Su Wen was surprised. Donald seemed to know what he was thinking. It was really gratifying that Donald mentioned this matter when he was thinking about changing to a healing maid.

"It's pretty good!"

Su Wen replied happily, thinking that Donald wanted to give the little girl to him? Although according to the latter's personality, such a bloody thing would probably not be able to do, but if he could have a new maid for free, wouldn't that be a good thing, which greatly saves time and gold coins?

"I always feel that you are thinking about something very rude." Donald saw Su Wen's reaction, and the smile on his face became more friendly. "But according to the fact that Lady Liticia has been with you for half a year and is still a virgin, you are probably not thinking about something dirty, but happy to have a maid who can help you wash and cook?"

"Mr. Donald, you really understand me!"

"Well, that's great. If you just have this kind of thought, you probably won't be taught a lesson too badly."

“Huh?”

"Nothing, as you think, I've made up my mind to let Shirley hang out with you in these few months. As for your plan to make her your maid or anything else, it's up to you," said Donald. "Of course, as a condition, you have to tell me what you're going to do before heading to the Tuscan province. I don't believe you'll be sitting all the way over in a carriage and staying in a hotel as an otaku."

"Sherry, what a good name..."

Su Wen is not stupid. Judging from Donald's expression, the blue-haired girl must not be as simple as it seems. God knows whether she will be a tough character who can kill herself in minutes. However, Donald's intention to do this is somewhat debatable - it is impossible to simply harm yourself. It is even more necessary to help her with kindness, so she can eliminate it without thinking. In this way, it seems that she is only the only one who cheats herself.

“…So, are you clearing out unsold goods?”

Su Wen was silent for a moment and suddenly asked.

Donald coughed twice with a little embarrassed look: "Ahem, you haven't answered the conditions I have proposed yet."

"Sure enough, I knew it was like this!" Su Wen said with a divine eyes. "As for my itinerary, I am currently planning to visit the Doron Empire as a mercenary, and finally use St. Peter's Academy as the end point. This time it will be almost three months. But if you want to take this opportunity to give me a troublemaker instead of an obedient and capable maid, then please forgive me for rejection."

"Oh, are you planning to become a mercenary and then travel around while doing tasks?"

"That's exactly what it means..."

Su Wen replied subconsciously, but always felt that he seemed to follow Donald's words?

This is not good!

Sure enough, Donald smiled immediately.

"Look, your virtue will definitely cause trouble when you go out, and everyone will be punished. At least I am protecting you in Trides, so you won't be really troubled, but if you take Lyticia out alone, are you sure you can protect the safety of both of you?"

Su Wen thought about it carefully, and then replied seriously: "I don't plan to take Liticia with me. I plan to leave this time."

"Are you finally abandoning the person you accompany you every day? You ungrateful guy."

"It's true that I'm always with you, but Liticia hates me so much, must have been eager to get back to freedom. If she ignores her ideas and forcefully takes her out of Trides, she will hate me even more."

Speaking of this, Su Wen's expression was a little dull. He always felt guilty about Liticia. As a maid like herself, she must be under great pressure, which can be seen from her usual words. But even so, while under great pressure and disgust of her master, she still managed the two of them in an orderly manner every day. This conscientious and responsible personality touched Su Wen very much.

"Oh, so that's what you think?"

Donald looked at Su Wen with great interest and asked.

"In that case, how do you plan to deal with your half-elf maid?"

"I have transferred the property rights of the house from my name to Liticia, and also cancelled her slave status in the Civil Affairs Hall. Let's consider it a compensation for the past six months. Well, let Liticia become a free citizen of Trides and no longer need to live as a slave. This is my plan." Although I think this is actually not enough to compensate for the past six months of care, this is indeed the most reliable method Su Wen can think of.

"So have you told her? How's the reaction?"

"Not yet. I originally planned to confess tonight. Since I can't leave tonight, I'll just go tomorrow."

"Then - please come on, I'll be optimistic about you."

Donald's mysterious smile made Su Wen a little uneasy, but he thought about it carefully and found that his approach was completely flawed and there was nothing to be uneasy, so he just regarded it as his own illusion.

"After that being said, Shirley is indeed a thug?"

He took the initiative to get back to the topic.

Donald knew that he could not hide it, so he had to confess to Su Wen - of course, the so-called confession was only known by himself.

"Your words are indeed correct to some extent. Shirley is a third-year student of the Light Magician School of St. Peter's College, an intermediate magician, and also my niece. It is not my decision to follow you, but her own decision. Well... I just briefly introduced your situation to her, and then she obviously showed her interest in you and decided to join you and Liticia - don't ask me what it is, I don't know."

"So that's it, is she a troublesome guy?"

Su Wen raised a sharp question.

"Maybe, probably...normal, it's not."

"Please forgive me for refusal."

"…Wait, we can negotiate, and with the protection of an intermediate magician, it can at least ensure that it is safe most of the time, right?"

"What you said makes sense, but intuition tells me that if I agree, it will be a lot of trouble."

"Twenty thousand gold coins."

"make a deal."

Gold coins are indeed very charming, for example, they can end tangled conversations very concisely.

But because of this, Su Wen became a little curious: How terrible trouble would a character who could make Donald, a magic master and a schizophrenia patient beg for a lot of money to hire him?

However, compared to the gifts that don't know whether it's good or bad before the project, another gift Donald gave himself was a real benefit. Su Wen looked at the time and couldn't wait to go to the auction house to take a look.

"So, it's time for me to leave."

After finishing the entire bottle of wine in one breath, Su Wen put on the robe of the disguiser again and said goodbye to Donald.

Through the long slewing stairs, Su Wen came to the small and slightly messy shop again.

Since there were no customers, the blue-haired girl named Shirley was quietly looking at a thick and ancient book. When she saw Su Wen walk out of the back door, she raised her head gently and smiled sweetly at him. It was very beautiful.

Although her whole face was hidden in the hood, Su Wen still smiled back and barely saw the big title on the page.

"48 Terrible Tortures of the Gurrein Empire"

So Su Wen's smile became a little stiff.

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...

If the Mercenary Guild is the second largest commercial center in Trides City, then the largest one is definitely the Trides Business and Trade Alliance, known as the "underground world". This behemoth entrenched underground in Trides City accounts for more than half of the total economic circulation of the entire city every year, and is composed of countless merchants of all sizes. As for why it needs to be built underground? This starts with the racial war 400 years ago.

400 years is not long, and it is not even considered "ancient" on the glorious continent, but the war that happened that affected the entire continent was unprecedented and unparalleled.

Well... Su Wen didn't know much about the war, but what he knew was that in the tripartite melee between humans, elves and orcs, humans finally laughed to the last time and gained the domination of almost all the fertile land on the entire continent. After that, the orcs were expelled to the cold winter mountains in the extreme east, and the elves were expelled to the fear forest in the extreme north, and the remaining minority races were scattered in every corner of the continent, surviving for hundreds of years.

Shortly after the war, when different races were divided into different levels, the slave trade industry that seriously violated the armistice treaty emerged.

It is true that history and rules are written by the victors, but the victory achieved by mankind in that war hundreds of years ago may not be so easy or so thorough. Therefore, no human country is willing to openly break up and support this emerging industry that is "injust" but very profitable. Therefore, it seems that the default underground slave transaction has become the unspoken rule of almost the entire glorious continent in a short period of time. It is precisely because although no country "supports" slavery, no monarch will mind the existence of cheap labor with unequal magic contracts, so the underground slave trade industry has flourished for hundreds of years, and has evolved from the initial simple slave transaction to a large-scale trade center.

Although Su Wen thinks this evolution is actually nonsense, as long as the slave trade industry can still prosper for one day, this deformed underground world will exist for one day. This is undoubtedly a fact.

Although Trides City is a typical small town of the Doron Empire, its extremely huge underground world seems to illustrate the glory of previous years. Su Wengang walked into one of the entrances near the Mercenary Guild. The magnificent magic light made him clearly smell the prosperity that was once full of the smell of copper and blood.

To be honest, Su Wen thinks that this taste is not very pleasant.

There was still an hour before the auction began. Su Wen walked through the commercial streets that were like daytime. He couldn't help but stop when he passed the bustling gate of the slave trading market.

The slave trading market was once the center of the entire underground world, and of course it has been replaced now. Half a year ago, Suwen, who had just entered Trides City, spent 500 gold coins and brought back Liticia, whose eyes were full of despair and numbness. In fact, it was not just her. On the faces of those half-elves and orc slaves, this kind of almost numb despair is not uncommon: most of them are descendants of previous slaves, rather than prey hunting groups to hunt elves and orc tribes, so they can be said to be born slaves and have never seen their hometown.

However, although he stopped, Su Wen did not plan to go in. In fact, after buying back Liticia under the instigation of the system, he never entered the gate in front of him again. He did not think it was a good place to entertain.

However, perhaps it was fate that when Su Wen was about to leave, he suddenly heard the roar of shocking sky coming from the depths of the slave trading center.

“loktarogar!”
Chapter completed!