Quicksand City, a trading city located in a gray area. This place does not belong to any empire, it seems to be a "small country" by itself. In this magical place, you can buy any mage handwriting you want, and you can also ask someone to refine any weapon you want. There are the top warriors, the top blacksmiths, and the top mages here—
The reason why these top people gather here is because this place gathers the most complete resources and absolute freedom.
Ji Jinrong visited Quicksand City quite a few times, and every time he felt the excitement of panning for gold. Their dark night adventure team transported a lot of goods with the Griffin, and his capable subordinates were actively looking for the best buyers to earn their travel expenses.
These people are the ones who most hope to live an ordinary life.
In contrast, Ji Jinrong was extremely relaxed.
When Douglas found Ji Jinrong, he was sitting on the balcony drinking black tea. Liusha City has a good climate, and the tea it produces is mellow and mellow, with a long aftertaste. Ji Jinrong took a sip, nestled in a chair to bask in the sun, like a lazy fluffy animal.
Hearing footsteps, Ji Jinrong opened his eyes and looked at Douglas.
Douglas said: "Your players are very busy, and you are here enjoying afternoon tea."
Ji Jinrong didn't feel any guilt at all, and took it for granted, "If I do everything, what do I want them to do?" He sat up and looked at Douglas with a smile, "You won't be the kind who does everything by yourself. , A person who worries about his subordinates in everything, right?"
Douglas was lost in thought.
His subordinates do seem to be a bit idle
Ji Jinrong is persuasive and persuasive: "People's ability needs to be exercised. We should give other people the opportunity to push them to their greatest potential. Maybe they will work harder in a short period of time, but what they can learn will benefit them for a lifetime—in the future They will be very grateful to you!"
Douglas couldn't help but leaned closer, and kissed Ji Jinrong's handsome nose: "You may be the only person in this world who can speak of being lazy so grandly."
Ji Jinrong covered his kissed nose.
He said: "Don't kiss me indiscriminately, I will have a nosebleed."
Douglas looked at the undisguised liking in Ji Jinrong's eyes, and felt warm in his heart.
Douglas said, "I came here to ask you if you would like to come with me to the auction."
Ji Jinrong said, "Is there anything good for auction today?"
Douglas said: "There are no good things, but the finale is the A-level strength potion. If it can be photographed, it will be very useful to Owen and the others."
Ji Jinrong's eyes moved: "Do you need a potion of strength?"
Douglas looked at Ji Jinrong.
Ji Jinrong said, "Call me if you need it! I can refine it for you," he boasted, "As long as you prepare the medicinal materials, I can refine it for you."
Douglas said: "Does your adventure team have a mage who can refine medicine?"
Ji Jinrong smiled and said, "Yes, of course." His eyes were a bit smug, "I am!"
Douglas said: "Don't mess around." Most of the mages who can make medicines are gray-haired old men, because the characteristics of various medicinal materials are too complicated, and many people have no way to touch the door in their entire lives.
Ji Jinrong became serious: "I didn't mess around." He conjured a bottle of potion out of thin air, "Do you think this is what you want?"
Douglas paused, and reached out to take the potion of strength that Dao Ji Jinrong handed over. As soon as he received it in his hand, Douglas already felt the huge energy surging in the bottle—this is indeed a potion of strength! And it is indeed A-level—even a power potion above A-level!
What will be auctioned at tonight's auction is only a B-grade top-grade product known as "A-like"!
Douglas stared at Ji Jinrong.
The more we understand, the more Ji Jinrong becomes an unsolvable mystery.
Are there really people in this world who are born capable of everything? He has never heard of any famous sorcerer having this apprentice, nor has he heard of such a junior mentioned by any literary master—now Ji Jinrong told him that he can still refine medicines, and the medicines he made are very pure, and they are all ten thousand gold. A hard-to-find A-level potion!
If this is the case, it is really too cheap for Ji Jinrong to accept 10,000 gold coins to take them deep into the night forest.
A mage who can refine A-level potions will be regarded as a guest of honor no matter where he goes!
Douglas said, "If I need thirty bottles, how long will it take you to make them?"
Ji Jinrong said, "Thirty bottles, one afternoon."
Douglas: "…"
He said, "Gary, I don't like liars."
Ji Jinrong raised his chin and snorted unhappily: "I don't like people who don't believe me either."
In fact, before setting off, Ji Jinrong had already refined a batch of potions that might be used, but he couldn't find the time to take them out. Although there is no need to make a clear distinction between the two, he is just a small adventurer after all, and it is impossible to spend his own money to supply the entire Knights of Light with potions.
At least the materials must be recovered, right
Otherwise, Lei Lei's face would become more tense when he knew it.
Seeing that Douglas was still looking at him unwaveringly, Ji Jinrong had no choice but to honestly say something that Douglas could believe: "I have a batch of such strength potions in my hand, about fifty bottles, if you need them, you can exchange them with medicinal materials. , or I won’t be able to explain to Lei Lei and the others.”
Hearing the word "Leiler", Douglas frowned. He said, "Do you know how much you will lose by doing this?"
Ji Jinrong smiled and said, "I don't know."
Douglas said: "The starting bid for the Class B strength potion to be auctioned tonight is 10,000 gold coins."
Ji Jinrong's eyes lit up: "Oh, so it's so expensive, then Douglas, don't you have to give me one million gold coins to buy thirty bottles of A-grade medicine?"
Douglas was serious: "Based on the final transaction price, it may be more than that."
Ji Jinrong shook his head and said with a smile, "Do you know why the price of the medicine is so high?"
Douglas said: "Because it's so rare—" Before he finished speaking, Douglas had already understood. He stared at Ji Jinrong, "Could it be that the potion being auctioned belongs to you too?"
Ji Jinrong boasted: "Douglas, you are so smart!"
After speaking, he put his arms around Douglas and kissed him to express his approval.
Douglas: "…"
Strength potions have always been very scarce, and countless warriors need him to help them advance. It is not at all noticeable that Quicksand City sells a bottle at a high price from time to time. If there are mages in the Dark Night Adventure Team who can refine A-level potions, then this way will be their steady source of money!
Compared with selling various medicines in large quantities, using the "rare" point to conduct auctions will definitely earn more gold coins back.
It's easier and more profitable to do so, and who wouldn't take that route
This is why the Dark Night Adventure Team can spend money to help the poor and establish various welfare measures? Since Ji Jinrong became an adult, the Dark Night Adventure Team has established more than 30 schools, large and small, to teach the common people's children various basic knowledge.
The Adventurer's Guild also made a commendation request to His Majesty the Emperor for this, directly promoting the Dark Night Adventure Team to A-level.
According to the gossip from his mother, if Ji Jinrong was not too young, the president of the adventure guild would even directly designate Ji Jinrong as an S-rank adventurer!
It is not for nothing that Ji Jinrong is called the "Magic Gary". What he did was like a huge miracle—this miracle seemed to appear suddenly on the day he became an adult, and everyone was shocked by it. speech.
At that time, Douglas happened to be participating in the knight assessment and entered the closed secret realm.
After he finished his assessment, "Amazing Gary" suddenly disappeared for a while. It wasn't until Ji Jinrong sneaked into the Knights of Light this year that Douglas finally met this legendary boy.
Based on his age, maybe this guy can no longer be called a teenager.
Douglas looked at Ji Jinrong's pretty face.
How could such an outstanding person fall in love with him
Douglas doesn't think he is outstanding, at least for the status of "lover", he is definitely not such an excellent person. If Ji Jinrong's liking for him is not fake, then why
Douglas said, "I'd love to know how many secrets you still have."
Ji Jinrong put his arms around Douglas's neck, and kissed Douglas intimately: "In the process of falling in love with someone, isn't there a must-do thing of 'knowing each other'? When you really fall in love with me, you will Know all my secrets."
Douglas raised his eyebrows: "Gary, are you accusing me of not loving you enough?"
Ji Jinrong hugged Douglas even tighter, and his voice was somewhat confident: "So what?"
Douglas stretched out his hand to hug Ji Jinrong back, and admitted his mistake generously: "I admit that I really don't know you well enough, and I will work hard in the future, and I will definitely not lag behind you too much."
Ji Jinrong thought his knight commander was really cute.
Meeting Douglas' focused eyes, Ji Jinrong showed a rare seriousness on his face: "Douglas, there are some secrets I really can't tell you right now. But I assure you, I really want to be with you, everything I do Everything is to come to your side - even if my background is very different from yours, you won't care, right?"
Douglas said, "I never cared about your parentage."
Ji Jinrong said firmly: "I will change it soon." He shook Douglas's hand, "Will you believe me?"
Douglas felt that Ji Jinrong's palm was a little wet, as if this answer was very important to him, so important that every nerve in his body tensed up.
Douglas said, "Of course I'll believe you."
He could see Ji Jinrong's love for him. Ji Jinrong's smile, Ji Jinrong's tears, Ji Jinrong's joy, and Ji Jinrong's sadness all touched his heart all the time. Since it was the person he had decided to be with for the rest of his life, why didn't he believe in him
Ji Jinrong buried his head in Douglas' neck.
Before approaching Douglas, he didn't feel worried at all, he just thought that even if he was discovered, he could find a way to coax him back. But after getting Douglas' love, he suddenly became a little scared, afraid that Douglas would choose between faith and him.
He was not afraid that Douglas would not choose him, only that Douglas would be in a dilemma—
Fear that Douglas will lose everything he has now because of being with him.
Identity, status, power, these things are definitely not what Douglas cares about. But Orton Empire and Douglas' parents—
If not, he would not have let Douglas be taken away at that time.
In the past, Wei Tingjun was like him, although his parents were still alive, they never received half a care. Because of his mother's request when she was dying, the Wei family directly sent the young Wei Tingjun to the palace to be his "playmate" and guard him at all times.
At that time, Wei Tingjun was only ten years old.
Before the age of ten, Wei Tingjun was sent to the mountains to practice martial arts with the monks of Geshan Temple. After he was ten years old, he was forced to enter the palace to protect him, a sick baby.
Ji Jinrong always felt that he made Wei Tingjun lose the opportunity to be with his family.
In this life, Douglas' parents seemed to love him so much, they did not hesitate to break into the demon territory to bring him back—
This family affection is what Douglas should have.
In this life, Douglas was not extreme, painful, or cynical. He grew up smoothly and became a knight of light admired by everyone—even a grand knight.
Ji Jinrong did not regret letting Douglas return to the Orton Empire.
He was just annoyed that he couldn't destroy the Dark Temple alone, so he could only rely on the power of the Orton Empire and the half-orcs—
Once things pass through other people's hands, there will be many variables.
If too many people know about his demon identity, Douglas' situation will become very difficult.
After all, he is not an ordinary demon.
His uncle is the former Demon Lord.
And the moment he killed the previous Demon Lord, he officially became the new Demon Lord.
As the Knight Commander of the Temple of Light, how can he be with the Demon Lord of the Demon Race
That would be tantamount to letting him betray his faith, his country, and the oath he made—
So, now there is only one way to go.
That is, not to let anyone know his true identity.
Let his identity as the Demon Lord be completely buried underground together with the Temple of the Dark Demon!
Ji Jinrong hugged Douglas tightly and said seriously: "I love you."
Douglas' ears were slightly red.
He said, "Gary, I—"
Ji Jinrong let go, and kissed Douglas on the mouth, blocking Douglas's words "I don't know if I can fall in love with you". This guy is so rigid, he can't even say a good word to coax people—
It's better to ask for a kiss directly!
At the same time, in a secret room in Quicksand City, a twenty-three or four-year-old youth was staring intently at the black crystal ball in front of him.
A strange black mist filled the crystal ball.
In the black mist, a cold and slippery voice slowly sounded: "Hehe, do you hate that guy who got Douglas's love? Let me tell you an important secret, about that nasty guy..."