A drizzle of rain fell on every corner of the hill city of Highlandsa.

The cobblestone pavements of the streets, the gray tiles on the roofs, the bell tower towering over the Garden Square, and the Oak Ridge outside the city.

The man in black who came out of the White Elephant Trading House put his hood over his head, and the cold wind poured into his neck, and he tightened his neckline, revealing thin and slender fingers.

He walked to the door of a magic grocery store and said in a dry voice to the shop, "Please give me a copy of the Imperial Capital Magic Newspaper, which is the latest last month." ”

The shopkeeper stepped out of the room and handed him a magical newspaper.

Before the shopkeeper could tell the price of the magic newspaper, he put the seven silver coins he had prepared on the wooden table at the entrance of the store, stuffed the magic newspaper into his arms, and walked into the drizzle with one hand holding his collar.

There were only a few pedestrians on the street, and a magic caravan sped down the street.

He coughed lightly and turned into a narrow alley.

At the end of the alley is a backstreet, and there is a backstreet between almost every two main streets in the city of Highlandza, where household garbage is piled up and cleaned up by night watchmen every morning before the street lights go out.

He leaned against the shadow in the corner of the back street and lit his pipe, brought it to his mouth with a shudder, took two sharp puffs, and then coughed violently.

As the violent coughing suddenly stopped, he leaned down, bent down in the shape of a shrimp, and fell silently into the garbage heap, his walnut pipe with gold trim in his hand rolling down the mud, the tobacco scattered, and the sparks flew in the wind.

A maid walked out into the back street with a bucket of garbage, and just as she was piling up the garbage in the corner, she saw a stiff corpse lying in the garbage, and her face turned pale with fright, and she fell to the dirt floor and let out a hysterical scream......

Not long after, several Hylanza City Guard Battalion knights gathered around the garbage heap in the back street to launch a series of investigations into the corpse......

……

Almost at the same time, Surdak walked into the White Elephant Firm, and he walked around the first floor to the second floor. Pausing in front of a wooden door, he straightened his leather armor before knocking on it.

'Tuk Tuk'

"Please come in!"

Magician Dalle's calm voice came from the room.

Surdak pushed open the door and walked in, and the tall magician raised his head, greeted Surdak warmly, and said:

"Knight Surdak, why are you here, everything has been going well lately?"

Surdak walked into the room, saw Magician Dalle flipping through a magic book, walked across from Magician Daldeak, and said with a smile:

"Everything is fine!"

Surdak asked straight to the point: "Magician Dale, I came to the trading house this time, mainly to buy some saltpeter, is there this material in the trading house?" ”

Magician Dale, who has the burly figure of a man from the North, showed a look of surprise on his face, and said:

"Saltpeter is a magic material for ice magicians to assist in casting spells, many magic grocery stores have stock, many scroll makers like to grind saltpeter into powder and add it to pure white ink to increase the power of ice magic scrolls, this total magic material is rarely used, but our trading firm happens to do this kind of trade."

Then he shouted into the next room:

"Miss Linda, call Manager Joy for me, and if he's not there, ask the manager on duty to come over......"

A sweet voice immediately replied, "Yes, Magician Dale! ”

Magician Dalle leaned back in his chair, pinched his eyebrows with his hand, and said, "Knight Surdak, you have come to the White Elephant Trading House this time to trade in sulfur ore?" ”

Surdak said, "That's right, Magician Dale, I brought six carts of sulphur ore with me this time. ”

Magician Dale had such an expression on his face, and asked Surdak again:

"From last winter to now, our trading bank has received fifteen truckloads of sulfur mines, such a large amount of sulfur ore should not be the spoils brought back during the adventure, you own a small sulfur mine?"

Surdak calmly replied:

"Yes, I happened to find a small sulfur open-pit mine in my knight's territory."

Magician Dalla asked with a look of surprise:

"Your knight leader can't be in the mountains south of Mount Paglos deep in the Badlands, right?"

Surdak nodded: "It's over there......"

It seems that it is indeed no secret that Pubao Mountain has sulfur mines, Surdak thought to himself.

Magician Dalla nodded, and said with an indifferent expression:

"It's not a good place, but there are sulfur mines."

Then he crossed his hands, propped himself on his desk, and said to Surdak: "I think we can enter into a framework agreement whereby I can buy your sulphur ore at a better price than the market, but you must ensure that this part of the sulphur ore is supplied to our firm first." ”

From time to time, an arc of lightning flashed in one of the eyes of the Magician of Dalle, and at a glance he saw Surdak's hole cards.

Surdak smiled bitterly and said, "I came to you just to discuss a deal with you...... I'd like to ask you to help you procure some ...... besides some saltpeter," he said, pulling out a piece of parchment from his bosom with a list of purchase details containing a large amount of steel and thin wire, which he pushed in front of the Magician of Dalre.

Manager Joey walked in from outside the room at this time and said to Magician Dale, "My lord, you call me?" ”

Then, his eyes fell on Surdak, and he hurriedly greeted Surdak: "Hello, Surdak Knight!" ”

Wizard Dalla handed the purchase details directly to Manager Joy and asked him, "How long will it take to get the items on the list ready?" ”

Manager Joy took a general look at the contents and said, "It will take about a month, and these steels need to be customized from the blacksmith workshop in Bena City!" ”

"Arrange it as soon as possible, I need the best price and the fastest speed!" Magician Daller waved his hand at Manager Joey and said.

"Okay! My lord, do as you instructed, and do it right away! Manager Joy immediately put the parchment into his arms, saluted, and said.

"Then I wish us a happy cooperation!" Magician Dale said to Surdak.

"Happy working together!" Surdak stood up and responded.

In addition to the first deposit, Surdak will deduct the subsequent payment from the sulfur ore, and after the completion of the first-class reservoir in Vol Village, the large embankment of the second-level reservoir will be built immediately, and the length of this embankment is almost twice the length of the first-class reservoir embankment, so the steel keel required for the cement embankment has also become the primary material for procurement.

It didn't take long for Surdak to walk out of the White Elephant Trading House and join Andruz, Samira and Gulitem who were waiting outside the trading house, and Surdak then took the six four-wheeled wagons from the village to the Free Market in Highlandsa, where the price of cassava was nearly double that of half a month ago, and Surdak bought some wheat bran and some cheap beans at the request of the old village chief.

The old village chief believes that the kobold slaves are currently engaged in the manual work of digging the river, and eating those tapioca with a certain toxicity will greatly affect the progress of the excavation.

Therefore, the old village chief proposed to let Surdak buy a batch of wheat bran and beans in the city of Hailanza this time, and when there was a famine in Vol Village, the villagers often ate these two foods, and the multigrain porridge cooked with some tree rice was much better than cassava.

Surdak filled six wagons at the orders of the old village chief, and then left the city of Hylanza with six four-wheeled wagons.

……

Two days later, Hathaway and Beatrice quietly left Highlandsa on board a magical airship bound for Bednar City.

With the victory of the Maga Plane War, the Marquis of Luthor became an upstart among the upper nobles of the province of Bena, not only was he praised by the Duke of Newman, but the members of the Marquis Luthor family were also found out by many powerful families who were interested in forming an alliance.

Among them, there are some marriage contracts that hope to marry the daughter of the Marquis of Luthor.

In a letter to his daughter Hathaway, the Marquis of Luthor also clearly stated that he had found a very good young nobleman for his daughter, and hoped that Hathaway would consider this carefully.

This is one of the reasons why Hathaway hurried back to Pena City.

……

On the way back to Wallvillage, Surdak sat in a four-wheeled van and he took the opportunity to flip over the Cyrus. Hickok's magical notes, see Celia. Cooper was closing his eyes in the pages, and in the harsh sunlight, Celia. Cooper's figure dimmed in an instant.

Celia. Cooper let out a mental scream, and Surdak hurriedly closed the magic note.

Surdak placed the magic note in a shadow and opened it again, only to see Celia. Cooper looked angry and complained to Surdak in the cage of the page, and her figure in the page became a little dim.

"Surdak, you definitely did it on purpose this time......"

Celia. Cooper roared loudly at Surdak.

The communication between them was not by sound, but by the spirit, and it looked like Surdak sitting in a four-wheeled van and flipping through a magical notebook.

“…… Sorry, Celia. Cooper. Surdak also felt that he was a little reckless this time, and hurriedly apologized.

But Celia in the pages. Cooper was only willing to give Surdak a dull back.

Surdak scratched his head and asked:

"Lady Celia, what can I do to get you back to normal?"

Celia. Cooper turned around and communicated with Surdak, "Huh...... Only the soul fire of the undead can restore some of my strength, after all, I also belong to the soul form. ”

Surdak knew that the fire of the soul could strengthen Celia. Cooper's soul, but there were almost no undead in the vicinity of Highlandsa City, he said with some embarrassment: "Well, but there are no undead near Highlandsa Chen......"

"How could it not be, there will always be some lost souls in those places where the dead are buried, and they will not be able to ascend to the kingdom of God, and they will not be able to enter the underworld of the dead." Celia. Cooper said to Surdak.

Surdak touched his nose and said to Celia. Cooper asked, "You mean the cemetery?" ”

"That's ...... there"

Surdak thought about it, and the two cemeteries outside the city of Hylanza were no longer in this direction, and it seemed that only on the top of the hill outside the mountain pass was the mass grave of the local villagers. Although I don't really want to go, I think I have any problems in the future and ask Celia for help. Cooper, whose relationship with her can't be too stiff, had to bite the bullet and say, "Okay, when you pass through the Paglos Pass, I'll take you to the top of the mountain, hoping for a bit of a windfall." ”

Seeing that Surdak had promised to help him collect the power of the soul, Celia. Cooper's face is not so ugly,

He asked Surdak, "What are you looking for me?" ”

Surdak then asked Celia. Cooper talked about some of the problems of the Demon Pattern Colony, which he couldn't figure out, and the Ferdinand scholars didn't give Surdak some definite answers, and now Surdak was again interested in Celia. Cooper brought it up.

"You're just going to talk to me about this?" Celia. Cooper scratched his hair irritably and questioned Surdak.

Surdak nodded.

"Aren't you an expert in this?" Celia. Cooper's face barely said, 'How do I know?' ’

But then, after a moment of silence, she said to Surdak:

"Although I don't understand how you did it, in fact, this matter is actually far from being as simple as you think, whether it is the Grimm Empire's Magic Guild Inscription Master, or our Black Magic Hermitage Monk's Grand Mage, I don't know how many magicians spend their lives trying to figure out how to obtain the Life Magic Pattern, and then provide high-quality Magic Pattern Substrate for the Magic Pattern Breeding Suit, obviously at this point, you are already ahead of the vast majority of magicians."

"After so many years, in addition to knowing that the life magic pattern is composed of rune language, how many people have really seen the language of runes?"

"If you can successfully implant a Demon Pattern Colony Costume into that half-elf girl, it means that you have a certain understanding of the Demon Pattern Colonization Costume, and I ...... I'm not a scholar in this field of magic, but I'm more at the matrix composition of space magic, so I can't give you any better advice on this. ”

Celia. Cooper's last words, Surdak finally heard something useful, and listened to her:

"In my opinion, your greatest advantage is that you can find some very complete life patterns......"

As for the fact that he was able to see the life patterns contained in the demonic beasts, Surdak knew that it was because he had the 'True Eye'.

With Celia. Cooper chatted for a while, and then met Celia. Cooper looked tired, this kind of communication was very mentally draining, Surdak decisively said to Celia Cooper, 'Rest well, see you later', and then closed the magic note.

Surdak called Samira over again, and examined the magic pattern implanted in her right arm, and found that the magic ape's power pattern fused with her arm, leaving only a cyan line on her right shoulder......