After listening to it for a while, Levi knew why this tune made him feel familiar...

Isn't this an episode in The Hobbit that Vina concocted with the outline and light drama he provided back then.

Although it had been foreseen that this would have a subtle effect on the entertainment of the Collell continent, it was not expected that even the bards of the south had been subjected to their 'cultural invasion' in just over forty years.

That's not slow.

In Levi's original prediction, even if these cultural and spiritual enjoyment items were spread to other countries and city-states, due to the extreme differentiation of social development and wealth, they would first be monopolized by the aristocracy for a long time.

Just like Netherel back then, their Grand Arcanists have ascended to heaven in 'spaceships', but the vast majority of the people at the bottom are still living a medieval feudal life.

Judging by the reactions of the guests around them, they should be happy to accept this cheap form of entertainment, and if they meet some bold guests, they will enthusiastically order a beer for the bard or give a few copper thumbs.

As far as Levi knew, this was almost the vast majority of their source of income, and unless it was a well-known bard, the tavern would generally not pay any additional fees.

Just kidding, singing in our territory, it's a conscience if I didn't ask you to pump water, didn't you see those tavern girls who had to pay part of their private work?

But as the halfling poet chanted, Levi slowly began to hear that something was wrong.

He played the six-stringed piano as an interlude from The Hobbit, but the story he told was like he made it up, no, more like he had experienced it himself.

They were originally a full adventuring party and signed an escort contract with a caravan to send them to Ascatla.

As a result, over the years, the various city-states of Amm began to raise taxes from each other, and taxes were levied every time they entered the city, which made some caravans with their profits constantly compressed prefer to take some shortcuts in the wilderness.

The caravan they were escorting crossed the Broken Tooth Mountains and set out on an adventure.

Instead, they are attacked by a horrible group of monsters, including kobolds, ogres, and giants.

They resisted, but were slaughtered by the monsters, and only he escaped with a magic item.

And at the moment of escape, he saw a terrifying figure hovering above the peaks.

It was a dragon, a blue dragon!

'Dragon?' or Blue Dragon?'

Hearing this, Levi and the others couldn't help but look at each other, Xia Lanwei Luosi had just finished telling the story of the primeval blue dragon Sharptooth Ivy Kolasagran, and the main lord came out to 'say hello'?

Sharan Viross shook her head and denied: "It shouldn't be her, since the destruction of the Shane Dynasty, Ivy Korasagran, who has completed her revenge, has no interest in ruling the human kingdom, but has been committed to collecting tribute and taxes to expand her treasury, every time she wakes up, she only appears in the Kassanlin area, and Am, in order to avoid her and other dragons, has also signed a contract similar to Tassel with her, that is, to pay her tithes in the form of treasury taxes." ”

The tithes of Amm and Tassel, the tribute paid by Kassanlim every other century...

Really rich...

Levi was a little numb when he listened...

Hearing Xia Lanwei Luosi say this, they naturally had no doubts.

After all, for the vast majority of ordinary people and low-level adventurers, they sometimes couldn't even tell the difference between a walking dragon, a bipedal wyvern, a dragon beast, and a giant dragon.

At this time, the halfling poet's expression also became agitated and pathetic, as if he wanted to call on the lords of the various city-states of Amm to stop their 'splitting'.

Adventurers are called to follow the example of the heroes of the epic story and go into the mountains to slay dragons!

Otherwise, if those monsters continue to accumulate enough strength, Amm will probably be like the Shane dynasty back then!

But as soon as he had sung this, he was picked up by the collar by a bartender who strode over, threw it like a bowling ball, clapped his hands and looked around:

"Don't worry too much, this bastard has been selling misery in the taverns of Ascatra for sympathy for ten years, and only some out-of-town adventurers will be fooled, and the idiots who are ready to move are almost all the crement of the Broken Tooth Mountains in the caves. ”

The tavern burst into laughter, and all kinds of heavy jokes were not taboo.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the owner of this tavern doesn't want to get into trouble.

In any city-state, it is taboo to openly 'slander' those in public who are in power, even if Amm has indeed gone too far over the years.

"I'm full... It's time to get down to business. "Levi, who has 'finished eating', put down his knife and fork, and these medieval guys really can't leave and pee farts when they open and close their mouths, even when eating.

"Okay...... "Fischer just instinctively got up and was about to post the 'Adventurer Escort Mission' when he was suddenly stunned, and looked at Levi, who suddenly reacted.

"Nafischer 'Mentor', I'm going to post the task first. ”

Suddenly remembering his apprenticeship, Levi came to the bar with brisk steps like a magic apprentice who had just come out of the ivory tower.

"Mr. 'Mage', do you need any help?"

"I need to post a guard mission. As he spoke, Levi pushed the 'Adventurer's Escort Mission' in front of the bartender.

"A silver coin deposit..."As soon as the bartender finished speaking, his eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the task above, and then he opened his mouth slightly, showing excitement and said to everyone in the tavern:

"Hey, everyone, good news, our Queen of Sword Bay, Alyssa, has temporarily released a 'Maritime Escort Mission', and those who want to make a fortune should come and take a look. ”

The entire tavern was silent for a moment, and then it became boiling.

"Alyssa, Queen of Sword Bay, oh, my goddess is above, are they already in Askatra, Bob, leave me a spot!"

"Me too. ”

At this time, Alyssa, who had already gotten up and came to the corner of the building, smiled and announced to the somewhat fanatical adventurers:

"I think you may have heard that the goods transported by our John Chamber of Commerce this time are worth a lot, and we have already encountered a pirate attack on the way, in order to temporarily strengthen the escort force, we have issued a recruitment to all adventurers in Askatra, and the reward will not disappoint you, well, you can now go and discuss with your own captain, we will leave at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, and we will not wait. ”

With that, Alyssa flicked her flaming single ponytail and disappeared with Charan Viros into the corner staircase leading to the guest room on the second floor.

......

Deep in the Shattered Tooth Mountains.

The hall that originally belonged to the Bone Finger Thieves Guild had long since been reduced to ruins, but not many people knew that under this mottled ruin, there was another world.

The empty basement is a mountain of coins, gems, and magical items that sparkle with spiritual light.

If these treasures are seen by adventurers, they may immediately fall into madness.

Tons of gold are enough to rival the treasury of a city-state or even a small kingdom, not to mention the priceless magical gems that can be seen sporadically, such as the Eye of Naral, the Stone of Mourning of Avietan, and the Tears of Receland.

Inside the pile of treasure, you can even see the half-buried onion-shaped dome of Anacheti, which once belonged to the gilded dome of one of Selmer's temples, but was moved by its owner to serve as the base of her lair.

At this moment, the nest**, which was almost filled with treasures, suddenly lit up with a magical aura, and at the same time, a burst of shredded flattery seemed to linger in the nest**.

Poof.

There was a slight collapse in the golden mountain, revealing a vertical pupil comparable to a painting of a statue in the center of a gilded dome, which blinked back and forth a few times, as if it had not yet fully woken up.

The next moment, the head of the blue beast was 'plucked' out of the treasure pile, and for a moment it was like a mountain of gold, and everywhere there was a wonderful sound from the impact of precious metals, which was enough to put any dragon to sleep.

The same is true of its owner.

However, the 'magic communication' generated by the magic circle still reminded the cave owner unrelentingly.

The blue beast stretched out its claws with some impatience and tapped on the magic aura, revealing a short, vague figure.

If anyone saw him at this time, Bacheng would exclaim, isn't this the halfling bard who sold miserably in the tavern before?

But his appearance at this moment is different from the 'pathos' when he was in the tavern, he is prostrate on the ground, showing a flattering smile:

"Your most humble servant, Mitag, under the crown of the great Blueclaw Alogethos, sends you the most sincere greetings. ”

The blue dragon named Alogsos didn't seem to eat this, grinning a huge kiss full of sharp teeth, narrowing his eyes like a snake and saying:

"Mittag, if my memory is correct, you haven't brought the 'Dragon Slayer' to me for several years, or do you want to be my first snack when I wake up?"

"No, no, no, no! The meat of Armitage is stinky, yes, smelly, and the portion is too small, and if it is a pre-dinner snack for the great host, it is undoubtedly a blasphemy against you. ”

The halfling named Mitag was almost scared by the blue dragon.

"That's enough! My patience is limited! Let's get down to business, you've got a new team of warriors together, or... What's new in Am?"

Alogthos interrupted with a wave of his claws impatiently.

"Due to the fact that there are so many adventurers who have died in the Broken Tooth Mountains over the years, there are not many warriors willing to go deeper. ”

Mitag instinctively excused himself, and after noticing the increasing impatience and coldness in the eyes of this giant beast, his instinctive desire to survive made him quickly continue:

"It's... It was like this, I saw a message in Ascatila, and this message, for you, the master, means new wealth. ”

"Oh?" Alogsos's eyes softened when he heard the word wealth.

Seeing that Bluepaw was really interested, the halfling hurriedly said: "A dreadnought from the Northlands, loaded with a shipload of magical items, came to Am's Ascaltra, due to the leak of information, it was raided by pirates on the way, but it has been repelled by them, its captain, the legendary Queen of Sword Bay, Alyssa, openly recruited more adventurers in Askatla to expand their escort team. ”

As he spoke, the halfling lifted the 'Maritime Escort Mission' on the tavern notice wall above his head.

"A boatload of magical items?" Alogthos snapped and grabbed the 'illusory' announcement and 'manifested' it into a physical form.

If it was just a pile of gold coins, she might not be too interested, she was now an old and almost old blue dragon.

But she doesn't have the same outstanding talent as her mother Ivy Korazagran, and now she is still a level 19 blue dragon, and whether she can cross that threshold and successfully survive the destiny of the extremely old dragon is still unknown.

And if she wasn't forced to do it, she wouldn't want to use the method of worshipping the dragon to turn herself into a dragon lich covered in bones through the transformation ritual.

That's ugly!

She loves the way she looks and loves life now, whether it's eating, or the feeling of those cute little babies rubbing against the scales, it makes her extremely happy.

She wanted to 'live' and survive the dragon's destiny on her own, becoming an ancient dragon.

More magical items will undoubtedly inspire her and strengthen the lair's defenses to prevent a dragon slayer from disturbing her good deeds while she is 'last sleeping'.

No one, or dragon, would refuse more magic items.

Her mother had suffered such a loss in the battle against Sean VII.

The offspring of that shameful liar turned that treasure house into an 'arsenal' full of magical items, nearly killing her mother on the battlefield.

However, her mother later used her treasure to create a 'Dragon Treasury' that was not inferior to that of Shane VII, and in order to gain a combat power far beyond that of her age.

This has always been coveted by her.

But those were her mother's... And it will never belong to her! Not even the taxes and tributes of the three kingdoms will fall into her claws.

This has always given her a feeling of extreme ambivalence.

But every time she imagined her weak self rebelling against her powerful mother, there was a chill that pierced her soul.

But... Now, it seems like she has a chance to have one too?

"Very good, I'm satisfied, you go down. Thinking of this, Alogethos couldn't help but squint her eyes slightly, and didn't pursue the 'bad performance' of the halfling anymore, extinguishing the magic communication.

It's a 'money burner' to maintain it.

"Sicilys, Serves. ”

Alogothus suddenly called out two names.

"Command, my master. ”

Then I saw two tall figures coming out of the darkness.

They are a pair of ogre brothers, and they are extremely rare ogres.

A sudden gust of wind blew and lifted the sheet from the dragon's claws and landed it in the hands of the blue-skinned ogre.

"Inform them to intercept the ship, and you will prepare as well. ”

"Your will is our will. The ogre brothers got up and left.

When the entire lair was silent again, only the voice of Alogethos echoed throughout:

"A boatload of magical items... It's enough to make my own trip, so it's a morning exercise, right?"

"By the way... Eat a full meal. ”

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