Chapter 14 Dangerous Transactions
Camorra City Commercial Street, Magic Workshop.
Fippley carried the goods here, arrived before the deadline, and according to the contract, the corresponding remuneration was increased for each day in advance, and despite the small stumbles on the way, after getting the money in his hands, Fippley still sighed that the business was too easy to do.
"Won't you transport it in?"
"The transaction is over, the remuneration has been paid, you can handle this batch of goods by yourself, and the rest has nothing to do with us."
"What do you mean?"
Fippley was dumbfounded, and the other party was impatient and unceremoniously.
"Literally! It's not for a businessman like you to ask about, get rid of the rags and don't delay the day-to-day operations of our workshop! β
So, Fippley drove away in confusion, couldn't guess what the other party meant, did business to transport goods, and felt that the goods were not satisfied, you can refuse to accept them, how can there be a reason to pay and not receive the goods? Take the money to play? Phippley didn't understand, except for sighing that you city people really know how to play, just put the ticket close to him.
Phipley didn't know much about such goods as magical materials, but fortunately he recently met someone who knew about it, and the merchant had the means of a merchant, and he got the news he wanted by asking among the famous inns in the city.
But it was getting late, and Phippley didn't think this was the time to disturb Mephis, who was a scholar, probably the kind of person who cared about sleep.
Phippley returned to the Chamber of Commerce and applied for a temporary warehouse to push the goods in for safekeeping, intending to store them for a few days to see how they were going to be disposed of, so as not to get into trouble.
"You fat man is the most industrious businessman I have ever met, I remember last month I saw you running a wine business, but today you told sΓΉ that you took a new business and went back and forth to other cities, I heard that the desert has not been peaceful recently, aren't you afraid of losing your head?"
Old Nick had been a storekeeper for a long time, and few merchants in the surrounding cities didn't know him, and Phipley knew him well. Because of the familiarity, there were more conversations, and the two made an appointment to go to the tavern for a drink, and to see the dancer and talk about life and find a girl.
When it comes to sand thieves, Phippley is uncomfortable if he doesn't brag about it.
"What's there to be afraid of, isn't it a sand thief? I've been masturbating him as much as I wanted, do you think I'm a vegetarian with this physique? I was ...... when I was younger."
Knock knock -
"What sound?"
Giggles-
The administrator listened attentively, and his face turned strange.
"It's from the warehouse, what's going on, I said Phipley, there are a lot of valuable goods in this warehouse, you can't play yin."
"you, Lao Tzu has been guaranteed credibility for more than ten years, when have you ever played with means? I'm even stranger than you, open the door and see what's going on, I feel like this thing smells weird on the way, but it's magic material I don't understand. β
Opening the door of the warehouse, Old Nick turned on the magic guide lamp with a somewhat vigilant attitude, and the warehouse was brightly lit, and the two soon came to the compartment where Fippley stored the goods.
The chest placed there had been destroyed, shards were spilled all over the ground, and a strange creature was slamming into the iron door, perhaps because it found that the iron door was very hard, so it opened its mouth to bite on it and twisted it, and the strange sound that came from it came from here.
"What is this!! Phipley: What did you ship? β
"No, I don't know!"
Quack! The crunch echoes through the warehouse!
The iron fence was broken, and the monster inside, no, it should have been a creature that was once a human being, ran out in the form of a beast, took off into the air and pounced directly on the old Nick who was walking in front, pressed him to the ground, opened his mouth and bit directly on his throat, and swallowed blood with a clatter.
The terrible scream was bitten off as soon as it appeared, and under the bite of the monster, Old Nick's neck was almost separated from his body, and Fippley was frightened, and the experience of walking in dangerous areas for many years made him almost reflexively flee, closing the iron door as fast as possible, and then fleeing outside the Chamber of Commerce.
"Help! Help me! β
Phipley felt like he was in a nightmare at this time, he had never been so panicked, the monster looked at him with a look at the food, Phippley wanted to live, just running away was not enough, the only thing he knew was that the only one who could save himself at this time was the city guards!
Unlike Phipley's nightmares, which had just begun, Mephis's nightmare had just ended.
When Mephis got up, she knew that she couldn't sleep, and her homesickness fell into her eyes like a raindrop, and she really entered the world of her favorite game, and she didn't expect to be so lonely. At this time, Mephis noticed something, and moved her gaze to the window, and the moonlight spilled through the cracks in the window, and the pillars of light added a fantastical color to Hevier, the holy and beautiful Valkyrie.
Since he couldn't sleep, Mephis turned to sink into the library, liquidating the recent harvest, and the experience accumulated by eliminating the sand thieves was a lot, and as the level increased, the experience to be eaten next became more and more, vaguely reaching the limit of this stage.
[When the character reaches level 10, the library construction license is opened.] γ
Building permits?
Mephis carefully clicked on this message to check the instructions, and the general explanation was that he could choose an area to summon the library to reality, which was to create a zΓ o out of thin air, just like in the game, a building would appear instantly by clicking a button.
If the statement is true, Mephis really can't imagine how incredible this is, is this world really a reality? The sky, the air, the earth, the shapes, the colors, the sounds, and the external things are nothing but the manifestation of the deceitful dream? For the first time, Mephis felt that reality was so untrustworthy that it was difficult for him to distinguish between the unreal and the real, as if he were living in a dream. Therefore, Mephis has to wonder if the whole world is just a dream.
Mephis called out Hervel's name in hesitation.
"Master Mephis, what do you command?"
"You...... Think you're real? β
"This question is meaningless, even if I deny and doubt my own existence, when I think about it, it proves that I already have it, and it is meaningless to think about where I am coming and going."
Yes, no matter how much the current encounter violates common sense, since it has become a reality, then it is pointless to consider these things at all, even if it is really a game, this game will be cleared!
"Thank you Hervier, I figured something out."
"I don't know what is bothering Lord Mephis, but I'm glad you cheered up."
"Good! Full of energy~"
What's the point of not really going to the end? Thinking of this, Mephis's eyes became firm, and she jumped out of bed and stretched, slapping her cheeks with both hands.
Money, manpower, prestige, and territory, Mephis calculates these things, recalls the information about the city of Camorra in the game, and a plan gradually becomes clear in his mind.
As soon as the day dawned, Mephis came to the west of the city, as in the game era, this is still a place to be developed, originally reserved for players to be a guild station, but now no one has invested in the construction of here, Mephis walked into a huge church-style building, walked into the musty smell of the face, and the slightest step on the floor will make a creaking sound, Mephis is even worried that he will step on the floor to collapse.
Due to the growing tension between the two countries, most of the clergy of the Holy Court withdrew, leaving a lonely dean to support the orphanage, due to various reasons, the former dean could not leave the children here, and supported the orphanage alone, which was more than 50 years, he was once a respected priest, but now he has become a bad old man, when he was young, he went around to see people and did odd jobs at the same time, he was a dozen mouths to support the orphanage, and now he is old, Fortunately, the children here are quite sensible and know how to share the work in the orphanage.
Simply putting aside other factors, this orphanage occupies a large piece of land, nominally belongs to the property of the Holy Court, Melnia's influence is or not, and the identity of the old man priest also makes it difficult for the nobles to occupy it in an unwarranted name, obviously every year the Holy Court will mention the matter of the orphanage, but there is no specific behavior, which makes the nobles in a dilemma, fortunately, just wait.
If it didn't work, the nobles asked the old dean to voluntarily transfer it, so that the Holy Court would have nothing to say, let alone after so many years. But no matter how those nobles promised, the old dean just didn't agree to transfer the ownership of the orphanage, even if it would really be taken away, he would hold on until he died!
In the era of the game, Mephis admired such people, and one of the conditions for players to build a union base in the neighborhood was to invest in the construction of an orphanage, which was much more than other stations. However, at the time of the game, Mephis's guild was built in this vicinity, and it is still chosen here.
In the center of the church, the old abbot Robertson was sweeping the floor around the statue, and he didn't seem to notice the visitors, in fact, even if he did, he wouldn't really pay attention, in the context of Annalos's promotion of magic and magic, the sense of theology has been so meager that it is almost like a thing, originally there would be volunteers in the orphanage to help, but under the interference of those nobles, no one dared to come, and even if someone came, they were all nobles' private soldiers, nothing more than a threat, urging and warning.
Mephis walked straight to the statue and worshipped the god with the most dignified rites, and then poured a bag full of gold coins into the donation box, the sound of ding-dong ding-dong was particularly clear in the empty church.
"Hello, honorable priest Roberson, my name is Mephis, and I am a young scholar on a journey. I have been to Melnia not long ago, and I can see the natural scenery everywhere, and I was amazed by the many rare plants and animals, some of which are even extinct in the outside world, and I can even name hundreds of species that have become extinct in Annalos. β
Unlike the earth, this world has true gods, and Melia is prosperous and powerful under the rule of the ten gods of Hime.
Analos's magic technology has brought real progress to the country, and the cost of progress is naturally passed on to nature, everyone understands it, and no one talks about it.
Dean Robertson looked at Mephis with a blank face, the young man in front of him had impeccable manners, but because of this, he was puzzled.
"I don't feel faith in you, otherwise I would have thought you were the most devout believer."
"Knowledge is my only belief, and seeking truth and pragmatism is the basic quality of a scholar, but I also respect the gods because they are really respectable."
Mephis also gave Dean Roberson the etiquette that only exists between priesthoods, yes, Mephis has been behaving since she walked in here, almost a face-to-face to win favor, Mephis looks so polite, she looks a little beautiful, as long as she talks well, she won't be hated, it's a good thing to brush her face.
Just as Mephis was about to say what he meant, the tattered wooden door of the church was violently kicked open, and a group of soldiers walked in from outside, menacing Dean Robertson.
"Hervey."
With Mephis's call, Hervier was already in the way of those noble privateers.