Nolan.

Qiao Xiu walked along the commercial street near the White Vitex Theater to the branch of the Hearthstone Tavern.

The décor of this new Hearthstone tavern still highlights the 'tavern' style, and the orange-yellow original crystal lamps always give a warm feeling at night.

If Nolan is in winter, there's nothing better than going into the tavern and ordering a hot ale when the snow is falling.

Qiao Xiu pushed open the door of the tavern and found that there was something wrong with the atmosphere inside.

The most common customers in the Hearthstone Tavern are still Dwarves, who make up one-third of Hearthstone's players, according to Lady Marina's incomplete statistics, and are far more generous in purchasing card packs than cash-strapped human spellcasters.

The main patron of this new tavern is also a group of dwarves, due to the fact that there is no shortage of dwarven blacksmith shops in the shopping street.

Some of the dwarves had apparently taken advantage of the break to play with a handful or two, and even the cinders and iron ashes on their bodies had not been washed off, and their faces looked dusty like beggars.

This also results in the entire Hearthstone Tavern not being a 'high-end' place by any means.

However, Qiao Xiu liked the warm atmosphere and walked straight to the bar of this new tavern.

"Is there anything you need? Wait a minute... How did you get here? ”

The tavern's attendant was a not-so-familiar acquaintance of Josiu's, one of the traitors from the Inquisition, Sister Cheryl Skatein.

At the same time, she has another unknown identity in Nolan, that is, the author of "Diary of a Heresy Inquisitor", which is the number one in the Immovable Library.

"I opened this shop, why can't I come."

Qiao Xiu leaned against the bar and looked at the nun who was in a state of 'part-time work'.

If you think about it, this young lady's name bears some resemblance to that of a certain king of the Land of Frost.

"Uh... Hmm..."

When she remembered Qiao Xiu's true identity, she was a little speechless, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

"Won't I pay you every month?" Qiao Xiu asked the nun for a glass of ale, then looked at her and asked, "Why are you looking for this job?" To experience life? ”

"I want to move out of the Magic Tower and live somewhere else." The nun wiped the cup with a rag and said to Joshew, "My friend Denisha seems to have taken a liking to a manor in the Nolan Centre, and I have heard that it is for sale. ”

"The Manor ...... in the Heart of Nolan"

Although Qiao Xiu didn't know much about the price of real estate in this city, just this series of keywords, Qiao Xiu understood how expensive the things she was going to buy were.

"If you want to buy which, it is estimated that you will have to save for many years to earn enough to work here." Qiao Xiu said.

"Five years to be exact, if you were so generous every month, I would have saved up for five years, and now I work just to feed every day." She said.

Qiao Xiu remembered...... If you work in the Hearthstone Tavern, you can eat free 'working meals' every day, which seems to be very luxurious, for a commoner.

"Cheryl, you just need to wait a while, I have a chance to make a lot of money for you." Qiao Xiu said.

"I won't accept the assassination mission." The nun rejected the demon's demagoguery with righteous words: "I don't do this anymore!" ”

"It's not an assassination mission, I'm referring to you, as an author, and someone is going to buy the book you've written, and he might visit Nolan in a month's time."

"Buy... My book? ”

Cheryl didn't quite understand why anyone would want to buy the diary she had written.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to you when the time comes." Qiao Xiu said.

Cheryl looked at the strange smile on Qiao Xiu's face, and always felt that this demon was thinking about something strange, but in the past few months, Qiao Xiu had proved to Cheryl that he was far more trustworthy than the Inquisition.

As long as Cheryl guarantees the update of the "Inquisitor Diary" every day, Qiao Xiu will give her a large amount of 'manuscript payment' every month, which allows the original inquisitor who only knows how to 'kill' to live a normal life in Nolan.

When she fled from the Inquisition, she was ready to live a poor life of eating soil every day, but fortunately, with Qiao Xiu's help, she at least didn't have to worry about food every day.

The nun's thoughts were soon interrupted by a sudden commotion in the Hearthstone Tavern.

This is not the shouting of the dwarves that can be heard everywhere in the tavern!

Qiao Xiu's attention was also attracted, and when Qiao Xiu's eyes looked at the location where the sound came from, he saw a very ...... A scene of déjà vu.

"Jonathy! This is the third time you've knocked out Lady China's inscription class and come to this tavern! Come back with me! ”

"Wait a minute, Mother! I'm going to win right away!! ”

An older woman was tugging at the arm of a boy who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, who was in a Hearthstone duel, but unfortunately his mother had already found her before he could finish the match.

"Win? I just know how to play this every day! Why didn't you beat that kid from the Katana family in Defense of Magic class! If you don't want to be hit on the ass by the staff again, get back to me! ”

"But Mother! Katana can't win me at all on Hearthstone! The boy shouted with the last glimmer of hope.

But this sentence angered the older woman.

"If you hear this from the Katana family, you will only be laughed at by them! Don't be embarrassed here! Come back with me! ”

The stalemate between the two sides lasted for a long time, and Cheryl saw that the noise was getting bigger and bigger, and seemed ready to intervene.

Qiao Xiu waved his hand to indicate that he didn't care.

"We can't control other people's affairs, as long as she follows the rules of the tavern." Qiao Xiu remembered that there seemed to be no rule in the tavern that 'parents are not allowed to arrest teenagers who skip class'.

However, Qiao Xiu felt that it seemed that a clause should be added to the rules of the tavern, 'minors are not allowed to enter'?

"Does this happen often?"

When Qiao Xiu said this, the young man's mother had already taken him out of the tavern, and this scene caused the surrounding dwarf doors to emit out... A laugh that can be described as heroic.

"This is the fourth time."

The nun seems to have been a squire here for a long time.

"This has also led to the fact that in the eyes of some nobles who visit Nolan, the game of Hearthstone is an unpopular activity."

Her gaze swept over the scene in the tavern behind Qiao Xiu.

The décor in the Hearthstone Tavern is indeed very quaint, even to the point of being a little shabby.

The tavern itself was a place of filthy chaos in the eyes of some nobles, and even Hearthstone itself was welcomed by spellcasters of all classes of Nolan.

But the décor of the Hearthstone Tavern and the loud dwarves have become the most difficult hurdle for the nobles in high positions to enter the pit.

"Really?"

Qiao Xiu doesn't mind that the crowd of Hearthstone players only stays in that batch, as long as the game is interesting, there will always be new people joining.

It's just that Qiao Xiu doesn't want Hearthstone to be treated as a kind of 'game that only inferior people can play' in the world in the future.

As a player, Joshua has experienced that time on Earth.

That was the time when gamers were despised by anyone, and in this world Qiao Xiu didn't want that to happen.

In a month's time, Nolan's portal will open again, and noble merchants from all over the world will visit it.

"Maybe I should have a competition." Qiao Xiu said softly.

"Race?"

"Hold a Hearthstone match within the confines of Nolan."

Joshua thinks this is the most straightforward way to do it, and that is to show everyone that a good gamer can also win the glory of the world's attention!

"So it looks like we need to start rushing this month, and there is still nothing to see in just two versions." Qiao Xiu said.

"You're launching a new card pack again? Still is... Venture? ”

Miss Nun covered her purse in vigilance, looking at the demon in front of her who was sighing.

"Don't worry, I'll give you a discount then." Qiao Xiu said.