Chapter Eighty-Eight: Just This Time I'm Not Convinced
Although Valera was interested in the human village, Blue had no intention of entering the small village, which consisted of only about a hundred people.
This is because the whole small village is a closed environment where more than 10 families of grandparents and grandchildren gather together, which means that they are basically in a state of self-sufficiency.
In addition to paying the lord's annual taxes or an equal amount of crops and game (wheat, animal furs, herbs, etc.), they can only come into contact with the outside world as far as the next village.
That is, the intelligence value they can provide to Blue and others is zero, and there is no contact value at all.
Moreover, these small villages are very poor at defending themselves against foreign enemies, and even Agnes, who is interested in observing interesting things, is not interested in such villages.
All it takes is a brigade of gnolls or ogres or hill giants to kill and eat them all, and there is no point in knowing them, and Agnes certainly won't waste her time.
By the time they left Hammer Canyon and arrived at the small village, it had been three days since they had come out of the tunnel.
Because they can't fly, and they can't run too fast and too ostentatious, their speed can't be said to be fast.
Three-quarters of the western continent is a large and small desert, so the true dragon clan on this continent is dominated by blue dragons.
Brass dragons, among the metal dragons, also like to build their own nests in desert ruins, canyons, or caverns on the top that allow sunlight to shine in.
However, because their strength is much lower than that of the blue dragon, they generally don't dare to provoke the blue dragon.
Blue always pays attention to the fact that ordinary true dragons are very high-profile to declare their own territory.
The Blue Dragon's lair will randomly have lightning and thunder at any given moment, so it is relatively easy to distinguish, and if you ignore this lightning and thunder and continue to penetrate into the range of their lair, the violent and evil Blue Dragon will directly use the lightning to kill the weak invaders, or go out and devour them themselves.
Of course, if they were just on the fringes, the blue dragon would generally not pay attention to these weak guys.
Brass dragons, on the other hand, are much more gentle as metal dragons, and they generally use their powers to set up a comfortable and safe path, which then leads to the next water source or the colony of good humanoids.
As long as the dragon slayer is not looking for trouble on purpose, he will generally understand when he sees such a path that obviously should not exist in the desert, and they will gladly embark on such a path arranged by the dragon after saluting and thanking him.
The desert raiders that Blue had seen when he was a child didn't dare to rob and kill on the territory of the blue dragon or brass dragon, so encountering the territory of a true dragon in the desert was actually a good thing for some humanoids.
After crossing a canyon, Blue and his party stood on the edge of the desert, and their vision was once again covered with the familiar gray-yellow sand.
Fine pieces of sand form an endless stretch of sand that stretches from beneath their feet into the distance.
Faced with this "death zone", Valera Ashley is now confused with a capital letter.
Because everyone in the desert tried to cover their bodies as much as possible, women such as Krishanna and Macaria also covered their whole bodies in a way that was not conspicuous, and also avoided many unnecessary conflicts.
Makaria kindly reminded Valeera, "Valeera, the next place is the Great Desert known as the Land of Death in human books, you have to be mentally prepared. ”
"I can feel it...... I'm blind. Valeera said with fear and excitement at the same time.
In this short period of ten days, she seems to be seeing a new world every day, even every moment.
She was shocked by the magical weather changes such as wind, clouds, and rain that were not found in the underground, and she was also very curious about the human settlements, some wild elf settlements, and dwarf communities she encountered from time to time.
But those places were nothing compared to the endless desert in front of them, and when viewed by the eyes of the dark elves, this desert full of high heat could be said to be amazingly bright, and the sunlight and heat reflected by the sand alone appeared as an endless red sea in the infrared eyes of the dark elves.
Even with green eyes and two layers of goggles for the light, Valeera's eyes were still crying, and she had to close her eyes in the end, so she relied on her keen perception to "see" more clearly.
After hearing Macaria's words, Valera nodded gratefully.
For her, who had been living in an extremely selfish and vicious environment, Macaria's newfound friend was nothing short of a noble and great person.
Blue looked at the desert in front of him, then recalled the map he had seen before, stretched out his finger and pointed to the front: "Five hundred meters ahead is the town of Mohald, where there should be news of New Sols City, let's go in and find out." ”
After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for everyone's reply, and walked straight to the front.
As the leader of the team, he has never been a democratic person, and the team should naturally follow him.
And for this, Christana and Agnes naturally admitted, and they shook off their clothes and followed Blue.
It was close to noon, and it was also a time when the temperature was relatively high, and when Blue and the others arrived in Mohald and saw the one- or two-story houses, there were not many pedestrians, as if the whole town was sleeping.
Valera looked at the small town with admiration, the first town she had ever seen.
There are more than 300 houses in Mohald, although there are no ornate decorations on the outside, and there are no high-level landmarks, let alone compared to the port of Gibro, even if it is far inferior to her previous dark elf city, it is nothing at all.
But in Valeera's eyes, this common defense, the formation of a unified town, is impossible for even the largest family in the Dark Elf City to have.
After using a dozen copper coins as the cost of entering the town and a few extra copper coins as the "hardship fee" of the guards, Blue and the others simply entered the town after being asked.
This is also because they are all dressed as travelers, and they don't have large vehicles such as camels and wagons, so they can't transport and carry too many weapons, and they are the least threatening people in the town, so the guards turn a blind eye to money.
After entering the interior of the small town of Mohald, Blue and the others saw that there were still some itinerant vendors on both sides of the street with shady tents hanging in the shade, and selling things there.
It's just that it's the hottest part of the day, so there aren't many pedestrians looking at the goods here.
Even the owners of the vendors chose to hide from the heat in their tents and put their goods out, anyway, if there were customers, they would obediently pay for them.
In this magical world, the god of commerce still has a lot of weight, as long as the vendor has been certified by the god of business, he generally does not need to worry about customers not giving money, but is more afraid of thieves and pickpockets and other professions.
So the vendors who do this are also selling some worthless small things, if it is valuable valuables, such as some rare materials or something, they don't dare to do it.
However, if you find rare materials or treasures in the mobile stalls, this kind of protagonist treatment is generally not encountered by ordinary people.
Of course, it was impossible for Oriana to keep using her flying skills to read books in the crowd, and she could not ask Lux to carry or carry her on her back, so she could only follow Blue with an oak staff like an ordinary mage.
A dry, hot wind blew through her, causing Oriana to stick out her tongue like a puppy and bend over, the oak staff used as a crutch to support her body.
Seeing that the strongest combat force in the team had become like this, Blue couldn't help but complain on the side: "Oriana, please pay attention to your body, okay?" You've barely touched the ground since you could fly, so what the hell have you gotten weak? ”
"My esteemed Lord Blue, in fact, my current state is very common in the spell-casting profession, we have been addicted to arcane and various spell knowledge for a long time, we have not had time to exercise, please don't compare us to people like you who can recite spells and fight hand-to-hand, then I will be very distressed."
Orianna retorted calmly, not wanting to change her life style in the slightest.
"What should we do next?" Valera withdrew her curious gaze, looked back at Blue, and asked, "Captain?" ”
Blue didn't answer, and instead of him was his spouse Macaria: "This town is a point of supply before entering the desert, don't look at the small number of people here now, it's just a façade, as long as you walk into the inns and bars, you can find the prosperity here." ”
"Really? Macaria, you mean people are hiding in those houses? ”
"Yes, Mohald also has a road south to our destination, the Yaresg Desert, where we resupply and let's go, Valela, your skin color and my tail horns are too ostentatious, just let them go buy something, and we'll wait outside."
Blue had no objection to Macaria's proposal, and he did not resist human contact, but Krishanna said otherwise.
After thinking about it for a while, it is better to let Krishanna, Macaria and the others stay, firstly, to have multiple guarantees, and secondly, to avoid their own sister from being violent - in the face of the blue dragon, they must not be slack because of their previous performance, once Krishanna launches a surge, it will be too late to regret it.
After a few inquiries between Blue and Agnes, they finally found an adventurer's gathering tavern with a sword called "Adventurer's Harbor".
Generally speaking, in this kind of town, adventurers will trade various items and inquire about various information here.
Fortunately, because of its geography, this town is not very resistant to outsiders and adventurers of various races, so after seeing Blue and Agnes, two adventurers who are obviously outsiders, they did not isolate or drive them away.
In some towns, especially those inhabited mainly by humans, troublesome adventurers are often not welcome or even driven away, and non-human elves and dwarves are often forbidden to enter, not to mention Tieflin and the devil and the dark elves, for these evil elements, of course, there is no mercy - if they have the strength to kill.
"Agnes, why are you following me?"
"On human territory, I haven't seen anyone who doesn't welcome the Silver Dragon."
"Including villains and vagabonds?" Blue asked with a sneer.
"The homeless will not have a chance to enter the place where the adventurers gather." Agnes tugged at her cloak and veil, which obscured her beauty but revealed her feminine identity.
"Hmph, don't get me in trouble."
Adventurers are not synonymous with kindness, or they are much more interested in reward than in upholding justice, after all, there are already paladins and paladins to do it, and as mortals, they are still more willing to serve Huang Chengcheng's gold coins or white silver coins.
And in order to show off their strength, strangers can easily become targets for the less friendly adventurers among them - they may not do it directly, but it is common for female dependents to do so.
Blue worries that Agnes, as the silver dragon princess, is not used to the other party's foul language.
“…… I feel like you're really thinking of me as your sister, Blue, and when it comes to living in human society, I'm definitely much more experienced than you! ”
This is okay to the other blue dragons, but not to me.
Of course, Agnes didn't know what was in Blue's heart, and she continued: "I've already learned to face these humans with an open heart, just the ignorant language of some lower races, just filter it out. ”
"Hopefully you can do it."
After saying that, Blue pushed open the dilapidated wooden door of Adventurer's Harbor, and then walked into the tavern that matched the atmosphere of the dilapidated wooden door.
On the façade of this building, a long bar is set up in the corner of the façade, and there is a place in the bar that leads to the kitchen, and from time to time some simple food is served from it, but it is not very good to look at.
Next to the bar there was a staircase that swirled up to the rooms on the second floor, except that the women who were wearing heavy makeup, wearing pungent perfumes, and wearing scantily clad clothes waiting next to the stairs showed that the rooms upstairs were not for outsiders, but for these women and their guests.
Although it may look very unclean, it is a place that satisfies the needs of most travelers and adventurers – eating, drinking, and the cheapest of all kinds of relaxation.
Blue and Agnes, who walked in, naturally attracted the attention of some of the people in the tavern, who looked at the two outsiders with unkind eyes.