Section 23 Trivia

In this way, this mercenary group temporarily has a funny magician, mainly because Fez's magic often has such and such problems, such as the blister spell suddenly floated into the air and could not be recovered, the fireball suddenly fell to the ground and burned Fez's own trouser legs, a wind blade actually flew around Fez, and finally cut off a few strands of Fez's hair, etc., which can cause everyone to laugh.

Although this is also what Fez wants, but this is not Fez's intention, but the fact, Fez is exercising his inconvenient right hand magic, but no matter how hard Fez tries, the final outcome has become a joke in the eyes of everyone.

After getting along for the past few days, the magician's old-fashioned and cold personality has completely disappeared in the eyes of everyone, making everyone understand that magicians are no different from them, and they are also flesh and blood, and they can also make mistakes.

At the same time, Fez also learned that this is the northwest of the Russ Empire, and Fez did not expect that his coma would run through the entire Russ Empire from the northeast of the Magic Empire, that is, the southwest of the Russ Empire, more than 5,000 kilometers away.

The second surprise to Fez is that the current age is 3989 in the Demon Yuan Calendar, that is, Fez has been in the Sealing Temple for two years, and the huge explosion three months ago has become the eleventh largest unsolved mystery in the world, which also means that Fez has been in a coma for three months.

The third thing that surprised Fez was that the war between the Magic Empire and the Russ and the Orc Alliance did not happen for unknown reasons, and the Orc Alliance and the Russ Empire actually clashed, although there was no direct large-scale war, but small frictions continued.

As for other things, such as the whereabouts of the magic mentors Hamilton and Bunus, as well as Murphy and others, it is not here that you can find out.

"Look, that's Ista in front, we've arrived at our destination!" Max's voice was still as shrill as it was.

However, no one was sarcastic about this, and there was a collective cheer.

This business can be said to be a big deal for this small mercenary group, which will make at least three times the net profit, which can allow the mercenary group to enjoy at least a year, and if you accept some tasks that are not very dangerous and have average remuneration during this period, you will be able to live freely for at least the next three years.

The transit point for this mission is in the small town of Ishta, as long as the goods are taken, they will get half of the payment, and then escort the goods to the imperial capital of Prince, and the rest of the reward will be paid in one go.

So even if you have completed more than half of the mission in Ishtar, you can feel comfortable.

If the buyer who took over the goods did not arrive on time, or he went there in advance, then the head of the regiment would divide the mercenaries into three groups and take turns to take turns on the holiday, and then it would be the time for everyone to "hi".

There was no need for Captain Sloe to shout anything, and the speed of everyone immediately increased a lot, and as for Fez, who was dozing off on a camel, he just opened his eyes slightly and squinted again.

Everyone is accustomed to Fez's "delicious laziness", and except for the most active when eating, other things cannot attract Fez's attention.

From time to time, a magic spell that loses its accuracy or delays the explosion will also cause laughter from everyone, and the rest of the time Fez is almost invisible.

"One gold coin for a person, half a gold coin for livestock!"

The soldiers on guard pointed to the large boxes placed in the place and shouted from time to time.

After the regiment commander Sloe paid enough gold coins, the group entered the city one after another, and Fez, after accepting the commission of Sloe's ten gold coins, left the group alone.

Because the destination of the mercenary group is here, and Fez's trip has just begun, they have to separate.

Ten gold coins is nothing in this small town, but for ordinary people, that's a few months' salary.

However, because the most expensive water source in the small city is in the hands of the castle guard, and every sip of money has to be paid, which is not affordable by ordinary people at all, so ten gold coins are nothing, and the price of other things is still within the affordable range.

Since this is the last city in the northwest, the business here is very developed, almost half of the population is mobile merchants, for these merchants these money is nothing, so the high water bill is not prohibitive, but only makes the local people miserable.

At first glance, if it is luxuriously dressed, it is definitely the outsiders who are generous, and the people who live an average life or look like beggars are 90% locals, and the rest of the achievements are those who have failed.

Slow strolling down the street, Fez, unconsciously came to a narrow alley, the pedestrians on the road were almost all poor people in ragged clothes, and Fez knew that he had reached a slum.

At the same time, the three robbers or thieves who have been following behind are also under the attention of Fez, who deliberately walked to a dark corner, waiting for the "sneak attack" of several people behind him.

"Follow me!" Just as the footsteps behind him were about to approach Fez, a small hand suddenly grabbed Fez's wrist and dragged Fez's twists and turns through the dark and damp alleyway.

A few minutes later, the man who was following him disappeared into Fez's aura.

Ten minutes later, Fez, too, was lost in the alleyway and let the child run away.

The child who stopped bent over, panting for breath.

"It's a good thing to run fast, otherwise you would have fallen into their hands and you would have died. The child's childish voice reminded.

"Who are they, and why are they following me?" Vis, apparently, was pretending to be stupid.

"Why are you so careless and leave your wallet outside, isn't it obvious for others to rob it?

But it's a miracle that you've been gone for so long, and your wallet hasn't been stolen. The child taught him the same way as an adult.

"Thank you, little friend, this is for you. Fez took a gold coin from his money bag and handed it to the child.

"I didn't save you for the money.

Besides, how old you are, you're a child. The child did not receive the gold coin with great dignity, but the bright eyes betrayed the child's longing thoughts.

"I didn't give it to you to repay it, this is the reward for letting you take me out!"

Fez is obviously lost, as for the problem of children and adults, Fez is not entangled in this regard, although Fez's mind is at least more than a hundred years old, but the body is only seventeen years old, as for the child, it looks like he is fourteen or fifteen years old, so fundamentally Fez is not much older than the other party.

"Then it doesn't take so much?" the child was visibly shaken, but he was taught that he could not accept "handouts" from others casually.

"Alright, let's make a deal. My name is Fez, what's your name?"

"My name is Luffy, what's the deal?" Luffy asked curiously.

"Luffy, you take me out and find a place to exchange coins, and this gold coin is yours.

And my purple gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred gold coins, but you also know that the people here will definitely embarrass me, a foreigner, and it will be good to exchange it for ninety at that time, maybe even people will be killed by others for money, so I want you to find me a bank with good credit to exchange the gold coins.

I'm limited to ninety gold coins, how about I split more than that?

As for this gold coin, it is only the money that leads the way. Fez's plan was to speak.

Luffy was moved by Fistiy's again, originally he came out to find a job to subsidize his family, and it would normally be good to earn a silver coin a day, but now a gold coin is in front of his eyes.

And according to Fez's suggestion, a purple gold coin can be exchanged for at least ninety-five gold coins, that is, he can get two and a half gold coins, and finally three and a half gold coins, which is a month's salary for his father.

"Yes! Luffy took the gold coin and quickly slipped it into his underwear pocket.

Luffy knew that Fez's words were right, the merchant shop here would not be polite to a solo traveler like Fez, and deduction and engulfment often happened, so agreeing to Fez's mention was a good thing for Fez, and even better for himself.

And Luffy knows a money bank with good credit and odd good, and one purple gold coin can be exchanged for ninety-eight gold coins, but the location is not obvious.

By the way, I warn you that it's best to put away your purse, it's very unsafe here. Luffy reminded again.

Fez, too, knew that it wasn't good to keep the money bag out this way, so he quickly put away the money bag, staff, and crossbow, and brought the magic gauntlet with him.

"This is it!" Luffy took Fez to a remote bank.

Fez looked at the signboard of the money bank, a very shabby signboard was not even clear on it, and the façade was too small, if Luffy didn't lead the way, I'm afraid that Fez, even if he stood at the door, he wouldn't have thought that this was a money bank.

"Don't look at the remoteness here, the façade is not good, in fact, this money bank is only open to familiar people, even if ordinary people know, they will not do business with them, if it is not for me to bring it, you don't want to come in." Luffy explained proudly.

"Okay, Luffy-sama, then this swap will be up to you. Fez handed a purple gold coin to Luffy, looking like he was in charge.

Luffy looked at the purple gold coin, which was equivalent to his father's income for three years, and if he had this money, his mother's illness could be cured, but then Luffy woke up from his vision.

"You're not afraid of me running away!"

"I believe you!" Fez, with a sincere expression.

"Well, I'm satisfied. Luffy's sigh was Fez's belief, completely breaking his own trace of being ready to swallow it alone, and it was also the first time Luffy sincerely thought about someone else's intentions.

Fez followed Luffy's back, like a follower, and didn't care about anything else at all.

"Big shopkeeper, there is business to do. Luffy walked over to a counter at the height of his shoulders and shouted through the iron railing.

"Yo! Isn't this Luffy? I haven't been here for a long time, what are you going to pawn this time?" the shopkeeper obviously didn't believe that Luffy had any business to do, at most as some family heirloom "treasures".

"Shopkeeper, don't look at people like this, this is my distant cousin, he came to do business this time, he needs to change some change, do you want to change it?" Luffy put the purple gold coin directly on the counter, not afraid of the other party's intention to snatch it.

"Really!" The shopkeeper obviously didn't believe Luffy's words, but he didn't break it to his face.

The shopkeeper picked up the purple gold coin and looked at it carefully, the purple gold coin is different from the gold coin, if the gold coin can be mixed with copper to fake, then the purple gold coin and the diamond coin will definitely not be fake, because they are the products of magic alchemy, and those magicians are not short of these money, so as long as it is a purple gold coin is a real symbol.

Moreover, it seems that the general big business is to directly use purple gold coins instead of gold coins, so the supply of purple gold coins exceeds the demand.

Although the official exchange of purple gold coins and gold coins is one to one hundred, they have reached a height of one to one hundred and ten at the highest time among the people, and the lowest will not be less than one hundred and five gold coins.

"Okay! How many are you changing?"

"Isn't that what you say?" Luffy asked rhetorically.

"Ninety-five!"

"This is the price outside, if it is still this price, will I still run here?"

The shopkeeper was embarrassed by Luffy, Luffy was right, the lowest price outside is so much, and the average here is generally about ninety-eight, after all, wear and tear and normal consumption, plus commissions, the cost is about two or three gold coins.

"The lowest whole number!" Luffy said with a resolute expression as he raised his index finger.

"Ninety-eight!"

"A hundred!"

"Okay! In the end, the shopkeeper was convinced.

In fact, it is nothing to replace a hundred purple gold coins, at least two gold coins have been harvested, and the above is more important for these purple gold coins, it can be said that generally as long as it is not higher than the five points of the official price comparison, the above will pay directly without saying a word.

"Give me three more!" Fez, seeing that the final transaction price had reached one hundred, threw out three purple gold coins in satisfaction.

There are a total of four purple gold coins, and the shopkeeper can probably earn about a dozen gold coins, but for his monthly salary, the shopkeeper doesn't seem to pay attention to it, but pays attention to Luffy's "relatives" who have not spoken.

From the method just now, the shopkeeper can see that Fez is not simple, easily throw out the three purple gold coins, and finally put them together impartially, which is not something ordinary people can do.

However, it can only be seen in secret, and the four hundred gold coins were quickly and neatly delivered.

"Do you need to pack?" Facing four hundred gold coins, a stack of ten, a total of forty stacks, obviously a large bag.

"No need!" Fez directly took the tray and stuffed the stacks of gold coins directly into his arms, not afraid of the gold coins dropping.

After collecting the gold coins, Fez took Luffy out of the money house quickly, because there was a master in the money house who paid attention to himself, although there was no malice, but he kept circling around him, which also made Fez feel uncomfortable.

"Okay! That's your pay. Fez handed Luffy twenty gold coins.

Luffy followed Fez's example and stuffed it into his underwear pocket without counting.

"You don't count!"

"I believe you!" Luffy said as Fez's behalf.

"Huh!"

In fact, Luffy knew the approximate number of gold coins in the money bag as soon as he took it, at least a dozen of them.

For these incomes, Luffy was already satisfied, and originally Luffy only planned to get five at most.

Even if it was the last three purple gold coins that Fez added, Luffy didn't think about getting a commission on the other three purple gold coins.

For the last extra dozen gold coins, it can be said that it was a complete windfall, and Luffy, who was extremely satisfied, was obviously extremely satisfied with Fez.

"Can you take me to a blacksmith's shop? I can pay me. Fez's joked.

"Of course you can, but you don't need to pay for it, you give so much, I'm yours today. Luffy, who was full of spring breeze, said jokingly.

"This is the blacksmith's shop, and although it doesn't look great, the old horse's craftsmanship is absolutely top-notch. Luffy once again led Fez into a remote stone house.

This time, however, the heat and the sound of interrupting beatings from inside the Vistone guò made it clear that the room was a blacksmith's shop.

Fez followed Luffy into the blacksmith shop, where there was a separate courtyard, and a muscular man was banging on the utensils in his hands, apparently the other party was not aware of the two extra outsiders, and there were obviously no other apprentices or other servants in the courtyard.

Under Fez's reminder, Luffy did not interrupt Dahan's work.

Judging from the other party's regular beating and movements, even Fez, who doesn't know wrought iron, can see that the mastery of the big man is good.

Luffy obviously didn't have any intention of looking down, and he was very familiar with Dahan, so he walked directly into the inner room, and at the same time a beautiful little girl walked out of it, and the other party was obviously not so surprised by Luffy's arrival, obviously quite familiar.

"Are you?" said the big man with a question mark in his mind after tapping his work.

Fez, who had been watching it all the time, obviously didn't realize where Luffy had gone.

"Luffy introduced me!"

"Okay, since that kid introduced you, then I'll cheapen you, what do you want to fight?"

"That's it, a hundred!" Fez took out a crossbow arrow, for which Fez's found that sometimes it was much better than magic, silent, no magic fluctuations, no attack at any time, so Fez's always wanted to make more arrows.

"I'm sorry! I can't fight. Dahan decisively refused.

"Why?"

"Because there are a few materials in it that I don't know, and even the ones I know I don't have here. Dahan replied directly.

"What if I just use ordinary materials?" Fez's surprise was that the other party could see the material of this crossbow arrow at a glance, which was obviously much more than Fez's expectations.

"If you use normal materials, then the accuracy of the crossbow will be reduced by the crossbow arrows, if I didn't guess it's a long-range sniper crossbow, if it's a one-time shot, I can still try it. ”

Fes, who has not studied crossbow arrows, obviously doesn't know why the other party said this, but for what Dahan said, Fes obviously agrees, because the difference of that crossbow is obvious.

"Okay! "Fez's obviously not going to make the same crossbow bolts as before, and certainly as good as the previous ones.

"Okay, I'll try, I'll take it in three days after a hundred!"

"Okay! That's half the deposit. "Ten gold coins fell into the hands of the Great Khan.

"That's more!" The material of the crossbow arrow is about only one copper coin, plus the Han is going to use some cold iron to increase the hardness just now, plus the labor is only five copper coins at most, and a hundred is only five gold coins at most, but Fez said that this is only half the cost, and it is obviously a bit deserved for the blacksmith who has always been simple.

"Then you'll give me a good fight!" Fez, apparently satisfied with the simplicity of the other party.

"If you can give me two crossbow arrows, I'll do better!" the big man asked a little cautiously, obviously a very rude thing for some guests to ask for weapons from each other.

"Okay, as long as you make something, anything. "Fez's direct crossbow and the rest of the crossbow arrows (sets) were handed over to the big man.

The big man held the crossbow (arrow) in both hands, and his eyes were fixed on it.

"If you want to improve the quality, can you grind two of these crossbow arrows into powder and blend them into the other arrows?" the big man asked again, but he looked more cautious than last time.

"No problem! Just leave one for me. "Fez's obviously doesn't pay much attention to the crossbow arrows of these unknown materials, and even if they are all gone, there is no pity.

"Fez, is your business over?" As soon as the matter was finished, Luffy didn't know where to get out.

"How did you finish talking to your little girlfriend?" Fez asked rhetorically.

"Who's his girlfriend?" Luffy retorted before he could reply.

"Aren't you not a child?" Fez's words, the other party did not refute.

"Are you a woman?" the other nodded.

"Are you his friend?" still nodded.

"That's fine! Fez joked.

"Okay! Little girlfriend, this is my friend Fez, this is my friend Ma Xiaoxiao!"

But apparently Ma Xiaoxiao was still thinking about the question just now, and it seemed that he hadn't heard Luffy's introduction.

Fez didn't mind, "One last question, Luffy, can you find me a safer, quieter, and cleaner hotel?"

"Hmm, safe, quiet and clean, as long as these are the conditions?"

"Hmm!"

"Okay!I'll recommend one to you, I won't charge you for accommodation, but the meal will be calculated, how about it?" Luffy introduced with a little "weak heart".

"Where? isn't your house?" Fez, he asked deliberately.

"Hehe, you guessed it, it's my house.

But if it's just the requirements you said, my family can meet them, but there are no comfortable conditions. Luffy said solemnly.

"Okay, then you lead the way!"

"No, everything is right, but it's not right to connect!" When Ma Xiaoxiao came to his senses, Fez and Luffy had long since lost their tracks, and could only anger at the air.