" what dose that mean " max asked spen " I mean your not exactly normal max your only twelve and you all-ready are built and taller then anyone in the village other then the smith and the goliaths " spen said " right let's empty this place and scout if there's any copper ore " max commented said .
after a hour with max turning the boxs and carts back in to box's and carts the two had over a tone of stuff to trade max had found a fully in tacked mobile furnace the bandit troop had been using create bars of copper " the adventurers must of missed this cave when they cleared the mine no telling how many bars they stole from the cave were going to have to report if it's this productive " spen said
It took the pair over three days to properly surch the area eventually finding the caravan carts that where resentky stolen the reason they took so long is the more you return the bigger your cut .
Max would stare at the armour and expensive looking sword " he's been to our town that's jonnels work " max said " thought I recognized him hid that thieves mark well he did " spen said " he brought traps off me last year .
Withe all the carts in a train the pair headed back to town trying to feed his new system as much information about the area max asked " monsters giving you any trouble? . " no other then the troll some moron let regenerate in his basement there really isn't anything of high ranked that I've found this year " spen sounded worried " your thinking a dragon has moved in "? Max asked " a young one that or there's a new circle no one knows about I haven't seen any new Druids though " Spen said " me either I'm not sure which I'd prefer as a wood carvers son " max said " your moms been making clocks for eight years I think she's a clock maker and I've seen your work max your work is better then your mothers plus you know how to Taylor , thatch , weave and know a lot about farming as well " Spen said .
" I've been saving up to pay for the four year minimum apprenticeship if I want to be officially licensed to be a smith " paying for tencence or Toby to move out and go set up there own forge in a town near by anvils ant cheep hopefully this forge we have can pay most of it " max said " oh yeah I nearly forgot about that " spen laughed " let's see it's a Malvols magnificent portable forge model two that's not bad " max said as they passed in to the town .
Heading for the grison max and the others stopped outside max headed in and found a old grizzled guard eating a chicken " here to collect bounties on bandits " max said " and to submit the claim on there belongings " max continued the smaller stocky man stood spitting a snot ball in to a spittoon " let's count them " he grumbled max called spen who brought in the sacks " fair few of them " max said " that'd be 56 gold " he reached for a bag of coins " we prefer you to bring bandits in alive boy that way they can work there cost off " he sighed handing the coins over " you would of got more " he said " I don't put stock in slavery " max replied " wait the leader he's wanted great I'll have to deliver the head you can have two hundred I'll keep one hundred for my trouble " the guard said handing max more coins .
walking out max shared the coins out before heading to the general store working out his reward with the owner for all the items bar the forge max headed towards the smithy .