Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 108 The Hotel Outside the City

Everyone found a hotel outside the city to rest. On the way, Rhodes learned from Baron why they knew Miles.

Miles was the troubadour who found the seriously injured Rhodes in the wild and carried him to Ebony City for treatment.Miles made a lot of money in the Kingdom of Nord. After earning a lot of money, he gave up the idea of ​​traveling to the north of Nord, but decided to return to the Kingdom of Fish to study at the Academy of Bards.

Although bards and bards don't seem to hear much, there is still a little difference.Troubadours are just ordinary wandering poets or singers, and bards are poets who can use poetry to cast spells.

In fact, no one would care about the difference between the two. Generally speaking, people on the mainland call these two kinds of troubadours, and only the bards themselves would care about such a small difference.

It was just a whim that Miles wanted to study at the Academy of Bards. After learning that Rhodes and the others were going to participate in the team competition of the athletic conference, he wanted to join them and participate in this competition with them.This is indeed a much-anticipated event. After winning the championship, Miles has already thought about how to calmly face the crazy admiration of thousands of girls.

And Rhodes and the others happened to be one person short of signing up, so they agreed without even thinking about it. After all, Miles could be regarded as Rhodes' savior.Although I don't know him very well, I was able to save a stranger I didn't know, and even walked such a long distance behind his back to prepare to spend money to help him treat him.Such a person is certainly not a bad person.

Rhodes is very confident in the strength of himself and Baron. The competition uses blunt swords and is not allowed to wear armor. With the golden bell cover iron shirt and iron head skill, his ability to resist blows is comparable to that of a plate armor. Warriors don't know how to lose.

"In fact, the knight jousting after the team competition is the highlight of the competition. Many wandering knights in various countries want to become famous in the knight jousting. And those free riders who are not even knights, hired The cavalry also want to stand out in the competition to win the appreciation of a certain lord and become his vassal." Myers sat on the bench with a wine glass and talked with Baron and the others, completely forgetting his previous experience. Embarrassed look.

"I'm still more interested in the [-] gold coins in the team competition." Baron picked up his glass and took a sip of the wheat wine that is a specialty of Gulfstream City.

"The prize money for the Knight's Lance Tournament is even higher, [-] gold coins." Hammer reminded beside him.

Baron, who was halfway through drinking, was stunned, and the drink flowed down his chin.

"I really don't know what this Duke Owen thinks, giving away so many gold coins to others for nothing every five years." Misel, who had not spoken before, said.

"He definitely made his money back. If you think about holding a competition, Gulfstream City has almost 10,000+ more people in just a few months. I think, these 10,000+ people have been eating and drinking here for a few months, and he has earned back the money. There must be more. The food and drinks that have been accumulated for several years have been eaten by us, and the hotel we live in is still opened by him. , How can there be so many people living here, and the rent for the past few months has recovered the cost." Rhodes explained, "Not only that, but he has also gained a reputation, which is more important than money. Listen to the next How do people call Duke Owen, they call him the generous Duke Owen. I haven't even figured out the surnames of the dukes in the Nord Kingdom, but I know him first. If he wants to raise an army later, Countless mercenaries and adventurers will join him, after all, he has left a rich and generous impression on everyone, and it must be okay to be a soldier under his hands."

Baron nodded after hearing this, and patted Hamer on the shoulder next to him, "Learn more, and ask your father to do the same when he goes back. If he wants to hold this kind of competition, I will be the first to participate."

Hammer smiled and didn't speak.

"This won't work in the Nord Kingdom. Gulfstream City is notoriously rich. It can grow several seasons of wheat a year. There is so much food that it can't be eaten, and it can't be used to make wine. This is the ability to hold such a large-scale Grand event. I don’t need to say more about the Kingdom of Nord, so as not to make you unhappy.” Myers said.

Compared with the Fish Kingdom, the geographical conditions of the Nord Kingdom are much worse. The Nord Kingdom has many mountains and a cold climate, and there is very little land that can be used for farming, so many people have no choice but to become adventurers.

The conditions of the Roman Empire were similar to those of the Fish Kingdom, but the nobles exploited them too much. Many commoners couldn’t even eat enough to eat, so they didn’t have much energy to work. If they didn’t work on the land, the harvest would be worse. After such a vicious cycle, the lives of the civilians of the Roman Empire were not as comfortable as ordinary Nords.

However, the comfortable life made Fish Kingdom's army the worst in combat effectiveness on the entire continent. Although it had the most complete and advanced equipment, it was lacking in blood.

"You're right." Baron sighed after hearing Miles' words. He also envied Fish Kingdom for having such superior natural conditions.

Ten copper coins can only buy one glass of wine in the Nord Kingdom, but at least ten glasses can be bought here.Baron observed for a while. Except for the price of meat, the price of everything in the Fish Kingdom was much cheaper than that in the Nord Kingdom.

"What an enviable country." Hamer also sighed.

"Indeed." Misel agreed, the country she grew up in was worse than the Nord Kingdom, no matter what it was.

Rhodes still felt that the country that Baron and the others envied was backward. It was still in an agricultural society and hadn't developed any industry. But think about it, is it difficult to develop industry by magic?

"Don't think about these things anymore, you can't change the situation no matter how much you think about it, why don't you discuss about the athletic conference." Miles' words pulled them back from their thinking.

"We have a day off today, and we will register tomorrow morning." Baron said.

"Then I'll go to sleep for a while." Miles stood up and prepared to go upstairs.

Rhode held him back, "You saved my life, I haven't thanked you enough yet, you accept this."

Miles picked up what Rhodes handed over and looked at it. It was a scroll of animal skins, which contained the iron cloth shirt cheats that Rhodes had translated into the language of the world in the past few days. He only made this copy. .

"What is this?" Miles asked curiously.

"A kind of martial arts for body protection, after practice, it can make you feel like wearing a layer of metal armor." Rhodes explained.

"Will that make my skin hard?" Miles didn't ask what martial arts was, but asked this kind of question.

Rhodes was a little speechless, how could a big man care about this.

He squeezed his arm and replied, "No."

"Okay, then I'll take it." After finishing speaking, Miles took the animal skin roll and went upstairs...

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(End of this chapter)