Soul echo

Chapter 429

The facts are also as Zhong Ye said, several players whose jobs and majors are related to accounting in real life and the person in charge of the Schaffhausen Adventurer's House easily found clues from the account books of the Baum family.

Paulino never thought of making fake accounts at all, because the entire Baum's house is under its control, and it is impossible for other people to check the accounts, and the lord has not learned anything about this and cannot understand the accounts, so It does not need to make false accounts.

But it is precisely because of this habit that players easily find some inaccuracies.

Because both the mission target and the funder had died, the previously released mission was naturally invalidated, and the mission that the players are doing now was funded and released by Zhong Ye.

The priests are also very strange, why this group of adventurers know how to settle accounts, but doubts are doubts, they will not ask about these things.

Under the protection of Zhong Ye, the clergymen have already screened the people in the castle. Next, they only need to clean up the marks left by Paulino in every corner of the castle. They don’t need Zhong Ye’s help for the time being. Therefore, they Came to the office temporarily occupied by the players and the person in charge of the Adventurer's House.

This room is not far from the warehouse of the castle, so it is convenient for players to go to the warehouse to count the materials and confirm whether the materials are reconciled.

Because Schaffhausen has lost its owner, the housekeepers and servants of the Baum family have no reason to stop the players from doing these things, not to mention that they are still under the supervision of the clergy, and acting rashly would only allow yourself to suffer.

Before, two thorns did something out of the ordinary, which attracted the attention of the priests. The priests suspected that they were affected by the abyss, and cast a few rounds of magic on them, almost torturing them I can't speak.

Because of this, the original servants in the castle were unwilling to touch this bad luck.

The other players were still calculating, Zhong Ye walked up to the person in charge of the Adventurer's House in Schaffhausen and asked, "If I'm not wrong, you should be a mage, right? As a mage, why did you come to Shaffhausen?" Fauhausen, for this kind of work?"

Hearing Zhong Ye's question, the person in charge put down the ledger in his hand and looked up.

"Before answering this question, I need to introduce myself." The person in charge pushed the glasses on the bridge of the nose, "My name is Wes Wilma, and I graduated from the First Master Academy of the Rhine Kingdom. I am a self-funded student. academic mages."

Zhong Ye nodded, then spread his hands to signal Weiss to continue.

"Maybe you don't know what 'academic mage' means." Weiss shrugged, "We are very unpopular with tower mages, they think we are a group of people who have stolen the power of mages through rote learning Barbarians, so after graduating from the academy, we are mostly employed by the nobles and some big chambers of commerce - most of the academic mages come from the nobles, but usually the second son, third son or eldest daughter do not have the right of inheritance sons of nobility.

"I was born in a merchant family, but unfortunately, my father couldn't pay enough for me to continue my magic studies, so I could only look for other jobs, which is why I appeared in Schaffhausen .

"The lord of Schaffhausen—I mean the one who really holds the power—offered an undeniable price to me who was desperately looking for a job, so I came here and became the person in charge of the Adventurer's House."

With that said, Weiss took a deep breath and sighed long: "However, the situation seems to be much more complicated than I imagined..."

'Academic Mage', this is not the first time Zhong Ye has heard this term.

Not only the Rhineland Kingdom has the Master Academy, but the Gaul Kingdom also has the Master Academy. They seem to be the products of the world of Dan after obtaining the knowledge of the earth.

Presumably, the gods of the world have understood that social development is inseparable from the development of productivity, and they are trying to bring superior magic to the people, and the Mage Academy is one of their attempts.

However, this attempt did not seem to be very successful - at least based on what Zhong Ye knew so far, the identity and position of the academic mage was quite embarrassing.

Compared with traditional high tower mages, academic mages can only receive a 'short-term' education of five to eight years. During this period, if they are not hard enough, they will not learn much at all.

The High Tower Mage Association requires mages to be knowledgeable and knowledgeable. In addition to spell-related knowledge, according to the requirements of each mage, they also need to learn astronomy, sociology, biology, gem identification, and geography. Every successful mage must at least They are all well-educated scholars.

Unlike the academic mages, the academy only requires them to learn spells, and they need to learn more about other knowledge.

Because of this, most of the academic mages can't get up and down, and they are in a rather embarrassing position.

But this "not up and down" is also in comparison, compared with most people in this era, they have succeeded too much.

Most commoners in this era are illiterate, and there are many semi-literate nobles, and the academic mages are at least literate and know a lot of knowledge.

Zhong Ye pinched his chin, thought for a moment, and suddenly asked, "How much salary does Paulino pay you?"

"53 gold coins per month." Weiss sighed. "In addition to being a magic consultant for him, he also needs to be the person in charge of the Adventurer's House. This is what he asked me for."

"Do you think you are worth so much?" Zhong Ye asked mercilessly.

Including Weiss, the eyelids of everyone in the room twitched.

This question was too straightforward, how could Zhong Ye say it out loud?
"...It's not worth it." Weiss lowered his head, "I also doubted it at the time, but it was only later that I found out that he really didn't have any malice towards me, so I chose to come here."

"When did he hire you?"

"……last year."

At this time, the players gradually came to their senses. Zhong Ye asked questions like interrogating a prisoner. Could it be that he doubted this mage?
Thinking of this, the players couldn't help touching their weapons.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Ye nodded and turned to leave.

They watched Zhong Ye's tall figure leave the room in a daze, and then they realized that, after looking at each other, they sighed and lowered their heads, and continued to check the accounts.

After walking out of the room and standing in front of the door, Zhong Ye closed his eyes and tried hard to recall, but he couldn't let go of the thought of 'that mage is suspicious'.

The logic explained by Weiss Wilma is self-consistent. Most academic mages are indeed faced with the dilemma that they cannot continue to concentrate on research after graduating from the academy. They can only make a choice between research and life.

But his intuition told him that what Wes Wilma said was half true and half false.

The part about the birth was true, but otherwise it was all false, the mage wasn't telling the truth.

There are so many problems in a small Schaffhausen.

Zhong Ye shook his head and left here.

Obviously he was only here to track down a group of human traffickers, but he didn't expect things to become more and more troublesome.

Today, believers of two evil gods have been mixed in. Although they may not participate as believers of evil gods, their identities cannot be ignored.

If it was just a coincidence, Zhong Ye would not believe it.

Now he only suspects that there is a problem with Wes Wilma's identity, but he can't be sure. This is the most troublesome...

boom!
Just as Zhong Ye walked to the corner, a violent explosion came to his ears. He looked back and saw that the door of that room had been knocked off the wall by the shock wave from the explosion and fell to the ground.

With a frown of eyebrows, a figure instantly appeared in front of the door, casting his gaze inside.

The players were in disarray, and Wes Wilma was lying on the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. Most importantly, the ledger in the room was burning, and flames were erupting outward.

Zhong Ye's eyes lit up, and he used his spiritual energy to expel the surrounding air. Without the support of oxygen, the flame gradually extinguished.

But even if the flames were extinguished, the ledgers would all be burned.

Zhong Ye walked to Wes Wilma's side, and kicked his body up.

The mage's eyes were wide open, with a strange and insolent smile on his face, and he was dead.

"It's him."

A player who was not seriously injured took a few breaths and pointed to Wes Wilma's body, "He used a spell, which not only injured us, but also burned all the ledgers."

Hearing this, Zhong Ye couldn't help clenching his fists.

——was put together!
(End of this chapter)