Chapter 9: Aristocrats and Commoners
The corners of Li Jun's mouth twitched, and he smiled reluctantly and said, "How is it possible! Have you ever heard of an eighteen-year-old boy who has accumulated a net worth of a hundred gold coins? Unless he is a demon or a child of a noble family." ”
Vic nodded, still glanced at Li Jun suspiciously, and then stopped asking this question further.
"Sure enough, there is no good person in the mercenary pile!" Li Jun scolded in his heart, recalling the look on Bick's face just now, as if he wanted to swallow him alive directly.
But with the sixty yellow-scaled bees protecting his body, Li Jun was not afraid of him, but if he was delivering any food, wine or the like, Li Jun should be careful and cautious.
Three days have passed, and Li Jun is still walking on his horse, doing actions such as teasing, splitting, and stabbing.
On this day, a mercenary ran to Vic, who was sweating profusely while practicing his sword, and said that an employer wanted to see him.
When Vic came back again, it was with a smile on his face, and it was clear that he had received a big order.
"What's the matter, Bick, you look like your mouth is about to crack, have you received any valuable task?" Li Jun asked curiously.
Vic said with a smile: "This time, an employer asked the Snowstorm Mercenary Group to go to Salusi and escort a team of magic apprentices to the Warcraft Forest to pick some medicine. ”
"Well, it's a very simple task, and it shouldn't be too dangerous. Li Jun nodded.
"It's not that it's not dangerous, it's that there's almost no danger, you know, for magicians, every empire is eager to take all the magicians in the world into the king's account. However, after all, magicians are too scarce. Among the 100,000 people, only a few people have reached the level of a magician, and once they become a magician, even the most junior magic apprentice, they can directly obtain the status of a nobleman. "Vic Road.
"Hehe, you must know that attacking nobles is a terrible felony in all major empires, especially the guy who dares to attack a magician, even if he is not a magician, he must be a powerful swordsman or a nobleman with monstrous authority!"
Talking with Vic, Li Jun gained a lot, and his understanding of the other world gradually deepened.
As Bick said before, he didn't have any powerful swordsmanship to teach Li Jun, but his life experience and survival experience could be taught to Li Jun.
Salusi is a second-class city with a well-developed economy, connected to many highways, and the city is full of traffic. From time to time, luxurious chariots drove by, and none of the escorts were below the level of swordsmen.
After Li Jun saw this scene, he was secretly surprised, the swordsman had already cultivated his fighting spirit, and he was considered a very powerful person, in the third-class town of Weiss Town, he had not heard of any swordsman who always lived in it.
But a swordsman who belongs to the strongest level in Vis Town, in a second-class city like Salusi, can only be reduced to a first-class bodyguard!
Vic and the others, who were dressed in simple mercenary uniforms, waited there an hour earlier according to the location designated by their employer.
For some mercenary newcomers, it was the first time they had come to such a large city, and the three-story building was not uncommon here, and the most magnificent and majestic Church of Light, which was seven stories high, became an eye-catching landscape in Salusi.
"The Church of Light is worthy of being the richest force in the Canaan continent, look at the wall, it is splendid, under the sun, the piercing eyes can't be opened, I feel that those wall tiles are forged with pure gold. One of the mercenaries exclaimed.
"Legend has it that the headquarters of the Church of Light, the church in the city of light, is made of gold bricks, the floor is pasted with a layer of pure gold foil, including the pillars are made of 10,000-year-old wood, and the night pearl inlaid on the roof is worth tens of thousands of gold coins!"
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Just as the group of mercenaries were talking, a group of teenagers and girls, dressed in magical robes, walked over proudly, with their heads tilted.
Vic's eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly walked over and made a gentlemanly salute to everyone: his left hand on his right chest, his right hand took off his hat, and he bowed slightly forward and nodded at the same time.
The other party also stood down, neatly holding his right chest with his left hand, and taking off his hat with his right hand to return the salute.
"Dear mages, my name is Vic, I am from Vess, and I have been hired by my employer to come to Salusi City to protect you as you go to the Warcraft Forest to study. Bick said humbly, and did not use the word "medicine", and felt that it was more appropriate to use the word "to do knowledge".
Sure enough, it was such a simple sentence, and the teenagers and girls had a slight impression of Bick, and the corners of their mouths couldn't help but show a smile.
"I don't understand why my mother hired you to protect me, but for your sake, I won't embarrass you. "A handsome young man with a pair of big blue eyes, and on both sides of the high bridge of the nose, there are dots of pockmarks.
Vic's heart sank, and he smiled kindly on the surface: "You love to joke too much." ”
The boy shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and said no more.
Remembering what the beautiful employer had said to him, Vic sighed helplessly.
The beautiful employer was the head mother of a noble family, and her own son was studying in a magic academy, and she didn't know the wind in her head, so she had to go with a group of magic apprentices to explore the Warcraft Forest.
In fact, Vic knows the minds of these proud teenagers and girls very well.
After all, in the Canaan continent, magicians are too scarce, and among the 100,000 people, there are only a few conditions that are attached.
A group of aristocratic young masters and young ladies from extraordinary backgrounds are born with a sense of arrogance and domineering.
When he became the only one of 100,000 people, his inner arrogance swelled infinitely, thinking that with a little magic knowledge, he could come and go freely in the Warcraft Forest.
In the magician system, magic apprentices are just starting out, with only a little magical knowledge, and they can make some medicines, and they can't even release a single magic.
An existence like this, even if you go to the Warcraft Forest in a group, is purely looking for death.
"However, I've doted on Oka too much since I was a child, and I've persuaded him a few times, but unfortunately it's useless, if I send the family guards to follow, the bold Oka and those children will definitely wander aimlessly in the Warcraft Forest...... So I specially found the head of the regiment, after all, with the realm of your sword servants, no matter how bold they are, you have to think clearly, with your skills, can you keep them safe......" The beautiful young woman said truthfully.
Thinking of this, Bick couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and said secretly: "Sometimes, soft persimmons have become fragrant dumplings?"
A group of small nobles boarded the pre-prepared vehicles one after another, and with the dance of the long whip in the driver's hand, seven or eight cars made a "quack" sound and drove quickly towards the city gate.
"Oka, I think your mother deliberately sent a swordsman to protect us. A pretty blonde girl pouted at Oka and said with some dissatisfaction.
"Don't be angry, Barris, this time, I'm well prepared, and I've brought a bag full of magic potions and magic scrolls. Besides, the teacher once said that at the current rate of magic practice, by the end of the month, I should be able to release primary magic and become a noble junior magician. Oka smiled kindly and gently squeezed Balis's hand.
Barris looked at Oka in surprise and said excitedly, "Oh my God, a thirteen-year-old junior magician! Looking at the entire city of Salusi, he can be regarded as a genius, right?"
Oka smiled modestly, but his eyes were full of a hint of pride, and he raised his head slightly, enjoying the exclamation of the beautiful girl.
Barris's beautiful eyes flickered again and again, holding Okka's hand, and the two of them suddenly became gasping for breath.
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On about the sixteenth, the seven or eight vehicles full of magic apprentices drove into the headquarters of the Snowstorm Mercenary Regiment in Vess.
A noble boy looked around, took out a handkerchief with a look of disgust, covered his mouth and nose, and said, "Vic! Why is your station so dirty? Even the house of the Gong Pig is nothing more than that, right?"
The Gong Pig was a dirty animal that was considered by the aristocracy.
This kind of animal is not a magical beast, among the ten thousand Gong Pigs, there is also a first-level Gong Pig Demon Beast.
There is almost nothing in the belly of the gong pigs, no matter what is fed to them, as long as it is not poison or something, there will be a large group of gong pigs, in a narrow trough to grab food.
For civilians, Causeway pork tastes not only delicious, but also a cheap nutritious product. But for the aristocracy, the gong pig represents a dirty and insulting word, and they will not eat gong pork for the rest of their lives.
Vic naturally knew what the word gong pig meant in the mouths of the nobles, but he only smiled awkwardly and was not angry.
For the aristocracy, commoners were just a little higher than slaves. The nobles killed the commoners, just to lose a little money. Most of the families of the civilians who were killed did not dare to ask the nobles for compensation.
And if a commoner kills a nobleman, the death penalty is inevitable. However, there are many kinds of death penalty, the simplest is hanging, which is undoubtedly the most painful death penalty.
However, since the formation of the aristocracy, there has not been a record of a commoner who killed the nobles and went through a just "trial" and then so easily hanged and sent to hell.
The vast majority of 'killing nobles' are all in prison, experienced all kinds of cruel punishments, and were tortured to death, even if they survived a series of punishments and did not die, in the end, when the death penalty was carried out, it was either hanging, which refers to cutting the prisoner's hands behind his back, tying the prisoner's wrists with a rope, and then hoisting them to a pole or rack, and then suddenly loosening the rope to allow the prisoner to land freely.
However, this landing did not land, but suddenly stopped in mid-air. This punishment often dislocates the prisoner's arm. In the course of this punishment, a heavy object is sometimes tied to the ankle of the prisoner, which can cause the prisoner to dislocate his thigh. If the heavy lifting is heavy, it can also cause the prisoner's abdomen to crack.
The punishments that flourish in the empires today were all studied by the nobles. Whenever a new punishment appeared, it meant that there were several, if not dozens, of slaves who had been brutally reduced to the test objects of that punishment.
When understanding the law and atmosphere of the other world, combined with the extremely dirty social status quo of the ancient West in the previous life, Li Jun was in his heart, and he was interested in the Canaan continent. The so-called aristocrats developed a deep disdain and a mentality of respect.
I heard that there were magicians from big cities, and when they came to Vess, many mercenaries, adventurers, and natives flocked to the headquarters of the Snowstorm Mercenary Regiment.
According to their words: I have lived a lifetime, and I have never even seen what a magician looks like, so I have not lived this life in vain?
The curious and awe-inspiring gazes of the inhabitants, mercenaries, and adventurers were clearly useful to the boys and girls. They raised their heads proudly, and the aristocratic temperament that had been cultivated for many years made countless people feel ashamed of themselves.