Chapter 687: A New Business Scripture
"It's possible." Gavin thought about it for a moment and said, "Don't dig deep into this matter, if you are not careful, you will touch a sensitive minefield, we just need to know that Captain Reyana has an extraordinary background, and it is enough to have something to do with the royal family and the support of Arabe, what about Araserine?" What is her origin? ”
This kind of-for-tat gamble, only when you know the real heel of the other party and formulate the corresponding policy, it will be more targeted, and you will not be caught off guard by a heavenly reinforcement from the other party, there is no bigger trump card in the Cormier Kingdom than the royal family of Obaischir, even if it is just an illegitimate daughter, the energy she has is not comparable to ordinary people, especially those illegitimate daughters with ability.
Gavin now has no way to prove that Reyana is King Ahsan's illegitimate daughter, but there is no way to prove that she is not.
Then you can only take it as 'yes', and use as little damage as possible against her, as long as she wins above board, even the royal family has no choice.
"The city lord of Alaseline can sit in the current position, it was recommended by the Duke of Beru, she has been loyal to the duke for ten years, very much appreciated by him, legend has it that the relationship between the two is extraordinary, the duchess is very unhappy with this, so she almost broke with the Duke of Beru, in order to prevent her own backyard from catching fire, there is the current lady of Tivanton." To put it mildly, Alaseline used to be the female secretary and lover of the Duke of Beru, and the main palace was not happy, so she could only be sent as far away as Tifanton.
This is just a superficial statement (after all, with teleportation, this distance is not a matter at all, you can run a round trip every minute), in fact, it was the Duke of Beru who installed his cronies in Tivanton, and even if he left office, he still firmly kept the city under his control.
Gavin is no stranger to this Duke of Beru.
He is also from the royal family of Obaisquir, but he is a distant side, he is more than ten years younger than King Yasan, and his relationship has always been good, after King Yasan became the king, he took good care of him, and he did not live up to the trust of King Yasan, starting from a small grassroots commander in the Purple Dragon Legion, until now the first marshal, with the reputation of Cormier's spear.
In foreign wars, unless King Asan is personally on the march, he is the best candidate to command the army.
Tivanton was annexed by the Duke of Beru in 1356, when Rashan, the lord of the Valley of Scars, led his army all the way to the Misty and Shadow Valleys.
In the name of protecting the country, the Kingdom of Cormier was led by the Duke of Beru and an army of purple dragons to settle in Tivanton, which was located on the main commercial route.
The settlement process can be said to be effortless, after all, Tivanton is only a small city of 10,000 people until now, and before settling in, it was at best the scale of a large town.
The difficulty is how to gain a foothold there.
Although Tifanton is not big, it is an out-and-out commercial artery, and the two trade routes that run through the Comanso Forest, the Northern Horse Road and the Moon Sea Highway, intersect here, and are the transit points for the caravans going south or entering the Rock High Road, occupying Tifanton, which is equivalent to jamming the necks of these two trade roads.
The Cormier Kingdom has been peeking here for more than a day or two, and it has not been able to take this place for a long time, that is, the Santarin Society and the Sambia Kingdom are frantically obstructing it, especially the former.
When the Rashan's army, which had cut off the trade routes of the Vale, was defeated, the Santarim would naturally launch a frantic counterattack against Tivanton.
The monster forces around the Mokou Mountain Range, the Rock Land, and the Thundering Peak Mountain Range were all led to Tifanton by them, and Fort Santil even organized an elite army to support them.
The Duke of Beru led the Purple Dragon Legion to take the initiative to attack and break the monster forces in each of the three directions, and before the elite army of Santil Fort was halfway through, their monster mercenaries had all been slaughtered, and they became a Jingguan outside Tifanton.
Then the Cormir Kingdom made concessions in the interests of the valley, especially the Valley of the Scars, and the turbulent year suddenly came, and the beliefs within the Santarim Society were alternated, and they are still mired in infighting, and the Cormir Kingdom has completely gained a foothold in Tifanton.
The Duke of Belu also returned to Susar at the beginning of this year, and the regent Lady Alaseline took office, but before that, she had been in charge of Tifanton's affairs, and it was only this year that she was officially appointed by the royal family.
All in all, the Duke of Beru would not easily give up Tifanton and the Rock Land.
Gavin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, King Ahsan is really an old fox, the two companions he found for himself, none of them are good, and if he is a little careless, he will make a wedding dress for the royal family, and if he wants to win the final victory, he must show a little real ability.
Mother Gosher said with great interest: "Lord Lord, is there any other information that needs attention?" Say it all together, and I'll let my girls focus on it. ”
The task Gavin assigned to them was far simpler than expected, and the danger factor was not great.
After all, it's just some popular gossip, and the laws of the Cormier Kingdom are far more fair and strict than those in the Shining City, and no one has convicted them because of their gossip, or even made their safety more secure, and there are already many escort girls who have fallen in love with this city.
"There is no need for intelligence for the time being, but there is a need for a lady in business, and before that, the lady needs to go to a place for me."
"Where?"
"Nimir Village."
"Nimir Village? The village mentioned in Varro's travelogue where the river glows? What are we going to do there? ”
"Didn't the lady herself say it just now?"
"Huh? I didn't say anything! ”
"Then you'll find out in a moment."
"Now it's dark, what business are you talking about? Can't we wait until daylight to go? ”
"Because the night feels more real, the specific reason, when you go, you will know."
It's not that Gavin sells the pass, but they have already arrived in Nimir Village, and when they go to a small village, Gavin naturally doesn't need to measure it with his feet, first send the half-moon foal to the air to locate it, and then teleport it directly.
If the city of Susar is the metropolis and prosperous representative of the Cormir Kingdom.
Then Nimir Village is the most ordinary village and town representative, this village is not too remote, although it is not on any commercial artery, there is only one country dirt road on the land road, but it belongs to the riverside village, close to the first largest river in the Cormir Kingdom, the Xingbo River, fifty kilometers downstream, is the second largest trading city of the Cormir Kingdom, Masenberg, and is only a hundred kilometers away from Susar.
The population of more than 500 is not small as a village, it presents the most simple pastoral style, housing, pastoral and all kinds of livestock are crowded together, the roads are muddy, and the smell of belonging to the countryside is blowing in the face (the smell of grass and trees is mixed with the smell of human and animal feces), and the regulations prohibiting open defecation are only implemented in a few metropolises such as Susar and Masenbo in the Kingdom of Cormier, and the other rural cities still maintain a relatively primitive appearance.
Mother Gaoser, who had just adapted to Susa's clean and tidy appearance, was a little uncomfortable for a while, but in the next second, she was stunned by the incredible scene in front of her.
Not only is the village brightly lit, but even the water canals that surround the village glow white, rippling with the ripples of the water, reflecting a rainbow-like sheen.
The popularity of night lighting here is not inferior to that of Sussar, which is known as the city that never sleeps.
It's just that the way it is used is different from Sussar's, and here it is not an inextinguishable flame, but a crystal clear glass container.
The shape of these glass containers is not uniform, there are not only pot-bellied wine bottles, but also slender neck rum bottles, as well as beautiful ornamental glass containers, and even glass water glasses, but there are no transparent containers in this regard, so they are directly placed in wooden barrels or stone containers and placed in the courtyard, and some even dig a puddle in their own yard, filled with this kind of water that can shine.
Gosse's mother finally understood why Gavin had to bring him to Nimir Village at night, this unique sight, felt during the day, far less profound than at night, and couldn't help but be amazed: "The river here is really like what Varro's travels says, it can glow, what is going on?" Could it be that this is the holy place of Her Highness the Moon Goddess Su Lun, and the water here has been blessed before the moon blooms? Could it be that the business you are talking about is preparing to sell the water of the river here? ”
"Why the water here glows, I'll take you to a professional to explain to you." Gavin took a brief look around him, and instead of heading towards the village of Nimir, he walked towards a hillside not far away, where a tall stone tower stood.
Like Nimir Village, the tower is decorated with glowing glass bottles, but compared to the messy containers of Nimur Village, although there are more varieties of containers, it is clear to the eye that they are not made of local materials, but have been specially customized, and have been carefully arranged, so that, from a distance, it looks beautiful and like a fairyland.
It is a mage tower that cannot be named a mage tower, as it is not a mage tower with magical functions, it is only made of ordinary stone materials, but the sign on it indicates that a mage lives in it.
"Okay." Goser's mother's interest was completely aroused, and she followed behind Gavin with light steps, she wanted to see what surprise this young man had brought her this time, and what business scriptures she had read.
The two of them had just approached ten meters from the tower, and a phantom of a parrot appeared out of thin air, and said in a loud voice: "There are guests arriving, hurry up to greet them, and if there are guests arriving, hurry up and come out to greet ......."
This parrot phantom interprets the idiom of parroting to the extreme, tirelessly, repeating it over and over again.
Faced with the sudden scene, the two reacted differently, and Gavin activated the battle armor as soon as possible.
Gose's mother jumped out more than ten meters upside down, saw the appearance of the parrot phantom, and walked back with a little embarrassed smile, "It turned out to be a magic mouth technique, it scared me, and I thought it was a magic trap." ”
With her reaction just now, she has already initially demonstrated the level of an extraordinary professional, although she is a thief who claims to be retired, but her ability has not fallen behind at all.
This parrot phantage is the simplest of the illusion spells, it is a one-ring spell called the magic mouth, which can enchant simple words on the corresponding item, and once the corresponding trigger conditions are reached, it will be automatically triggered.
It is usually used as a passive police post and used as a doorbell, but it is the first time that Gose's mother has seen it.
"Who are you looking for?" The peep window above the wooden door of the stone tower was opened, revealing a pair of wary eyes looking at Gavin and Goether's mother.
"Is this the residence of Master Harlandson?" Gavin didn't feel any surprise at the other party's vigilance, no matter who was outside the door, two strangers appeared in the middle of the night, and they would not easily open the door to welcome guests, in order to show goodwill, he hurriedly lifted the battle armor that had just been opened again.
"Who are you? I don't know you guys? What do you want me to do? Not only did Master Harlanson not mean to open the door, but his vigilance intensified.
"We are friends of Master Varro, and we have heard about you and the village of Nimir from him, and we are particularly interested in what is going on here, so we have come to visit, we are from Susar, this is the identity and pass issued by the mage." Gavin stretched out his hand, sent a metal tablet out, and under the power of magic, slowly floated into the peephole of the stone tower gate.
"Wait a minute." There was a scramble of doors opening the door from the stone tower.
I don't know if the name Varro is in effect, or if it is a certificate of innocence issued by a mage of war (this certificate does have this role in Cormier, and most Cormiers recognize this), but this thing has the possibility of imitation, but the cost of crime is very high, once it is known by the mage, it will definitely do its best to track it down, and being targeted by a group of mages is definitely not a good experience, and there are few who can escape the pursuit, and if they have the ability not to be caught, they will not do this.
Of course, this one in Gavin's hand is genuine, and it was personally awarded to him by the Supreme Leader of the War Mage, the Court Archmage von Gedahast.
It's just that for a village mage, the archmage of the court is too far away, and if Gavin reports his name just now, it will have the opposite effect.
Things gather like people and divide people into groups, that's what I'm talking about.
Soon the door of the stone tower opened, and an old mage walked out of it quickly, respectfully handed the metal card to Gavin and said, "I didn't expect a battle mage to come in person, I was rude just now, two adults, please." ”
This is this pass in effect, it is obvious that the court archmage gave Gavin is not as simple as a pass, and it also has a special meaning on behalf of the war mage, ordinary people can't recognize it, but a Cormier mage can recognize it at a glance.
"It's rude for us to come in the middle of the night without making an appointment in advance, but during the day, we can't see the difference in Nimir Village." Gavin smiled as he took the pass as he looked at the old mage.
He looked like an old farmer, more than a mage.
If they met on another occasion, Gavin would never have been able to connect him with a mage in the first place, or even that he was a professional.
For his face was dark and wrinkled, his hair was gray and a little hunchbacked, and he was not wearing a mage's robe, but a farmer's shoulders that made it easier for him to work in the fields.
Don't think that all people can climb the peak of the professional and enter the legend.
Many people spend their lives going around and around, and they can't even touch the shadow of the extraordinary, and there are countless reasons, everyone is different, both limited by innate talent, and some are frustrated halfway and give up on continuing (most of them have died once or watched the people around them die).
Compared to melee classes, spellcasters are more likely to give up halfway, because they have mandatory requirements for the primary attribute of spellcasting, and many casters find that their primary attribute cannot keep up with the caster ability after the class level is raised to a certain level.
In this world, although there is a way to improve attributes, it does not mean that everyone can find it and have the ability to obtain it, don't look at Gavin's accumulation of his attributes to an extraordinary degree, he thinks it is easy to obtain, take a closer look, every additional attribute improvement he has is not a simple thing, and it is not something that ordinary people can obtain.
Some of them have to throw themselves into the arms of their professions in order to find a breakthrough, and some of them have wasted their lives and it is difficult to make a breakthrough again.
This is the case with the village mage named Harlanson in front of him, and the Eight Achievements.
The two of them followed the old mage into the stone tower, where the number of glass containers was more numerous and more complicated, but the most striking thing was the huge, luminous glass fish tank that occupied nearly a third of the entire hall, which not only contained glowing water, but also dozens of fat electric eels swam around in it.
"I wonder why the two distinguished guests came to Nimir Village in the middle of the night?" The old mage rubbed his hands a little crampedly, although the other party was not very old, but the magic aura exuded from his body was not comparable to him, especially the combat armor that was put away and put away, it was definitely not ordinary magic equipment, even if he sold all his net worth, he might not be able to buy a helmet of that armor.
That's why Harlanson opened the door in a hurry, and the other side had the ability to break in easily.
"We're here for the fact that the canal here can shine, but Mr. Varro only mentioned this matter, and I can't tell you very much about it, can you please explain in detail why this happens?"
Coming to Nimir Village, it is still a reuse of the information provided in Varro's travels, Gavin saw business opportunities again from a few words, some things that cross the era, he was afraid that the people below would not handle it well, so he could only run it himself.
"It's a long story."
"Sir can start from scratch and we have the patience to listen."
Take three days off, these three days are single changes, since the book opened, I have no time to accompany my wife and children, and take advantage of the holiday to go out for a walk.
I didn't want to invite, but I couldn't hold the manuscript!
(End of chapter)