"The Chamber of Commerce... There are three blacksmith shops... It's a different pattern..."

"The location of the grain depot is also wrong, uh... In 588, it was the autumn of 590 - something was coming..."

"That's not right... There's no such area here. ”

Sally followed, listening to Roddy with some confusion as she said those words, feeling that he was a little confused. Occasionally, I would see the performance of a magician in the lively market on the street, but I didn't dare to stop casually.

In this era, the existence of magicians is generally accepted by the public, but it needs to be distinguished that the generally accepted "magician" is not the terrible guy who will throw fireballs all over the sky and cast a forbidden spell at every turn in the impression of other games. The so-called "magic" is not a product created simply for the sake of destruction and war.

More often than not, the role of "magic" is used to transform and optimize society, and wealthy lords will hire magicians to use zero-level spells like "mage's hand" to help with some heavy labor, greatly increasing labor efficiency - zero-level spells, also known as "trick" spells in the magician's spell classification... Things like "sand lifting", "illumination", and "communication" exist to facilitate life and entertain the public.

In a juggle troupe like Sally's seen, there are usually one or two such magicians appearing, conjuring up tricks to bring some novelty to the toiling peasants and fighting for some hard-earned money, which can be regarded as a kind of labor occupation.

Roddy doesn't have any feelings for these magicians, after the game was launched, "magician" once became an unpopular profession, maybe this is related to the need for hand-to-hand combat in the early low-level magic professions... Because there are not many zero-level spells in the early stage that have attack power, after a lot of hard work and experience to mix dungeons, it is found that the power of first-level and second-level spells is really heartbreaking, and most mages do not have the patience to support it and change jobs, because until the appearance of fourth-level spells, the mage profession is almost always the existence of the "crane tail" in the team, and it is not welcome in any case.

However, if any mage survives the threshold of level 30 of the advanced class, what awaits him is a surprise reward after a long period of depression - but now Roddy is not interested in recalling the three years of blood and tears of those mages, but he has great doubts about the appearance of this Kig town in front of him.

Because he found that there was a lot of difference between the Kig town in his impression and the one in front of him, the most obvious of which was that the entire southeast district was not as empty as he remembered, but full of shops opened by various craftsmen, and there was even a small market among them, bustling...

"In the year 590... Kieg is auctioning off this property, why?"

Roddy recalls the scene when players began to buy real estate after the first batch of funds were available, the studio supported by the consortium frantically bought land, and Kiger Town became one of the hot real estate projects at that time because of the large number of vacant real estate and the cheap price... As for the reason, Roddy frowned and thought for a long time, and finally remembered-

Fire.

A fire burned half of Kig Town in the fall of 589, which was before the start of the service, for which Viscount Tranka was quite distressed for a while, after the server was opened, almost everyone who was here at that time could receive the task assigned in the name of Lord Viscount, in order to restore the original economic level of Kig Town as soon as possible...

Thinking of this, Roddy's train of thought turned, and he naturally thought of the path he was going to take next. To say that fighting against the orcs and reviving the country is definitely not a simple matter of climbing the heights and raising their arms and calling countless people to flock to it, and if there is anything that can twist this country with a strong social class into a rope, it is only two words:

Benefit.

If people of different classes are separate bricks and stones, the word "interests" is enough to become solid cement for these different levels of guys to build fortress walls.

Roddy is a tech nerd who has an absolute advantage in combat, but when it comes to business... But he really has never had much contact, after all, he is a lone ranger, he has always eaten on his own, occasionally teamed up to play dungeons, and there is also a sense of "no one else" loneliness.

In this life, I am afraid that I will never be able to walk the world alone as before. Roddy sighed, and when he looked up, he found Sally beside him, looking at him curiously.

"I've always been curious... What are you thinking about when you're in a daze?"

"Well," Roddy said, gesturing to the shops in front of him, "I'm thinking about how I can buy them and make money for myself." ”

Sally burst out laughing—not because she thought Roddy was bragging, but because she was amused by the way he spoke.

In Sally... Or in the eyes of all the people in this social system, there is no such thing as "buying" such things as shops and bazaars in Kiger Town. There would be merchant guilds in the shops, and bazaars would be registered in the merchant guilds, but in the end, most of the benefits they generated went to the lords - except for the lords, who wanted to make money on this group of people, which was basically a fool's dream.

"You're such a strange fellow, I don't know why these thoughts are in your head. ”

Sally pointed to the shops and continued, "The rules have been fixed for hundreds of years, and the lords have always been the biggest gainers, and if you want a piece of the pie? ”

For these nobles in the territory, Sally is like a treasure, and Roddy only then remembered her identity as the daughter of a duke, and secretly scolded herself for forgetting Sally's ability, but immediately humbly asked for advice.

Sally has never seen Roddy so studious, after she was a few words of praise at a young age, she naturally felt a little uncontrollably fluttering, after a few words of answers, she felt that she had invisibly become a "teacher"-like role, this novel feeling made her never experience, and the words in her mouth inevitably had more, and the two of them just walked and chatted about the influence of the aristocratic feudal system and the commercial system, and finally passed through the town, ready to leave the last "supply station" before going to Holier City At that time, Roddy was satisfied to let Sally take a sip of water, and with a smile on his face, he turned to the front and continued to lead the way.

Sally felt that she seemed to be talking too much, and she wanted to step up and say a few "cruel words" in a hurry, but just as the two were about to leave the town in a relaxed and casual atmosphere, a team of cavalry suddenly appeared and suddenly broke the relaxed and casual atmosphere.

Sally's footsteps stopped, staring blankly ahead.

It seems that the good fortune of the smooth journey through the Silent Forest has come to an end here, and Sally looks ahead and almost exclaims, because... Among the more than a dozen cavalrymen in that group, the leader was the one she was hiding from at this time...

Francis Roussiflon!

Roddy, of course, knew Francis, too—but he knew Lord Evta, who had grown a beard on his lips years later and was eventually hanged by order of the Legion Commander Sodrore. At this moment, Francis was much younger than he was then, his half-length blonde hair was meticulous, his leather armor was not ornate but well-cut, and his posture stood tall and tall, making him stand out from the crowd of soldiers.

At this time, it was getting late, and Roddy didn't need to think about it to understand that the other party had come from the direction of Vic Village to prepare for a night's rest, and the horses were exhausted, and the soldiers were even more chapped - and what worried Roddy the most was that at this time, the group of cavalry fifty meters away actually jumped off their horses directly, and led the horses into Kieg Town, just opposite Roddy and Sally!

This... That's a coincidence, isn't it?

At this point, Roddy had no way back, for he found that there was no corner of the straight street where he could hide—turning back? Now even one wrong move might alarm Francis, who was thinking about finding Sally!

What to do?

It wasn't just Roddy whose heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and Sally's mood at this time could be said to have completely fallen to the bottom, because she also knew what kind of ability her brother had - although she tried to imitate the movements and demeanor of men, but Francis, who had lived in the Duke's Palace since she was a child, already had the title of "Elementalist", and her senses were far sharper than ordinary people, and when he was in the Duke's Palace, he could often accurately judge Sally's identity without seeing Sally just by taking steps.

Now it seems that both Roddy and Sally have fallen into the net.

The atmosphere was anomalously stagnant in an instant,

At this time, Roddy's footsteps did not stop, because he knew that once he had any abnormal behavior, it might be easier to attract the attention of the other party, so he just moved his body silently, allowing himself to block Francis's sight, and trying not to let the other party notice Sally behind him as much as possible. But this is not the only solution, he is anxious at this time... Can you really only gamble on luck?!

Roddy had never been one to put his hopes in luck, he thought about it, his lips twitched slightly, and he whispered out the skill slot—a way he had done in the past when he was in a desperate situation, because he knew that sometimes skills that he didn't use at all would work wonders. But at this moment, looking at those few skills that are too basic to be basic, his heart gradually sank to the bottom.

Wait a minute!

Roddy suddenly found that there was a light icon next to his basic skill bar, because he had not summoned the full skill bar at all after being reborn, and the "Equipment Skill" slot, which should have been empty at the moment, actually had a skill that he had never noticed that could be used.

With his eyes on it, Roddy's footsteps still didn't stop, but he frowned and saw a line of handwriting displayed in front of him-

Mysterious necklace

Necklace unique

Uses: Perform Stealth (Level 3) for 60 seconds.

Activation spell: Ol'kla

"The necklace of unknown origin seems to have gone through many years, but the power it was once endowed with has not been lost. ”

This... What is this? Doze off a pillow?

Roddy was completely stunned.