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FLTL Ch 282. A Weak Memory?

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Ustaimo was waiting for the knight to announce what the danger was, when the young man sat back on the horse and looked back with a grin. "Hey, I see walls ahead of us. It must be Tiranat. Hope they have some good wine here!"

One of the guards sitting on the wagon bed perked up on hearing that, and began to look to the front, making Ustaimo chuckle at him. That must surely be one of Zoricus' guards, go...

FLTL Ch 281. A Dangerous Region

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A/N: For anyone who who doesn't know of these terms, a wagon is an open top vehicle, usually meant for carrying cargo and only has wooden planks on the sides to prevent the cargo toppling to the sides, while a carriage is a covered vehicle meant for transporting people, and has a canopy on the top and the sides to protect the people from the elements. It is also going to be more comfortable sitting inside a carriage si...

FLTL Ch 280. The Seed Drill

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A/N: Enjoy the extra long chapter today!

Here is an illustration of what the seed drill might look like. Just imagine something like this, but with less iron and more wood.

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Kivamus nodded at Pinoto. "Yeah, but 110 hectar...

FLTL Ch 279. A New Contraption

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A/N: The Dukes and The Kings are 48 chapters ahead of Royal Road now!

By the way, I should have some interesting news for you guys and gals around the time we reach 50 chapters ahead. Stay tuned for it!

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"They didn't have an exact count," Feroy replied, "but there should be somewhere around twenty of their family members living there in total. Mostly women, children and the elderly, with ...

FLTL Ch 278. Neighbourhood

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From what Kivamus had been told, Darora should provide the sixth and the last crossbow by tomorrow, and after then he would be free, since all his other projects like crafting all the mould and deckle frames as well as the dozen seed drills were already completed by him. It was true that the carpenter would have to stop making crossbows after the current one anyway because a shortage of iron was preventing the blac...

FLTL Ch 277. Designing

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A/N: I have attached some images after the chapter. Make sure to take a look there when you read about an unknown concept.

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Kivamus got up from his chair and started pacing in the room while thinking about possible solutions to improve their defence further. The   crossbow which the female guards used here had been designed as a smaller version of how it used to be on medieva...

FLTL Ch 276. Labour Force

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"Oh, the refugees are more than happy just to have a roof over their head," the majordomo replied. "Most of them were homeless when they left Kirnos, so getting regular meals and living indoors - even if it's only in a shack - is something they aren't going to complain about."

"Good. That means now it's time for us to shift those farmers who'd been living in the jail to the damaged shacks. Make sure it's done tomorrow m...

FLTL Ch 275. Reports

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~ Kivamus ~

Kivamus had been pacing in the manor hall worriedly for the last hour, having woken up from sleep after hearing the sound of the horn. With Torhan's group of bandits having raided Tiranat much sooner than they expected, the...

FLTL Ch 274. Hide and Seek

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A/N: Hey all. There is another super long chapter today to make up for the recent break in the schedule! We will return to regular length chapters from tomorrow.

Also, the Dukes and the Kings are again 47 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad now. Enjoy!

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Tesyb quickly looked around and saw that one more bandit was already dead, while the last two were surrounded by six guards at the moment. He quickly move...

FLTL Ch 273. Raid

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A/N: Hey everyone. I am back, and more importantly, I'm glad to be back! I apologise for the break taking longer than expected, but the flu had me completely beat and it took a long while for me to recover fully and to start writing again. Anyway, I'm feeling okay now, and you all can expect regular chapters from today. Last but not least, I am so, so thankful for the good wishes from you all! I have no way to measure it, but I'm pretty sure ...

Short delay notice

Hey everyone!

Hope you all are doing okay. Just wanted to let you guys know that sadly I've come down with a serious case of flu, and just haven't been able to find the energy to write while dealing with a fever at the same time. Yesterday's chapter was already difficult to write for me. So I have reluctantly decided to take a couple of days off to rest and get better.

That means there will be no chapter today and tomorrow, so that I can use this time to recover completely. Regula...

FLTL Ch 272. Two Weeks

A/N: The Dukes and the Kings are 49 chapters ahead of Royal Road now. Enjoy!

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Hudan glanced at the surroundings for a moment, before he stopped walking. 

Kivamus came to a stop as well and waited for the muscular man to gather courage, which was a rare sight in itself.

The guard captain looked around them once again, but there was nobody nearby to hear anything, especially with the constant sound of water falling through that small gap in the dam. Eve...

FLTL Ch 271. The Reservoir

As Kivamus waited for the guard captain to bring the horses, he looked around at the ground which was muddy everywhere, now that the snow had fully melted, and was glad that there was at least some gravel put inside the manor connecting the manor house to the gates and the other buildings. Maybe he should see if the whole ground could be covered with gravel in the future. 

There were only a small number of horses present in the stable today, since most of them - along with the smal...

FLTL Ch 270. Preparations

Darora had been busy as well, and by yesterday he had handed over two new crossbows, bringing their total number to six. That meant now they had enough of them to keep a crossbow on each of the three watchtowers, while also having three extra ones for the watchtowers which hadn't been built yet. Now that all the seed drills had already been built, Darora had been ordered to keep working to make more crossbows, although the carpenter had told them that he was running out of parts, and would pr...

FLTL Ch 269. A Bad Feeling

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He walked down a flight of stairs and kept moving through the corridors until he reached the meeting hall of the count. Noticing him, the guard immediately opened the door, and he entered inside. 

"Oh, Ustaimo! Come on in," Count Ebirtas gestured towards one of the chairs next to the table. 

At the moment only the knight commander was sitting next to him, with the rest of the chairs empty for now. Ustaimo thanked the God...

FLTL Ch 268. Scheming

Levalas wished there was a way for him to escape this pitiful life, having had more than enough of doing the dirty work of the gluttonous baron. That was why he had even dared to take an assassination mission on the new baron of Tiranat before the winter, not that he had any idea at the time that Baron Kivamus was actually a Ralokaar, a son of the Duke. But despite failing in it, he had still continued to serve Zoricus after that - even with his heart saying that if he continued on this path ...

FLTL Ch 267. Hope

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When the crowd had calmed down a little, the baron started something else which surprised him once again. The older man next to him offered a small piece of metal tied around a thin rope to the baron, who called out the names of the guards who had gone on the trip to Kirnos. Joric couldn't understand any reason for this, so he tapped the shoulder of a guard standing nearby.

"What's th...

FLTL Ch 266. Nothing Makes Sense Here!

However, the moment their two wagons had turned around the last bend on the forest road, Joric had seen a vast empty space in front of them ending at some towering walls in the distance. For a while, he had even thought that the guards had lied to him that they were from Tiranat and had somehow brought him to some other unknown place - not that there was even any other major settlement in this region of Southern Reslinor, but it was hard to believe that this was the poor village which suppose...

FLTL Ch 265. Defense - Part II

Kivamus began, "I agree that the guards acted bravely against the bandits and we'll give them the medals later today. Still, crossbows are usually better when used as a defensive weapon, like when the person using them is standing in the safety of a watch tower, so they can keep shooting at the attackers without risking themselves. But they can also be used effectively in offensive situations, although that will only happen when we have enough of them to shoot the bolts in bulk."

He gla...

FLTL Ch 264. Defense - Part I

Feroy snorted. "Yeah, he might be. Anyway, assuming Torhan had 25 men to fight for him until now, then even if he wasn't related to the baron of Kirnos, the baron simply wouldn't have enough men to get rid of this bandit group. From what I estimated after visiting Kirnos - which is maybe one and a half times the size of Tiranat - their baron must have around thirty to forty guards working under him at most. That is simply not a big enough number to wipe out the bandits in their own home witho...

FLTL Ch 263. Homecoming

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It was the afternoon of the next day when a servant came running with the news that the caravan had returned from Kirnos. Immediately, Kivamus and Hudan exited the manor hall to visit the new arrivals, with Duvas following behind them.

Reaching close towards the gate, he saw that the pair of wagons had just been brought to an empty shed where a group of servants had already started loading up the smoked fish barrels on wheel...

FLTL Ch 262. Planning

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The guard grimaced aftering hearing about the cut-off arm. "Feroy had already done cauterization of the wound soon after moving away from the ambush site, but the man was still out of it when I last saw him."

Kivamus didn't have to see that amputated guard to imagine how much pain he must be in. It wouldn't be just physical pain either . "Duvas, after we have heard everything he...

FLTL Ch 261. Report

As the guards brought the horses to their group, Hudan repeated the question to them. 

"Oh, these people are coal miners," the guard replied. "I've heard from a friend in the village that these days they often come here during their lunch hour to see the dam."

"Hmm... I didn't know that," Kivamus muttered.

"They've always been coming here for lunch, even in the past," Duvas reminded him. "I did tell you that they used to come to fish here, even though the previous baron...

FLTL Ch 260. Fish Ladder

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"You see this gap?" Kivamus explained while he gestured at it. "The foreman Yeden and I had decided to keep this small gap of around a foot of width in the dam structure right from the beginning, so that it could be patched up again and again as the water level keeps rising. This way, the flow of the stream wouldn't be stopped completely, otherwise it'd be disastrous for any fis...

FLTL Ch 259. A Visit

"Pydaso is only a small-time merchant," Duvas explained. "That's the reason he risked coming to our village even when the threat was so high. Unlike the bigger merchants, who could afford to wait for the winter without coming to our village, Pydaso must have thought it was a good opportunity to make some money by braving the dangerous road, since he would be able to do a lot of business here which he wouldn't be able to do in normal conditions. Still, he simply couldn't afford to hire enough ...

FLTL Ch 258. Worry

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Joric explained, "Some of the bandits were still doubtful of attacking you when they saw that there were double the number of guards they had expected - rather than only two guards along with a merchant and a woman - as told to them by an informer in Kirnos, but Nokozal forced them to attack. I'm just glad you killed those bastards!" 

"How many men did the bandits have?" Feroy asked. "We counted seven bodies."

"Then you must have...

FLTL Ch 257. Aftermath

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It didn't take too long to make sure that the basic treatment of others was done as well. Once all the cuts had been bandaged, Feroy stood up and looked around. "Did any of you see that bastard Joric during the fight? He better be dead already, or it won't end well for him..."

Hyola also looked around but didn't see him anywhere. "Maybe he ran away? He didn't seem like a bandit though,...

FLTL Ch 256. Melee

Hyola quickly bent down and snatched a piece of cloth from the wagon, and helped the guard to tie it tightly just above his stubbed arm to stop the blood flow. She glanced on the left side, and saw that Tesyb and the other two guards had already injured one of the two bandits with their advantage in numbers, although the shorter guard seemed to be moving with a limp. But there were still three guards against two bandits here, while on their right, a guard was fighting against Nokozal and the ...

FLTL Ch 255. Ambushed

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Giving a sigh of relief, he looked towards the caravan as well and noticed for the first time that the woman sitting on the leading wagon seemed to be holding something weird in her hands. It looked kind of like a small bow, but it was hard to say for sure from this distance. Hmm... It did make sense that she would have a bow with her. The merchant must have given it to her as a kind of protection, and of co...

FLTL Ch 254. Premonition

The ex-mercenary, who had been sitting on the bench next to her, immediately became alert. "What did you see?"

Hyola pointed towards the right. "I think... I think I saw someone between those trees. But I'm not really sure..."

Feroy peered into that direction for a few moments, before he suddenly gave three short whistles, which was their pre-agreed signal to prepare for a possible ambush on the road. Immediately, Hyola brought the crossbow which had been put under the seat, and s...