More than ten minutes later, at the market at the entrance to the Forest of the Sea, Sherlock walked into a simple tavern with the female mage he had rescued.
“Two glasses of lava sally!”
Lava Sally is a kind of wine that is very popular among non-aquatic creatures in Atlas City. Its biggest advantage is that it can get rid of the hot and humid feeling caused by staying in the underwater city for a long time.
As soon as she sat down, Celine immediately thanked her: "Adventurer, thank you for your help. I don't know what I can do to repay you."
In the game, when encountering an NPC in deep trouble, most players will choose to help because the system is set so that their efforts will eventually be rewarded accordingly.
Speaking of which, if there was such a setting in reality, people's moral level might improve rapidly.
Sherlock chose to save this NPC this time, naturally because he hoped to get something from the other party.
"Dear Sword Master, I just heard about your story. I have a friend who really wants to go to the War Mage Academy to study. I wonder if you can give him a chance to continue pursuing the mysteries of magic."
The opportunity to study at the Battle Mage Academy is equivalent to a job transfer scroll.
From the conversation just now, the identity of this NPC has been revealed. He is a sword mage from the Battle Mage Academy, and it seems that his status is not low. If he can get a job transfer scroll from the opponent, he will at least change hands.
It's upwards of 300,000 yuan.
"Sorry, adventurer, although as you guessed, I am a sword mage, but I do not have the right to issue admission qualifications." The female mage said with an apologetic look: "Also, there is no need to use honorifics to me,
Just call me Celine."
"Sherlock." He stretched out his hand and shook it, without forcing it.
That's right, the War Mage is a special profession after all, especially in Cormyr. If its job transfer scroll could be obtained so easily, it wouldn't be as expensive as it is now.
But in this way, he is not in a hurry to cash in this favor, and it is a better choice to use this to enhance the friendship between the two parties.
"Celine, who was chasing you just now?" Sherlock took a sip of wine and asked casually.
In fact, when he saw the unique clown mask, he had already guessed the other party's identity. Later, he became even more convinced when he heard the two people's argument about the Battle Mage Academy.
"You should have heard that he was once a member of our Battle Mage Academy. Eight years ago, he defected due to some reasons. Unexpectedly, he went to the Falling Star Sea and became a pirate."
"A pirate from the Sea of Fallen Stars? What are you doing in Atlas City?"
"I don't know about this, but this is not the first pirate I've seen here. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel like something is going to happen."
"Really, have you encountered other pirates before?" Sherlock continued to ask.
In this operation, the rest of the pirate group are teammates and opponents, so it is necessary to collect their intelligence.
A half-elf druid is naturally more likely to win the favor of others, not to mention that there is a life-saving grace. Celine did not doubt that he was there, and spoke of her previous encounters very frankly.
The incident was a bit beyond Sherlock's expectations. It seemed to have little to do with this operation, but rather overlapped with another of his missions.
The story begins when Celine was in Sembia. She traveled all the way to Sergante, the richest and most arrogant city in Sembia, where she prepared to take an ocean-going ship to Aglalon on the other side of the ocean.
It was on that ship that she met two people.
There was a male orc and a woman. The woman's face was covered with gray-green dirt, her clothes were ragged, and she was hiding behind the orc.
This strange combination immediately caught her attention, but the two men hid in their room as soon as they boarded the ship, so she suppressed her curiosity.
A few days later, a Sambian Royal Navy warship stopped their passenger ship and claimed that someone was conducting human trafficking. Celine immediately thought of that strange combination.
However, when the navy went in to search, they found that the room was empty.
Then a few days later, on the waters near Nanta Island, she encountered Sambia's navy and a group of pirates who were fighting fiercely with them. The cause was of course the same pair of weirdos.
This time she chose to help the navy and learned the identity of the woman from them.
The opponent turned out to be a mermaid, so it was no wonder that the always snobbish Sambia was able to dispatch a Royal Navy to pursue it.
After successfully wiping out this group of pirates, everyone discovered that the mermaid was not on the ship, but was taken to Atlas first.
Although she was a little strange about the intention, Celine still followed the group of marines and chased them down. It wasn't until she discovered the clown that she left the team alone.
In summary, this should be a slave trade involving mermaids, not much different from the trade between Shuijun and Marandi that Sherlock overheard in Winnie Town.
He speculated that there might be some connection between the two, or they were simply the same thing.
If that was the case, he would have to get involved. With the power and influence of the Sembian Royal Navy and the Cormyr War Mage Academy, he might be able to expose the secret behind this slave trade.
"Celine, can your actions bring me with you? As a believer of Sandakol, I really can't accept this happening."
"Of course, I made an appointment with the navy to meet in this tavern." Celine replied happily.
"But I have other things to do in Atlas City, and I don't want to expose my identity yet. Can you cover it for me?" Sherlock said, flashing his Harper badge, and then turned into another one.
Human appearance.
"Are you from the Harper Alliance?" Celine was surprised, and then immediately reflected, "I will help you keep the secret."
The Harper brand is really easy to use, especially for NPCs from the good and lawful camp.
It seems that any strange behavior can become reasonable after being put on this identity.
Sherlock wanted to hide his identity not because he was afraid of being recognized by other pirates. He always used a different face when he appeared on Dragon Island. What he was afraid of was attracting Marandi's attention.
While waiting, he did not waste any time. He inadvertently mentioned the matter of Tillanders. When the Aluminous Link heard the other party speak, he already knew who said those words at the station.
