Spellcraft by Andrew Beymer

Author:Andrew Beymer [Beymer, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-17T22:00:00+00:00

47

One Word: Potions

I watched with no small sense of satisfaction as the last bit of Horizon armor disappeared in a puff of magic. I glanced over to Trelor who was leaning against his desk and staring with the same childish glee he’d been showing since I started disenchanting this stuff.

“Sorry,” he said. “For me this is like seeing my baby take their first steps. I haven’t ever seen players do this for realsies.”

“Glad to oblige,” I said.

“Got any more?” Kris asked, also staring at the disenchanting magical light show with rapt attention.

"I think that’s it,” I said, glancing at my inventory to be sure. "That’s the last of the gear that has a spell infusion I can learn. Lots of duplicates left over though.”

“So what do we do with this giant pile of weapons?” Kris asked, looking at a pile of discards sitting against one of the walls in Trelor’s Oddments gathering dust.

“We could destroy them," Keia said. "That's all they’re good for."

"Can I melt them down if I take them to a forge?" I asked. “Melting down a bunch of their weapons while they watch sounds like a good time.”

“Also a good way to get killed,” Keia muttered.

“It’s a good idea, but I’m afraid not," Trelor said with a shake of his head. “Something that's been spell infused can't be melted down. Not without explosive results."

I frowned. I was quite familiar with the explosive results I could get from misusing this new crafting ability, but I filed away this new form of magical combustion on the off chance I might be able to make use of it later.

"Can I sell them to you?" I asked Trelor.

"I'm not really a fan of taking Horizon stuff," Trelor said. "But I suppose if I had to and you couldn’t think of another thing to do with them…”

He trailed off. I got the feeling there was more to Trelor’s trailing off than a simple distaste for gear that’d been created by Horizon. Like there was an alternative we weren’t thinking of. Something like…

"What about the Auction House?" Keia asked.

"I… Yeah,” I said. “What about the Auction House? That was my next stop after I tried doing some armor and weapon crafting.”

"Now you're thinking," Trelor said, putting a finger to his temple and grinning.

“It’s perfect. They'll be so pissed off if they see you selling their gear," Keia said. "No one in Horizon Dawn is allowed to sell their gear, and they get really pissy and threaten to cut off anyone they catch reselling their stuff."

“That sounds like a plan that’s going to have us running from more of their player killer squad,” Kris said.

“Maybe, but they have no way of knowing we’re selling their stuff until it’s listed. We’d get the first listing for free,” Keia said.

“They aren’t big fans of the secondhand market,” Trelor muttered. “The pricks. They tried to get us to put in some code that prevented people from reselling Horizon Syndicate items, but certain people refused.”

“So they’ve resorted to threatening to kill anyone they do find reselling the stuff,” Keia said.

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