Those snake tendons, Amon actually sensed that there was a surname similar to the blue water heart, of course, they could not be used as divine stones, but if they were processed into weapons such as whips or bowstrings, they could greatly assist the power of the water elemental divine arts, and if they were used on warships, their power could be maximized.

Amon plans to study the snake tendon in his hand when he returns, and maybe use it to make the first magic artifact he has processed. He remembered the strange snake he had slain that day in the Youngbottom River, and there must have been four fangs frozen in the ice and blown into the water, but unfortunately he didn't find it at the time. Although the snake tendons and fangs of that strange snake were far from being compared to the trophies of Enqidu, they were also very precious and rare artifact materials.

Gilgamesh's great gift to the whole country was truly precious! Just as Amun thought this, the motorcade had already passed through the city gates, and he hurried into the capital of Barron in the midst of the cheering crowd.

The procession passed through the city of Barron to the central square of the city, which could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, in front of the magnificent main temple of Malduk, opposite the royal palace, with the Barron Academy of Divine Arts on its left and the Hall of Glory of the Heroes on its right. The memorial is dedicated to some of the most famous heroes in the Kingdom's history, and if nothing else, the names of Gilgamesh and Enkidu will be inscribed and enshrined there after their deaths.

The crowd gathered on one side of the square, and a semicircular cordon under the long steps of the temple was blocked by King Hammurabi II of Barron to personally welcome Gilgamesh.

A city lord is not qualified to be welcomed by the king in person, but Gilgamesh's deserved honor for killing Humbaba, after all, Humbaba's fangs and snake tendons are at the head of the convoy, and Hammurabi II also took this opportunity to show his favor. The news had already spread, and the lords of the nearby city-states also rushed to the royal capital to see the excitement, and the expression of Gilgamesh standing behind the king was very complicated.

There is also a group of royal nobles with equally complicated expressions, everyone knows that Gilgamesh is the fiancé of Princess Xiaoqian, and they also know that the Barron Kingdom is likely to face a battle for the throne in the future, some people are muttering in their hearts the deep meaning of Gilgamesh's move, and some people are thinking about which side to stand on?

On the one hand, the purpose of Gilgamesh's move was to show loyalty to the kingdom and the gods. He killed Humbaba and presented the snake sinews and fangs to the Malduk Temple, apparently announcing to the gods that Humbaba had violated the agreement between Malduk and Enriel, and that if Enril had anything to say, he should go to Malduk. On the other hand, it is also a warning, he is not even afraid of the guardian spirit of the Eude, and naturally he will not be afraid of anyone's slander and threats.

He came to the royal capital with such a swagger, accepting the cheers of all the people and the king's personal greeting, and did not care about the rumors in the kingdom, this city-state hero was extremely arrogant in his bones! His captain of the guard, the first warrior on the mainland, Enqidu, did not accompany him to Barun City, he only brought a simple honor guard, and did not let the city-state's army follow in the name of escort, which made many people inexplicably relieved.

Amon was mixed in the crowd to see the excitement, he didn't care about Enqidu, he thought that Yin Nanna would also enter the city with Gilgamesh, but he didn't see it, and Yin Nanna was not found in the royal family's welcome procession in front of the temple. When Gilgamesh, accompanied by the king and the high priest of the kingdom, entered the temple and the atmosphere of the square, Amon quietly left to find Medanzo.

The city of Barron was almost empty today, and Amon walked through the streets and alleys, asking the listless men who were guarding the shops, and finally came to Medanzo's door. This is a century-old mansion, which has been renovated and rebuilt in recent years, and looks quite beautiful and spacious. Once upon a time, this neighborhood was supposed to be a settlement for the aristocracy, but after King Hammurabi I expanded the royal city and built a more magnificent main temple, the princes and lords now mostly live in the southern city, and the eastern part of the city is basically a new gathering of wealthy commoners and merchants.

There are many shops and inns nearby, and the area should be bustling and noisy in normal times, but today it is quite quiet. Although Medanzo's family was ruined and he lost his status as a nobleman, he still lived in the pomp of his usual life, lived in his ancestral house, and hired porters, grooms, servants, and maidservants. It must cost a lot to maintain such pomp and circumstance, and it is no wonder that he would privately resell precious fine iron and horse leather steel to make money.

It was a bad luck for Amon to come, and the porter told him that the head of the house, Medanzo, had gone out a few months ago and had not yet returned, and that the master mother was not at home, so he went to the square in front of the temple today to see the excitement. This made Amon a little surprised and disappointed, and he came all the way but pounced, but it was normal to think about it, it had been almost two years since Medanzo left the Savage Fall last time, and he probably went to Link again.

Since it's not good to turn around and leave, Medanzo is not here, it's good to say hello when he sees his wife, if there are any difficulties at home, he can help solve them, anyway, Amon has money and time. He waited in the foyer of the mansion until it was almost dark, when Medanzo's wife, Miari, came home with her maid, and heard that a friend had come to visit Medanzo, and came to meet him in the side hall.

Amon was slightly taken aback when he saw Miyali, he was actually impressed! Outside the city gates, he saw Miyali and her maid in the cheering crowd, and she also screamed at Gilgamesh with her turban. Amon thought that this person was the eldest girl of someone's family, but he didn't expect that it was Medanzo's wife.

When Miyali saw Amun's half-worn burlap clothes, his shoes covered with mud, and a rough cane in the shape of a twig beside her, she frowned slightly, tried to remain polite, and politely asked Amon what he meant. Amon took out a golden sign and put it on the table and said, "My name is Amon, and I once told Medanzo that I would come here to visit, and he must have mentioned me to you, right?

Miyali recognized the sign as soon as she saw it, and before leaving, Medanzo had told her that if someone came here to take out the sign, she must give her the best reception. The token in this man's hand was not only left by their family's benefactor, but he was also Medanzo's most respected teacher.

When she saw Amon take out this sign, she was very puzzled and even a little annoyed, and the person who came was obviously a lowly foreigner, and very young. How could she be willing to leave such a strange man at home and give her the best hospitality? The ancestral benefactor of the Medanzo family has long since died, so what does it have to do with her when such a young man comes with a sign? Looking at Amon's appearance, it is obviously impossible for Medanzo to be Medanzo's teacher!

The last time Medanzo came home, she was closed for more than a year, and this time she finally said that she would go to business, but there was no news for several months, and she was left alone at home, and there was not much money left. Now that Medanzo himself has not returned home, but such an inexplicable "creditor" has come, how can it not make people angry?

Thinking of this, Miyali replied as politely but coldly as possible: "Sir, I'm really sorry! I don't know this sign or you, Medanzo is not at home, I don't dare to take in a strange man and let the neighbors gossip." He went out two and a half months ago, and said that he would be back in three months at most. Can you come back in a few days? When Medanzo comes home, he will definitely give you the warmest hospitality. ”

After saying this, she asked the porter to see off the guests, and she didn't even leave Amon to eat!

Amon touched a soft nail and ate the closed door, if he had just walked out of the mountains, he would have been stunned. But after this long journey, and seeing the warmth and warmth of human feelings along the way, he can also understand why, why bother with a woman? When the husband is away from home for a long time, a stranger man in poor clothes will come to the door to ask for hospitality, and no one will be happy.

He said to Miyali: "I will stay in the inn nearby, and I will come back when Medanzo comes home." When he went out, he saw the shabby cloth shoes on his feet and the dirt on them, and Amon also showed a wry smile.

Miyali turned Amon away, did not give the best hospitality according to her husband's instructions, after all, she was a little weak-hearted, and sent her maid Fusha to quietly follow behind to see where Amon would live, and she calculated her words for her husband in her heart. Of course, Amon knew that Mialy's maid was quietly following him, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny.

He went to a nearby inn and asked for the best room with an entrance hall, and the price of the room was two silver coins a day!--The maid's return surprised Miari.

Amon didn't do this entirely for pleasure or show-off, he had traveled from city to city-state and had come to understand that the better the place to live, the less trouble he would have. If you live in one of the cheapest inns, many people sleep on grass and squeeze into a room, even if a neighbor loses something by a thief, that is the first place to be investigated.

On the other hand, Amon also has to practice magic meditation every night, and needs a quiet and undisturbed environment, this Barron King City can not find a remote mountain wilderness, can only find the most expensive room in the inn, even the guys will not suddenly come to disturb without notification, but it saves a lot of trouble.

The next day Amon walked out of the inn and went to a nearby garment shop to buy clothes, and after a long journey, his original linen coat was worn out and could not be worn, and the two new ones he bought in Sumer Town were also old. Besides, the weather is getting colder and it is early winter, and it is not appropriate to walk on the street in thin clothes, even if he is not afraid of the cold, he must not look too dazzling.

In the ready-to-wear store, he bought two pairs of comfortable leather-soled boots, the kind Medanzo wore on long mountain hikes, which were both sturdy and durable, and two sets of light fur coats. According to the decree of the kingdom, the dress of the common people should not be embroidered in an excessive manner, but the beautiful pattern on the fur of the beast is natural and is not considered a violation of the law, so all kinds of furs are the favorite of rich merchants who are not noble, and the price is also very expensive.

Amon was accustomed to wearing animal skin clothes in the savage tribe, and when he dressed like this, he looked like a young master of a wealthy merchant who came out to play and come to the royal capital to see the world. Amon had just finished buying clothes to change into, but happened to meet Mialy's maid Fusha to pick up the winter clothes that the mistress had ordered a month earlier.

The shopkeeper was very dissatisfied and said: "These two sets of furs are worth thirty silver coins, but you don't pay cash and have to pay on credit, and my business also needs capital, how can you be in arrears?"

Fusha hurriedly explained: "My master will come back in a few days, and when the time comes, I will definitely pay back all the principal and interest, so let me take my clothes away first, otherwise the master mother will scold me." ”

The shopkeeper said with a calm face: "What does your housewife have to do with me scolding you? Since your master will be able to come back in a few days, you can come back in a few days to pick it up! If it's like you, can I still do my business?"

Amon saw this scene, and secretly said in his heart that it was not easy for Medanzo to make money, and his women were generous enough to spend money, and these two sets of clothes were more expensive than the ones he had just bought! But he couldn't see that Medanzo's wife couldn't get the newly purchased winter clothes, so he stepped forward and took out two gold coins and handed them to Fusha and said, "Aren't you the maid of Medanzo's family? I'll pay for him first, and when Medanzo comes back, he will come to visit me." He knows who I am, and you know where I live. ”

Soon after Amon returned to the inn, he was visited, and the seeker was Medanzo's wife, and all the servants of the family were waiting outside the inn, and although the road was short, even the carriage was ready.

As soon as Miyali saw Amun, she apologized: "Distinguished guest, you are the teacher of my master, but I have neglected you, please forgive me for my mistakes...... I can't read, so I didn't recognize the sign yesterday, but after you left, I turned out the map of the family lineage, and it became clear that you really represented the identity of the family benefactor. ”

Amon smiled and waved his hand: "You don't have to apologize, your husband is not at home, and it is indeed inconvenient to take in a strange man, how can I blame anything?"

Miarie: "Please don't say that, now that I know who you are, how can I let you stay in the inn?" ...... If you refuse this treatment, my husband will definitely blame me when he comes back, he told you before he went out, but I turned you away yesterday, I really regret it, please give me a chance to make amends. ”

She begged for a long time, only saying that this was Medanzo's advice, and she must not dare to snub Amon, and Amon nodded, it was more convenient to live in Medanzo's house than in an inn, and besides, he just wanted to find a quiet place, so he left the inn and followed Miyali home.

Amon lived in Medanzo's house, where Miyali was very hospitable, and the servants respected him, calling him "Lord Amun" when they met. However, after the deadline agreed between Medanzo and his family, no one returned, and Amon couldn't help but be a little anxious. Could it be that something happened to Medanzo on the road? Although he was a mid-ranking samurai, he might also be in danger of traveling long distances to resell the goods controlled by the government.

Miyali is very curious about Amon's identity, and usually always looks for opportunities to try to spy on him, knocking on the side and asking him many times about his origins, and also asks why Medanzo calls him teacher? Amon naturally will not show his bottom easily, only saying that he met Medanzo when he was traveling, and taught Medanzo some of the skills he had learned to Medanzo, so Medanzo will call him teacher. As for the token in his hand, it was left by the elders, it was because of it that he could get acquainted with Medanzo.

Miyali had heard of the legend of Medanzo's ancestors, whose great-grandfather was a sixth-level sorcerer and priest of the Maldok Temple, but he did not know where he was buried in the war. Later, a hunter from afar got his relics and sent them back to Barron to save his family. A few years ago, Medanzo vaguely mentioned that the hunter had obtained the magic books left by his great-grandfather and became a magician, and that was more than a hundred years ago.

Medanzo never returned, and before she knew what had happened, Miyali had other thoughts. One day she said to Amun, "You have been in the royal capital for a while, but you are always moving around the house and the courtyard, and there are many interesting places in the royal capital. You may not be familiar with this place, so I'll let the groom carry you, and Fusha will be your guide to accompany you around. ”

Amon also wanted to go to all parts of the royal capital, and it would be best to have a familiar guide, so he nodded and agreed. On this day, Amon went out in the carriage of the Medanzo family, accompanied by the maid Fusa. Before leaving, Miyali specially told Fusha to take Amon to a few more places, have fun and eat delicious food, and wait until it gets dark to go home, and not come back halfway.

After Amon had gone, Miyali sent the servant to the front yard, and quietly went upstairs to his room by herself, and carefully rummaged through his parcels. Amon was very cautious, and the heavy branch staff was naturally inconvenient to take out to play, so he put it next to the bed, but the four special spars inside were taken away and put into the bones.

The shape of that bone was a human rib, and Amon hid it in his clothes to prevent it from being lost, and it was hidden and safe to get stuck under the ribs, which contained his most important things, including all the relics from that mysterious cave. The big leather pocket was not carried with him, and the clothes he had changed were also placed in the room, and there was a small leather bag in the big leather pocket, which was his money bag.

Amon is rich enough, not to mention the four special divine stones, just the items obtained in the belly of the mysterious mountain, any one taken out is quite precious, naturally it cannot be easily exposed. But he didn't care much about money, he just knew that it was important when he traveled to the mainland, and he didn't have to spend any money himself.

During this period of time, when he entered Barron City, he needed to stay in a hotel and buy things, so he put all his "currency" in his money bag, including gold coins, silver coins, copper coins, and sacred stones, which was also convenient to use. Putting things back and forth in that bone is to perform the space magic technique, the bone itself will not be detected by the detection magic spell, but the power fluctuations when the space magic is cast may be discovered, everything needs to be careful, you can use as little as possible without bones, this is the royal capital.

He left Duk with five Divine Stones, and in the Great Cave he picked up nine scattered Divine Stones, and after crossing the Eudea River, Gilgamesh "compensated" him with ten Divine Stones. On the way, he gave Medanzo, Cain, and Abel one each, and the remaining twenty-one divine stones were useless, and they were now placed in a small leather pocket along with the coins. Naturally, it was impossible for him to go out with so much money, so he only carried some coins in his pocket.

Miyali was slightly disappointed when she found that Amon only had a few sets of clothes, but when she opened her small leather pocket and saw those dazzling divine stones and gold coins, she gasped and was stunned for a long time without coming back to her senses. This is a huge amount of money, the money that Medanzo has earned for decades!

Although there was no one in the room, she felt so nervous, her heart was pounding, and she couldn't even breathe for a while. She tried to put the leather bag away, but she didn't want to put it down for a long time, and when she put it down, she stroked her chest with her hand, took a few deep breaths, and began to carefully examine the other things in the room. Ammon had nothing but his clothes and a leather pocket, except for the branch-like cane leaning against the bed.

Miyali went to pick up the "branch" with her hands, and almost didn't flash her waist, it was so heavy that she didn't even lift one hand. Miyali stretched out two hands to lift the cane off the ground, and suddenly she thought about "understanding" something.

She knew more or less what Medanzo was doing, and it seemed that this stick was actually a whole piece of horse leather steel, but it was disguised as a tree branch to hide people's eyes, no wonder Amon insisted on not letting the maid clean up his room.

This young man had a lot of money, but when he first came to Barron, he was dressed so simply, there must be something that he didn't see. He must be Medanzo's "business partner", specializing in the private purchase of state-controlled fine iron and horse leather steel, which is nothing to buy and sell in small quantities privately, but it is a felony to buy and smuggle in large quantities.

He really made a lot of money! Miyali sighed in her heart, and at the same time re-judged Amon's intention, he just came to the door at the agreed time for Medanzo to go home, he must have come to receive the goods, but Medanzo never came back, this person may not wait too long. As for the words that Medanzo told before leaving home, they should be all excuses to cover up his surname, not wanting to expose Amon's identity as an illegal black marketeer.

Miyali was a little flustered to restore the things in the room to the original state, and then tiptoed downstairs back to her room, feeling that her breathing was very messy and sweating, and asked Fusha to pour water for herself but no one answered, and then she remembered that the maid had gone out with Amon to play. It was at this time that she was visited, and it was Enoch, her brother, the son of a merchant in the city of Barron.

As soon as Enoch entered the door, he was very unhappy and said: "My sister, I heard that you took in a strange man to live at home, and today I asked the porter, and you also asked Fusha to go out with him." ...... The other day you sent Frasha back to her mother's house to borrow money, was it just to entertain that man?"

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(To be continued)