The Divine Hunter

  Chapter 29 Outside the City

Roy did a good job. In a big city like Edsberg, the inn is not for ordinary people. The daily cost of boarding and lodging is about 3 crowns and 40 copper coins. If Reso leaves for a month and a half, it will cost more than 100. Krona, the money he carries is very reluctant.

  I haven't calculated other expenses, including learning common characters... He plans to find a place to study during this time, but he can't always be illiterate, it's too inconvenient. Knowledge and books are expensive, especially in big cities like Edsburg, how can it be expensive to learn a bit of culture?

  ……

  Roy returned the expensive guest rooms and put the plans in his mind.

  First of all, rent a cheap house, preferably no more than one crown a day, and there must be enough spacious and hidden places nearby to maintain daily training.

  He didn’t plan to go to the dwarf wine merchant for help.

  Secondly, to find a short-term job that can make money, he can’t just leave and not enter, he must be prepared for a “long-term battle”.

  Finally, he had to find a reliable teacher to learn common characters, and the tuition fee should be kept as compact as possible.

Throughout the afternoon, Roy asked five residents in Midtown who had the idea of ​​renting a room. Most of the homeowners bullied him because of his status as a foreigner. He was still young and the lion opened his mouth. The cheapest asking price was more than 1 krona per day. , Not including food...

Roy realized that it was not realistic to find a reasonably priced room in the city, so he went straight out of the gate of Edsberg and asked the residents in the surrounding area. He didn't expect that the sun would really let him find a suitable room. The place.

   Behind the south gate of Edsburg.

A man in his thirties with a thin body and a short beard, white clothes and a white cap, led Roy across a golden wheat field to a huge water mill and A few houses in front.

  He is Henk, the owner of this water mill.

  At this time, the light of the setting sun has put a layer of golden rosy coat on the four houses near the mill, and the smell of wheat ears and breeze is covered with grass and fallen leaves in late autumn.

  Ding Dong in the flowing water, the water wheel slowly rotates, and the mill on the riverside looks like a dynamic oil painting, which is so beautiful.

  Roy followed the miller and admired the leisurely pastoral scenery around him. When his eyes shifted to the livestock pen not far to the right of the mill, he suddenly condensed. A young girl in a white apron with brown hair tied behind her head was bending over with her back to them, holding a dustpan in one hand and sprinkling chaff on the other to feed the chickens.

  She looks very petite.

  But these are not the focus of Roy's attention, the focus is that the girl's back is shockingly high.

  She is a hunchback.

The miller noticed his gaze and said with a smile, "Little brother, my daughter is seriously ill and looks rather ugly. Did she scare you? I will chase her away right away!" Because the daughter is really scary, no People dared to rent the vacant room of the miller, no matter how low the price was, it would be useless. Today, I finally got taken advantage of, and he was still a good-talking half-aged boy. Henk didn't want to miss this income.

   "Don't." Roy shook his head. He is not the kind of vicious person who laughs at other people's shortcomings. "I don't mind this kind of thing. Just take me to the room and see."

While talking, the girl by the chicken ring heard the movement, turned around and took a look, then ran into the barn next to her and hid. She had a awkward posture when she ran, and her legs were long and short. The shoulders are uneven, causing the body to sway from side to side with the movement.

  Reminiscent of a **** old woman in her seventies or eighties.

  ……

  The rented room of the mill’s house is simple and simple. Except for a straw mat and a blanket, it is empty and the floor is quite clean. Compared to the inn suites with velvet quilts, exquisite furniture, floor-to-ceiling windows and full-length mirrors, they are much simpler.

  But Roy stayed out in the wild with the witcher for a while, and never disliked any bed.

  Since coming to this world, his requirements for living conditions have been compressed to the extreme. Fortunately, the original owner is not a spoiled and picky owner, so he can quickly adapt to such hardships.

  Only the living environment of nobles and warlocks can approach that world before.

  He is most satisfied with outside the mottled wooden windows, a large open area next to the pond with water edging, which can be used to practice crossbow shooting skills.

  There is also a free dinner here. Royso paid a full month's rent of 15 crowns at one time, which is 50 copper coins a day.

  ……

  After nightfall, Roy saw the Miller's family at the dinner table. Except for the thin Henk, there was another fat woman with a swollen face, a fancy dress and blood-painted lips.

   "Roy, let me introduce to you. This is my wife Una... She also stays at the mill to help."

The woman was smiling, "No wonder I heard a magpie calling early in the morning, it turned out that it was an honorable guest coming! Brother, you are really discerning, I guarantee that there is no other house nearby like ours. It is cheap and clean, so you can rest assured. Stay here, I'm sure you are satisfied."

  The woman covered her mouth and gave out a hoarse smile from time to time while she was talking, and Roy couldn't help but glance at the Miller under the waves of fat under her long skirt.

  With this "lovely wife", it is no wonder that the Miller was so thin.

"By the way, little brother, you have a raw face, and your accent doesn't sound like a local. Where does your family live, what matters to come here?" Mana picked up the roasted golden pig on the plate. Elbows, and greedily licked the grease on the fingers.

"I come from a small village in Lower Posada. A relative introduced me to work here, saying that he was taking me to see the world. Who would have known that he disappeared when I entered the city." Roy meant something. He sighed, then unceremoniously picked up another pork knuckle and chewed it hard.

"Oh, how could there be such a conscientious relative!" The fat woman wiped her big greasy mouth with her napkin, and a trace of pain flashed through her eyes, "but don't worry, little brother, Edsberg is a big In the city, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, there are plenty of opportunities for work. I believe you will be rewarded soon."

  "Do you have any good recommendations for the two?" Roy's eyes rolled over the Miller and his wife.

Under the dim light of the fireplace, Henk shook his head and made a look of serious consideration, "The butcher's house opposite...no, he can't give the lucrative job to an outsider...the executioner apprentice? No, it will be too bad. Let the whole mill be stained with bad luck..."

"Little brother, let me tell you, your first job in a big city, don't have too high a vision..." The fat woman helped add, "Henk is also your age. He ran away from home here when he was 13 or 14 years old. After working hard for ten years, he saved some money to rent a mill. He did all the dirty and tiring work in the first... In the city fair area, there is a lot of work shortage. But I have to remind you that you must be careful of certain guys."

The miller Henk took the conversation, "Mana is right. If you meet those guys who issue revolutionary announcements, stay away, don’t listen to them talking nonsense. What’s wrong, go and make revolution," Sooner or later I will get my head leather off."

"Aren't they trying to lower farmers' taxes?" Roy quietly wiped out the whole pork knuckle, and licked his lips intently. The dinner at the miller's house was indeed delicious, fat but not greasy. A little bit of honey, barbecue skills are not worse than Reso, but too little. It is estimated that it was so rich on the first day.

"You don't know this, Baron Tavik has compromised once...According to me, the revolutionary army should just accept it, but their leader has disappeared inexplicably. It must be blamed on the Baron and threatened to make the Baron. Give me an explanation. Isn't this a mess?"

  Roy knew that the leader of the Revolutionary Army was still bathing in the barrel of the dwarf wine merchant, and the Baron was indeed taken aback.

"Little brother," Henk continued, "except for the Revolutionary Army, you have to be careful of the Sparrow Gang in Edsberg. These guys are full of bad water. They are all deceived and deceived, so they don't want to go to the lower city. That's the Sparrow Gang. They especially like the idea of ​​hitting outsiders...you are a young, bully, and good-looking boy, you must be careful." The miller suddenly smiled strangely. "Some nobles like that tune."

  ……

   "Thank you for the reminder." Roy nodded and filled another bowl of potato soup. "By the way, Uncle Henk, isn't the girl I saw your daughter? Why don't you eat together?"

  Roy's voice just fell, and the original hot dining table atmosphere became condensed.

  The fat woman who was chewing meat with her mouth full of oil, suddenly choked, flushed her face and patted her chest, Henk also put down the fork in her hand.

   "Little brother, it would be too disgusting to call her over. You can eat at ease, she has a place to go."

"Huh!" The fat woman finally eased, her fat face turned from sunny to overcast, "Don't mention that ugly girl in the future. How to treat her is a family affair with Henk and I, and you don't need to worry about it." Fat woman Without concealing the disgust and hatred in his tone, "Give her food and a place to live is already good. Don't even think about it at the table."

   "Then what's her name?"

   "That ugly monster, you can call her Toya."

  ……

  After the meal, Roy saw a thin figure sitting in front of the threshold of the barn in the cold wind at the corner of the mill, holding a plate and eating dinner.

This time I finally saw her appearance clearly. The fire hung on the wall illuminated a small and round face, with small features, thin eyebrows and lips, and a faint blush on her cheeks. Just look at her face. He is also thirteen or fourteen years old, a tender and flower-like age.

  The little girl felt very keen, and Roy stopped and watched for two seconds, and she found it again, like a frightened little beast turned and fled.

   "Am I the devil, so scary?"

   Roy was slanderous, and walked over to see that, compared to the oily dinner in the living room, the food on the dinner plate left by the girl was simple and monotonous-a pile of yellowish brown sparsely mashed potatoes.

  He wondered why the Miller’s family treated their daughter so harshly, just because she was deformed and unpleasant?

   But when first arrived, Roy is not good at directly interfering with other people’s family affairs, so he can only wait for a little familiarity before making plans.

  ……

  Under the bright moonlight, in the clearing by the pond, a black-haired, black-eyed, thin but tall figure was kneeling on one knee, holding the crossbow in both hands, aiming at a crooked-necked tree 50 years away.

  The body is centered and the shoulders are level. The left leg is bent on the knee and the sole of the foot is on the ground, and the knee and forefoot of the right leg are on the ground, forming a stable triangle support with the left leg.

  Sit on the heel of the right foot without weight or weight. The elbow of the left hand holding the crossbow is placed on the left knee.

  While aiming, Roy took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. When his exhaled breath became heavier, his right index finger instantly pulled the trigger.

   "Swish——" The crossbow arrow is unbiased and hits the target.

   Immediately used his hands and feet to make a dazzling series of movements, pulling the string and setting the arrow in four seconds. Roy sprinted a few positions to the side, stabilized his body again, and switched to a standing shooting position to shoot the target.

  After sprinting, stopping suddenly, changing positions and shooting postures, picking up arrows, and shooting more than 500 arrows alternately, three hours passed quietly. Roy, with sore muscles and panting, ended the boring training of crossbow shooting.

  The night wind is as cold as a knife, but his heart is hot.

  You have unlocked a new skill:

Unnamed LV1: After the careful guidance of the demon hunter master and thousands of shots, you have initially mastered the use of long-range weapons, crossbows and crossbows. When you use similar weapons, your shooting accuracy, effective range, power and penetration Lidu will get a 5% bonus.

  You can actively activate this ability, the shooting bonus effect is doubled, but the physical energy consumption is also doubled, and the self-moving speed is halved. This state lasts for at least 30 seconds.

  ……

  Roy breathed a long sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face covered with sweat beads. The long-term hard training finally brought out his weapon skills.

  "Untitled" became "Crossbow Specialization".

  Penetration and damage bonuses are only 5%, but counting LV2's slaughter skills, the bonus will become 10%. Because three peasant armies were killed before, humans have entered the hunting range of the slaughter skill, and the applicability of the skill has greatly increased. Then actively stimulate skills, the power is considerable.

  Roy plans to have the opportunity to get a crossbow, the pocket version of the crossbow Gabriel, which is not enough now.

  (End of this chapter)