Chapter 35: Employment
"Do magicians also want to be kings?" Cotton Jack really didn't understand, the southern seas did not have direct contact with the empire, they were all islands, small villages, relatively barren, and no nobles were willing to come and explore this area. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Dragon Island is also a place where various forces are fighting, and no one can take it alone.
"I'm a pioneer nobleman and have my own family coat of arms. Xia He is not weak when he says this, his badge is still designed by Freya, and he may not be able to remember it.
"Jack, what is your ideal?"
Cotton Jack bowed his head, his ideals? Ever since he saw the captain, he had no ideals. It's good to follow the captain for the rest of his life, although the captain is destined to look down on him.
"I feel that your meditation skills are not bad, and becoming a master is not a problem. If you are willing to work hard, although you can't advance to the level of epic, it is possible to survive to level thirty-nine. ”
Level 20 is a master, and at the same time, he may be promoted to an epic powerhouse, and if he can't become an epic powerhouse, he is destined to fail to achieve a legend. Epic has nothing to do with level, and this hurdle, master level is the minimum standard.
"Can I?" said Cottonjack, pointing to his nose in disbelief, his tone a little rude.
"Of course you can, you can become a twelfth-level magician without any systematic study, and your talent is still good. Many people do not reach the desired heights because of a lack of opportunities. ”
Cotton Jack's heart was hot, but he didn't ask for anything, he wasn't stupid, and Master Asra said this, of course, hanging him with words. If he wants to get the other party's guidance, he has to pay the corresponding price. He didn't want to betray the St. Odin, he didn't want to betray the captain.
"Asla, the first mate means that he doesn't want you to stay on board. Cotton Jack suppressed the longing in his heart and resumed his flat tone.
"Actually, you can still hire me. ”
"We didn't want to take Mr. Mage's money before, but we couldn't afford to hire Your Excellency......" Cotton Jack's negotiation level is much better than that of Banze, who is a personal meat machine and is suitable for charging into battle.
When Xia He heard this, he laughed and said to Cotton Jack: "I think the professionals on your ship are not weak, at least there is a master-level existence, you don't want to keep me, it's because you're worried that I will destroy the battleship." Well, I'll give you some magic scrolls as a deposit, and if I accidentally damage your boat, I'll deduct it from the deposit. ”
The scroll that Xia He sold to Lynch was a friendship price, and the twelfth level was worth two gold coins.
Cotton Jack, on the other hand, is a magician, and unlike a magic swordsman who uses scrolls, he can release magic scrolls of fifteen or even as high as eighteen. The price of a fifteen-level magic scroll is no less than five gold coins. And the scrolls that are usually sold outside are relatively poor works, and if they are high, the magician will keep them for himself.
Xia He's willingness to take a private scroll as collateral shows his sincerity.
Cotton Jack heard that Xia He was willing to use magic items as collateral, and he was really moved, because it showed Asla's sincerity. If the mage just gives money, it won't be interesting.
"In that case, I really have something I want to ask you to help with. ”
"Tell me about it. ”
Cotton Jack was ruthless, ignoring the warnings of others, and said, "The captain of the St. Odin has lost contact now. We're heading to Cape Stormstorm to try to rescue. ”
"Where is Cape Storm?
"The charts are in the hands of the first mate, and it is impossible to take them out. The location of Cape Storm, at the extreme southern tip of Dragon Island. The distance of 1,900 miles that Claude tells you is from here to Cape Storm. Is there any paper?"
Xia He immediately took the alchemy stone tablet and built a temporary sand table on it.
Cotton Jack did not mark the sea route, but directly mapped the topography of Dragon Island. Dragon Island is a long, long, and large island that runs from north to south. There are two more disconnects in the middle.
Cape Storm has a large port and is an important supply point for new shipping routes. Stormwind controls the port, and the forces behind it are intricate. There is everything sold on the black market here, and there are also many sea mercenary groups stationed.
Nominally, Stormwind belongs to a lord of the Holy Thunder Empire, but this lord has a shaky foundation and only one-third of the control of the port.
The captain of the St. Odin heard that there was something important to her in the black market of Stormwind City, so she went to buy it, but she never expected to go back. However, the situation in Stormwind City has been a bit tense lately, and the entry and exit controls for professionals are very strict. The pirates were in a hurry, wanting to go to Cape Stormstorm to find out the news, and at the same time prepare manpower, if necessary, even if they were bloody, and they had to bring the captain back.
Without a captain, the St. Odin could not exert one-tenth of its power, and even if it had a top-secret chart, it would be cleared sooner or later. If they defect to other pirates, their status will inevitably decline, and as time goes on, they will slowly be usurped by others to the power of the St. Odin, and nothing will be left behind.
"What is your captain's profession?"
"Druid. ”
"What kind of druid?" Xia He asked carefully, the druids have elemental systems, natural systems, summoning systems and other branches, with different emphasis.
"I don't know, I don't think I'll know anything. ”
Xia He was more and more surprised, there are many druids who know a little bit of everything, but they can subdue a group of pirates and claim the king, but ordinary druids can't. Could it be that the captain of the St. Odin, the pirate leader, turned out to be a gudruid?
After the fall of the main elven god, the god of nature, the god of the earth, the god of hunting, streams and other gods were involved, which further affected the development of the druids. The current druids of the Half-Elf Empire do not have an all-powerful department.
Cotton Jack is a wild mage, and he doesn't have this knowledge, so of course he thinks it's very ordinary.
"It sounds like the black market trading in Stormstorm Point is not very safe?" Xia He originally wanted to buy something on the black market, if the black market was too dark, or even black to eat black, then he didn't want to die. Killing people for dozens of gold coins is not uncommon in this world at all.
"Trading at Cape Storm is very safe and we are worried because the captain is adventurous. "What Cottonjack didn't say was that she was young and pretty, captain, and had been in trouble more than once because of it.
"What's her name, what rank she's in, what kind of physiognomy she's like. Xia He decided to get involved. He crossed half a planet from the core of the Green Forest Continent to two thousand miles away from the southernmost tip of Dragon Island, and he could still encounter something related to the ancient elves, which should not be the prophecy of the Lord of the Dawn.
"Captain's name...... It's called Ovilla, a level 20 druid. In terms of appearance, pirates don't take pictures, she's only a little shorter than me, wearing dragon skin armor, and ...... long hair" Speaking of this, Cotton Jack glanced at Xia He and said a little strangely: "The captain's eyebrows are somewhat similar to yours." ”
"Jack. ”
"You agreed?" Cotton Jack's eyes were full of anticipation, he knew that Xia He's level was definitely not as high as his, but he still had a lot more knowledge than other pirates, and knew that Asla, a proper magician, had a lot of means.
"Although I don't want to talk about money......"
"There is no money. When Cotton Jack said this, he also felt embarrassed, and he said to Xia Hedao: "The money of the St. Odin is managed by the captain, and the first mate does not have much, so he will definitely not be able to hire a regular mage like you." ”
Xia He sorted out his messy thoughts and said, "Actually, I said that you hired me because I saw that the goblin artillery on the ship seemed to have not been properly maintained for a long time. ”
"This ...... Quenching Liquid costs a lot of money, and we can only maintain some major parts. ”
"I can mix and repair the magic liquid, you can't do it, it's too wasteful, if I do it......" Xia He remembered that Cotton Jack said, the money was with the captain, and he didn't know how to continue for a while.
Cotton Jack's eyes lit up, and he said, "There are some things on the ship, we can't identify them, and it seems that no one wants to take them, if you can take a look......"
"Well, maybe I'll be lucky enough to find a few things of value. Xia He agreed, he didn't plan to make money, he just wanted to make friends with these pirates. He didn't come to this world for tourism, if it weren't for the urgency of time and the need to develop his own power, how good it would be for him to hide in the necromancer's magic tower and practice.
Relying on jade paste, it can also improve by leaps and bounds in a few years.
"I can't do this alone. ”
"Then you go and discuss with the first mate, I want to go around the ship. ”
Cotton Jack was a little embarrassed, but he still found a sailor and took Xia He to visit everywhere. Xia He said that he could take good care of the goblin artillery, which was very important to the St. Odin. The Goblin Cannon is the main weapon, but it is not very daring to use it, because of the lack of formal maintenance, the life of the four Goblin Guns is not much left.
Without the help of a regular magician, no matter how much money is spent, it will inevitably cause the cannon to gradually deteriorate and deteriorate.
Xia He wandered around on the ship, and the battleship of nearly 100 meters did not have a shocking feeling for him, there were many imperial starships that were hundreds of miles away, and the battleships in the atmosphere were also more than ten kilometers in size. However, the ship is exotic, and the structure has merit.
The most precious thing is the power core and keel, and the rest are mostly pieced together.
This ship is estimated to be hundreds of years old, and many of the replacement parts and materials do not match the style. Xia He saw that the armor of this battleship was all externally plugged, creating a scale armor form, which was laid on the side of the ship, using natural magic substances, and he didn't know what kind of chitin shell of the demonic beast.
This boat is not cheap, and the cost of maintenance is not less. The profession of piracy is not only high-risk, but also expensive. Of course, in a magical world without technology, this is an inevitable result. In the Shenzhou Empire, the price of a similar ship is not even a tenth of that of the St. Odin, and maintenance is even cheaper.
Xia He wandered around and broadened his horizons, and the pirates were discussing or arguing again.
"Jack, you asked him to repair the goblin cannon, if it breaks, what are we going to fight?" The pirate with the blindfold was very upset that Cotton Jack had taken matters into his own hands, and discussed this matter with the wizard of unknown origin.