Lord Highlander

   Chapter 504 503. Magic pattern

  The drizzle fell on every corner of Hailansa Mountain City.

  Stone roads on the streets, gray tiles on the roof, bell towers towering over the garden square and Oak Ridge outside the city.

  The man in black who came out of the White Elephant Trading Company put his hood on his head, and the cold wind poured into his neck. He tightened his neckline tightly, and his exposed fingers were slender and slender.

  He walked to the door of a magic grocery store, and said dryly to the shop: "Please give me a copy of the Imperial Capital Magic News, the latest one from last month."

  The store owner walked out of the room and handed him a magic newspaper.

Before the shop owner could tell the price of the magic newspaper, he put the seven silver coins he had prepared on the wooden table in front of the shop, stuffed the magic newspaper into his arms, and walked into the drizzle with one hand on his collar. middle.

  There were only a few pedestrians on the street, and a magic caravan sped away from the street.

  He coughed a few times and turned into a narrow alley.

There is a back street at the end of the alley. There is a back street between almost every two main streets in Hailansa City. Household garbage is usually piled on the back street. Every morning, the night watchman will collect the household garbage before the street lights go out. clean up.

  He leaned against the shadow of the corner of the back street and lit his pipe, tremblingly brought it to his mouth, took two deep breaths, and then coughed violently.

As the violent coughing stopped suddenly, he bent down, bent into the shape of a dried shrimp, and just fell silently into the garbage dump, the walnut pipe inlaid with gold wire in his hand rolled into the mud On the ground, shredded tobacco fell out, and sparks flew with the wind.

A maid walked to the back street with a bucket of garbage, and when she was stacking garbage in the corner, she saw a dead body lying in the garbage dump, her face turned pale with fright, she fell down on the mud floor, and screamed A hysterical scream...

   Not long after, several knights from the guard battalion of Hailansa City surrounded the garbage dump in the back street and launched a series of investigations on the corpse...

  …

  Almost at the same time, Suerdak walked into the White Elephant Firm, and he walked around the lobby on the first floor to the second floor. He stopped in front of a wooden door, straightened his leather armor, and then knocked on the wooden door.

   ‘Tuk Tuk Tuk’

   "Come in!"

  The steady voice of Magician Dale came from the room.

  Suldak opened the door and walked in. The tall magician raised his head, greeted Suldak warmly and said:

   "Suldak Knight, why are you here, everything is going well recently?"

  Suldak walked into the room and saw Magician Dale was flipping through a magic book. He walked across to Magician Dale and said with a smile:

   "Everything is fine!"

  Suldak asked straight to the point: "Magician Dale, I came to the firm this time mainly to buy some saltpeter. Is there such a material in the firm?"

  Dalle magician has the burly figure of a man from the north, with a look of surprise on his face, he said:

"Nitre is a magic material used by ice-type magicians to assist spellcasting. Many magic grocery stores have it in stock. Many scroll-making masters like to grind saltpeter into powder and add it to pure white ink to increase the power of ice-type magic scrolls. This total magic Few people will use the material, but our firm happens to do this kind of trade."

   Then, he yelled to the next room:

   "Miss Linda, call Manager Joey for me. If he is not here, ask the manager on duty to come over..."

  A sweet voice immediately replied: "Okay, Magician Dale!"

  Magician Dale leaned back on the chair, squeezed the space between his eyebrows, and said, "Knight Suldak, are you here to trade sulfur ore in White Elephant Firm?"

  Suldak said: "That's right, Mage Dale, this time I brought six carts of sulfur ore."

   Magician Dale showed such an expression on his face, and asked Suldak again:

   "From last winter to now, our firm has successively received fifteen trucks of sulfur ore. Such a large amount of sulfur ore should not be the spoils brought back during the adventure. Do you own a small sulfur mine?"

  Suldak answered frankly:

   "Yes, a small sulfur open-pit mine happened to be discovered in my knight's territory."

  Dalle magician asked in surprise:

   "Your knight leader shouldn't be in the southern mountainous area of ​​Pagros Mountain deep in the wasteland?"

  Suldak nodded: "It's over there..."

  It seems that it is no secret that the pustule mountain has sulfur mines, Suldak thought to himself.

   Magician Dale nodded, and said calmly:

   "Although it is not a good place, there are indeed sulfur mines."

Then he crossed his hands, supported it on the desk, and said to Suldak: "I think we can sign a framework agreement, and I can purchase the sulfur mine in your hand at a price better than the market, but you must guarantee that this part of the sulfur mine Priority supply to our business."

   Magician Dale flashed an electric arc in one eye from time to time, and saw Suldak's hole card at a glance.

Suldak said with a wry smile: "I came to you just to discuss a deal with you... Besides some saltpeter, I also want to ask you to help me purchase some..." He took out a bag from his arms A piece of parchment, on which was listed the purchase details of a large number of steel bars and thin steel wires, and he pushed this request in front of the Dale magician.

  Manager Joey walked in from outside the room at this time, and said to Magician Dale: "My lord, are you calling me?"

   Then, his eyes fell on Suldak, and he quickly greeted Suldak: "Hello, Knight Suldak!"

  Dalle Magician directly handed the purchase details to Manager Joey, and asked him, "How long will it take to get the items on the list ready?"

  Manager Joey glanced at the content above, and said: "It will take about a month, and these steel materials need to be customized from the blacksmith workshop in Bena City!"

   "Arrange as soon as possible, I need the best price and the fastest speed!" Magician Dale waved to Manager Joey and said.

   "Okay! My lord, according to your instructions, I will do it right away!" Manager Joey immediately put the parchment into his arms, saluted and said.

   "Then wish us a happy cooperation!" Dale magician said to Suldak.

   "Happy cooperation!" Surdak stood up and responded.

On his purchase list was a purchase order for steel bars worth up to 500 gold coins. In addition to paying the first down payment, Suldak's subsequent payments would be offset by sulfur ore. After the completion of the pool, the large embankment of the secondary reservoir will be built immediately. The length of this embankment is almost twice the length of the embankment of the primary reservoir. Therefore, the steel keel required for the cement embankment has also become the primary purchase at present. s material.

Not long after, Suldak walked out of the White Elephant Firm and joined Andrew, Samira and Gulitham who were waiting outside the firm. Then Suldak took the six four-wheeled trucks in the village to the sea. Lanza free market. At this time, the price of cassava on the free market was nearly double that of half a month ago. At the request of the old village chief, Suerdak bought some wheat bran and some cheap beans.

  The old village chief believed that the group of kobold slaves were currently engaged in physical work of digging river channels, and eating cassava, which was poisonous to a certain extent, would greatly affect the progress of digging.

Therefore, the old village chief suggested that Suldak purchase a batch of wheat bran and beans in Hailansa City this time. The multigrain porridge that comes out is much better than cassava.

  Suldak filled six carriages according to the old village head's instructions, and then left Hailansa City with six four-wheeled wagons.

  …

  Two days later, Hathaway and Beatrice boarded a magic airship bound for Bena City and quietly left Hailansa City.

With the victory of the Maca Plane War, the Marquis Luther became the upstart among the upper class nobles in the province of Bena. Not only was he rewarded by the Duke of Newman, but the members of the Marquis Luther family were also investigated by many powerful families who wanted to form an alliance. In order to send a signal of alliance, some visiting letters and engagement books filled the desk of Marquis Luthor like a snowflake.

   Among them, there are many marriage contracts that hope to marry the daughter of Marquis Luther.

  Marquis Luther also clearly stated in a letter to his daughter Hathaway that he had found a very good young nobleman for his daughter, and hoped that Hathaway would think about it carefully.

   This is also one of the reasons why Hathaway hastily returned to Bena City.

  …

   On the way back to Wall Village, Suldak was sitting on a four-wheeled truck, and he took the opportunity to open Cyrus. Hickok's magic note, seeing Celia Cooper closing her eyes in the pages of the book, under the glare of the sun, Celia Cooper's figure instantly dimmed a lot.

   Celia Cooper let out a mental scream, and Suldak hurriedly closed the magic note.

Suldak put the magic note under a shadow, and opened the magic note again. Only then did he see Celia Cooper complaining to Suldak in the cage of the pages, with a distraught look. Her figure on the pages of the book also became dimmer.

   "Suldak, you definitely did it on purpose this time..."

  Celia Cooper roared loudly at Suldak.

  The communication between them does not rely on sound, but on a spiritual level. It looks like Suldak is sitting on a four-wheeled truck and flipping through a magic notebook.

   "...Sorry, Celia Cooper." Suldak also felt that he was a little reckless this time, and quickly expressed his apology.

  But Celia Cooper on the page is only willing to give Suldak a dim back.

  Suldak scratched his head and asked:

   "Ms. Celia, what can I do to bring you back to normal?"

  Celia Cooper turned around and communicated with Suldak: "Hmph... Only the soul fire of the undead can restore some of my strength. After all, I also belong to the soul form."

Suldak knew that the fire of the soul could strengthen Celia Cooper's soul, but there were almost no undead near the city of Hailansa, so he said with some embarrassment: "Uh, but there are no undead near Hailansa. ..."

   "How could it not be? There will always be some lost souls in those places where the dead are buried. They cannot ascend to the kingdom of God, nor can they enter the underworld of the undead." Celia Cooper said to Suldak.

  Suldak touched his nose and asked Celia Cooper, "You mean the cemetery?"

   "There it is..."

  Suldak thought about it, and the two cemeteries outside Hailansa City are no longer in this direction. It seems that there are only mass graves for local villagers on the top of the mountain outside the mountain pass. Although I don't really want to go, but considering that I will ask Celia Cooper for help if I have any problems in the future, the relationship with her should not be too tense, so I had to bite the bullet and say: "Okay, when passing the Paglos Pass, I will take you to the top of the mountain for a while, hoping to gain some unexpected rewards."

  Seeing that Suldak promised to help him collect soul power, Celia Cooper's face was not so ugly,

   asked Suldak: "What do you want from me?"

Suldak then talked to Celia Cooper about some problems with the magicweave breeding equipment. He couldn't figure out these problems. Scholar Ferdinand didn't give Suldak some definite answers. Now Suldak once again asked Celia Cooper brought it up.

   "You just want to talk to me about this?" Celia Cooper scratched her hair irritably and asked Suldak.

  Suldak nodded.

   "Aren't you an expert in this area?" Celia Cooper's face barely read 'How do I know? '

   But then, she pondered for a while before saying to Suldak:

"Although I don't understand how you did it, in fact, this matter is far from as simple as you think, whether it is the inscription master of the magic union of the Grimm Empire, or the great magician of our Black Magic Retreat, no I know how many magicians spend their whole lives trying to figure out how to obtain life magic patterns, and then provide high-quality magic pattern substrates for magic pattern cultivation equipment. Obviously, at this point, you are already ahead of most magicians .”

   "For so many years, besides knowing that the life magic pattern is composed of rune language, how many people have actually seen the rune language?"

"You can successfully implant a magic-weave costume into that half-elf girl, which means that you have a certain understanding of the magic-weave costume, and I... am not a scholar in this field of magic. I am better at the matrix of space magic Composition, I can't give you any better advice on this."

   Celia Cooper's last words, Suldak finally heard something useful, so he heard her say:

   "In my opinion, your biggest advantage is that you can find some life magic lines with a very high degree of integrity..."

   Regarding the fact that he was able to see the magic lines of life hidden on the monsters, Suldak knew that it was because he had the 'Eye of Reality'.

After chatting with Celia Cooper for a while, seeing Celia Cooper's tired face, this kind of communication consumes a lot of her mental power, so Suldak decisively told Celia Cooper "Take a good rest, see you later", and then closed the magic note.

Suldak called Samira over again, and checked the magic-weave implant on her right arm, and found that the magic-weave of the magic ape's power was fused with her arm, leaving only the right shoulder. If you don't look carefully, you can't see the traces of the big magic ape's skin. It feels like a delicate tattoo has been drawn on her arm...

  (end of this chapter)