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Angre and a few people walked all the way, chatting all the way. I also learned the names and origins of these people.
The only girl is Asuna, and she's the only ranged slotter on the team, a knifeman.
And the man who took the lead was called Xilan, and unlike the others, he was born into a wizarding family. The rest of the members were apprentices from outside to join Nora.
"Your name reminds me of a friend of mine. Angre said with a smile.
"Really?" said Xilan, smiling, too, "This name was once given to me by my grandfather, and in my native language, it means hope. Green, you came to Nora and don't know what you're going to do? Can you tell me about it? I think maybe we can help you a little. "He seemed very warm and sincere, with little scheming.
"I'm just looking for the materials I need, and I've been looking for some things for a long time without results, and if I can, I might really have to trouble you. Of course, the pay will not be less. Angre nodded.
"That's no problem, Xilan's family is a local family here, and it's familiar everywhere. Asuna added with a smile.
Walking along the gravel road, there are more and more horse-drawn carts and ox-carts on the road. Some passers-by with backpacks and suitcases on their backs also gradually became dense. The sound of wheels and the occasional cries of livestock became a bit noisy.
The road ahead gradually turned into an upward slope, and clusters of snow gradually appeared on the ground around it. The grass is thinning, and the gray stones and white powder are increasing.
Anglie rode his horse and looked up from afar.
At the end of the road in the distance, a snow-capped mountain range with no end in sight slowly emerged in the distance. Connecting to the stone road is the entrance, where a black rectangular stone monument stands tall and divides the flow of people and vehicles into two streams.
From a distance, the surface of the stele reflects a faint glass-like luster, which seems to be extremely smooth.
Anglie tugged at the reins and looked carefully at the stone tablet in the distance, and the more condensed spiritual power after compression allowed him to detect the hidden fluctuations on the stone tablet.
The entire stele is like a signal tower, constantly radiating faint water ripples in all directions, and I don't know what it is used for.
"Xilan, what is that?" asked Angliel, pointing to the stone tablet in the distance.
Xi Lan on the carriage looked over and immediately smiled: "Black Crystal Pillar, I heard that it is used to detect any violent fluctuation of mana energy within a certain range. It is one of the main means by which brawls are prohibited here.
"It's said that there are other effects. The middle-aged man on the side smiled and said, "By the way, Asuna, your father asked you to go back and hurry up to him." ”
Asuna was stunned: "What's the matter?
"It's enough for us to deal with the materials, you go back first, I guess your father may have something urgent. Xi Lan took out two magic stones from his waist bag, which looked like medium magic stones, one equal to about ten inferior magic stones.
He handed the magic stone to Asuna.
"This is your share, I paid it first according to the market price, and I got the price of selling it for a while. Hey.... He deliberately made a satisfied face.
"That's a bit much, I can't take so much ......" Asuna hesitated, but she could only catch it quickly when Xilan threw the magic stone over.
The others laughed softly, and immediately the topic shifted to something else, and no longer talked about the price of magic stones and materials.
Angele also saw that this Asuna was probably short of money, and everyone in the team seemed to treat her as a sister and took good care of her. The atmosphere in this small group was simply unbelievably harmonious than he expected.
"By the way, I may have something to do later, why don't you introduce this place to Mr. Green on my behalf, Asuna?"
"This... I've got to go back first—" Asuna hesitated.
Angel laughed as well, and reached out to take a medium magic stone from his waist bag and threw it over.
"This is the cost of the belt. ”
Asuna hurriedly caught it. "That's too much, just two magic stones are enough, I'll look for you. She hurriedly removed her waist bag.
"No, this magic stone is nothing. Anglie smiled, he quickly skipped this primitive accumulation period because of the chip, and naturally knew how important the apprentice's need for magic stones was at this stage. Now he still has a black crystal card in his waist pocket, which is an essence card refined from magic stones, a card worth almost thousands of magic stones, and a few high-grade magic stones for pocket use. And when I arrived in this strange environment that I didn't know, I could make potions by myself, and there was no shortage of magic stones.
Maybe Asuna is really very short of magic stones, and after some persuasion, she finally took the medium magic stone with a ashamed face, that is, ten magic stones, and the magic stones in their mouths are all inferior magic stones by default.
And throwing out these ten magic stones also made all the team members' eyes change slightly when they looked at Angliel, and the people who could throw ten magic stones casually would not be ordinary people.
Asuna sat in the carriage with her head down, and whispered through the window: "We mixed some materials in one mission, and we only had an average of one or twenty magic stones per person, and people had ten yuan to make ...... with travel expenses." "Maybe it's the heir of a big family or something. One of his companions nodded, "Asuna, find a chance to get to know him better, maybe else you don't know when your family's debt will be paid off." Didn't you keep saying that you want to find someone rich to pay off your debts?"
Asuna bit her lower lip and didn't say anything. She knew that the team was the same as the outside, and the first time for girls was more casual. But she's different... ,
Outside the carriage, the Captain Green and Captain Xilan laughed from time to time.
Soon the carriage came to the black stone monument.
The stele is built on a small circular white field, and the ground is a single smooth stone surface with an off-white appearance. Vehicles and wagons go around the left side of the monument, while the outgoing traffic goes around the right.
Anglie sat on his horse with his head tilted sideways, looking at the black stone tablet beside him.
The stele is made of crystal, with a smooth surface like a mirror and rectangular sides. It constantly exudes circles of transparent ripples.
Retracting his gaze, Anglie looked ahead.
The surrounding wide field is built in the groove of the snow-capped mountain wall, with gray-white stone walls on all sides and on the ground, and there is a canyon entrance behind the stone monument.
As the flow of people walked in, the roar of the water suddenly came into the ears.
Imprinted into Angliel's vision was a huge cup-shaped canyon, and in front of him, two streams of white water smashed vertically, looking like two white cloths from a distance. That's where the roar of the water comes from.
The canyon is surrounded by a gray-black color, and the steep stone walls are full of dense, protruding spout-shaped stone cliffs.
The protruding parts of these gray-black stone cliffs are built with some old gray-black stone houses, and the stone houses look from afar, the surface is slightly green, overgrown with vines and moss.
On the stone wall on the right, a zigzag gray-white mountain road zigzags upwards along the mountain wall, and the traffic and people flow along the mountain road, merging into a gray slow up and down.
"Let's go. Xilan turned over and got out of the carriage and led the two horses forward.
Anglie also noticed that the ground of the canyon was somewhat uneven, not suitable for quickly dragging the carriage. He also rolled over and dismounted, and led the horse with the rope and followed him in.
The entrance was very wide, and there were enough five or six wagons in a row to squeeze in.
"This is Nora's entrance canyon. However, there is an ordinary resource exchange, which is full of flour, meat, fruits and other daily necessities, clothing, food, housing and transportation can be found here. It is a place dedicated to supplies. Asuna got out of the carriage and followed Angele.
"Nora's main flow of people is the exchange, many families are around the exchange, the exchange is a resource exchange point established by major organizations, and all resource exchanges must be carried out on the exchange. And this is a public exchange, which does not belong to any organization. Asuna introduced Angle.
"So how many exchanges does Nora have?" Anglie asked.
"There are five in total, large and small. One for each of the three organizations serves as a point dedicated to the exchange of their unique resources, while the other organizations have joined forces to establish one as a point of exchange. Plus this public exchange, for a total of five. Asuna gestured to the protruding cliffs of the canyon.
"Do you see the stone house on the top? That's a different resource trading point, there will be a lot of trading points in each exchange, and different types of resources are carried out in different trading points. And all of them have strong force as a guarantee of security and justice. ”
"A public exchange is one in which all organizations work together to maintain security, while other exchanges can only be maintained by a team of responsible organizations. Without strength, it is naturally impossible to maintain an exchange. For wizards, it doesn't take much effort to buy and sell openly and secretly, and some small means can achieve the goal. Asuna shrugged.
"That's true. "Anglie himself knew that there were more than a dozen hallucinogenic methods that could perfectly disguise a fair deal. "So there's any spellcasting material or anything like that?"
"The public exchange only exchanges daily necessities, and you can't buy the materials needed to cast spells here, but there are the most clothes and food here. Of course, they are all ordinary and not enchanted items. ”
The group mixed in with the flow of people and went up the mountain road on the right.
The humid warm wind swirls in the canyon, and it is unusually warm here, even though it is cold and cold outside in the snowy mountains.
Anglie led the horse and slowly moved up.
In front of the left, on a stone cliff, outside a gray-black stone house, some ox carts carrying goods were parked there, more than a dozen sturdy men were laboriously unloading, and two overseers were shouting loudly. The sound was drowned out by the sound of the water at the waterfall, and it was not very clear.
Asuna noticed his gaze.
"That's where legumes are traded, including red beans, black beans, and mainly sea pods. Asuna smiled and said, "The food here is mainly brought in by the Sea Clan. ”
"Sea Clan?" Angli was slightly stunned.
"yes. Look at the faces of the people who are moving. Asuna whispered.
Anglie nodded, looking closely at the men who were moving the goods.