Chapter XXXIX
"Who would have thought that the third prince, who was not paying attention at the time, would be able to break the curse and defeat his two powerful brothers in court politics and ascend to the throne?" Anse El shook his head helplessly.
"The original paranoia of Griffith's time continues for another twenty years until today, and after thirty-six years, as you can see, we have been completely ostracized by the Titan Empire. ”
Olwes took a sip of her black tea, frowned, and lifted a jade pot with warm sugar and poured it into it nonchalantly, only to notice after a moment that there was no sound around her at all.
She raised her head and saw that the eyes of the three Magisters in front of her were a little gloomy, obviously they had been emotionally exhausted by the years of fighting, except for Ansel, the two old men of the Radical School Department must not understand why the enemy gradually changed from Griffiths to the Titan Empire.
People who are free by nature have always been unable to tolerate and understand the existence of rules, and if this kind of struggle is not strong enough, it will eventually become overwhelmed by the increasingly vast avalanche that will sweep in.
O magician, are you a being freer than a dragon who flies haughtily into the sky, or an ant colony that is running tirelessly in one direction only to be crushed by passing cars?
Olwes glanced at them again, they were different from the teacher, even though they were only a big step away from the teacher.
She had dreamed of the eyes of her teacher many times, the eyes of Kerevina Durove, clear and pure without impurities, but complex and mysterious to contain all colors, it was an unattainable height, like the stars that were indifferently the eyes of the gods, and with a hint of human warmth for her.
Olves woke up, and the black tea was already a little cold.
"You seem to have made a mistake, I am here to make my own deal, even though I am in the name of Konstantin. ”
"Deal?"
"That's right. Olwes didn't care about the disgusted gaze they cast at them, "just as you think." She held out her left hand, "Money." Stretching out his right hand, "Thing." ”。
She slapped her palms and shrugged her shoulders, "It's that simple. ”
The eyes of Merlin and the other magician had grown cold, but Anse El had grasped the key point.
He incomprehensibly tried to see through Virginia's beautiful face to see her equally beautiful sorcerer Qinggao's soul, and sadly saw only a greedy aristocratic girl who had amassed wealth, he tentatively asked.
"You mean, if we pay you accordingly, you can change the current rigid situation for us?"
Olweiss smiled, narrowing into a slit that made her look a little sly and cute, "Yes! Virginia has never failed any of her patrons. ”
"How can we believe you have this ability?", the old magician of Morin understood the current desperate situation more deeply than Ansel's eagerness.
Olwes smiled, "Because I'm a nobleman, and you're not." ”
This simple reason convinced the three old magicians.
"So, what about the money?", Olwes was always expressionless when she asked for a salary, and had a nickname when she was in the Adventurers' Guild, "Enid the Iron Mask".
Merlin and the other magister looked at Ansel, he sighed helplessly, took out a bag of magic crystals from his robe and placed it on the table, the bright and clear swaying like sand dazzling colors immediately caught Olves' eyes.
"Hmm. ”
Anse El watched her look, Olwes stared at his robes, gurgling sounds coming from the throat of the magistrate Kemp, but the bag of crystals didn't suffer the warmth it deserved.
Ansel sighed, put his hand into his robe and took out two bags of magic crystals and placed them on the table, at this time the chair finally began to make a clicking sound, Ansel suppressed the feeling of heartache and quietly glanced under the table, but unfortunately it was two of the knights whose legs had been shaking.
Although they didn't understand what a magic crystal was, the heavy atmosphere on the field made them realize its value a little.
Ansel reached into his robe again, but was stopped by Virginia, "Take it as a deposit, my patrons, and you'll see it work in a month." ”
She shook the three bags that made a crisp sound one last time in front of them, and smiled and threw them into the amethyst ring with the tea sets, "For the sake of our first transaction, I won't ask you for healing, but you will have to tell me how to solve the curse." ”
Magister Merlin snorted, and a piece of parchment floated out of his long sleeve and flew straight towards Olweiss, "Go back and tell Reagan to continue being his clown in the court." ”
"Joker, that's not his turn, he's a count. Olwes ran her fingertips at the parchment and glanced at it, "Have you ever considered being like Reagan?"
Olwes looked up, and the expressions of the three Anse El were a little cold and heavy, and she smiled, "Then it seems that we still have a long deal to do." ”
How did you come and how did you go back, Ganard's tense nerves finally relaxed, and he looked forward, the girl lying on horseback ahead of everyone was squinting her eyes to appreciate the dazzling light of the magic crystal through the sunlight.
"Is the mission accomplished?Lord Virginia?", he cared more than anything about whether he had protected the knight's glory.
Olwes sat up and looked at Garnard, who somehow reminded her of Alfred, what was the similarity between the two?
She took out two Gallic knight swords from the amethyst ring and threw them to Tyne and Ganard, but the Bernie knight, who didn't get the sword, looked stunned, "What about me?
"When you learn to add honorific titles to the end, come and ask me for it. Olveis galloped out of the misty forest across the Fijian plains, her long silver hair blown by the strong wind in her face.
After all, she stopped in the distance to look back, and she was still a little expecting the two swords to shine in their hands.
After a simple meal of bread and soup at a farmhouse by the roadside, and a slept by the stream, Olveis headed for the city of Eggton, which borders the city of Barsaromu.
According to Orman's books, the economic city of the Titan Empire was delicate and prosperous, but it was huge, and it was more described as rich and expensive than the ancient and senior nobles who were rooted in the imperial capital.
The intertwined aristocratic ties and the endless network of wealth watered the most beautiful "black street" in the empire, and the crown jewel of that "black street" was the famous "Auction of the Sisters Thatcher".
Olwes doesn't want to spend a lot of money on rare and high-profile items at auction, but if she wants to settle the client's commission, use money to blindfold the majestic beast of the Titan Empire, and then pry up its front paws, then "Sister Thatcher's Auction House" is a must-go destination.
When she was in the Goldmers family, she participated in auctions under the heavy escort of the family knights, and when she was eight years old, despite the experience of her previous life, she still stared at the strange and sometimes flesh-and-blood continental rarities in the bright and dim lights and scorching scenes, and breathless.
It wasn't the place where the daughter of a large family with a top-notch female aristocratic education should visit.
But where Olves shouldn't be, Enid has grown, and she and her friends often go around the auction house to deal with dirty stuff or get their hands on the black goods in the market (thanks to the thief Tyrne).
Despite the unscrupulous merchants' crooked ideas of taking goods empty-handed, the "Dancing with Fire and Sword" squad mostly took on the responsibility of guiding them to the right path, or when they were chased and killed, Olves ran behind to show Goldmers
"Don't buy or take out more than you are worth", this is a rule of the family.
Olweis sat in the carriage and sighed and let it drive into Elton City, she was worth a lot, but only when it was on the auction table, it would be nice if Old Man Reagan was around, she couldn't help but think.
The coachman waited at the door, and she sat in the tavern until nightfall, and then the city and its people took off their masks.