The Remaining City - An Ideal Across the Sky Chapter 32 The Tower Keeper
This time, behind the counter was a gray-haired middle-aged man with a long scar from the corner of his eye to his nose.
It seems that he is the girl's father or uncle or something. In short, he should be a relative. This person looks like an explorer, but he is wearing home clothes.
From this point of view, the economic situation should be quite prosperous.
Karin didn't say much, said hello to the gray-haired man and set off. He arrived at the meeting place early. Coincidentally, Li Lian and Lilia arrived just in time, and Li Lian was giving her instructions.
"Hey, here we are, there will be trouble in the next few days." Li Lian noticed Karin approaching from a distance and turned to talk to Karin.
Lilia was shocked by Li Lian.
"Good morning, if you're ready, let's set off?" Karin said, glanced at Lilia, and then stood two steps away, allowing the two to have a final exchange of opinions.
"Please, please." Lilia lowered her head, and Li Lian encouraged her, and then the promotion commission and the emergency escort commission officially began.
Karin and Lilia registered at the city gate and then walked into the outskirts of the Mevozadan Forest.
Lilia is a shy child, but even though she is a child, she has strong magic power and various strange alchemy tools, which makes her actual strength much higher than that of an intermediate explorer, but her character is insufficient.
For example, if it hits a solid object when thrown, it will emit yellow smoke that looks and smells bad, which can interfere with the sense of smell of Warcraft.
For example, if you throw it out, a large number of vines will grow to trap the monsters, and other alchemy items.
The strange weapon in her hand looks the same as Gabru's miniature magic spell cannon, but it actually uses magic as fuel to physically eject explosive shells - in this regard, it is somewhat similar to Karin's weapon.
, but the lethality was changed from penetration to explosion.
Lilia's physical fitness is not strong, but she can use spells and potions to temporarily improve it, which further enhances her ability to fight alone - but it is more expensive.
At the same time, there are also early warnings that can be used when camping and alchemy items that can accelerate sleep, which are very convenient and do not require a night vigil for a single person.
Carlin only needs to watch from a distance as she solves various problems using unusual methods, and occasionally deals with a few blind monsters. Unfortunately, there are no special trophies.
Two days passed quickly. Lilia headed east and was about to leave the Mevozadan Forest. There was a barren basin with a large number of piles of rocks and some small puddles, with almost no plants growing.
With Karin's eyesight, he could see bird's nest-like branches and nests made of weeds hidden among the rocks from a distance, and some of the nests even contained small red birds.
However, this salt-bath thunderskin walks on its two claws and cannot fly.
He saw it, but it seemed that he shouldn't say it, so Karin followed his usual practice of letting go of his hearing, slightly closing the straight distance between him and Lilia, and followed slowly, while picking a few leaves from roadside plants.
After careful observation, Lilia chose a nest far away from other birds and waited for the salt-bath thundersnake to forage.
Then came the surprise attack!
Lilia took the opportunity to drink various potions, cast multiple spells on herself, and then used flammable water and explosive alchemy items as a signal to start the battle.
This monster was also quite violent, and regardless of the fact that its body was still burning, it spat out lightning at Lilia.
The anti-shock potion Lilia drank and the anti-shock equipment she carried resolved most of the damage. Of course, her hair was still stood up due to the electricity.
The battle ended quickly, and Lilia only used two shells to kill the monster.
However, other Salt Bath Thunderbirds also ran over, moving very slowly.
Lilia quickly took away a few feathers that were not burnt, and cut their heads bloody to look for them.
But there is no core of origin, and then there is escape!
One day longer than expected, Karin followed Lilia and returned to Lawton safely.
Li Lian waited at the city gate for what seemed like a long time, but when he saw Lilia coming back, he flew into the sky and began to express his greetings. It really didn't look like a normal relationship. But Lilia reacted very strangely because of her shyness.
After four days, Carlin also got the corresponding commission reward. To be honest, the money came easily, which is great.
Li Lian happily took Lilia to find her grandfather.
After a brief farewell, Carlin learned that the staff member of the Explorers Association had not applied for a suitable commission.
So Carlin first went to get the clothes he had ordered before, and then went to the grocery store to replenish dry food for a few days.
When Carlin went to get clothes and buy dry food, he had to pay directly with Paise due to lack of copper coins. After all, those Mels were small coins that Carlin did not need to pay too much attention to. For a dozen or a few coins
It would be much more inappropriate to waste time with ten copper coins.
The problem of insufficient number of Lawton copper coins has become more and more serious. During this process, no one else was seen trading in other ways than coins. After all, this is not a primitive society of barter.
It was past lunch time after finishing these things, but Carlin was not hungry. He planned to visit the shops along the street, and asked where the nearest pub was. There were not many people inside at this time.
Tutu ordered two drinks that were not too strong. When paying, he looked to see if the boss was also complaining about the lack of copper.
But since Carlin paid without change, the waiter naturally looked relaxed.
There must have been a lot of conflicts over copper coins in the past, especially for drunkards. It would be too troublesome to get drunk and cause trouble.
"Brother, is there a shortage of change in the city recently? I went to several stores and they were like this." So after Carlin gave the money, he chatted with the waiter and asked about the situation.
"Passenger or traveler?" Since the indentation of Carlin's equipment is not exposed, ordinary people cannot tell the identity of the explorer. "Lawton began to run out of copper coins a long time ago, and the long-standing dissatisfaction has only recently shown itself.
In order to solve the problem of copper coins, the people of Lawton used to pay a lot of money to buy copper coins from other towns. I left the village and came to Lawton at that time, and I had heard about all this." The waiter looked a little nostalgic.
"Five years ago, the population of Lawton was less than half of what it is now. The ruling nobles ordered the revitalization of the college district. It was a good decision, attracting so many outsiders." This waiter's views are completely different from ordinary people. It may be that the accumulated work in the tavern has made him tired.
He had his own unique idea. Even Carlin, an outsider, felt that the answer was logical enough and tenable.
Then the waiter brought Carlin a second glass of sparkling wine.
"There is something like this... maybe there is not enough copper ore." Karin didn't ask any more questions, picked up the cup and took a few sips. He glanced around habitually, cleared his mind, and began to be in a daze for a short time.
The waiter went back to the counter to clean the glasses, and most of the few drinkers left directly after enjoying a glass of wine.
After drinking, Carlin went to the blacksmith shop to see how the business was doing there at this time.
When he arrived at the place, he found that no one was there during the lunch break. The apprentices were eating and did not see the old blacksmith.
Now that he had rested, Carlin planned to go out of the city to visit the forest again, this time heading towards the southeast direction that explorers rarely went to after going out.
Tutu killed more than a dozen monsters, but gained nothing. When he wanted to move on, an arrow shot through the air and was nailed to the tree trunk next to him. However, when he let go of his hearing, he did not hear anyone.
Stir the bowstring.
Just like the information Kalin learned before, he didn't take it to heart. [Is it so far away? I seem to know why those people didn't come.] Kalin didn't go any further, looked at the arrow, and turned around.
He looked towards the direction of the arrow. But he couldn't count on a good view inside the forest, as it was blocked by trees ten meters away.
He waved and turned to leave, but he quickly stopped behind a nearby tree, intending to "listen" to see if anyone was coming to retrieve the arrow.
I'm afraid that either the opponent's hiding skills are legendary, or they are attacking outside the range of Carlin's super hearing.
However, long-range attacks will be greatly weakened in such a place with countless shelters, which also means that if it is the latter, then the target has quite terrifying extraordinary skill shooting capabilities.
After Kalin stopped, another arrow was shot from another direction, this time it was inserted directly into Kalin's feet.
The distance just got closer, and it was time to take a closer look. It was a pure wooden arrow. Carlin didn't see the arrowhead before because it was nailed into the tree, but this time Carlin saw the tail end of the arrow - it looked like
It grows like this naturally.
You must know that the tails of human arrows are always made of feathers or metal, while the arrowheads are only made of metal.
The other party's warning was already very obvious. If he repeated it again and again, he would probably attack directly next time. Karin looked around to confirm where he came from so as not to be beaten again, and then he grabbed a handful of weeds or dry matter.
Ye pinched it in his hand, preparing to pull out the arrow and return the way he came.
However, his hold caused an arrow to pierce his shoulder. Then the wooden arrow quickly withered and soon entered a state of dehydration, just like the arrows on the ground.
"Okay, I don't want it anymore! I'm leaving." The other party didn't even intend to let him take away the arrow. Karin was still very disappointed about this. He simply ran away and finally left safely. There was no arrow after that.
The arrow is coming.
Kalin confirmed that no one was chasing him anymore, pulled out the arrows on his body, stuffed them into his bag, and continued to explore in a different direction than before to avoid another conflict. If possible, try to find a time to leave the city.
The direction in which explorers are heading.
Some traces of action were indeed found. After that, Carlin also met other explorers who made commissions, and also killed some monsters. Time slipped by quietly, and nothing changed.
Materials that can only be used to make low-level magic equipment are meaningless to Kalin, and materials that are not commissioned cannot be sold for money. He is not good at dismantling corpses, but he still collected low-level monsters from the Mevozadan Forest.
Or there are some materials on mid-level monsters that I don’t know if they can be used, but they can’t be sold for money anyway.
Karin took a break and looked around to see if there were any taller trees with many branches. He found one, climbed up and thought about it. Except for the half-elf village, there were no threatening monsters in this forest.
Not even a single high-level monster was discovered, and ordinary high-level monsters could not threaten him.
There is no point in continuing to stay in this forest. It is just a waste of skills. Ordinary low-level monsters don't even need to shoot, they will die with one kick...