Lord of Hyranza

Before Suldak finished speaking, Selina rushed out of the door quickly, wrapped her hands around Suldak's neck, and hung herself on his body.

Selena closed her eyes, smelling the faint smell of soap on his face...

"Hey... do we have to stay at the door like this?" Suldak's voice rang in her ears.

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Chapter 293 Shadow Word

When he woke up early in the morning, he saw Signa cautiously looking down from the upper bunk. This gave Suldak the deepest feeling that he should really have a big castle-like house.

Otherwise, every time I lie down with Selena, there will always be a little guy disrupting the situation after waking up, which makes Suldak feel a little embarrassed.

And every time Signa sees those horrible scars on her body, she always has a look of horror.

Suldak's memory of the origin of these scars is a little fuzzy, and he can only see some fragmentary pictures in his memory: he is struggling in a sea of ​​fire, and outside the sea of ​​fire, a magician riding a magic handle The master is chasing another female magician with a child, every time the picture will stop here, and then there will be a deep pain in my heart.

The black tattoo of the goddess Celine on Selena's back is not always visible.

Just like now, her back is white and smooth, lying next to her, showing a soft and beautiful curve.

Suldak told her about these changes of Selena, and Selena curled up in his arms like a lazy cat, whispering: "Goddesses don't always bow down, When the goddess is not around, of course there will be no tattoos on the back..."

"Can it still be like this?" Suldak said with some surprise, he didn't expect that the magic pattern on her body could be hidden.

Selena and Signa nodded affirmatively at the same time. Seeing the determined faces of the mother and daughter, Suldak believed it completely. With something to talk about, at least the atmosphere would not be too embarrassing, so Suer Dak then said to Selina: "When the Dark Goddess comes, is there any ability given to you?"

Probably because of this level of intimacy, Selena blinked and said, "Actually, it's a very weak ability, and it's okay to say it, it's like a language curse..."

"Language curse?" Suldak repeated in his mouth.

This reminded him of his 'Whisper of Death', isn't that a language curse?Thinking of the power of the 'Whisper of Death', it seems that it can instantly kill the enemy on the battlefield, but until now he has not figured out how to use the 'Whisper of Death'.

Selena propped her upper body up from the crude plank bed, smiled slightly at Suldak and said, "It's about the same, but it's useless... Do you want to feel it?"

Suldak didn't expect Selena to have such a proposal, and asked again with certainty: "Me? Are you going to cast that curse on me?"

Selena kept nodding and said: "It's okay, anyway, just feel it, it won't cause much damage, sometimes when Signa makes a mistake, I will cast that curse on her, but it's useless now, She is more proficient than me now..."

Hearing what Selena said, Suldak became even more curious about what kind of spell it was, but he caught another point in Selena's words, "You mean Signa will also do that? A language curse, and also a follower of the Dark Goddess?"

Selena stared at Surdak with a strange look, as if to say: 'Is there something wrong with this? '

"Well, what I want to say is what to believe in...you should let her choose." Suldak felt that Signa should be given a better belief since she was a child, after all, almost all people in the empire believed in freedom Goddess, the Goddess of Darkness does not have any living soil in the Grimm Empire... If you don't like the Statue of Liberty, it is better to believe in the God of Magic or the Lord of Elements, such as Paglio, the God of Fire, and Eva, the God of Water, than the Goddess of Darkness Celine.

"This is her choice." Selena glanced at Signa who was hiding on the upper bunk, and said to Suldak.

Suldak could only sigh inwardly. He wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it. After all, it was hard to say whether something like belief was right or wrong.

Selena put on a nightgown, then half-kneeled on the bed, folded her hands in front of her chest, and prayed devoutly to the Goddess of Darkness. This time, Suldak didn't open his eyes of reality, so he couldn't see what was around Selena Seeing such a change, she felt that the portrait of the goddess with one hand raised in the well appeared behind her again, and then Selena's closed eyes suddenly opened, and the light green pupils became as black as ink, and her mouth was just Say one syllable briefly:

'pain'

Selina stared at Suldak's left hand. Suldak felt as if his left hand had been hit by a blunt object, and there was a pain coming from the joints, but his hand did not change at all. , He tried clenching his fist and stretching, but there was no inconvenience at all, the only thing was that there was a tolerable pain in his hand.

"Is this your language curse?" Suldak asked in astonishment.

"Well, it is said that this is a kind of shadow word." Selina nodded and replied.

It seems that it is really just like what Selena said, it only has the function of punishment, and it is really useless in real battles. Suldak looked at Selena who was a little depressed, and his heart softened, and he comforted her and said: "Actually, it is still If it has a little effect, at least it can make people unable to concentrate on doing something."

"But that's all, isn't it?" Selena squeezed out a forced smile. She knelt on the bed and put her long chestnut hair behind her head with both hands, and tied it into a ponytail. A youthful breath rushed to her face. Come on, I feel that the whole person is five or six years younger.

"This spell is indeed a bit weak." Suldak said truthfully.

"That's not a little bit, after all, I said it represents the Goddess of Darkness." Selena got out of bed and started to make some breakfast, and said casually.

"It may also be just as you said - the Goddess of Darkness has forgotten you in this corner." Suldak said.

Selena squatted by the fireplace and was about to light the fire, her eyes dimmed and she said, "Okay, I admit it."

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After the Harvest Festival, Wall Village quickly recovered from the festive atmosphere. Most of the villagers had finished harvesting the wheat, and there were few stacks left on the valley field.

The men in Wall Village began to prepare to go to the sulfur mine in Bump Mountain. This time, everyone had the experience of living in Bump Mountain and knew what supplies should be brought more and what materials should not be used at all.

For example, the water gathering scroll is indispensable. There is no water source around Pustule Mountain. Everyone’s drinking water problem is completely dependent on the water gathering scroll. The three water gathering scrolls that Suldak carried with him have been used up. The villagers We only have the last one in our hands now. This kind of life-like magic scroll can only be bought in the magic store in Hailansa City.

In addition, the 22 pairs of long leather boots and cotton masks prepared by Suerdak played a very important role. In the environment of Pustule Mountain, the rocky ground in many places is hot, and some rock formations are still flowing with magma. Wearing this kind of long leather boots can prevent the feet from being burned. The young people in the second echelon did not wear long leather boots. This time, several young people's feet were burned to varying degrees in Bump Mountain.

The old village chief asked Suerdak to bring a batch of sulfur to Hailansa City. After selling it, he could exchange it for some water-gathering scrolls, custom-made thick-soled boots, and a pickaxe. These necessary labor items still need to be fully prepared. of.

Chapter 294 Change

With the end of the rainy season, the weeds on the Beigou Grassland gradually withered and turned yellow, and the water level in the Beigou Water Pool dropped significantly every day. The villagers in Woer Village had to store enough pasture here before winter came. It will dry up to the bottom, and some finger-long silver-scale small fish swim in groups in the water. Every year at this time, young people from Wall Village will run to the edge of the pool to build a dam. You can pick up this annual silver-scaled fish casually in the muddy water with bare feet.

The surface layer of Pagros Mountain is a huge limestone rock formation belt. Because of this special rock formation, the rainwater will quickly seep into the ground when it falls, and there is almost no vegetation on this rock formation, so it is called the Pagolos Mountain. Badlands.

Although some silt has gathered at the bottom of the pool in Beigou Grassland, it still cannot prevent the pool water from seeping into the ground.

A group of gazelles drank water by the pool, and a four-wheeled carriage filled with volcanic ash drove slowly along the edge of the Beigou grassland. The coachman waved his whip to startle a group of copper-billed sparrows hidden in the grass.

Five or six older children were catching fish at the edge of the pool. One of the older children saw the coachman on the four-wheeled carriage, quickly pushed his companion, and whispered: "Hey! Conan, the man driving the carriage is your father ..."

Another child who was fishing in the mud pit quickly raised his head and saw the figure above the ravine with a surprised expression on his face. He said quickly, "Ah! He seems to have said that today he will drive to the mountain to pull volcanic ash."

Several older children stood in the mud together, waving to the coachman above the ravine.

At this time, the coachman also noticed the older children fishing at the bottom of the ravine, so he stopped the four-wheeled carriage, stood on a high place and shouted to the older children at the bottom of the ravine: "You guys must pay attention to safety! "

"Got it!" The older children responded enthusiastically.

In the field of vision of the coachman, several neighbors with simple luggage on their backs rushed to Wall Village along this road. When they passed the Beigou Grassland, their eyes were full of envy. Not many in this barren land.

Old Conan drove the carriage past the neighboring villages, because this road leads to Wall Village, so he couldn't help asking: "Everyone... are you going to Wall Village?"

These neighbors stopped in their tracks and replied straightforwardly: "That's right, we heard that the head of Wall Village, Bright, recruited bricklayers to build a water reservoir in the village, and the wages were settled every day, so we are going to go to Wall Try your luck in the village, finding a job here is better than going to Hailansa City."

Seeing the wrinkles on their dark faces facing each other, old Conan hesitated, thinking whether to drive them for a certain distance in a carriage, but the car was already filled with a whole load of volcanic ash, so old Conan hesitated. Cai said gruffly: "Oh, it is indeed necessary to build a reservoir..."

He hesitated for a moment, after all, he didn't pick up those neighbors.

Facts have proved that the old Conan's choice is very wise. The carriage walked forward for a while and saw four or five groups of villagers from neighboring villages who went to Wall Village to find odd jobs. These people would ask old Conan Building a cistern.

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The stonemasons in Woer Village rode directly to the sulfur mine in Bump Mountain, and the rest of the young people would walk first, and wait for the stonemasons to arrive at Bump Mountain before sending the horses back, and then these young people rode to Bump Mountain on horseback However, the sulfur mine alone almost occupied all the men in Wall Village, so almost all the craftsmen who built the reservoir came from several surrounding villages.

The specific candidates were selected by the old village chief himself. Just after the harvest festival, these craftsmen came to Wall Village with simple luggage.

The old village chief made simple arrangements for these craftsmen, and the craftsmen, led by the old village chief, went to the upper reaches of the village where the reservoir was going to be built. The line is still clearly visible, and then the old village chief described the approximate size of the reservoir to the bricklayers.

There is already some volcanic ash and limestone powder piled up on the construction site here. First, the laborers sift the volcanic ash and limestone powder, and then mix them together according to the ratio required by the old village chief, and make cement. Another part of the laborers It started to dig a deep trench around the white and gray markings of the reservoir. Next, the steel bars bought by Suldak were to be punched into a ground cage, placed in the trench, and then poured with cement to lay the foundation...

Selena’s notes clearly recorded the specific requirements and practices of each step. The old village chief was the organizer of the construction of the reservoir. He had to direct nearly 150 craftsmen to operate efficiently. Surdak These masons and laborers need to be paid a salary of 85 silver coins every day, so he has to make use of every labor force, and the entire reservoir construction site becomes very lively for a while.

Unforeseen problems followed one after another, such as the serious shortage of volcanic ash and lime powder that had been hoarded, conflicts between the craftsmen weaving the cages and the laborers who dug stone trenches, the trenches dug by the laborers were not wide enough, and The limestone dug out of the trenches had to be ground into stone powder, etc. Even if the old village chief was accompanied by his capable assistant Selina, these trivial matters kept him so busy that his feet barely touched the ground.

The old village chief pinched his waist with one hand, and almost shouted hoarse at the construction site in full swing.

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At this moment, Suldak was passing through the mountain pass on horseback, and the corpses of robbers hanging on the cross on the top of the mountain had obviously increased a few more.

The surrounding villages have a very firm attitude towards the robbers, and the effect is very obvious. Although these robbers are a group of ruthless characters who are used to licking blood on the edge of their knives, they disrupt the inherent rhythm of life of the villagers living in the barren land. Most of the villages in the village are impoverished, and the villagers are struggling on the food and clothing line, but this does not mean that they are a group of lambs at the mercy of others.

On the contrary, the mountain people who can survive in this barren land all have a kind of ruthlessness in their bones.

Moreover, the bandits are foreign intruders after all. If they condense into a team, they may be able to wipe out these natural villages with the scimitar in their hands. , these robbers were broken up into pieces and scattered into various natural villages. Now the villagers are slowly finding out and destroying them one by one. The killed robbers will be sent to the top of the mountain here.

All of a sudden, the wooden cross on the top of the mountain pass has turned into an artificial jungle, and the effectiveness of the villages in stopping the robbers is so good, which Suldak never imagined...

Chapter 295 Tavern

Every time I come to Hailansa City, I will have some new understanding of this mountain city built on the mountainside.

At dusk, a faint twilight enveloped the entire city, and the sky and the mountains seemed to be burning with a mass of sky fire, and the sky was red for a long time.

The guards at the gate of the city were far from drowsy at noon. At this time, they were discussing whether to sneak into a tavern for a drink or two. The color of the festival, although the city looks small, it is full of rich life atmosphere.

Looking at the warm lights reflected from the glass windows of those houses, Suerdak wanted to sit in the restaurant and eat some roast goose and drink a glass of cold ale at this time.

Suldak still lives in the hotel opposite the square garden. The coquettish proprietress is leaning against the front desk, watching Suldak push the door and walk in. She glances behind him subconsciously, seeing him Walking in alone, a half-smile appeared on his face, and the hand on the counter secretly pulled down the low-cut dress, making the silk low-cut dress look like it couldn't support the chest huge.

With a confident smile on his face, he said to Suldak: "There is a room on the third floor facing the window, do you want to prepare a dinner for you?"

Suerdak put his luggage at the front desk and said to the proprietress at the counter: "I want the room, but I don't need dinner. It's still early. I'm going to take a stroll in the city. Dinner may be settled outside."

The proprietress withdrew her gaze in disappointment, threw a bunch of keys on the wall behind her to Suldak, and ignored him.

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This time when he entered the city, Suldak planned to sell a batch of sulfur mines in the underground market, and then buy a few magic scrolls of gathering water and gathering fire.

The main purpose of selling these sulfur mines is to purchase some thick-soled boots and rawhide felt tents for the sulfur mine. It is best to buy some cheap fire resistance potions at the magic pharmacy. According to the old village chief's idea, sell these After the sulfur mine, the money can be used to pay the masons and laborers who built the reservoir. The old village head believes that the construction of the reservoir is the welfare of the whole village.

If it was replaced by the past, the village did not have such ability, then there is nothing to say. It is understandable that Suldak paid for it himself, but now there is a sulfur mine in the village. With these sulfur mines, Wall Village can easily build a water storage facility. Chi Lai, that's why the old village chief wanted to sell a batch of sulfur mines so urgently.

No matter how the sulfur mine is sold, the boots must be bought back, so Suerdak walked out of the hotel, went to the leather shop last time, and asked the owner to buy fifty pairs of boots, not only The requirement is long leather boots, and these leather boots are required to have a thick sole that is fire-resistant.

I thought that felt tents could only be bought in grocery stores, but I didn’t expect that there were raw cowhide felt tents in this leather shop. Suldak bought five raw cowhide felt tents from this shop. The owner of the leather shop realized that Suerdak is obviously a big customer, so he took out ten leather belts and gave them to Suerdak for free. These belts are really useful for the stonemasons in the sulfur mine.

It's a pity that he walked back and forth twice on the most prosperous commercial street in Hailansa City, but he couldn't find the magic pharmacy. Finally, he saw a magic pharmacy on the corner of the street. Unfortunately, the magic pharmacy was still closed. There is a spider web hanging on the iron lock of the door. It seems that it has not been opened for a long time. If you can't buy the magic potion store, you can't buy the fire resistance potion. Suldak thinks that you should wait until tomorrow morning. Try your luck at the underground market.

It was completely dark, and the streets and alleys in the city were lit up with street lamps. Suerdak was standing in front of a tavern with a huge ale glass painted on the signboard at the door. Drink, I'd better find a better restaurant. After thinking about it, I felt that I should see the tavern in Hailansa City, and it seemed that this tavern was very popular. Suldak only stood at the door for a while , a dozen or so people walked into this noisy tavern one after another.

After a short while, Suldak pushed open the door of the tavern and walked in. The interior of the tavern was very large, filled with oak tables. The wine girls on the tray shuttle through the crowd. They wear close-fitting and sexy long skirts. As long as they are willing to sell the ale in their hands, they don't mind the drinkers taking advantage of them. More often, they will laugh and curse or say ambiguous words Come flirt.

Suldak saw with his own eyes a bearded man who was drunk throwing a silver coin into the heart-shaped neckline of the salesgirl before taking four large glasses of wine from the wooden tray above her head.

This was probably the first time Suldak saw a half-elf with pointed ears. His face was definitely still a human face, but his eyes were a little too delicate. He was obviously a male elf, but that beautiful face He is more coquettish than all the women in the tavern, his ears are translucent, and the fluff on the back of the ears can be clearly seen through the light behind the bar, and his slender hands are nimbly wiping the wine glass in front of him.

There is also a high platform opposite the bar, and now there is a bard holding a harp standing on the high platform. He compiled some of his experiences into some songs and sang them, and the melody of the songs is not fixed, it is completely improvised Performing, but the sound of the piano was not drowned out by the noisy voices in the tavern.

Suldak ordered a glass of ale with ice at the front desk, and it only cost fifteen copper coins, which was cheaper than expected.

"Has anyone ever told you that it's very impolite to stare at a half-elf?" the half-elf bartender said angrily to Suldak, not hiding his dissatisfaction.

Suldak shook his head.

"You know now?" The half-elf bartender handed a round wooden tray to Suldak.

Suldak nodded hastily, and left the bar with the ale. He couldn't help but glanced at his chest again. The chest was extremely flat, and there was an obvious Adam's apple in his throat. It looked like a male half-elf, Sulda Worried about offending the bartender, Ke was holding his glass and was about to leave, but the bartender's voice came from behind him again:

"If you only buy ale, try those ale girls. Maybe you will get some unexpected gains. If you want to drink rum or golden cider, then come to my side." The half-elf bartender said rudely.

With his back turned to him, Suldak raised his glass to signal that he heard.

In the tavern, besides the ale girls, occasionally some small vendors selling fruit and rice dumplings walked in. These small vendors were only allowed to walk around the tavern once, no matter whether anyone bought it or not, they had to go out immediately.

Suldak found a corner in the tavern and sat down...

Chapter 296 Auction

The alcohol is mixed with the smell of tobacco and perfume, and the drunken drinkers are twisting their bodies to the tune of the bard under the high platform.

If you want to dance with a certain dancer in the audience, you can buy her a glass of wine, but a glass of this kind of wine costs three to five silver coins. Of course, what you get is not just a glass of wine.

Suldak asked the bartender for a plate of nuts. Perhaps only in the middle of the noise can he feel that this world full of fantasy is so real. He took a sip of the slightly sour but mellow ale, which was not bitter. .

After the bard sang this long song, he happily left the stage among the countless flowers scattered in the audience. This kind of people live in no fixed place all their lives. They only need to collect the travel expenses to the next destination, and they will set off rain or shine. Then resolutely cut off everything in this city.

The noise in the tavern decreased a lot, and many drinkers returned to their seats. They picked up their glasses again, chatting and laughing with the people around them. Suldak thought that there would be another A bard or a dance troupe, but a short and fat businessman came up on the high stage. The dress on his body was open because it couldn't cover the fat belly, and his round face was piled up. With a full smile, he stood on the stage panting heavily.

Shouted to the guests in the audience: "Everyone, it's time for the weekly special product sales again. This time we are bringing the orcs from the New Siakis Mountain and the ashes from the Pai Plateau to all of you here." Dwarves, lizardmen of the wild swamp."

For a while, the audience was restless again, but there were not many cheers. On the contrary, there were boos everywhere, but these drinkers seemed to have known that there would be such a show, and they all watched the high stage.

Then, someone stood up from the audience, raised his head and shouted dissatisfiedly to the businessmen on the stage: "Khan, these mountain people from the extreme north and south again, I said Kagel, how can you say that you are also ours?" Why don’t you bring back some half-elfs and Janna beauties?”

The man who spoke loudly was a burly aristocrat. He was wearing a formal dress with a sword hanging around his waist. He had messy curly hair and sharp and arrogant eyes.His words resonated with the drinkers around him.

The businessman Kagel on the stage said angrily unceremoniously: "Now His Majesty Charles is entering into a cloth-for-herb trade with the world of the Silver Moon elves. Who in the entire Grimm Empire dares to openly sell elf slaves? Aren't you afraid of being sent away?" Go to the guillotine? I just returned some Janna mermaids, can you afford to build a seawater pool to feed them, do you think the bathtub at home can support Janna mermaids?"

The crowd around burst into laughter.

Someone in the crowd laughed and said, "Haha, Yuga, can't you be more ambitious and buy the manor of Earl Fornak outside the mountain city, so as to stop Kagel's stinky mouth?"

The burly man named Youjia cursed unceremoniously at the critic: "Fart, that manor has been ransacked by robbers outside the city twice in three years, let me buy that manor, unless I'm crazy ..."