Chapter 20: Unlucky Edson, Letter from the Imperial Capital
The baby shark has done a good job of solving the current food crisis in the village of Beira.
Not to mention the lords, even the tables in the castle were filled with pickled shark meat.
It's just that Charlie never reached for the shark meat on the plate in front of him.
The food shortage in the town has been solved, the villagers have no worries about eating and drinking, and the walls have been built more hard, but Charlie's face has been gloomy in recent days.
The villagers thought that their benevolent and powerful lord was not satisfied with the progress of their work, so they worked even harder.
The city wall, which was expected to be completed in three days, was completed in two days with the concerted efforts of the villagers.
When Charlie accepted it, he asked the Milami tutor to reinforce a layer of 'soil clothing' outside the wall of the villagers' fortress.
The villagers who had finished their work turned to help Milami and Kana, who had been 'drained' for several days, and with the help of the villagers, the speed of the two of them also increased.
After another two days, a 4-meter-high, one-meter-thick wall rose from the ground and surrounded the village of Beira.
Only the two city gates in the southeast remained.
The moment the walls were completed, Charlie's eyes refreshed the hint that the quest reward could be claimed.
Charlie is already numb to receiving the stolen goods.
If there are many lice, you will not bite, and if you have too many debts, you will not worry.
Throwing the Ain Stone in the sea can 'swim in the maw' circle and then return to her hand.
Is it still necessary to struggle?
Claim the quest reward directly in the room.
Eternal magic supplies, it's really a little bit of a little bit of a look!
A familiar sensation of heat came over the thumb of his left hand, followed by a dazzling glow in the room.
After the light faded, a beautiful peacock statue appeared on the old carpet that had been eaten by insects.
The main body of the peacock statue is golden, which looks like it is made of gold, but the color is darker and heavier than the gold color that Charlie perceived.
In this world, this metal is called dark gold, a very expensive magical material.
And each feather of the peacock statue is inlaid with emerald gemstones, which looks extremely luxurious.
Such a sculpture and artwork, if it does not count the magical value it contains, in terms of workmanship and materials alone, this can probably buy 4 Earldoms in the rich area of the imperial capital.
Obviously, to be able to include such a precious treasure in the treasury, the status of its owner will obviously not be low.
Unbeknownst to Charlie, while she was figuring out the ornate peacock statue, she was frantically floating in a floating city over the West Coast......
The most prominent mage towers let out a hysterical roar of rage, distress, anxiety, helplessness, and frenzy.
I guessed who would be the 'stolen goods' nine times out of ten, and Charlie couldn't take it to ask the two mentors, and she couldn't explain the origin of the things at all.
Instead of saying it to test human nature, it is better for her to keep her mouth shut directly, guarding against gentlemen and villains.
Because of helping the villagers stock up on shark meat in the past few days, and going to the beach every day to release Ao Neng, Charlie's control of Ao Neng has reached the stage of being like a finger.
She summoned a bit of arcane energy to pour into the statue.
Eternal magic items absorb arcane energy, and the gems on the peacock's feathers glow with a soft glow of green.
It seemed to come to life, like the fiery phoenix statue that Mentor Kappa had taken out as they traveled through space.
"Hello, your servant Conte is here to help, do you need any help?"
Charlie blinked, her curiosity was stronger than that of a cat, and she loved to explore all the unknown.
"Your name is Conte? Well, Conte, what exactly are you? ”
"I am a creature of eternal magic; A servant who is always at your service; the failure of the pursuit of omniscient and omnipotent creation; A polymath who can discern all things. I'm Conte. ”
Charlie looked curiously at the 'living' sculpture that looked like a real peacock, combing its feathers with its beak from time to time, "Can you identify everything?" Is it 10,000 items? Or all the things that exist in the world? ”
Conte nodded proudly, "Of course, all the things that exist in the world. ”
Charlie was immediately interested, she wanted to find something to try, but she found that the 'assets' she owned were so shabby, she was not sorry for her title at all.
Coming out of the Imperial Capital Earl's Palace, Charlie only had a hundred gold coins except for a mess of books that he had moved out of the old earl's study.
What kind of mother can divide her own 'son' into 100 gold coins and 500 silver coins?
Angry at the thought, Charlie pulled her mind back hard, and suddenly it occurred to her that in addition to those shabby belongings, she did have an item to identify.
So, Charlie churned and found the legendary fairy magic bottle that Frye had 'purchased' for her.
Hold the fairy's magic bottle in front of the peacock statue.
As a result, the statue screamed, and yes, a gold-encrusted gem-like eternal magic object let out a high-pitched and piercing scream when it saw the elves' magic jars.
"Take it away!! Yes! Evil fairy magic! It's going to explode! Blow your castle into a giant crater! ”
Charlie: "......"
Fortunately, on the way here, she didn't have the impulse to use this thing when she was attacked, otherwise she would have suffered with the enemy.
After properly collecting the fairy magic bottle, the peacock statue with its wings fluttering around returned to its calm.
It shows how damaging those unmasked goblins are.
The second, that bottle of the strongest hypnotic dust.
Like a living bird, the peacock looked curiously at the bottle, left and right.
"Great Apothecary Celine's magic pharmacy. A bottle of powerful sleeping pills that is enough to make 10,000 people sleep peacefully, please be careful with the dosage when using it. ”
The rest of the dagger.
"A poisonous dagger that has lost its utility, oh, it's just a normal dagger now."
After some experiments, Charlie came to the conclusion that this is probably an 'ornament' invented by the bigwigs to identify objects.
So here's the problem.
As the owner, the boss can put this out and appreciate it openly, but as the owner of the thief's wrench, can she do this?
As he was struggling, there was a knock on the door of the room.
"Who?"
"Lord Earl, the emperor has letters."
Speaking of the imperial capital, Charlie can think of only two people, one is Frye, who indirectly saved her life, the heir of the Marquis's family.
The other is the vain and snobbish biological mother of the original body.
"I hope it's Frye's." Charlie muttered and walked out of the room.
By the way, she instructed Anne, who was waiting respectfully at the door, "Don't enter my bedroom these days without my orders." ”
Anne immediately complied, and honestly stated that she would not go against the will of the count's master.
Since she was rescued from the pile of dead by Charlie, she was probably only superficially respectful before, but now she really treats Charlie as her own master.
Charlie is also very satisfied with this.
On the way downstairs, Charlie briefly listened to Anne tell the source of the letter.
The nearest big town is 'Maddie City', which can be seen after crossing the Monster Forest, crossing a river, and then climbing a hill.
There is a magic guild there, and the big nobles can usually send letters quickly through the magic guild.
Hearing this, Charlie asked, "Magic telecommunication?" How much does it cost? ”
Anne didn't know much, so she could only estimate and answer, "A letter to Medi City costs about 10 gold coins." ”
Charlie: "......"
It's good, it's powerful.
"You go on."
Her letter was delivered to the city of Medi, just in time for a herald who had set out from the imperial capital a long time ago and came to the village of Bella to announce his trust in the lord's canonization letter.
So, the bewildered herald carried a letter from the new earl, who had arrived more than 20 days earlier than them.
Charlie went down and exchanged pleasantries with the herald who was in a hurry.
After receiving the letter, Charlie saw which line of beautiful characters on the cover, and instantly fell to the bottom.
It is the widow of the old earl, the 'biological mother' who enjoys the life of the wind and snow in the imperial capital.
According to aristocratic etiquette, Charles had to leave the herald and his party to dine at the castle.
She was not very particular about it, but Anne almost cried out because she could not offer a 'decent' aristocratic dinner to the guests of the count's master.
Charlie didn't care at first, but when she saw Anne, who was out of breath and crying when she came to her, she realized that this problem seemed to be a serious problem among the aristocracy.
Charlie's conversation with Anne happened to be overheard by Capa and Miami, who were passing by the study.
The two Arcane Instructors came uninvited, and naturally joined the conversation.
"Don't we have a lot of shark meat?" Milami said disapprehantly.
"Oh, old friend, do you expect those guys from the imperial capital who only look at people with their noses and eyes not to go back and speak ill of our Charlie after eating some kind of urine smelly fish?"
"They dare! I ......"
"You're not a nobleman, Charlie is, so don't use the set of the red-robed secret meeting on the nobleman's body. It's because you only 'boom boom' you deal with any problem that the Arcanists are mistaken for madness by the nobles.
Think about it, if our Charlie also has that kind of prejudice against us, where are we going to find such a good disciple?
So, Charlie, what are you going to do? ”
"It's not impossible ......to use shark meat," Charlie muttered as he thought.
Anne cried even more sadly when she heard this.
She's a useless maid, and she's damned in the dead man's heap, because she can't provide the count's guests with a table of delicious and decent food!
"I haven't been to the beach today, and the arcane energy is still full, so can I use the change-based arcane to turn shark meat into a hearty meal?"
Miami, Capa: "......"
The two arcane mages gave Charlie a thumbs up at the same time, a new gesture they've learned from Charlie these days, meaning to praise you.
Anna hiccuped, and though she couldn't understand the noble arcanists, she understood that the problem seemed to be solved.
"The main course is the finale with that demon wolf meat." Charlie finalized the main course again.
The arcane art of change is simply the ability to turn a frog into a prince, a fireball into a flower, a garment into air, in short, everything can change.
Charlie took a deep breath at the sharks that looked very hideous, "I'm sorry, royal heralds! ”
I change!
……
On that day, the banquet table of the Earl's family was unprecedentedly rich, with caviar the size of a little finger fingernail; Boneva wine, which is rumored to be enjoyed only by Grand Arcanists; very expensive ginger bread; and the very rare devil wolf meat as the main course.
It's just that, from beginning to end, the Count only eats the devil wolf meat on the plate, and is not at all interested in the delicacies made with other expensive ingredients on the plate.
After dealing with the herald who was gushing endlessly and constantly talking about some gossip of famous nobles at the dinner table, Charlie returned to the study and calmly opened the letter from the imperial capital.
After reading the letter at a glance, Charlie, who was calm, was almost blown up by the widow of the old earl who wrote the letter.