Chapter 75: The Winter Festival of Pezarus (Part II)
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While Chen Kai and the others were enjoying a seafood feast that was a little too rich, Pezaros was still surrounded by wind and snow. biquge.info But as time went on, the wind and snow began to get smaller and smaller, but according to Hammer Tower's understanding, it would take at least two or three days to wait for the heavy snow to stop, and at this time, the snow around Pezaros had already penetrated more than half a meter deep. Although the snow in Pezaros was cleared very quickly due to the protection of the city walls and the large number of people, if you left the city, the carriage would quickly sink into the snowdrifts.
Therefore, although Chen Kai and the others have received sufficient supplies, they cannot leave Pezarus on the basis of evidence, and can only wait here for the start of the winter festival. When the winter festival of Pezaros begins, that is, when the heavy snow stops, the magical snow removal facilities on the trade route from Pezzaros to the next destination will be activated, and the snow on the road will be cleared quickly. It only took a day or so for Chen Kai and the others to continue their journey, but now they could only huddle in the city of Pezaros and watch the residents happily decorate the square for the winter festival.
Although the snow was still blowing outside, it could not resist the enthusiasm of the Pezaros, and the bottom of the inn was basically full of gentlemen drinking together. These people usually don't have the time or money to go out and drink, and it is only during the winter festival that they have some extra money in their pockets, and of course it all goes into the innkeeper's pocket.
Some families who are not usually very wealthy will also choose to improve their food during this time, just as in reality, in the old society, domestic farmers can basically eat meat only during the Chinese New Year, and some poor people in Pezaros can only eat meat during this time. At this time, the temples of Pezaros would also place a few slices of bacon or a few pieces of ham in their almscarnage. Most of the poor people saved money in addition to the temple alms would also be used to buy clothing and food for the winter. Even the most frugal people will be generous at this time, but the family really has no money, so they can only go to the temple to receive a free winter festival. It's a bag of flour, a winter coat, and a piece of bacon, but it's not a good thing.
Chen Kai wanted to join the almsgiving team of the local temple of Pezarus, but among all of them, only Chen Yi and Su Wan managed to blend in. Chen Kai was rejected by the Dawn Temple priest who presided over the almsgiving because his huge physical intimidation was too terrifying. And Zhao Tiezhu is even more miserable, and there is not a single temple of the earth temple in the entire Pezarus. Without a temple, there would be no almsgiving team, and he would not be able to participate in almsgiving.
However, in Fei Yun's opinion, it was really not cost-effective to run out and suffer from the cold for some kindness, so he chose to come and continue to stay in the hotel with Chen Kai and Zhao Tiezhu. In fact, in Chen Kai's opinion, Fei Yun was completely because he couldn't get into the almsgiving team, because thieves were the most unpopular professionals in the almsgiving team, and Fei Yun was not a temple profession. As for whether the Kindness Rating is useful or not, at least when accepting the quest, a higher Kindness Rating will increase the goodwill of ordinary residents towards you, making it easier to obtain the quest. Of course, with Chen Kai's current kindness value, it is actually quite simple to get the task. But sometimes the value of kindness is too high to be useful. For example, Chen Kai, now his kindness value has made his camp biased and fixed in the orderly and good camp, which means that it should be easy to gain the favor of ordinary residents to obtain the task. But his current figure is too terrifying, and most people are scared to death when they see it. Where is it possible to give him tasks.
There's nothing quite like sitting around the fire during the cold winter months. In fact, the inn called Payne Inn has the largest fireplace in the whole of Pezaros, and there are several smaller fireplaces, each of which is equivalent to a private room that can accommodate more than a dozen people. Chen Kai and the others officially rested in such a private room, of course, Chen Kai and the three of them were not the only ones in the entire box, but also Hammer Tower, who was reluctant to go out, and several other mercenary leaders. Of course, these mercenary leaders can only be regarded as Hammertower's subordinates now. Although only temporarily.
While Chen Kai and the three of them were around the fire, Hammertower and the mercenary leaders were drinking wine and eating dog meat hot pot around a stone stove. This is actually the most distinctive dish of the Penn Hotel, the stone pot dog meat. In fact, it is a hot pot made of a pot carved out of stone, and in addition to the crispy old dog meat stewed in the middle, there are also various fresh vegetables and beef and mutton slices. In fact, Chen Kai also wants to participate in Hammer Tower. However, as soon as he went down with chopsticks, basically half of the stone pot was missing, so Chen Kai and the three of them could only open a pot alone. By the way, grill with the help of iron tongs with the help of the fire in the fireplace.
Compared with the roast chicken wings in Fei Yun and Zhao Tiezhu's hands, the leg of lamb in Chen Kai's hand is very strong. It's not that he doesn't like chicken wings. It's because the chicken wings are so small that there are basically no pieces of meat in his mouth, while the leg of lamb is otherwise grilled and can be nibbled as much as he wants. The most important thing is that there is a large stone pot in the middle of the three of them, which is not too big or small compared to the stone pot that Hanmerta and they sit around, and what is tumbling in it is also a pot of old dog meat. Of course, only when Chen Yi and Su Wan were not there, a few people dared to enjoy it, Chen Yi and Su Wan are both standard dog fans, let alone eating dog meat, even smelling it will be like a cow guarding a calf, and instantly full of anger. Of course, because they have been in the game, it is naturally impossible to raise a dog, but this does not prevent the two girls from liking dogs, so if the two of them know that the three of them are hiding by the fireside to eat dog meat, it is estimated that they will directly pull out the stick and beat it.
While Chen Kai and the three of them were on the stove and eating dog meat hot pot while barbecuing, Xu Fei was busy wandering around the spell shops throughout Pezarus. He wanted to find a good spell supply store in Pezarus, buy enough spell copy scrolls, and sell the ones he didn't need in his backpack for money. Xu Fei's success rate of spell scroll making zuò is already high among ordinary players, especially after experiencing the painful years in Khedira, he cherishes every scroll material very much. You must know that in Khedira, there is almost a single qualified scroll paper very rare, and most of them are made of monster skins as a rolling bearing load. Although the monster skin is very compatible with the magic power of certain attributes, it also limits the carrying of other spells.
A sixth-order Monster Fur can be used to create a spell scroll of the same or second order. But because of the incompatibility of attributes, you can only make a spell scroll of the first level, that is, the highest fourth order, and the success rate is terrible. If it is an ordinary scroll paper used to make sixth-order spells, the success rate of making fourth-order spell scrolls can reach at least thirty to forty percent, but because the monster skin and spell attributes do not match, the highest success rate is ten percent. But good reel paper is not so easy to come by. If it was easy to buy, Xu Fei could have bought it at the Redstone Fortress Tong Guò Zaf, or Baron Zav at that time. In fact, the scroll paper of the redstone fortress is ordered uniformly, and there is a quota for how much paper each mage uses, and it is not enough for Count Zaf to add a few or mix a few pieces himself, especially the scroll paper above the fifth order is not only expensive, but the quantity is even more scarce than the first.
In fact, the fifth-order scroll paper is already out of the level that ordinary players can consume, and the most ordinary fifth-order scroll paper also requires nearly 1,000 gold coins, not including the spell materials and ink required to make the zuò spell scroll. As for some high-grade fifth-order scroll papers, for example, the stack of white wave sand thick paper that Xu Fei was holding in his hand now had some faint magic crystal powder attached to it, and it had a very good adaptability to spell stimulation and copying scrolls. But it's expensive, and each one is priced at 2,000 gold coins. But there are still people grabbing it at such a price, and the hand of the non-flying and the hand of the other spellcaster are tightly tugging on the corner of this stack of papers, and the eyes of the two people are basically staring at each other.
"Friends! Don't you understand that first come, first come? Xu Fei pinched the stack of scroll paper and aimed at the spellcaster in front of him with his eyes, according to his understanding, the other party should be similar to himself. Belongs to the richer kind. The most important thing is that Xu Fei's arcane mentor robe belongs to a relatively old style, the appearance of a mage robe for more than a hundred years, and the one in front of him is wearing a recently popular spellcaster's robe, of course, it is also a mentor level.
"Whew! In Pezaros there is no Pozhnetsov to talk about first-come, first-served! Alien guys. Don't think you can be a mentor just by wearing a guru robe! Here, even if you are a spell master, you have to get out of the way for me, and let go obediently, otherwise the uncle will directly reward you with a fireball! Standing in front of Xu Fei, this temper is not very good, in fact, as the only apprentice of Pezaros's ** division. Pozhnetsov is enough to outperform most players, especially those of the caster class. However, the ** division-level spellcaster that Xu Fei saw in front of him was several times more than the sum of Bozhnetsov's game career. Although the Khedira alone can't be regarded as Xu Fei's mentors, they have also taught him a lot of things. So Xu Fei was not at all afraid of Pozhnetsov's provocations. As for the other party saying that he would reward him with a fireball, Xu Fei was sure that if the guy in front of him used a spell, he would directly give him a spell counteract and let him suffer the consequences.
Although an arcane caster can't compare to an elemental mage in terms of attack power from a single spell, when it comes to mage methods, five elemental mages can't necessarily compare to a single arcanist, especially when the arcanist has more than forty or fifty low-level spells. Just by playing tricks, Xu Fei can completely abuse the other party. At such close proximity, the spell methods of the same spellcaster, the Arcanist, were not at all comparable to the elemental caster. It is already the top of the sky for ordinary players that the arcanist can master twenty or thirty spells, but Xu Fei, an outlier, has bought a lot of low-level spells in Khedira, and these spells are mostly ancient arcane. Spells have unique effects but are also very frustrating, but they can be very powerful at certain times. For example, tongue mixing, in fact, this arcane is completely based on the arcane art developed with reference to the tongue cutting technique in witchcraft, and the effect is to make the target be affected by the arcane energy when reciting the spell, and the tongue will be knotted, which is much worse than the terrifying power of the tongue cutting directly off the tongue, but it is just as strong in interrupting the casting effect.
If the fire elemental mage in front of him really dared to use force, Xu Fei would not hesitate to give the other party a tongue mixing technique, and then add a silence technique, and finally directly reward the other party with an arcane lightning to end the battle. Of course, maybe it was in the way of the owner of the spell shop, neither Xu Fei nor this Pozhnetsov chose to do it, and in the end, the two of them bought the stack of less than ten scroll papers in half according to the boss's words.
"You remember it for Lao Tzu. Don't let me run into you outside the city! Pozhnetsov yelled angrily when he walked out of the store, he had been acting in Pezaros, he didn't know that in Xu Fei's eyes, he was just a piece of.
"Cut! Isn't it just relying on having a ** teacher as a mentor? Stupid! "Xu Fei is naturally not a stupid person who doesn't know anything, in fact, he is used to knowing the player information of this place whenever he goes to a place. Pozhnetsov is a player who is very famous in Pezzaros, and his luck is that he was favored by Pezzaros's ** division Poneraser just after entering the game. became a trainee apprentice, and he is also one of the few ** apprentices among the players. The second is that this rich second generation in Russia in reality is worth a lot and has developed a very high-spirited temperament, in fact, this kind of temper is not very popular among the rich second generation in Russia, so he is very excluded. But in the game, he did not restrain because of this, but because of his current identity, he intensified, and because of this, when other ** master apprentices reached the sixth order and turned from trainee apprentices, he was still a trainee apprentice with at least one fire element guide. But he didn't know that he was still the same.
"Not really! But the gold in this guy's pocket is real! Alright, Arcanist, do you need anything? I've got some good stuff here, but I can't pick that fool. Of course, the price is a little higher! "The owner of the spell shop saw Pozhnetsov leave and snorted directly at the other party like Xu Fei, for players like Pozhnetsov, in the eyes of some natives, it is definitely the kind of disgust.
"Of course! But you're going to have to give me some discounts, after all, I did you a great favor just now! If it weren't for me, would you think that half stack of ordinary fifth-order scroll paper sprinkled with crystal powder would be able to sell for the price of white wave sand thick paper?! Xu Fei watched as the caravan boss directly threw the scroll paper that was put into the backpack on the counter, and the crystal powder on it was sprinkled on it as he said, and it was glued to it with a spell, and it was not completely mixed in the crystal powder to make zuò when making zuò.
"Ahem! Of course. But you can't say it! Hearing Xu Fei's words, the boss almost didn't choke, but his face immediately recovered. However, he already knew Xu Fei's eyes very clearly, and he also knew the wisdom of the other party, if Xu Fei gave all the scroll paper to the mallet Bozhnetsov, it would definitely make the other party suspicious. But Xu Fei also bought half of it himself, and the final result was that he, the boss writer, deceived two people, not Xu Fei and the boss partnered to deceive one person. After all, Xu Fei bought the scrolls in front of Pozhnetsov. Xu Fei, who paid the money on the spot, mocked Pozhnetsov with contemptuous eyes, which naturally did not arouse the suspicion of the other party.
When Xu Fei walked out of the shopkeeper satisfied, the gold coins in his pocket shrank by two-thirds. However, the spell materials in the backpack have increased a lot. In particular, the materials used to make the spell page allowed him to find several items that could be used to increase the amount of mana accumulated in the spell, thereby enhancing the power of the spells stored in the spell. Of course, the most important thing is the spell materials used to strengthen the spell page, which can change the essence of the spell page little by little while ensuring the quality of the spell, making it slowly change from ordinary spell paper to a special paper made of almost metal. Of course, this process takes a long, long time, and it is basically impossible to do it without more than ten years.
Standing outside the spell shop, Xu Fei slowly put on the hood on his robe and hid his shadow under the wide arcane mentor's robe. Although the robe is a bit old, it still doesn't change the essence of its Arcane Mentor robe. If it weren't for the fact that many tutors like to sell the robes they wear to their students, it is estimated that Xu Fei's outfit would make many spellcasters feel that he has exceeded the rules of the mage's rank. Of course, casters who can skip the level and wear high-level robes are generally very valuable, after all, the price of buying robes from a mentor is quite expensive.
Now the festive atmosphere of Pezaros is very strong, although there is no lantern decoration in every house like the Spring Festival in reality, but it can be regarded as a very distinctive festival scene in the game. Since the Pezarus Winter Festival is not dedicated to the main gods in the game, but to the special god of a place, the goddess of winter, Adella, as one of the slaves of the goddess of nature, Adela is considered to be the most loyal subordinate god of the goddess of nature after Altia sleeps. She did not choose to split directly from the temple of the goddess of nature, like the goddess of the moon, Viola, but has always maintained the identity of the goddess of nature as a god. Because of her existence zài, the temple of the goddess of nature in Pezaros is the largest, while the four goddesses of spring, summer, autumn and winter from the gods all stay in this temple. It's just that the first three goddesses all fell into a deep sleep with the goddess of nature, and only the goddess of winter occasionally answered the prayers of the believers.
In addition to being a sacrifice to the goddess of winter, the winter festival of Pezaros is also an important sacrifice to strengthen the belief in the goddess of winter and even the goddess of nature. As one of the few temples of the Goddess of Winter, Pezaros holds an important place in the mind of the Goddess of Winter, and miracles often befall here. Of course, the Goddess of Winter would not choose to turn Pezarus into a permanent land of ice and snow, which would be absolutely contrary to the teachings of the Goddess of Nature, and she has always maintained the balance of nature according to the requirements of the Goddess of Nature to ensure the prosperity of nature around Pezarus. Basically, the winter festival has been held in Pezaros for nearly two hundred years, and the whole city has basically not suffered many natural disasters, even during the violent snowstorm, there are few snowflakes falling in the city, only the occasional accumulation of less than ten centimeters of snow on the ground proves the abundance of snow around Pezaros.
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