The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 168 Catch again!

After Sirollman fell into Ickert's trap, came a mage named Virgil.

Unlike the down-and-out Sirollman, Virgil is a full-fledged optimist despite his limited talent.

He confided to Ickert about his plan to rise up, intending to find opportunities in the territory close to the wood elves, and fantasized that he could be taught by those old and immortal elves.

It's best to marry a queen and go back, if it doesn't work, a princess is fine.

Obviously, this mage is too obsessed with fantasy time. What Ickert has to do is to break his fantasy, let him face the mechanical cold reality as soon as possible, live a down-to-earth life, and stop thinking about what is there.

By the way, correct this mage who is about to go astray and return to the great cog path.

After drinking for three rounds, the two began to brag about each other again, chatting very happily.

At this time, Ickert is also trying to see it.

"Virgil, it's a pleasure talking to you. If you don't mind, drink a cup of tea to wake up."

Ickert said while holding the drowsy black tea, his face was ruddy.

The hospitality was hard to turn down, and Virgil accepted the novelty drink with half-push.

After overcoming his doubts about new things, Virgil drank the black tea in one gulp.

"Ah! Master Ikett, your black tea is really fragrant!"

As soon as he took a bite, Virgil was overwhelmed by the dense taste of black tea. In this continent that lacks beverages, wine and juice are the only tastes that can be tasted.

Juices that are not conducive to preservation are rarely available. It is conceivable that dried tea leaves will be a good trade commodity.

The only pity is, after drinking this black tea, why do I feel a little groggy?
When Virgil was puzzled, he felt more and more physical discomfort.

"Master Ikett, can you lend me a break here? I suddenly feel very tired."

"Of course, my friend, you can rest as long as you like."

"Thank you."

Virgil replied politely, and then got on the only covered carriage in the territory with the help of Ickert.

There is already a Sirollman lying here.

"? Excuse me, who is this gentleman?"

Virgil asked suspiciously.

"He, as I mentioned before, is the mage in our territory. He was exhausted from the journey and fell asleep first."

"I see, I remembered."

Virgil patted his head, as if there was indeed such a thing.

Sir Rollman also nodded unobtrusively.

The two fell asleep in the carriage like this.

"This is the second one."

Ickert murmured.

"Only"

Xi Luoerman couldn't help raising his eyebrows, why did he feel that the lord's speaking habits were a bit strange, and it always gave people a feeling that he couldn't see anyone in his eyes.

After the two mages were settled, Ickert re-drawn the curtain of the carriage, and bound them to the seat by the way.

It was stated in advance that Ickert did this to prevent them from falling off their seats, and there was no malicious intention. After all, the road conditions were bad, and the caravan was still quite bumpy when traveling.

After greeting the chasseurs and grenadiers who were in charge of the escort, Ickert continued to set off for Prideland.

The closer to this front-line transportation hub, the more pedestrians and carriages along the way, and the fewer opportunities for Ickert to attack.

Until they arrived in the town of Rosesodor, Ickert never "invited" a mage again.

The town of Rosesodol in Pride Territory is a bustling town famous for its transportation and trade. According to Ickert's visual inspection, its permanent population has reached about 5000.

Coupled with the caravans and adventurers coming and going, Rossodol can already be called a town of [-] people.

This is basically a gathering place second only to the Holy City Fortress and the Imperial Fortress on the front line.

Going forward, there are the strongholds of various lords. The population may be large, but most of them are sparsely populated.

In this town with a large population and complete industries, there are supplies such as papyrus and parchment that Ickert urgently needs to replenish.

After ordering the guards to inform their lord, Ickert wandered around the town first.

Along the way, many types of metals can be found, and there may be metals suitable for alloying such as manganese and nickel. In short, Eckert has added all of them to the procurement plan.

The scarce living materials in other various territories will also be purchased by the caravan.

However, when they came here this time, they didn't bring too many goods, because they didn't know the situation here, so they only had a small number of samples of various goods.

In the process, Ickert was also able to identify what was urgently needed on the front line.

Hard currency is swords, better swords, sharper swords!
Whether it's low-end armaments, or all kinds of runes and magic items, everything is accepted.

There is also food, due to the loss during transportation and the sabotage of the orcs, there will never be a shortage of food, and it can also be exchanged for subsidies from the empire by means of food sales.

The rest, such as buying and selling people, is also very popular. The frontline lords' hunger for humans is almost never-ending.

They have been fighting with orcs all year round, and they will also export all kinds of orc slaves. Ickert took a special look at it.

Different from the imagined beast-eared lady, even a beastman woman is a strong individual with muscles all over her body.

Most of these orcs still have animal signs, and most of them have fur, just like the ratmen, so they are often "naked" with only a pair of underpants that have passed the inspection.

Bewitched by spiritual magic, these orcs can be said to be quite excellent laborers. I heard that some noble ladies are also very keen to buy strong orcs.

Ikert is also very interested in these orcs.

When labor is scarce, it may be possible to buy some to run the plantation.

Another feature of Rosesodol is that there are quite a lot of entertainment here.

Needless to say, the well-known "Spring Garden" healing center, these succubi can be said to be everywhere, and there will be their stores in slightly larger towns.

Casinos and taverns are also regular configurations, but Eckert also noticed that there is also a strange shop here.

Most of the people who went inside were soldiers, they didn't do anything, they just paid a fee, and then went to sleep.

Passers-by explained that this store was opened by a spiritual mage, and unlike expensive healing clubs, he took a low-end route.

In layman's terms, this store is the so-called "Super Dream" experience hall.

Under the hypnosis of the spiritual mage, the people inside will fall into the fantasy of beautiful things.

Unlike Succubus's spring-filled fantasy, Chaomeng can satisfy more human desires, such as money, honor, power and the like.

It can even be customized.

This spiritual mage can be said to have opened up a new track and earned a lot of money. Even the nobles would invite him to the manor as a guest to experience some fantasy dreams.

Ickert naturally didn't dare to think of such a cutting-edge talent, but he also noticed that there were quite a lot of imitators around the spiritual mage's shop.

Many of them had poor business, which made Ickert instantly interested.

(End of this chapter)