The blacksmith and the Reverend Waukin, seeing the intruder-robed man speak like this, looked at each other a few times, and finally the inquiring gaze fell on Penny and Hughes, who were frowning.

Marcchi also saw the two colleagues who had arrived first, the muscles at the eyebrows slightly raised, showing a surprised and strange expression.

"You still have a slip in your hand this time that can cross the order of transactions?" Penny began, not deliberately removing the anger from his voice.

"Not really. Marcchi turned to the auctioneer: "Pig iron is a military material, although your auction has been registered, but our southern Satoka harbor is in urgent need of these things to make weapons against pirates, so we need to temporarily requisition from you, and as compensation, we will give a certain subsidy." ”

As for the outside, in addition to the frequent wars of aggression, the attitude of the red-robed mage is not very domineering, especially when conducting business transactions with the outside world, if there are no special circumstances, no matter which faction the people are quite reasonable.

Hearing Marc mention Satoka, Penny frowned, only then did he know that the red-robed jurisdiction was directly north of Helen.

This is not good news, a colleague who is arrogant and domineering and does not leave room for others will be annoying anywhere, and it is even worse news to be a neighbor with him.

"Oh, Lord Priest......," Hughes suddenly spoke, "As this colleague of mine said, pig iron is a military material, although your auction has been registered, but we in the southern Helen Mountains are in urgent need of a batch of pig iron to make weapons against the bandits, so we need to requisition from you temporarily, of course, we will also give a certain subsidy." ”

Sean twitched his cheeks, except for a few places, this passage is basically exactly the same as Marchi's original words, speaking in this obviously under-beaten way, it can be seen that Hughes is also really angry because of the other party's aggressiveness.

"Hughes, I'm doing business, I don't have time to play with you. Marchi frowned, clearly impatient.

"Marchi, I'm doing my business too, I don't have time to mess around with you. Hughes sneered: "This is not an armory, you have already obtained three tons of pig iron, which is enough to arm an army, so you should take it when you see it." ”

"Hmm, no amount of metal in your territory is just a waste. Marqi suddenly snorted a few more times, with a sarcastic expression on his face: "Save it, young master, what do you know?"

"Whether we understand it or not, we have to take this batch of pig iron. Penny said, "I'm sorry, this ...... Belch...... Senior, we have the same conditions here, but we came first......"

"There's no place for you to talk here!" Marcchi glanced at Penny disdainfully, "To be Lord Trofidi's retinue, you need to know your identity." ”

Obviously, he didn't distinguish the relationship between Penny and Hughes, and he didn't put Penny in his eyes at all.

The anger in Penny's heart suddenly rushed into his eyes, and after beating twice, it turned into a deep one.

"You're wrong, Marchi, this is my lord. Hughes had a sarcastic smile on his face.

Marchi was stunned for a moment, and immediately laughed: "Ha?!Master, what did I hear? You actually surrendered your identity to play a game with children, in such a dangerous place? By the way, I should have thought a long time ago, how could you enter the political ...... of Serre with your guts?"

But soon his laughter stopped because Hughes's expression did not change, and he glanced at Penny, who had a flat expression, with a little confusion, and heard Hughes clapping his palms and his tone relaxed:

"Well, anyway, we got here first, Marchi, don't bother anymore, according to Serre's law, we have equal administrative powers, and you won't get any preferential treatment here without the approval of your superiors. ”

"Oh, yes, equal executive power, maybe...... But in this case, another kind of power is obviously more applicable, and by the way, I almost forgot that this should have been used a long time ago. Marcchi smiled, pulled out a huge box from somewhere, which seemed to be hidden in a magic bag, and turned to the auctioneer: "The market price of pig iron is at most thirty tarans (copper coins) a pound, a ton, and it is only more than eight hundred Beléns, and here are a thousand, plus the subsidy for emergency requisition, it should be enough." ”

"Oh?" the auctioneer looked at the box containing the gold coins, a look of surprise on his face.

He saw the dispute between the two groups of mages, and it was impossible to please both sides in this situation, and he often went in and out of Serre, and he knew that no matter which party he sold the pig iron to, he would not suffer too much damage under the protection of the temple.

So he just needs to pay attention to the benefits he can get.

A thousand gold coins is roughly equivalent to the tax revenue of a medium-sized town for more than half a year, which is already quite considerable.

Hughes's face changed, and it was clear that he didn't have much cash with him.

"Mr. Merchant, don't be too busy agreeing for now. Penny took out a piece of parchment and handed it to the priest of Waukin, and then smiled at Marchi: "Actually, I want to say to my predecessors, if you have the economic power to talk, you don't have enough capital. ”

"Hmm, what is this??" Marche squinted at the priest of Waukin, "Priest, it is against the principle to collect such a thing......"

But he immediately saw the priest's originally confused eyes quickly refresh after glancing at the note, and Marcchi had a bad feeling, and swallowed the rest of the words, and heard the priest put the parchment back into Penny's hand with a solemn expression, and then said to the merchant: "Your iron artifact, the church has purchased it on behalf of this Mr. Sean, go back and withdraw the money." ”

"Okay. The merchant was shocked, and looked at Penny with a smile on his lips and the priest with an extremely serious expression, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he turned back.

"You! you have broken the rules, messenger of Waukin. Marchi was furious and glared at the priest viciously.

"It is a pity that this Mr. Sean carries with him the grace of our Lord, and we have rightfully accorded it to him. The pastor said without humility.

Marc and Hughes looked at Penny with a mixture of surprise, surprise and incredulity.

There are millions of believers in God at every turn, and it is really difficult to obtain the grace of God except for priests and other clergy, and once obtained, it is equivalent to getting the attention and favor of God, which is obviously a very remarkable thing.

"So, Lord March, your trading conditions are not competitive here, and I suggest you give up. Penny spread his hands and made a gesture of regret to March.

“...... I think I did underestimate you. Marci's anger as if he had been tricked was suppressed slightly, and finally looked at Penny Sean, and began to remember the appearance of this mage who was a few years younger than him, he finished looking at Sean, and then turned to Hughes: "I'm starting to believe you a little, young master, this little kid's level is indeed much higher than yours." ”

Hughes snorted sarcastically, but didn't fight back, firstly, the anger in his heart had dissipated, and secondly, the surprise of learning that Penny had carried the lady's divine grace had not subsided.

"I'm curious about you, little friend, I wonder if there's a chance to learn a spell with you?"

It's said to be a fight, but I just want to find an excuse to fight with you.

This kind of exchange is not uncommon, in fact, for the official red-robed mages who have left the apprenticeship era, the order created by the constraints of the law has gradually gained a clear influence, but the red-robed settlement of disputes through private fighting, as long as it does not go too far to cause serious injury and mutilation, is still generally recognized.

Sometimes, even if someone dies, as long as the murderer's background is hard enough, he can't make much noise.

Marcchi was reluctant to touch Hughes, not to mention that it was Penny who was the one who made him deflated—he wanted to teach this junior a lesson.

Penny was also amazed by the instantaneous second-level spell 'Ghoul Touch' - because he could instantly cast a second-ring spell, indicating that the caster had touched the sixth layer of the net, but when he saw the long tail clamped between his wrists, he knew he was thinking too much.

It's just a spell cast with a wand.

In less than half a second, Hughes had just reacted, and before he could show an angry expression, the finger had already reached Penny's eyes less than two feet, and the mage's reaction was only to raise the index finger of his right hand.

"Interference!"

A simple word came out of Penny's mouth, and as the last note came out, his index finger flashed a pale glow, stretching a few inches in the shadow of Marchi's sleeves, and struck the wand.

As a high-imitation golden finger given by the goddess, this finger of Penny's right hand has many murderous abilities.

Because it is made of special materials, this finger can be elongated and shortened within a certain range, and can even be twisted into strange angles, of course, this is just an ordinary quality.

For example, it can change the shape of materials with its own supernatural affinity for matter, a handy ability used by the Mechanic to mass-manufacture mechanical parts.

For example, it can touch the inside of a magic device, giving the mage a tactile visual understanding of how the spell works.

As another example, it can also be used to directly shape arcane power with that arcane sensibility, making it easier to attach magical power to tools - as was the case with the magic items that were commonly used in ancient empires.

Correspondingly, it can use the above special surnames to shape magical items, and of course, it can also destroy magical powers.

In fact, it's easier to destroy than to shape, and with Penny's mastery of the finger's power, it's not hard to disable a wand.

So Marcchi felt a burst of negative energy burst out from under his wrist, and the power on his fingers dissipated into invisibility with a 'boom', and the dissipation of a large amount of negative energy made his sleeve directly decay, and even half of his body became paralyzed and rigid, and emitted a disgusting stench, as if it had become a corpse that had been aged for several months.

As soon as the stunned look on his face appeared, he saw the junior mage on the opposite side take out a pupil-shaped crystal sphere, and when his gaze touched the sphere, the instinctive bad reaction made him immediately want to look away, but it was this moment of hesitation, and the crystal ball in Penny's hand released a strange light that only Marc could see!

There was a soft buzzing in his head, and all his thoughts instantly fell into confusion, and his eyes walked around on the ground in a daze.

Sean sneered, withdrew the crystal ball, and began to focus on casting spells, preparing to deliver the final blow to Marchi, who had been affected by the 'Confusion Technique'.

After a short spell, a large mallet formed by a force field appeared in front of the mage, and the spell called the battering ram slammed into the back of the confused Marchi, who let out a scream, and when the end of the scream came, the source of the sound was already some distance from the temple.

His knightly retinue glanced at Penny a few times, and finally did not make a threatening move, but turned and walked out to help his master.

"That's it. Penny clapped his palm.

"You're in trouble this time. Hughes twitched the corners of his mouth with a strange expression, as if suppressing a smile: "That person is very vindictive." ”

"Do you want to swallow your anger?" Penny frowned, "I don't want to eat that ghoul touch." ”

"But where do you hide the disenchanting scroll or wand?" Hughes's eyes lit up suddenly, and he decided not to care about this matter anymore, but was curious about something else, apparently he was puzzled by Penny's method of interfering with Marchi's spell.

"Well, it's just a little trick. Penny said a few words.

"Not a bad fight. A voice came from the door, and a man who seemed to be a little old came down from the back door of the temple with a dozen retinues, and Penny and Hughes looked over, and were stunned for a moment,

This old man was dressed in a bald tattooed red robe that was no stranger to the Ser people, and he looked at the two mages in the temple, and his smile seemed very kind.

"Andersigar. Pastor Waukin nodded respectfully.