Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 10 Departure
"Rod, it's time to get up!" Baron slammed on Rhode's door vigorously.

Rhodes was lying on the bed rubbing his eyes that had just woken up and hadn't fully opened. He studied the necromancer's diary until late yesterday. The crazy words in the diary gave him a bit of a headache, but he thought there might be something in it. He still watched patiently for things like magic that could be learned.

He got up and opened the door, and saw Baron standing there in full armor, with a huge steel ax with a hole missing behind his back, a mended brown bear fur armor, and a steel crown on his head. With a horn helmet and a dark golden throwing ax pinned to his waist, coupled with his burly figure, he looked quite intimidating standing at the door.

"What time is it?" Rhodes walked to the bed and sat down, rubbing his eyes and asking.

"It's still morning, get ready now, we'll set off right away." Baron walked in and sat on the bed and said.

"What's going on, don't you guys still have to sell those spoils this morning?" Rhodes asked again, and he stood up and put on a thick animal skin coat.

"Do you still remember the bearded man named Daniel who brought us back to the city last time? Their caravan will leave the city later and it will be in the same direction as us. The price has been negotiated and they can leave in an hour. Now, go and get ready." Baron walked out after speaking.

……

After Rhodes washed up, he put the things he wanted to bring into the space ring, which is much more convenient than before. Before, he had to put his belongings into the backpack that affected his actions, but would it be because of the legend that someone wanted to kill someone? precious?
With the space ring, it seems to be very easy to do some petty theft.

No, no, how could I have such an idea? If others know about it, I will be looked down upon.

Rhodes saw the "Wise Men's Disaster" on the table, and wondered in his heart how many unlucky people have been affected by the effect of this sword in the past few days.

He hung the sword on his waist, and then Rhodes went downstairs.

Before reaching the first floor, he heard Baron and the tavern owner bargaining for the money they spent in the tavern during this period of time.

"Since it's eleven gold coins, ninety silver coins and thirteen copper coins, it can't be cheaper. Erase the extra gold coin, so I'll give you ten gold coins, so you can count them easier." Baron said loudly say.

"I don't need your thirteen copper coins, but don't think about it if you have more." The tavern owner waved his hand.

"We're old friends, why bother?" Baron said.

"Who is your old friend? We have only known each other for a few years? You want to take advantage of me?" The tavern owner said impatiently.

Baron looked around, thinking about how to convince the tavern owner.He turned his head and saw Rhodes who was going down the stairs, and beckoned to Rhodes to come over.

Rhodes came over and looked at Baron suspiciously. He didn't think he could convince the tavern owner.

Baron stretched his head over and whispered in Rhode's ear, "Use the magic effect of your sword on him."

"It's not so good. I did this to save a little money." Rhodes said.

Baron stretched out his hand and squeezed Rhode's shoulder and said, "Such a small amount of money? You don't know how much risk we have to take to earn one gold coin? Normally, we only need a dozen silver coins a day to hire us. Not to mention it's nearly two gold coins. "

Seeing that Baron's eyes were red, Rhodes had no choice but to agree, "Okay."

He reached out to touch the long sword hanging on his belt, and a blue light flashed on the hilt and entered the tavern owner's body.

"Then I'll pay you eleven gold coins. Ninety silver coins are too difficult to count. For a successful boss like you, you can earn back the money just by counting the money, and I will give you eleven gold coins. You’ve earned a lot, don’t you think?” Baron turned to the tavern owner.

The tavern owner nodded after a little thought and said, "Indeed, if you give me eleven gold coins, I also earn a lot, so you can only pay me that much."

After hearing this, Baron smiled and took out eleven gold coins from his wallet and handed them to the tavern owner, and then led Rhodes towards the tavern gate.

"Wait!" the tavernkeeper suddenly shouted.

"Is there anything else?" Baron asked nervously.

"I counted it, and you gave me an extra gold coin. As a reputable businessman, I will not take advantage of your gold coin." The tavern owner raised his head proudly, and threw a gold coin to Baron.

Balon reached out to catch the gold coin flying towards him, and said, "Thank you, you are a very kind person."

Rhodes looked at the money counted by Baron, and did not give a single gold coin.

I don't know if the effect of "Bane of the Wise" is too good, or the tavern owner can't count.

……

Baron brought Rhodes to the city gate, and the caravan was almost ready.

There are about 30 people in this caravan, and more than a dozen carts full of goods. The size of the carts is uneven. Some carts are drawn by horses, and some are pulled by oxen.

The top of each car is covered with cloth, I don't know if it is for better preservation or people don't know what is being transported.

"What are they transporting?" Rhodes asked Baron, who was counting the money in his wallet.

Baron looked up, and whispered to Rhodes: "You don't have to worry about these things, we have nothing to do with what you transport, as long as you pay us."

Rhodes randomly found a car with a vacant seat and sat in it, and began to check his space ring, which was almost full of things, except for food, water, flint and other things, and the wine that Baron stuffed for him yesterday. , more than half of the three cubic meters of space is filled with wine.

Most of the wine was prepared for drinking on the road. In addition, Baron specially bought some small iron pots with more beautiful patterns and filled it with wine as a collection. He planned to collect the special wines of each city. small pot.

Rhodes felt that Baron's idea was a little boring. If he wanted to collect it, it would be great to collect gold, jewelry and antiques.There are many pubs in a city, and the wine in the pub I stayed in this time may not be the best in the city.

The wine in this world is not very tasty, only after simple filtration, the residue may not even be filtered, let alone distilled, so the alcohol content is not very high, and it tastes far worse than the wine in the previous world.

But Baron said that although the owner of the tavern was stingy, the wine was delicious and had a different taste.

Rhodes also drank the wine from that tavern, and it had a special burning sensation when he drank it. This was his opinion on the wine from that tavern, and it should be that some special plant similar to pepper was added.

Would it be possible to make a lot of money if you buy cheap wine yourself, distill it and sell it at a high price?
But the next time I have a lot of free time, it will probably be a long time later.

Rhodes sat on the edge of the car, waiting to set off, and was a little bored. He read the necromancer's diary last night, and now he is really not in the mood to study it anymore.

He took out the small iron jug containing wine from the space ring and engraved "Ice Stone City" on it with a dagger.

"That's good. I didn't think of this before. If you collect too much wine in the future, you won't be able to tell which bottle of wine belongs to which city." Baron said standing beside him after counting the money and seeing this scene.

"Are you all ready?" Daniel asked, with a big beard, walking up to Baron, and Hammer and Weber followed behind him.

"We can leave anytime," Baron replied.

"There is no extra space in the caravan. You may just take turns to sit and rest later, and you can sell some goods after passing through Ice River City." Daniel said.

Ice River City is the nearest city to the south of Icestone City, and walking along the main road in Nord will definitely reach the other nearest city.

"It doesn't matter." Baron smiled.

"Then I'll go first, and I have to check the situation of other people. I want to start as soon as possible." Daniel said, and then he walked to the front of the convoy.

Weber walked up to Rhodes and threw a package to Rhodes, "Put it in your ring, this is something that hasn't been sold last time." Weber said.

Rhodes nodded and put the package inside.

After sitting in the car and waiting for a while, everyone saw Daniel climbed onto the roof of a car and shouted loudly: "Let's go! Try to reach the next city before tonight!"

The caravan began to move towards the city gate, and Rhodes and the others followed.Because Hamer's injury has not fully healed, he was allowed to sit in the car all the time, and there was an extra seat, and Baron and Weber gave up to Rhodes.

"Why aren't we at the front of the caravan? Instead, we sit at the back. If we encounter danger, shouldn't we be the first to encounter it?" Rhodes asked Hamer, who was resting with his eyes closed.

"Baron and the others should go to the front. You and I just need to protect the back." Hammer opened his eyes and said. "Of course, if you encounter danger, you'd better run away. If you don't have anything to do, you should talk less. The road is dangerous. We'd better save our strength." He added.

Rhodes was a little displeased with his attitude, but there was nothing he could do.

Such a long journey without anyone to talk to is still very boring, it's fine if there are no girls to chat with, even this strong man doesn't want to chat with himself.

So Rhodes took out the necromancer's diary from the space ring and continued to study, hoping to learn some magic from it.

In addition to some crazy and bold ideas of the necromancer in the diary, there are also some experimental records.

Unexpectedly, this necromancer still has some "scientific" spirit, and knows how to do controlled experiments. It says that one day, in order to test the effect of a toxin on animals, he also caught three rabbits of about the same size, male and female, and then Inject the toxin separately and observe the effect.

All the rabbits died except for one female rabbit who went crazy.

Had he only caught the female rabbit, he might have thought the poison could only drive animals mad.

Necromancer Otto tricked us, is he going to do a control experiment with Baron and Hammer who are similar in size, and Sam and Weber who are smaller?

Such an idea suddenly appeared in Rhodes' mind.

The convoy was slowly driving on the snow-covered road. Although there were still many caravans on this road in winter, due to the cold weather, the snow had not melted, so the speed of the caravans was relatively slow.

The life of ordinary people in this world is really not easy. In such a harsh environment and weather, the people in this caravan did not find a city to rest, but chose to continue working in such a cold winter.

Before he knew it, Rhodes had read all of the necromancer's diary. On the penultimate page of the book, Rhode discovered that the necromancer had recorded one of his self-created magic on it...

(End of this chapter)