Rhodes explained the social hierarchy of the Disa Alliance from the perspective of a slave trader. Wiltok did not understand what he meant by saying this, but the half-elf professionals fell silent, seeming to be thinking about their future.
After a while, the archer Lisen was the first to ask: "Captain, do you mean that I have no chance of being promoted to a venerable person?"
"No."
Rhodes glanced at him indifferently and said: "You are more talented than me, but it's a pity that you are an archer from the legion. They will tell you that it is difficult for legion professionals to be promoted and they need a lot of resources to have a chance to go to Dragon Nest City.
Hold the secret ceremony of promotion. I tell you now, this is a complete lie."
"How is your talent compared to Bottom, the Red Lion of the Adventurer's House? Have you accumulated more wealth than Bottom over the years? Even Bottom, the Red Lion, can't be promoted to the fifth level, how could you?
Chance?"
Lison clenched his fists and then unclenched them, and said depressedly: "Then why have I worked hard to make money all these years?"
"Suddenly losing your goal, you feel that what you are doing is meaningless, but it is meaningful to the high nobles."
Rhodes unfolded his wet cloak, put it in front of the fire to bake, and said: "The lives of the highland nobles are precious, and they are also afraid that the civilian professionals will go crazy one day and assassinate them. Highland City gives the civilian professionals a little hope,
To prevent you from messing around."
Li Sen smiled bitterly and said: "In the end, this hope is also a lie to half-elves. No matter how hard we try, we can't climb up..."
Captain Rhodes ignored him, looked at Huck and Max, and said: "Adventurers in the alliance say that if you have wealth, you will have everything. This sounds reasonable, but I don't believe it at all! The adventurer's home is in Braun
The wealth accumulated in the town is amazing, but it is far from the level of the wealthy families in the lower states. I dare say that my former master is definitely richer and more powerful than you. Didn’t he go bankrupt inexplicably and all his children and relatives died? "
"The famous families in the highlands control the promotion path and the places to go to Dragon's Nest City. It is easy for them to train fifth-level lords. No matter how rich the wealthy families are in the lower country, they have no way to please the Dragon King Palace, so they can only ask the highland nobles. They say a quota
No matter how much money you have, we are all making it for them. If you don't give it, others will naturally deal with you, just like my former master."
"Rod, if you have something to say, just say it." Max said dissatisfied.
The slave trader smiled and said to Huck first: "Master Huck is a strong man with a mirror heart, but you are no longer young. You rely on Dr. Cole's secret medicine to stay active, but your physical fitness and strength will inevitably continue to decline.
"
Am I old? No... Huck touched his short, stiff hair with doubts on his face. His hair used to be soft, but after eating the eggs of the shadow lurker, it became thorny again, like
Angry hedgehog.
Rhodes said to the Dark Hunter again: "Lord Max, you have been cursed by the cold-hearted curse of the Orc Shaman. Ordinary medical methods are of no use to you."
"I heard that a secret ritual needs to be held?" Max said hesitantly.
The leader of the Iron Cross talked about secrets that ordinary half-elves could not touch today, showing that he had extraordinary knowledge. Max also put aside his contempt for Rhodes.
Rhodes said: "It's the Mystery of Promotion... Only the Mystery of Promotion can lift your cold-hearted curse, but you are a fourth-level dark hunter from the Legion, so you can't be promoted to the fifth-level Venerable. However, there is still hope.
.Transferring the Dragon Vein can increase the life level. Problems such as aging, decline, and cold-hearted curse can be solved, and super physical fitness, strength, agility, physique, and intelligence will be greatly improved. If Mr. Hacker transfers to the third level
The dragon-veined half-elf's personal strength should not be much worse than that of Xiulant from the famous Golden Oak family."
Huck took a bite of the mutton leg disapprovingly. He only listened to Wiltok now. Rhodes wanted to win over him, but there was no way.
Max's eyes flashed and he asked: "Isn't it that simple?"
"There must be a way."
Rhodes nodded and said: "Dragon-veined half-elves are the strongest force that the highland families rely on. They only select members from the servants to form powerful dragon cavalry. It is the consensus of the highland families that the dragon-vein channels should not leak out. However, there are exceptions to everything.
.”
"I work for the famous Yinpanjiao family, and I can introduce you to Yinpanjiao." Rhodes said with a smile: "Yinpanjiao's rise in Highland City is rapid, and there are not so many rules. With Master Huck's
With the strength, Master Max’s experience, and my guarantee, the famous Yinpanjiao family will definitely not be stingy with the two dragon vein quotas.”
Huck heard that Rhodes was poaching Vertok for the Highland nobles. He said with cold eyes: "Silver Plate Corner? Never heard of it. Are they slave traders too?"
Very few adventurers talked about "slave traders" with Rhodes in person. Huck did not hide his disgust and contempt for slave traders at all.
Rhodes didn't pay attention to his tone, and said with an unchanging smile: "Yinpanjiao started his business by selling slaves, and has a bad reputation. But in this world, no one is more innocent than anyone else. The Adventurer's House relies on the secret medicine of awakening and the secret medicine of sublimation.
, there are also mixed-race training camps, making money in Braun Town, instead of sucking blood from various adventure groups? How different are you from those famous nobles in what you do?"
Hack suddenly looked fierce, but Wiltok raised his hand to stop him and said to Rhodes: "The Adventurer's House I saw is helping the half-breeds find a way out."
"Then we are all equally noble." Rhodes said with a serious expression: "Famous families bully wealthy families, wealthy families bully commoners, and commoners bully barbarians. If the half-elf commoners don't have barbarians to bully, do you know what they will do? The Disa Alliance has
For a period of time, the bandit group rose up and formed a rebellion. The Earth Temple suppressed it with an iron fist, eventually causing the death and injury of more than 200,000 half-elves. This was the root cause of the Earth Temple's loss of power. After the alliance's bandit civil strife was settled, the city-state council was first formed
The Adventurer's Guild hopes to restrain those civilian professionals who have armed forces. Unfortunately, the effect is not obvious, and it is difficult to distinguish between adventure groups and thieves groups. It was not until the city-state council began to implement slavery that the security situation in the alliance began to improve.
Although there are still some gangs of thieves, their activities are not as rampant as before."
"There have always been people within the Alliance who have proposed the abolition of slavery. Haha, this is really ridiculous. If the Abolition of Slavery Act is passed, how will the barbarian slaves in the Alliance survive? They will all launch a rebellion!"
Rhodes realized that he was a little excited, breathed a sigh of relief, and said sincerely: "I am offering you a way out of good intentions. You can think about it, and when you think about it, come to me at any time, and I will definitely make arrangements for you.
"
Wiltok tilted his head, stared into Rhodes's eyes, and said after a while: "You haven't told me yet about the professions exclusive to famous families in the highlands."
Rhode's heart dropped instantly. A few days ago, he saw Wiltok's appearance after his disguise, and he didn't think much about it. However, in the past two days, Wiltok's split to win over the Iron Cross Group aroused Rhode's vigilance.
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, and I suspected that Wiltok had plans to kill and silence him.
The slave trader's performance just now was to show off his network resources, but the target of his performance was actually the professionals of the Iron Cross Regiment, telling them not to betray their leader if they wanted to change the dragon's vein.
This is precisely the most dangerous moment.
Rhodes could not see through the details of Vertok at all. If the opponent suddenly attacked, with Hack's strength, the Iron Cross Regiment would not be able to withstand the attack of a strong man with a mirror heart.
Fortunately, everything is over.
Rhodes smiled and said: "I don't know much about the exclusive professions of the famous families in the highlands. I know two. The Golden Nightingale family in Rapid City has moonlight dancers, and they master the unique 'Wind Spear'. The current patriarch of the Golden Nightingale family
Croton is a level 8 moonlight dancer. It is said that his wind spear skills are invincible and he has no rivals in the entire alliance. Another exclusive profession is the 'Balance King' of the Golden Winged Angels."
"It is said that the 'King of Balance' has no expertise. After igniting the secret blood, their strength, agility, intelligence, and physique are all outstanding. They can use some abilities of other professions, and their individual strength is extremely powerful."
Huck and Max both glanced at Wiltok involuntarily.
The Balance King has no expertise, but his strength, agility, intelligence, and physique are all outstanding, and his combat power is extremely powerful. Isn't this Vertok?
Could it be that Wiltok is actually the heir to the famous Winged Angel family, and he lived in Braun Town because he was murdered?
"Balance is perfection." Wiltok commented inexplicably, then frowned and asked: "Where is the famous winged angel family?"
Rhodes coughed and said: "The famous Winged Angel family alone occupies the City of Light, which is the largest city-state in the Disa Alliance, the headquarters of the Goddess Sect, the headquarters of the Adventure Guild, the headquarters of the Dragon King Palace, and the headquarters of the Alliance's Supreme Council...
She is the first city-state of the Disa League and is ruled by the head of the Pillar Gate."
"City of Light, the famous Winged Angels family... I must go and see it." Wiltok was fascinated, and then looked at Rhodes with a half-smile, and asked: "You said you took refuge in the famous Yinpanjiao family, how could you know that?
What a secret?"
Cold sweat broke out on Rhode's forehead. He knew that he was careless and let the news slip, and Vertok saw the clues.
Just as he was turning his brain to try to remedy the situation, Max, the secret hunter, suddenly said with a solemn expression:
"No, there is danger approaching, we are being tracked by the enemy!"
Vertok immediately stood up and listened. The night owl in the forest made a cooing sound, and it was difficult for others to detect the message. However, the experience of Goblin Wowo told Vertok that it was the night owl's expression after seeing the jackal.
warn.
"It's the jackals, coming for us."
Rhodes didn't bother to put on his boots and stepped on the bonfire with bare feet. Wiltok reached out and pushed him away to prevent him from extinguishing the fire.
Gnolls have night vision, so extinguishing the campfire has no effect on them, but it has a greater impact on half-elves.
At this time, the unique weird laughter of jackals came from the dark forest. Hu, Hu, Hu's laughter came and went, like the low roar of ghosts in the forest, cold and terrifying, revealing cruel malice, and making it impossible to pinpoint their location.
Jackals are relatively common orcs, possessing level 2 or higher strength, cruel, insidious, cunning and suspicious. They hunt collectively as a family unit, with numbers ranging from a dozen to more than thirty.
Under normal circumstances, well-trained half-elf professionals can completely deal with gnolls. However, the ferocious gnoll ratio is thirty to one. On average, every thirty gnolls will have one ferocious gnoll of level 3 or above.
The ferocious gnoll has wild intuition and can predict danger.
This group of jackals dared to launch a night attack on the half-elf professionals, which shows that they have full confidence in their own strength.
Rhodes and his men couldn't help but look nervous, and even Max turned pale and felt uneasy. If he hadn't been cursed by the orc shaman, he wouldn't be afraid of these orcs at all.
"Viltok, it's still too late for us to move to the forest glade. If we fight the jackals in the woods, we will be at a huge disadvantage!" Max said eagerly.
"Don't panic, stay calm." Wiltok picked up a few hemlock javelins and threw them with all his strength into the dark depths of the forest, regardless of whether they could hit the target.
The fast-flying javelin hit the big tree in the distance, making the sound of wood chips exploding. The howl of the jackal paused obviously, and then continued to echo in the forest.
"These beasts are not going to stop, I have to smash a few hyena heads!" Huck put on his combat boots, cursed, and began to equip himself with two pairs of heavy stainless steel shield blades.
Wiltok suddenly said: "Huck, you roar at them."
"Ah? Shall I roar?"
"Yes." Wiltok nodded affirmatively and added: "The roar must not only be loud, but also let the jackals know that you are very angry now and want to rush over immediately and smash them into pulp."