Chapter 12 The so-called protagonist is that there are emergencies everywhere
Su Wen was surprised, Donald seemed to know what he was thinking-he had just thought about changing to a healing maid, and he was mentioned by Donald, which was really gratifying. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"That's good!"
Su Wen replied happily, thinking that Donald wanted to give that little girl to himself? Although according to the latter's character, it is estimated that such a bloody thing cannot be done, but if he can have a fresh maid for free because of this, wouldn't it be a beautiful thing, which greatly saves time and gold coins?
"I always think you're thinking something rude. Donald saw Su Wen's reaction, and the smile on his face became more kind, "But judging from the fact that Lytitia girl has been with you for more than half a year and is still a virgin, what you are thinking about at this time is probably not a dirty idea, but I am very happy to have a maid who can help you with laundry and cooking, right?"
"Mr. Donald, you really understand me!"
"Well, that's fine, if you just think like that, you probably won't be taught too badly. β
"Huh?"
"It's nothing, as you can imagine, I've made up my mind to let Shirley follow you in the next few months, and as for your plan to make her your maid or whatever, it's up to you. "Of course, as a condition, you'll have to tell me what you're going to do before you leave for the province of Tuscany, and I don't believe you'll ride all the way through the carriage and stay in the hotel as an otaku." β
"Shirley, what a good name......"
Su Wen is not stupid, judging from Donald's expression, the blue-haired girl must not be as simple as it seems on the surface, God knows if it will be a ruthless character who can press herself to death in minutes. However, Donald's intention to do this is somewhat debatable-it is impossible to simply harm himself, and it is impossible to help himself with kindness without even thinking about it, so it seems that only one thing is left to pit himself.
β...... So, are you clearing dead goods?"
Su Wen was silent for a moment, and then suddenly asked.
Donald coughed twice with an embarrassed expression: "Ahem, you haven't answered my conditions yet." β
"Sure enough, I knew it was like this!" Su Wen said with a look in his eyes, "Regarding my itinerary, I currently plan to take a half-circle around the Duolun Empire as a mercenary, and finally end at St. Peter's Academy, so that the time is almost exactly three months." But if you want to take this opportunity to stuff me with a troublesome guy instead of an obedient and capable maid, then please forgive me for refusing. β
"Oh yes, you're going to become a mercenary and travel around the mountains while doing quests?"
"That's exactly what it means......"
Su Wen replied subconsciously, but always felt as if he was following Donald's words?
That's not good!
Sure enough, Donald immediately smiled.
"You see, if you go out with this virtue, you will definitely get into trouble, and then everyone will be punished. At least I've got you covered in Tridis, so you're not really in trouble, but if you go out with Laetitia, are you sure you'll be able to keep both of you safe?"
Su Wen thought about it carefully, and then replied seriously: "I didn't plan to take Laetitia with me, I plan to go by myself on this trip." β
"Are you finally going to abandon the man who accompanies you day and night, you ungrateful fellow? β
"It's true that we're with each other day and night, but Laetitia hates me so much that she can't wait to be free, and she will hate me even more if she ignores her thoughts and forcibly takes her away from Trides. β
Speaking of this, Su Wen's expression was a little gloomy. He always felt sorry for Laetitia - it must have been a lot of pressure to be a maid like herself, as she usually said. But even so, while enduring great pressure and disgust for her master, she still took care of the two's home in an orderly manner every day, and this conscientious character moved Su Wen.
"Oh, that's what you thought?"
Donald looked at Su Wen with interest and asked.
"In that case, what are you going to do with your half-elf maid?"
"I have transferred the ownership of the house from my name to Laetitia, and I have also canceled her slavery status in the civil hall, which can be regarded as compensation for the past six months. Well, let Laetitia be a free citizen of Tridis, and no longer have to live as a slave, that's my plan. Although I don't think this is enough to compensate for half a year's care, this is indeed the most reliable way Su Wen can think of.
"So you've already told her, and what's the reaction?"
"Not yet, I was going to confess tonight, but since I can't leave tonight, let's do it tomorrow. β
"So--please, come on, I'm optimistic about you. β
Donald's mysterious smile made Su Wen a little uneasy, but when he thought about it carefully, there was nothing wrong with his approach, and there was nothing to be worried about, so he took it as his own delusion.
"Then again, Shirley is really a thug?"
He took the initiative to get back to the topic.
Donald knew that he couldn't hide it, so he had to confess to Su Wen - of course, only he knew how much truth the so-called confession was.
"You're true to some extent, Shirley is a third-year student of St. Peter's Academy's Light Magician School, an intermediate magician, and my niece. It wasn't actually my decision to let her follow you, it was her own decision, huh...... I just briefed her on your situation, and she clearly showed interest in you, and decided to join you and Laetitia - don't ask me what the interest is, I don't know. β
"I see, is she a troublesome fellow?"
Su Wen asked a point in the question.
"Perhaps, probably...... Normally, no. β
"I beg your pardon for refusing. β
β...... Wait, we're negotiable, and with the protection of an intermediate magician, at least it's safe most of the time, isn't it?"
"You have a point, but my gut tells me that if I say yes, I'll be in a lot of trouble. β
"Twenty thousand gold coins. β
"Deal. β
Coins are a fascinating thing, such as the ability to end tangled conversations very succinctly.
But because of this, Su Wen was a little curious: how terrible trouble would be the character who could make Donald, a master of magic and a schizophrenic, spend a lot of money to hire out?
However, compared to this gift, which I don't know if it's good or bad, Donald's other gift to himself is a real benefit, Su Wen looked at the time, and couldn't wait to go to the auction house to take a look.
"Well, then, it's time for me to go. β
After finishing the entire bottle of wine in one gulp, Suvin put on his pretender robe again and said goodbye to Donald.
Walking through the long swing staircase, Su Wen once again came to the small and slightly cluttered shop.
Since there were no customers, the blue-haired girl named Shirley was quietly looking at a thick and simple book at this time, and when she saw Su Wen coming out of the back door, she raised her head slightly and smiled sweetly at him, it was beautiful.
Although his entire face was hidden in the hood, Su Wen smiled back, and at the same time barely saw the big title on the page.
48 Terrible Tortures of the Ancient Hindhan Empire
So Su Wen's smile stiffened a little.
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If the Mercenary Guild is the second largest commercial center in Tridis, then the first is definitely the Tritis Commerce and Trade Alliance, known as the "Underworld". This behemoth that sits beneath the city of Trides accounts for more than half of the city's total economic circulation every year, and is made up of countless merchants, large and small, and why it needs to be built underground?
400 years is not a long time, and it can't even be called "ancient" on the glorious continent, but the war that happened that affected the whole continent was unprecedented and unprecedented.
Well...... Su Wen didn't know much about the process of the war, but what he knew was that in the three-way melee between humans, elves and orcs, in the end, it was the humans who had the last laugh and won the right to rule almost all the fertile lands on the entire continent. After that, the orcs were banished to the Far East Winter Mountains, the Elves were banished to the Far North to the Forest of Dread, and the few remaining races were scattered in all corners of the continent, half-dead for hundreds of years.
Soon after the end of the war, when the different races were divided into three, six, nine, and so on, the slave trade industry arose, which seriously violated the armistice.
It is true that history and rules are written by the victors, but the victory of humanity in the war hundreds of years ago may not be so easy or so complete. Therefore, no human country is willing to openly tear its skin to support this "unjust" but very lucrative new industry, so that the underground slave trade, which seems to be tacitly assumed, has become the unspoken rule of almost the entire glorious continent in a short period of time. And it was precisely because no country "supported" slavery, and no monarch would mind the existence of cheap labor that was signed into an unequal magical contract, that the underground slave trade industry flourished for hundreds of years, and evolved from a simple slave trade to a large commercial center.
Although Su Wen felt that this evolution was actually very nonsense, as long as the slave trade industry could thrive for one day, then there would be no doubt that this deformed underground world would exist for a day.
Although Tridis City is a typical small city of the Duolun Empire, the extremely large underground world seems to illustrate the glory of the past years, Su Wen just walked into one of the entrances located near the mercenary guild, and the magnificent magic lights made him clearly smell the prosperity that was once full of copper and blood.
To be honest, Su Wen felt that the smell was not very good.
With an hour to go before the auction began, Su Wen walked through the commercial streets that looked like daylight, and he couldn't help but stop as he passed the gates of the bustling slave trading market.
The slave market, once the center of the entire underworld, is now long gone. Half a year ago, it was here that Su Wen, who had just entered the city of Tridis, spent 500 gold coins and brought back Laetitia, whose eyes were full of despair and numbness - in fact, it was not only her, but on the faces of those half-elf and orc slaves, this almost numbing despair was not uncommon: most of them were descendants of previous slaves, not prey from poaching groups that had gone to the elven and orc tribes to hunt, so they were born slaves, and they had never even seen what their homeland looked like.
However, although he stopped, Su Wen didn't plan to go in. In fact, he hadn't entered the gate since he bought it back at the instigation of the system, and he didn't think it was a good place to spend time.
However, perhaps it was fate, and just as Su Wen was about to leave, he suddenly heard an earth-shattering roar from afar from the depths of the slave trading center.
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A huge commotion ensued, as well as the sound of slashing and running in the distance......