The drizzle of rain fell on every corner of the mountain city of Helensa.
The stone pavement on the streets, the gray tiles on the roofs, the clock tower towering on the garden square and the oak ridge outside the city.
The man in black who came out of the White Elephant Trading Company put a hood over his head. The cold wind blew into his neck. He tightened his collar, revealing thin and slender fingers.
He walked to the door of a magic grocery store and said dryly to the shop's voice: "Please give me a copy of the Imperial City Magic Newspaper. I want the latest one from last month."
The shop owner walked out of the room and handed him a magic newspaper.
Before the shop owner could tell the price of the magic newspaper, he placed the seven silver coins he had prepared on the wooden table at the door of the shop, stuffed the magic newspaper into his arms, held his collar with one hand and walked into the drizzle.
middle.
There were only a few pedestrians on the street, and a magic caravan sped away from the street.
He coughed slightly and turned into a narrow alley.
The end of the alley is connected to a back street. There is a back street between almost every two main streets in Helensa City. Domestic garbage is usually piled on the back street. Every morning, the night watchman will gather these domestic garbage before the street lights go out.
Clean it up.
He leaned against the shadow of the corner of the back street and lit the pipe, brought it to his mouth tremblingly, took two strong puffs, and then coughed violently.
As the violent coughing suddenly stopped, he leaned down, bent into the shape of a shrimp, and fell silently into the garbage. The walnut pipe inlaid with gold wire in his hand rolled down on the mud.
On the ground, tobacco shreds were scattered, and sparks flew in the wind.
A maid walked to the back street with a bucket of garbage. Just as she was piling garbage in the corner, she saw a stiff corpse lying in the garbage. She was so frightened that her face turned pale. She fell down on the dirt and screamed.
A hysterical scream...
Not long after, several knights from the guard camp of Helensa City gathered around the garbage dump in the back street and launched a series of investigations on the body...
…
Almost at the same time, Suldak walked into the White Elephant Trading Company. He bypassed the lobby on the first floor and climbed to the second floor. Stopping in front of a wooden door, he adjusted his leather armor before knocking on the door.
wooden door.
‘Tuk Tuk Tuk’
"Please come in!"
The calm voice of Magician Dale came from the room.
Surdak opened the door and walked in. The tall magician raised his head, greeted Surdak warmly and said:
"Knight Surdak, why are you here? Everything goes well recently?"
Surdak walked into the room and saw Magician Dale reading a magic book. He walked to the opposite side of Magician Dale and said with a smile:
“Everything is fine!”
Surdak asked straight to the point: "Magic Dale, I came to the trading company this time mainly because I want to buy some saltpeter. Is there such a material in the trading company?"
Magician Dale had the burly figure of a northern man. There was a hint of surprise on his face and he said:
"Saltpeter is a magic material used by ice magicians to assist in casting spells. It is stocked in many magic grocery stores. Many scroll-making masters like to grind saltpeter into powder and add it to pure white ink to increase the power of ice magic scrolls. This total magic
Very few people will use the material, but our firm happens to be engaged in this aspect of trade."
Then, he shouted into the next room:
"Miss Linda, call Manager Joey for me. If he's not here, ask the manager on duty to come over..."
A sweet voice immediately replied: "Okay, Magician Dale!"
Magician Dale leaned back on his chair, pinched his eyebrows with his hands, and said: "Knight Surdak, are you here at White Elephant Trading Company to trade sulfur ore?"
Surdak said: "That's right, Magician Dale, this time I brought six carts of sulfur ore."
Magician Daler showed a true expression on his face and asked Surdak again:
"From last winter to now, our trading company has received fifteen loads of sulfur ore one after another. Such a large amount of sulfur ore should not be the trophies brought back during the adventure. Do you own a small sulfur mine?"
Surdak answered calmly:
"Yes, I happened to find a small sulfur open-pit mine in my knight territory."
Magician Dale asked with a surprised look on his face:
"Is your knighthood in the southern mountainous area of Mount Paglos deep in the deserted land?"
Suldak nodded: "It's over there..."
It seems that it is no secret that Pudu Mountain has sulfur mines, Suldak thought to himself.
Magician Dale nodded and said calmly:
"Although it's not a good place there, there are indeed sulfur mines."
Then he crossed his hands, supported himself on the desk, and said to Suldak: "I think we can sign a framework agreement. I can purchase the sulfur ore in your hands at a price better than the market price, but you must guarantee this part of the sulfur ore."
Give priority to supplying to our firm."
From time to time, a flash of electric arc flashed in one of Mage Daler's eyes, and he saw Surdak's trump card at a glance.
Surdak smiled bitterly and said: "I came to you just to discuss a deal with you... In addition to some saltpeter, I also want to ask you to help purchase some..." As he said this, he took it from his arms.
Taking out a piece of parchment, which clearly listed the purchase details of a large amount of steel bars and thin steel wires, he pushed the request in front of the magician Dahle.
Manager Joey walked in from outside the room at this time and said to Magician Dale: "Sir, are you calling me?"
Then, his eyes fell on Surdak, and he quickly greeted Surdak: "Hello, Knight Surdak!"
Magician Dale directly handed the purchasing details to Manager Joey and asked him: "How long will it take to prepare all the goods on the list?"
Manager Joey took a rough look at the above content and said: "It will take about a month, and these steel materials need to be customized from the blacksmith workshop in Bena City!"
"Arrange it as soon as possible, I need the best price and the fastest speed!" Magician Dale waved his hand to Manager Joey and said.
"Okay! Sir, as you ordered, we will do it right away!" Manager Joey immediately put the parchment into his arms, saluted and said.
"Then I wish us happy cooperation!" Magician Dale said to Surdak.
"Happy cooperation!" Surdak stood up and responded.
On his purchase list was a purchase order for steel bars with an amount of up to 500 gold coins. In addition to paying the first deposit, Surdak's subsequent payments will be deducted from sulfur ore. The first-level storage in Wall Village
After the completion of the reservoir, a large dike for the secondary reservoir will be built immediately. The length of this dike is almost twice the length of the primary reservoir dike. Therefore, the steel keel required for the cement embankment has become the current priority purchase.
s material.
Not long after, Suldak walked out of the White Elephant Trading Company and met up with Andrew, Samira and Gulitem who were waiting outside the trading house. Suldak then took the six four-wheeled trucks in the village to the sea.
Lanza Free Market. At this time, the price of cassava in the free market had nearly doubled from half a month ago. At the request of the old village chief, Suldak bought some wheat bran and some low-priced beans.
The old village chief believes that these kobold slaves are currently engaged in physical labor digging river channels, and eating those cassava, which has a certain degree of toxicity, will greatly affect the progress of the digging.
Therefore, the old village chief proposed that Surdak purchase a batch of wheat bran and beans in Helensa City this time. When there was a famine in Wall Village, the villagers often ate these two foods, cooked with some tree rice.
The multigrain porridge that comes out is much better than cassava.
Surdak loaded six carriages according to the old village chief's instructions, and then left the city of Hiranza with six four-wheeled trucks.
…
Two days later, Hathaway and Beatrice boarded the magic airship bound for Bena City and quietly left Helensa City.
After the victory in the war on the Maca Plane, Marquis Luther became a new member of the upper-class nobility of Bena Province. Not only did he receive praise from Duke Newman, but the members of Marquis Luther's family were also thoroughly investigated by many powerful families who wanted to form alliances.
In order to convey the signal of alliance, some letters of visit and engagement letters piled up on Marquis Luther's desk like snowflakes.
Among them are some engagement letters that hope to marry the daughter of Marquis Luther.
In a letter written to his daughter Hathaway, Marquis Luther clearly stated that he had found an outstanding young nobleman for his daughter and hoped that Hathaway would consider it carefully.
This is one of the reasons why Hathaway hurriedly returned to Bena City.
…
On the way back to Wall Village, Suldak was sitting in a four-wheeled truck. He took the opportunity to open Cyrus Hickok's magic notebook and saw Celia Cooper closing her eyes on the page.
Relaxing, under the dazzling sunlight, Celia Cooper's figure instantly dimmed a lot.
Celia Cooper let out a mental scream, and Suldak hurriedly closed the magic notebook.
Surdak put the magic notebook in a shadow and opened it again. Only then did he see Celia Cooper looking furious, complaining to Surdak in the cage of the book pages,
Her figure on the page also became darker.
"Suldak, you definitely did it on purpose this time..."
Celia Cooper roared loudly at Suldak.
The communication between them does not rely on sound, but on the spiritual level. It looks like Surdak is sitting in a four-wheeled truck and looking through a magic notebook.
"...I'm sorry, Celia Cooper." Suldak also felt that he was a bit reckless this time and quickly expressed his apology.
But Celia Cooper on the page only gives Suldak a dim back view.
Surdak scratched his head and asked:
"Ms. Celia, what can I do to make you feel like you were before?"
Celia Cooper turned around and communicated with Suldak: "Hmph... Only the soul fire of the undead can restore some strength to me. After all, I also belong to the soul form."
Suldak knew that soul fire could strengthen Celia Cooper's soul, but there were almost no undead near the city of Helensa. He said with some embarrassment: "Well, there are no undead near Helensa.
…”
"How is it possible? There will always be some lost souls where the dead are buried. They cannot ascend to the kingdom of God, and they cannot enter the underworld of the dead." Celia Cooper said to Suldak.
Suldak touched his nose and asked Celia Cooper: "You mean the cemetery?"
"That's right there..."
Surdak thought for a while, and found that the two cemeteries outside Helensa City were not in this direction. It seemed that only the top of the mountain outside the mountain pass was the mass grave of local villagers. Although he didn't want to go, but considering
If you have any problems in the future, ask Celia Cooper for help. The relationship with her should not be too tense, so I had to bite the bullet and say: "Okay, when we pass the Paglos Pass, I will take you to the top of the mountain.
, I hope there will be some unexpected gains.”
Seeing that Suldak agreed to help her collect soul power, Celia Cooper's expression became less ugly.
Asked Suldak: "What do you want from me?"
Surdak then talked to Celia Cooper about some issues about magic pattern colonization. He was a little confused about these issues. Scholar Ferdinand did not give Surdak some definite answers. Now Surdak asked again
Celia Cooper brought it up.
"You just want to talk to me about this?" Celia Cooper scratched her hair irritably and asked Suldak.
Surdak nodded.
"Aren't you an expert on this?" Celia Cooper's face just didn't say 'How do I know?'
But then, she pondered for a moment before saying to Suldak:
"Although I don't understand how you did it, in fact this matter is actually far from as simple as you think. Whether it is the inscription master of the Magic Guild of the Green Empire or the great magician of our Black Magic Hermitage, no matter
Knowing how many magicians spend their whole life trying to figure out how to obtain the magic pattern of life and then provide high-quality magic pattern substrate for magic pattern breeding equipment, obviously at this point, you are already ahead of the vast majority of magicians.
.”
"After so many years, apart from knowing that the magic pattern of life is composed of rune words, how many people have actually seen the rune words?"
"The fact that you were able to successfully implant a magic pattern clothing into that half-elf girl shows that you have a certain understanding of magic pattern clothing, and I... am not a scholar in this field of magic. I am better at space magic.
Matrix composition, I can’t give you any better advice on this.”
Suldak finally heard something useful from Celia Cooper's last words, and listened to her:
"In my opinion, your biggest advantage is that you can find some very complete life magic patterns..."
As for the fact that he could see the life magic patterns contained in the monsters, Surdak knew that this was because he had the 'eye of truth'.
After chatting with Celia Cooper for a while, she saw that Celia Cooper looked tired. This kind of communication was very draining on her mental energy. Suldak decisively told Celia Cooper.
He said "Have a good rest, see you later" and then closed the magic notebook.
Surdak called Samira over again and checked the magic pattern implanted in her right arm. He found that the magic pattern of the power of the demon ape was fused with her arm, leaving only the right shoulder.
There were cyan lines. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see any traces of the Great Demon Ape's magic skin. It felt like a delicate tattoo was drawn on her upper arm...