Chapter 82: The Steamship (I)

For this bronze sword master, Saleen has no mercy. What he had to do now was to study how to use a first-level magic to break the remaining sword qi in the Bronze Sword Master's body. Seeing Neris watching from the side, Salin said, "Neris, what did you ask, now go and talk to Rex." ”

"Then he ......" Neris pointed at the Bronze Juggernaut, and Saleen nodded, agreeing to Neris's small request.

Neris got what she wanted, and then she got out of the tent. The tent had long been surrounded by black mist, and Nellis called softly, "Rex?"

"Nellis, what did you ask?"

"We seem to be mistaken, it was the forest traders who robbed them of their things. Neris said with a grin, observing Rex's reaction.

"Oh?" Rex wasn't surprised, nor was he panicked. Even if the people of the forest trading house start to snatch it first, the things they have robbed will definitely not be visible, and these people will disguise themselves as thieves and try their best to take it back. It didn't matter to Rex who was right and who was wrong, she wasn't a noble judge or a deacon of the Inquisition, and even if she killed the wrong people, she had to blame them for playing some kind of thief.

Seeing Rex's stone-like expression, Nellis knew that her little trick was useless, and continued casually: "They are smuggling something called Emperor Berry. ”

Emperor Berry!

Rex was a little surprised at this time, the emperor berry is a strange plant with a poisonous surname, and it is very rare. The entire Qin Yin Empire can only be found occasionally in the jungles of the south, and cannot be cultivated artificially. Emperor berries are somewhat poppy-like, but the juice is addictive without refining. Even if he is a sword master, if he accidentally eats one, he will never be able to extricate himself.

For magicians, this thing is not dangerous, as long as it is diluted to about 1/120,000, the juice of the emperor berry is basically harmless, and at this time, the magic of detecting toxins can still detect the poison surname of the emperor berry.

Even if he wasn't a magician, the strong smell of the Emperor Berry couldn't hide it. This thing can be used to refine potions, and it is a relatively important military material for the Empire. The potion made from the imperial berries can drive away the plague, reduce inflammation and relieve pain. At the hands of a magician, the Emperor Berry becomes harmless, which is very different from the Poppy.

However, the worst reputation of the emperor berry is that it can be used to make wine, and a single emperor berry is the size of an ordinary pearl, but it can turn a large vat of water into a spirit. The smugglers don't use the berries to make a medicine at all, but to make low-quality spirits to sell. This liquor has a slight poisonous surname, and if you drink too much, it can damage the human body and can also be slightly addictive.

"In June, the Holy See issued a ban on alcohol, and the imperial berries they brought with them were sold to Tangulas for more than 400,000 gold coins. ”

Rex immediately understood the ins and outs, this was just a simple smuggling incident, but the number was staggering. 400,000 gold coins can indeed make a nobleman take risks, even if he has his subordinates pretend to be thieves.

The Holy See's prohibition was important news, and the alcohol business had always been one of the most lucrative industries in the four empires, but the tastes were different from country to country.

The Tangulas were fond of spirits and consumed a large amount of grain every year to make wine. The Tangulas Empire was vast and had the fewest places suitable for growing food. When the Holy See prohibits alcohol, it must be stockpiling food, perhaps launching an offensive in the spring of next year, or even expanding the scale of the war before the onset of winter.

The Tangulas Empire has repeatedly issued prohibition orders, but the prohibition does not stop. Now that the Holy See is involved, the wine merchants of Tangulas may not dare to resist any longer. In the past, as soon as Prohibition was enacted, the price of spirits increased as wildly.

In this context, the smuggling of emperor berries has become a good thing.

Spirits made from Emperor Berries can damage the will of the enemy and earn a lot of gold, which Rex would have thought if he had known that the Holy See had issued a Prohibition.

As a native of Qin Yin, she didn't care about the health of the Tanggulas civilians, and she wouldn't worry about hurting Qin Yin in turn.

Spirits have always had little market in Qinyin, and the most widely sold are wines made from grapes. Regardless of the type of grape, they prefer sand fields, which are not suitable for growing grain.

"Who's doing this?" Rex doesn't care much about the details, smuggling is a lot of people doing this kind of thing, but smuggling to enemy countries, whether it's good for war or not, can be a lever for political enemies to attack. If it really goes to Yanjing, Yanjing may not deal with it immediately.

"Dragonbone City, Marquis of Gria. ”

"Oh, what a great character. When Rex heard the name, he just exclaimed. The Marquis de Gria controlled the Goethe family and was a relatively powerful aristocracy in the south. His fiefdom produced Emperor Berries, which had always been used to supply court magicians. This smuggling belonged to him as a guard and self-theft. Emperor berries are only produced by Qin Yin and are only allowed to be sold to the royal family.

No wonder it was so mysterious and nervous, Rex shook his head, this time he killed someone, but he killed the wrong one. Knowing that this was the case, she didn't mind killing those swordsmen of the Williams family. Now she was thinking about whether the Williams swordsman knew that the goods they had stolen belonged to the Goethe family, and if so, he wanted to go into the water.

Rex is not afraid of Gerya's anger, her current status is already the king of the county, higher than the marquis, Bitterwater County and Dragonbone City are nearly thousands of miles apart, even if Gerya is angry, there is nothing to do about her.

It's just that the distance between Dragon Bone City and Alchemy City is not far, and this matter has to be handled carefully.

Inside the tent, Saleen continued to attack the Bronze Sword Master with the Ice Pick Technique, but he still used the original first-level Ice Pick Technique, and the speed of release was deliberately slowed down. The sword qi in the Bronze Sword Master's body naturally reacted, trying to resist Saleen's attack. Saleen patiently observed, and every time the icicle was about to hit the body of the Bronze Juggernaut, he immediately dispelled the magic.

Upon closer inspection, Salin discovered that the sword qi was very similar to life energy. It was this kind of power that the magicians on the continent used back then, a kind of divine power from the goddess Myers.

Salin himself has an experience of the divine power of the goddess, and the difference between the divine power and the sword qi is also obvious, the sword qi is more condensed and full of explosive power, while the divine power of the goddess Myers is majestic and powerful, and it feels very comfortable. It's just that the roots of the two sides are very similar, and they are both a force outside of the six elements.

Even though the strength of the sword qi was not within the six elements, Salin could still calculate the weakness of the sword qi, as long as the speed of the sword qi was slowed down by a hundred times, he could easily defeat it.

The Bronze Sword Master was seriously injured and dying, and he also lost the will to control his body, and the sword qi in his body was running much slower, which Salin could just use for experiments.

If the Bronze Sword Master was still awake now, I'm afraid he would have died of shame. Saleen precisely controls the icicles, each of which is dispelled as soon as it touches his skin. Salin could unleash nearly two hundred first-level magic in a row, and when the magic string was about to end, he didn't continue.

He understood the defensive principle of the sword qi, and the ice pick stabbed into the lower abdomen of the bronze sword saint with a pop, creating a hole the size of a bowl. The remaining sword qi in the Bronze Sword Master's body was hit by the ice pick, and he suddenly lost control, and all his internal organs were shattered by this chaotic sword qi, Salin looked at the corpse of the Bronze Sword Saint and let out a sigh of relief.

He already had a vague understanding of the principle of sword qi, but the way of using sword qi was strange, and if he wanted to deal with a sword saint-level warrior in actual combat, his calculation speed was far from enough.

Salin held the magic core in his hand and quickly restored the magic string. He knew in his heart that if he relied on himself, it would still be very difficult to deal with a quasi-sword saint. Once your scrolls are used up, it's even more dangerous. Rex warns him not to get lost in power, but Salin is more sensitive to this than Rex, he didn't learn much magic from Jason, but he learned too much about how to be a magician.

Rex's voice came from outside the tent, "Salin, let's go." ”

She didn't want to stay here any longer, and if the Marquis of Glia returned, she didn't want to continue killing people when she knew the identity of the other party.

What Saleen did before was still within the range of Grea's tolerance, and it was normal for a magician to kill all the thieves, but now that he knew the identity of the other party, Rex was left with only two options.

Either kill the other party and kill them, or show your identity.

Neither of these is good, so Rex plans to walk away. Saleen was beckoned out of the tent by her, and Rex did not remove the dark mist, but asked Neris to put the tent away, and Sika led the horse, and the four of them no longer bothered with the caravan, and rode on horseback, got on the road, and galloped directly east.

This time, Rex did not control the speed of the horses, and every hour the four of them ran, they changed horses, and by the evening, they had run nearly two hundred miles. Even with the blessing of magic, the eight horses were too tired to ride.

This speed of acceleration missed the town, and the four of them had to camp in the wild again.

Rex set up a simple magic array, protected the eight war horses, and then set up magic traps and magic alarms outside the camp, and the four of them lit a bonfire and prepared food just like ordinary mercenaries.

In the north of the empire, even in the middle of summer, the nights are still cool, and if it rains, it will be a little cold. Magicians can adapt to all climates, as long as there are magic strings. Shika is not afraid of the cold, even in the depths of winter, she dares to wear clothes that expose her lower abdomen. As for Nellis, as a little demon, for her, the natural environment of the Myers continent is like heaven.

If someone approaches this camp, they will see a strange scene. One man, three women, four young men, all dressed in different attire. Neris wears a fur coat, Sika is a full-body armor, Saleen is a simple magic robe, and Rex wears a seven-colored robe. The four of them gathered around a bonfire, which burned not firewood, but pure magic potions.

The starry sky was brilliant, Rex hummed softly, watching Neris barbecue on the magic flame, and his mood gradually became cheerful, and this kind of life seemed to be good.

(To be continued)