Hello, lords and ladies of Calradia, from this greeting you understand what today's post is all about. Today we will continue riding on the steppes of Calradia. We will buy grain, sell beer and increase our wealth.
Short Summary of the Previous Episode
We traded, we won tournaments, we visited many cities, we met new nobles, we hunted many bands of bandits and protected the villagers from the bandits. Then a man called Radagos came to us and said he knew where we could find our siblings. We will follow him.
I found the hideout and waited for night to attack him. At night I went into the hideout and my men and I killed some bandits and finally this bastard showed up. Galter has kidnapped my brothers and he shamelessly offers me a duel. How dare you! I only duel with men of honor. My soldiers and I knocked Galter down.
Because Galter betrayed Radagos, Radagos executed him. I could have executed Radagos for kidnapping my brothers, but on the other hand, he helped me rescue them. So I freed him and he said he would never be a slave trader again.
Tulag, a Kuzait lord, said he wanted to marry his relative Sechen to my brother Nusun. This, of course, is not a problem for me. There is an animation for it, but I will not show it to you, you will see it for the first time at my wedding.
Do you remember we created a caravan before? Because in this game, as in real life, I need passive income. That's why I created another caravan and assigned Ayla as their leader.
I kept winning tournaments, defeating bandits and protecting merchants' goods. Of course, I also traded and made a lot of money. Now that I can make money with my caravans, it's time to buy myself some new toys, right? I bought myself a bow and arrow, boots and a shield, and now I will be stronger both in tournaments and in battles.
I met a lady named Svana, and I have a feeling that our paths will cross a lot more from now on. Who knows? Maybe I will marry her in the future. Of course, I have to go a long way for that because no one will marry me in my weak state right now haha.
A group of villagers came and told me that the hunters come every day and extort money from them and asked for my help. Of course I can't offend them and I always have to help people who need help. That way I can gain the trust of the villagers and I can add more and more soldiers to my army. My soldiers and I destroyed this weak group of archers.
I continue to trade, but I don't make enough money this way. I need a lot more money if I want to build my own kingdom in the future. Another thing that makes money in this game is blacksmithing. If you forge a good weapon, you can sell it at a very high price and you can make as much money from just one sword as you make from trading in a month. Of course you can't do it in a day, you have to be patient and improve your blacksmithing. I will talk about how to do this in a moment.
First you need to have a lot of lumber. You can buy it in cities or in villages that produce lumber. Make sure you don't buy too expensive, otherwise you will run out of money very fast and you will not be able to get out of the loop.
Then you can produce charcoal from the lumber and start forging swords. I mean you don't have to forge swords, you can also forge axes or javelins, but I will focus on forging swords here. Forge the best swords you can. The more difficult swords you forge, the better your blacksmithing will be.
The next thing you need to do is to melt down the swords you forged. This will allow you to learn new parts so you can forge better swords. In the beginning, the swords you forge are not valuable, so there is no point in selling them. In the screenshot you can see me unlocking a new piece. I think the first sword I forged was worth 500 dinars. Let's see how much we can increase it.
If you want to improve in blacksmithing as fast as possible, you should always choose the top one of the attributes here. Because this will increase the speed at which you learn new components. For example, now that my blacksmithing is at 50, I will learn 100% more components when smelting my swords. Learning more components means that I can learn better swords much faster.
A sword I forge now costs 4500 dinars after much effort. Now I can forge better swords, but it still doesn't make sense to sell them, because in the future we will be able to get 30000 dinars for a sword we sell. If you are short of money you can sell them, just make sure you don't run out of resources.
I must say that there are a lot of options in blacksmithing. For example, if you want to forge your own sword and use it in battles, there are millions of options. You can customize everything from the handle to the shape of the sword.
While I was blacksmithing, the Southern Empire offered me mercenary service. Yes, blacksmithing is good, but I also need to improve myself on the battlefield so that all of Calradia can speak highly of me. My fame will spread everywhere and my clan will grow stronger. But do I want to work for the Empire?
I guess we will find out the answer to this question in the next chapter. I don't know the answer myself, and I will give it some thought. Thank you very much for joining me on this adventure. Take care and have a great day!
