Chapter Twenty-Three: Buying a Horse

The first thing Wayne did when he opened his eyes early the next morning was to open the task system and check if the previous commission had been completed.

It turned out to be good, the system seemed to be quite user-friendly in this regard, and although he handed over the follow-up to Geralt, Misha's tracing mission had already been shown to be complete.

He gained forty-five XP points and an Expert Chest.

The rewards for Expert Quests are generous, which is almost equivalent to the XP rewards of fifteen Normal Quests. It is estimated that when this ruins exploration mission is completed, his Demon Hunter level will be able to rise to level six, and his strength will be slightly increased again.

Of course, expert tasks are quite difficult.

For example, in this search mission, if Wayne and Geralt insist on going their own way and want to use forceful means to take away the two young people, they will have to clash with these more than 100 inhuman races, and it will inevitably be a big war.

Instead of completing the commission for the elves to solve this problem, as is the case now.

This attempt also gave Wayne an interesting idea about whether his mission system only focuses on the outcome of the mission, or whether he must personally participate in and complete it.

Can he recruit a few apprentices and have them work for him to complete the task and let him cut leeks?

Of course, Wayne is just a fledgling novice witcher with no connections or wealth, and it's too early to talk about such things.

But in the future, when he has enough power and strength, he will definitely explore this aspect, develop the convenience of the system, and speed up the speed at which it becomes stronger.

After getting dressed again, Wayne divided the money bag containing more than 1,500 ducats he had obtained last night into another money bag and hung it on his belt.

But the money bag was still too heavy, and it was quite conspicuous, and it directly pulled his belt crooked, which looked a little weird.

He put on his coat, hid his money bag in a wide coat, and bent down to push open the curtain of the tent to look out, and in the dim underground ruins, the camp opposite was already inhabited.

The slender Torluvier was sitting by the campfire, holding a square whetstone and polishing a delicate one-handed sword.

After last night's conversation, the relationship between the two is no longer as strange as before.

Wayne is not a social phobia, he has always been quite popular when he was a student, although he can't talk about social cattle, but there is no problem with normal communication.

With a smile on his face, he took the initiative to sit down opposite Torruville, glanced at the female elf, and said directly:

"Torruville, I have a little favor, can you help me?"

The hand of the female elf, who was sharpening the blade of the sword, paused, looked up into Wayne's eyes, and said:

"If you need help with something, Wayne, I can't say yes if you don't open your mouth."

Wayne didn't be polite to her, and asked directly:

"Just a trifle."

"Do you have any extra horses here? I would like to be able to buy one. ”

Torruville thought for two seconds, nodded, and said:

"There are a few decent horses, which we stole from the Covinder soldiers, and are grazing in the forest outside the cave."

"If you really want it, I can give you one."

"But right now, we're being hunted by Kodwin's soldiers, and the coins aren't of much use to us."

"I'll give it to you as part of the reward for this exploration of the ruins."

Wayne was a little surprised when he heard this, according to what he had learned from Geralt, a good traveling horse was worth about eight hundred ducats, which was a relatively precious thing in this era.

It seems that Torruville attaches great importance to this ruins cleaning commission, and is willing to pay much more generous than those villagers.

However, he is not a man who likes to take advantage of people in terms of material things, and he would rather be able to get the spoils of the elven ruins than to get a horse for nothing.

Wayne reached out and took the huge money bag hanging from his belt, snapped it in front of Torruville, and said in a seductive tone:

"No, Torruvier, you need money more than you think."

"There are 800 ducats here, which should be the market price of horses in a human town."

"As for the role of money, Toruvelle, you underestimate them."

"Didn't you find out? In human society, money is almost omnipotent. ”

"It allows you to buy supplies for survival in the city, weapons and equipment for battle, and bribes the city guards to rescue inhuman fellow citizens in prison."

"As long as your wealth is strong enough, you can even hire an army of mercenaries to help you defeat the armies of other kingdoms on a frontal battlefield."

"Just like the original kingdom of Covel, it is precisely because of their great wealth that many kingdoms that want to conquer it will return with a feather."

Torruville didn't seem to understand, she looked at the huge money bag on the ground, thought for a few seconds, and then asked questions, and said:

"But those human merchants, city guards, or mercenary legions can't be trusted."

"Not only may they defraud us of our coins, but they may even betray our whereabouts to the nobles."

"Many of our non-human compatriots here have been betrayed by their neighbors and friends."

"Humans are not to be trusted."

To this question, Wayne felt that Toluvier was just too narrow-minded, or not broad-minded enough, so he reached out and took the whetstone in the elf's hand, drew out the steel sword on his back, and carefully polished it on the campfire, and said:

"In this case, in fact, there are many ways, whether it is to go to a country that does not hate the non-human race, or find a trustworthy businessman to help you prepare supplies, or simply control a puppet through threats and inducements, it is a good way."

"Besides, aren't there warlocks among the elves? You can commission them to make a magic item that can hide the characteristics of the elves, and you can disguise yourself as a human and infiltrate the town to run errands. ”

"There are many ways to do something, it's just a matter of whether you think about it or not."

Looking at Torruville's eyes, which had become a little shiny, Wayne laughed and said:

"During the time when this ruin is cleaned up, I will be here, if you have a question that you can't make up your mind, I can help you refer to it."

When the elf leader heard this, she smiled back at Wayne, stood up and pointed to the exit of the cave, and said:

"Thank you, Wayne, and I'll ask you for a lot of advice during this time."

"I've taken your money too, let's go outside and see those horses together, you can pick one at will."