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FLTL Ch 106. Missed Opportunity

"It's already been snowing heavily on that road for the past few days, you know?" Feroy replied. "Even then we should have returned back on time but yesterday morning, a wagon wheel became loose after a big jolt from a pothole on the road, and nearly came out from the wagon. Usually it wouldn't have happened, but we had overloaded the wagons for this last journey to carry as much grain and other things as we could."

The ex-mercenary added, "However, even with an overloaded wagon,...

FLTL Ch 105. Another Machine

A/N: I have made some edits to the second part of the previous chapter to describe this scene better. You can read it again if you want.

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"As you wish, milord," the servant replied. He dubiously positioned himself between the handles, and using all his might, he tried to lift the handles up. It seemed a little difficult at first, but as the wheelbarrow lifted further upwards, all of a sudden the servant lost his balance as the handles moved up too fast. He had...

FLTL Ch 104. New Target

Thinking about how to tell it in a way so that the bandits would leave the village alone, Calubo said, "Of course we had that many guards in the manor! There is no chance that the baron's manor would be breached in any raid. They have tall palisade walls surrounding the manor after all!"

Nokozal looked at him carefully and said, "You were not lying about the number of guards in the village, so I will believe you for now. Maybe you are finally learning your place as a slave under ...

FLTL Ch 103. The Moment Of Truth

Immediately, Nokozal and three other bandits who were sitting in a crouch near the bluff got ready with their swords out, while the archers nocked an arrow on their bows at the top of the bluff.

Calubo had seen that his cousin Nurobo was also in the caravan when they were going north, so what if the bandits really did attack them? A single lucky arrow might mean that he would be without the last of his family in this world. Shaking his head, he tried to reassure himself that ever...

FLTL Ch 102. Anticipation

~ Kivamus ~

~ Baron's Manor, Tiranat ~

Kivamus was standing outside the manor house looking at the clouds covering the sky, along with the biting wind which was now blowing continuously in Tiranat. Until yesterday, it had still been sunny, although the clouds had started to cover the sun again. But overnight, the clouds had completely covered the sky, and now the weather had again gotten bitterly cold. He had no way to find out what temperature it was right now, but ...

FLTL Ch 101. Scheming

None of the other bandits said anything in reply to that question.

The bandit chief stroked his long beard for a moment. "Actually, never mind that. It's a fact that a poor village like Tiranat couldn't possibly have that much money - not after that raid by Torhan's group - which means they must have been the village guards in the caravan, however many there are. And that means it was the village which sent the whole caravan this time, and it's not a merchant who is visiting ther...

FLTL Ch 100. Toloraberries

As Helga took a seat on one of the empty chairs, Kivamus said, "That's really good to hear. What did you find?"

"It's nothing too much, but I saw a few Bilona trees in the west of the village, maybe around five hundred yards away from the last houses," she replied. "They only give fruit in the summer, but it is good to know that there are such trees nearby."

"I've already heard about them from Taniok, but they won't be helpful to us right now," Kivamus said. He had been hop...

FLTL Ch 99. Wheelbarrows

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Once he was done with the drawing, Kivamus pointed at the relevant parts of the drawing, and explained, "It will only have a single wooden wheel at the front, and a ...

FLTL Ch 98. Roofing

The next morning Kivamus and others were standing near the gates of the manor, watching the caravan get ready for departure. The weather had cleared up further, and while the sun had just risen at this time, there were only sparse clouds in the sky, despite the chill in the air. The wagons had already been loaded with coal to the brim, before being covered with an oilcloth.

 Earlier in the morning, after looking at the clear weather, Duvas had said that the goddess had smile...

FLTL Ch 97. Soaps

"I'm not sure..." Pydaso muttered. "I have heard that slate is a type of rock, but I don't know how you could write on a cliff... Not that I would be able to transport even small chunks of that rock here. I am not sure where to find chalk either... But can you really use them to write?"

"I don't think it would be very difficult," Gorsazo said. "Isn't chalk a type of limestone? Like the white cliffs found in some places?"

Kivamus nodded. "Indeed." Now that Gorsazo knew more ...

FLTL Ch 96. Shopping List

~ Kivamus ~

~ Baron's Manor, Tiranat ~

Around noon, Kivamus was sitting in the manor hall with others, as they waited for Pydaso to arrive. While the weather was still very cold, the sun had shined for nearly an hour before the clouds had covered it again. Until the morning, it had still seemed like it would start snowing any time, but somehow the weather had started clearing a little by now.

"If the weather stays like this, couldn't we try to send the caravan again?"...

FLTL Ch 95. Hyola

~ Hyola ~

~ The Limestone Quarry, somewhere southwest of Cinran ~

It was the morning of another cold day, and she and the other stonecutters were going to start today's work. They were walking towards the pit of the quarry with buckets in their hands, to remove the small amount of water that still remained there. One of them was riding in a wagon with two nodors pulling it, so that they could put the buckets filled with water on that wagon before he took the buckets to thro...

FLTL Ch 94. Maisy And Elsie

~ Maisy ~

Ten-year-old Maisy was smiling today, as she waited outside the baron's manor along with many other villagers for the caravan to come back. Someone had seen the caravan coming from the north, and before long the news had spread throughout the village like wildfire. So she and Elsie had been waiting in the empty area here for the caravan to pass in front of them, along with Mr Kigeir.

She had heard from others that the villagers had also gathered here when the caravan had...

FLTL Ch 93. Return of the Caravan

~ Tesyb ~

~ On the road to Tiranat ~

They had been outside the village for a week now and finally they were approaching the village again. He was thankful to the goddess that the trip had gone without any trouble. This time they had been lucky that no wild beast had attacked them on the way. There was a small scare a few days ago after they had camped in the same clearing when going to Cinran, when one of the guards on watch duty had woken up everyone with a claim that he s...

FLTL Ch 92. Bilona Nuts

Hudan gave a shrug. "I'm not completely sure. But now that I notice it, it does look a little different to me as well."

"Oh, that's a Bilona tree," Taniok answered as he reached there. "It is one of the few fruit trees found near the village. You surely must have eaten bilona nuts in the past, my Lord?"

"So that's what it was!" Hudan exclaimed. "I knew it looked a little familiar."

Searching his memories for it, Kivamus realized that he, or at least the original Kivamus had ...

FLTL Ch 91. Status

~ Kivamus ~

~ Baron's Manor, Tiranat ~

In the morning, Kivamus was sitting with others in the manor hall near the fireplace, after they were done with their breakfast. It was a simple meal of fresh bread, a couple of eggs along with some cheese that Madam Nerida had made a while ago from the small amount of milk that they got from the two cows remaining in the manor, and yet it felt quite fulfilling in the current times.

"That was nice..." Hudan breathed. "Than...

FLTL Ch 90. Surveillance

~ Calubo ~

~ Somewhere on the road between Tiranat and Cinran ~

They had been waiting on that bluff for more than a day by now but there was still no sight of any caravan coming or going on the road. The weather kept getting colder but they couldn't even light a fire here since it could be seen from far away in the darkness. He cursed Nokozal for kidnapping him, he cursed the weather for being so cold, and he cursed the runt and the fatso for keeping him here. He cur...

FLTL Ch 89. Confession

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Kivamus knew that at this point he couldn't just bluff his way anymore. At least there was the consolation that Gorsazo had come to him to talk about this privately, instead of directly gathering the villagers to burn him at a stake or something.

He sighed, and making sure that the doors were still closed, he took a deep breath and continued, "I knew that yo...

FLTL Ch 88. Difficult Questions

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~ Kivamus ~

~ Baron's Manor, Tiranat ~

The next day, Kivamus was sitting in the manor hall with his arms splayed over the armchair.

The caravan must be in Cinran today, he realized. Hopefully they would be able to buy everything they wanted, without any problems on the way.

Today was also the first day he had joined Hudan and other guards in doing some running around the walls of the manor...

FLTL Ch 87. Scouting

Duvas shrugged. "We could certainly keep the fish in those buckets themselves, but it would be a very small amount anyway, and a single wagon of fish transported in those buckets would probably not be enough to feed even the whole manor for a day."

Immediately, Kivamus thought of an interesting idea. "That was till now, but we are digging a new pond in the south of the village, aren't we? I know we only thought of digging a small pond, but what if we expanded it further? Wouldn't...

FLTL Ch 86. A Fishy Trade

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"Everything is fine with him and he is providing us with tools every day," Duvas answered. "However not everyone is suited for blacksmithing work. By now Cedoron has found two men who are able to do the work properly, and he has now taken them as regular apprentices. But I did have to send a few new workers to him a few days ago, since some of the earlier workers were clumsy, and kept getting injured."

"It's true enough ...

FLTL Ch 85. Crossbows

"You are right," Kivamus replied. "Those arbalests are much heavier, and they are slower to reload as well when compared to a bow, which would make them undesirable weapons for most people. That means it would be very costly if a noble wants to produce them in bulk to equip his whole army with them."

He continued, "However, what I have in my mind is something much lighter than arbalests, so that even women can use it. While it would still take longer to load than a bow, the cross...

FLTL - Table of Contents

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FLTL Ch 84. Better Than A Bow

"That's true enough," Kivamus said. He looked at the guard captain. "What do you think about that? Once we have the village walls ready, we can afford to keep only a small number of guards in the manor, while the rest of our current guards can be put on duty at the village gates and the watchtowers. Since most of the off-duty guards also stay in the manor in their free time, we would still have enough guards in the manor in case of an emergency."

Hudan thought about it for a whil...

FLTL Ch 83. Unconventional Ideas - Part II

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Duvas, who had always seemed quite religious to him, looked even more angry now and started to retort back, but Kivamus raised his voice and spoke over him, "Well, what do you propose then? Should we keep those watchtowers empty? Or should we not make those watchtowers at all? Because as you very well know, we need all the able-bodied men to keep working as laborers t...

FLTL Ch 82. Unconventional Ideas - Part I

Hudan gave it a minute of thought before he replied. "I'd say we need one watchtower at each corner for sure. Although, in the future, maybe we can add another watchtower in the middle of each of the longer sides, and if we are able to muster enough guards to man all the watchtower properly, we could even make a watchtower at every hundred meters, but we can't possibly man that many watchtowers at this point."

"So we need a minimum of four watchtowers then," Kivamus said. "Let's ...

FLTL Ch 81. Village Walls

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"I'm not certain, since they were killed by the baron's guards," Levalas replied, "but they were very likely mercenaries sent by someone."

Zoricus frowned. "Are you sure they weren't just local bandits? Those forests are full of them these days."

"I don't know who sent them, but they weren't just bandits." Levalas added, "I saw the leader of those mercenaries pointing directly at Baron...

FLTL Ch 80. Baron Zoricus

The ease with which Zoricus called him Levalo, and the way he spoke his name like it was simply the truth, enraged him thoroughly. If the other stablehands called him that, Levalas tolerated it, because other than occasionally making some fun of his name, they didn't hold any malice towards him, not when they all had been working together in those stables for nearly two decades. But when a noble like Zoricus said it, he felt that it was said only to show him his place. That he wasn't a noble ...

FLTL Ch 79. Levalas

"What about using the wood from the damaged houses of the villagers?" Hudan suggested. "Since many such villagers are living temporarily with others now, we have many such damaged wooden houses in the village which are empty. We cannot grow any mushrooms there itself since the villagers still live nearby, but we can still use the wood from those houses to build a temporary shed easily enough - maybe somewhere outside the walls of the manor, but still close enough that madam Helga doesn't have...

FLTL Ch 78. Food Sources

In the evening, Kivamus and others were sitting in the manor hall near the fireplace, when a guard entered.

He said, "Milord, the blacksmith has provided us what he forged today - eleven braziers and two iron sheets to wrap around the axles of the log movers. Taniok told us that he would attach the sheets on the axles tomorrow using a few iron nails."

"That's good to hear," Kivamus replied. "Eleven braziers is more than what I was expecting." He looked at the majordomo. "Gi...