Chapter 3: The Far Away Hill City
"Why!hehe......" XY sneered, his face showed a strange expression, that expression, it seemed to be smiling rather than laughing, like crying rather than crying, it seemed to be a little better than distorted, "There are many reasons, but they are not very complicated, specifically there are two reasons, internal and external." ”
Seeing XY's rebellious expression, Luton trembled with fright, while Livka twitched the corners of her mouth slightly in disgust, although she was disgusted, she still asked, "What is the difference between internal and external causes?"
"Nei," XY looked down at the oak round table with a pensive look, "it's that the whole of Hilltown is in the midst of civil strife, and they don't welcome new forces from outside. ”
"Civil strife?" Warren interjected in time to allow the topic to continue, "what kind of civil strife?"
"I heard that the two Terran forces in Hill City began to fight each other in order to compete for the position of deputy city lord, and there was a lot of trouble. XY smiled coldly and shook his head slightly, with a look of contempt.
"Isn't there still a city lord there, doesn't he care?" Livka looked at XY suspiciously.
"City Lord? I heard that he never takes care of things, and leaves everything to his subordinates, so he has long been overshadowed by his subordinates. XY shook his head slightly, and continued: "I've been to Hill City hundreds of times, and I've never met the city lord, have you seen it, Wang Xu?"
"I've seen it," Wang Xu sighed a little helplessly, he felt that although he was the lord of Hill City, but the situation of civil strife in front of him was also something he had no choice about, most of the once loyal old servants were ancient, and their descendants already had a sense of independence, and they also had some strength, although they could easily wipe them out, but after all, they were the descendants of their own heroes, and they couldn't kill them, since they wanted power, then give it to them, anyway, Hill City is just a small city, maybe this small city can barely resist the small forces around it, but as long as there is an invasion of big forces, the Hill City will definitely be erased"I heard that the city lord is addicted to space magic and alchemy, and he can't extricate himself, so he really doesn't care about anything. ”
"Space magic and alchemy?" XY sneered, "I heard from the elves, he is a half-elf who can't even perceive the elements of magic, what's the use of him studying these two things?"
"Half-elves can't even perceive magical elements?" Before Wang Xu could answer, he heard Warren ask in surprise, "How is this possible?"
"Isn't that right!" XY's words were released again, "I heard that he is still the child of the Elf King, how depressed you say the Elf King is, he is so fierce, his son can't even touch the edge of magic, this is really ironic!"
"Hey," Warren shook his head slightly, not knowing whether he was unworthy for the Elf King or sorry for his son, "Then it's no wonder that he can be the lord of Hill City with such a humble strength." ”
"Who says it's not," Zai will be difficult to shut up once he opens the conversation, "There are so many big forces around, but the small Hill City can stand in it for twenty years, it is estimated that a large part of the reason is that the big forces saw the elf forces behind Hill City, so they didn't do it, so the civil strife in the city will only fight for the deputy city lord and not the city lord, anyway, the city lord there doesn't care about anything, and the deputy city lord is the biggest." ”
"That's right," Wang Xu lazily explained to Zai, in fact, it was useless to explain, the explanation was to cover up, and to cover up was to cover up, "The deputy city lord there is indeed the biggest." ”
"Then again," Zai squinted at Wang Xu and said with a wicked smile, "Your strength is also quite strong, and you are also a native of Hill City, or we will cooperate to fight for this deputy city lord, and you will also be the biggest." ”
"Forget it," Wang Xu glanced at Zai lightly, and said in his heart, what are I doing fighting for a deputy city lord when I am the city lord, my brain is not in the water, although I think so in my heart, I can't say that, "There are still many fierce people in the city, at least one Terran forbidden spell mage, two Terran archmages, two dwarven war demon masters, and one elven clan magic saint, do you think with your strength, enough for them to stuff their teeth?"
"Wow," XY smiled awkwardly, shook his head, and said, "I just remembered them, did you think they were sick, they had such strong strength, but they didn't care about anything, just be an ordinary person in the city, what do you do?"
"So," Wang Xu finally found a chance to correct his name, "I think the city lord of Hill City is not simple, his attitude is very similar to those strong people, maybe his strength is on par with those strong people, I even suspect that the reason why he rarely appears is that he is already a space magician, I am also a space magician, I can feel a strong space magic fluctuation in the city!"
"Hmph," XY shook his head contemptuously and sneered, "I don't believe he's strong anyway!"
"That," Warren finally found an opportunity to interject in Zay's chattering words, "I already know the internal reason why you said you couldn't go to Hill City, what is the external reason?"
"The external cause is that the road is blocked!" After hearing Warren's words, XY came to his senses again and began to nag again: "There is only one road from here to Hill City, and that is the Cat's Paw Path, but recently, Agrell the Bronze Skull and the Troll Lord Squill have confronted each other at the Cat's Paw Trail and blocked the road, and I don't know what happened there, no one dares to go anyway." ”
"Isn't it just a bronze skeleton and a troll lord," Warren groaned slightly, puzzled, "Their strength is comparable to you and me, aren't there still strong people in Hill City who are several times stronger than you and me, aren't these two guys afraid that those strong people will trouble them?"
"Hey......" XY shook his head slightly, squinted at Warren, and said helplessly: "If it's just the two of them, who cares, but Agrell still has more than a thousand skeleton soldiers under him, and Squair also has seven or eight hundred forest trolls under him, so they can shout around here." ”
"Oh," Warren nodded slightly, and instantly felt that the two madmen who blocked the road were really tricky, he stroked the white beard on his chin, turned his head to look at Wang Xu and asked, "Is there really no other way, Wang Xu Great Demon Refiner?"
"Maybe it's gone," Wang Xu pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and said in a low voice: "For me, there are still many roads, but you have to use space magic, and you and your subordinates probably can't walk." ”
After speaking, Wang Xu raised his hand and flicked a black hole symbol on the chest of his magic robe, which represented Wang Xu's identity as a space magician.
Looking at the black hole symbol on Wang Xu's chest, and then looking down at the flame symbol on his chest that represented the fire magician, Warren sighed helplessly, and closed his eyes in contemplation.
Livka looked at her teacher's deflated appearance, and there was nothing she could do, her eyes trembled, and she kept thinking about something.
"Well......" XY laughed again, his face once again showing an expression that was more ugly than crying, "It's not that it can't be helped, it depends on whether you have money or not." ”
"What do you mean?" Hearing XY's words, Warren and Livka looked at XY at the same time, and asked in unison, "If you have money, you can do it?"
XY smiled slightly, raised his hand and grabbed a bagel from the plate, stuffed it into his mouth, and replied as he ate: "Bronze skeleton Agrell has a problem, that is, he likes money, especially gold, if you can give him some gold coins, maybe he can make a way for you." ”
After grabbing another bagel and putting it in his mouth, XY continued: "Don't worry, before Agrell turned into a skeleton, he was a nobleman of the human race, and his character is still passable, and he will definitely not mess around. ”
"Then how can I get in touch with him?" Warren also picked up a bagel as well, hesitated, handed it to Luton, who was sitting completely silent on the side, and continued to ask, "Are you going to look for him on the cat's paw trail?"
"No," XY took out a six-pointed star-shaped red iron plate from his spatial ring and put it on the table in front of him, "Agrell is a mercenary like me, but he has set up a mercenary group, he is the leader of the Golden Skull mercenary group, and there is a mercenary union in this town, you can just send a message there to find him, he will come, he will not let go of any opportunity to make a lot of money." ”
Looking at the red iron card that XY took out to represent the mid-level mercenary, and listening to XY's explanation, Warren nodded silently.
Just as Warren was about to leave the Warlock's Hut and go to the Mercenary Guild to post the message, there was a "dang bang", the brass bell on the wooden door of the hut rang, and another goblin walked in.
The goblin was noticeably older than Ruton, with more wrinkles on his face, greener skin, and a snow-white beard on his ears and chin, and he was, of course, the owner of the Warlock's Hut, the Great Alchemist Rui.
After entering the hut, Rui saw that in addition to Wang Xu and Zai, there were three people sitting at the round table, one of them was his nephew Luton, and the remaining two had never seen him, so he asked, "Who are you two?"
Warren quickly got up, looked down at Rui, who was only half as tall as himself, and explained, "We are here to buy life potions and magic potions. ”
"Oh," Rui frowned, squinted at Wang Xu sitting at the round table, and said to Warren, "Why don't you buy it from him, he is also an alchemist, and his level is higher than mine." ”
"This ......" Warren turned his head to look at Wang Xu, and smiled awkwardly, he also felt that he was stupid, just now he already knew that Wang Xu was an alchemist, why didn't he buy medicine from him, hey, he was really useless.
"Well," Wang Xu shook his head with a wry smile, looked at Rui Yi and whispered, "You know, I don't steal my friends' business, since I'm in your shop, I won't overstep my bounds." ”
"Ignorance!" Although he said derogatory words about Wang Xu, there was a gleam of relief in his eyes, he waved his hand and said politely: "Sit down, do business one by one." ”
With that, Rui walked to the innermost part of the round table and jumped into a reclining chair, and Warren sat back in his seat.
"First of all, something for both of you. Rui first glanced at Wang Xu and Zay, and then took out a large pile of black things like charcoal from the spatial ring, and then carefully placed them in the middle of the round table.
At first, Warren hadn't seen what was on the table, but when he saw what was on it, and at the same time felt the terrifying magic fluctuations contained in these things, he was stunned......