'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Realm

The scene moved to the next of a man and a young boy that was sitting with the piles of the broken pieces of weapons and armours on their feet while the duo was sitting cross-legged and entering a meditative state...!

Are they trying to mimic the young lad of the past few scenes where each of them enters a sort of meditative stage to reach a certain recess of mind or something?

I too was in meditation and had entered a meditative stage of some kind and what I get to see right now is these flurry of images that had passed by me.

These images that appear before me meant something and it had got to do with me somehow.

What Felicity the Fortune Teller, Samuel the Seer and Selena had said all were of common terms with what was shown before me.

If I am not wrong, I was the young lad in those images that had lived through the lives of those people whom I had taken over the souls and mind, leaving their bodies and faces intact.

So... Is this the meaning of transmigration through certain passages of time?

Do these images represents me who had travelled through different bodies and through different passages of time, back to the future and though the past in some distant foreign countries and foreign languages?

*BOOM BOOM*

I felt a ripple of sensations passed at my throat area and also my forehead as I felt something snapped open and sensations began to rush in.

It was like a dam that had broken through and there was an abundance of water or even knowledge that seems to flow in and filled me with all sorts of information that would need to straighten out soon.

Is this the meaning of getting myself unlocked through a single set of meditation? Whatever it is, I hope it would be something wonderful and worthwhile.

The place where I had seen both the young boy and man disintegrate before me and formed a kind of place where there was no end to it, like a simple plane with unfathomable depth.

The duo then stood up and brushed the dirt off their butts before they both moved towards a weird contraption before them.

There was a place where both of them had placed the broken pieces of weapons and armours on it and it slowly moved along before it deposited the pieces into a large smelter.

It does seem that these two guys before me were blacksmiths after all and were using a smelter instead to melt these pieces down, just like what Old Jack was doing with the pieces of precious metal that were handed by Priest Hendry.

I watched what they were doing and then saw the young man pressed several buttons and had placed some moulds underneath a large outlet.

Slag was removed from the smelter and a small void swallowed it when the slag was thrown at the side.

Soon, a blob of molten metal was released from the outlet after a series of buttons and lever were pressed and it poured over the moulds and soon many moulds were filled up in that process.

A flat table was attached to the trays of moulds and there was a huge enclosed area with loud noises emitting from it. It was around 100 feet in length and the moulds were slowly pushed in as it travelled right through it.

I went forward and saw that the moulds were shaped like plates and each mould had 10 pieces of plates in them.

I won't be able to be certain of the size and weight of those plates but from what I had seen from the process, they were actually recycling those pieces of metal to become finer pieces since slag or impurities had been removed.

I had seen Old Jack performed some smelting before as he removed some slag from the smelter. The slag was considered as scrap pieces when it had cooled down and became brittle.

The slag that was left behind was carbon, as claimed by Old Jack.

I walked over to the enclosure that the moulds were placed in and saw huge windmills that generate a lot of wind beneath the enclosure and also on to of the enclosure.

It seemed that the Windmills was used to force cool air through these pieces while the Windmills above the enclosures were used to draw heated air from it.

It seemed that these duos were in a hurry to cool off these pieces... But for what purpose? What good would these pieces be if its in a rectangular-shaped plate?

I walked over to the young boy and peered at his face and he seemed content at what he was doing.

Wait a minute... Are they still in meditation or had they entered a certain subconscious part of their mind right now?

I was a bit frustrated since I can't interact with them and I can't seem to find a way to get the answers from any of these.

However, the work that they were doing before me was rather interesting because the layer of things the young boy had placed on was moving by itself and fed into the smelter bit by bit.

After all the pieces of broken armour and weapons had been placed on the self-moving table, the young boy moved to the end of the 100 feet enclosure and took a peek and said to the young man something.

It was difficult to hear from the distance but I went closer and this is what I heard from them, "Himura, these high-grade metal iron pieces could be sold off for silver ingots and it could be used to further our investments here in Kitakata."

"That's right, Hiko-sama. These high-grade iron pieces are much better grade than  the ones forged by those blacksmiths."

"Just see how much slag you had thrown away earlier. But if you further purify this molten iron, it would soon be a level 5 or higher grade since you had removed the carbon from the smelter."

I heard their chatter and soon learnt that the boy was named as Himura while the young man was called Hiko.

I even began to suspect that the person that had gone through the transmigration was the young boy named Himura and what they are trying to do right now was smelting these useless metals into something that could be sold...!

So this was what Ceres was mentioning about the realm of plane and this Himura was indeed myself.

I had travelled through time (back or forth I'm not sure at this moment ) but from what I could figure out, Himura was trying to smelt these iron plates to be sold off to the nearby blacksmiths as upgraded iron pieces.

Level 5 or higher iron pieces are much more stinger than our normal iron pieces too. Could I replicate what they were doing right now since I do not have a hoot of how things work in this era?

This might be the future of where I was right now and from their clothing, I guessed they must be from a foreign land.

I kind of fancy the way the items of clothing look like and it is much simpler than what we are currently wearing.

But I think the designs was the one that attracts me the most. It was printed but it looked exquisite enough for the two people to be wearing.

I guess motifs such as sceneries and flowers were meant for ladies while sun, birds and some other kinds of snazzy designs would be for men.

I like that... Maybe I could get Innes to design some of that for our own clothing too. Hahaha.

Ahem... Got a bit off track there for a moment. So, right now what they were doing were iron plates that would be sold to others for a profit and then used the profit to turn it into other investments.

I wonder what kind of other investments these two would be looking at after this. If I could have the realm of where they are in right now, maybe I could also smelt those pieces down and bring back those iron plates to be sold as well?

I wonder how much scrap armours and weapons could be found in the front lines at this moment and how much it would be sold to us and we could sell those iron plates back to the blacksmith.

Maybe it's a feasible idea but so far we had only got one blacksmith and that would be old Jack and the four boys from Durham. There's no blacksmith from Camp when we had taken over the town.

From the delighted faces of the young boy named Himura, I could see that whatever they are doing, they had nearly reached their intended target.

At the end of the tunnel or enclosure, there was a set of tracks with metal rollers on them. When I saw the first piece of mould the young man had initially filled with the blob of molten metal emerges at the exit of the enclosure, the mould simply slid down the roller.

The roller snaked to the right and there were some wooden pallets where the young boy arranged the trays of mould neatly on to it.

I went closer and saw 10 pieces of plates measuring about 6 inches long and 3 inches wide on a single mould tray and I'm not sure of the depth since the wasn't any cooled pieces that I could base on.

Each wooden pallet could fit 4 trays on it and soon the young boy had filled up at least 25 stacks of tray per layer. That makes 100 trays or 1,000 pieces of iron plates per pallet.

That's really a tidy sum of silvers they could earn from the sale later on...!

A few moments later, a set of flurry images went by and I was once again inside the realm and I guessed from the change of clothes, the young boy and man had come back after several days later.

This time, there were not one, not two of such planes as I watched how the young boy deftly used his outstretched hands and swipe the plane to the left and right to switch between planes easily...!

It was the smelting area and then there was a distiller area where there are more than 10 clear distillers that were installed in that plane and had lots of fruits, flowers and some kind of mysterious minerals in each of the distillers.

There were apricots, lemons, peaches, oranges, green lime, strawberries, green apples, red apples and also watermelons too that had been chopped up and sitting on a clear kind of cloth while boiling water was being heated up, supplied by a free-standing fire from a large bluish-green canister at the sides.

There were lemon grass, roses, orchids, lavender and many other kinds of herbs and flowers that were also in the same position as those fruits.

What are those distillers for... Wait a minute. It does seem like the smaller version of distillers that Alicia The Alchemist was using to make the extract of these fruit and flower essences. But these distillers were a whole lot larger in scale and I could vouch that the two guys before me were doing the exact same thing...!

I was doing what I had been doing for so long back and forth through the passage of time — making soap and body shampoo... Hahaha!

What a bloody coincidence that was...!

A flurry of images went by and I saw the young boy and man sitting at the front of the house and having some nice looking snacks while surrounded by 6 young girls. Wow...

This young boy really is a flirtatious one. If Heather was to know about this, she would bite me and not let go especially my nether region. Hahahha.

The young girls were wearing a kind of tabard which was bright yellow in colour and had some red lettering on the back of the tabard.

Hey...! That's the kind of tabard that our production workers were wearing to distinguish the senior ones as well as those in charge of supervising the lines...!

Are the young girls part of a production team? My question was soon answered as I saw some long warehouses situated around the house that they were sitting and dining.

Guess whatever happened back and forth in the past and future was actually me, in the role of kingdom building where ever I had gone.

I wondered what I could have learnt for this when I was suddenly got sucked out into a vortex as a mad flurry of images flashed past me and I was unable to grab hold of what was the images all about.

When it finally slowed down, I was suddenly in the middle of a forest and I was holding to a bow and was doing some practices while a weird old lady was sitting and hollering at me to concentrate and pull on the drawstring at full draw.

Err... Is it Gwen in her old age form? I looked at myself and saw that I was wearing old fashioned archers garb from head to toe and even my shoes were cloth type and were pointed.

Hmm... The Olde English wear I suppose. My pants were rather tight and itchy and my tunic was of simple design and colour and it was itchy to my skin too.

Goodness me...!! I hope the knickers I am wearing is not the itchy kind because right now I have the urge to give my pair of knockers a bloody good scratch...!!