40.Chapter 40 Sleepy Pillow
"The Chamber of Commerce...there are three blacksmith shops...the layout is different..."
"The location of the grain warehouse is not right, um... in 588, that was the autumn of 590 - something is coming..."
"No... there is no such area here."
Sally followed behind, listening to Roddy's words in confusion, feeling that he was a little dizzy. His eyes occasionally saw the magician's performance in the lively market on the street, but he did not dare to stop casually.
In this era, the existence of magicians was widely accepted by the people, but one thing needs to be different is that the "magicians" that people generally accept are not the terrifying guys who throw fireballs all over the sky and often issue forbidden spells to destroy the world in other games. The so-called "magic" is not a product created simply for destruction and war.
More often, the function of "magic" is to transform and optimize society. Rich lords will hire magicians to use zero-level spells like "Master's Hand" to help do some heavy labor, greatly increasing labor efficiency - zero-level spells, which are also called "kill" spells in the magician's spell classification... Things like "sand-spray", "lighting" and "transmission" exist to facilitate life and entertain the public.
In the troupes similar to those seen by Sally, one or two such magicians usually appear, changing magic tricks, bringing some novelty to the hard-working farmers, and fighting for some hard-earned money, it is also a labor profession.
Roddy had no feelings for these magicians. After the game was opened, "magic" became an unpopular profession for a time. Perhaps this was related to the fact that the early low-level magic professions needed to fight in hand-to-hand... Because there were not many level zero spells in the early stage who had attack power. After working hard to get through experience and get transferred to the dungeon, it was discovered that the power of level one and level two spells was really heartbreaking. Most mages had no patience to support them and transferred their positions, because until the fourth-level spell appeared, the mage profession was almost always the "tail of the crane" in the team, and it was not popular in any case.
However, if any mage has survived the 30th level threshold of an advanced profession, what is waiting for him is the surprise reward after a long period of depression - but now Roddy is not interested in recalling the three-year blood and tears of those mages, but he is very confused about the appearance of the Kige Town in front of him.
Because he found that the town of Kiger in his impression was quite different from the one in front of him. The most obvious one was that the entire Southeast area was not as empty as I remembered, but was full of shops run by various craftsmen, and there was even a large market, bustling...
"In 590...Kige Town was auctioning this property, why?"
Roddy recalled the scene when players started buying real estate after having the first batch of funds after opening the server. The studio supported by the consortium bought land in a crazily manner. Keege Town was cheap because there were a lot of vacant real estate, and it became one of the hot real estate projects at that time... As for the reason, Roddy frowned and thought for a long time, and finally recalled it-
Fire.
A fire burned half of Kiger Town in the fall of 589, which was before the server was launched. Viscount Tlanca was quite distressed for a while. After the server was launched, almost every player here could receive a task assigned by Lord Viscount in the name of the Viscount, in order to restore the original economic level of Kiger Town as soon as possible...
Thinking of this, Roddy's thoughts changed and naturally thought of the path he was going to take next. To fight against orcs and revive the country, it is definitely not a simple thing to climb high and raise his arms and shout out countless people to flock to him. If something can unite this country with a solid social class, then there are only two words:
Benefit.
If people from different classes are separated by bricks and stones, the word "interest" is enough to become solid cement, allowing these guys at different levels to build fortresses and walls.
Roddy, a technical resident, has an absolute advantage in combat, but he has never had much contact with business. After all, he is a lone ranger who always relies on his own to make a living. He occasionally teams up to play dungeons, and he also has a sense of introvertedness of "no one who is new to enter".
In this life, I am afraid I will never be able to travel alone like before. Roddy sighed and raised her head, but found that Sally was beside her, looking at her with curiosity.
"I've been curious...what is thinking in your mind when you are dazed?"
"Here," Roddy pointed to the shops in front of me, "I was thinking about how to buy them and make money for myself."
This made Sally laugh out loud—not because she felt that Roddy was bragging, but because she was amused by the way he spoke.
In the eyes of Sally... or all people in this social system, things like Keege Town shops and markets have not yet been mentioned as "buy". Shops will have commercial guilds, and markets will also register at commercial guilds, but in the end, most of the benefits they generate are owned by the lords - except for the lords, it is basically a dream to make money from this group of people.
"You're such a strange guy, I really don't know why these thoughts popped up in your mind."
Sally pointed to these shops and continued: "These rules have been fixed for hundreds of years. The lords have always been the biggest gainers of interest. Do you want to get a piece of the pie? You have to make sure Viscount Tlanca agrees - but I think the stingy lord will definitely not agree."
Sally knew these nobles in the territory as a family. Roddy remembered her identity as the daughter of the duke and secretly scolded herself for forgetting Sally's ability, but immediately asked for advice humbly.
Sally had never seen Roddy's studious side. After being praised at a young age, she naturally couldn't help but floated up a little. After a few answers, she felt that she had become a "teacher"-like character. This novel feeling had never been experienced by her. She couldn't help but talk a little more. The two of them walked and chatted while walking. When they finally passed through the town and were about to leave the last "supply station" in front of Hollier City, Roddy was satisfied and asked Sally to drink water, and smiled and turned to the front to continue leading the way.
Only then did Sally feel that she seemed to be saying too much, and she was angry and wanted to step up and say a few "harsh words". But just as the two of them were about to leave the entrance of the town in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, a team of cavalry suddenly appeared suddenly broke the relaxed and casual atmosphere.
Sally stopped and stared blankly ahead.
The good luck of walking through Jingyu Forest seemed to have ended here. Sally looked in front of her and almost exclaimed, because... Among the more than ten cavalrymen in the row, the leader was the object she was hiding at this time...
Francis Russifron!
Of course, Roddy knew Francis too - but he knew the Lord Everta who had a beard on his lips several years later and was ordered to be hanged by the Legion Commander Soderol. At this moment, Francis was much younger than that. His half-length blonde hair was meticulous, his not-gorgeous but well-cut leather armor, and his erect figure made him stand out among the soldiers.
It was getting late at this time, and Roddy didn't have to think about it and realized that the other party was coming here from the direction of Vic Village to prepare for a night of rest. The horses were exhausted, and the soldiers' lips were even chapped - and what worried Roddy the most was that at this time, the group of cavalry, who were fifty meters away, jumped off their horses and walked into Kige Town, and happened to face Roddy and Sally!
This...is this a fucking coincidence?
At this time, Roddy had no way to turn around because he found that there was no corner to hide in this straight street - looking back? Now even if the wrong move is wrong, it may make Francis, who is thinking about finding Sally, be extremely alert!
what to do?
Roddy suddenly accelerated, and Sally's mood was completely down to the bottom at this time because she also understood what her brother had. Although she tried hard to imitate the movements and expressions of men, Francis, who lived in the Duke's Mansion since childhood, had already possessed the title of "elemental master", and his senses were much sharper than ordinary people. When he was in the Duke's Mansion, he could even accurately judge Sally without seeing her by just taking steps.
Now it seems that Rody and Sally both seem to be trapped in their own traps.
The atmosphere stagnates abnormally in an instant,
At this time, Roddy kept walking because he knew that once he had any abnormal behavior, it might be easier to attract the other party's attention, so he just moved his body silently, blocking Francis's sight and preventing the other party from paying attention to Sally behind him as much as possible. But this was not the only solution. He was extremely anxious at this moment... Could it be that he could only gamble by luck?!
Roddy has never been a person who puts his hopes on his luck. He thought about it, his lips twitched slightly, and he whispered to call out the skill bar - this was the usual practice in the past when he encountered desperate situations, because he understood that sometimes some skills that were not available at all would have miraculous effects. But at this moment, looking at the few skills that were so basic that he could no longer be based, his heart gradually sank to the bottom.
etc!
Roddy suddenly found that there was a lit icon next to his basic skill bar, because after rebirth, he had never summoned the complete skill bar at all. At this moment, the "Equipment Skills" column that should have been empty as expected actually had a skill that he had never paid attention to before.
With his eyes on it, Roddy's footsteps were still constantly, but he frowned and saw a line of words displayed in front of him-
Mysterious necklace
Necklace unique
Use: cast stealth (level 3), lasting for 60 seconds.
Start spell: ol/
"This necklace of unknown origin seems to have gone through many years, but the ability that was once given has not been lost."
This...what is this? Sleepy and give a pillow?
Chapter completed!