Chapter 8: The Tavern (I)

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"Oh, I see, for the sake of not knowing the local rules, please forgive me for being a little rude. ”

Lu Bin accepted it when he saw it, and he didn't want to continue to entangle it at all, so he gently thanked the dedicated protector of the town.

"If I want to wander around this bustling town, I should have no problem, right?"

A respectable spellcaster was able to make such a tactful request, not wanting to offend his Vice-Captain of the Guard, Wells, with his long career as a mercenary, and with his extraordinary sense of smell honed by a long career as a mercenary, he could smell that there was something that could not be refused.

He sighed helplessly, "Your Excellency the Mage, according to the rules of the town of Resting for foreigners, you should stay in the tavern all the time......"

Speaking of this, the deputy captain of the guard team took a hard look and didn't notice anything abnormal on the other party's face, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, your status is a bit peculiar, and if you put away the spell book that anyone with a little knowledge knows, you should be able to walk around the town. In exchange, of course, allow me to follow you and act as a guide to guide the way. ”

Lu Bin didn't care about the temptation, and nodded lightly: "It's no problem at all, I'm worried that if I can't find the right direction in the labyrinthine town, I have to ask someone." Having you, the head of the land, as your guide, really helped me a lot. ”

The hearty laughter made the vice-captain of the guard hesitate for the first time, and he felt empty in his heart, and he couldn't understand the temper of His Excellency the mage.

Wells reached out to his unsightly companion and told him to go to the captain to report the news, and then turned to the "wandering mage" and extended his hand apologetically.

Lu Bin snapped his fingers, and the spell book fixed on his back disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared, and then walked directly to the square in the center of the town.

The country circus, which toured Barony Freuyd's land, had already packed up and set off for the next township for a simple but exciting show for the upcoming festival.

When Lu Bin, who was strolling around, arrived at the scene, except for the two civilians hired by the town office, they were busy cleaning up, but they didn't see the person he wanted to see the most.

"Oria!"

Lu Bin silently read this name in his heart, and he had a wonderful premonition that in the near future, he would meet the bard who had the ability to cast spells and save him from the pain of language barriers.

The character profession of the wandering mage, due to its characteristics of exploration, gives Lu Bin good foot strength and stamina, and wanders around the town of resting feet, exhausting the senior mercenary Wells, who has been following him and does not dare to leave without permission, but he still observes the things around him with undiminished interest, and secretly assesses the level of social development.

"Judging from what has been gathered so far, the commercial circulation of this town has begun to rise, and the inhabitants of the gradually expanding wealth have moved away from the classical rural idyllic life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. From the small to the big, social change is still brewing, and it has not yet entered a period of intense turmoil. ”

Lu Bin didn't know that he looked at everything around him with appreciation, but there were people around him who were always watching his every move, and the relevant information was constantly sent to the hands of the big people, no one dared to make a decision, so he could only report it layer by layer, and finally alarmed the local lord Baron Freud.

A strange spellcaster suddenly came to his territory, and the baron immediately sent someone to summon the mage advisor who was supported by the family.

The elderly alchemist Mountbatten, who was indulging in a spell test, was interrupted in the middle of the process, and was originally a little angry, hearing that it was Baron Freud's summons to discuss the handling of the affairs of the strange mage, and had to suppress the test, and took his apprentices Fisch and Moder, leaving the three-story mage tower and going to the baron's family manor.

In the study of His Excellency the Baron, Master Mountbatten quickly flipped through the information that the ink had not yet dried, and his vigilance against the unfamiliar spellcaster was gradually relaxed, and his heart had already made up his mind.

"Your Excellency, this mage who wanders in the wilderness to gather knowledge is just a novice who has just embarked on the path of a spellcaster, and you don't have to meet him personally, and this matter will be left to me. ”

Baron Freud thought about it for a long time, remembered the master's past experience, and never made a mistake in the decision he made, closed his eyes and nodded gently.

"According to the principle of reciprocity of the mage, the other party is at best a young chick that has just hatched and has not even been qualified to be received by me, and the matter of contact is left to my two apprentices. What do you think, Your Excellency?"

Baron Freud had already entrusted the matter to Master Mountbatten, so naturally he would not have any other opinions, and for the mages who had served the two family masters, trust was better than the goodwill accumulated in ordinary times.

The female apprentice Fishie, who had a sly look in her eyes, looked serious but frowned, and Moder, who was always thinking about the meaning of life, left Eton Manor with the expectations of His Excellency the Baron, and before leaving, Master Mountbatten handed over the ten protective rings to the two to divide equally.

The Baron's manor had a fresh response, and the flapping carrier pigeon arrived at the town of rest as fast as it came, informing the few bigwigs waiting at the town hall of the momentous news.

The mayor of the town was inexplicably relieved to learn that Master Mountbatten's apprentice had been dispatched, and at the same time became suspicious of Lu Bin, who claimed to be a wandering mage, but unfortunately he was just an ordinary mortal and did not want to get involved in the circle of spellcasters.

When the sun shadow was shortest at noon, Lu Bin's stomach rumbled, and he realized that the simple breakfast had been exhausted, and the empty stomach needed to be filled with a hearty lunch, so he signaled to the deputy captain of the guard team who followed him.

Wells, who had long been tired, immediately cheered up, and with his familiarity with the terrain and road conditions of the rest town, led His Excellency the Mage around a few street corners and quickly returned to the only tavern in the town.

With no intention of paying the bill out of his own wallet, the vice-captain of the guard nodded to the tavernkeeper, a relative of the mayor.

A big man in the town took care of him in advance, so he could only endure the pain and bleeding, and ordered the kitchen to clean up a table of decent lunches and serve it to Lu Bin in person.

"It tastes good!"

The mage's praise made the tavernkeeper's face look better, and he originally thought that His Excellency the spellcaster was a big man with tricky tastes and very difficult to satisfy, and he didn't expect the other party to be so easy to talk to.

"It's just that this grilled fish has not been cleaned, and the fishy smell is so strong that it can't be suppressed. ”

Lu Bin's words were like a slap in the face of some people, but his words quickly turned to the other party's position: "Actually, the method of dealing with it is very simple! There are no expensive spices, according to what I have seen and heard during the trip, it can be used to add green orange peel during the roasting process, and if it is dried and ground into powder, the effect will be better." ”

This sentence saved the tavernkeeper's sinking heart, and he repeated in his mind word for word, "The peel of the green orange is said to be very sour, and almost no one will eat it except for the sailors who sail long distances. ”