a few days and wait for the caravan to deal with the matter before continuing to act together with the caravan.

Just a few days off can allow Hammer to recuperate and Barron to collect wine.

Rhodes was walking alone on the streets of Glacier City. He wanted to find a blacksmith's or something to repair his battered armor. If possible, he wanted to buy a new set directly.

The iron armor made of rusted iron pieces on his body still made a lot of contributions. Without it, Rhodes felt that he might not have the opportunity to stand here.

Rhodes stopped in front of a shop with a signboard with hammers and swords on it. According to the memory of the original owner, those with hammers on the signboards were usually blacksmith shops, and those with wine glasses were taverns.

This blacksmith's shop looks more dignified than the nearby blacksmith's shops, so it should be a reliable shop.

Rhodes pushed open the door of the blacksmith's shop, and a small yard appeared in front of Rhodes. Just entering the door, Rhodes felt the warmth outdoors in winter for the first time.

There are several burning furnaces in the yard, and the sound of beating and beating is continuous.

Just facing Rhodes was a strong middle-aged man, with his upper body naked and holding a forging hammer, he was beating a burning red sword blank.

When he saw Rhodes coming in, he just looked up, then lowered his head and continued his actions.

At this time, a man who looked very shrewd came over. He was obviously not a Nord, and both men and women had fair skin.

And this man has dark skin and hair similar to dreadlocks, and is only 1.6 meters tall, almost [-] centimeters shorter than the average height of Nord men.

Rhodes has seen a lot of Nords recently, and now he is not used to seeing people with such looks, and it feels like his style of painting is different from his own.

"Excuse me, what do you need? We have the best equipment from Nord here." The man said with a smile.

Rhodes looked around. There are many shelves in the yard, and the shelves display the current Nord mainstream weapons and armor.

"How do you sell the iron breastplate here?" Rhodes asked.

Ordinary iron armor is relatively cheap on the mainland, but steel armor is much more expensive, and the steel armor of ordinary knights on the mainland has to be passed down from generation to generation.

As for magic equipment forged from special metals, ordinary minor nobles don't have any. If there is a sale of magic equipment on the market, they will soon be bought by powerful nobles to strengthen the power of the family.

Rhodes only has dozens of silver coins on him, and he doesn't know if he can afford a whole set of iron armor.

However, the quality of iron armor is far inferior to that of steel. Just like Rhodes before, ordinary iron armor cannot stop ordinary warriors from striking a sword, while some well-crafted steel armor can block the blow of a giant axe. The attack of such heavy weapons without damage.

"Even if it's made of iron, we have many types here, including the most popular chain mail in Nord, and the most traditional plate armor in the Roman Empire." The man said.

Because the chain mail is light in weight, its defense ability is good, and its price is relatively cheap, it is very popular in Nord, so it is loved by Nord adventurers.

The dark man said that the most traditional plate armor of the Roman Empire is a bit like the Milanese armor in the world before time travel.

Rhodes' previous armor was the oldest iron plate armor, which consisted of pieces of iron plates connected with steel wires, which could only defend the important parts of the body, and the joints were basically not protected.

"How do you sell the chain mail?" Rhodes asked.

"This is the latest style of chain mail we just made yesterday." The dark man brought Rhodes to a chain mail, "It was made by our master blacksmith, Mr. Robert, and you are the first Once you come to our store, I can give you a discount, the original price is 890 gold coins, as long as you give us [-] gold coins, you can own it."

Rhode's heart sank when he heard the price, and he continued to ask: "Is there anything else, a little cheaper, and the style doesn't need to be so new."

"So how about this one? This is the scale armor made by the famous blacksmith Ryan last year. Although it is not as good as the previous one, it is still very good. Its defense is close to that of steel chain mail. I can also give you a discount. You only need to spend three hundred gold coins to buy it." The dark man was trying his best to sell another piece of armor to Rhodes.

"I mean is there any cheaper ones, such as only a dozen silver coins?" Rhodes asked with a blushing face.

Daniel just paid Rhodes ten silver coins as a reward for this journey, plus the previous savings, he has a total of more than 20 silver coins, but thinking that there must be expenses in the future, he decided to spend most of it. That is, a dozen silver coins to buy armor.

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Rhodes was kicked out after saying that, and he was warned not to make trouble in the future, or he would be beaten up.

After being kicked out, he started wandering the streets again. He decided to find a smaller blacksmith shop, the price should be cheaper...

(End of this chapter)