14. Caravans

Izumi, who finally returned to the soft bed, slept very comfortably. I didn't even have a dream, as if I closed my eyes and opened them again, it was already the next day.

In the morning, when everyone gathered for breakfast, Carter told Izumi what he was going to do.

The members of their adventurous party were all residents of Corot in southern Yorkshire.

Corot City is a first-tier city in Battlelands, and its prosperity is not far behind that of the imperial capital.

Carter took a bite of the omelette: "I'll go and ask if there's a caravan going to Corot after breakfast." ”

"Going with the caravan? I'm afraid it's not quite suitable, right? "Athur set his eyes on Shanaiduo, although he pretended to be very similar, but Shanaiduo was not a human after all, and a person who was not careful would still be able to see a flaw.

"Don't worry about this, I'll rent a carriage first, as long as you pay attention, you won't be discovered." Carter had already planned, "You can also take care of you along the way with the caravan, and if you are lucky, you can earn a little more commission." ”

The money they made on this mission was not too much, although it was enough for a few days, but it could last for two months at most, and now he had to adopt Izumi, and there would be more places to use the money in the future, and Carter would have to be more careful and try to make more money.

Arthur pulled Izumi and smiled, "In that case, Uncle Cater, can Izumi and I go out for a walk today?" We agreed yesterday that we were going to visit Mercenary Street. ”

"Of course, but don't go anywhere else, we might be going sometime."

"Got it, then Xiaoquan, let's go."

So Izumi, who hadn't finished breakfast, was pulled away by Ashel with a piece of toast in his mouth, and Shanaiduo naturally followed.

Out of the hotel, Arthur asked Koizumi: "Koizumi, where do you want to go first?" ”

Koizumi took the last bite of toast, "Can you take me to a place where you can sell the magic core?" ”

"Sell the core, okay, I remember there's a magic item shop around here, and they'll take this."

The prop shop that Arthur said was just across the street, and it was a small shop with a lot of strange props.

Knowing that he didn't understand this, Arthur introduced him: "The scroll made of monster skin here is a magic scroll, which is sealed with all kinds of magic, as long as you untie the rope on the scroll and then open the scroll, you can use it." There are magic books written in the blood of monsters and magic wands powered by magic cores, as well as various enchanted weapons. ”

It sounds like everything has something to do with Warcraft, and Izumi suddenly feels that there is something eerie here.

Arthur asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you?" Why did you suddenly look bad? ”

"It's okay, it's just that I suddenly feel a little cold."

Fortunately, the monsters here are not really elves, otherwise he wouldn't know that his face is not very good-looking.

Arthur didn't doubt it: "It's really cooler in the morning than in the afternoon, you have to pay more attention." ”

"Hmm."

Because Izumi didn't seem convincing, Athur volunteered to take the core to help him negotiate the price with the boss, and Izumi listened to it for a while, and was really bored, so he wandered around the store.

"Ding Dong~"

The bell hanging on the door rang softly to alert the owner that a guest had arrived.

Izumi, who was standing behind a row of shelves, subconsciously looked towards the door, only to see a tall, tall man in a cloak walking in.

This is a young man, and although he wears a hood like Shanado to cover his face, he can see it clearly from Izumi's point of view because of his height.

Izumi thinks that he doesn't look bad as an adult, but compared to his youth, he seems too gentle.

At first glance, it is only black and white.

It was a young and handsome face, like a knife and jade, with short inky hair on ivory-white skin, black eyebrows and eyes, and only a faint blood color on the lips.

The most impressive thing is the young man's eyes, his eyes are very beautiful, like the night sky when the stars run out after dark, but because the stars have not yet appeared, the night sky seems extremely lonely. Naturally, he exudes a kind of indifference, as if nothing in the world can enter his eyes, just like the feeling he gives people.

Even if it's just a mercenary dress that can be seen everywhere, even in the dust, but because of this face, the ordinary dress has a different kind of momentum.

Just when those eyes were about to look over, he was surprised that he couldn't look at it like this, and Izumi quickly lowered his head, pretending that he was looking at something on the shelf.

The man's gaze circled around him, then quickly looked away, lingering on Shanaido's body for a moment, and finally walking towards the counter.

Seeing that he didn't notice himself, Izumi couldn't help but look a few more times, but only saw his back.

There was a slight regret in his heart, he rarely saw people with double black, especially the black one was so pure.

"Koizumi?"

Finally selling the core for a satisfactory price, Arthur turned around with the money bag and saw Izumi standing behind the shelf in a daze.

The shelves are full of books related to magic.

"Do you want to learn magic?" Arthur was a little worried, he didn't want this new brother to be disappointed, but magic is very talented.

"Huh?" When he heard this question, he knew that he had misunderstood, "No, what I want to learn is words." ”

Izumi, who had worked hard to learn the language with Atholl, now said that he had no problem listening to the lingua franca, and that he could already understand the York dialect, but unfortunately, he had little progress in reading and writing, so he really wanted to learn to write.

As for magic, although it is magical, Izumi only looks at it with admiration, and what he loves most is to study and nurture elves.

He's a powerless researcher.

"Do Izumi want to learn words?" Arthur read it on the shelf, and finally picked up a book, "Then buy this one, I used it to learn words when I was a child." ”

It was a rare ordinary book on the shelf that was not a magic book, and although I couldn't read the words on it, judging from the accompanying pictures, it should be a children's book.

Izumi took it and flipped through it, and there were pictures on every page in it, so although I couldn't understand the words on it, if I looked at the pictures, I could understand what it meant.

"Looks good, how much does this cost?"

"Don't worry, this is an ordinary book, not as expensive as a magic book, and the money you got from selling the magic core just now is more than enough to buy a dozen books." Without saying that he would pay, Arthur took out the corresponding coins from his money bag to pay the bill, and the money bag gave it to Izumi.

Izumi opened the money bag and looked at it, although the first- and second-order demonic beasts were not very valuable, but they all had nearly 20 gold coins together.

Soon, Arthur was gone, and in addition to the book, he bought quills, ink, and a thick notebook.

Izumi was stunned when he saw those stationery, and finally didn't say that he had them in his bag, but silently took Shanaiduo and followed Ather.

When the two of them went shopping, they walked all the way and looked all the way, Izumi bought a few sets of Butlans-style clothes in a ready-to-wear store, and also bought four cloaks, the big one was for Shanaiduo, and the small one was naturally for himself, because it didn't fit so well, he also specially asked the tailor in the store to modify it, and when the changed cloak was handed over, they changed it as soon as possible. The mage's cloak, which had been borrowed from Ather, was put away and returned to him after it had been cleaned.

"You're here." Roger, who followed Carter to find the caravan, suddenly appeared, "Come with me, we have found a caravan to Corot, Uncle Carter has negotiated with them, and he is about to leave." ”

"So fast?"

"No way, this caravan is the only caravan that has gone to Rocco recently, and they are willing to hire us as escorts, although the pay is a little small, but the food and accommodation along the way have been solved."

Several people hurriedly followed Roger to the caravan, where they met everyone.

This is a very large caravan, it is said that there are as many as a thousand people, and in addition to the caravan from a certain large chamber of commerce in Corot, a large part of it is a small caravan that has joined after hearing the news like Carter and the others.

The journey from Kabia to Corot was not smooth, and even if it cost a certain price to go with the big caravan, the small caravan that was not strong was happy.

The long convoy drove all the way out of town, and Izumi, Arthur, and Shanaido sat in the back carriage, which was an ordinary wagon for goods, and there were a lot of miscellaneous items piled on it, which was not very comfortable to sit on.

The rest of the party followed the carriage on the beasts provided by the caravan.

This riding beast resembles a small fire horse, except that its mane is not like a flame, and the horse has sharp teeth in its mouth, so it is not a vegetarian at first glance.

"Did you find out?" After the convoy departed, Ather and Izumi bit their ears on the carriage.

"What?"

"The wagons of this convoy are basically covered with black cloth, and although I can't see what's inside, I think it's probably a cage if I look at the shape."

Quan second understood: "Could it be a Warcraft?" ”

"The goods that need to use cages, except for Warcraft, there are only slaves, but if you are a slave, you don't need to use such a big cage."

Hearing the word slave, Izumi was shocked: "There are still slaves here?" ”

Arthur nodded: "Yes, the current slaves are generally war captives or civilians who have committed crimes, but Battleland has not fought for hundreds of years, and the war captives are basically brought by caravans from other countries." ”

"And because there are few slaves, the price of slaves is not low, and in places like Kabia, there are very few ordinary people who can buy or can buy slaves, so it's normal that you haven't seen it."

"All those who become slaves are branded as slaves in a conspicuous place, so it's easy to recognize."

Arthur gushed about giving Izumi these common senses.

As a result, Izumi's worldview was refreshed again.