"What? A diagram of the underground sewer system? What does he want with such a thing?"
That night, after listening to the information presented by Crocker himself, the current head of the Faizat family asked the above questions to the other brothers and uncles around him with a puzzled look on his face.
But of course, if even His Majesty the Great King can't understand something, how can they possibly figure it out?
"It stands to reason that the water conservancy trends on the underground level are not overly confidential information. Considering the other party's status in the Guards and the value he has shown, relevant information can be found in the Royal Capital Library.
Even if it is not completely accurate, it can be roughly matched...
Now he has specifically brought this up... It seems like he wants a 'route' deeper underground, right?"
Several people in the room pondered for a while, and one of them, who looked a few years younger than the elder of the Feizat family and was probably of the same generation, said tentatively.
"You want a 'route'? What a joke~ The smuggling routes under the royal capital have always been expensive... They are forbidden by 'them'! We are not even qualified to touch them. Even though Geralt has unlimited potential... don't talk about his
The potential still needs time to be explored and grown, so what if he becomes a military general in the kingdom in the future? Can the military still extend its hands to the royal capital? "
Another clan uncle, who was much older, was obviously dismissive of "Geralt"'s attitude, and said it very bluntly.
"In the final analysis... it's up to the person to use the information for what purpose. The choice before us now is whether we will accept the other party's offer, and what we should do with the next 'cooperation'
What kind of attitude is it..."
Seeing that the focus of the discussion was about to shift, another person coughed to remind everyone.
After listening to everyone's simple analysis, the current patriarch of the Feizat family, Crocker's uncle, asked him: "What is the quality of those swords you call Geralt forged? Also, you
Are you really sure he made those in one day?"
After hearing the clan leader's question, Crocker straightened up, as if to find some confidence or to appear more confident, and said solemnly: "To be precise, it should be less than a full day and a half...
…Of course, if the other party didn’t use tricks to fool us during the process…
The other party's actions this morning were no different from the past. He also arrived at the guardhouse in the afternoon. After arranging some things, he entered the temporary casting area alone in the courtyard behind the guardhouse. Then there was a loud noise.
The noise of forging.
We spent the whole afternoon training today amidst the noise of each other's casting, which can be regarded as a kind of circumstantial evidence without direct observation... Under such circumstances, when we finally completed the training, the process took about three days.
After a while, we entered the casting area and saw those neatly arranged, seemingly freshly made standard one-handed swords...
The above is all I have observed. As for the quality of those weapons... I dare to swear by my inheritance in the clan! I will never make a mistake!
Even the poorest quality among those one-handed swords is completely comparable to the fine products (excellent grade green) produced in our blacksmith shop. And some of the best ones should be as good as those in our family collection.
The treasures are as different as (premium grade blue)..."
"Isn't there something better? Doesn't the legend say that the boy is a master blacksmith and can already forge rarer and more famous swords? Didn't it say that... the big sword in his hand was made by himself?
?”
The uncle-like elder next to him was obviously more anxious about the top-notch rare weapons that Liu Yifei was "rumored" to be able to forge! After all, weapons of that level could be found as family heirlooms even by the middle-level nobles in the royal capital.
Along with a set of superior full-body armor, it is passed down to future generations and exists as a family legacy~
Weapons and armors of that level are actually enough to be used as "heavy treasures" in large-scale auctions held from time to time in the royal capital!
After all, if this level goes up... they are the real "treasures" of the military level and the national level. At that level, not to mention that it is rare for a master craftsman with that kind of craftsmanship to be prepared.
The production of "materials" is not easy, and it is no longer an area where a noble family dares to take risks...
Because even if you use all your clan's strength to secretly forge a treasure of that level, it will easily be noticed by your opponents and enemies due to the obvious weakening of your clan's power in a short period of time.
If the fact that he is carrying a heavy treasure is exposed... let alone how the hostile forces will rush to bite them, the royal family, which is weighing on all the nobles, cannot easily allow them to continue to hide the "treasures"
"...
Therefore, to a large extent, compared with "treasures" that are difficult to collect, powerful people of all sizes are more attentive to sophisticated and rare instruments that can be "purchased" with secular financial resources - the former can be used as a boost to arm the core subordinates.
, and the latter is the basis of the family's immediate combat power, and it is definitely a treasure that can touch the heartstrings of nobles of all sizes~
"Things of that level have not appeared... but if Geralt's forging skills are really as strong as he showed today... maybe he is just 'practicing' today. When he is ready, he will really
It’s not certain that he can open a furnace and cast a truly powerful tool as he said~”
Crocker bowed. Although he acknowledged the strength of Instructor Geralt verbally, in fact he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart - after all, the reason why he suffered so much in the first place was not because of the "Greed" in the opponent's hand.
"Result?"
Even after the family found out the name and origin of the sword, many young people of his generation privately mocked Crocker for his stupidity. The sword really aroused the greed in his heart, and almost caused him to be killed.
The whole family had to pay a huge price for him...
"Okay~ The news you brought back today is very important. Let's leave it like this for now. Go down and rest quickly. You must also pay close attention to your daily training... No matter what grudges you had with that guy before, at least if you are not strong enough
Before confronting others, you must learn the minimum respect and concession~"
"Yes~"
These words coming from the patriarch's mouth are nothing more than a final reply to Crocker - anyway, no one in the family will stand up for him to provoke Geralt in the foreseeable future, and Crocker himself will also want to
Be careful and be sure not to let anything fall into the hands of the other party!
Although getting such a result made Crocker Feizat suffer a big loss before, especially his self-esteem and self-confidence, which were devastated, he was still sad, but it was actually enough for him to breathe a sigh of relief~
Because in the past few months, the family's punishment details for him have not been announced, which has made him worry for a long time, and he is even afraid of affecting his future succession order in the family... Let's not talk about the real inheritance rights in the future.
Even the monthly increase or decrease in clan gold is very worrying!
It’s fine now~
Although there is no bargain, it seems that there will be no subsequent additional punishment...
Crocker, who felt relieved, finally resigned and left. As for how the family would deal with the "cooperation conditions" proposed by instructor Geralt, that was obviously not something he, a younger nephew, was qualified to intervene in.
But soon, Crocker, as the natural "microphone" between the family and Geralt, learned some of the details of the cooperation - for this "peerless genius" who had made a big splash in the capital a while ago,
It was obvious that the Feizat family wanted to curry favor with them, and the family actually did as the other party said and handed over all the information about the underground waterways of the royal capital that their family had collected to the other party...
The construction of Standwick City even dates back to before the official establishment of the Kingdom of Erathia!
The history of the kingdom is a little vague in this area——
It is unknown whether the founding king of the country, Lien Griffin, first received support from the ancient Bracaton Empire, unified many nomadic tribes on the Great Plains, and then established Standwick City.
Then he killed Tanan, the great enemy at the time...
Or maybe they first defeated Bracaton’s great enemy Tanan, and then built Standwick City while the Bracaton Empire was licking its wounds and had no time to look outside...
In short, compared to the Kingdom of Erathia, Standwick City, which existed as the royal capital, must have appeared outside the Five Lakes region first~
However, there have been slight migration changes in the main city of Standwick in history. In addition, over the past thousand years, in order to solve the increasingly huge and complex drainage problems of the royal capital, the drainage system under the royal capital has been expanded again and again.
Expanding, even now, the underground has actually been divided into three levels one after another like an "underground world" - the first underground layer, which is generally called the "safe zone" of the "sewer" by ordinary people; the second underground layer, which is known as the "sewer";
There are numerous gangs of thieves, shadow organizations, and "smuggling zones" controlled by nobles for various purposes; as well as the deepest three underground levels, it is said that there are even "shadow zones" where some terrifying and dangerous dark creatures lurk...
The "conditions" Liu Yifei put forward before did not clearly indicate the extent of the "underground sewer structure map" he wanted, but in fact the understanding of this issue itself represented the various minor nobles Liu Yifei contacted and the people standing behind them.
The sincerity and strength of higher-end forces!
The information on the "Safe Zone" is recorded in relatively detail in the Royal Capital Library. If someone really gives such superficial information... then this doesn't mean that their intention to cooperate with Liu Yifei is not strong.
And it was simply an insult to Liu Yifei's wisdom as a human being in his two lifetimes!
After all, a certain reborn idiot knows quite a bit about the value and significance of this "hidden map" underground in the royal capital~
Even until the future of the Royal Capital was destroyed and Queen Catherine returned to Entagri, several dungeons of varying difficulty were excavated underground at the old site of the Royal Capital. It was definitely the area with the highest average density of dungeons produced in Erathia!
!
In this life, Liu Yifei borrowed the help of the local nobles in the royal capital because he wanted to save himself the time and cost of exploring the map so that he could master the key information he needed as soon as possible...
Fortunately, when he entered the plot of the royal capital the next day, Liu Yifei had already received replies from various small families. Fortunately, no one was fooling him at this time and only used the news to fool him.
Then at least Liu Yifei can still have some contact with the forces behind these people...
After collecting the information at hand, in the plot, what Liu Yifei needs to do now is to forge weapons and strengthen his forging experience~
However, that night, when the team was about to leave the game, Liu Yifei made a rare request that surprised the team members: everyone will temporarily adjust the game time tomorrow and arrange the centralized online time for 7 p.m.
Between 11 o'clock and 11 o'clock!
As for the reason...
Naturally, it’s because Liu Yifei is going to take everyone to explore the underground world of Standwick!
As soon as I heard that I could finally play something exciting and fresh, Cupid, who had been driven almost crazy by the same basic training every day, was the first to shout loudly!
Except for the good girl Leng Feng Chuanjing who might have to leave the team early because she had to catch up with the dormitory access control, the others basically had no problems. They said hello and went offline to rest...
After going offline, Liu Yifei and Jiang Ruoyi's "logistics" work still had to be arranged intensively - the others were naturally having fun offline, but Liu Yifei still had to take his wife with him to sort out the nobles he had specially recorded.
They gave him all kinds of information about the second floor of the underground sewer, which is the "smuggling area", and integrated the intelligence from several companies, and finally tried to draw a relatively complete distribution map of the forces on the second underground floor...
…
There was nothing to say all night. The next day, Liu Yifei and Jiang Ruoyi even adjusted their online time and did not log in to the game until noon, in order to give as much time as possible to the collective action in the evening...
After finishing dinner early, the two began to wait in the chat room in the forum area.
Soon, other people also joined the chat room through passwords, and soon the entire team of six people was gathered.
"Have you finished dinner and solved all your physical problems?" Liu Yifei asked as usual before entering the game.
But Cupid can no longer wait~
When she thought of being able to go to investigate the huge and complex underground waterways of the capital of Standwick at night, how could she, who was already so active and bellicose, sit still? She immediately urged: "Okay, okay~ I'm not the first
It’s time for a group activity, why are you delaying at this time? GoGoGo~ I must turn Standwick upside down tonight!!”
"Okay! Now that the combination is complete, let's all join the game together~"
The next moment, the six people retreated from the chat room in unison, and met in Standwick City on the big map almost in no particular order... They had even gathered in a tacit understanding at the location where they were offline yesterday.
Form a team and confirm the plot starts!
The next moment, six figures flashed past, but it was the first time they appeared on the streets of Standwick in the night battle mode...
