《Tales of Idiots.》13. Idiot
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In a restaurant, two men were discussing business.
"Due to the upcoming war, the King of Bronach had ordered that no one is to leave or enter Bronach, this might lose us a source of income." Said one of the men as he ate a forkful of meat.
"We never did much business there anyway, John." Said the other man.
John nods as he enjoys his meal. "Good point there, Micheal. But we made a lot of profits due to how dumb the nobles there are so, we could sell things that were useless and didn't even work most of the time HA!"
The two men laugh. John then notices that everything around was vibrating. Soon, Micheal notices this as well.
"DDDIIIEEE!"
The two men look the windows and saw an earth drake running through the hill as it was being chased by a man wielding a war hammer yelling, "DIE!" while being chased by a skinny man.
How did this happen? When we'll have to rewind time.
*A Few Hours Before*
Sitting in the inn, on the couch and sofas are the Bronze Party drinking coffees.
"We need armor. The best armor there is." Lupin said as he tinkers with Chad.
"That is true." Drake as he rest his chin on his hand. "The best kind of armor are usually made from dragon's scales, and adamantites."
"But how the hell are we gonna get any of those? We're most likely to get our burned and eaten by a dragon and we have the chance of finding adamantites to the chance that Bronach would be a shining utopia overnight, which is unlikely." Lester points out as he set his cup of coffee down.
"That is true...." Lupin said. He then stands up and walks out of the inn. When he closed the door, Lester and Drake look at each other.
"What the hell is he doing?" Lester ask.
"Don't know," Drake said he take a sip of his coffee.
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"Hey, does drake make good armor?" Basil said as he watches the TV.
"Which one? Drake the person or drake the monster?" Drake said.
"Drake the monster."
Drake then goes in thought. "Well, drake are known for their hard scales especially—" Drake wasn't able to finish his sentence when Basil grab his war hammer and ran out of the door.
Lester looks over the sofa and looks at the door. He sighs and got up. "I'll keep an eye on the idiot." He said before walking out of the inn.
Drake just shrugs. Brick walks out of the kitchen, wiping his hands with a wet towel. "You want something to eat?" He asks Drake.
"Something to drink and a milkshake would do," Drake replied.
Brick nod and went back to the kitchen.
Drake's attention was then caught by the TV.
"The guardsmen have warned everyone to not get anywhere near Flat Plain because of sighting of an earth drake being spotted there." The news anchor report.
"Ah."
Cyan enters the inn, cheerful, and was able to open his mouth but stop when he noticed that Lupin, Basil, and Lester were nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, where are the other?"
*With Basil and Lester*
Basil walks through Rverfarm's gate. The guardsmen paid him no attention as he walks by. He marches forward in a straight line. Why? Because he doesn't know where the drake was.
"ROAR!"
Hearing the roar, Basil turn to the direction of the noise and ran toward there.
Lester walk through the gate as well and saw Basil running toward the roar and chase after him, yelling for him to stop.
*With Lupin*
"Hey old man!"
A wrench was thrown at Lupin, but he dodges it. Lupin turn to the forge and was about to open his mouth.
*BAM*
Another wrench had slam itself into Lupin's face. Lupin clutches his face in pain.
Grimnarl walks out of his forge grumbling. "What do ya want?" He said.
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Lupin rubs his face. "I need armors," Lupin said.
Grimnarl raises his eyebrows. "Ya need armors? I thought ya are already wearing armors?" Grimnarl ask.
"I need better armors."
"I see I see I see," Grimnarl said. "What kind of armor do ya want? Leather, steels, or magic metals?"
"Which of them offer the best defense?" Lupin asks.
"Magic metals since ya can enchant very easily and most of them are tougher and harder than any other materials except for certain monster skins or scales, like earth drake," Grimnarl replied.
"Magic metal then," Lupin said. "How much does it cost?" He then asks.
"How many do ya want to be made?"
"Four."
"Then 80 gold coins."
"Eh? That much!?" Lupin said in shock.
"It's magic metals we're talking about. They're expensive as hell to buy and are rare as fuck ya know!" Grimnarl said. "And it's non-negotiated." He adds.
Lupin sigh and pull out his wallet. "This is gonna put a dent in my wallet. Good thing for all of those water crabs and the fact the Flying Phoenixs were willing to share the reward for the Royal Crabs." He mutter.
As Lupin was able to hand over the coins to Grimnarl, they were interrupted by the TV in Grimnarl's shop.
"Breaking news! Someone has been spotted chasing after the earth drake that had been spotted in Flat Plain. The guardsmen currently have no statement on this." The news anchor said. The TV then shows a picture of Basil.
"Oh fuck." Lupin said.
*Earth Drake*
The earth drake knows it was a powerful being. It could destroy towns and cities built by those puny humans. But that thing...It scares it. When he first saw that thing it thought it was one of those puny humans but then it smells it.
The scent of the giant's blood. It was faint but it could smell it. Fear overwhelms it and things only become worse when that thing charges at it and it ran.
It saw the might of the giants. If it was a mighty dragon then it might be able to kill them but since it was a drake, the giants would kill it or even worse, turn it into a lowly mount. It wasn't gonna let that thing kill or turn it into a mount.
"DDDIIIEEE!" The thing yells.
The drake ran, ignoring that it was getting tired. Then, its trips on a boulder during its mad rush. It fell and look at the impending doom that was charging at it.
It tries to roar but couldn't open its mouth. It could only watch and then it felt its vision go dark and it then it went limp.
"DDDIIIEEeeee?" Basil stops his charge and looks confused. He nudges the drake with his war hammer but it didn't got back up.
Lester ran to Basil's side, panting. "*Pant* *Pant* Hey Basil, what the *Pant* are you doing?" He asks, still panting.
"I wanted the drake's scale since Drake said that their scales could make good armors," Basil replied. "But then the drake trip and went limp but it didn't get up.
"You fucking idiot," Lester said. He then looks at the limp drake. He pokes the drake with his dagger and checks if it was breathing. It wasn't which means it was dead. He then turns to look at Basil. "You killed this thing." He asks.
"No, it fell and didn't get back up."
"Might as well call the other to help cut this giant lizard to pieces to haul back."
"I also ran through some guardsmen and they were yelling at me to stop."
".....Fuck you, Basil."
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