Alcohol mixed with tobacco and perfume, and drunken drinkers writhed to the minstrels' tunes under the high platform.

If you want to dance with one of the dancers in the audience, you can ask her for a glass of wine, but a glass of such a drink will cost three or five silver coins, and of course, the result is more than just a glass of wine.

Surdak asked the bartender for a plate of nuts, perhaps only in the midst of the noise could he feel that this world full of wonders was so real, and he took a sip of the slightly sour but mellow ale, which was not bitter.

After singing this long song, the bard walked out amid the countless flowers thrown from the audience, the kind of people who have lived all their lives, who only need to scrape together the money to get to their next destination, and set off rain or shine, and then resolutely cut off everything in the city.

The noise in the tavern was much quieter, and many of the drinkers returned to their seats, and they put up their glasses again, chatting and laughing with the people around them, Surdak thought that another bard or dance company would follow, but it was a short, fat merchant who came up to the high platform, his gown was open because it could not cover his oily belly, and his round face was full of smiles, and he stood on the stage panting.

He shouted to the guests in the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the special goods sale once a week, and this time we are bringing to you the orcs of the New Siachis Mountains and the gray dwarves of the Pai Plateau, and the lizardmen of the wild swamps. ”

For a while, the audience was restless, but there was not much cheering, on the contrary, there were boos all around, but these drinkers seemed to have known that there would be such a show, and they all looked at the high platform.

Then, someone in the audience stood up, raised their heads and shouted to the merchants on the stage with great dissatisfaction: "Khan, it's these mountain people from the extreme south and the north again, I said Kagle, how can you say that you are also a big slave owner in our Hailanza City, why do you always sell these guys who can't get on the stage?" Why don't you bring back some half-elves and Cana beauties? ”

The man who spoke loudly was a stout aristocrat, dressed in a gown, with a sword at his waist, messy curly hair, and a piercing and arrogant gaze. His words resonated with the drinkers around him

The merchant on the stage, Cagle, said unceremoniously and angrily: "Now that His Majesty Charles is reaching a trade with the Silver Moon Elf World for cloth for herbs, who else in the entire Grimm Empire dares to openly sell elven slaves, aren't you afraid of being guillotined?" I'm just going back with some Cana merfolk, can you afford to build a pool of water to feed them, do you think you can feed the Cana merfolk with a bathtub at home? ”

The crowd around them burst into laughter.

Someone in the crowd laughed and said, "Haha, Yuga, can't you have a little ambition and buy the manor of Count Fornak outside the mountain city and block Kagle's stinky mouth?" ”

The stout man named Yuga scolded unceremoniously at the prickly man, "Fart, that manor has been looted twice in three years by robbers outside the city, let me buy that manor unless I'm crazy......"

The unscrupulous conversation between the stage and the audience made the cold atmosphere in the tavern ignited again, Surdak did not expect that the tavern he came to actually had a slave trade, and the merchants on the stage saw that the crowd was active, and hurriedly raised his cane and shouted:

"Alright, please be quiet......

Then the curtain behind the platform was lifted, and several dwarves came out from behind the curtain, their hands and feet in chains of black iron, these gray dwarf slaves were bare-chested, with messy hair and long beards on their chins.

The dwarves who came out of the country had limestone-colored skin, as their name suggested, but they looked a little wilted, with wrinkled faces, scars, and a fierce glint in their eyes.

Cagle, who was standing on the stage, circled around the four gray dwarves a few times, pinched the tight muscles of the gray dwarves with his fingers, and said with a smug expression: "These gray dwarves came to the northeast of the Pai Plateau, they were captured in a battle with the orcs, they are good at forging metallurgy and mining, they have traveled thousands of miles to the Grimm Empire, and now they have come to the city of Highlanza in our Bena Province, who is willing to buy back these gray dwarf craftsmen with excellent casting skills?" ”

The aristocrats in the audience were already waiting a little impatiently, and shouted at Cagle:

"Stop being verbose, hurry up and talk about their bids."

Cagle pressed his cane against the solid muscles of the gray dwarf, and said to everyone in the audience with a confident smile on his face, "Well, the starting price of each gray dwarf is ten gold coins. ”

Hearing such an offer, the tavern suddenly became silent, and someone shouted from the audience, "They look very old......

Hearing this, Cagle waved his hand at the man and said, "Grey dwarves usually live between 200 and 300 years, and it seems to me that they will be able to work for at least 50 to 100 years, which is why I sold them for ten gold coins." ”

"Ten gold coins......" someone in the audience rushed to say.

The first person opened his mouth to make a bid, and immediately after that, there were followers vying for it.

"Twelve!" Another nobleman raised his hand and said.

"Thirteen ......"

In fact, Surdak was also very tempted by the price of this dwarven slave, and after a few rounds of scrambling, it was only thirty gold coins. Considering the lack of experienced miners in the sulphur mines, these dwarves were born with this ability, and it was not unacceptable for Surdak to think that he would spend about fifty gold to shoot a gray dwarf.

At this time, someone in the audience had already raised the price to forty-seven gold......

For a moment, there was no one bidding in the audience, and there was silence in the bar.

Surdak reached out and touched his money bag, and was about to raise his hand to shout the price of forty-eight gold, but his hand was grabbed.

Surdak was startled, thinking that Karl was in the bar and that he had no other acquaintances in the city of Highlandsa.

When he turned his head, he saw a magician in gray robes sitting across from him.

Surdak suddenly remembered that this magician was the same gray-robed magician who had helped him enter the underground market the last time he had come to Hylanza City to sell sand wolf meat. The magician didn't speak, just shook his head slightly, and Surdak gave up the bid on the gray dwarf with great interest.

When the Grey Dwarf slave auction was over, Darle stood up and left the tavern, and Surdak quickly got up and followed him out of the bar.

The tall magician stopped in the street, turned to Surdak and said, "The gray dwarves are the most notorious bandits in the dwarf race, their biggest characteristic is to dig holes everywhere and rob, you don't expect them to master the forging process of the dwarves, you said that of course they can't be sent to the battlefield when they buy them back, so these gray dwarves are completely worthless." ”

Hearing the magician explain why, Surdak realized that not all dwarves were proficient in blacksmithing, metallurgy, and quarrying.

"You've saved me from loss, thank you, Master Magician!" He expressed his inner gratitude to the magician.

The magician smiled slightly, and said, "My name is Dale, and you look like a person from the North, so I feel very kind when I see you, don't think I'm troublesome......"