Chapter Eighty-Three: Eve's Wish

After filling his stomach, Barrett took another hot shower and lay down on the hotel bed, the cotton bed was unusually soft, with simple, plain blue diagonal stripes. On the windowsill is a bonsai of yew trees and a candlestick in the shape of a cod.

On the bedside cabinet was a statue of an ugly lizard, with a hideous face and a large open mouth, but the sharp teeth in the mouth had been broken, making its intimidating gesture a little funny.

On the opposite wall hangs a heavily colored watercolor painting of a griffin flying in the wind, and on the back of the griffin sits a young man wearing a crown, whom Barrett recognizes, the third king of the griffon kingdom, the king of the moon and sun, who was only king for one day but is forever remembered.

After riding for most of the day, Barrett thought he would be tired and sleepy, but now he felt unusually awake. Barrett took the small tombstone out of the spatial ring, slowly rubbed it in his hand, and called up the [mission log] to look at the task he had taken on the small tombstone.

【Eve's Little Wish】

[Physical hunger is easy to satisfy, but spiritual loneliness is difficult to fill, and the emotions of the dead are the same, often even worse. The undead themselves do not need to eat, the ghoul's hunger comes from the curse and torture engraved on its soul, and the hunger of little Eve comes from the helplessness she feels when she dies, and the loneliness and fear before death, as the proverb goes, 'food is the best salvation from loneliness'.

If you don't want to use your 'constitution' to relieve her hunger a little bit, you can only eliminate the loneliness of her being buried in her soul after death.

Go, industrious adventurer, to her hometown, Giethoorn in Shamrock, into the dilapidated house, to the room where she died, and to accompany her until dawn on the night of the first quarter moon......

Reward: 120 Soul Energy, 'Little Eve's Mini Tombstone' will be transformed into 'Little Eve's Companion Talisman'. 】

The quest gives a lot of soul energy, and it shouldn't be difficult to read the description at all. It only takes a simple night to sleep in an ordinary room, even if someone has died in that room, but for the vast majority of adventurers, there is not the slightest psychological pressure.

As long as you find that house, everything is not a problem. But the question is, after more than 300 years, will that dilapidated house still exist? Barrett is deeply worried.

If the house is still standing, will its current owner allow him to sleep in it for a night, and if the house no longer exists, will it still satisfy little Eve's wish to sleep in the house built on its original site?

But there's no point in thinking about it now, so you can only think about it according to the actual situation after you get to Giethoorn.

Barrett looked out the window, and it was getting dark. Instead of lighting the cod-shaped tallow candle on the menorah, he got up, hung the saber at the head of the bed back on his waist, reached out and pushed open the door, and headed downstairs.

At this time, there were already a few adventurers sitting at the tables of the Cod Fall, and the hexagonal crystals on the roof glowed brightly white. A crystal with a constant 'light spell' can be used for several years, and can be used repeatedly by infusing it with mana.

Moreover, it is not a hassle to infuse mana, although magic apprentices and many low-level mages who do not know alchemy can't even stick to items with zero-ring spells like 'Luminatry', but if they are allowed to infuse such luminous crystals, it is still very easy to do.

So although such a bright crystal is quite expensive, it is very practical.

Barrett glanced at the adventurers who were dining in the inn, and found that there was no one he knew, only one adventurer who was slightly familiar.

"Are you going out, Mr. Barrett?" asked the halfling boss at the counter.

"Go out and walk around. ”

"As you know, the Wolf's Hour is closing, and if you can, I hope you'll be back before then. The halfling boss reminded, "Of course, even if you don't come back on time, I'll be here for you." He laughs.

Barry nodded and continued walking. When he walked to the door, he stopped and thought for a moment, "If I don't come back on time, you don't have to wait for me, just keep the room for me......"

The mages of the Magic Empire divided the day into twenty-four equal parts and expressed them through numbers, and through more than a thousand years of popularity, people have gradually become accustomed to this simple expression of time. However, until now, there are still many villages of alien race or very remote human areas, which still follow the oldest animal way of dividing time.

Leaving 'Cod's Death', Barrett didn't wander the streets aimlessly, but went straight to a tavern not far from the inn, 'Shirley's Whisper'.

He didn't go to the tavern to drink, or to inquire about news. After eating the delicious food, Barrett's physical hunger had been satisfied, but his mind was becoming more and more restless—he suddenly wanted to taste the sweetness of women.

On the door of the tavern is a picture of a bull sniffing a flower bud, the horns of the bull are not sharp, but dark and thick, and the petals of the bud are layered like a butterfly.

Barrett pushed open the door to the tavern, and in front of him was a narrow hallway, by which stood a masked waiter who could not see men and women clearly, nodding to him. Barrett followed the waiter's instructions towards the tavern, a narrow aisle with two or three forks at intervals, but at the entrance of each fork in the road a masked waiter showed him the way.

Guided by the waiter, Barrett stepped out of the aisle and into a large, dimly lit hall.

The hall of the tavern lit many scented candles mixed with rosemary and roses, the smell of spices in his nose, and the dim light of the candles dimmed.

A troubadour, cloaked in gray, sits in the corner of the hall, playing the lyre in the shadows that can't be illuminated by candlelight. The melodious sound of the piano wafted through the tavern with a whispered chant:

"O traveler from a distant land,

Is your heart full of dust,

You might as well stop and rest for a while,

Let my kisses soothe your wounds;

Have you tasted the intoxicating mellowness,

Have you touched the towering tenderness,

You might as well let go of yourself and enjoy yourself,

Let me guide you to the depths of that wetness;

......”

Shirley's Whisper is not the same as your average tavern, the atmosphere here is neither noisy nor noisy, and even the most vulgar adventurer can become a little civilized when they come here.

The expenses here are calculated in gold coins, which are dozens of times more expensive than the 'thorn tent' in Bay of Pigs, but Barrett has just made two small fortunes at this time, and he has quite enough gold coins, so he is ready to treat himself.

He has always spent lavishly, and when he has a lot of money, he enjoys all kinds of things, when he has little money, he uses rye bread and hard jerky, and when he has no money, he wanders in the slums.

Adventurers mostly live like this.

Do you want to get down to business, or do you want to have fun? People who come here usually have fun for a while before they get down to business.

In the hall, three young men in otter fur jackets were laughing in low voices with their 'female companions', and they toasted from time to time in celebration. At another table not far from them, a fat man dressed as a merchant was kissing the feminine woman sitting on his lap, his head buried in the woman's slender neck, and he refused to lift it for a long time; in another corner of the hall, a middle-aged man in a gold-trimmed silk robe lay in the crook of a woman's arms, who embraced the middle-aged man and whispered a song for him. Next to the middle-aged man, there were two attendants in leather armor with a wary look on their faces......

A man on the left and right sides of the hall got up almost at the same time, leading their 'female companions' towards the stairs leading to the second floor. They met at the top of the staircase and bowed to each other, with an older man thanking the other and his female companion and leading the way upstairs, followed by a younger man. Barrett saw from behind them that the young man's hand was on his partner's buttocks, caressing it vigorously......

Barrett sat down in a random place in the hall, and then a masked waiter came to him, placed a plate of cut cheese and a glass of fragrant red wine on the table, and left without saying a word.

He picked up a slice of cheese and put it in his mouth, the faint milky aroma mixed with a hint of hazelnut, rich and dense. Barrett picked up the wine glass and used the wine wine to pour the thick, creamy cheese into his stomach, and the desire in his heart spread.

Then, next to the stairs of the hall, a door with a thorn and rose pattern was gently opened, and a woman in a lilac dress approached him affectionately.

......