Chapter 14: Into the City

They had a good night's sleep, and the next day they had just eaten breakfast, and the ladies were urging Salian to go on the road, and their desire to shop was already hungry. After entrusting Moreau to stay at the castle www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion, a group of friends set off in a mighty way.

As had been arranged last night, Anna, Hilda, and Yulia rode in the baron's splendid carriage. Anna left the Nightmare Beast in the castle because it was too scary for the Nightmare Beast to appear in Constance. Yulia, on the other hand, needs to take care of Hilda, because a seven-year-old girl will choose a carriage when she is on her way. In addition, two elven girls, Leah and Leia, sat in the carriage with them.

Although these two maidens were toys bought by the venerable president for his son, in Barenberg's Baronal Palace, they were second only to the young barons and had supreme rights. Appearance, we have to believe in the elder's aesthetic taste, the two girls are exactly the same typical fairy beauty, beautiful and slender. The same blonde hair and golden eyes seem to radiate golden light. Rumor has it that they can even be telepathic. And the taste, that's a secret that only the Baron himself knows. In the end, only Manstel could tell them apart.

The three male friends each rode a tall horse in front of the carriage, and the baron did not go back to Barenburg to get the baron's own horse, but to give the ladies more time to shop, so he went straight to the east gate of Constance. Heisingen is located northeast of Konstanz, and it would be a waste of time to go to Barenberg, north of Konstanz, and then to Konstanz.

In the carriage, it didn't take long for the two lively fairy girls and the talkative Yulia to mingle, exchanging gossip news they knew, exchanging experiences about magic, and finally when they talked about the size of their respective masters, Anna, who didn't want to hear this, interrupted them with a terrifying secret technique designed to restrain the magicians, and the three girls knew that the leader here was still Miss Anna. And Miss Hilda enjoyed today's morning drama with beautiful black eyes.

The three mage girls then pretended to be very sensible and flipped through their spell books, and half an hour later they arrived safely in the city of Constance.

The most prosperous city in the south-west of the empire is located on the south bank of the Lynn, with Lake Bordens, the largest lake in the empire to the east, and the Winterthur Pass in the Mars Mountains to the south, home to Schwartenn's only bridge over the Lynn and the region's largest river port. From here, goods from the south could be transported to various ports on the Lyn River or to other parts of the empire.

Today, the gates of the city are guarded by soldiers under Aicherin. It was normal, for one hundred and ten of the one hundred and twenty standing guards here belonged to the three young nobles who were now entering the city and Miss Anna in the carriage, who were the real snakes here.

Like their lords, the soldiers at the gates were tall men who, at the sight of their masters, were at once excited to welcome them with their scabbards against their shields. Of course, this is also a kind of announcement to let the people in the city know that the nightmare is coming.

After Salian and Manstel complimented the well-groomed soldiers of the Acherin army, they continued along the main road of the city gate, first to the Adventurers' Guild near the east gate, while the baron's carriage did not stop, and the ladies certainly did not waste their precious shopping time here. With the protection of the runner-up and runner-up of the competition, even if the two goblin girls are temporarily derelict in their duties, they can still walk sideways in the city.

The girls went straight to the commercial square in the center of the city, taking with them the money that their cousin had taken from their cousin, the money that their daughter had taken from their father, the money that their sister had taken from their brother, and the money that the maid had taken from their master. Naturally, they will spend all this money without any pain, still at a price that has been discounted by four.

Let's take the ladies out of our sight for a moment and take a look at what's going on in the Adventurers' Guild.

As soon as the three aristocratic youths stepped into the gate of the association, a bunny girl immediately stepped forward to guide them to the VIP room, the real bunny girl, such as the fake bunny ears and rabbit tail, it was a girl of the orc clan.

"We haven't seen each other in a week, lovely Elena, have you thought about what I talked to you about last time?" Manstel asked the orc girl in the most cordial tone, gently reaching out and touching her little tail on the buttocks of the orc girl.

"Ah!" the girl was visibly unhappy with the contact just now, "Your Excellency, please be respectful, I will never jump ship to you, you don't have to pester me anymore!"

"Oh, Yelena, it's too cruel for you to make me so embarrassed in front of my friends! ”

"Needless to say, the President is my savior, and I will never betray him," the girl replied firmly, Manster, and then said to them, "Your Excellency, please rest here for a while, and the President will be coming at short, and he is receiving a distinguished guest." ”

After saying that, the tsundere orc girl didn't salute the three guests, she gave Manstel a blank look, and left without looking back.

The baron let out a distressing sigh at the swaying back that was fading away.

Salian, who had found a chair and sat down, said sympathetically to the baron, "My dear friend, orc girls are so hot, don't worry, the same is true of the one in my territory, and he hasn't let me get it yet! ”

Acherin, who had found another chair to sit down, suddenly said, "Oh, my good friend of the baron, I found that because of you, we don't even have tea and delicious snacks here!"

"Don't be nervous, we'll have some food when the president comes, don't worry," Salian comforted Echerin, and then asked Manstel, who was already sitting in the third chair and sighed, "But who is so important that we can wait in line in Constance?"

"Oh, Your Excellency the Bishop has been playing in his villa outside the city these days, and the Duke of Ulrich has heard that he is studying vocal music, and he is very busy. ”

Salian got up and closed the door of the VIP room, thought for a while, and said, "Since it's not them, then Acherin, it's up to you now, sense if the president is entertaining someone we are familiar with?"

"No problem, big brother, please wait a moment. ”

As she spoke, Ashherin closed her eyes and expanded her perception to the president's office, where they had come back often and were familiar with it. For some reason, today the office is protected by a powerful magical web. Just as Echelin increased his arcane power and tried to penetrate the net, a swift psychic attack magic suddenly shot out from the net, expelling Echelin's mystical technique.

This really startled Acherin, but fortunately the other party just wanted to warn the snoopers, and there was no follow-up action. Salian, who had been monitoring everything, also felt this unusual power. He motioned to Asherin not to try any more, they would find out later, and Salian was even more curious when he thought that the president's guests must be quite a small one today.

After the three of them had been chatting for about ten minutes, the door to the VIP room was opened, and their acquaintance, the president of the Adventurers' Guild, arrived.

"Three honorable lords, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting. ”

The polite president's name was Shait, and he was a sturdy man of forty years of age, and the obvious scar on his face showed that he was a man of life and death.

"You have your business, dear president, don't mind. And we're not in a hurry, but the Altmannshofen Imperial Count is very fond of your snacks here, but it seems that they are out of stock today. ”

"I'm sorry. Elena, Elena, where are you? Why don't you hurry up and serve tea and snacks to the three lords, these three are our honored guests, how can you snub them!"

I saw that the huffing Elena brought tea and snacks at a fast speed, glanced at Manstel who winked at her, and quickly withdrew with a black face.

"Yelena, go and invite the two young ladies in my office to rest in the VIP room next door, and I'll go over after I've dealt with the affairs of the three lords. ”

"Is there anything going on with the three of you today?"

Salian took out the necromancer's magic dagger and handed it to Shait, and said to him, "'Karakuri Mercenary Meyer' has completed the gold-level mission issued by Duke Ulrich, you can take a look at this token." ”

"Oh, let me take a good look, yes, this dagger is exactly what the Duke describes. Congratulations, Your Excellency, Count, and in the name of the mercenary Meyer?"

"Of course, I'm going to take care of the name!"

"And the bounty of one hundred guilders that the Duke of Ulrich has deposited with us, are you going to take it now?"

"Of course, and if you want cash, Guldun, Florin or Ducat. Then inform the Duke of Ulrich that he can continue hunting in peace, for my mercenary Meyer has eliminated the danger for him. I'll visit him when I have time. The venerable president bowed, and then turned to cash for his money.

Salian put the magic dagger back away, and then thought that at this point in time, he and his two friends were losing their gold coins rapidly, and it wouldn't be long before the girls who were shopping would soon run out of cash on their bodies, and then start reporting his name to the account, and they had to make up some blood quickly. Of course, if you give the name of Echerin or Manstel it, it has nothing to do with him.

A hundred gold coins in cash is nothing at all for the Adventurers' Guild in a big city. After a while, the president appeared again with the money bag.

Just like to briefly mention the monetary system on the continent now, several Itcanglia countries in the south have prosperous economies and huge trade volumes, in order to facilitate large transactions, they have minted gold coins containing 2.5 grams of pure gold, such as Florin and Ducat, because of the high gold content and strong purchasing power, they basically occupy the financial system of the entire continent, and several cities in the empire now imitate them to cast Gul shields to compete, but the effect is not great, and other long-eared pounds or Franthos's gold louis, are also the same. The coins were all national, with the Empire using Groschen and Finney, FranΓ§os using Sue and Dinar, and the Long-eared people using shillings and pennies. It's all powerhouses, and there are still a lot of strange coins in other parts of the continent, so the money changers have made a fortune. "Please, Lord Count. The president handed the purse to Salian.

"No, I'm absolutely at ease with the President!" besides," Salian asked, pretending to be casual as he put the money bag in his arms, "who is that distinguished guest of yours, not our locals, is he?"

"Well, I'll tell you the truth, this person who came today is the representative of the Werther family, a commercial magnate in the free city of Bleimen in the northern part of the empire, and she came to me to discuss the matter, I originally wanted to ask the three of you for help. ”

Manstel's heart moved when he heard the surname Werther, and he hurriedly smiled and asked, "Dear Mr. President, is that the Werther family who dominates the import and export trade of textiles and weapons in the northwest?

"Yes, Your Excellency, they come from that rich family. The purpose is to establish a transportation line and a trading station in our place. Because I had worked for this family when I was organizing mercenaries in the North, she was the first to find me. Would like to contact the City Council and the Southwest Cities Alliance through me. It just so happens that the three lords are here today, and I just want to introduce you to you!"

Salian said happily, "Haha, then I have news for you, dear president. Baron Manstel von Barenberg before you is no longer just the chairman of the South-West Cities Union, he has recently been appointed Governor of Constance and Special Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Kaiser. The official letter will arrive next week, and I will tell you this in advance!"

"Oh, congratulations on your ascension, Your Excellency Baron von Barenberg!" President Scheit warmly congratulated the Baron.

Manstel returned the salute with his trademark smile.

"It should be easier to communicate that way. Then please take us there, dear President. ”