"Swish, swish~"
In the lush grass on the road leading to the Giant Beast Forest in Spring Leaf Town, Rierta dragged the fourth passer-by who was knocked unconscious by him into the grass.
The passer-by was a rare fat man, not tall, just over 1.6 meters tall, wearing a dirty linen jacket.
Rierta stripped off the clothes from the fat man, put them on one by one, and muttered as he put them on: "My majestic king of the mountains actually engaged in robbery. !"
After much difficulty, he put the clothes on, but the sleeves and trousers were still too long, looking like a clown in a circus, they had to be rolled up.
Link came over, threw a few gold coins beside the stunned fat man, and said, "Okay, we should be able to go to the town now."
Now, Link is wearing a half-worn cowhide armor, with a dark red ordinary craft sword pinned to his waist, and his hair is messy, tied behind his head casually. Nana is also wearing a patched leather armor. She has put away her two gorgeous epic one-handed swords, and she only holds a Severing Dagger whose appearance was changed to ordinary by Link.
Mirda changed the most. Her hair was let down and planed in a mess. She still suppressed the disgust in her heart and wiped a lot of dust on her hair, face, neck, etc. where the skin was exposed. Her body was an ordinary woman. He was wearing a short robe and wide-leg trousers, and there were two big ugly patches on the buttocks of the trousers.
The dust covered the luster of her hair and skin, and the spacious robes completely covered her graceful figure. Now, she is a pretty village girl.
"Okay, it should be almost the same now, let's go into the town."
The four of them walked towards Spring Leaf Town together. They said it was a small town, but its size was about the same as that of Ferroman's ordinary city. The roads outside the town were spacious and flat, and there were people coming and going on the road, most of them were adventurers, and they were all human races. There are occasional elves and dwarves among them, but these non-human races either wear copper rings around their necks or wear very tattered clothes, looking very down and out.
Link and the others succeeded in pretending. Walking along the way, the pedestrians on the road looked at them without any abnormality, just like looking at ordinary passers-by.
When they arrived at the gate of Chunye Town, the guard glanced at Link, then at Mirdad and Realta, and said to Link, "Are these two your servants?"
"Ah... yes, it's my servant." Link froze for a moment, then immediately followed the guard's words and nodded.
"Then why don't you put collars on them?"
Link looked all the way over, and he already had a good idea of the customs in this place. Then he continued, "They are slaves I just bought, and I'm going to take them to the town to wear them."
Unexpectedly, the guard shook his head: "Slaves cannot enter the town without collars!"
"Ah, what should we do?" Link spread his hands, he had already seen the guard wearing a copper hoop around his waist.
Sure enough, the guard took off the copper hoop from his waist: "Three gold coins each, if you don't wear it, your slave will be considered illegal! Spring Leaf Town has the right to dispose of all illegal slaves!"
It's just two copper rings, just wear them.
Link has the gold coins of this world, which he found from passers-by who had been knocked unconscious before, but there are only 2 of them. It is difficult for him to take out the gold coins of the Norton Kingdom, so he can only take a dozen or so and quietly melt them Break it into a few pieces of gold, and hand it to the guard along with the gold coins: "I only have this money on me, do you think it's enough?"
The guard was not picky, he used gold coins and nuggets as well, and Link gave him an excess, he weighed the weight of the gold nuggets, with a smile on his face, and handed the two copper collars to Link: "Take it. The newly bought slaves are wild, you have to be tough on them, don't let them kick your nose and step on your face!"
Under the watchful eyes of the guard, Link had no choice but to put the collar around the necks of Mirdad and Realta.
Strange to say, this ring looks quite ordinary, exactly the same as a common copper ring, but when it is put on the neck, the copper ring fits perfectly immediately.
At the same time, Mirdad and Realta suddenly showed strange expressions on their faces. Link knew that the situation was different, but this was the city gate, and the guards were watching, so he didn't have much to say, so he walked into the city first.
When they arrived in the city, Mirdad said, "This copper ring is very strange. My strength has been completely imprisoned."
"Me too, I can't use my grudge at all!"
Link had carefully looked at the copper ring before, and there was no abnormality at all, but now that it has this effect, he was also shocked, thought for a while, and said: "Let's find a hotel later, and I will study this collar carefully. "
The streets of Spring Leaf Town are also very lively, people come and go, the situation is similar to that outside the city, the human race is the mainstream, and a few are elves and dwarves, but they are all slaves, and they all wear copper rings around their necks, without exception.
The shops on the side of the street have a lot of goods, including daily necessities, weapons, armor, and magic equipment. Link visited a few magic equipment stores, and he found that the craftsmanship of these magic equipment is similar to the level of later generations, except for the specific enchanting techniques. And style, there is nothing special about it.
Especially materials, Feloman's rare materials, are also very precious here.
"It seems that at least we won't go hungry." Link brought a space pendant with a lot of rare materials and thousands of gold coins. From the price he asked just now, it can be worth at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Materials, they don't have to worry about spending money.
As he was walking, a bookstore appeared in front of him.
Link's eyes lit up, "Come on, let's go in and have a look."
To quickly and comprehensively understand the world, books are the best helpers.
A group of people walked in, but when they reached the door, a human clerk at the door stretched out his hand to stop him: "Sir, slaves are not allowed to enter the bookstore, let them wait at the door."
"..." Link frowned slightly. What is going on in this world? Is the discrimination against foreign slaves so serious
He had no choice but to say to Mirdad and Rierta: "You are waiting for me here, I will come out soon, Nana, you are waiting for me here too."
In the bookstore, Link walked around and quickly found a copy of "Encyclopedia of Arago". After paying for it, after leaving the bookstore, Link said, "Let's go, let's find a hotel now."
Mirdad and Rierta were already full of anger, but they didn't dare to say it out. The world was too unfriendly to them, and there was discrimination everywhere. Just now they saw an elf being beaten to death by his master. Some people turn a blind eye, as if this is a normal thing.
It was just horrific.
They could only follow Link closely.
After walking on the street for a while, Link suddenly heard a strange conversation.
"Hey~ have you heard? The magician Rockhan is going to recruit apprentices again recently."
"Tch~ You're an ass apprentice, and you're still working hard for him. After three years of studying with him, you can't learn anything. It's a complete waste of time."
"You're right, I've never met anyone who is more stingy than the magician Rockhan, he is simply a miser!"
Link's heart moved when he heard this. From these words, he got two important pieces of information. First, the magician Rockhan is a big man with a great reputation. Second, the reputation of this magician is not very good, he is very stingy, and lacks apprentices.
Now in this inexplicable place, all the mercenaries walking on the street are at level 7 or 8, and it is not uncommon to see those at level 9. As a foreigner, he doesn't understand anything, so it is easy to cause trouble.
If you can find a backer, it will be much safer.
Thinking of this, Link walked towards the person who spoke just now, and asked, "Gentlemen, hello, I'm a magician, I just came from another place, but I'm not familiar with this place... But you just said that the magician Rockhan wants to recruit apprentices ?”
The two looked at each other, and one of them laughed: "Outsider, I advise you not to jump into this big pit, Rockhan is not easy to deal with."
"If you can learn something from him, this is you!" Another person gave Link a thumbs up.
Link continued to ask with a smile: "Then can I know where Rockhan lives?"
A person pointed towards the center of the town and said with a smile: "There is no need to look for it at all. Look, the tower in the center of the town is the sweatshop of Rockhan."
Link looked over, and there was indeed a tall tower. This tower was completely different in style from the Norton Kingdom. It was a white round tower, which looked a bit like a lighthouse on Earth, with a straight tube in a very simple style.
When he turned his gaze back, the two people just now had laughed and left, and they looked at Link as if they were looking at a fool.
Mirdad came up and said softly to Link, "Are you going to take advantage of the situation?"
She is a princess, and she knows these methods best. When Link asks this question, she knows his purpose.
Link nodded: "It's too dangerous here. These people treat slaves so cruelly, beat and kill them frequently, and have too much hostility. I'm afraid they won't do much better to their fellow clansmen. We have no power, power or power. Once we are moved by evil thoughts , very troublesome."
If it was in Ferromen, such as Ximu Town, Link would not have such worries. In the towns of Norton Kingdom, the decree is still very deterrent, but here, Link is completely unfamiliar, and he does not feel a little sense of security. .
Mirdad nodded: "That's the only way to do it."
I looked at the sky, but at two o'clock in the afternoon, it was still early, so the group walked straight towards the round tower in the center of the town.
Spring Leaf Town is still not that big. In about twenty minutes, a group of people stood at the door of the outer wall of the round tower.
Looking in from the grid of the courtyard wall, you can see that the round tower is only a small part of this magical place, there are many beautiful buildings around it, and there is a large garden square where many young magicians The teachers walked up and down, all looking hurried and tired.
"It looks like an academy of magic," said Mirdad.
Rierta is short and can't see the situation in the yard. His strength is still locked, so he can only jump and jump under the grid: "Tell me, what is the situation inside?"
At this moment, Link suddenly felt that someone was watching him from behind, and when he turned his head, he saw an old man with a white beard and a pointed round hat looking at him.
Seeing Link looking at him, the old man smiled and said, "Young man, do you want to learn magic with me?"
Link, however, was completely shocked. From the old man, he felt a vast aura of magic energy, which was almost endless. Standing next to him, it felt like a black vortex. The slightly dizzying attraction of mana clearly told Link that this was a true legendary magician!
This is the first time Link has seen a legendary powerhouse of the mortal race since he came to the world of Ferroman!