Chapter Seventy-Two: City of Thorns

Ravel looked at the tall and majestic city gates, and he felt that he must have gone crazy to follow Ayton and them to Thorn City, although he was also very unaccustomed to the slave hunters' behavior of capturing the forest elves, and wanted to help the poor forest elves.

But I feel that my own strength is not enough, and I have no companions, so I have not dared to make practical actions. Now, he saw that these four people who were lower in rank than him actually dared to come here!

Knowing that the nobles on the other side were likely to have some fourth-order subordinates, and maybe even fifth- and sixth-order powerhouses, they just shrugged their shoulders and said that they didn't care.

"If you don't go, if there are still undiscovered elves hiding in the city of thorns, Iruli will regret it for the rest of her life, I don't want to see her cry"

These were the exact words of the young man, and Ravel couldn't help but wonder if he had refused to help because he was weak, or if he had not dared to go to that place because of his cowardice.

"Wow, this wall is so high," Ariel sighed as she looked at the 30-meter-high wall, she had never seen such a tall wall when she was in the Cave of Sorrow.

"Cut, what's this, the walls of our Yaolan Imperial City are more than 40 meters high" Lan Coco proudly puffed up his small chest.

The imperial capital is the largest and most prosperous city in the Bright Blue Kingdom.

"yes, I'll show you there when I have a chance," Ayton put a hand on Ariel's shoulder.

The latter leaned on his shoulder and said with a happy face, "Okay, I'm going to take a look at these highest human walls. ”

This scene couldn't help but make Lan Coke a little sour: "In the future, you must come to me when you shine in the Blue Imperial City, and I can also take you to visit our palace." ”

But Ariel didn't turn back to Lan Coco, but continued: "Brother, you said that we can sneak into the palace and steal some good things, it's been a long time since I practiced the infiltration skills taught by my mentor."

"If you want to go, let's step on it first and see the situation, if the defense is not tight, we can go in and have a walk."

Blue Coco: "......"

Iruli coughed softly behind her, now wearing a pale green cloak on her head, obscuring her forest elf's face. Thankfully, there were still a lot of people wearing cloaks on the street, so Ilully didn't stand out as much.

Originally, Ravel had advised Illuri not to enter the city to avoid attracting attention, which would affect the search for an underground auction.

But Ayton didn't worry that Illuri wasn't by his side, and he could use the Orb of Fraud to change the appearance of others, and he didn't worry about Illuri's elf identity being exposed and causing unnecessary trouble.

Hearing this soft cough, Ayton leaned gently towards Ilully and whispered, "We have to behave naturally, Ilully, relax." ”

"Hmm..."

On the bustling streets, there are several tall orcs from time to time, and it can be seen from their tails and beast ears that they all belong to the raccoon orcs.

"Ravel, isn't this human territory, why are there so many orcs?"

"Oh, I heard that these orcs were expelled from their homeland, all the way to the land of thorns, and signed a treaty with the Marquis of Funovic, and then these orcs were allowed to live here and do all kinds of hard labor"

"That's right, I heard that he relied on these strong laborers to develop so well in the Land of Thorns, maybe these orcs have become his personal slaves," Lan Coco also echoed.

The Bright Blue Kingdom allowed the slave trade, but only for nobles and commoners who had committed serious crimes, defeated soldiers from outside, and some special races that no one cared about. Unless the master's permission is obtained, slavery remains with them until their descendants.

If it is illegal to capture ordinary civilians of other races and then forcibly put on slave rings, that kind of slave will not be recognized, but the law does not say that they will be punished, and there is a tacit sense of harmony among the nobles.

Unless things are big, the nobles everywhere turn a blind eye. Those ordinary civilians will not care, and will even help the nobles to denounce the escaped civilian slaves, so as to gain the favor of the nobles.

"Brother, this place is so big, how can we find it?"

"Isn't there a guide," Ayton turned to look at the half-elf.

"Let's go to the biggest chamber of commerce here, the Thorns Chamber of Commerce, what should they know," Ravel replied.

The Chamber of Commerce of Thorns is the largest caravan in the Thorn Territory, and is also controlled by Green Ford, the youngest son of Duke of Thorns, Vnovich Ford, and is said to have made a lot of money by traveling between the royal capital and Thorn City, and never encountered bandits.

Considering that this was the Ford family's business, Ayton felt it was necessary to take a look.

At the headquarters of the Thorns Chamber of Commerce, when the five of them came to the gate, they felt a majestic momentum rushing towards them.

"Tsk, that's luxurious," exclaimed Ariel, the first time she had seen the extravagant architecture of a large human city, as small towns as they had seen before.

The gate is flanked by elaborate knightly statues, with elaborate thorn patterns and pearl gemstone inlays everywhere, but they don't feel messy at all. And Ayton had seen dozens of floors of buildings in his previous life, and now he couldn't make any fluctuations in his heart at all.

"Cut, when the time comes, I will take you to see our imperial capital, that is called real luxury" Lan Keke pouted and said, although she is not as good as Ayton and the two in terms of combat ability, she is much more knowledgeable than the two of them, after all, she has lived in the prosperous imperial capital since she was a child.

"Imperial capital..... Ariel groaned and turned her head to look at Ayton, "Brother will take me, right?" ”

"Of course," Ayton took Ariel's arm and walked inside, "We're going to have to see the whole continent." ”

Looking at the backs of the two of them entering, Lan Keke and Yiluli glanced at each other, both saw the envy in each other's eyes, and then followed, both of them were forbidden to go out since childhood, and their words and deeds had to be controlled by their parents.

......

The second floor of the headquarters of the Thorn Chamber of Commerce.

"How much does this sword cost?" Ayton asked calmly, pointing to a 'sophisticated' level weapon.

"Good look, this is a dwarven master forger that took three months to build, don't look at it without a crystal nucleus, but this sword is made of Mithril fine iron, it has a certain magical ability, and it is definitely an important helper in your adventurer life......" One of the squires introduced, he didn't say the price of the weapon first, but frantically boasted about the weapon, and then judged by the look on Ayton's face how much he liked the sword, and then quoted the price.

"Alright," Ayton interrupted the squire, with a hint of disdain in his expression: "I don't know if this sword was made by dwarves, but the purity of this Mithril Iron is only 72%, and the magic is the same as not."

The attendant knew at a glance that he had met an expert, and showed an embarrassed but polite smile: "In that case, how about this sword as long as you have 100 gold coins." ”

"100 gold coins" Ayton frowned slightly, his excellent weapon was only sold for 50 gold coins, and the quality was completely much higher than this sword.

"100 gold coins is already the bottom line, after all, this is in the Thorn Territory, with many adventurers, weapons are in short supply," the squire said with some embarrassment, but he didn't know that Ayton was actually scolding the black-hearted merchant in Black Rock City in his heart.

"100 is 100, but let's see how this weapon goes," Ayton removed a sword from his back and placed it on the table.

"This is ......" The attendant's eyes trembled slightly, and he looked directly at the long sword with a cold light on the table, as a person who has worked in the weapons area on the second floor all year round, he must know a lot about weapons, but he didn't dare to judge this sword in vain: "Respectful guest, please wait a moment, this sword needs to be identified by a special appraiser from our Chamber of Commerce."

"Hurry up, I'm in a hurry," Ayton said impatiently, and then sat down on the couch with Ariel and drank tea.

"Is this tea, it's so bitter," Ariel slapped her hot little mouth. This is the first time Ariel has drunk such a thing as tea, and it is also the first time Ayton has drunk tea in this world.

"I must be a little unaccustomed to it the first time, and I will get used to it after drinking it a few more times" Ayton also took a sip of tea, the thorny territory is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and it is rich in tea.

"That's right, every year that marquis has to pay a large tribute to our imperial city a large amount of Asahi tea, I didn't expect him to actually do the elven slave trade behind his back, it's just hateful!" Lan Coco said in a low voice: "But Ayton, where did your sword come from, I haven't seen it"

"It's been in our package, I haven't taken it out and used it, you must not have seen it."

"But how did you put that package, it didn't show any traces," Lan Coco looked at Ayton in disbelief.

Ariel: "That's because you didn't look closely, so you didn't see it"

"Really," Lan Coco said in disbelief. She hadn't expected Ayton to have storage gear on him.

That sword was also made by Ayton before, and when he came out of the Cave of Sorrow, there were only two fine swords left in the Dark Orb, and now he had to sell them all for money.

Ravel was silently drinking tea on the side, he had already seen that Ayton and they had a lot of secrets, but he wouldn't take the initiative to ask, who didn't have a little secret, they were just a temporary cooperative partnership, and they would be separated after investigating the elf slave incident.

"Sister Lan Coco, have you ever drunk the tea from our Flower Language Forest?" I feel that it tastes much better than this tea" Iruli said softly, of course she knew that Ayton had a space treasure on him, and she also knew that he didn't want to expose this treasure in front of Ravel and Lan Coco, so she helped him change the topic.

"Of course I did, it's very tasty, but I only have a chance to drink it during the celebration......" Sure enough, Lan Coco's attention was suddenly diverted.

After a while, an old man with bright eyes and a white beard walked over, with a hint of arrogance in his expression, followed by the chamber of commerce attendant just now, but at this time he seemed a little cringe.