Titan: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 4) Jez Cajiao (top ten books of all time TXT) đ
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âAnything I want?â she pressed cautiously. âI can have the other smiths work on this with me?â
âSure, if they want to,â I said, shrugging. âSeriously, Thornapple, Iâd never really looked at the Legion armor properly before I wore it in the Arena, and it is stunning. The craftsmanship is fantastic, but I think you can make more, if youâre set free⊠so, make it the very best you can, and take a lot of notes as you go.â
âWhy notes?â She asked frowning.
âBecause once youâve got it as perfect as you can make it, weâll test it, and if it passes the tests, youâre going to be making a lot more of them for the Legion of the Tower.â
âUh... Lord Jax, you donât understand. Making the kind of armor I want to make, itâll take us months, weeks at least, and thatâs just to make oneâŠâ she said hesitantly. âAdd to that the various different shapes and sizes of the wearers, not to mention speciesâŠâ
âTrust me, ThornappleâŠâ
âJust call me Thorn, my lord,â she said, smiling.
âThen call me Jax,â I responded. âBut seriously, trust me on this, Thorn. I can teach you ways to speed up production like youâll never believe. Standardization and factory builds are going to rock your worldâŠâ
âStaâŠâ she started to ask, and I shook my head.
âHonestly, not important right now, and not something we can do anything with. For now, if you can kit us all out in Speculatores Praetoriae kit, thatâs my team and I hereâŠâ I gestured around at my team. ââŠand give Lydia Praetorian Guard armorâŠâ
âNo,â Thorn said flatly, cutting me off.
âWhat?â I asked, nonplussed.
âNo, Jax⊠no, my lord,â she insisted, shaking her head, and meeting my eyes steadily, all doubt gone. âI can give you, specifically, Speculatores Praetoriae armor. Honestly, I could even give you full Praetorian armor, should you wish it, although you wouldnât even be able to use it, but you are our lord and it is yours by right. But⊠to give the others the same, even if we had enough⊠it would make the entire Legion hate them.â
âHate?â I asked, even more confused.
âYes, my lord,â she said, sighing. âIâm sorry, but the Legionnaires out there, they train their entire lives to be chosen for the Speculatores Praetoriae, and none of our Legion, or any other we have had contact with, have been able to earn a place in the Praetorian Guard since the fall of the Emperor, understandably. If you then jump your own people over their career-long dreams, especially when yours are⊠untested⊠it will only drive a wedge between them and your people. Add to that, we have a single set of Praetorian Guard armor, as each armorer is required to make one to pass their apprenticeship, but that is all we have. The other remaining pieces were smelted down, as is custom.â
âWell, shit.â I closed my eyes in dismay. âOkay⊠can you give us all basic armor, then? Hell, anything better than what weâre wearing now?â I asked her, receiving a firm nod in return.
âI can provide you all with basic Legion armor; the scout variety for most of you, and the heavier infantry version for your⊠âtankâ,â she agreed quickly.
âHow long will that take?â
âIf we work through the night, we can have it ready for noon tomorrow,â Thorn said, pausing to make sure I was fine with that. When I nodded, she relaxed, clearly relieved, and went back to making notes in her journal. After a handful of minutes, she moved on to Lydia, and I took a deep breath, relieved that the issue was taken care of.
âRight, thenâŠâ I started to say, before looking up as movement caught my eye. It was Augustus and Hellenica, falling from a ship overhead and gliding toward us.
My first instinct was to panic that two people were falling to their deaths⊠until I noticed how gently they fell, and that nobody else seemed concerned. Instead, I leaned against the railing and watched.
It took little more than a minute for them to reach me; a few gentle course corrections, and then suddenly, they were there, Hellenica landing as gracefully and gently as a leaf, and Augustus stumbling and staggering to a halt, panting, his cheeks flushed and a huge grin on his face.
âJax!â he said, stepping forward and reaching out to grab my shoulder. âYou have to try that!â He beamed with excitement. âHonestly, itâs not as bad as it looks. Itâs justâŠwow.â
âOkay, mate!â I laughed, shaking my head at him in amusement as he dropped his hand and I turned to Hellenica. âClan Mother, itâs good to see you again,â I said simply, and she smiled amiably at me.
âAnd you, my Lord Jax. It is refreshing to see you upright and unbloodiedâŠ.â she said, breaking off and looking over my ragged, filthy clothes. âWell, somewhat unbloodiedâŠâ she amended awkwardly, and I shrugged.
âI know; donât worry, a bath or something is very high on my list of jobs today,â I promised her, and she smiled more deeply, evidently relieved that she didnât have to be the one to broach that subject with me.
âSo, is there anything you need from me?â she asked graciously, and I returned her smile, shaking my head.
âNo. I simply wanted to thank you for your help at the Skykingâs tower and afterwards, and especially for the healingâŠâ
âYou and your people saved me from a fate Iâd rather not remember. It is I who should be thanking you,â she insisted, but I waved her off.
âWell, as long as youâre happy, thatâs all that matters. Is there anything I can do, or that you need from me?â I asked, and she paused, tapping
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