It didn't take long for Edward, who had changed into new clothes, to be brought to Shepard with some restraint.

This is a training ground, and more than a dozen wooden figures are erected on the side of the training ground, supported by thick wood, and hammered into the ground fiercely, so that it can be stable enough.

Shepard flicked the wooden bead in his hand, looked at the young man in front of him with a little panicked face, but was not injured except for embarrassment, and asked, "Your name is Edward?" Just arrived in Bloucester City today? ”

Edward restricted, "Yes, Lord Count. ”

Shepard waved his hand: "Choose a weapon, and then attack a wooden man, I want to see your strength." ”

The young swordsman did not dare to disobey his orders, the earl in front of him was not at all like in the stories he had heard, the nobles were all fat-headed, big-eared, cruel and greedy, but easy-going but majestic, but the pressure on himself was greater than that of the dragon!

He picked a wooden sword and shook it a few times, and Shepard said with a heart, "The basic skills are very solid, and it seems that the person who taught him is not an ordinary person." ’

Edward got used to the weight of the wooden sword for a while, and most of the weapons on the training ground were wooden, but they were all cut from the dense forest, which was as strong as iron stone, except for building a house, and only when training weapons was more useful.

The swordsman was ingenious, but he knew that this was a very important opportunity, remembering that his teacher had been silent in the village for many years, and occasionally sighed, he clenched the hilt of his sword, and suddenly shouted, and rushed to raise his sword and stab at the wooden man.

This is a very common [Thrust] in the combat profession, although each person's usage habits are different, but the principle is roughly the same, but Edward's sword rushed out, only to hear a loud noise, the wooden sword was forced into the wooden man's body by him, and the tip of the sword emerged from behind.

The swordsman let go of his weapon and gasped, this time he also fought with all his strength, and he was a little out of strength for a while, but he peeked at the earl and saw that his expression was very happy.

Shepard really felt quite satisfied, and said casually: "Your strength is good, let's start going to the city guard to be a captain tomorrow, who is your master?" What is your name? ”

Edward was very happy and hurriedly said, "My master's name is Desmond Natol. ”

Shepard thought about it for a while, he had never heard of this name in his previous life, and it didn't seem to be an important person, but since he had a surname, his ancestors were at least broad, and Edward's strength seemed to be well trained, so he said casually: "Is there any way you can bring a message back?" Let's just say that I am willing to hire your master as one of the instructors of the city guard, and if he wants to, let him come. ”

Edward was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Thank you so much, my lord! Merchants from Bloucester City often pass by in our village, and I immediately went to find a familiar merchant to help me bring the letter back! ”

A casual word can change the fate of a person, this is the power of the powerful, Shepard has long been accustomed to it, and ordered someone to take Edward to deal with the follow-up, and he left the training ground.

……

With more and more merchants and adventurers coming here, and the pressure on the city guards is increasing, Sidney's strength is gradually recovering, and an epic swordsman is enough to easily scare a city, plus the dragon and the 'warlock' Count Prell himself, so that everything is still under control.

The completed exchange is divided into three floors, and on the top floor there is a small rooftop garden and pavilion, and the only person who can use it is naturally the owner of the exchange, Count Shepard.

The breeze blew in gusts, bringing with it the smell of flowers and grass, and the dragon was so frightened that the whole city of Bloucester was devoid of the sound of birds, and sometimes it was lonely and lonely.

The teapot boiling on the stove was boiling with the tea soup, and the smell of milk mixed with the smell of tea wafted into the air, making the knight who was sitting and waiting by take a deep breath, obviously enjoying the taste.

Shepard, who was sitting in the rocking chair opposite, smiled and took a sip of wine, and seeing that the milk tea was almost cooked, he motioned to the maid next to him to start pouring the tea.

Jeff took the tea and blew it, took a sip very satisfied, and let out a refreshing sigh of emotion without caring about the image, which made the maid on the side cover her mouth and chuckle.

Although there are many rules in the Earl's Palace, they are not strict with people, so Shepard did not care about the maid's snickering, but also smiled: "This time has been hard for you, Jeff, the project is a week ahead of my request, and it is all your credit." ”

Jeff Knight held the milk tea cup, with his strength, he was not afraid of burning, and when he heard Shepard speak, he quickly shook his head: "My lord, thanks to the promises and rewards made by my lord, I didn't have much credit for letting those workers work desperately." ”

Shepard smiled: "Since the auction house is generally completed, the rest of the things can be slowly increased, and the weather has been very good recently, so I have decided to advance the date of the auction to the day after tomorrow, when Sidney will personally lead the city guards to guard the periphery, and you will need to bring my own soldiers to maintain order in the venue." ”

Naturally, Jeff agreed without hesitation.

On the third day, the auction held in advance made many people who had plans suffer a loss, and the Earl's Court changed the date three times in a row, so that the act of skipping tickets would have been put in the game by the player day long ago, but now there are no forces inside and outside Bloucester who dare to express their dissatisfaction, and can only flow the undercurrent from the city to the outside of the city.

The number of strangers in Bloucester City has suddenly decreased by half, which makes the citizens who have become accustomed to the usual noise and excitement very uncomfortable, but those outsiders who have impure intentions will care about this, and the auction house that is only three miles away from the city is overcrowded for a while.

The open-air auction house is full of hundreds of people, except for a small number of citizens who come to see the excitement, most of them are foreign merchants and adventurers, fortunately the weather is not hot, although the sun is bright and dazzling, but it is only warm and sunny, and the specially built high platform has fences and gifts, and also erects a curtain and a giant umbrella to shade the sun, the cost is naturally more than twenty times more expensive than those ordinary seats, and it is clear that it is to kill those foreign forces with a clear goal.

Fortunately, these people know that they can honestly pay money, which is a lot of income for the Earl's Court, plus the auction house is outside the independent city, tickets, food and drink, identity cards and parasols and other things are arranged by the Earl's Court to sell, before the auction starts, the bookkeeper in charge of statistics has been happy to close his mouth.

The hustle and bustle of people echoed over the auction house, which was divided into four areas, a high platform for high prices, cheap ordinary seats, special seats for nobles and mages, and an auction area in the center of the auction house, where the city guards had already taken out the auction items from the hole guarded by the green dragon, and at this time they were all collected in the background and taken out one by one as the auction progressed, while the green dragon slept soundly outside the auction house, and the steel-feathered griffin soared in the sky like a black dot in the sky.

In the noble seats, there were not many people, except for Shepard, there were only a few nobles who knew each other nearby, Count Dureth was busy taking care of his Franc City, and this time he didn't have time to join in the fun, and on the other side, there were three mages in magic robes sitting casually on the upholstered chairs, with a cold expression, with some difficult self-esteem and arrogance.

It was only when I occasionally saw the smiling Shepard that the feeling of danger hanging over the head of the Demon Duncan could make these three mages much more low-key.

"Master Siddock, why didn't your teacher come? Could it be that a Nesser relic is not enough to make His Excellency the [Wind Master] pay attention? Shepard smiled at the bustle around him, and suddenly turned his head to one of the mages and asked.

The senior mage named Siddock faintly exuded magic fluctuations in several places, but in the face of Shepard's inexplicable warning signs, he did not dare to show the arrogance of a mage, but said very politely: "Count Prell, the teacher has been busy with an experiment recently, before it started, he had already told us that it would take about half a year, and now it has only been two months, and we have no way to inform the teacher, besides, it has been more than two hundred years and no new ruins of the floating city have been discovered, although the [Eye of Nether] is precious, But without the Nesser relics of the Floating City, it is not worth it for my teacher, a legendary archmage, to stop his experiments! ”

【Wind Master】Vallenero is the strongest mage in Tesser and the four or five nearby city-states and kingdoms, at least two city-states and one kingdom are actually under his rule, although the high-level mage in front of him is only his disciple, but he is rich and powerful, and he is used to being powerful, and the arrogance between words cannot be concealed even if he is intentional.

This group of people opened a portal and came to Bloucester City, originally thought it was just an ordinary rural place, but they didn't expect that they were almost shocked by the green dragon and a dragon to fall from the sky and fall to their death, and then they were suppressed by the sense of danger given to them by Shepard, which made these three mages feel very aggrieved, and the idea of robbing could only be stranded, and there was not enough money to participate in the auction, so they could only be a spectator with peace of mind.

Shepard didn't speak again, the mage has always belonged to the wave of people standing at the top of the pyramid, the number is really scarce, and the strength is terrifying, he let these three mages eat a turtle, and he didn't dare to mess with the process of the auction house, but if the oppression is too much, it will not end well.

Fortunately, these three people are not very interested in the Nether Relic, although the [Eye of Nether] is a powerful magic item, but unlike the more precious and practical [Nether Core], there are only a few ways to use the [Nether Eye].

The most common is to use prophecy spells to find the lost floating city, but as Sidock said, no new floating city or ruins have been discovered in the last two hundred years, so many people believe that the afterglow of the Magic Empire era has finally been crushed by the wheels of history.

This is also the reason why Shepard didn't care too much about this thing, in the previous life, there were tens of millions of players in the game, and only a few people found the floating city that still existed, and there was that idle space to spend a lot of time and cost to find the floating city, he might as well wait for the news from Tommar's side.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen! ”

The loud voice echoed in the auction house, this was not a personal strength, but the use of magic amplification enchantment props, the voice of the host standing on the auction table with a very friendly and friendly smile was amplified dozens of times, so that it could reverberate in the auction house.

The host's smile remained unchanged and continued: "Thanks to the generosity of our great lord, the generous and wealthy Earl, I have the opportunity to hold this auction today, the list of auction items has been delivered to you, please prepare for the auction items you want to get, the auction starts now!" ”

"Please take the first auction item, five ounces of dragon's blood!"

The host was hoarse and introduced the auction items, while the merchants and low-level mages who were the main buyers mingled in the crowd or on the high platform, bidding for what they needed.

Before the auction began, Shepard had already walked around the situation of the dragon materials at hand, since it was not fresh and intact dragon blood dragon meat, then the mages and alchemists attracted would not be too powerful, after all, things like dried dragon meat and blackened dragon blood were not useful for the manufacture of most precious potions and enchanted items.

In addition to the by-products that had been cut while treating the green dragon, Shepard had also mixed a collection of useless items into the auction items, which, together with the valuable items provided by many adventurers later, was enough to sustain the auction for a day.

There were some things that even Shepard was interested in, and occasionally raised his hand to participate in the auction, and under his influence, the three mages who were originally just spectators also participated, and they originally looked down on the low-level mages who were mixed with the merchants and commoners, but now they found that there was something surprising in this auction in the backwoods.

"The next auction item, a full set of exquisite full-body armor crafted by a master-level blacksmith! It is mixed with mythril, pure gold, copper, and obsidian powder...... and many other precious materials! The defense is top-notch and the value is high enough to be an heirloom for the Earl family! Starting bid......"

The delicate full-body armor that Shepard got from the Salibotta family was quietly displayed on the auction table, and the host introduced the auction item hoarsely, and at this time the third host had come to the stage, obviously very demagogic language talent, almost making Shepard, as the owner of the auction item, wonder why he took out this ill-fitting full-body armor for auction......

The other participants were even more excited, after all, many of them were themselves spokespersons for some nobles, or minor nobles such as knights or barons came out in person, and this set of full-body armor was made of high-quality materials, but the starting price was not high, which naturally made them have a lot of ideas in their hearts.

Shepard quietly watched as the others bid for this precious armor that weighed only twice as much as leather armor, but its defensive power was far superior to that of full-body steel armor, although this full-body armor was gorgeous, it was not in line with his combat habits, and it would be a pity to stay there and eat ashes, this treasure might as well be taken out and sold.

As a god, although he likes to collect, he doesn't like things that are useless to him, and whether it is forging a set of armor that suits him during his long lifespan, or digging up treasures that are clear in his memory, it is much better than leaving this set of full-body armor.