Chapter 5: 'Rewards' and Stolen Goods
Charlie held two Ayn Stones that slowly emitted a soft magical halo under the dim orange oil light and studied for a long time.
She even tried the legendary blood confession, but it didn't work.
Irritated as she rolled on the hotel's creaking bed, she couldn't stand the fact that the Ain Stone was in her hands and couldn't use it.
It's going to suffocate her.
An agitated Charlie rolled off the bed in frustration and began to move around the room restlessly again.
The best thing to do about this is to ask an Arcanist.
But obviously, an arcanist is not a cabbage, and you can't expect to go out and walk around and bump into a 'grandpa' like you to impart experience.
However, from Charlie's observation of the large and small towns that he passed through during the ten-day journey, it can be seen that the mercenaries will investigate first.
If there is a mercenary union in the local area, they will go directly to the union to resupply and exchange for a detailed map of the next journey, in order to avoid most risks.
Of course, if there were no unions, they would have mysteriously put on cloaks in the middle of the night and left the hotel where they were staying.
It's not Charlie who has the heart to spy on them.
But now, there is no one around her to discuss, and if she doesn't pay attention to it, don't let people sell it and count the money.
The town they stayed in was called Capa City, a small town within the Holy Platinum Empire that was not economically developed, so it did not attract mercenary unions to settle in.
Well, Scarface should be out and about tonight.
Maybe I can go along and have a look.
In case of......
No, I have a strong sixth sense, and I'll get something out if I go along!
Thinking like this, Charlie immediately walked out of the room, went to the door of the inferior room rented by the mercenaries downstairs, and raised his hand to knock on the door.
She arrived just in time, and the scarred face that opened the door had been replaced by a dirty cloak, a rough light gray.
He probably had never washed the dirty cloak, and there were quite a few stains on it that Charlie didn't want to take a second look.
"Lord Earl? Is there something you can do? ”
Because he used 'sutures' to treat the mercenary ranger Searle, Scarface is very friendly to Charlie.
"Are you going out tonight...... Hmm, I mean you're going to gather information, using your 'doorways'? ”
The mercenaries did not show dissatisfaction or concern too much about the weak earl's whereabouts by 'observing' their whereabouts, and only nodded their heads in accordance with the earl's words.
"Can you take me with you, tonight." Charlie was a little nervous, because of the desperate desire to achieve her goal, she was afraid of rejection.
"Ah, yes, yes, but there......" Scarface, the face of the murderer, was embarrassed and considered the wording.
They were going to the adventurer's tavern here, full of rude mercenaries, gamblers, drunkards, and despicable courtesans......
In short, it is the place that will not be the favorite of the nitpicky aristocracy.
"I'll never get in trouble, I swear!" Charlie held up a hand urgently.
She didn't look like she was just curious, wanting to go with her and see what she had learned.
Scarface pondered for a moment and asked, "Can you take the liberty of asking what you're doing at the Adventurer's Bar?" ”
"Ah, I want to know something......" Charlie said hesitantly.
She certainly couldn't let Scarface find out about her acquisition of the Ain Stone.
Basically, the Earl's actions have never left the mercenaries alone, so he suddenly got the legendary item that was 'controlled' by the Grand Arcanists, the Ayn Stone, guess what the mercenaries would do to her, the powerless Earl?
Seeing that the Earl didn't tell him, Scarface couldn't continue to ask, "Do you have to go?" ”
Their task was to safely escort the Count to the fiefdom, and they were naturally reluctant to take more risks in the process.
Charlie's eyes were sparkling and resolute, "Yes! ”
"I see."
Scarface walked out of his room, "Please wait a minute. ”
Then he walked to the end of the hallway and knocked on the room on the left hand side of the end.
After a brief conversation, a gray-black cloak was handed out from inside.
Scarface walks over with a borrowed cloak and hands it to Charlie.
The Count took the gray-black cloak.
This cloak was different from the one Scarface was wearing, it was cleanly washed, and it had a faint fragrance on it.
Scarface scratched his cheek in embarrassment, "Ah, I don't think you borrowed Kana's cloak from you because you're too small, it's because women's clothes are always cleaner...... Ours is so dirty......"
Charlie: "......"
Thank you so much! I don't even know if you don't explain, you're laughing at my height!
Putting on his cloak, Scarface quickly knocked on the doors of several more members of the mercenary team.
In addition to the female spellcaster Kana, and the Ranger Serge, who still needs more rest and recuperation, the other four team members all went together.
The Adventurer's Bar is in the outer part of town.
It seems that because of the frequent brawls between the drunken mercenaries and other behaviors that are very troublesome to the soldiers of the city defense brigade, the lord of the small town finally simply moved the adventurer's bar to the outer city.
In this way, if the drunken mercenaries have another fight, they will roll directly outside the city, and no matter how they fight, they can only cause disaster to the groves outside the city, and they will not damage the buildings in the city.
With the exception of the inner city, the dark and uneven roads made the 'weak' young earl almost fall on several occasions.
The mercenaries couldn't help but wonder if it was really 'no problem' to take such an earl to the tavern.
It wasn't until he saw the only brightly lit tavern at the end of the path that sparked with the sound of profligate laughter that Scarface stopped suddenly, and turned back to the Count in the middle and said:
"Lord Earl, no matter what happens here, you can't call the dragon coming, you know?"
Already has the nickname 'The Earl of the Dragon' among the mercenaries.
Charlie nodded awkwardly, and complained in his heart, "That time was not to help you, cut, I don't know good people's hearts!" ”
A wooden plaque sticks diagonally from the doorway of the Adventurer's Tavern with a graphic wooden barrel drawn on it.
Before he had even entered the tavern, he heard the wanton and profligate laughter of the mercenaries inside, the toasts shouting and toasting, and the cheerful singing and dancing of the dancing girls sandwiched in it.
And, the night breeze blows through the smell of wine under the nose.
Standing at the door, you can smell the aroma of honey beer.
Before Charlie could make a move, the mercenary in the black cloak beside him had already made a 'coo' swallowing sound.
The mercenaries rushed into the adventurer's bar, and they didn't take off their black cloaks when they entered the door.
Except for the few guys in black cloaks who were also wearing black cloaks who were scattered in the tube as soon as they walked in, basically no one paid attention to the group when they walked in.
Scarface familiarly walked over to the bar counter and ordered a beer for six.
Charlie sat next to Scar Man, looking around with some curiosity.
Soon the honey beer was pushed on the smooth wooden table by the bartender behind the bar, and then the six cups of honey beer made of wood were accurately slid in front of the six people in turn.
After buying wine, it's good to speak.
Scarface whispered a few words to the bartender, and the bar looked unclear, and turned to go into the back room to get something.
Charlie stared at these dizzily, full of curiosity, and almost forgot what he was going to do.
As she searched around the room, pricking up her ears to listen to the conversation of the aloud adventurers, the 'welcome bell' at the entrance of the adventurer's bar rang again.
Subconsciously Charlie followed the prestige.
This look made her widen the turquoise eyes that were covered by her scattered hair.
They were two men who did not hide their faces with cloaks or cloaks, wearing striking white and red mage robes, with half-length and not short hair, with arrogant and indifferent expressions.
But the most important thing is!!
Their heads are suspended like stars, and stones that move slowly and irregularly automatically!
You can't go wrong!
That's the Ainstone!
'Knock knock', Charlie could feel his pounding heartbeat again.
The two white-robed arcanists ignored the countless surprised and fearful stares that had been staring at them in the adventurer's inn.
They found an empty table with stains and sat down.
The white-robed mage coughed lightly, his lips quickly opened and closed, and he whispered a spell, and the log table on which they sat was completely new, as clean as if it had just been made from a wood factory.
The red-robed arcanist snapped his fingers and said to the bartender behind the bar, hesitating whether to go over or not: "Two bottles of red wine from Boneva, at least 200 years old." ”
The white-robed arcanist scoffed, "Huh, where are you supposed to be here?" Floating City? The red wine of Boneva is still 200 years old, why don't you want the ambergris made by the dragon? ”
The white-robed mage re-ordered the drink to the stunned bartender, "Just bring your signature drink." ”
They did not hide their conversation at all, and did not shy away from the presence of the 'adventurers' who pricked up their ears and eavesdropped on their bodies with cloaks or cloaks.
"Ah, what a terrible thing just now, Grand Arcanist Edson's rage......" the red-robed Arcanist sighed with a look of trepidation on his face.
"After all, it was the Grand Arcanist who created his own floating city, naturally...... Nature is great. ”
"I just don't know what the hell would dare to steal in front of such a great Arcanist! Damn, we who attended the banquet were all implicated, and we were thrown out of the floating city directly by Offa......"
"Hey, the most unlucky thing is the unlucky ghost who offered those two legendary Ain Stones, he originally wanted to join the Floating City of the Wind through the gift, but it turned out to be ......"
"When I was swept out of the Floating City...... Looks like you see ...... That guy was turned into a stone statue by the Arcanist who threw him ......"
The white-robed arcanist said with trepidation.
The bartender served drinks to the two Arcanists.
The two male arcanists raised Muza's handle and touched it lightly, and they didn't continue. They all seemed to be frightened by the petrified appearance of the last arcanist in their memory.
The bar is gradually recovering a little lively.
The adventurers who had been hiding began to resume conversation, but they all deliberately kept their voices down.
Charlie already disliked the stormy waves in his heart, not for anything else.
Two legendary Al Ain Stones were stolen in public......
And in the two velvet gift boxes in her hotel room were two unknown ......
Ay! I'll go! Bullshit rewards!
This is a stolen goods!!!