Truth be told, the auction wasn't as interesting as John had imagined. Old Simon's auction is just a small auction, and only adventurers with better economic ability than ordinary people come here, and this is better and better, mercenary adventurers and other professions eat on the knife's edge, and they don't know which day they will die on the task, and it is their code of conduct to have fun in time, and they naturally don't have too much savings in their hands. The total auction price of the last two weapons was 127 silver coins, which had exceeded Simon's expectations, and he thought it would be very good to reach 100 silver coins, but he didn't expect that when he took the scimitar again, there were two people who were good at using knives and had a way to bless them, and the price was raised a lot.

In the evening, old Simon gave John all the silver coins, and did not keep any of them. John was a little distracted, grabbed a stack of stuffs and gave them to old Simon, and said, "These silver coins should be regarded as the cost of lodging and materials for the past few days, you can take them." Old Simon practiced and shirked, saying: "How can you have your money, I am very grateful for being able to show little Simon his skills, and I can't accept your money." John didn't put the money into old Simon's hands several times, and when he saw his resolute attitude, he gave up, and said, "Then tomorrow I will leave you two pieces of equipment, whether you sell them or give them away as favors, it's up to you." ”

Old Simon also knew that this was John's bottom line, and if he shirked it, he might offend John directly, so he agreed with gratitude.

The next day, John made a Lustric knight's sword and a Lustric knight's shield at the smithy and gave them to the blacksmith, packed up the food he bought, hung the Linde shield and the one-handed sword on his waist and set off for Nimitz.

This time John was not going to walk through the woods, which might cause some unexpected trouble. Moreover, although the border town is small, it was once the border garrison of the Nimitz Kingdom, and now it also has an official road. This official road does not lead directly to the capital city of Nimitz, but to the castle of the lord of the border province, which is very prosperous, at least when old Simon mentions Betty's castle, he always yearns for it.

For John, he couldn't understand what prosperity meant at all. In John's memory, whether it was the magnificence of Lothric or the magnificence of Arnoor Lund, or the beauty of Irushel in the Cold Valley, they all once amazed John greatly, but there was no prosperity. What does it mean to be crowded with people? Is it like a hospitable immortal street? I can't understand it.

John, who was sitting under a tree on the side of the road and slowly eating his food, had a confused look on his face.

With a bite of cooked meat and a bite of bread, and a sip of water from time to time, John was able to settle a meal, carrying a weapon and shield and preparing to hurry.

In the middle of the afternoon, he met a merchant who was hurrying from a nearby village to Beatty's Castle. This merchant is not affiliated with a large chamber of commerce, but is similar to a self-employed trader, and the things sold are not precious items, but mostly just some daily necessities, and most of them are sold to nearby villages. Since this type of merchant is rarely involved in the sale of bulk goods, most of them buy goods from chambers of commerce in large cities and sell them everywhere as a supplement to large chambers of commerce.

Because of their own ability, this kind of small merchant can reach a few small villages around a big city, and this range is not too far, most of them can go back and forth on the same day, or depart in the morning and reach in the afternoon. In this era, the night in the wild is not peaceful, whether it is a man-eating beast or a robber bandit, it is not this kind of one or two small merchants can solve, it is good to meet robbers, most robbers will let the merchants leave after robbing the goods and money, only a small part will kill; if you meet wolves or wild bears, this is an unreasonable lord, and then it will be a loss of people and money. There are also merchants who have a certain strength and are not afraid of these dangers, and most of them are also merchants who travel back and forth between cities, and most of these merchants are about ten people, have three or four carriages, and are equipped with certain weapons.

The small merchant John met this time was the one who traveled back and forth between the village and the city. John trembled visibly as he stretched out his hand, and then placed his hand behind the driver's seat of the carriage, apparently armed with a weapon for self-defense. However, after John had asked the distance to Betty's Castle and left, the merchant let go of his weapon. Although John and he are on the same road at the moment, it cannot be ruled out that John is a spies of the thieves group, so naturally he did not greet John to accompany him, accelerated the speed of the carriage, and left.

John watched the carriage leave, and did not make any attempt to catch up or hitchhike. Under the influence of the True Eye, John could see the tension in the coachman's soul, and in order not to irritate him further, he let him go, anyway, according to the coachman's words, he could not go to the castle at most at night, although the gates that would close in the evening were a big problem.

Truth be told, John didn't care what time he arrived, and spending the night in the wilderness was commonplace. But speaking of which, John bought a lot of extra food, and when he heard old Simon say that he might not have the chance to go again, he thought he would spend three or five days in the wilderness, but he didn't expect that at his own speed, it would be a daytime. But speaking of which, I need a day, and an ordinary person like Old Simon estimates that it takes a day and a night, especially a challenge to spend the night in the wild, so I can understand Old Simon's yearning.

John found that since he was reborn into this world, he was very distracted, and often thought about things while walking, sometimes from past battles, sometimes from books he saw in the Great Library, and sometimes about what was happening in this world. In the past, when John was not distracted, he was nervously observing his surroundings at all times to prevent sneak attacks, except for the fire sacrifice ground, and after a few awakenings, he began to study the use of various weapons, magic, miracles, and spells, and did not have such a divergent mind as now. Is it because this world is too comfortable to have the sense of urgency that the world is about to be destroyed?

Thinking so crankily, John walked over in the afternoon. When the sun had begun to reach the horizon, John saw the walls in the distance, and John saw the light shining from the gates, which seemed to be not closed. However, according to the coachman, the gates would be closed when the sun went down, and it was estimated that there would be only half an hour left, which was enough time for John to arrive.

By the time John reached the gates, the gates were already closed. John, who had rushed in before the closing, was stopped by several city guards, and then obediently paid the entrance tax. This tax was much more than John had learned from the old Simon Hippo coachman. According to the city guards: "If you don't want to give, just spend the night outside the city!" John didn't care about these copper plates, and didn't want to behave too unusually, so he still found 10 copper coins and handed them to him.

The guards also often meet this kind of person who is almost too late, and when they look at John's equipment, they can judge that he is an adventurer or a mercenary, or the kind that is not bad for money, so they will increase the price to earn some extra money. If it is an honest citizen, he will not get much out of his broken bones, and if he is a small merchant, he will collect a tax on goods in addition to the entry tax into the city. Of course, those who look like big businessmen will naturally not blackmail like this, and most of the big businessmen are related to nobles and high-ranking officials, and they can't afford to offend themselves.

When John entered the city, he began to look around the city. To tell the truth, John didn't see anything in the city to be remembered by old Simon. Although most of the houses here are two- or three-story buildings compared to the one-story cottages that are common in border towns, they are also more popular than border towns. In the border towns, the streets are rarely bustled at night, and only the taverns that mercenaries and adventurers love to hang out are lit up until dawn. Here, even if it is already dark, I don't see the vendors hurrying home to close their stalls, and I often see three or five ordinary people going to the store to eat and drink together. However, in addition to its popularity, the buildings here are not eye-catching, after all, whether it is Arnoor Lund or Lothric City, or Irushil and Farran Fortress, or the capital of sin, which one is not majestic and magnificent?

But walking like this is not a problem, and John still has to find a place to rest in the evening. So John walked over to the vendor next to him and asked for directions. "You're an adventurer who just entered the city. This is an uncle who sells bread, and now he is also idle, and after hearing John ask for directions, he began to talk to John: "There are often adventurers who come to ask the tavern inn at this time, and see that you are dressed like this." ”

John bought two loaves of bread by the way, and while eating, he said, "Good eyesight." John chewed the bread, and the bread gave people a completely different feeling from the bread, although both were made with a lot of black flour ground with wheat bran, but the flour used by this uncle added significantly less wheat bran, and it was fermented by yeast and baked, and the taste was obviously much softer, and the sweetness was more obvious. After swallowing the bread in his mouth, he said, "Uncle, your bread is delicious." ”

When the uncle heard this, he laughed: "Of course, this is my family's ancestral craft, and my grandfather made bread." After a pause, he said, "If you want to go to the tavern, the most famous tavern in Betty City is the Flame Wine Glass Tavern in the east of the city, their wine is the strongest here, many adventurers like to go there, the wine there is not cheap, the food is not delicious, and there is no accommodation; However, there is a hotel next to the Gray Forest, which is estimated to be worth living, and you can eat in the Gray Forest now and then go there. ”

John thanked his uncle, bought some bread, and walked south of the city, where the Gray Forest was.