A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

Refugees spend no more than fifteen groschens per day on average, which shows the greed of the gentlemen in the city that never sleeps.

Moreover, applying for an identity certificate does not mean safety and security. Only in the main urban area where a large number of city guards are stationed can personal safety be barely guaranteed. Therefore, the price of a toilet in the main urban area, including the municipal square, is in the short term. It has doubled 25 times in just two months.

After obtaining the temporary identity certificate, Cloris went to the Explorer Bank to exchange the ten pounds for ten Aegis coins, coins worth two hundred shillings and thirty banknotes of one hundred groschen. In the deep world, which is not easy to preserve, people prefer to use metal currency.

The exchange rate between Thai pounds and Aegis in the upper realm is usually 1:3.5, but Cloris only got money equivalent to 32 Aegis at the bank.

The girl couldn't argue with the vampires, so after exchanging the money, she went to North Street, where the order was relatively stable, on Laning Street, and found a five-story hostel with big security guards, and walked in.

"Hello, do you have any vacancies here?" Cloris asked the front desk proprietress politely.

The proprietress has curly hair, a cigarette in her plump lips, she is reading a newspaper, her exposed arms are thicker than the girl's thighs, she puts down the newspaper that blocks her view, and in front of her is a black and thin man wearing a cloak The little girl whispered with a cigarette jar in her mouth: "There are three big rooms for two people and one small room for one person. The big room is thirty groschenes a day, and the small room is twenty groschens a day."

"Can I see the layout of the room?" Cloris asked.

The proprietress was surprised, she wanted to laugh, after all, the little girl in front of her looked like a refugee who crawled out of a latrine, but when she heard the other party's calm and polite conversation, she put her temper back and stretched out her hand not to hit the smiling face , she tapped on the structural diagram on the table: "The big room is on the third to fifth floors, with its own bathroom, and the small room is on the second floor, half the size of the big room, without a bathroom."

"I want to rent a small room." Cloris spoke softly, but her voice was a bit hoarse—she used the simulation ability of [Phantom] to change her tone.

The proprietress couldn't help but said, "This is not a refugee camp. Even if you can pay, dirty and smelly untouchables don't want to live in my hotel!"

"I'm not dirty." Cloris said, spreading her hands.

The proprietress was speechless.

"This is my identification card." Cloris handed over a paper certificate.

The proprietress looked and looked, and asked curiously, "You alone?"

"Just me."

"Okay, how do you want to pay? I know you're tight, you can pay the deposit first, and then pay after you earn money from the part-time job, but it can't be more than a week at the latest, or you'll get out of here!" The shrew in front of her The voice is loud, but it is more than an order of magnitude worse than the chef of the reformatory, let alone Alista.

At least the proprietress can still see the appearance and posture of the woman.

Arista...

Cloris sighed and said, "Pay one month's rent first."

"One month?!"

Several residents who were dining in the lobby of the hostel suddenly looked sideways.

Whoever lives here doesn't have to search and search for the rent every day, and weekly payments are rare, let alone monthly payments?

"Are you sure?" The proprietress glanced at the others, "I will ensure the safety of all residents in the hotel, but if you cross the threshold and go outside, you will be at your own risk."

"Thank you, I understand."

The rich and powerful looked down on Cloris's little money. As for the local hooligans or illegal refugees, if they came to her door, the girl would let them know who the robbers were.

After paying one shilling and receiving four hundred groschens in compensation, Cloris took the key from the proprietress——

The three caves of the cunning rabbit, she first opened ten or eight doors according to the secret script Woyty taught herself.

118. Fern's Nest Town

In the mysticism of the misty world, everything in the world has potential mysterious characteristics, and this mysterious characteristic not only comes from the source force or more essential source quality, but also from thoughts, or cultural symbols.

The accumulation of history and the feedback of consciousness will bring new implication to the object, and will also endow it with new mysterious characteristics.

Dawn often makes people think of hope and gospel, and dusk makes people feel the curtain of an experience.It seems to be a chicken-and-egg problem whether the gods endowed it with a symbol in the process of ascension, or whether this meaning already exists, thus giving birth to the godhead that people pursue.

In any case, at least Cloris knows that the "gate" naturally possesses the mystery of "transfer" and "traversal".

The girl wrote the secret text that Wojty taught her on the door panel and door frame inside the door with a quill pen dipped in the magic potion. During this process, the "door" that carried the secret text itself was the material for casting the spell.

There is no need for a physical body, and it is okay to just create a "door" conceptually, but this is not an area that Cloris can touch.

The magic circle is called "The Opening of the Gate", and because this version of the secret text is the product of the improvement and simplification of the disciple Oberlan, it is also called "The Opening of the Opening of the Gate of Oberlan".

The main body of the secret text is an equilateral triangle, and the upward corner is chiseled with a carving knife to make dents and loops, and the molten substance mixed with the casting powder is injected; the left corner draws the basic map of the ring, and the rings can be carved by themselves, which represents the door. The "number" is also the "password" of the connection; the symbol symbolizing the end point is drawn on the right corner. The finer the pen and the more refined the pen skill, the more doors can be connected, and the effect of the secret text can be improved. At the level of Cloris, a The three gates connected by the gate is the limit, the limit positioning distance is four kilometers, and drawing a few more lines will destroy the overall structure of the secret text; the omniscient eye is drawn in the middle, which is used for remote positioning.

The materials and tools come from Chaga, all of which are magical industrial products of Cangshuang Liuyang, suitable for species with hands.

Cloris also arranged a simple hidden secret text. After the potion dries up, only very shallow marks can be seen on the door. Most people will only think that it is the original grain of the wood.

Afterwards, she opened a door in each of the hotels in the Municipal Square and the Extraordinary Bazaar, and connected each other with spells and "passwords", so that they could be transmitted through spiritual veins and spells.

Spiritual veins and spells are also compatible, the closer to the spiritual vein symbol of the void, the easier it is to use or crack the "Oberan Gate Revelation".In addition, every time teleportation is used, it is inevitable to leave source fluctuations. Although most of the traces will disappear within 5 minutes, the "door" will still be found when encountering a superhuman who is proficient in detection. This is why Cloris did not sail. Or the reason why the bar is "open".

In addition, the materials were limited, and Cloris had to plan carefully when arranging the "door opener".

The Extraordinary Market is located in the northeast of the commercial port. It is not a small market with one or two streets. Its real name is "Fern Nest Town". It is located at the easternmost part of Hurricane Island, and further east is a bottomless cliff.

The town has a permanent population of thousands of people, a dense network of alleys, and is adjacent to the commercial area to the west. Mercenaries, explorers, wizards, and merchants come and go frequently. All the shady activities can be found here, six of the eight clinics in Hurricane Island that can perform spiritual vein transplantation are located here, and the other two, one is located in the Evernight City Hospital in the wealthy area, and the other is [-] kilometers west of the Evernight City , a small mining town on the west side of Hurricane Island.

【Doctor Shadow Puppet】The main materials needed are shadow eel ridges, spirit sucking insect eggs, mamba grass bulbs and high-purity dark source crystals; 【Dream Walker】The main materials are soothing soup, double thought flowers and dreamland seaweed , mermaid brain, and succubus liquid.

Most of the materials have wide applicability and are easy to buy. Even if there is no stock in Fern's Nest Town, Cloris can still spend more money to find a merchant to order. The shortest time is three or two weeks, and the longest time is several months. .

However, the material of Dreamwalker really gave Cloris a headache.

Many materials have similar mystical properties. Seaweed in the dreamland is the best material for [Dream Walker], but ordinary people can't go to the dreamland at all. Even if they go, it is difficult to collect seaweed from the deep sea of ​​the dreamland. Mermaid brain And succubus liquid are the next best alternatives, but they still lack access channels.

Therefore, Cloris' focus is on 【Doctor Shadow Puppet】.

Fern Nest Town is much darker than the commercial port, and the wires are connected indiscriminately. If there is a decisive battle here, the supernatural may be electrocuted to death before being killed by the opponent.

Cloris wandered around the street market for a while, bought some of the auxiliary materials she needed, and within half an hour, she spent all the Aegis and shillings exchanged from the bank, Cloris According to a rough estimate, just the auxiliary materials for [Doctor Shadow Puppet] would probably cost twenty or thirty pounds, which is equivalent to seventy to one hundred Aegis shields.

After wandering around, the girl stepped into a business that sold extraordinary materials and rare treasures. She walked to the front desk and said to the maid who received customers: "Hi, I want to order materials."

The maid at the front desk gave Cloris a strange look, and then enthusiastically handed over a roster, which recorded the products of the Canary Firm's branch in the city that never sleeps.

Cloris flipped over and said, "I need a mamba bulb, but there's nothing else I want on it."

"The price of a mamba bulb is 46 Aegis and seven shillings," the maid reminded calmly.

That's 46 Aegis, and her weekly salary is only two and a half!

"Oh..." Cloris sighed, and she took out two ten-pound banknotes at the front desk, and then said, "If you don't want to do business, I can go to other firms... I know that Canary Firm is better than Night City Chamber of Commerce. The goods are cheaper, I sincerely hope to trade, if not, I have to go to other firms to pay more money.”

"Uh... What would you like to order?" Twenty pounds is not too much, but it is not too little. The maid at the front desk gets a commission for selling things. She will not let go of even the smallest mosquito meat, let alone the one in front of her The girl wants to order other things too!

Cloris handed over a note with the main materials of [Doctor Shadow Puppet] and [Dream Walker] written in neat and elegant handwriting.Anyway, she is Shaqima now, and she is not afraid of being exposed. Even if the people of the Canary Chamber of Commerce are well-informed and deduce that someone needs to chimerize this skill, it doesn't matter.There are countless extraordinary people who come to order materials every day. If the materials involve disaster-level skills, the boss behind the scenes may pay a little attention.

Moreover, there are so many messy skills in the extraordinary world, and information of Cloris' level is not worth collecting.

"Shadow eels, soul-sucking insects, double-thought flowers, dreamland seaweed..." The maid was blinded and didn't know what these two words meant. She hurriedly said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go invite our manager... ..."

119. Goblin

The maid left for a while, and when she reappeared, she led Cloris to the third floor. The two walked in the long corridor with winding paths. The floor was covered with fluffy carpets and the walls were lit all night. The orange light, the central air-conditioning releases the heating. For the generally cold deep world, ordinary people can live in such a house, and they will move into heaven.

Cloris calculated the distance of the corridor. The narrow terrain is most suitable for [Tailor] to kill, but at the same time, it is also easy to be plotted by other skills.

Walking in the Nether, Cloris would only relax her vigilance when Wojty was by her side.

"Dong dong dong." The maid knocked on a door at the end of the corridor.

"Please come in." A young boy's voice came out from inside, which was crisp and slightly shrill.

The maid pushed the door open and said to the chair behind the desk facing the door: "Mr. Kahler, I brought the client here."

"Thank you, Maggie, close the door for me when you go out."

The maid bowed and retreated, and Cloris looked at the furnishings in the room.

There are warm chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, the walls and floor are made of stone bricks, but they are covered with dark precious mahogany, and the fireplace on the left wall has been remodeled so that it no longer burns a fire, and is now a small cattery. Inside is a lazy fat orange cat, and the wall on the right is a bookshelf, with hundreds of books stacked on top of each other, enough to build a small library.

The mahogany table is full of paper documents, there are metal mechanical levers of unknown purpose and light-colored secret texts. Cloris stood for a while, and then slowly turned her back to her swivel chair. There was something marked on the document, and after processing it, he looked at Cloris.

"Goblin?!"

"Oh, you can call me that," said the goblin, holding up the holder of his gold-rimmed glasses. He was all white, in a black suit that was pressed perfectly, and his neck was a little shaved. A few long and thin beards, different from human beards, the short furry creatures are naturally more cute, "But my name is Theo Pavel Kale, you can call me Kale, or Call me Theo Pavel kindly, if you find it difficult to pronounce, you can still call me Kale, but I have another idea, Theo, or Pavel, what do you think? Oh, if you don't like it, still Call it Calle."

A cheerful goblin!

Cloris was surprised.

No, this is more than cheerful, this is nonsense!

The girl had seen goblins before, but it was the first time she had such close encounters.

This is a furry subhuman creature whose height is generally between 110 cm and 130 cm. It is a close relative of orcs, and there is no reproductive isolation from humans.

However, it is generally believed in the world above that there is a cunning shrewdness and wisdom hidden behind these goblins' cute appearance.

"Calle..."

"Oh, the ridge of the shadow eel, the eggs of the spirit sucker, you seem to have told Maggie that you still need mamba bulbs, so what about the high-purity dark source crystal? What type do you want? Canary Trading Company is in the city that never sleeps There is a dark source crystal mine on the No. [-] mine island, which is generally processed into 'Ghost Crystal', 'Dark Stone' and 'Breathing Wind Gas'." Kale flicked the paper with his pointed fingers, and began to speak Have fun.

"I didn't say I needed that..."

"But don't you want to chisel a doctor puppet? This material is authentic, even more authentic than the skill book published by the Church of Evernight. Only church insiders can get such information... Do you want to ask me why I know? I'm sorry for this It’s a secret,” Kale chattered on, ignoring the fact that “Shaqima”’s copper-brown face was about to turn into a block of carbon, “If you really want to know, I can sell this information to you at a low price. You only need one Aegis, I will tell you that I inherited the orthodox tome from a twilight priest who died of illness, oh shit, I already told you, but it doesn't matter, you can still give me an Aegis..."

Cloris rubbed her temples and said, "Did no one tell you that you really talk a lot of nonsense?"

Kale shook his head happily: "I only talk so much when I'm alone with people, so you don't have to worry about me telling others what happened here. And, even if I tell others, I definitely won't say Say what you don't want others to know, even if I say what you don't want others to know..."

Cloris, who had never known goblins to talk such nonsense, said, "When you were a slave, you were not afraid of being whipped for talking so much nonsense!"

Sure enough, Kale's eyes froze suddenly, he squirmed his lips, and sadly covered the secret text on his forehead: "I am no longer a slave, I have a serious job, I am respected, if you want to hit me, I will, Just, just call the security downstairs... Oh my God, you must be a [tailor], you will sew me up!"

"If you don't want to do business, I'm leaving now!"

"Do it, of course! Only brothers and money are the only things you can't live up to!"

Cloris let out a "huh" and asked, "What if you have to choose between brothers and money?"

"I refuse to answer that question!"

"One Aegis, as long as you answer this question, I will give you an Aegis!"

"This, this..." The goblin tightly covered his mouth, with a look of pain in his eyes, and then, a gap appeared between his fingers, "I need to pay more..." Then he immediately put his fingers together.

"I'm here to order materials, not to listen to your nonsense, so..."

"A divine shield..."

Cloris stared at Calle with complicated and speechless eyes, and then took out a thousand Groschen banknotes.

Kale immediately grabbed the banknote, put it in his pocket and sat upright: "The ridge of the shadow eel is 120 Aegis, the spirit sucking insect egg is 330 Aegis, the average price of high-purity dark source crystal is three shillings per gram, and the price will be determined according to your needs." The product type is adjusted, and Shuangxianghua will help you inquire about the channel for free, do you want installments or the full payment?"

The ridge of the light and shadow eel and the eggs of the spirit sucking insect add up to 460 Aegis, which is close to 130 Thai pounds.

Cloris said: "I will pay half of the deposit first, and I will pay the other half after receiving the materials."

She is living in poverty, and now only has ninety pounds in cash, which is equivalent to the salary of an ordinary worker in the deep world for nearly two years, but it is still not enough for the materials of "Doctor Shadow".

The fire source crystal veins on Poor Monkey Education Island can be regarded as the girl's private property, but even if Cloris' Void Ring is full, she can't take away much money.In addition, she also seized some stolen gold, silver and jewels from the Corpse Snake, but before finding a suitable merchant, she would easily be fooled into cashing in hastily.

"Yes, you can pay [-] Aegis first, and the rest will be made up according to the quality of the material after the goods arrive." Kale is particularly generous in this regard, like a person who makes a lot of money, "Customers are our food and clothing. Parents, long live Aegis!"

"I need to pay in Terripe pounds." Cloris reminded.

"That's better," Kale said with a smile, "The exchange rate of Aegis has fallen more than Thai pounds recently. If you pay in Thai pounds, you can pay at the exchange rate of 1:3.4! Well, two hundred Aegis is about the same 58 pounds eight, you pay a deposit of 59 pounds..."

"..." Cloris handed over a piece of fifty baht and a piece of ten baht, and took three aegis and four shillings from Kale to make up for it. Hazardous skills are at least the salary of an ordinary worker for several years or even ten years, and they have to save without eating or drinking.

"I won't take your four shillings for nothing," said Calle gravely, referring to Terriby's shillings. Said about such goods. However, there is a slave auction at the Pteris Auction House the day after tomorrow, and in their auction list, there happens to be a succubus..."

120. Undercurrent

Before saying goodbye, Calle lent Cloris a VIP card of the Pteris Auction House. With the VIP card and the identity certificate issued by the Explorers Guild, she is eligible to participate in the auction. Otherwise, she will have to pay a deposit of [-] Aegis. admission.

The goblin wouldn't mind befriending a [tailor], future [doctor shadow puppet].Skills are not bound to be powerful the more they are chimerized. As a secondary spirit vein, the accompanying skills will indeed strengthen the physique of the superhuman and allow them to have more strange abilities, but this only allows the superhuman to be more flexible and calm To deal with the enemy and the environment accurately, six skills may not be able to form an overwhelming dominance over one or two skills.Moreover, the more skills, the more curses one bears, and the greater the risk.Even if Cloris only had this skill, Kale would not underestimate the girl.

He is well aware of the risks of chimerism [tailoring]. Regardless of the rating, it is only a first-level hazard, but the death rate during chimerism is higher than that of ordinary disaster-level skills. To survive, one must either have background or ability.

Official skills are the crystallization of wisdom of countless generations. After chimerism, they are more stable, safe, and powerful. However, the official church’s announcement of low-level skills is by no means kind. On the one hand, they monopolize the materials and only a small number of them flow into the black market. With proper preparation and correct guidance, when matching their skills, they can only fight with their lives.

Every extraordinary person, as long as he is not the kind of trash fish who transplants low-level spiritual veins, is worth guarding against and respecting.

To sum up, Kale thinks Miss "Shaqima" is worthy of some investment. Anyway, he just lent out the VIP card, and he has no actual loss. Why not do it?

"By the way," Cloris said to the goblin when she was leaving, "next time I come again, please make the spines of the books face outwards, and don't put the serial numbers of the series of books in the wrong order. In the middle of 3 and 4."

The furry goblin Theo Pavel Calle scratched his head, not knowing why.

The VIP card helped the cash-strapped Cloris save the deposit, but the real problem for the girl was that she didn't have the funds to participate in the auction.