"......" After glancing silently at the three people standing here, Agatha suddenly bit her lower lip again for some reason, clenched her slender palms into fists, and then turned around and walked out again without looking back. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"She's ......" Mira said a byte in Lamani in a somewhat stiff pronunciation, and then turned her head to look at the two people here, Mike, who was bearded and dirty and full of smoke marks, was about to stuff the cigarette in his mouth, and at this moment because of the continuous things that happened in this minute, he was also stunned at the wooden platform, and he was not able to react.

"I can't get to work in time, although the agreed completion date is nearby, and there is no hard line in the past few days, but the haughty elves are slower than the dwarves, and their hearts are not happy, right?" Heng said to Mike in Lamani, deliberately slowing down his speech so that Mira could also understand the general idea of the West Coast and Avenella, and the West Valiya words "elves" and "dwarves" The words are all from Lamanite, the pronunciation is exactly the same, and the other explanations are all everyday words, and the girl listens hard, and she understands something.

"That's not it...... She came to me five days ago and told me that if she waited a little longer, she might have to spend more time building something she wasn't familiar with......" Mike said to Henry, and the sage raised an eyebrow, which was somewhat beyond his expectations, maybe the elf wasn't as self-righteous and face-saving as the rest of her kind, or maybe she just had a better relationship with Mike.

"Alas...... Judging from her hurried appearance, she probably hasn't finished yet, and wants to come and talk to me for a few more days, but seeing that you two are here, I'm embarrassed to speak. Mike glanced at the cigarette holder again, then put it back on the table, and turned to look at the two: "I'll go find her first, and the rest will wait, the armor is ready, you go over there and get it with Andre, and come back in a few days." ”

"Andukusin El Van Sa, Antioch Shuvatia. (These awkward elves, what a bad fate)" The irritated old dwarf muttered the new old saying and ran towards the door, Mira looked at Henry, the sage shrugged, and then the two of them walked over to the eldest of the human beings named Andre, whom Mike called the slightest in the blacksmith's shop, and after paying a full twenty-two gold Ella coins, which was already a very good price, they were given two new sets of armor that still smelled of grease.

The carefully polished armor was tailor-made, and Mira's set looked quite small when put together with Henry's. The craftsmanship of the dwarven blacksmith is worthy of the first-class level, the carefully polished and polished cuirass has a good curvature, and the curling treatment is done all around to prevent cutting the skin of the clothes, not to mention the two-section combination, the whole chest and back armor and small arm armor are not the kind of belts common on the West Coast, but the metal buckle design with higher craftsmanship also makes it inevitably more light to wear than other armor.

The armor on the back is reduced and does not have full protection like the breastplate. Combined with the equally shortened hem and skirt bezel, the overall weight of the armor is actually lighter than that of a traditional half-length armor.

Although the sage still weighs a lot of armor including bracers because of his figure, this set of carefully crafted lightweight armor with a cinched waist design from our Luoan Maiden may be quite eye-catching for any experienced female adventurer.

Not only is it easy to use, but it also looks good, and as soon as she paid for it, Mira tried it on and performed various styles of activities, and she was really happy with the armor that almost did not affect her movement at all. Although the defense has increased even more, this armor is even more comfortable to wear than the plate armor in addition to its weight, and is almost as flexible as the light protection of leather armor and chain mail in the past.

Helmets, shoulder armor, neck armor, thigh armor, calf armor, shoe armor, upper arm armor, hand armor, and many other parts of the whole body armor were removed, and the labor hours and the total price had to be doubled several times—the total amount of money he now possessed was five grams, which was probably just enough. They are not knights, and the balance between defense and flexibility is already a very good choice, at least now Mira can be completely invincible in front of her torso in the face of an opponent with a sword or a knife, although the head and throat are still weak points, but because there is no upper arm armor or anything like that to hinder her movement, the girl can rely on the weapon in her hand to block.

The helmet has always been a big problem for obstruction of vision, which is one of the reasons why most mercenaries choose not to wear it, and the other reason is naturally poverty. After all, most people have done their best just to fill their stomachs and keep their existing equipment from being completely damaged, and people like them who have continuously replaced their equipment within a year must definitely be regarded as extravagant and wasteful in the eyes of other mercenaries.

In any case, now that Mike had gone out to find Agatha, there was nothing to do, Henry and Mira had temporarily deposited their armor at the blacksmith's shop, and Miss Loan had taken out her one-and-a-half-hand sword, which had produced some rust despite the maintenance of the month's operation in the damp jungle, and entrusted the other party to remove the rust. The two of them traveled lightly, and took advantage of their spare time to take a good stroll around the town of Rosemary.

They did not ride their horses this time, because they had been exhausted by more than a month of traveling, and they were now staying at the inn where they lived, where the horsemen helped to clean the horses and feed them a large amount of grain and grass to regain their strength.

Walking through the streets of Rosemary during the day is enough to feel the prosperity of this town, there are all kinds of people waiting to come and go, people with weapons on their backs or waists and mercenary badges fixed on their belts abound, and people who do not have professional mercenary signs, but also carry weapons, also occupy a large number.

The people here have long been accustomed to seeing large groups of heavily armed people walking the streets, and unlike the kingdom on the west coast, the inhabitants are not apathetic or repulsive. They accept the existence of these people, and they have taught the entire Southland from an early age that they know the doctrine of profit first, they are polite and flamboyant, and they do not show their dislike of you like stupid West Coasters, although there is still xenophobia and discrimination buried deep in their bones, but the sleek Southerners will always try to maintain a semblance of happiness.

It's a brutal land, but it also has a lot to think about – walking down the streets of Rosemary, Mira looks at her surroundings and thinks about it.

As a child born and raised in the Plains of Acasta, Mira always felt that she should be a Avenella, a West Coaster. She never knew that the great Loan, who had died in her homeland, had grown up in a strong Avenella color, and that she had the impression of the generally barren and war-torn West Coast countries, all, all the civilians, who did not like to travel.

Bandits, beasts, nobles, all of these beings are very deadly. The soft dirt road will sink deep into it as soon as it rains, the wheels of the ox cart and mule cart are not walkable, the war horses suitable for riding are only the exclusive use of rich mercenaries and noble lords, the poor condition of the road itself restricts the circulation of the population, and the poor law and order means that one day the territory next door or even the kingdom next door will attack this side.

All these restrictions have made most of the local residents of Avenella become peasants who spend their lives in the small shabby where they came from, and they are very stubborn, preferring to keep the land that does not belong to them at all to grow crops, only to have most of them confiscated after the harvest, and only to make ends meet, and absolutely refuse to go out. The mercenary and merchant, who traveled all year round, seemed to them to be a bold fool, one day he would fall, one day he would fall badly—the words of many of the Avenella peasants, including the owner of the inn where Mira had worked in the past, would always say this.

This is a common sight throughout the West Coast, and it was still the case when she and Henry arrived in the Soradin Heights, although Joshua and Amonica didn't run around to make a living and just wanted to see the sea, but that only if Joshua was an orange-tier mercenary and had strong combat abilities.

-- If you don't know how to fight, and if you don't have weapons and you're not ready for battle, you can't go out. Even just going from one town to another is a huge risk.

This deep-seated truth has become almost an unshakable fact in Mira's mind - but the south is different.

She really had time to stop, not to hurry to a certain place to do something, but to walk slowly on this paved stone road, and what she felt and saw was very different from what she had seen before.

In front of her, several Southern women wore short sleeves and skirts, wearing sunhats that extended out of the back of their heads, and Mira watched them emerge from a carriage - not the aristocratic carriage of the Felex family she had met earlier, but a flatbed carriage with a canvas visor and some seats, and they were not wealthy merchants or nobles, but looked like ordinary commoners in their clothes.

In the same carriage were a family of three, dressed as civilians, but unlike the women, they were carrying a basket of vegetables and fruits, as if they had just been purchased from somewhere, and then rode home.

A laughing family of three walked to the other side with fresh ingredients, and Mira's eyes followed them all the way, until they were caught by the sound of the gurgling wheels of the carriage on the other side. One car, and another, and one family, and another—such a thing, traveling freely without carrying weapons, not for goods, but for men, seemed to be the most common thing in the South.

Mira stopped, the expression on her face glazed. Her incredible appearance could not hide from the sage in front of her, and Henry also stopped, looking at the surprised expression on the girl's face in a leisurely manner, and then slowly spoke: "This is the effect of the capital brought by developed commerce. As he spoke, Miss Loan looked up at him.

"The people of the South are all about money, they don't do anything that will hurt their interests, and in the same way, they don't spend too much energy on things that are not cost-effective. The sage said, "Bloodshed and sacrifice are done by outsiders, while by locals they earn more money." The town, and indeed the entire alliance of southern city-states, were extremely friendly to the local residents, because the nobles here knew that they would never have achieved the wealth and status they have now without these merchants running around, so all kinds of conveniences and benefits for the local residents were naturally listed. ”

"On the basis of wealth, we will improve people's living standards by building infrastructure such as roads and means of transportation and public bathhouses that we use in the morning. Henry shrugged his shoulders: "People are real, you will not want to leave if you are more comfortable in this country than in other countries, the loyalty of the people is determined by these policies decided by the decision-makers, and the money earned by the loyal citizens, and the double standard of letting outsiders die for them and desperately they can enjoy themselves in the rear, also allows all this to repeat the cycle, making the South rich again and again." ”

"After all, slogans and spiritual things like that are just nothing, and if they don't bring tangible benefits, people will choose to turn their backs on you and leave you. He paused: "Our Royal Highness Prince Edward, who is far away in Avenella, is still doing something without making a fool's mistake, and he must be trying to build the Acasta Plains like this. ”

"A peaceful place where people can travel freely, and ordinary people with their families don't have to worry about being attacked and killed. When you get back there, Mira, you may find that everything in your hometown has changed dramatically. Henry said this, not referring to the land of the kingdom of Loan, on the other side of the Tambur Mountains, as Mira's home, but to Acasta. This is also due to the understanding of the girl and the nature of the culture in which she grew up.

Mira was stunned for a moment, she had a certain amount of thought because of the sage's words, but immediately noticed something: "Back there?"

The girl opened her mouth to say this, and she couldn't help but ask this sentence with a lot of mixed emotions, after all, although the life of the past year is still rich and happy, but Ecasta is the place where she grew up. To say that there is no nostalgia for that place, of course, is impossible.

"Well, coming out to travel and hone you can be regarded as reaching a level. But we'll have to wait a little longer to get back, and we still have one more thing to do. As he said this, her gray-blue eyes were still unwavering, and Mira could not see anything in them, she only nodded silently, and did not ask what she was going to do.

The two men continued silently, and Henry glanced at the iron sign on the side of the road several times along the way, and then, as he walked down an avenue, stopped in front of a small four-story brick and timber building.

"Teacher?" asked Mira, who had some idea of the pentagram in front of her, and Henry tilted her head, as if to say to her or to herself, "Since the other party has also shown favor, then there is no need to use it." ”

"Huh?" the girl tilted her head, and the sage smiled at her, "It's nothing, let's go inside." ”

He said. (To be continued.) )