Chapter 123: Additional Mission
Although the wolves besieging the village were repelled yesterday at a terrible cost with the help of outsiders, today the people are already busy preparing for the noon feast.
"I always feel that it's a bit too much to let the villagers be so busy for our sake......" Alyssa put away her little head and turned to look at Sivi in the house, the expression on her face was not very happy: "And when so many people died." ”
"Hey, Miss Margot Royd, you're too young to know what to do. It's because a lot of people have died that the banquet is held. Shasang Sang held his chubby stomach and said proudly: "In a small village like this, once some natural disasters occur, it is easy to make the whole village have a gray mood if there are casualties. And the more cohesive the village is, the more it suffers, the faster this sentiment spreads. If we don't find a way to stop the spread of this sentiment, the village will soon collapse, and many villagers will flee to other villages, and when the number of villagers decreases to a certain extent, it will not be far from the end of the village. ”
"That's why the old village chief wants to hold this banquet in the name of thanking us, to dilute the gloom that spreads in the village."
Sivi nodded, and casually took Shasangsan's words, which was regarded as agreeing with the fat goblin's statement.
By the way, the current caravan is full of people except for a few wandering merchants with Shasangsan, those few magic swordsmen, and Alice, who went to find the little boy yesterday. Everyone else is in this room.
"Is that so......" Alyssa still struggled to mind. But since even Sivi said so. The girl's well-behaved personality like a puppy also made her stop talking.
Theo probably thought the issues they were discussing were too boring, so she meditated on herself. Sophia, on the other hand, pricked up her ears to listen attentively to Sivi's conversation, and at the same time flipped through a pocket book with unknown contents, and she was very skilled in using two minds.
"But Shasan-san, it shouldn't delay you for half a day, right?"
Sivi asked the fat goblin, even though last night's stay was a temporary start after receiving the mission, he still wanted to make a little sure that what he did would not cause any trouble to the fat goblin.
"No, how could it be!" The fat goblin shook his head quickly, and his two big pointed ears slapped on his face, making a crisp snapping sound: "If it doesn't rain." It's just that a delay of half a day won't cause a lot of trouble, after all, our business is mainly spices, and we saw good things under the leadership of the village chief this morning. ”
"Nice stuff?" Sivi asked curiously, "What is it?" ”
"It's a kind of growing in the woods. The local spice called sand stinging is abundant in this village. Shasansan was very interested in the matter of spices, which he was good at, and quickly explained to Sivi and them: "According to the village chiefs, the spice merchants of Yonia County occasionally come and exchange some salt, cloth, and other daily necessities to exchange sand sand stingers with them, but if you look at the market price, those merchants are equivalent to exchanging a copper for a silver coin!" ”
"So you're going to do the same?" Sivi said casually.
For sand stingers, Sivi of botanical LV2 still has some understanding, and this kind of thing is only used in a small part of the preparation of medicines. As a spice, it tastes a bit like cumin, in addition to keeping the meat longer. It also has a good effect on the softening of meat.
"Sasang is much more cunning than those cunning humans." The chubby goblin immediately retorted, but it immediately realized that the person sitting in front of it was also a cunning 'human', so it immediately changed its tune and said, "Sand stingers can't be sold for much in the Empire, so Sasan-san plans to ship these spices to other countries for sale." However, the villagers don't accept cash, and we don't have a lot of goods to exchange. However, in the name of Lord Sivi, we still got a little bit through credit first. ”
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"After that, when we get to Yonia County, we will sell the spices from other areas on hand, and after we get the money, we will buy some daily necessities and send them here at three times the price of the merchants of Yonia County."
In other words, it's just three coppers for a silver coin. Sivi complained in his heart.
But this kind of thing has no effect on him, after all, this is originally a matter of Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer.
Just as Sivi and the others were casually chatting about messy topics. Alice walked in through the door, a strange and slightly uneasy expression on her face.
"Teacher Xiwei, have you seen Wei Lun?" With hope in her eyes, she asked Sivi.
Vinylon? Sivi was confused at first, but reacted immediately. This must be the name of the boy yesterday.
Unfortunately, Sivi has been in his room since the morning. Until you learn the snooping magic, it's absolutely impossible to know what's going on outside the tunnel.
"What's wrong with that kid?" Sivi shook her head, indicating that she hadn't seen the boy from yesterday, and then asked Alice.
The girl held her cheeks in one hand, and her pretty little face was full of trouble, and she said, "I have not seen where he is since I found him in the morning...... Not even her mother's grave. ”
"Yes. But children growing up in the forest should have a place like their own secret base. Xiwei thought for a while, and felt that the child probably ran somewhere to vent or do something else, after all, the incident where his mother died yesterday and he became an orphan should have had a great impact on his young heart, and it is normal to want to be alone and quiet.
"But...... I always feel a little worried. Not only did Alice not let go, but became more worried.
It's also right to think that forests are always dangerous at all times, even for children who grow up in them.
"If you're so worried, let's just ask everyone to help find it before the banquet starts." Sophia suddenly said loudly: "Compared to one person, if there are more people, the efficiency will be correspondingly higher, and it will be safer, isn't it?" ”
Although Sophia and the others didn't see the amazing number of wolves yesterday, they could roughly feel the danger from the surrounding corpses, and it was still too dangerous to search alone.
"What do you think, Siwei Da~man." Sophia said to Sivi with a smirk.
"I can't veto this situation at all, can I?" Facing Alice's begging eyes, Sivi felt that he had no choice but to agree with a wry smile.
"Call those magic swordsmen. Then you have to work in groups of three, and you have to make sure that there is at least one other group of people in your field of vision. Although he agreed to Sophia's proposal, Xiwei still had to make a three-chapter agreement with his students first, otherwise it would be really troublesome if he didn't find the bear child and lost a few people: "And the banquet is about to start, whether the child is found or not, you must rush back before the banquet starts, is this okay?" ”
The last sentence was asked to Alice, and the girl naturally nodded and agreed without saying a word.
However, when they left the treehouse and were about to go to find the demon swordsmen, a little white suddenly began to fall in the sky.
In the sea of emerald trees, white things like snow huā and cherry blossom petals slowly fall, reflecting the surrounding scene, making people feel like time and space are out of order.
The villagers, who were still busy preparing for the banquet, also stopped and began to look up at the 'white snow'.
At first, Xiwei regarded these as huā petals—after all, it was almost summer, and no matter how much this world was, it wouldn't snow in the summer. However, he soon discovered that this white object was not so much a huā petal as something similar to catkins, and from the structural point of view it clearly belonged to the plant category.
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But it's clear that catkins aren't something that should be present this season either.
The ability to control plants from appearing in advance is clearly the effect of elven nature magic, which is the native magic that manipulates plants or animals, or simply allows the caster to simulate the appearance of the animal for combat or auxiliary life.
Is it the people of the village who are working this magic to add to the celebratory atmosphere? Because he had long been suspicious of the identity of the villagers, Xiwei quickly thought of this possibility. But some of them were immediately overthrown by himself.
If it was true that the people in the village had used the magic of the elven natives, wouldn't they have completely revealed their identity as descendants of the elves? Isn't it completely meaningless to conceal it before?
Coupled with the fact that not far from Xiwei, the old village chief with an unbelievable expression on his wrinkled face made him dispel this doubt.
But there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the old village chief absolutely knows how this catkins-like object came from.
Otherwise, it shouldn't have been an expression of disbelief, and it was clear that the surprised expressions of the other villagers were more reasonable for the current scene.
There was still a lot to ask, but before that, Sylvie had to focus on something else.
The bell-like mark on the back of his right hand suddenly turned bright red again, and there was a burning sensation.
Open the magic academy system, and a new mission appears on the task board.
[Additional World Realm Mission: The Seven Magical Powers of Legends]
[This quest does not consume reputation points.] You can choose whether or not to accept it, and whether you accept it or not, it will not have any impact on future events. 】
[Accept/Reject]