Chapter 27: The Black Market
In the northeast corner of the mission hall, several figures stood silently, as if waiting for someone.
As the "celebrity" of the Academy, it is rare for the high-ranking cadres of the Arcane Society to get together in public.
Many young mages stopped and watched them whisper.
"Hasn't the president come yet?"
Dalena clasped her hands to her chest, looking a little irritated by the gaze around her.
"The president should go to Born, right?" Jennifer, who was next to her, lowered her head almost to her chest and said timidly.
Dalena looked at Jennifer's massive breasts, looked down at her toes, and turned her head a little angrily.
"Poof..."
Cook next to him couldn't hold back, and when he found that Dalena was about to explode, he quickly changed the topic, "I heard that the president brought Born here for this mission, and he also opened the authority of the research room directly to him." ”
"Not only that, but the president has also transferred this year's privilege, the opportunity to read the Nether Scrolls, to Beaune!" The short-haired teenager next to him added.
"It is said that this task was issued in a month, and it was transferred by the military department, and the academy directly issued it to our Arcane Society, and the president specially found him, joined the Arcane Society, and completed the task together."
"Humph! I don't believe it, we would not have failed without him, because because of his joining, Rodney will not come, and the law enforcement team will not come alone, we are here to investigate the situation, not to clean up, there are many people, and the strength is not necessarily useful. Dalena said indignantly.
"This is not necessarily, my brother graduated from the previous classes, in the military logistics department, I went home last week and specifically mentioned that the military has already fought with the lizardmen, and there are heavy casualties on both sides, and the caster alone has sacrificed no less than double digits!" Cook said with a solemn face.
Seeing that the other few looked nervous, he knew that he was talking too seriously, so he immediately explained with a smile: "Actually, it's not so serious, we just went to investigate a small tribe, I heard that it is a lizardman tribe that has just migrated, and there are dozens of small tribes of lizardmen left, and the reason is already known to the high-level, this time let's just go to exercise and just go through the motions." ”
In fact, they also know some information, in recent years, the mortality rate of military mages has increased year by year, and the bottom may not know, but the slightly more powerful nobles know it.
In the past, spellcasters had to have a certain amount of mission experience to join the army, and they would only be recruited in the Adventurer's Guild outside the academy.
But since last year, they have been directly selected from among the graduates, and the salary is amazing.
The relaxed atmosphere just now immediately cooled down, and Cook was a little embarrassed.
At this time, there was a commotion in the distance, and Cook's eyes lit up, "The president and Born are here!" ”
A few people looked up.
Born was lightly armoured, with leather armor on his chest, a long sword at his waist, and a steel bow and crossbow on his back, as well as a package.
If Vaughn's look fits a well-armed adventurer, then President Lispel is going to the ball.
Dressed in a fiery red robe, with red hair, it is like a flaming rose, and the ring and necklace on his hand are flowing with magical light.
When such a combination walks into the mission hall, the return rate is simply 100%.
The two walked in front of Cook.
"Are you ready?"
The president asked, unconcerned about the gaze around him, and Vaughn even more ignorant.
"Well, it's all set!"
"Okay." The president nodded.
"Acquaintance, you probably haven't seen them before, these are all ministers of the Arcane Society." Turning back to Beaught, he introduced.
"Cook, the short-haired one is Beron, and the two next to him are Dalena and Jennifer, Jennifer has the lowest strength, and she was also promoted to a mid-level mage last month.
Under the introduction of the president, Vaughn also officially understood the composition of the Arcane Society.
Although he did not require any other obligations to join the Arcane Society, these few were also his little "leaders" anyway.
For the sake of the president's face, he was polite to a few high-level executives for a while, and then walked out of the academy together.
The entrance of the college is still full of traffic, and the prosperity is still the same.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Bohn found that he had not looked at this street seriously after coming to the academy for several years, and every time he passed by in a hurry.
"What's wrong?"
The president asked suddenly.
"It's okay, I want to ask, where are we going, since the academy assigns off-campus tasks, where is it, there should be a general range!" Born asked.
The president gathered the crowd in a circle and took out a map from the package.
"The goal of our mission is in the area west of the royal city, near the swamp of the hilly forest."
The map is a pale yellow piece of parchment that marks some simple routes around the Intramuros, as well as the terrain of each area.
"Let's start from the West Gate, walk through here, enter the swamp, and grab a lizardman if we can, and interrogate it."
The plan was simple and straightforward, and everyone agreed on it.
Bohn was directly shocked, is it so "steel"!
The president kept looking at him and asked, "Tell me what you think?" ”
"Now that we're teammates, I have some suggestions that will help with the mission."
"What advice, just say it." President Lispel apparently knew something, and had been waiting for Born to speak.
"The swamp is so big, and there are few lizardmen in this tribe, it must not be easy to find, the swamp is muddy, and there are all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts..."
Bohn said a lot, and directly killed a few people.
found that it didn't seem to be useful to talk too much, and directly grabbed the command.
"Come with me first!"
"Okay!"
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Born led the way, and the crowd followed.
Several people didn't say much about the sudden change of command, as if they understood why the chairman had brought Bohn here, and they all followed honestly.
Born first found a dilapidated carriage, whispered a few words to the coachman, and then took the lead and got into the carriage.
The president did not hesitate to follow, and the others had to get into the carriage.
Several of them were children of nobles, and it was the first time they had ridden in such a bad carriage.
Even if there was a leak of air everywhere, as the carriage started, the whole car kept "chirping, chirping", and they were all wondering if the carriage would disintegrate directly on the road in the next moment.
Seeing Bohn leaning directly to the side, closing his eyes and recuperating, everyone looked at each other, and silently lowered his head and waited quietly.
At first, he walked in a straight line, and then he began to turn around, and several people didn't know where they were, and when the driver prompted him to get out of the car, Bohn took the lead in jumping down.
When everyone got out of the car and found that it was the intersection of a dark road, Bohn casually threw a gold coin directly to the coachman.
The driver took it silently, turned the car around and left.
"Here, put this cloak on."
Born pulled out several worn-out black cloaks from the package.
Everyone was curious, but they didn't speak, and they obediently changed their cloaks as they were told.
"Follow me, don't talk, don't care about anyone or anything, and don't speak."
Everyone nodded in understanding.
Born was the first to enter, and the alley was long, dark and narrow, barely allowing two people to walk through at the same time.
There were still many forks in the road, and Born led the way in front of him, and after a few corners, there was a disabled old man lying on the ground sleeping.
Without waiting for everyone's amazement, Born stepped forward and whispered a few more words.
The old man opened his eyes, glanced at Beau, and then glanced at the others.
Everyone seemed to be targeted by a poisonous snake, and the hairs on their bodies stood up.
The old man shook his feet, and his originally crooked and crippled feet were magically straightened.
The old man walked to a wall and knocked a few times, and the wall opened like a door.
Born walked past the old man, and the people behind him were already too frightened to speak, and walked in after him.
At the moment when Beron, who walked at the end, "closed" the wall, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the old man "disabled" again and lying on the ground sleeping.
There was still a small alley in the wall, but as the group walked forward, they found that the alley was slowly becoming more open.
After walking around a corner, the field of vision instantly became much wider.
A market-like street came into view.
Most of the people here are dressed in similar cloaks or masks.
There is no sound of selling in the market, and a square cloth is placed in front of the "vendors" who set up the stalls, and all kinds of strange things are displayed with prices, so that even if people look at them, they will not bother to sell them.
There were all kinds of things, and even some weapons and equipment had blood stains on them.
A few people also saw a lot of precious magic materials, and some didn't even have a price, so they directly set up a sign to write this thing to be exchanged.
By this time, they knew where it was, needless to say.
Black market!
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