Chapter 54: Taking the Sword

After Gervis left, Anna didn't know what to do next, so she turned to look at Thomas, ready to ask the butler what she should do now.

Anna didn't know yet that the butler had already had a bold idea in his mind about her relationship with Gervis, and it was because of this idea that her status in the castle was further improved.

"Anna, how is your mother's illness? Does she have no money to see a doctor?"

Before Anna could ask, Thomas spoke first.

Thomas felt that since Anna had that kind of relationship with Gervis, he needed to treat Anna separately from now on and could no longer treat her like an ordinary servant.

"Master housekeeper, many neighbors have lent me money last night, and I have enough money to buy medicine for my mother's illness."

Anna was a little surprised as to why the housekeeper suddenly asked about this matter, but she still answered honestly.

"Oh, that's good. Work hard. With your salary, you can pay them all back in no time." Thomas nodded. Knowing that the money had been raised, he stopped talking about it.

He originally thought that if Anna was short of money for her mother's medical treatment, he could advance some of his salary to her. After all, Anna is different now. Even if Gervis did not say it, as a housekeeper, he should give Anna some convenience.

"By the way, Anna, can you ride a horse?"

"Butler, I have never learned to ride a horse." Anna heard Thomas's question and answered respectfully.

"Then you have to learn how to ride a horse. Lord Gervis always rides a horse when he travels. If you want to follow him all the time, you must learn how to ride a horse."

Thomas nodded. He specifically asked Anna because she could read. Otherwise, he would have known without asking that horses were so precious, how could a serf girl have the opportunity to learn. Even the daughters of some lords could not learn. Thomas himself had only practiced a little under the command of the great nobles of Rose Castle.

"But, Master Steward, I don't have a horse to study."

Anna lowered her head, feeling a little nervous. She knew that noble lords usually traveled on horseback, but she didn't know how to ride a horse. Even if she wanted to learn, she didn't have a horse. If she couldn't ride a horse, would the butler find someone to replace her?

"It doesn't matter, you can use the horse in the castle to learn, and I'll teach you when the time comes!"

Thomas smiled and said to Anna in a gentle tone, "As Lord Gervis's bedmate, Thomas would naturally treat her with preferential treatment."

"Really? Butler? Thank you, Butler."

Anna was extremely surprised. When she saw Thomas nodding at her, she was sure that this was true, so she quickly expressed her gratitude to Thomas.

Anna couldn't help but believe that Thomas was willing to let a little maid like her learn about horses, which were such valuable things.

This is just like a butler of a wealthy man on Earth who makes his servants learn to drive using a multi-million dollar luxury sports car.

"Master Butler, can I learn now?"

Looking at Thomas's warm smile, Anna plucked up her courage and asked Thomas in a low voice that she wanted to learn how to ride a horse quickly so that her job as a personal maid would be secure.

"Learn now?" Thomas was a little surprised. He was a little worried that Anna's body wouldn't be able to take it and whether Gervis would blame him when he came back.

However, seeing Anna's determined eyes, and knowing that the girl in front of him must want to learn to ride a horse as soon as possible, he agreed.

"Sure. There's one horse left in the castle. Come with me."

"Thank you, Butler." Anna smiled immediately when Thomas agreed, and followed Thomas obediently towards the stable.

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After leaving the castle, Gervis did not go directly to the village, but went to the coastal town first. His weapons had not been obtained yet, so he needed to go to Brian.

Riding his horse at full speed to Brian's stone house, Gervis dismounted and walked into the house. As soon as he entered the house, he saw Brian sitting at the dining table eating breakfast. The breakfast was very simple, just a piece of dark black bread and a bowl of steaming water.

"My Lord, why are you here so early? I was going to finish breakfast before delivering the sword to your castle."

When Brian saw Gervis rushing into the room, he was stunned at first, then put the black bread in his hand back into the bowl with a little embarrassment.

"Brian, is your sword strengthened? I need it urgently."

Seeing the black bread on the table, Gervis understood why Brian was so happy that he wanted to strengthen his weapons. You know, Brian was once a member of the aristocracy and an alchemist. His life must have been very comfortable. But now he is eating this kind of black bread that only serfs eat. No one can stand it.

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The bowl of steaming water was not for quenching thirst, but because the black bread was too hard and needed to be soaked in hot water before it could be chewed.

"My Lord, it has been strengthened. It was strengthened last night."

While answering Gervis, Brian quickly got up and walked into the inner room to get Gervis's sword.

"Lord, take a look. I have engraved two strengthening magic arrays on this sword because you requested to increase its power. The first one is to increase its sharpness, and the other one is to increase its toughness. When it clashes with weapons that have not been strengthened, no weapon can hurt it. If the force is strong enough, an ordinary weapon can cut it in one blow."

Brian walked out of the inner room holding Gervis's sword. He pulled the sword out of the scabbard, pointed the hilt towards Gervis, and handed it to Gervis for inspection.

"Oh?" Gervis was also quite surprised. Gandalf also had a strengthened longsword, but Gandalf's longsword only had one strengthening effect, which was the improvement of toughness. After all, with the improvement of realm, the power exerted by the title knight became stronger and stronger. Weapons that had not been strengthened might be broken after a while.

Gervis took the hilt and carefully examined the inscription on the surface of the blade. He found that there were indeed two inscriptions with different patterns on it. Gervis could see obvious gaps between the inscriptions.

Ordinary inscription patterns are very large, basically filling the entire blade, and the inscriptions in the middle are connected and will not be disconnected, just like electric wires. If they are disconnected anywhere, it will be impossible to activate the inscriptions to produce a strengthening effect. However, the inscriptions on both sides of the long sword in Gervis's hand are divided into two.

Audry and the other guards following behind Gervis also stretched their necks and stared at the sword in Gervis' hand with wide eyes, especially when they saw the complex inscriptions on the blade, their eyes were full of envy.

Even ordinary people without fighting spirit can use enhanced weapons. Only some special inscriptions need to be triggered by people with fighting spirit.

However, although Audry and others were envious, they just looked at them. The price of enhanced weapons was too high. Even ordinary nobles could only own one or two, let alone ordinary people like them.

(End of this chapter)