The middle-aged man talked endlessly for a long time, paused to signal Ryan that he had any questions to ask.

“How much does the tuition fee for these colleges?”

"The tuition fees for colleges of different levels naturally vary greatly. For example, the best colleges have tuition fees of hundreds or even hundreds of gold coins. The cheapest colleges also cost about ten gold coins. This is the charging level in previous years. The specific charges need to be found out when registering in Skayas City."

“So when will these colleges start signing up?”

"The registration time for Skayas City College is at the beginning of the year every year, now it is early October, and there are more than two months left."

Next, Ryan asked a few more questions. At the end, Ryan asked the last question.

"Where is Skayas City? How to get from Kata City?"

"Let's go west from Kata City, about fifteen days to get there. If you go in a carriage, it only takes about three to four days." After a pause, the middle-aged man still kindly reminded Ryan, "If you want to go to Scayas City, I suggest you don't go alone. There are many robbers along the way, and if you are alone, you can easily be robbed by robbers."

"I suggest you follow the caravan of the brigade, but this requires a certain fee. In addition, if you are a mercenary, you can find a mercenary mission to escort the caravan to Skayas City. Although there is a certain danger, you can earn a commission when you arrive in Skayas City."

Ryan is very grateful to the middle-aged man for this advice. He is very short of money and likes this kind of advice that can make money the most.

After Ryan got the answer he wanted, he walked out of the small room.

The moment he walked out of the room, Ryan suddenly felt that his eyes were open, with hope in front of him, and his whole body was full of motivation.

These 20 silver coins were worth the cost, which made Ryan suddenly realize. Professionals can provide professional answers. For example, Ryan had heard of Skayas City from Dad Moya, but he didn't know anything except the title of "City of Academy". Now he has received detailed answers.

Ryan happily walked out of the Mercenary Association and did not immediately take over the mission to Skayas City, but he did not forget what else to do next.

When he arrived at the street of clearing goods, Ruian did not go in immediately because he thought that it would take a lot of tuition to register, and he didn't know if the money he had on him was enough. If he spent money to buy things now, it might not be enough by then.

But he quickly convinced himself to just look at it and not buy it.

The street stalls on both sides of the street are similar to those during the mercenary competition. There are all kinds of strange things sold, but basically they are the backlogs that cannot be sold before.

For example, in a stall where you buy shoes, there are only a dozen pairs of shoes with either small sizes or large sizes, so you are dealing with a big price reduction, but those who want to buy seem to want merchants to lower the price again, and both sides keep bargaining.

For example, some weapons sellers now sell many of the weapons are old and damaged, but there are still many people who are short of money who want to, and are also bargaining.

In addition to conventional swords, shields, and armor, weapons also have many strange items. Ruian saw them with relish and listened to the introductions of merchants.

The items were very attractive, but Ryan still remembered that he should not spend money randomly. He kept reminding himself that he could not use these things, and spending money was just a waste.

However, when Ryan saw a crossbow, he suddenly left behind the idea of ​​not spending money.

Strictly speaking, a broken crossbow was lying among dozens of bows. The unique shape made it stand out from the crowd and was very eye-catching. However, a very deep sword mark on the crossbow bow was also equally eye-catching.

Above the crossbow, there is a typical short bow shape, one and a half feet wide, and the black bow strings thick with chopsticks appear low-key, but it is difficult for people who have seen it to ignore it. Below the crossbow is a vertical direction, supporting the bow body and a handle for launching switches.

The bow string and handle are still intact, but the problem lies in the arrow groove and the bow body. This crossbow has no arrow groove and has a sword mark one-third of the depth of the bow body. This also leads to many people picking up this crossbow to watch, but they have never bought it. Because without the arrow groove, the crossbow cannot be fired, and the sword mark on the bow body means that the bow body may break after being used for most times.

He heard from the merchant selling this crossbow that this crossbow is a family heirloom of a thief and has a history of hundreds of years. Unfortunately, when facing a very powerful swordsman, the thief was slashed on the crossbow with a swordsman, splitting the arrow groove and splitting the bow one-third. Then the thief was slashed in half by a swordsman.

This very damaged crossbow was sold to the merchant at a low price as a swordsman's victory product. If it weren't for the swordsman's powerful fighting spirit, the merchant would not have purchased the bow body at once, which shows that the materials on the bow body were extraordinary, but the merchant would not have purchased it. However, the crossbow was sold for a long time but not sold, which made the merchant very regretful.

Ryan liked this crossbow very much because he knew that he did not have the ability to attack from a distance. In this world, except for magicians and advanced swordsmen who can fire sword blades, there are only archers. It is too difficult to ask Ryan to learn archery skills now. So when Ryan saw this crossbow, he remembered the guns in his previous life, which were powerful and simple to operate. However, there were too few crossbows in this world. The main reason was material problems and structural problems, which resulted in the power not as great as Ryan imagined, and the accuracy was not as accurate as Ryan thought, and it took too long to replace the slow arrow.

Looking at the crossbow in his hand, Ryan kept thinking about how to recover. After a moment, he had an idea and felt that the crossbow had not been completely scrapped. He could try to repair it, and even increase its power.

Seeing that the merchant was looking at him with a fiery look, Ruian calmly put down the crossbow bow, and then picked up several other longbows on the stall to take a look at it in detail. Then, Ruian looked disappointed and turned around to leave. However, after Ruian took two steps, he turned around and asked the merchant: "How much does this crossbow cost?"

"1 gold coin." The merchant quickly quoted a price.

"It's expensive, not worth the price." Ryan slowly turned around, as if he was about to leave.

"Then how much did you say?" The merchant saw that there was finally another person interested in this crossbow that made him regretful and hateful, and he was really unwilling to let go.

"10 silver coins." Ryan stopped and replied lazily.

The merchant vomited blood a little. The man was too thick-skinned, but he took the initiative to lower the price and said, "After selling it, I will lose sight of it."

"15 silver coins. I don't know if it can be repaired well. I guess it will be repaired and it will be scrapped."

"But you have to be too ruthless. I'll save 10 more, and there will be 70 silver coins."

"No, I can only add 5 more silver coins at most."

The merchant saw that Ryan seemed to really want to buy this crossbow, so he became interested. He began to use his good eloquence and kept bargaining with Ryan. However, Ryan in his previous life lived in a world that advocated bargaining, so he was very eloquent. In the end, the crossbow was sold to Ryan for 35 silver coins, which made the merchant so angry that he gritted his teeth. However, he did not grit his teeth at Ryan, but at the crossbow. In the end, the merchant finally decided to sell it to Ryan as he said before.

As soon as Ruian bought the crossbow, he never dared to go shopping anymore. He was afraid that he would see good things again, so he couldn't help but buy them.

Ruian returned to the blacksmith shop and did not immediately study the crossbow, but first beat the iron that he had not beaten today. Recently, Ruian stole some laziness and did not finish the iron on time. Dad Moya's face looked a little bad. Although he didn't say anything, Ruian still felt embarrassed. After all, he still received Dad Moya's salary.

When it was dark, Ruian was free. He took out his crossbow and studied it carefully.

The shape of the crossbow bow seems to be similar to that of Ruian's memory in his previous life, but Ruian's memory is also very blurry, because he saw crossbow bows in his previous life, which were all pictures introducing crossbow bows. Apart from the general shape and exquisitely made, there were not many other impressions.

So Ryan felt that repairing the crossbow must be done according to his own ideas.

When buying a crossbow, Ryan thought of an idea to learn from the principles of guns in his previous life. But now looking back, Ryan found that he really had a very superficial understanding. He vaguely knew the principle of guns, which was to ignite the gunpowder on the bullets, and the gunpowder exploded to form power, and in the sealed barrel, he pushed the bullet head and shot it along the barrel.

It is this little bit of understanding, but gunpowder as a driving force is something that Ryan absolutely cannot do. Ryan did not expect to do this, because the bow string on the crossbow seems to be not an ordinary item and should have enough power to push the slow arrow, so Ryan intends to learn from the principles of gun barrels in his previous life.
Chapter completed!