Chapter 423 422. Trading
Sitting in front of the noisy tavern bar, Suldak was holding a glass of cold ale, and was chatting with Karl about some things in the guard camp.
After becoming the sheriff of the Pagros Mountain area outside the mountain pass, Suldak has to consider recruiting some helpers.
According to his thinking, these subordinates should preferably be retired veterans who have lived outside the mountain pass all year round. They have rich tracking and combat experience and can bring some changes to the public security issues in the barren land.
But Karl doesn't agree with Suldak's idea.
He thinks that among Suldak's subordinates, first of all, there must be a deputy who can write some written documents, preferably the kind of young academics who are willing to use their brains, and it is best to have two trainees who graduated from the Knight Academy For the knights, there are two veterans with rich combat experience at the end, so that the combat team will avoid unnecessary situations when the old and new are replaced in the future.
Due to the failure of the Battle of Moyunling, Suldak did not have any favorable impression of these graduates of the War College, but under Karl's persuasion, he still decided to give these young graduates some opportunities.
Although the reputation of the guard camp in Hailansa City is not very good, there are still many young trainee knights who graduate and want to enter the guard camp.
The proprietress of the tavern lowered her head and silently scrubbed the glasses, while chatting with Mrs. Christie in a low voice. A liquor girl in a midriff waistcoat pushed a tray onto the bar, which was full of empty wine glasses covered with beer froth. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he took out two shiny silver coins from his chest groove, handed them over to the bar, and sat on the high chair to wait quietly.
The proprietress moved these empty wine glasses to the sink, and began to fill the clean glasses with ale and placed them on wooden trays.
The door of the tavern was pushed open, and a young magician in a magic robe walked in. The drinkers sitting at the door were a little dazed, staring at the magician in black robes, and some even stood up nervously from their seats. Apparently, very few mages would come to this tavern. Most of the people who came here to drink were warriors, and mages had their own circle of life.
"Good evening, Mrs. Christie!"
Lance sat next to Suldak and greeted Mrs. Christie. He ignored the strange gazes around him, and his face looked extremely indifferent.
"Good evening, Magician Lance!" Mrs. Christie responded politely.
"Lance, your mission is complete?" Karl turned to Lance and asked.
The young magician sighed, looked at Suldak with a sad face, and said to Karl: "Yes! If we can't figure it out, I'm afraid we will be scolded to death by the great magician Gerald. After working so hard to track down the whereabouts of those black mages, in the end, it’s not as good as you knights of the guard battalion wandering in the streets casually, and you can pick up clues about the black mages.”
Carl took the red wine from the proprietress and handed it to Lance, then asked, "What did you find on Ms. Marion?"
Lance said with a bit of yin and yang, "There are no valuables left. What else do you think we can find?"
There is no doubt that Lance must have been greatly stimulated by the Magic Union, so he became a little irrational, and he couldn't do without sarcasm and sarcasm when he spoke, and Lance was serious about Suldak Said calmly: "Dark, the law enforcement team hopes that you can transfer the magic items of the black magician Marion to the magic union..."
Before Lance finished speaking, he was interrupted by Karl, "Hey... Hey, Lance, it doesn't matter whether that Ms. Marion is a black magician, but what evidence do you have that we took Marion? Madam’s relic, maybe she didn’t carry it with her at all, or maybe it was taken away by the black magician Samya.”
The magician Lance looked distressed, looked at his friend Carl with some depression, and said, "Carl, this is Lord Gerald's intention, and it is not for Suldak to take out these magic items for nothing. Part of the corresponding compensation, I hope to trace the clues of the black magician Samya, and those black magic items are also some contraband in Hailansa, and it is difficult to sell these things without special channels."
Carl said unceremoniously: "I don't care what is prohibited or not. If you want Marion's inheritance, you must exchange it with magic spar or gold coins."
The magician Lance took a sip of his wine depressedly, and said, "Understood, I will come to communicate with my superiors about this matter."
He knew that this side would not let go easily, but since he brought the words to him, he had completed the task assigned by Lord Gerald.
Then he immediately changed his face, his expression was no longer so serious and depressed, he clinked glasses with Suldak, who had not yet changed his mood, and said with a smile: "Now is our private chat time..."
His eyes were full of curiosity, and he asked Suldak: "I have never been able to figure it out, how did you reverse the defeat when facing two black mages with the strength of the first turn? The two mages It can form almost uninterrupted magic coverage, and as far as I know, these two black mages are good at high-level fire magic, even if they keep throwing small fireballs, it shouldn't be something your team can bear. Lord Sauron was restrained by the Dark Binder again, how did you do it?"
"This is your second purpose for coming to us, right?" Carl stared at Lance with a smile, until Carl's gaze made Lance's expression a little unnatural, then Carl put his arm around Lance's shoulder and said to him: " If you are willing to treat me tonight, I don't mind telling the details of the battle again."
Karl did not witness the battle between Suldak and Earl Fornak with his own eyes. He was still in a coma at the time, so the version he told the magician Lance was also described by Suldak afterwards. The scrutiny of professional magicians, such as how Suldak resisted the mental whipping of Marion magician...
Seeing that Karl had finished speaking, Suldak interrupted: "Okay, Karl!"
Someone turned to the magician Lance and said, "Lance, tomorrow I will personally go to the Magic Union to deliver Ms. Marion's relic, but her purse should not be of any help to your investigation, and I believe you don't need these unimportant things." Items, when I counted the relics, in addition to some high-level magic scrolls, there were also two bottles of magic potions and a few black magic skins with complete magic lines, and tomorrow I will take them all to the magic union."
Everyone didn't expect that these things that happened in Hailansa City would implicate Lord Gerald of the Magic Union Law Enforcement Team and be held accountable by the Magic Union of Bena Province. Karl also said in surprise: "It's so serious?"
Lance sighed and said, "According to the investigation by the Law Enforcement Team, there are about six black magicians on the Black Magic Priory in Hailansa City, except for Margaret Herter and Marion. There are four other black mages on the run."
"They are the Samoan magician who has been lurking in the dance troupe, the Celia Cooper magician who is good at space magic circles, and the Cyrus Hickok magician who is good at sleeping clouds and hypnotism. The last one is Jesse Housman, a magician who is good at processing magic gems."
"We have the least personal information about two black mages, Celia Cooper and Cyrus Hickok. It is said that this person is a very good jewelry craftsman, but our law enforcement team has investigated all the gem craftsmen in Hailansa City, and found no trace of Jesse Housman."
"There are four black magicians absconding, Duck, you should be more careful..."
Lance talked a lot about the Black Magic Priory. He probably felt that Karl and Suldak had been involved in this matter, so he revealed the news of other black magicians so that Suldak and Suldak Karl usually takes more precautions.
Carl and Mrs. Christie left first in the magic caravan.
Suldak walked out of the tavern, and a gust of north wind blew in his face, making him tighten his neckline. He took the reins of the horse from the waiter at the door, got on the horse, and walked towards the Knight Academy alone.
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This is not the first time for Suldak to come to the magic guild. He walked up to the second floor along the large turning staircase of the mage tower. Following the prompt of the beautiful female magic apprentice at the front desk, he found the magic pattern researching in the magic laboratory on the second floor. Lance in the magic circle waved to Lance in the room through the door Suldak.
It's a pity that he was concentrating on doing experiments and didn't see Suldak greet him.
Fortunately, a magic apprentice next to Lance saw Suldak's gesture, and the magic apprentice reminded Lance, so Lance looked up at the door, saw Suldak standing outside the door, and hurriedly He gestured to him to wait. It seemed that he was participating in a magic experiment that he couldn't get away from. Suldak nodded quickly, turned around and found a bench in the corridor to sit down.
Seeing a magician on the side taking some clean water from the faucet by the wall, he took out a water bag and went over to pick up a little bit. He returned to the bench and waited for Lance while tasting the taste of the clean water in the magic union. Will it be different, but to his disappointment, the water here is nothing special except a little purer.
Suldak tilted his head and looked at the corridor where people were coming and going. The magic apprentices trotted all the way holding some experimental utensils. Sometimes a magician followed several magic apprentices, watching them rushing from in front of Suldak. Walking past, it seems that walking is racing against time, and there are busy figures everywhere.
Most of the magic unions are female magicians. Seeing these beautiful or serious female magicians pass by, Suldak wondered if someone married a magician, would the two of them be together? When there was a quarrel on the bed, the furious female magician blasted her husband out of bed with a fireball, turning him into a red-roasted pig?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help shivering all over.
At this moment, a hand patted on his shoulder, which startled him again. He raised his head and saw Lance looking at him curiously, so he had to smile awkwardly.
"What are you still doing in a daze, let's go, I will take you to find the magician in the appraisal department. The magic items you send must first pass the appraisal department, and then make a price to give you some compensation. Don't worry, this time Zero You will definitely get a good compensation with the approval note written by Master De himself!" Lance said to Suldak.
"Ah! Thank you so much!"
Suldak quickly stood up from the bench and said to Lance.
"This is what you deserve." Lance said with a slight smile, his handsome appearance looked very gentlemanly.
The two walked up two floors along the large turning staircase before Lance brought Surdak into a room.
The room is full of various shelves, it looks more like a warehouse, the room is filled with a faint musty smell, an old magician is sitting among a pile of magic items, the desk in front of him is full of Miscellaneous, holding a magnifying glass in his hand, looking at a piece of silver magic metal.
Lance didn't seem to dare to disturb him, he just stood at the door with Suldak and waited quietly. After waiting for a while, the old magician finally put the magic metal in his hand back into the box, and took out A memo was written on a sticky note and glued to the box, then I looked up and saw Lance standing at the door, waved to him and said, "Come in, Lance, what do you want me to identify? "
"Mr. Nimitz, this time I want to ask you to price the magic items." Lance replied, leading Suldak over.
The old magician glanced at Suldak, those eyes had a sharp light, as if shining into Suldak's sea of spiritual consciousness.
"If you need me to identify anything, bring it all out!" The old magician said very simply.
Suldak stored twenty-seven black-striped magic skins, two bottles of magic potions Weak Troll Potion and Lion Power Potion, twenty-five magic scrolls, including four third-level magic scrolls and The eight second-level magic scrolls belonged to magician Marion, and the remaining thirteen magic scrolls belonged to magician Cyrus Hickok. The magic herbs in Cyrus Hickok's magic pocket had been taken by Sulda Ke sold it, and now he also took out these unused magic scrolls.
With so many magic items on the table, the old magician frowned slightly. He stretched out a skinny arm and threw all the magic scrolls into a wooden barrel at his feet. Said: "There is nothing to identify these magic scrolls. Any magic grocery store will know the price. There are a few black magic scrolls in it that are contraband..."
(end of this chapter)