Waste pouts.

Don't think that Master Ben hasn't seen the mage.

Not counting the big names in Dalaran, Orondo has actually seen more than a dozen mages in the hilly region.

All of these mages had studied in Dalaran, most of them were peripheral members of Dalaran, a few were high-ranking guests of some nobles in the hilly regions, and even fewer were in the service of several human kingdoms.

Among the mages he had seen, of course, there were no high-level mages such as archmages, but they were all mages who could be called mages.

Orondo had seen several of them cast spells, and two had cast fireballs in front of his eyes - one using fireballs to attack a hill spider, and the other using fireballs to scare away a terrifying mountain lion.

However, without exception, their fireball spell was obviously not as powerful as Orondo's spell today.

This noble lady said that her fireball technique when she was six years old was even more powerful than her fireball technique today.

The traverser was a little unconvinced.

Because he didn't know who she was.

The Eye of Truth is not a system, it does not have the information of the lady in front of you. The host's own energy and ability are still very insufficient, and it cannot help it observe more and more detailed information.

It can't give the true identity of the woman in front of you.

The other side.

Looking at the young and immature country nobles in front of him, Egwen, who had been hit by a fireball technique in the sky, had nowhere to go.

With her insight and eyesight, she could naturally tell that Orondo was not lying, at least not speaking in spells.

Judging from the arcane particles active around Orondo's body, he was indeed only at the level of a relatively good mage apprentice.

A thirteen-year-old mage apprentice, even if the fireball technique he can unleash is huge, it is nothing in Egwen's eyes.

As she said earlier, she herself was exposed to magic at the age of five, she was already able to release some spells that could only be unleashed by archmages at the age of six, she was chosen to be the heir to the Guardian at the age of nine, and she officially became a Guardian at the age of thirteen—there was no one before and absolutely no one after her.

She was able to stand out and be chosen as her heir by the previous Guardian despite the widespread discrimination against female mages at the time.

It wasn't anything else, it was her unmatched magical talent and arcane affinity.

Arcane geniuses, natural mages and the like have seen a lot of Egwen.

None of them can match hers.

The frog at the bottom of the well.

This was Egwen's first assessment of Orondo.

Looking at such a frog at the bottom of the well, Egwene dissipated the resentment of being harassed in the sky.

And Orondo does look young, only half the size, and the council can't pick such a kid against themselves.

Egwene didn't mean to pursue him when he didn't mean to offend.

She looked at Orondo, who was a little resentful of her own "waste", and raised her round and pointed chin slightly:

"I'm sorry. I'm not saying you're a piece of waste. In fact, most of the mages are rubbish except for me. ”

She said this as a matter of course, as if she were talking about the truth of the universe, with a tone that no one could question.

Orondo, who was speechless by her "waste", heard her next words again.

Silently opened his mouth.

Finally, the traverser said with difficulty, "Okay. Are you willing to accept my apology for this waste? Or have you decided not to let me go? ”

He was now beginning to suspect her identity, he was suspecting that she was not Dalaran's mage.

If she was a mage of Dalaran, there was no reason why she would just say something like "Mage Dalaran is all rubbish".

No one would say they were waste, right?

But a high-level human spellcaster is not from Dalaran, so what kind of background is she?

It can't be Quel'Salas, right?

She didn't have long ears.

She spoke again.

Her tone sounded a little bored, and she had just curled up in a ball, and the exquisite magic carpet that followed behind her unfolded and carried her up.

"I don't want to talk to the frog at the bottom of the well, it will affect my own brain."

She's gone.

Looking at the magic carpet as the sky quickly left, Orondo opened his mouth silently again.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"A powerful mage with a human appearance? He was also very disdainful of Dalaran. Could it be the Black Dragon? ”

"But the humans that black dragons turn into are often black-haired and black-eyed guys. Could it be that this black dragon likes to look like blonde? ”

This is the end of the hiccup episode.

At night.

Dobby, the butler, comes to Orondo's room, a summons from the lord.

Orondo, who is completely sober and has accepted his current identity, is ready to start to learn more about his current net worth.

"Master, are you feeling better?"

"It's totally good, Dobby."

"That's good, that's good. Sir Sephorosa is the only child of you, and the whole of the Severosa Territory wants you to be safe! Light bless, you looked scary the night before! ”

"Dobby, I'm fine."

"Of course, of course. Sir, you'll always be safe! "Dobby is a human man in his 40s.

He has been with the Sephorosa family for more than 30 years, and has grown from the personal servant of Daddy Orondo to the current butler of the Severosa family.

"Dobby, I called you here because I have something I want to discuss with you." For this great butler, Orondo was quite polite.

"Oh, what's the matter, sir, just tell me." Dobby's expression is serious, but still meticulous.

"After the harvest of the manor this season and the sale, most of it is my tuition fee for Dalaran, right?" Orondo was not polite either, and asked straight to the point.

"Yes, in addition to the necessary costs, the remaining profits should be able to support the normal expenses of the young master for one year of your study in Dalaran." Dobby replied earnestly.

"How many are there?"

"If the prediction is good, it should add up to more than 1,300 new gold coins of Lordanron." This number Dobby had been calculated many times, and the old man asked and said.

"What is the main planting? Wheat? Orondo asked.

"That's right." Dobby is honest.

The Hillsbrad Hills have a temperate climate and a lot of rain throughout the year, making them not very suitable for growing wheat.

However, most of the cultivated land of human beings is cultivated with wheat, because the various foods extended from the flour milled from wheat are the staple food of human beings.

Relying on the fertility of the hilly land, even if the climate is not very suitable, the wheat yield in the cultivated land here is still very good, and the quality is excellent, which is well received by the human world.

After thinking about it, Orondo asked softly, "Then after the wheat harvest is completed this season, what will the people plant next is wheat?" ”

"Yes." Dobby replied.

What can you grow without wheat? Although Sir Sephorosa's family had always been generous, after paying all kinds of taxes, the people could only leave enough food for the family for a year.

If you don't grow wheat, what will the people eat?

"Have you ever heard of sugar cane?" Orondo asked softly again.

"Sugar cane?" Dobby frowned and thought hard. "I once met a merchant from the south in Nanhai Town. The merchant seems to have said that this kind of thing you are talking about seems to be a strange fruit? ”

"That's right." Orondo breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that there is sugar cane in this world as well.

Orondo knows that rum is in this world, and that the raw material of rum is one of the by-products of sugar cane refining cane from sucrose.

If there is rum, there should be sugar cane, which is why he asks the butler Dobby this question.

Why did he ask Dobby if there was sugar cane in this world?

He wants to grow sugar cane on his land.

There were two reasons that prompted him to come up with the idea.

One reason was that he had taken a stroll around the manor in the afternoon.

He found that almost all the land outside the estate was grown with wheat.

Secondly, the Hills Bled Hills he remembered were a hot, rainy, tropical region.

This is very different from other areas near the hills, whose unique climate is probably related to the snow-capped mountains of the north.

The path of the mage is very expensive.

To go to Dalaran to study, and to go further on the path of the mage, Orondo needs a lot of money.

Just planting wheat yields about 3,000 Lordaeron new gold coins a year, and after deducting the expenses for maintaining the Sephorosa family, there is not much that can be used freely.

The previous Sephorosa family masters had left some savings, but the disposable funds that could allow Orondo to spend on the mage path were only between one or two thousand gold coins per year.

This is an astronomical amount for those who may not need to spend a few silver coins a year.

For a mage who needs hundreds of gold coins for a spell experiment or a high-level alchemy experiment.

This amount of money is only enough for the masters to do a few intermediate and high-level experiments.

Orondo felt that he had to get more money in order to make himself stronger in Dalaran.

With his current conditions, he can only pay attention to his own land.

Growing wheat is not promising, he wants to grow some cash crops.

When you think of Orondo, where the Hillsbrad Hills have a tropical climate, you can think of cash crops, which are naturally cash crops in the tropics of the earth.

What's there?

It's nothing more than sugar cane, coffee, rubber, and the like.