Lord Highlander

  Chapter 654 643. Mine relocation

Irving Castle in winter looks very solemn and solemn. The castle built in the north of the city has a strong Rococo style. The mottled city walls seem to show its long history to people. Without the green shade and green walls, the walls of this castle are in the It looked a bit bleak in winter, and the gate of the courtyard was a long way from the castle. Suerdak entered the manor in a magic caravan, and the carriage stopped in front of the steps of the castle.

  The castle of the Owen family was not affected by the attack on the city the night before. The Marquis Owen dispatched a large number of cavalry out of the city to capture the bandits from the north of the tower. There were fewer guards in the castle than before.

  The butler stood in front of the steps with a row of servants. When the carriage stopped, the butler took the initiative to step up and open the door.

This time the treatment was obviously much higher than during the last visit. Suldak walked out of the magic caravan, and Iman followed behind Suldak, and looked at the butler with a questioning look. Respectfully said: "Madam is in the living room on the west side of the second floor."

   "Where's father?" Iman Owen asked the butler.

  The steward stopped and explained to Iman Owen: "Master Marquis heard that the bandit group was going to Gray Canyon, so he led the Constructed Knights to chase after it."

Suldak didn't expect that Marquis Owen would actually go after those robbers himself. He looked around the castle. He couldn't appreciate the sculptures on both sides of the steps last time. When he went up the steps this time, he saw Under the bronze statues on both sides of the steps at the door is a brief biography. Iman Owen introduced from the side: "These are people who have made great contributions to the Owen family. My father very much hopes that there will be more people here in the future." His statue."

   Entering the castle, along the stairs on the side of the main entrance hall to the second floor, Iman Owen said to Suldak, "Mother will be very happy to see you."

  While leading Suldak into a living room, four maids stood at the door, bowing to Iman Owen and Suldak, and Iman Owen asked them: "Mother is inside?"

   "Yes, master." The maid was very familiar with Iman, and quickly answered in a low voice.

The two maids pushed open the door of the living room, and only then did Suldak realize that the living room was very lively. Apart from Mrs. Annabella who was sitting in the main seat, there were two other ladies and a group of young and beautiful people in the living room. Noble girl, everyone is sitting around chatting.

The women in the living room saw Iman and a young knight walk into the room, and their eyes fell on Suldak at the same time. The shy, curious, and bold eyes made Suldak couldn't help touching The nose hides the embarrassment on the face. He took a few steps forward and bowed to Mrs. Annabelle who was sitting on the main seat.

Mrs. Annabella was sitting at the main seat in the room, wearing a purple cashmere dress, her hair was pulled up high, and looking at her face with almost no signs of age, it was hard to imagine that she was Iman Owen's mother, soft His gaze first fell on Iman, then he looked at Suldak, smiled slightly and said, "Two weeks ago, I received a letter from Dorothy and Marianne on the same day, and they agreed in the letter I mentioned you, Dorothy was full of praise for your performance in Bena City, and Marianne told me about you and Hathaway."

  The maid moved two chairs for Iman and Suldak. Suldak sat opposite the noble lady, and Iman was pulled aside by several noble ladies to talk in a low voice.

  Suldak has almost never experienced this kind of scene. Sitting on the chair, he felt a little uncomfortable, and even felt that there was no place to put his hands.

"Sit down a little bit and talk to me about you. We don't know much about you. Maybe only Ferdinand knows something about you, but he doesn't want to tell us all the news. I heard you His territory is in Hailansa?" Madam Annabella waved to Suldak and said gently.

"Yes, Mrs. Annabella, my territory is located in the barren land on the outskirts of Hailansa City. There is an active volcano there, and there is a sulfur mine there. Currently I live in Wall Village in the barren land. There is The place where I have lived since I was a child." Suldak introduced Mrs. Annabella, in fact, he also said this when he first came to Constantinople.

"I remember what you said to me last time, and about your sulfur mines, Iman also said that the purity of those sulfur mines is not bad, and now the demand for fire scale bombs is increasing everywhere, sulfur Mine has also begun to become a magic material that is in short supply. Your mine has continued to supply stable supplies in the past few months, bringing a lot of resources to the Owen Family Firearms Workshop. In this regard, I think you and Iman can still strengthen Cooperation!" Madam Annabelle said to Suldak.

  Iman stood up beside him, and immediately expressed to Mrs. Annabella that he was willing to sign a long-term sulfur mine supply agreement with Suldak.

  Suldak took out a letter from his pocket and said to Mrs. Annabella, "Ms. Annabella, this is a letter from Hathaway."

Mrs. Annabella leaned forward and reached out to take the letter in Suldak's hand. She didn't read the letter immediately, but stroked a line of beautiful writing on the cover with her hands, showing some nostalgic look in her eyes. , muttering to himself: "How time flies! Unexpectedly, that elf is getting married soon!"

Then he cleared up his mood and told Suldak: "The Tarapakan area has been a bit chaotic recently, especially the city of Hailansa is located in Taxi, you should pay attention to it, Iman is already familiar with you If you have any needs, you can ask him to do it. Don’t be easily deceived by others, and don’t promise any promises easily. If you can’t solve anything, you can take a magic airship to Bena City, or you can ride a horse to Constantinople. .”

   "Iman has helped me a lot." Suldak looked at Iman who was surrounded by a group of sisters, and said with a smile.

  Ms. Annabella seemed to be used to it for a long time, and said casually: "You young people, you always have to help each other."

   It is always said that the ratio of women to men in the Green Empire is somewhat out of balance. Due to the recent outbreak of the plane war, the proportion of the imbalance is still expanding.

  Suldak didn’t feel anything special before, but now he felt breathless when he saw a group of Yingying and Yanyan in the living room watching.

He thought that he had prepared a gift before coming this time, so he took out a small magic sealing box from his magic pocket, placed it at Mrs. Annabella's feet, and said, "This time I came here in a hurry, so I didn't prepare any gifts. , although this gift is a bit shabby, I hope you can accept it, Madam!"

  The gift that Suldak prepared was a piece of 'cow's tailbone', and it was put into a magic sealing box, which seemed very classy.

   "It's so thoughtful, you actually prepared a gift for me." Mrs. Annabelle looked down at the magic sealing box and said.

None of the noble ladies seemed to be curious about what was in the magic sealing box. Compared to the magic sealing box, they were more curious about Suldak, a group of young girls in court evening dresses, and some underage girls, almost To surround her, one of the big-breasted beauties who had been holding on to Iman approached Suldak. She exuded a strong fragrance of roses, her big eyes seemed to be covered with brushes, and Bling Bling blinked. non-stop.

  She first asked Suldak, "Are you the one chosen by Hathaway?"

   Immediately after that, someone asked: "...Uncle Luther appreciates you too?"

  The women seemed to have a new topic, and they chattered together: "It's rare for Hathaway and Uncle Luther to have the same vision. You are really from Hailansa, and your figure is really burly."

  Suldak felt like a naked slave standing on the auction block, feeling ashamed to be displayed in public.

Iman Owen seems to have gotten used to this way of chatting. He quickly changed the subject and brought the topic to the attack on the city the day before yesterday. Lord Donnell's surprise attack on Constantinople expressed his inner indignation.

   Not all lords are willing to endure the cunning Lord MacDonnell. This time, Marquis Owen was tough enough. He led the Constructed Knights to the border area between Tarapagan and Osorno County to find the bad luck of Lord MacDonnell.

  Lord MacDonnell has the strongest military force in all regions of Tarapa. Even in the entire province of Bena, Lord MacDonnell's military strength can be ranked among the top five. I heard that the nobles in the northern part of the Tower either attached themselves to Lord MacDonnell, or were oppressed so that they could not even enjoy normal noble rights.

While the women were worried about Marquis Owen, they hoped that you, Marquis Owen, would deal with Lord MacDonnell severely. In this way, the family's ranking in the province of Bena would rise significantly, and perhaps more young talents would come here. Perhaps more nobles hope to marry the Owen family, so that they can alleviate the problem of not being able to marry.

Compared with Hathaway and Beatrice who dared to pursue their own ideals and freedom, the daughters of the Owen family are more like infatuated women who hate to marry. In addition to hoping that they can marry an outstanding man, they also hope that this day can be soon. arrival…

  Ms. Annabelle asked Suldak to stay in Constantinople for a few more days.

  Suldak politely declined.

  Iman Owen accompanied Suldak to have an exquisite lunch in the castle, and then Suldak bid farewell to Mrs. Annabella.

Leaving the castle of the Owen family, taking advantage of some time in the afternoon, Iman Irving took Suldak back to the firm in Constantine City, and obtained the lowest trading discount from the manager of the firm. According to Iman's idea, those The overcharged magic crystals should be returned in full. Suldak was too embarrassed to take back those magic crystals, so he exchanged those magic crystals for nearly a hundred sets of full-coverage armor.

  Iman even insisted that the manager of the firm hire a carriage from the carriage shop to transport the full armor back to Hailansa City.

In addition, Suldak also ordered ten boxes of fire scale bombs from Iman Owen, but because the firearms workshop did not have any stocks, these fire scale bombs will be in the carriage with the carriage in half a month. Shipping to High Lansa.

Suldak had seen the power of the fire scale bomb explosion when he was in Vozmara City. A fire scale bomb was thrown into a group of **** dogs and could blow up several **** dogs. Those sheds outside the city that were smashed into ruins are enough to show that the fire scale bomb has a good power.

During this trip to Constantinople, the biggest achievement of Suldak was not that he bought nearly 600 sets of well-crafted full-face armor as he wished, nor did he buy the extremely scarce fire scale bombs in the market, but that he met Ge The great knight of Rover, and mastered the holy seal of the knight, even if it is a weakened holy seal, it still makes Suldak very happy.

Suldak and the three wagons from Constantinople's carriage company returned to Hailansa City together. The snow on this mountain road has been compacted, and the road surface is hard and slippery, especially when crossing the mountains. Times are more difficult.

  Of course, only Aphrodite faced these treacherous terrain and bad weather along the way, and she was going back to Hailansa City with the transport team in the carriage.

  Suldak chose to leave the team not long after he left the city, ended the call directly, and then stepped into the void gate to return to the treasure chamber.

  Compared to the cold wind in the mountains and dense forests, the treasure room is much more comfortable.

Suldak returned to the secret room of the treasure. The red dragon Iser had been waiting in the secret room for a long time and seemed impatient. : "Suldak...Iser eats!"

Dodging the hot smoke, Suldak took out a bag of red crystals from his magic pouch, poured them into the open mouth of the red dragon Iser, and when he laid his huge head on the platform, After slowly chewing the red crystal in his mouth, Suldak started the next class. He taught the Red Dragon No. 22 rune and a sentence of Imperial language, and he understood Iser's quick retraction of his head. Just let it go.

   After not going to the sulfur mine for a while, Suldak left the treasure chamber and walked out of the lava mine.

  The sulfur mines in the lower reaches of the lava river outside the mine have been exploited by the kobold slaves. The kobold slaves are gathering under the lava waterfall. They want to bypass the long and narrow fault formed by the lava waterfall and climb up to mine the sulfur mine.

When Suldak came out of the lava mine, these kobold slaves had been researching here for three days. Unfortunately, they haven't come up with any easy way yet. The kobold slaves are trying to build a rope ladder and climb directly. On the top of the lava waterfall fault, although this kind of rope ladder is very simple to build, it is inconvenient for all kobold slaves to climb up the soft ladder.

  But if you have to rely on the ladder to go up and down every day, how much sulfur ore can you collect!

  The five village supervisors were also trying to find a way with the kobold slaves at this time.

  Although he didn't have any good ideas for the time being, Suldak ordered the kobold slaves to relocate the mining camp to a flat hillside next to the lava waterfall.

Although there is thick smoke billowing here, the pungent sulfur smell is everywhere, hot lava rivers can be seen everywhere, and occasionally there will be salamanders crawling out of the mine, which seems very dangerous, but those who want to mine the upper reaches of the lava river Sulfur mines, you must camp here, so you can save at least a few kilometers of walking along the river of lava every day.

   Gone today

  (end of this chapter)