Chapter 100: Sewers and Conspiracy
The location of the sewer entrance is easy to find, especially if someone familiar with the terrain like Little Lucy is coming to lead the way.
At night, most of the city of silver tides is silent and dark, except for the bustling shopping streets and brightly lit taverns, casinos, and hotels.
For most of the common people of this world, the night is poor and lacks entertainment, even the lighting of candles and oil lamps is a lot of money, so if you can save it, you can save it, and basically go to bed early after eating.
After dinner, little Lucy quietly took Carl out of the house, and hurried towards the entrance of the nearest sewer, ready to see some secret place near little Lucy's neighborhood that she had told her.
Perhaps because of their lack of heart, Carl and little Lucy always felt as if someone was secretly peeping around them along the way, and they couldn't help but lower their pace, hold their breath, and even look back from time to time when they walked.
However, the alleys of the Silver Tide City at night are silent and dark, and there is no half of a figure to be seen except for the occasional drunk. All the way through, there was only the low sound of talking in the houses on the left and right, the creaking and shaking of the bed boards, the crying of children, and the occasional barking of dogs in the distance, low and silent.
The entrance to the sewer was under the hole in a stone bridge, and Carl and little Lucy patiently looked left and right to make sure that there was no one around before carefully entering the sewer.
As soon as he entered the sewer, a strange smell of rot, rot, fishy, moldy, fermented and other smells mixed together came to his face, little Lucy felt fine, but Carl felt a breath of depression in his chest, and almost fainted from the smoke.
The awakening of the dragon veins certainly gave him an extremely keen sense of smell, but it also made him extremely vulnerable in this regard.
Without hesitation, Carl awakened the power of wind and water in his veins, summoning a fresh breeze and a cloud of water vapor around him, directly discharging the smell of the sewer.
In the same way, in order not to step on the greasy stuff in the sewer and not know what it was, he simply drove the wind and water to lift himself up. Unexpectedly, Carl unexpectedly found that in the mist he summoned, his body suddenly became much lighter, and he could swim freely in the mist as if he were swimming in the water without much wind.
"Playing in the clouds?"
"Soaring through the clouds?"
Carl instantly thought of these two words, in the oriental mythology of his previous life, the dragon is the king of water, the dragon king must have wind and rain when traveling, and it is the dragon's instinct to ride the clouds and fog.
He now swims like water in the mist, and his ability in this regard is more and more like the ability of the Eastern True Dragon to soar through the clouds and control the fog, could it be that the bloodline he awakened is really the bloodline of the legendary Oriental True Dragon in his previous life?
Seeing that Carl could fly so easily, little Lucy was very envious, but although she was helpless, although she could be regarded as awakening the dragon vein, it seemed that she had no other abilities except for her strength.
"You're walking too slowly, and it's easy to get dirty!"
Carl generously stretched out his hands to little Lucy, ready to generously share his convenience with her: "Come on, I'll hold you, so we can all go faster!"
"Don't!"
Little Lucy decisively rejected Carl's helping hand, and then stepped forward and skilfully ran down the sewers.
Carl couldn't help but shake his head, driving the wind and mist to support himself, and flew in after little Lucy.
To Carl's surprise, after passing through the first section of pipe near the ground, the entire sewer became wider and cleaner, and even the light became brighter.
Carl and little Lucy are both people who have initially awakened the dragon vein, and they have the dark vision unique to the dragon vein, and they can see objects clearly even in the dark area without light, but as they go deeper, they find that the sewer walls are glowing with light.
"Fluorescent moss!"
Carl recognized the source of these fluorescences at a glance, these spontaneous fluorescent moss presses, not native species on the surface, but strange plants that grow in the underground world in legends, this moss contains a little weak magic power, which can convert the absorbed elements into a faint fluorescence and release it, which can also be regarded as a magic material - so it was also brought out of the underground world by the mages of the ancient magic empire, and specially planted on the walls of the sewers, not only for lighting, but also to obtain a cheap magic material.
"Lucy, don't rush to run, first collect some fluorescent moss, which is the basic material for casting a series of spells such as 'Flash', 'Light', 'Dust of Appearance', ......etc."
Carl took the initiative to remind little Lucy that the spell casting materials are not necessarily very strange things, and many of them are common species in daily life. For example, one of the most commonly used materials in necromancy, "corpse mushroom", is a special type of mushroom that grows on the corpses of dead people, and although it is unique, it is not uncommon.
Hearing Carl say this, little Lucy really stopped, and then carefully picked up the fluorescent moss on the wall.
By this time, the sewers had become dry and clean, and Carl had spread out the wind and mist that had wrapped around him, and fell beside little Lucy.
However, he was about to speak, when suddenly his ears moved, and he faintly heard a whisper coming from the depths of the sewers.
The empty sewers were silent, except for the air coming from all directions flowing slowly through the intricate pipes. The one-way flow of the wind, which is clearer and more definite than the surface, also allows Carl to follow the wind to hear farther and more detailed.
“...... Sir Sterling, I hear that you have been in a lot of trouble lately?hehe, I have heard that you have gathered four ships and more than 300 good men to besiege a caravan, but you have been defeated and lost, and not only have you not succeeded, but you have been beaten to the ground, and even your closest right and left men have been taken prisoner?"
"Tsk, Sir Sterling, I didn't expect you to be with me! You should have said it earlier, you should have known that there was such a big business, you should have taken care of our blood skeletons, we all have fat sheep to slaughter together, and money to spend together......"
"Hmph, Barceló, even if I am willing to take care of you, do you still dare to provoke the mermaid family? Hanbani Robek is one of the new rising stars of the Robek family, he used to be just a small sailor, but since he awakened the bloodline of the Robec family, he has been recognized by the Robec family and officially became a side branch of the Robec family, you blood skeletons, do you have the courage to provoke the mermaid family?"
"Hehe, as long as there is enough price, even if you provoke the mermaid family, it is not impossible...... But, Sir Sterling, I'm afraid you won't be able to pay that price!"