What did you do with the dice?

Rusalka: Very good, now it's Kiana, oh no, it's Pearl Tears time!

The judgment of the legendary action is very strange. It seems that it can be used within a few seconds after activation, and there is no distance limit for teleportation. So, under the stunned gaze of Sanita, Rusalka's figure instantly stepped on the greatsword.

Of course, the greatsword can also be determined as a landing point. This was something Rusalka discovered when she was bored and wanted to try flying with a sword.

Flying with a sword is of course impossible, but at this moment, Rusalka is only 2 meters away from the opponent!

Without thinking, he pounced and grabbed the flying mage. When the mage was about to die, he took out the short spear hidden in his sleeve and stabbed it into the mage's waist.

When a touch of gold was applied to the short thorn, the opponent's body flashed with the brilliance of many magical items, but all the brilliance dimmed and dissipated under this sacred light. The legendary skill group route obtained with 100 skill points allowed Rusalka's radiant damage to ignore all resistances and reduction effects!

Of course, there's also double damage to evil.

Obviously, this wizard is not a good person.

Then brilliant holy light exploded in the air, as brilliant as a firework. Although the opponent's fragile mage was hit by a full double two-ring Holy Slash and was probably dead, Rusalka stabbed the opponent twice in succession with a short spear to prevent the opponent from counterattacking at the end of his life.

He unleashed three Holy Slashes in just six seconds, not stopping until his spell ring was empty and the opponent's body turned to ashes in mid-air, with all his equipment falling to the ground.

The wind blows the eggshell, and the people around are happy.

However, his body soon fell from the air, and Sanita used two phantom steps in a timely manner to flash to the ground next to Rusalka, then activated the flying technique to soar into the air, and patted Rusalka's body to perform the feather fall technique on him, and both of them landed safely.

There is no point in saving ring positions at this time. Things can be recovered by resting for eight hours continuously. In this world, as long as it is not a pursuit battle, resting for eight hours continuously is a very convenient thing.

When he landed lightly on the ground, Rusalka's first words to Sanitieta weren't thank you, but a question: "Spell Counter, Lightning, Flying, brother, how come you have three three-ring spells? Isn't level five supposed to have four one-ring spells, three two-ring spells, and two three-ring spells? Are you cheating? This is illegal, Elbow, come with me and turn yourself in."

Sanitta regretted saving the strong man - he wouldn't die from the fall anyway.

Chapter 57 Rebuilding the Villa

After the killer team was completely wiped out, the two of them were still a long way from leveling up in experience bars.

If you lose, you talk about reason; if you win, you brag. So Rusalka started complaining, saying that Ono and Phoenix were stealing his heads.

Fortunately, Sani Tieta was used to it. He collected the equipment dropped by the mage, went back to pick out what was still usable, and then took it out for his own use when the time came.

Who told Zhu Lei to be poor? He could only pick up other people's leftover consumables. Although the last team of adventurers was fully equipped, the only magical items they had were two bottles of low-quality healing potions.

Once something in this world has the word "magic" in its name, its price will skyrocket. This is why great wizards are feared and respected by others, because magic is a thing where you get what you pay for, and the same is true for strength.

Even if they don't have the strength, at least they have money. If they have money, they can really do whatever they want to ordinary people.

The best wizard may not be the richest, but a wizard without money is definitely not good.

This is the absolute truth. If Sanita lost his own "DND Book of All Spells" with instant ring spells + plug-ins that do not require material consumption, and simply became a native wizard with a strong learning ability, his role so far would only be slightly better than that of a wizard apprentice - powerful magic, but the chanting time required is too long, and the medium is too expensive.

It's just like the two big hands in the air just now, which burned an energy crystal in Rushaka's treasury, with a market value of 10 gold coins, but Sanita didn't tell him that the main purpose was to bully Rushaka because he had little education and didn't know the value of things.

Of course, Sanitta can also learn the Sword of Damocles, but knowing how to cast a spell does not mean that he can cast a spell.

First of all, it normally takes 10 minutes to cast the spell, and the material required is "a weapon that kills 200 ordinary vitality" or a weapon or prop with "spirituality" of equal value.

This time can be shortened by purchasing a powerful spellcasting medium, or by slaying a dragon yourself, dissecting the entity yourself, forging a staff with dragon crystals, and enchanting the staff yourself.

Of course there is no problem. Any world advocates the principle of doing it yourself to have enough food and clothing.

Putting aside the medium of spellcasting, let's estimate the materials of spellcasting. If an equipment can be hacked down by 200 ordinary people without being damaged, it must be a magic weapon or made of excellent materials and has been maintained with impeccable care. Even if it is not enchanted, the market value of a brand new one would probably be dozens of gold coins. Excluding the maintenance costs, it would cost at least 60 gold coins.

Think about it, even Rusalka's fine iron sword hasn't killed many people, and he has already changed three swords so far. It is really difficult to find a weapon that meets the requirements.

There are ways to quickly make materials, such as finding an executioner's executioner's knife or a guillotine's guillotine. However, meeting the requirements for casting spells does not mean that you can carry them with you. A mage certainly cannot lift such a thing, and it is impossible for teammates to carry it around. Therefore, the materials for casting spells are often daggers or short swords.

That is even more difficult, so usually this kind of material requires a special "alchemist" to perform the conversion operation, transferring the "spirituality" of this large weapon into an item. This item is the spellcasting prop needed by the mage.

Of course, there will definitely be losses in the transfer process, so basically in order to ensure the quality of the materials, the weapon must absorb at least 300 vitality, which increases the difficulty a lot.

The price, you ask? It depends on the alchemist's skill and the value of the carrier, but it starts at four figures in gold.

This is magic.

Then someone may ask, where can I buy spellcasting materials that are suitable for the physique of the magician baby?

The answer is that ordinary people certainly can’t buy it, and most wizards can’t buy it either, unless they know an alchemist friend, or are willing to pay several times the market price, plus a little luck and courage.

But Rusalka can - he has the Council of Gods and can ask someone in the Black Mist to make the deal.

This is why the Council of the God of Truth has such strong cohesion. From the two points of view that there are no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference and there is a guarantee from the gods, it is more reliable than the guarantee of any chamber of commerce or auction house in the world. The cooperation between them is perfect and top secret. No one above can refuse to join such a trading platform - except Rusalka.

Because he was poor, he couldn't afford what these people wanted to trade.

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The Pearl Tear Villa needed to be rebuilt, and Rusalka spent a lot of money with tears to hire workers from the neighboring Pearl Tear town to help build the house.

The benefits of high reputation are shown here. The residents of Pearl Tears Town are very enthusiastic. When they heard that it was Rusalka's house that exploded, they were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. Oh no, they were very willing to help with the reconstruction with a smile.

And they didn't ask for an exorbitant price. On the contrary, the wages surprised Rusalka. As long as she could be provided with food and accommodation during the winter, the salary was only 5 copper coins a day.

5 copper coins?

What does this mean? The answer is five loaves of bread.

Rusalka didn't quite understand how he could be so arrogant. He was still spitting at Sanita for being a capitalist and wanted to hang him from a street lamp.

But Sanitieta, who was in charge of the hiring, was very clear in his mind. He knew that the price he offered was a well-considered one, and it could even be said to be a somewhat generous offer.

It's not that he can't afford a higher salary, but it will have a counter-effect, making those who were not selected feel unbalanced, and they will shamelessly come to his door to bother him, increasing his workload.

Human beings are very wonderful creatures. They are not troubled by scarcity but by inequality.

First of all, the food in Zhulei Villa is of good quality and you can eat as much as you want. Of course, this is a hidden condition, and Sani Tieta will definitely not say it publicly, otherwise more people will come.

The main problem is that winter is a season with few job opportunities, and staying at home is just a waste of money.

Especially for those who do manual labor, the winter environment is too harsh and the risk of going out to do manual labor is too high. If they get sick, it will be even worse. Therefore, they can usually only stay at home and rely on their savings in winter. At most, they can go out to the streets to do some odd jobs such as helping to carry things or doing ironwork, but they can't make much money.

Working in the Pearl Tears Villa not only provides food and accommodation, but also a little salary. Those who have unstable jobs in winter are willing to come here to work.

Even if you don't have money, at least you won't use up your savings. When recruiting, Sunny Tower stated that you will be employed for three consecutive months, and the employment fee will be paid in two installments. The contract will not be terminated midway, which means they promise to support you for three months to get through the winter. Isn't that good?

That's why people like to help nobles - at least the treatment promised by Zhu Lei Lord has never been reneged on.

The people of Pearl Tear Territory are lucky. The previous one was quite corrupt. He only knew how to sell his father's land for his own enjoyment and didn't know how to exploit the people. If it weren't for the salt price issue, there wouldn't be so much complaints. Needless to say, this one is from the 21st century proletariat. If you let Rusalka exploit them, whether you can bear to do it is one thing, and whether you know how to exploit them is another. Rusalka feels that just providing food and accommodation + 5 copper coins is already considered exploitation. In fact, if he is a little more ruthless, those people really can not ask for wages, and may even be grateful to him.

On the one hand, the decision of Sani Tower can recruit the target population, and on the other hand, it can exclude those who can already work, so as to avoid those who have work to do in winter from trying every means to participate in the renovation work of Zhulei Villa due to too high salary, which will cause the work balance of Zhulei Town.

In other words, it will create the problem of "involution in the civil service exam", and if you are not selected, you will have to criticize Rusalka for being unfair, which is not appropriate.

After Sanita's explanation, Rusalka felt that she might not be cut out for this job.

After all, he initially felt that this was tiring work, with 7 days on and 0 days off, and food and accommodation provided as the most basic requirement, so he should be paid at least half a silver coin a day.

After all, if you compare them horizontally, the maids in Zhulei Territory have free food and accommodation, and receive a salary of one gold coin a year, which is 12-14 silver coins. After deducting holidays, it comes down to 5 copper coins a day.

Rusalka: (Why don’t you let the maid carry the bricks?)

Sanita: (Why don't you let those strong men be maids?)

Rusalka was speechless.

After Sanita gave him a rational analysis, Rusalka realized that this was indeed the rule, and the price of 5 copper coins was just enough to recruit the number of people he wanted.

By the way, the decoration drawings were drawn up by Rushaka, who was finally a professional in this field. He had wanted to renovate the villa for a long time, but had always been troubled by lack of time and reason, and it was not convenient to blast it. Now his dream has come true.

Partial renovation is also considered renovation, and other places can be modified next time they explode.

Watching the workers chatting and laughing as they helped to repair the villa, and verbally teasing the busy maids in the villa during meals and breaks, and bowing and greeting them when they saw me, life was full of joy.

Rusalka always felt that their working status was weird. It wasn’t that they had any problems with cheating, on the contrary, they were too cheerful and positive.

If he only earned 5 copper coins a day, he would have wanted to quit long ago. He could only swing the hammer with 10% of his strength, no more. Any more and his hard work would feel unworthy.

Rusalka: (Brother, why are they laughing so happily? I feel like they are just hoping that the Pearl Tear Villa will be blown up a few more times?)

Sunny Tower: (I think they would like to blow it up once a year before winter.)

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A few days later, Viscount Consenat received intelligence from the guild: the assassin team was completely wiped out.

It should be clarified here that the "Guild of the Kingdom" is not the "kingdom's" guild. In this world, the guild belongs to an organization under the name of the "God of Contract and Law". If you want to cooperate and apply, they will send someone to give you an assessment. After the assessment, you provide them with the materials to build a house, and they can send people over to set up a guild branch in your house.

Of course it's not without benefits. On the one hand, the guild can attract adventurers, increase job opportunities, and pay taxes to you.

After all, with the backing of the lawful gods in charge of contracts, the reliability of entrusting work to the guild is quite high, and everyone is willing to conduct employment activities through the guild as an intermediary platform.

In gaming terms:

Guild. Building Requirements: Town Construction Degree 50, Good Reputation. Building Effect: Adventurer Attraction +30, Unemployment -30, Taxes +5%, Public Security -10.

Why does solving the unemployment rate result in a decrease of 10% in public security?

Because the guild does business in all kinds of things, the adventurers who come to the guild to accept commissions are always a mixed bunch, so there will definitely be an impact on public security.

It's just that ordinary people can't get involved in black business. For example, when issuing a killer commission, they can only secretly release some "conventional" commission content. People in the industry will naturally understand that this is a killer commission, and then they will discuss the details in person with the employer.

Viscount Consenat received the news from the guild: the commission failed.

Then he was asked if he needed to find a new client. Of course, for a "high-risk special" commission like the one issued by Viscount Consenat, as long as the order was successfully accepted and both parties confirmed that the commission was established, the guild would remove the commission regardless of whether it was successful or not.

If you want to publish it again, you will need to pay another agency fee. The price of this commission is 1000 gold coins. The agency fee for high-risk special commissions is 10%, which is 100 gold coins.

Viscount Consenat declined politely. What a joke! Even that little-known assassin team with a wizard couldn't kill Rusalka. It would be unlikely to recruit her even if he spent another 1000 gold coins. I'm afraid even 2000 gold coins might not be enough to defeat her.

Your money doesn't fall from the sky, especially during this recent period of war, you must spend it carefully to avoid accidents.

What's more, Rusalka's mysterious background has begun to make Viscount Consenatte deeply suspicious and wary.

If it was said that Lord Ropa had just been unlucky and was caught in a trap and wiped out by Rusalka's personal force, the White Horse Rangers could still explain it by saying "their son had never been to the battlefield and was therefore complacent and careless", but there would be no excuse for the annihilation of this team of killers.

There must be some kind of huge force behind Rusalka. Even the sudden death of Lord Pearl's family might really be a conspiracy manipulated by the force behind him. After all, everything is too coincidental. Since Rusalka appeared, all good luck seems to have begun to lean towards him.

If it happens once or twice you could say it's luck, but if it happens every time it's just not acceptable.

Including the divine judgment duel, I only read the reports from the Kate Chamber of Commerce and the Roper Territory. Thinking carefully, is their information really 100% true and correct? Why didn't I confirm it again?

Moreover, why hadn't he doubted the legitimacy of the kingdom's envoy appointing him as a Grand Knight? Perhaps the envoy had been bribed from the very beginning. If that was the case, Rusalka's identity was a complete fake.

He was a pawn planted by the kingdom's high-ranking officials on the border, and the Pearl Tear Territory was nothing more than a cover for his legitimate development. This could also explain why he was completely unaware of the information that he was a "Paladin" at the beginning. Combined with the situation of the civil war in the kingdom, could the missing third prince and the other grand duke family who had not expressed their position have reached some kind of secret cooperation with the neighboring Kingdom of Esdi?

The more Viscount Consenatus thought about it, the more frightened he became. He even began to regret why he had acted so rashly and sent the White Horse Rangers to eliminate Rusalka. If it weren't for the refugee crisis and the Marquis's compulsory conscription order that made him so busy and flustered, he, who was usually calm, would have been more cautious.

Is reconciliation still possible in the current situation?

Or maybe Rusalka was just bluffing, and the killer team was actually wiped out only because the wizard named Sanitita beside Rusalka was so powerful. It is not impossible for the two of them to work together to wipe out the White Horse Rangers and the killer team.

A person who can summon natural disasters and easily destroy a city is called a wizard; and those who have just finished their apprenticeship and can only throw two pitiful fireballs, like the third son of Lord Ropa, are also called wizards.

After all, mages are like this, with a huge gap between their upper and lower limits. Viscount Consenat has reason and is more willing to believe that the killer team was wiped out because the mages were inferior in skills to others.

The desire to avenge his son was still beating in his heart, but compared to the love between his children, he was more worried that his family foundation of several generations would be destroyed.

So, do I still have a chance to test it?

The answer is yes, at least during these winter months, war cannot break out.

Having time means having opportunities. No matter whether Rusalka is bluffing or there is really a behemoth behind him that can crush him with just a flick of the finger, he has a few months of buffer time to make judgments and decisions - whether to tear this paper tiger apart in one go, to seek help from the central government after exposing Rusalka's true face, to bear the pain and escape with his family property, or to surrender and submit to the other party helplessly.

So Viscount Conesnat picked up his pen and wrote a letter.

The destination is: Zhuleiling.

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Chapter 58 The Agent of the Seven Sins

Luck is really a very wonderful thing. It is invisible and intangible, but it really affects the overall situation.

Just at this moment, Viscount Consenat's luck was extremely bad: when his letter was delivered to Rusalka's desk, Knight Honor's letter happened to arrive at the same time.

It's like when you are taking turns giving speeches, and the group next to you gave a speech with a score of 100, while your original level could have reached 90 points, but due to the contrast with the other group's excellence, the judges may only think that your level is 80 points or even 70 points.

The Viscount's letter reads:

Dear Baron Rusalka,

The recent instigation of Lord Ropa may have led to many misunderstandings between us. This is a turbulent time for the kingdom, with the internal situation turbulent and rebellions everywhere. Although there have been some minor unpleasantness before, we are, after all, a border area bordering Esdi in the southeast, and both belong to the name of Marquis Rennas. Some minor unpleasantness and friction should not shake the most essential survival interests between us.

You know, the Marquis's supporter is the Second Prince, that is, the Grand Duke Delai's family. Now that the Fourth Prince occupies the capital, as an alliance of common advancement and retreat, we should first work together to resist the threat of the Fourth Prince, and after clearing out the dissidents, consider our mutual interests. For this reason, I am willing to take a step back and cede all of the Luopa Territory and even some nearby vacant territories to the Zhulei Territory, in order to express my desire for a ceasefire and reconciliation.

I hope to hear from you as soon as possible. It would be even better if you are willing to meet with me in person. The location can be decided by you.