Parallel Army - The Sound of the Turning Tide Chapter Eleven The Duke's Wedding
"Thank you." Alexander took the papyrus and said, "By the way, there was a village that was wiped out on the way we came here. The distance and direction are about this. Do we need to pay attention?"
The staff member tilted his head to express confusion, and then asked Alexander whether she should sell this information, or let Countercurrent Trading Company help her pay attention to this matter and obtain the next information. In the former, you can get a small amount of funds for selling the information, and in the latter, you need to pay the corresponding amount.
information costs.
"How much does it cost to pay?" Alexander asked.
It needs to be evaluated based on the manpower and material resources spent by the firm, as well as the timeliness and danger of the information, etc. However, with this distance and this event, it won't cost too much money. Let's cap it at twenty linseys, the waiter thought for a moment and responded.
Alexander thought for a while and paid the money, although she didn't quite understand why she had to pay. "By the way, I happened to see a team of about 20 people leaving the village at that time. They even divided their troops halfway. Five
One person went in the direction of Sima City, and the others went this way."
The staff asked Alexander to go to an office area on the second floor to pay the fee, and then the extra budget would be refunded at that time, depending on the hiring price of the scout.
When the staff filled in the details submitted by Alexander, Fageni, who took the document from Alexander, was stunned. "It's so fast..."
"As expected of a professional." Hitz said in confusion.
"Fageni, you should go to the hospital first. I'm a little worried about that."
"Okay then." Fageni nodded and then set off.
"What about me? Alexander, do you need me to purchase supplies? After all, a lot of potions and materials were consumed when fighting demons." Hitz asked.
"If you want to go shopping, go ahead." Alexander was writing furiously.
"Okay." Hiz happily went to the mall alone. As a long-lived species, elves have a different concept of time than humans. Maybe that's why she felt a little heartless.
The silver-haired elf walked into a shop selling alchemy potions. Unexpectedly, there were several types of potions that she had never seen before. Although most of the other potions were ordinary potions, the ingredients were completely different and the effects were subtle.
The change.
"Wow, there are so many alchemy potions that I have never seen before." Heath was as excited as a dwarf seeing strong wine or a thief seeing gold coins, and then speculated on the effects of various materials in the formulas of the never-before-seen potions.
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At this time, Alexander came down and saw Heath who was looking at him in fascination. After shaking his head, the archer also looked at the potions. Unexpectedly, he saw the experimental bottle of potion that he bought at auction to enhance vitality and lifespan.
The highly improved model - the Riptide Potion Perfect model is stable and much more expensive, costing fifteen linseys.
Not only that, there is another new type of potion that can increase the magic power capacity in the body. It is called the Burial Flow Trial Type. It has a weird name... and this one costs 60 linsey. Even the trial type is so expensive.
Just imagine what the price will be in the future.
There is also an x-flow potion, which is a powerful potion with severe side effects, called Taoliu Mixture. After taking it, it can instantly produce a huge amount of self-healing factors to repair the body, and even produce a strong stimulating effect. Unlike ordinary treatment potions,
The price is to overdraw one's vitality, and this costs 17 Lindsays, which is not cheap but can save lives.
"Um..." Alexander looked at it. "This life-saving product is really cheap. Do you want to buy a few bottles?"
"This squeezing of life force may consume life span." Heath reminded, in other words, the essence of this potion is to instantly pull people back from the death line and maintain combat effectiveness by reducing life span.
"It's not a big problem... maybe? Anyway, let's buy three bottles. I don't think you can buy anything better at this price." Alexander hesitated for a while, then gave the money and bought three bottles of Taoliu Mixture. "Okay, the money is basically there.
We’ve spent all our money, so there’s no need to continue shopping now, let’s go meet up with Fageni.”
Because it is a very precious combat medicine, the shop owner added a cloth bag around the medicine so that it might not break if dropped on the ground during a fierce battle. Then Alexander and Hitz went to the medical center to meet with Fageni.
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"How are you? Are you still awake? By the way, I spent a lot of money to buy three bottles of life-saving medicine. I have no money to buy anything else." Alexander gave Fageni a bottle as soon as he saw him.
"Said he woke up once." Fageni yawned and pointed to the guide: "Then he fainted again. I guess it should get better in the past few days." The young man stayed briefly after the guide came before Fageni arrived.
He woke up once, and just as Alexander expected, it was because of his great mood swings and physical weakness that he finally passed out again.
"It looks like he might wake up at any time...Fageni, just stay here to prevent him from waking up and running around. Heath and I will take the guide to the mercenary industrial factory again to see if he has gone to Copenhagen.
Missions that DePauw can do along the way.”
"Well, you go ahead." Fageni nodded.
"Bye bye Fageni, be sure to keep an eye on it." Before leaving, Hitz waved to him without knowing what kind of madness he was talking about.
Fageni smacked his lips and looked at the boy. During his coma, he looked very painful and showed no sign of waking up.
Alexander and Heath looked at the notice wall for a long time, and considering that they wanted to go to Gothenburg as soon as possible, there was only one task they could do. Originally, the best way for the three of them was to take a carriage and walk on the mountain road, and then take a steam battleship, which could guarantee their arrival within seven days. However,
If you accept the escort mission, you will be delayed for three to four days to walk the forest path, and the reward is also very average, only twelve linseys - which is indeed average compared to the current combat effectiveness of the group. Four years ago, Alexander was still there.
When I was in Tours, I had never seen such a huge amount of money.
Taking a look at the departure time, we can see that we can set off at any time. It is similar to the previous trip from Guzhuo Town to Ankuiku. However, this commission is not cross-border, and the reward is higher and the distance is shorter.
Alexander touched his chin and sighed, then returned to the hospital. "Help the person until the end. Let's wait a day and see. If the person doesn't wake up tomorrow, it will be a bit troublesome to accept this commission."
After getting the information about the distance from the mercenary industrial company, Alexander did not accept the commission and came back with Heath first. It was also noon. The three of them felt very tired. Do they plan to eat a little at noon or go to bed first or something else?
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On the way, Alexander decided to eat something with Hitz first and brought a takeaway for Fageni and the guide. After that, Alexander guarded the boy and let them go to sleep first. When the guide's time came, he let him go first and not wake up.
I asked Fageni to come over and change my shift at ten o'clock in the evening.
The food he brought was not in line with Fageni's taste. He made do with it to fill his stomach, and then went back to the hotel room to meditate. Hitz, who had already eaten, was in a trance in the room. Elves sleep in the same way as humans.
different.
The day passed without any special thoughts, but Alexander learned from the guide that the destination, Copenhagen Castle, would hold a grand wedding of Princess Bai Ni and Duke Lelen. It was said that this would be the meeting place between the Sea Tribe and the Bakato Kingdom.
It is the first step to establish friendly trade relations, but some radical officials and nobles believe that this will one day lead to invasion by the Sea Tribe.
Although Alexander couldn't think of things about the Sea Clan, he still got some information from the guide.
The sea tribe consists of three races in total, fishmen, naga, and mermaids. The social structure of these intelligent beings is similar to humans. Just like demi-humans are the lowest-level citizens, murlocs are at the lowest and mermaids are the highest.
There are beings in the Sea Tribe called Tidecallers, who can even overturn ships with huge waves. The Sea Tribe and humans have always been in an unfriendly state, and there are often small-scale conflicts.
Probably less than half a year ago, Duke Lelan was still a newly recruited soldier. He used a rifle and several magazines of holy silver bullets to guard the coastline alone for a whole week. He even single-handedly fought off the Sea Clan several times.
The attack prevented any harm to the local residents, which earned him the status of a duke and the respect of the soldiers and people.
Now the soldiers in Gobendberg have uniformly changed their equipment from swords to steam rifles and bayonets. Now the industrial zone is still working overtime to make them. The guide said this with a look of longing...
"Oh, gun." Alexander felt a little lonely, and he felt a sense of sadness that bows and arrows would be eliminated by the times.
"One person defends a coast? Is this possible?" Later, Fageni also asked the guide carefully about the details of the battle.
It seems that Duke Lelan tied the corpses of his comrades with iron tools at that time. With the attack or the rising tide, the sound of seabirds eating the corpses and the sound of the iron tools colliding would wake him up. In addition, the distance and power of the weapons
They were far more powerful than bows and arrows, and they were able to defend a coast.
"Then since the relationship between the Sea Tribe and humans has always been bad, what happened to this marriage?" Alexander asked this question at that time. Of course, the guide was not particularly clear. The official explanation was that the long-standing misunderstanding was resolved, and mutual exchanges were made.
An exchange of scarce materials was carried out, and then in order to stabilize the relationship.
"What is the long-standing misunderstanding?" The guide's answer to this question was that it was mainly about the misunderstanding that the Hai tribe did not carry out massacres of villagers, and then made this political marriage in order to stabilize the relationship... It may have been done by bandits.
Yeah, and there are also low-level fishmen who don't obey the orders of their superiors and leave the Sea Tribe and become pirates.
Speaking of massacring the villagers, Alexander sat up straight and regained consciousness. "Massacre the villagers? Tell us in detail?"
The original invasion of the coastline by the sea tribe was mainly for a very common herbal medicine, which is one of the main materials for low-level healing potions. However, this kind of herbal medicine is often cultivated on a large scale. The appearance of fish people will inevitably scare the villagers, resulting in
A large-scale battle broke out between the soldiers summoned and the Hai clan.
"...So has the truth about the massacre of villagers come out?" This was what Hitz, who only needed four hours of trance to rest, asked. But the guide didn't understand what she was talking about, and it was exactly what he said.
They are two different things.
"You mean they planted herbs near the coast, so the villagers thought they were going to kill them, so they started fighting?" Alexander asked. And that's probably it. After all, the sea tribe looks quite scary. People who don't know better think that they are.
It's a monster.
Alexander nodded: "Then no villagers have ever been massacred?"
Probably, the guide replied. As for what Alexander meant, he didn't understand. He might have to make it clearer.
"Then if a village is really massacred. In addition to the Sea Tribe, are there any other forces in Bakato that could do such a thing?" Robbers or thieves may do such a thing, but generally they will not.
, after all, this is self-destruction of money, and only the particularly bad would do this.