"I see. ”

Rien nodded as if he had come to an enlightenment, and the last piece of the puzzle that covered the mystery in his mind finally revealed its true face at this moment.

Fountain of Life!

In the last era, the treasures used by the elves to irrigate the World Tree are said to contain powerful magic close to the source of life in the fountain of life in the Elven royal capital.

Anyone who has a breath left can be restored to health by drinking a small sip of the Fountain of Life, and a mortal can gain decades of vigorous vitality with just a small cup of it.

It is precisely because of the fountain of life, which is known as the treasure of the mortal world and the symbol of immortality that the elves were able to make the world tree grow normally in the mortal world in the last era.

Even after hundreds of thousands of years of time and countless catastrophes, in today's world, the few remaining fountains of life are still almost called "elixirs" of magical treasures.

A handful of scholars who still mastered alchemy could even rely on a drop of the Fountain of Life to create a magical potion comparable to the No. 1 Holy Water.

If you simply use the value of the world to estimate, the small jar of life fountain in Andrei's arms at this moment is almost as much wealth as the sum of several city-states.

But at this time, Li En looked at Andre without the slightest hint of greed in his eyes, but revealed a chill that was getting colder and colder.

Yes, as an elixir of immortality, the Fountain of Life is a treasure that all nobles on the entire continent compete for in the past and in the future.

But compared to humans, the Fountain of Life has a greater attraction to Warcraft and monsters. They only need to ingest less of this near-origin magic than humans to achieve even more powerful growth.

Therefore, even the divine monsters that have lost their minds will appear around here.

Therefore, even the nobles among the demon wolves, the white wolf also appeared here.

Therefore, so many demon wolves gathered here, and they did not retreat until death, and they were unwilling to let anyone in this city escape from here.

Everything is unraveled at this moment, and the root cause of this beast plague has led to the destruction of several towns, the displacement of thousands of civilians, and the culprit who has caused many mercenaries to die in foreign lands.

It is the "magic source" that Andre is holding tightly in his arms at the moment.

Fountain of Life!

Seeing that Andre was still carefully guarding the fountain of life in his hands, many unforgettable images uncontrollably appeared in front of Rian's eyes.

Mercenaries and knights who died with swords, ruined cities and displaced civilians, and even memories that did not belong to this body kept coming back to Rien's memory with uncontrollable anger at the moment.

"Why bring this kind of thing to town, why didn't you destroy it before, this scourge, why didn't you destroy it in the first place!"

Rien, who was a little spurred into madness by the image in his memory, roared at Andre like an angry lion.

"Ruined?"

Listening to Lien's roar, Andre couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but after a while, he subconsciously put on a smiling face and said.

"Mr. Lane, do you know what crazy you're talking about?"

As if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, Andre said with a soft smile, completely ignoring the environment at the moment.

"No kidding, Mr. Lane, do you know how much your stuff is worth?"

......

"Do you know how much money I spent and how many people I sacrificed to bring this fountain of life out of the Black Forest?

......

"One drop, just one drop, I can exchange a cart full of gold coins, and I am sure that with half the weight in my hand, I can exchange it for the title of earl in any principality. ”

As he spoke, Andre seemed to fall into a beautiful self-absorption, and while talking, his face easily showed an uncontrollable look of excitement.

And Li En looked at such an ugly businessman, and opened his mouth to speak, but found that he didn't know what to say, and the absurd words of the other party did not accept any other correct ideas and words.

For the first time, Lane finally understood something that he hadn't understood in his previous life.

It is true that people before people are sometimes unable to communicate.

"Money, are you doing it so recklessly, just for money?"

Dawn clenched the long sword in his hand and asked through gritted teeth.

"It's just...... Why money?"

......

André unexpectedly stopped his ramblings, and instead repeated Riene's question softly as if in confusion.

After a moment's pause, there was a long, almost crazy laugh.

"Hahaha......"

......

"Don't be naïve, Lane, I'm certainly not in it for the money!"

After laughing maniacally for a moment, Andre said solemnly to Lane: "I am more money, more money, infinite money!"

"Everything in this world can be measured in money. ”

......

"Without money, you can't buy refined weapons and armor!"

"You can't buy delicious bread and wine without money!"

"Without money, you can't even buy a usable blank sheet of paper!"

"Don't even you mercenaries charge a fee for hiring when you shout to defend civilians!"

......

"So, young man, don't tell me that life is more precious than money, you are not qualified to lecture me. ”

The merchant, who was already full of gray hair between his temples, burst out with unimaginable courage at this moment, and there was no room for even the slightest rebuttal from Li En's harsh words.

“......”

In fact, after hearing Andre's answer, Lien's sword even trembled imperceptibly, and Lien, who once maintained an entire mercenary group, naturally understood the importance of money and interests in everything.

But he has never interfered in the maintenance of the mercenary group, and has always relied solely on the excuse of being the high-end combat power of the mercenary group to avoid these problems.

But now, in the face of Andre's almost bloody face-to-face exposition, Li En rarely wavered in his heart.

And seeing Andre, who fell into a moment of silence, worthy of being a shrewd businessman, he quickly seized this moment, and turned his tone to Li En and said.

"Lane, do you know, this world has always been so cruel and real, it is true that life is more valuable than money, but sometimes, money can be exchanged for life!"

"Do you know how much the noble lords who have been hollowed out of their bodies by the wine and have only one breath left alive will pay how much they will pay to catch their breath more!"

"It's not a small number like 100,000 or million, they will be willing to give half of their net worth!"

......

"And we only need to use a drop of potion diluted by the Fountain of Life to exchange for so much wealth!"

......

"Come with me, Lane, how many ancestral savings I have spent, exhausted all the wealth and connections in the first half of my life, I have already completed more than half of this road, as long as you can protect me out, I can share it all with you!"

On the one hand, there is the belief of the past, and on the other hand, the vast wealth of the country that seems to be easily attainable, and for many people, such an obvious answer is almost impossible to consider.

"But so many people, for your purposes, died...... They will still treat you as a friend and a good person until they die!"

“...... That's their own passion. ”

Andrei's expression was indifferent: "I said that I stayed here for my own good." ”

"Rian, as I said, I am very optimistic about you, you see, as long as you are willing to help me, as long as we can live to reach the royal capital of any principality, we will immediately have an incalculable huge wealth, with this wealth, we can re-form a huge chamber of commerce.

Think about how many new jobs we'll bring to us!

"Rian, we can give many families a chance to survive, you know, how many impoverished people we can give back the possibility of survival!"

Andrei's expression was fanatical: "Can those saints who only ask you to be virtuous can do it? They have long ago froze to death! They can't even save themselves! And people like me can do more than ten saints combined! It's just a temporary sacrifice, Lane, as long as you help me, we can save countless times more people than today!"

In the silence, Li En looked at him, only feeling tired: "Andre, don't you feel that you have done anything wrong until now?"

"Not at all. ”

Andre shook his head, stared into his eyes, and said indifferently: "If there is really something wrong, then it is not me, Dawn, it is this world. ”

For a long time, for a long time, Li En put away the blade of his sword decadently, lowered his head, and sighed weakly:

"Indeed, what you said is not wrong, there must be something wrong in this world......"

Hearing Lien's answer, Andre smiled, and was about to step forward and soothe him with gentle words, but at that moment, he saw Lien's eyes.

That kind of look......

It's like a dark abyss where stones rub against iron, bursting with thunderous light.

It was a sword-like light, fleeting, yet sharp and resolute, as if it wanted to penetrate all compromises, weakness, and lies, tear through chaos, and cut black and white and good and evil again.

In that short moment, Li En stepped on the money and drew his sword without hesitation.

Spike!

The sharp blade of the sword pierced through Andrei's palm, as well as the fountain of life in his hand.

It was only at this moment, accompanied by severe pain, that Andre really heard the second half of Lien's words:

"-But, you're not right!"

The shattered wooden box fell to Andre's side along with the cracked potion, and a white mist visible to the naked eye spread rapidly at the feet of the two of them, and then made an ominous and strange sound.

"Lane!"

"Danger, back off!"

With Jones's yelling in his head, Lane jumped back decisively, and in a moment, the white mist rolled violently, and then exploded violently like flames.

"Now this place is full of the breath of death, once the magic of life is leaked, it can be compared to the most violent explosives, but it's a pity, it's a fountain of life!"

Jones explained, full of regret.

When the smoke cleared, Lane found that Andre, who was at the center of the explosion, was strangely not killed directly, and it seemed that the magic of the remaining fountain of life in his arms saved his life at the most critical moment.

But a moment later, the demon wolves who didn't know how to emerge from the hole didn't care about the explosion that might happen again, and ran desperately towards the remaining trace of life on the ground.

Andre, who saw all this, after a short period of sluggishness, did not care about his injuries at all, but rushed over like a madman.

"Get out of here! This is mine! This is my baby! You mad dogs, stay away from my money!"

"Ahh......h What are you mad dogs going to do!

"Lane, save me......"

Looking at Andre, who was still trying to rescue the fountain of life on the ground even though he was bitten by the demon wolf, Li En shook his head slightly, and then resolutely turned around and walked outside.