Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 1 Tavern and Quest

A brawny bald man in fur armor excitedly pushed open the door of the "Frostwolf's Fang" tavern, and he swaggered into the tavern.

"Hey! Why don't you close the door when you come in!" The waitress in the tavern shouted, walking towards the door.

"Next time I will pay attention!"

The bald man walked and said that after he entered the tavern, he went straight to a young man who was sitting by the stove warming himself.

"Rod, today is really our lucky day. In such a cold winter, there are still people who want to hire us and promise to pay us up to a hundred gold coins. With so much money, we can live comfortably for a long time ,what do you think?"

The boy turned his head and nodded.

Rhodes is a time traveler. Before the time travel, he went to bed at night as usual, but when he woke up, he found that he had time travel.

Fortunately, after time travel, he also inherited the memory of the original body owner.

Before Rhodes crossed, his parents had passed away, and he didn't have any true friends, and he was always single, so time travel was nothing more than a different place to live for him.

It has been seven days since he traveled to this world, and during these seven days he has roughly understood the general situation of this world.

This world is completely different from the world he was in before. This world has a recorded history of nearly ten thousand years, but it is still in the feudal era.

And there is such an unscientific existence as magic in this world.

Although magic is not as powerful as Rhodes imagined, there are many people who are talented in casting spells. Even ordinary farmers may be able to use simple magic like Flame Tongue.

There are four powerful countries on this continent, each country has its own different culture, and its appearance is obviously different from other countries.

Rhodes is now in the Nord Kingdom in the north. The whole country is divided into nine provinces. Except for the Dragon and Fire Province, which is directly ruled by the king, each of the other provinces is ruled by a lord who is loyal to the king.

The center of the continent is the Roman Empire. Although it is called an empire, the land area of ​​the country is not as large as the Nord Kingdom.The situation in the Roman Empire was similar to that of medieval Europe. In the Roman Empire, there were many knight orders recognized by the emperor. Each knight order had its own different beliefs and preached on the mainland.

To the west of the Roman Empire is the Kingdom of Fish. The Kingdom of Fish is the richest country on the entire continent. It has the world's most advanced technologies in smelting, textiles, shipbuilding, and agriculture. The trade of the entire country is very prosperous.

To the east of the Roman Empire is a vast and boundless prairie, and there are countless small tribes on the prairie.A few decades ago, the most powerful tribe on the grassland conquered most of the tribes to form the current Royal Court of Anu.

The big and small wars between the four countries have never stopped.

People in the Nord Kingdom are particularly keen on death, no, it should be said to be an adventure.The Nords are naturally thrill-seeking, and worship the strong, advocating force.Many young Nords dream of becoming a great adventurer.

Rhodes transmigrated to an ordinary adventurer whose name also read Rhodes.The original Rhodes was transmigrated by others without dying, and his soul disappeared.

The bald man standing in front of him who looked like Kratos was called Baron, Rhode's uncle.

Baron was very kind to Rhodes. The relationship between the two of them was not like elder and junior, but like elder brother and younger brother.

Baron's personality is almost the same as his appearance, he is a savage with no brains. Rhodes has traveled for seven days, and he has not noticed any problems with Rhodes.

Rhodes started adventures with Balon when he was eight or nine years old.

He remembered that he used to live in a big manor, and his housekeeper had always taken care of him. After the housekeeper felt that he would not live long, he handed Rhodes to Baron, Rhode's uncle who happened to pass by.

Rhodes had never met this uncle before, but the old butler who raised him trusted Baron very much. As for why Rhodes did not inherit the manor but went on an adventure with Baron, neither the old butler nor Baron had any idea. Explain to Rhodes.

The two have been adventuring together since then, and now Rhodes is 16 years old and Baron has just passed his 30th birthday.Just seven days ago, Rhodes from another world crossed over to Rhodes from this world.

Back to the conversation between the two just now.

"You don't ask who hired us and why we are hired, it's not like you." Baron said.

"I believe you won't cheat us." Rhodes said.

"Then let's go find that person now." After Baron finished speaking, he immediately pulled Rhodes out of the tavern.

It's winter now, and the winter in Nord is very cold. Most adventurers choose to squander the money they got in the previous year's adventure in the city.

Drink in a warm tavern, and occasionally find a few beauties to accompany you...

Rhodes and the others are now in Bingshi City, a small town in Nord with thousands of people.

Icestone City is located in the Snowwind Province of the Nord Kingdom. The population of Nord is relatively small, and a city with thousands of people is considered a medium-sized city in the Nord Kingdom.

The city's public facilities are relatively complete, including public toilets and sewers.

With public toilets, the streets will be kept tidy, unlike medieval Europe where there are feces on the streets.

Soon, Baron and Rhodes came to an inn with a much more refined decoration than the tavern they were in before.

Baron led Rhodes to the second floor, and Baron walked to the door of the innermost room on the second floor and knocked on the door.

"Come in." A man's voice came from the door.

As soon as the voice fell, the door opened with a click.

Baron and Rhodes walked into the room.The room was very large, and there was only a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes drinking tea at a table more than ten meters away from the door.

Rhode looked around strangely, but couldn't find the person who opened the door for them.

The middle-aged man saw Rhodes' doubts and explained, "This is a simple application of my own magic. You are here to talk to me about that task?"

This man's complexion was very pale, as if he hadn't seen the sun for a long time, his dark circles were very obvious, and his hairline was very touching, like a programmer who had to burn his liver all night.

"Yes, sir," said Baron.

"I am a merchant from the Fish Kingdom. On the way to here, I was robbed by a group of robbers who stole my goods.

I'm hiring adventurers here and there, hoping they can help me get my goods back.If you are willing to join my team, I will pay each of you ten gold coins. "

"If you can make the bandit leader incapable of resisting and hand it over to me, I will give you an extra hundred gold coins." The businessman added.

Although wars often occur between countries on the mainland, transnational trade is still allowed by all countries.Many businessmen take risks for high profits.

Most of the robbers in the Nord Kingdom pay attention to certain principles. Generally, they only rob the rich and not the poor, and try not to kill people as much as possible.

Rhodes couldn't believe what he said.In the Kingdom of Nord, one hundred copper coins equals one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins equals one gold coin.

One hundred gold coins is a huge sum of money to them.Struggling on the line of life and death for a whole year may not make so much money.

This task is definitely not that simple. From the merchant's words, it can be heard that he is going to find many adventurers to snatch his goods back.

Rhodes didn't know whether a merchant from the Fish Kingdom could afford such a large amount of money.

He was a little skeptical that the businessman would pay the money in the end.And why is this businessman doing transnational business alone? Why didn't even the guards who knew he hired see it?
"We have accepted your employment. Then when are we going to leave?" Baron heard the businessman promised to pay so much money, and he agreed without thinking about it.

What a brainless savage, he didn't even ask how many robbers there were and how their equipment was.

"It's winter now, and I don't think those robbers will be able to sell my goods within a few days. I just need to recruit more people. Please come here to find me in three days." The businessman said.

"Sir, we don't know your name yet" Rhodes asked.

The businessman seemed to hesitate and said, "You can call me Otto."

Rhodes and Baron left the inn. On the way back, Rhodes asked Baron:

"Don't you think there's something wrong with that businessman?"

"Of course I know he has problems, but he gave a lot of money."

"You dare to agree with the problem, aren't you afraid that he won't give you the money?"

"Don't worry, if he doesn't give the money, I will call him and give me the money."

"What if he doesn't even have a penny?"

"..."

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When Rhodes returned to the tavern, it was already night, and he ordered a roast rabbit meat and some bread for dinner in the tavern.

The Nord Kingdom is large in size but sparsely populated.Most of the land is covered by forests, and the number and variety of wild animals in the forest are great.

Civilians in other countries are not allowed to hunt privately, and there is also the crime of poaching, because the land and the output on the land are owned by the lord.There is no such law in the Nord Kingdom, and civilians are allowed to hunt and log.

Many Nords have been hunting since childhood, and many still make a living doing it.

The Nords have learned their bow and arrow skills from hunting since they were young. The meat-eating Nords have great power, making most Nords sharpshooters.

The archers of the Kingdom of Nord are the strongest on the continent.In war, they are not like the archers of other countries who use the rain of arrows to cover people, but shoot accurately and directly harvest the lives of the enemy.

The knights of the Roman Empire wearing plate armor on the battlefield did not dare to charge towards the established Nord archers.

Although the roasted rabbit meat is of good quality, it doesn't contain much salt, it tastes very bland, and there are no spices such as cumin. Rhodes' strong taste is not used to it.

Although Nord is close to the sea, Bingshi City is located inland and far away from the sea, which makes salt more expensive. As for spices, most people can't afford it.

On the first day of crossing, the barbecue sold to Rhodes by the tavern was still half-cooked. Rhodes asked the tavern owner for a fully cooked barbecue, but he looked at it with surprise.

So Rhodes educated the adventurers in the tavern about the dangers of eating raw meat. The adventurers listened to Rhodes as if listening to a joke.

They've been eating this way for years, and it's what their parents did too...

In the end, it was only under the threat of Baron's fist that the tavern owner began to sell Rhodes fully cooked barbecue.

The bread sold in the tavern was very hard. It should be because the wheat husks were not cleaned when the flour was being ground. Neither the chef nor Rhodes in the tavern could solve it.

The food in this world is really unpalatable, only roasted and boiled.If I open a restaurant in the future, there will be no room to sit in the store every day, Rhodes thought in his heart.

After eating, Rhodes went upstairs to rest after listening to the bragging of Balong and others in the tavern.

Rhodes hadn't fought yet after crossing, and when he thought about going to wipe out the robbers three days later, even though Baron was a strong thigh in his memory, he was still a little vain.

Thinking about it, he soon fell asleep.

Rhodes was half asleep and half awake, and vaguely heard

"Drip. The martial arts system is fully charged, and the charging lasted for seven days. Start scanning the user's body information..."

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