Gold is Justice

"In this way, you don't have to be too scared when you meet that flame magician next time."

Coco was a little moved, looking at her president with eyes filled with admiration.

"Okay, let's try your magic power again now. Napa also said before that the best equipment for necromancers comes from corpses. See if your magic power has improved."

Ke Ke nodded, she took off the hood on her head, raised the dead tree branch in her hand and pointed to the deserted place in front of the street, closed her eyes and meditated silently for a while...

"Bone soldiers with you!"

This may be the first time that Ke Ke summoned undead soldiers in front of so many townspeople. Under the watchful eyes of so many people, the soldiers made of bones slowly stood up.Accompanied by cheers from the surrounding townspeople, the undead soldier finally stood up completely, and the blade in his hand gradually took shape with the sound of metal clashing, but this time, it was no longer the so-called rusty sword, but a A serious warrior sword.

Under the sun, the undead soldier came to Coco like a loyal knight. The blue light on its chest was flickering in a deep and deep way, which seemed to symbolize the infinite power within.

Airl nodded very satisfied: "Well, not only does the bone look a lot thicker, but the weapon is also a little sharper. It seems that the magic power of the equipment is still quite large."

Ke Ke smiled shyly. After thinking for a while, she pointed the dead branch in her hand to the side of the undead soldier, closed her eyes and meditated silently, and shouted again——

"Skeleton soldiers accompany me!"

Arrow was overjoyed, but what followed was a little disappointment.Coco's face turned pale, but he still couldn't summon the second undead soldier.It seems that the power of this Corpse Eater Cloak has not yet reached a qualitative breakthrough.

"It's okay, little girl." Airl glanced at the surrounding townspeople, and after confirming that these townspeople showed no hatred or fear towards the undead soldiers, he was slightly relieved.

In addition to testing Coco's magic power, the open-air experiment this time is to try to inform the townspeople about the necromancer.Although Coco also completed some miscellaneous tasks before, he asked the undead soldiers to help.But this time, let them take a look at the enhanced version of the undead soldier to let them know that this soldier will not cause any harm to them, and it should be within the controllable range.

But just when Ai Luo turned to face the crowd, ready to say thanks...

"Brother President! Wait a minute! I... I can still... work hard..."

Airl turned around, only to see Coco readjusted her breathing, closed her eyes and meditated for a while.A few seconds later, the dead branch in her hand stretched out again——

"My most faithful friend!"

The next moment, something wonderful happened again.Small bone fragments once again accumulated on the empty ground.

It's just that this time it doesn't look like a human skeleton.With these little skeletons gradually taking shape...

"Wang! Wang Wang Wang!"

A short-legged skeleton dog that doesn't even reach Coco's knees, the whole skeleton looks chubby, and has a tail that sways like a fan, happily rushing to Coco's side, circling her back and forth .

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Just like the undead soldiers, there is a blue flame wrapped in the rib cage of the skeleton dog.The attachment to its master drove it to almost directly lift its two front paws and lie on Coco's lap, wagging its tail excitedly.Airl's eyes lit up immediately, but before he could speak, the skeleton dog turned into dust and disappeared instantly just like when it appeared.

Coco's eyes, who were still excited just now, dimmed immediately. She raised her head to look at Ai Luo, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry... Brother President. My magic power can't sustain it for a long time. So ..."

Airl pouted: "Okay, about... about five seconds. Can you still summon this little cutie?"

Ke Ke tried again, but then shook her head: "Although the magic power consumed is not a lot, I need to recover. It will take about 10 minutes, and it will take time for the magic power around to condense."

A puppy around five seconds... well, it's a tactical point anyway.In fact, if you think about it carefully, the dog's teeth just now seem to be quite sharp.

Although Airl really wanted to talk now, the sky was getting darker.He advertised again to all the surrounding townspeople, and then he was about to end the day's display.

Da-da-da-

Alona hadn't read the lines that were about to call the curtain call, but the sound of horses in the distance attracted everyone's attention.

Chapter 34 Businessmen only make friends, not enemies

The townspeople parted to let the fast horse pass quickly.The rider on the horse seemed very flustered and flustered. Before and after arriving at the gate of the Mermaid Song Guild, he didn't even have time to stop the horse, so he hurriedly rolled off the horse's back.

"be careful!"

Brad was quick, and immediately stepped forward to catch the man who fell off the horse.Coco waved a dead branch, and the skeleton soldier quickly stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the horse that was about to lose control, stopping the panting old horse.

Ai Luo frowned, stepped forward and said, "Doctor Cora? Why are you so nervous? Your old horse usually takes you to the next town for a doctor's visit. Everyday, the baby is going to die. What happened today?" Are you that nervous?"

The man named Cora is about 60 years old and belongs to the doctor in Pelican Town.Although he is a doctor, but judging from Airl's experience in big cities, he should be a barefoot doctor at most.Pelican Town's minor colds and bruises may be okay, but for more serious diseases, the only way this doctor can do it is to carry the patient into his own carriage, and then quickly transport it to the nearest city to find one of them. professional doctor.

Doctor Cora was out of breath, his face was ashen, and with Brad's support, he finally walked in front of Airl, and said with a lost face: "Monster...monster! The monster is out! Inside the Shining Forest, monster! What a big, scary thing!"

As soon as they heard about the monster, the townspeople who were about to disperse gathered around again. Everyone had a look of excitement on their faces that was both frightened and eager to hear gossip.

But it is indeed inconvenient for so many people. After thinking about it, Arrow asked Brad to help Dr. Cora enter the guild and sit down in the rest area.Ke Ke brought a glass of water and put it in front of him.

"Take a breath first, and tell me, what's going on?"

With this glass of water, Cora's expression finally eased a lot.After letting his breathing be as gentle as possible, he finally spoke——

"Monster! I...I saw a monster!"

"I'm going to the Shining Forest to collect medicinal herbs during the day! You should also know that? Shining Forest is rich in a lot of medicinal herbs. I will collect some and dry them, and then find a time to transport them to the big cities to sell them to make some money."

"But today... this afternoon! Just when I felt that the harvest was almost the same and I wanted to come back! But... I suddenly saw... so big! Such a big lump of sludge! The sludge is like It's alive! It's crawling slowly in the forest!"

"I was so frightened that I stood still and didn't dare to move! Then, I saw with my own eyes this lump of mud, which suddenly wrapped a passing rabbit!"

"That rabbit... the rabbit! It was struggling constantly in the stomach of that monster, but it seemed as if it was drowning, and it couldn't escape no matter how hard it struggled!"

"I just saw with my own eyes... I saw that rabbit melted little by little in the belly of the mud, that transparent belly, first the fur, then the skin, then the meat, then the internal organs, and the bones ! There is really nothing left, it is really terrible... so terrible!"

Having said that, he suddenly got up and wanted to grab Airl's hand, Airl instinctively flinched back, with a gentle and polite smile on his face.The doctor didn't grab Airl's hand, so he could only turn his head and grab Brad's huge and rough palm next to him, and said excitedly: "The monster saw it, I have a hunch he must have seen me! If If I hadn't reacted and escaped quickly, he would have eaten me too!"

"You are the Adventurer's Guild, right? Are you dedicated to dealing with these monsters?! You... can you kill that monster? Will the monster come to my house at night! My house is on the east side of the town , that thing will touch my house as soon as it enters the village, I'm afraid, I'm really scared!"

Judging from Korra's words and descriptions, it should be King Slime.No matter how bad it is, it should be some slime guards under King Slime.

It's just that Airl didn't expect that in less than two months, these slimes changed from eating wheat to eating living things directly.Looks like their numbers are really starting to swell.

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After confirming the mission goal, think about your team lineup——

One warrior, one mage.Barely counting Buffy, who can only smell fragrance, plus I am only a non-combatant, at most there are only two combatants, one decoration and one brain.

So, the answer is obvious.King Slime is far from a problem that their guild can solve.

"I understand. If there are monsters and entrustments, we have business. Mr. Kora, let's talk about the rewards. It is distributed according to the difficulty of the adventurers in our guild (pointing to the task level description on the wall), this The task should belong to the copper level or above. In other words, at least 1 gold coin to start."

"A gold coin?!"

Sure enough, when it came to the question of money, all the scary monsters were immediately forgotten.

Cora's brows were frowned, and he shook his head: "It's too expensive! The highest consultation fee I see for a patient is only one silver coin, and you just ask me for a gold coin? I can't see many patients in a month, you know ?!"

Airl smiled, spreading his hands with a look of helplessness: "This is a monster, and a monster slime that has begun to eat living creatures. God knows what terrible things they will do next. Or... Kou Dr. La, just make up for it and never go to the Shining Forest to collect medicine again. Anyway, as long as you don’t get close to it, those slimes shouldn’t come to trouble you.”

"How about that?!"

Maybe it was because he was too nervous, the doctor blurted out——

"I... I usually live on these herbs! Otherwise, how would you let me eat? How would I drink? If you can't pick herbs, you will force me to death!"

After yelling, Cora let go of Brad's hand, and tried to grab Airl's hand again.After being dodged by Airl again, the old man suddenly said with a vicious face: "You... have monsters, and instead of killing them, you come to ask me for money? Isn't killing monsters the most important thing for you adventurers to do? Is it a matter? You exercise, you form this guild, don’t you exist to kill monsters?! If we can’t afford the money, don’t you plan to watch our entire Pelican Town be destroyed by monsters? ?!"

Having said that, Cora stood up abruptly from her seat, pointed at Airl angrily and said loudly——

"Ah~~~ I understand. It turns out that you are not the residents of our Pelican Town at all! You are just some cruel mercenaries, some cold-blooded killers who only want to make money! Let me tell you, if I fail Go on, and I will make it hard for you too! I will... I will speak ill of you everywhere! Just wait and see!"

Brad is good-natured, but Coco is not.She has endured such things as this doctor repeatedly provoking her own president, wanting to entrust tasks without paying money, and now seeing this guy swearing at her head and face, she couldn't get angry, and immediately pinched her ass. The branch just took a step forward.

But Arrow reached out and gently stopped her after all.

"Oh, look at what Mr. Cora said."

Moral kidnapping, emotional debt.

Airl had only seen this kind of thing in books in the past, but he didn't expect to see a real example now?

All I can say is that it's a disgraceful behavior.Even though he doesn't make sense, he can still come up with all kinds of messy reasons to convince himself that he is right, thereby oppressing others.From a certain point of view, this thick skin is also a skill.

Looking at this guy with an angry face, Ai Luo continued to maintain his commercial smile, and said: "Well, we also hope that the business can be more developed here. But at the same time, the manpower of our guild is often reduced. Insufficient, once our shortage of manpower encounters any problems, it will appear very passive.”

Seeing that Ai Luo didn't follow her own words, but changed the subject instead, Cora immediately became anxious, and quickly wanted to bring the topic back: "What are you talking about? I said you must help the residents of our small town to solve the problem! "

Ai Luo was not in a hurry, and continued to smile: "Don't worry, let me finish. As for me, I don't like to fight against others, but like to cooperate with others. So, Mr. Cora, please don't be so angry with me. , we are all residents of Pelican Town, there is no need to make each other unhappy because of such a trivial matter. Don’t you just want to destroy this monster so that you can continue to collect herbs? Then why don’t we sign a contract.”

Cora: "Contract?"

Napa on the counter at the side glanced at the barefoot doctor and yawned: "It's started again."

Airl said with a smile: "That's right, let's make a contract. Since you think a gold coin is too expensive, how much do you think is appropriate? Of course, it's impossible for free. Just like a doctor, you can't be free all day long." Helping people to see a doctor, right? Although it is the bounden duty of an excellent doctor like you to save lives and heal the wounded."

After being flattered for a few words, Cora's expression softened significantly.He nodded and sat down on his seat again: "I didn't say I want you to be free, I just said that your price is too expensive! Well, I don't worry if you talked to me so politely earlier. Then... Five How about a silver coin?"

"make a deal!"

In order to prevent this guy from going back on his word, Ai Luo immediately agreed, but then added his own conditions - "It's just that the cost-effectiveness of work at five silver coins is really too low, and we need to make more preparations than this. In order to start from another On the one hand, it makes up for it, and at the same time, as I said just now, our guild is not full of manpower, so I hope to be able to purchase first-hand the medicinal materials that Dr. Kola will collect in the future."

Cora was slightly taken aback. He probably hadn't thought about this aspect at all, and his face was full of blankness: "You... want to buy the herbs I bought?"

Ai Luo smiled and nodded: "In the future, after Mr. Kora collects any medicinal materials from the Shining Forest, it must be sent to our guild first, so that our guild can take the lead in purchasing. As for the purchase price... it may be cheaper than you It’s cheaper to go to a big city, but it saves you the trouble of exhausting boats and vehicles. The closest slightly larger city to Pelican Town should be Lagoon City. Even if you ride a horse, it takes two or three days to go back and forth. It’s time. The cheap ones should be deducted from your travel expenses.”

Chapter 35 Why not take shortcuts?

Cora looked at Airl suspiciously, looking a little uncertain.He hesitated for a long time, and asked, "Why do you want my herbs? Are you trying to steal my business?"

Airl: "Hahaha, why would the Adventurer's Guild steal the doctor's business? We make money for each other, and it's too late to help each other. How could we want to harm you? Our guild will use those herbs to refine some healing potions. But Please rest assured, we will never compete with the doctor for business!"

"Why do you want to talk about it? Because you also said just now that the consultation fee for treating a patient here is about 1 silver coin. However, a bottle of healing potion on my side costs five silver coins. Moreover, our Healing Potions only treat open wounds and actual injuries, they don't treat diseases, and they don't bring the dead back to life. Think about it, if someone in our town got sick and had some not-so-serious injuries, they would come to us for flowers Sell ​​a bottle of healing potion for 5 silver coins? Or will I ask you to spend one silver coin to see a doctor?"

Such a reason is indeed enough to convince Cora, but after thinking about it, the doctor was still a little puzzled: "It sounds reasonable...but why do you want to sell 5 silver coins? If you are like me If it's 1 silver coin, wouldn't I lose my money?"

Airl shook his head, he could only say that it is a small place, and it is really troublesome to explain it to these small town residents.But in order to make money and cooperate, he still smiled and said: "Doctor Kora, I don't think you will set off with the adventurers to explore those secret places, right? Therefore, when the adventurers are injured and urgently need medical treatment, It is impossible to get help from a doctor immediately. At this time, the only thing they can rely on is some healing potions or people who can heal magic in the team."

"Let's not worry about people who can heal magic. If you have healing potions, you can greatly improve the life safety of adventurers. And general healing potions can be used under economic conditions to allow adventurers to re-enter as quickly as possible. Fight or risk."

"And the healing potion refined by our guild is precisely because of this principle, so it can be sold so expensive. If you really want me to sell it cheaply to compete with you, I won't do it. It is made by alchemy. The healing potion doesn’t just need enough herbs, it also needs a lot of mana around it. Generally speaking, after refining the potion once, the mana will decrease accordingly, and it will take a few days to recover. Moreover, a magician needs to spend It can be modulated by its own magic power. The cost alone will far exceed the value of a silver coin."

"So, the customers of our guild's pharmacy and Dr. Kola's clinic are two completely different customer groups. You are targeting small town residents, while we are targeting adventurers. There is no conflict between them. .Since our customer groups do not conflict with each other, you say, how can I compete with you for business?"

A doctor might be regarded as a profession with a relatively high level of education in Pelican Town, right?Even the barefoot doctor.

Cora tilted her head and thought for a while, and it seemed that she finally accepted this theory after a long time.But in the end, he still asked: "Then why do you want me to provide it? Can't you pick me yourself?"

Airl wanted his guild members to pick them, but he had no choice. The cultural level of the latter two members was too low. It would be good enough to be able to identify those herbs. The level of picking was really helpless for Airl. .But these things can’t be said just like that, he laughed immediately: “Isn’t that because our guild only has these people now, and there are other tasks that need them to complete. It takes a day to go into Shining Forest to collect herbs, What a waste of effort."

To put it bluntly, this doctor can be regarded as letting go of his guard a little bit.After Airl drew up the power of attorney, he wrote his name on it, took out more than a dozen coins from the purse hanging on his belt, and finally managed to get the commission price of 5 silver coins.

"Well, we are happy to cooperate!"