The slave market is located between the dock and the dock area, where you can see most of the situation in both directions. Siegel wandered with Fezak and spent a long time investigating the slaves captured by pirate raiders. According to Fezak, sailors who can row boats are in high demand, and they are sold early in the morning to the orc boot camp, where they will continue to board the pirate ship as sailors. Most of the rest are separated by age and by gender. Recently, the shipyard has been very short of manpower, so the strong male ** subordinates were quickly carved up. Most of the remaining women are sold to entertainment venues, while young children and the elderly are sold in packages.

When the slave shows himself on stage, he will rotate it in place to give potential customers a good look at the slave's condition. But they never saw anyone with a birthmark behind their ear. This man was originally made up by Siegel, and all he cared about was intelligence and ships. Now there is a fleet that has just docked, and it is General Yuren's transport. The general is said to have owned 30 ships, of which fifteen were warships, and the rest were slave ships converted from merchant and passenger ships. Every time he set sail, he split his fleet in two, and the fastest ships struck like wolves, looking for suitable targets on their routes. Merchant ships can avoid one or two wolves, but it is difficult to escape a siege. Once successful, General Yoren would light the black smoke and take away the sails and water, leaving the attacked ship to float helplessly on the water. When his larger, slower, and heavier slave ship arrived, the people on board had no strength to resist, so they could only be roped and obediently sold as slaves.

Siegel and Fezak watched them unload their ships from the harbor, and this time there were more than a hundred prisoners, and it is said that more will be shipped later. The people on the shore, whether orcs, half-orcs or human slaves, looked at these new slaves with indifferent eyes, without the slightest concern or sympathy. Siegel felt sad. War is sometimes inevitable, and it is understandable that captives are taken to do hard labor and servitude, and in some societies it is considered a matter of course, but after all, people are not cattle, sheep or poultry, and should not be bought and sold.

I was thinking about it when I heard a noise. It turned out that the slaves that had been brought ashore were not sent to the market, and the slave traders who wanted to receive them were also blocked by the guards. The long line drove straight into the dock area, and then the gate was closed.

"This is not in order!" shouted an orc, "You can't take slaves without going through the market!"

With a sound of a bowstring, the chanting orc was pierced through his throat by a feathered arrow and died on the ground. An orc on the tower of the dockyard area remounted his arrow and glanced at the others. "Who has any doubts?" he said in a loud voice, and no one dared to respond.

"Didn't you say that the Chamber of Commerce of Orcs with the rank of Commander and above had a monopoly on the first slave trade, and all slaves had to pass through them before they could be distributed?" Siegel asked Fezak in a low voice, "Even the Three-Eyed Warlord can't rob all the Commanders and Generals for their money." ”

"It really hasn't happened. Fezak frowned, he had a bad feeling. "I'm going to ask the head of the Chamber of Commerce and ask what it's for. ”

"I'll go too, just in time to meet them. ”

"Don't bother. Fezak glanced impatiently into the distance. "They don't want to see the living, and it doesn't look good if you come to the market and don't buy anything. If you can, at least buy a slave girl. I'll be right back when I'm done. ”

With that, he shook off Siegel and headed towards the crowded area.

'One-Eye has run out of patience, and the time has come to solve this problem. Siegel thought to himself as he strode into the crowd. Upon entering the grocery store, Siegel knew that the one-eyed man could become a threat that had to be dealt with. This is not because he is such an important person, but simply because this is the first place where Siegel could be exposed. Despite not being able to use magic, Siegel still has a variety of tools at his disposal. He secretly observes the one-eyed father's daily routine, records the daily operation of the grocery store, secretly listens to the conversations of customers, and finds out his interpersonal relationships. Siegel can't follow Fezak when he's out the door, but he does have the opportunity to get ready at the grocery store. He had always hoped that the one-eyed human would be stupid and do his job honestly, without thinking too much and not asking too much. But Siegel found Fezak to be smart and had a lot of ideas, making it increasingly difficult to control him.

Do you want to kill him?

Killing him is a simple, effective, and one-and-done solution. Whether it was with a knife or poison, as long as he struck first, Siegel was completely sure that he would kill the old man. and then use makeup, disguise and other methods to replace his identity. Fezak had few visitors, and his grocery store couldn't take many customers in a day, so he was not in danger of being detected if he was careful. And Siegel also has a fake identity to use.

Do you want to kill him?

Again, Siegel asked himself, not of means and abilities, but of his own heart. Is there no other way? Siegel actually knows the answer, and there is a way. If he ventures to use magic, he can charm Fezak's mind, control his actions with fear, and even read and modify his memories, all of which are documented in the spell books of the Blood Mage and the Guild Mage. But this is too risky, and the witch sacrifice of Makabuda will definitely find traces of the use of magic, and then send someone to investigate. If discovered, Siegel doesn't feel like he has any chance of escaping.

In addition to abandoning the plan and running away with his tail between his legs, there are only two paths in front of him, one simple and easy, and the other full of thorns. He had to make his own decisions, and as soon as possible. Because time waits for no one, Siegel thought to himself, time waits for no one.

After leaving Siegel, Fezak, who was acting alone, returned to the grocery store as fast as he could. He prepares his crossbow, poisons his bolts, and a fishing net with barbs to make a simple trap on the stairs. He wore chain mail close to him, and it would have been better if he had a helmet, but he couldn't be exposed until "Soth" returned.

At this time, there was a knock on the door downstairs, which startled him. He lifted a corner curtain and looked out, and saw that it was the boy delivering the letter. "A greeting from General Kuroi. The boy said. This is actually a secret letter from Waterdeep, something that Fezak has been waiting for for a long time.

He sent the boy away with two copper plates and opened the letter with trembling hands. The room was too dim for his dim eyes to see. Thinking of this, he walked up to the second floor to Siegel's bedroom, and when he pushed the door open, he felt some dust falling, making his eyes itch, but he didn't care. This is the best place in the room with the best light and the most secluded.

Baron the raven hid himself on the beams of the house, endured hunger for three whole days, and pretended to be deaf and dumb, and did not make a sound at all. The grocery store owner hasn't been able to spot it, so who wouldn't notice the shadows in the corners of the beams?The Devil's Pet is tasked with acting as a mage's eye, and when Fezak enters, it connects with Siegel through the resonance of the soul.

The mage didn't put very important items in the room, only a bag of coins and ** Ming doped with poison powder. He writes and draws at his desk every day, but most of the time he is practicing magic drawing. He seems to have a lot of secrets, and he carefully hides them, in fact, to hide them.

Baron asks if he wants to use a flame ray to cut a hole in the back of Fezak's head, which can be shot directly through the brain stem, and can be killed with a clean blow. Siegel finally made the decision to spare his life. The risk of using magic is great, but it is better to carry it on your own shoulders than to take your life.

The grocer spreads out the letter on his desk and unlocks the code on the letter according to the pre-agreed method. In order to prevent mistakes, he wrote down the contents of the declassification on a small piece of paper, and after reading it three times, he made sure that he remembered it by heart, and threw both pieces of paper into the fire and burned them.

The letter stated that the Faceless would arrive on the seventh day after the full moon, and that two thousand gold coins must be prepared to meet the remaining teams of Waterdeep. "Two thousand gold coins, where did you get this huge amount of money at this time?" Fei Zak thought of the hidden compartment under the counter, which only had about three hundred gold coins left, and this was because this month's profit was not handed over. "The lord of the south takes it for granted, thinking that the money can be said to come? On the seventh day after the full moon, there is only one day left to make money? damn it!"

He anxiously walked around the house, the grocery store had enough money for the money, but he couldn't sell it so quickly. He suddenly thought of Soth, this guy didn't look like he was short of money at all.

The operation was about to begin, and Fezak could not leave a single dangerous element with him. He knew he should report it to the patrol or the Witch Rite, and the Three-Eyed Warlord Rond had kept the city on guard to prevent the human rats of Waterdeep from sneaking in. The end of the rat should be grilled into a meat skewer, and the reward for catching the rat is rewarded. But Lord Lonte would want to know how he had managed to get into the city, which would mean interrogation, and it would be likely that Fezak would also be taken away for questioning. He has a mission on his body, and it is impossible to leave at this time, so he can only rely on his own means to kill the "smugglers".

The grocery store's guest room has five observation holes, one of which Fezak chooses every night for a peep. He only had one eye left, but he could only have one eye in each observation hole anyway. He saw that "Soth" wrote by candlelight every night and hid it under the bed, he knew that the dagger of the "smuggler" was always under the pillow, and that he had a long sword between the table and the bed—where did he find the weapon, and where did he have other accomplices? He also knew that the spy had placed a money bag in the corner between the mattress and the bedboard, so that even the sleeper would not notice it. Fezak didn't care how much money was in it, but now he was curious.

He carefully lifted the mattress, and sure enough, he saw two bags tucked into the two corners of the bed, and there were no traps around them—that Soth was careless.

"Hmph, newbie. Fezak saw the seal that had been broken, pulled out the parchment and looked at it. If you need a fake identity one day, this thing is also worth 2 gold coins. Putting the bag back on his body, he picked up the money bag, weighed it with his hand, and heard the sound of gold coins and gems clashing inside. According to his many years of experience, there are at least sixty coins, and the number and value of gems should be higher than that. He licked his dry lips, and suddenly felt that the room was very dark, and his eyes began to hurt again, and there were constant tears left, making it difficult to see clearly. So he rubbed his eyes, walked to the table in front of the window, opened the bag, and poured out all the contents.

A bunch of coins danced beautifully in the sun, including gold and platinum coins. Fezak picked it up and bit it, making sure that these were real, and that they were probably worth more than eight hundred gold coins. But what was even more beloved was the sparkle of the gems, with diamonds, sapphires, citrine, and a few beautiful stones that Fezak couldn't name, so that even the pain of the eye was not a big problem. Fezak was more determined to take Soth's life, but there was still time, and he wanted to take a closer look. The one-eyed old man grabbed the gem and was about to hold it up to the sun to look at it, when he suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and his whole body lost control and fell to the ground.

Is this death?, Fezak thought.