The road in the afternoon is very easy to walk, compared to the morning when it is mostly a climbing section, and in the afternoon it is basically a gentle slope. After resting for two hours and eating some roughage, the horses walked half as fast as they had in the morning.

Before leaving, Charles followed Wayne's instructions to find a magician in the Guardian who was good at wind magic.

"What effect of magic do you want to engrave on it?" asked the magician named Keith holding the polished core.

"Carve a defensive spell. "That necklace is a women's one, and it should sell well with defensive magic." ”

"Then I'll help you engrave a charged magic array that gathers magic power and a magic array that gathers wind shields. Keith looked at the core, "This core is of good quality, and it can be sold for at least 5 ores when made into jewelry." I won't charge you much more, and you'll pay 10 dinars for my handiwork. ”

The dinar is a silver coin, and Charles roughly calculated that the purchasing power of its northern land is equivalent to more than a hundred soft sister coins in the previous life. Ores are gold coins, equivalent to 20 dinars, 2,000 soft sister coins. In addition to gold and silver coins, there are also copper coins with smaller denominations on the market. They are Castels, known as the Great Copper Coin, Duponti, commonly known as the Copper Coin, and Kadras, the Small Copper Coin. The exchange rate is generally 1 dinar = 10 Estyrs = 100 Du Ponte = 1000 cadras, with slight fluctuations depending on the period and place.

This monetary system was built by the efforts of several people who knew about finance among the brave who had crossed the stubble, and it was popularized with the strong support of the Temple. By now, this set of currencies is widely used in the northern countries, and it is a bit of a euro. The monetary system in the south is similar, but I heard that the monetary system held by the elves makes many human kingdoms often speak ill of them behind their backs.

Charles doesn't know much about finance, and the little financial knowledge in his head is just that he looks at on the Internet, so he can't tell whether this system is good or bad.

Keith, as a magician, is not poorly paid in the caravan. The salary of the convoy is the highest in the caravan, and it can be almost 10 Orley a month. And the monsters they hunted when they protected the caravan belonged to themselves. He collected 10 dinars from Charles for one night's private work, which was very sympathetic.

Skilled people like Wayne, chef Toonio, pharmacist Halkara and veterinarian Phil all earn more than 5 ore a month.

The drivers were paid only about 50 dinars a month.

If these people have worked for a year, they will receive a little dividend at the end of the year.

As for the child laborer Charles, he was only paid 5 dinars at the minimum wage. Dividends? You think too much.

No matter what world you are in, people with technology are popular.

This time, Charles went to catch a slime, but accidentally obtained a magic core and two wolf cubs. The total cost of the magic core is about 2 Ore, and if you meet a good buyer and then fool it well, you can sell it for 8 Ore. Two young wolves can also be sold for two or three Orray according to the normal market.

And now the caravan wagons are filled with similar magical items. There are many magical beasts in the northern wasteland, and the herdsmen who go out to graze will not be stingy with life-saving equipment. From this, you can see how much money a caravan can make on a trip.

Don't think that the herdsmen don't have much money, they make a lot of money just for parchment, not to mention the leather that can be used as leather armor, these are just needs of human society.

Now many acquaintances are starting to ask Charles for a treat.

However, Charles, who knew that knowledge was money, ignored them and began to learn Elven from Halkara.

So, in the next two days, Charles began to recite "กค๓๕" whenever he was free.

On the afternoon of the second day after entering the maple forest, Charles, who was reciting elven letters, suddenly felt a sudden brightness in front of him.

The leafy maple trees were gone, and in front of me was a large field of corn with several stockades built in the middle of it. In the distance is a city that looks small.

Smoke and dust rose from the main road, and it was not long before Elizabeth, who was in the vanguard, joined the caravan. The caravan was not attacked by large demonic beasts along the way, relying on their merits.

Elizabeth, after a few words with Aubrey, came to the grain truck. Charles was sitting on the roof of the car, carrying the Elven words that Halcara had written to him.

"Sister. Charles beckoned to Elizabeth.

At Elizabeth's insistence, Charles wanted to call her sister. In the past, Charles's grandfather and father also called her that.

"How did it feel to go out for the first time?" asked Elizabeth, who was on horseback.

"It's fine. Charles scratched the back of his head.

At this time, Cromwell suddenly appeared behind Charles.

"Charles did well, not only caught a slime, but it seems that he can also make a lot of extra money. Cromwell said, touching Charles's head.

Charles was taken aback by Cromwell's sudden appearance, "You are so elusive, are you a thief?"

Charles could tell from Cromwell's words that he was probably secretly observing himself for the past two days.

Cromwell's hand suddenly appeared on a six-stringed instrument that looked like a guitar, and he said, "Didn't I tell you, I'm a bard?" ”

After he finished speaking, he played the six-stringed piano and began to sing.

The fragrance of flowers in the flower basket

Listen to me sing and sing

Came to the savannah

The prairie is a good place, a good place

Good place to come with good scenery

Good place to come with good scenery

Everywhere there were crops, and cattle and sheep were everywhere

......

Then Charles almost fell headlong under the car.

"Is this a song you wrote?" Charles asked Cromwell with a black line.

"It's not. "This is a folk song that has been sung on the prairie for hundreds of years." By the way, don't call this a 'wasteland' here, that's the name of the people in the south, who call this land a savannah. ”

Charles took a deep breath and decided not to complain about it yet.

Along the way, Elizabeth and Charles chatted about the two days on the road. Charles learns that the she-wolf he picked up was wounded by them the day before yesterday and fled.

"If you pick it up, it's yours. Elizabeth said to Charles, "We're not short of that money." ”

Not long after, the caravan came to a city.

The city wall facing south is about 1.5 kilometers wide and about 6 meters high, with a protruding semicircular horse face at intervals. There is no castle in it, though.

Elizabeth told Charles about the city, "The name of the city is 'corn,' and the people here like to name cities and villages with grain and wildflowers, and there are quite a few of them. ”

"Several of the cities on the prairie were built on roads to the south, and their main functions were to serve as places of trade and to protect against animal tides. ”

"Beast tide?" Charles noticed a word he had heard before.

"That's right. "If the summer in the north is too dry, there will be a huge reduction in wild herbivores in the fall and winter. Those predators will go south to feed. ”

Charles nodded.

Soon, the caravan entered Corn City, and Charles felt that his eyes were not enough, and his breathing was a little heavier.

In addition to the green-skinned orcs in the northern savannah, there are also a large number of subhumanoid orcs.

For example, the cat aunt who sells fish, the one standing in front of the tailor shop should be Aunt Fox, and the one who passed by the convoy with a basket should be Aunt Pig......

By the time the convoy stopped at the edge of the square in the center of the city, Charles had almost finished counting the 12 zodiac signs.

"Now the men have gone to the north to graze, so most of the people in the city are older women, and the other ones are kids your age. Cromwell told Charles, "Because there are many people in the south who discriminate against the sub-peoples, and often take them as playthings, they rarely go to the south." ”

"Those bed bugs used to want to keep me as a pet. "But they've all been poisoned by me." ”

So, the pharmacist can't be messed with.

"Charles, you have to be careful lately. At this time, Elizabeth reminded, "I have heard that there has recently been a gang of child traffickers, and they are abducting not only subhuman children, but also human children. ”

"I'm so ugly, who would want it, don't I lose money?" Charles laughed at himself.

Donio, who was sitting in front with the coachman, said, "Don't be careless, they won't be able to see your face when they use you anyway." ”

Then a throwing knife fell from the sky and stuck between Donio's legs.

Charles was just as frightened as Donio watched as Elizabeth, who was behind him and had a car blocking her view, threw a throwing knife into the sky, nearly castrating Donio when it fell.

"Don't talk nonsense in front of children. Elizabeth reprimanded.

At this time, the convoy came to the door of a large hotel on the edge of the square. After the others got out of the car, the driver drove towards the parking lot behind the hotel.

Charles had already noticed that there was a statue of three men in the center of the square.

The man in the center of the statue is dressed in the short clothes that farmers often wear, holding a hoe in one hand and a sleeve in the other, wiping the sweat from his face. Although I couldn't see his face, the smile on his lips revealed that he was in a good mood at the moment.

On the left, a young woman is holding a handful of grass and feeding a lamb.

On the right, on the other hand, is a female elf, carrying a basket in her left hand and seemingly sowing seeds in her right hand.

Charles looked at the statue of the female elf, and then at Elizabeth next to him, the two looked very similar above the neck.

Noticing Charles' gaze, Elizabeth pointed to the man in the middle of the statue and whispered to him, "That's your ancestor." ”

Then she pointed to the female elf statue on the right and introduced, "That's my mother." ”

Finally, she withdrew her hand and said, "There is another one who is a junior." ”

"Ahem~" Cromwell signaled to the side that he heard Elizabeth's words, "Sister, don't say that about her in front of me." ”