Chapter 12: Planting
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Knowledge is power. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)
Or in this world, there has not yet been a great man who has ever uttered this classic assertion, yet its correctness has long been proven by countless facts, and far more definite and direct than Edward's memory suggests. So, in this era when civilization has just broken free from ignorance and begun to stumble forward, in whose hands is the greatest intellectual resource in its hands?
Mage, of course, mage.
Even nominally, the nobles or the owners of most of the resources, most of the states are under their control, they can oppress their people, and satisfy their own ** with the sweat, tears and even blood of others - but in front of the clouds of the cunzài, the nobles are nothing more than a bunch of inferior cuntaii dressed in plant remains, decorated with stone and metal.
At most, a little more refined than the kind they were pressing.
What are their possessions—what are the petty powers confined to the human race and the so-called possessions that are indistinguishable from the sand? what are the real resources—the secret weapons that have been preserved since the dawn of time, the power that can terrify even the gods...... All of them will only be worshiped by the ordinary people in the name of God, and there is no room for touching.
Only the mages, these creatures who follow the traces of the rules and move forward on the long road of exploration, can really be regarded as the existence of the part of the resource called knowledge among the human beings, or among all humanoid creatures. And the power that this resource will bring, which is why Edward has hoped to become a mage for the past ten years.
"Those stupid mages, who worship at the feet of their so-called knowledge, think that they can get a qiē in that way, but do not know that that foolishness will only make them slaves to knowledge in the end...... The only thing to boast about is their search for the nature of the world. So, in addition to the psionic monsters who are most familiar with this power, they are most likely to have the information about psychic abilities in their possession. The Spirit Crystal Servant proudly showed off his thoughts: "For you, you don't need everything, even just the basics, to produce considerable help. Being able to raise one's strength to a certain level, or exchanging, or searching, is easy to solve subsequent problems. ”
Under the existing conditions, it has to be said that this is the most feasible plan. It's just that no matter how sure he said it, Edward was just noncommittal—
一qiē will not be as smooth as it thinks.
Asking for information from the mages was the most difficult thing to do.
After all, all the reasons are based on speculation, not conclusive, and according to the Spirit Crystal Servant, the power of psionic energy is not common among humans, and the relevant records are naturally impossible to obtain lightly, and it is even very likely that it is sealed as a forbidden circumstance - after all, it is a skill that circulates among monsters, cannot be used by most people, and is different from most spell casting methods.
What if it's not a confinement?
The mages are well known for their use of knowledge, but they are also well-known for their miserliness in knowledge - no one wants to expose their origin to the public, even a beggar, who will always cherish his proud way of begging. Not to mention the mages who are so powerful because of this? those who have more knowledge are often only willing to use it to maintain their own empire, which also makes the outflow of knowledge more difficult - so mages are lonely creatures, the more powerful they are, the more obsessed they are with their own ideas, few people like to connect with others, and communication is only in a very small group.
What's more, there is no guarantee that any of them will actually possess psionic knowledge.
“...... So to make sure that the possibilities become greater, just look for more resources. One shot is not very likely, so let's get ten shots, one hundred shots...... Shoot the birds indiscriminately, and the hits can always be piled up!"
"It's better to chop you up for money...... The next step is exactly what you need for money. ”
Edward cursed hatefully. Well, where do you find a place where mages gather enough and are easy to communicate with?
Tumenis Academy of Magic.
The best solution, in fact, has been placed in front of Edward from the beginning...... However, at the same time, there is a final problem - this world may be completely different from Edward's memory, but there are many similarities, for example, the amount of tuition is always one of the most difficult decisions of higher education.
The registration fee for the Tumenis Academy of Magic is 3,000 gold coins. The college's registration time limit for this year is less than a month. Twenty-nine days, to be exact.
For most people in this world, three thousand gold coins is a lot, enough to allow them to easily settle down for a lifetime. But most people can't save this amount of money in their lifetime.
Neither did Edward.
Oh, it should be said, Edward already had the money, he had spent four years, or even more time preparing, and all his savings, plus the previous harvest, had barely exceeded the conditions - but now, thanks to that damn failed teleportation spell, it was all difficult again.
Now he was in the vicinity of Tumenis. It is at least a thousand miles away from the land of Xifengyi, and if you want to get the savings in Baiyang Town, it is impossible to go back and forth without about two months. Unless there is the help of teleportation spells, according to the cost of a spell cast by a magician, they need to be paid at least a thousand gold coins to cast a fifth-order magic, not to mention that even if it is used once, it is enough to dry up Edward's pocket in half! And even if he could pay this fee, how could there be a high-level mage who knew teleportation in this unfamiliar place to help him, a mercenary who was not even a spell apprentice?
Of course, if he needed it, whether it was the sword in his hand or the space bag around his waist, he could easily exchange it for three thousand gold coins in some magic market...... No, a mere 3,000 gold coins is nothing, as long as this sharp magic sword in his hand is put on the table, there are at least countless wealthy merchants or vassal nobles who are willing to exchange for tens of thousands of gold coins that are piled up in the warehouse, not to mention the best magic creations like space pockets.
Edward, however, hesitated.
Whether it's a long sword, a dimensional bag, or a psionic boot, it's really rare to see, and it's too big to exchange it for some gold coins, and there is no such convenient trade as a pawn shop in this world...... Even if there were, it was difficult for Edward to find a store he could trust in this unfamiliar place. So now we can only hope that the few gems in hand can get some more than expected, otherwise, we have to find some way to get some money......
But no matter how you calculate it, there are still more than a thousand gold coins - this is almost enough money to supply the arms and food of a squadron of soldiers, and it is not something that can be exchanged for a few simple tasks.
"What a troublesome low-IQ creature. Why hesitate so much about a little metal?" The Spirit Crystal Servant hummed impatiently, interrupting Edward's thoughts: "If you want, just find it yourself, with your current strength, there shouldn't be many stores in this city that can threaten you, right?"
"Where is it as simple as you think......"
Edward shook his head, but he couldn't help but be pulled into his thoughts.
Robbery should not be a problem in terms of strength, but most shops will not have that much cash, and if you increase the target, it will definitely cause concern...... The coffers where the big merchants kept their money were similarly tightly guarded, and it was impossible to get their hands on them. It's easy to find some weak caravans in the wilderness, but the follow-up trouble is even more - even if you have space pockets and enough combat power, there are no cash trucks in this era, and there is no way to sell the stolen goods, how to exchange them for gold coins?
What's more, there are still major issues that have not yet been resolved.
After the defeat just now, the mercenary group should not dare to trouble him again in the short term, but Edward still wants to confront them - the feeling of being watched is like a fish in the throat, unless you find a way to avoid detection, that mage is a scourge that must not be left behind. However, a full-fledged mage is not an easy opponent to deal with. Even if the enemy is clear and dark now, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to kill.
"It's just a spellcaster, it's so hard to deal with? Besides, the spellcaster should have some money, right? Not to mention the mercenary group...... They should have some property, right?"
It's a pity that these mercenaries don't seem to be very wealthy - just take the few just now, a few long swords and a mace are just ordinary goods, although those bows and crossbows are barely considered good goods, but they are not formal, used in the city, within thirty or fifty feet of attack and kill is still some deterrent, but once the distance becomes larger, or run into an opponent covered with armor...... Even the half-breastplate was enough to render the floppy crossbow useless - which is why they chose the Quenched Arrow. Even if there is a channel to sell it, it will not be able to sell .500 gold coins, or even less, after all, ordinary stores do not accept the purchase and sale of such controlled weapons. The few pieces of broken leather armor that Edward didn't even have the interest to pick up.
The money bag is one per person, and it seems that it is not small, but when you open it, there is only a silver light - after all, there are not many rich hunting grounds like the Whispering Forest on the entire continent, not to mention that not every mercenary is willing to risk his life to earn money. Therefore, the vast majority of mercenaries, their daily lives actually have nothing to do with the vast - thinking about these hunters, they casually took out the largest of the money bags, and only saw one or two golden lusters under the bags.
But the next moment, Edward's eyebrows furrowed—at the bottom of the money bag, a dark reflection caught his attention.
It was a half-palm-sized badge, with a simple engraved number on it and a name on the bottom with golden lingua franca characters.
Grey Shrike Mercenary Regiment.
"Full of luxury......"
Edward's heart suddenly moved, and he was a little interested—he counted it, and found that almost every money bag had such a badge in it.
From a modern aesthetic point of view, the design of this thing is so shoddy that you can barely see that the line decorated by the single line pattern is just a bird. The gold of the text is nothing more than a bit of brass...... However, this is already a very good idea on this continent, and the usual mercenary groups are not likely to make themselves zuò and other gadgets to show themselves, at most they get a flag when they register. Simply draw a pattern that represents the name of the team.
"Oh, that's an interesting idea, it looks like I'm going to have to change my opinion of you a little bit...... You're a bit of a brain, too. Let the enemy fear, let the enemy grieve, and make the enemy suffer...... I like that kind of thinking. Direct communication between hearts and minds can't hide any secrets, and as soon as Edward's thought moved, the Spirit Crystal servant immediately responded: "Treat the enemy as ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves?" This sentence is very good, but it is somewhat similar to the famous quote of a certain Dementor Elder...... This guy named Lei Feng must also be a decisive person to kill, right?"
"Shut up!"
"Okay, that's a bad guy named Toad? But anyway...... I love chasing your plans. The voice of the spirit servant was deep and cold, but it couldn't be suppressed and seemed to buzz excitedly: "Create a little commotion, disrupt the original order, and then it will become chaotic, and the benefits of chaos." It's that it brings equity. ”
"Let our first enemy, then, the woman named Leia, tremble in the darkness, and make her confused, her cheeks flushed, and she sobbed...... Well, I have to say, the rhetorical part of your memory seems to be a bit confusing, and the words after the trembling seem to deviate from the topic I want to say?"
......
The mercenary named Leia's eyes widened and her cheeks flushed. Her body trembled uncontrollably, and she felt as if she was about to lose her senses...... Lost in the flames of rage.
"You mean, we're not going to avenge Kakin?" the mercenary tried her best to suppress her anger, but her voice grew higher and higher, even shaking the light on the table, "Are they just going to die in vain? You know that bastard is in the city of Rissouri, and may not even have touched the place!", but what is the mercenary saying, 'Don't act rashly?'"
She made a terrifying loud grinding noise, glaring at the man in front of her wrapped in a brown robe, as if trying to devour him alive, but the latter only lowered his gaze slightly, focusing on a large crystal orb in his hand, and did not seem to hear the voice of the mercenary.
"Miss Leia, you don't seem to have figured out your previous mission...... it wasn't until the mercenary's roar was over that he raised his gaze slightly, and said in a cold voice, but the sharp tone in it sounded as uncomfortable as scraping rust: "You were only in charge of reconnaissance and monitoring these two people, at most it was enough to find out the relationship between them and the target, and now it seems that they are nothing more than ...... Most likely, they were just passers-by and didn't affect the intent of our plans. ”
"But now they attacked first! Do you want me to let go of my brother's enemy, who has killed my brother, and be at ease in the immediate vicinity? Virgil, are you still not a member of the Grey Shrike? Have you forgotten the oath you took when you joined?"
"If he's not our target, why do everything we can to round them up?"
The mage's voice was still relaxed and unconcerned, as if the discussion was just a trivial matter such as a cat and dog fight: "But now, you have accidentally provoked the target before you have figured out their strength, and as a result, you have almost wiped out the entire army, and you have killed six or seven brothers with exhaustion, not to mention the corpses, and you have let the city guards catch a handle." And now we're going to wipe your ass at the risk of the main mission failing? Isn't that unreasonable?"
"You don't even see how strong that guy is! There are five of us ......."
"Okay, okay, he's strong, so why should he stay...... Well, I mean, didn't you just run back? Looks like he's still not that strong, or is there another reason for that?" the mage interrupted the mercenary with an impatient wave of his hand. And this also made the latter roar violently!
"What do you mean, bastard?"
Léa slammed a thud on the table.
The implicit meaning in the mage's words pierced her heart like a needle - since that enemy was so powerful, how could it be possible for a woman to escape lightly? But even if it was to say that it was the brothers in the mercenary group who desperately covered her, it sounded quite unreasonable......
How could she endure this?
"Léa, Virgil means, calm down......"
The man who had been sitting on the side spoke at this time: "You were resting just now, so you probably didn't know that we had met ...... Some trouble. ”
He was dressed in simple inlaid leather armor, and the metal only protected the important parts, so that the knotted muscles of his arms were exposed. Between the eyebrows and eyes, there is a slight resemblance to the mercenary named Leia, but the forehead is broad, and the cheeks are as deep as a knife, and the tightly pursed lips, and a fine line formed by years of hard thinking on the eyebrows form a calm and wise face.
Sighing, he continued:
"In less than half an hourglass, three groups of people have come to the door, two groups of people from the United Industries Chamber of Commerce, and one group of those who are the subordinates of that Jia Ba, all of whom claim to have conclusive evidence that the members of the Grey Shrike Mercenary Regiment were involved in one murder, three robberies and two thefts. They took Vero, Canon, and Sarin for questioning and demanded that we compensate them for their losses. ”
"They...... What evidence do they have?" the mercenary was stunned: "This ...... Why do they say that we did it?"|
"Yes, it was a false accusation, but they were holding the badge of our mercenary group that the prisoner 'accidentally' left at the scene! In fact, it was not only them, there was even a group of female branch girls who came here just now to beg for prostitution! A few old women came to the door with a group of people, saying that our people had stolen their coats that were drying outside! A few imps wiped their noses and asked us to return the candy to them! And they also named and said that it was a robed mage in the group who could do tricks to steal their candy!"
The mage let out a sneer at this time, but anyone could hear the resentment: "We know that this is a false accusation, and they also know that this is a false accusation, and it is very simple, and even fools can see it! But when they can't find the real criminal, do you think they will mind finding an unlucky scapegoat? Do you know how much trouble we are in now? If we don't come up with compensation and be searched casually by them, our biggest task will be ruined immediately!" More than 300 gold coins have been wasted like this, and now that the three main members are tripped up, and the whole regiment is surrounded here and unable to move, how can we still chase that main target? This is all caused by your rude recklessness and eagerness for quick success!
"If it weren't for your insistence, we would have taken on this unfortunate mission?" the mercenary laughed angrily, "Don't you claim that magic is omnipotent?"
"That's enough!" Finally, the mercenary dressed as a man who couldn't hold it down, interrupted the escalating argument with a low roar.
"Boss, it's not good!"
However, the brief silence was soon broken by the sound of the door swinging open, and a mercenary hurriedly entered, and was immediately startled by the tense atmosphere.
After a pause, he whispered, "A squad of the Knights of the Garrison of Rissouri is outside the door, asking us to ...... Everybody went out and lined up and was checked......"
Meow, I won't write a 3,000-word chapter in the future......
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