Those snake tendons, Amon actually sensed that they have properties similar to the blue water core. Of course, they cannot be used as divine stones, but if they are processed into weapons such as long whips or bow strings, they can greatly assist the power of water elemental magic. If it is used on a warship, its power can be maximized.
Amon planned to study the snake tendons in his hand after returning home, maybe he could use it to make his first magical artifact. He also thought of the strange snake that he killed in the Youdi River that day, there must have been four fangs frozen in the ice and blown into the water, but unfortunately he didn't find it at the time. Although the sinews and fangs of the strange snake are far from being compared with the spoils of Enkidu, they are also very precious and rare materials for magical artifacts.
Gilgamesh's gift to show off to the whole country is really precious! Just when Amon thought so, the convoy had already passed through the city gate, and he hurried into the capital of Baron among the cheering crowd.
The procession passed through the city of Baron and came to the square in the center of the city. This large square can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. It is just in front of the magnificent main temple of Marduk, facing the royal palace far away. Lun Kingdom Academy of Theology, on the right is the Memorial Hall of Heroes and Glory. The famous heroes in the history of the kingdom are enshrined in the memorial hall. If there is no accident, the names of Gilgamesh and Enkidu will also be inscribed and enshrined there after their death.
The people gathered on one side of the square, and there was a semicircular cordon under the long steps of the temple to block everyone. Hammurabi II, King of Baron, led his officials here to welcome Gilgamesh in person.
A city lord is naturally not qualified to be greeted by the king in person, but Gilgamesh's feat of beheading Humbaba has attracted the attention of the whole country, which is also the honor he deserves. After all, Humbaba's fangs and snake tendons are at the forefront of the caravan. Hammurabi II also took this opportunity to show his favor. The news had already spread, and the city lords of the nearby city-states also rushed to the capital to watch the excitement. They stood behind the king and looked at Gilgamesh with complicated expressions.
There is also a group of royal nobles with similar complex expressions. Everyone knows that Gilgamesh is Princess Xiaoqian's fiancé, and they are also aware of the battle for the throne that the Kingdom of Baron will likely face in the future. Some people mutter in their hearts the reason for Gilgamesh's move Seriously, there are still people who are thinking about which side to stand on? And Gilgamesh smiled brightly and calmly. He also knew that there were rumors in the kingdom that he might usurp Baron's throne after marrying Princess Xiaoqian.
The purpose of Gilgamesh's move is to express his loyalty to the kingdom and the gods on the one hand. He killed Humbaba but dedicated the snake tendons and fangs to the Marduk Temple. Obviously, he was announcing to the gods that Humbaba had violated the agreement between Marduk and Enlil. Said, should go to Marduk. On the other hand, it was also a warning. He was not even afraid of the guardian spirit of the Youdi River, so naturally he would not be afraid of anyone's slander and threats.
He just swaggered to the king's capital, accepted the cheers of the people and the king's personal welcome, and didn't care about the gossip in the kingdom. This city-state hero was extremely arrogant in his bones! His captain of the guard, Enkidu, the number one samurai on the mainland, did not accompany him to the city of Barron, and he only brought a simple guard of honor, and he did not allow the city-state's army to follow him in the name of escort, which made many people feel relieved. in one breath.
Amon mingled in the crowd to watch the excitement. He didn't care about Enkidu. He thought that Inanna would also enter the city with Gilgamesh, but he didn't see it. In the welcome team of the royal family in front of the temple, he didn't find Inanna. . When Gilgamesh, accompanied by the king and the high priest of the kingdom, entered the temple and the atmosphere in the square reached its climax, Amon quietly left to find Medanzo.
Today's Baron City is almost deserted. Amon walked through the streets and alleys, asking the listless shopkeepers for directions, and finally came to Medanzo's house. This is a century-old house, which has been renovated and rebuilt in recent years, and it looks pretty and spacious. A long time ago, this block should have been the settlement of nobles, but after the old King Hammurabi I expanded the royal city and built a more magnificent main temple, most of the princes and adults now live in the south city, and the east city is basically a new area. The civilian rich businessmen live here.
There are many shops and inns nearby. Normally this area should be bustling and noisy, but today it is quite quiet. Although Mei Danzuo's family was in decline and he lost his status as an aristocrat, he still had the ostentation of daily life. He lived in the ancestral house and hired porters, grooms, servants and maidservants. It must cost a lot to maintain such a ostentation, no wonder he would privately resell precious refined iron and horse leather steel to make money.
It was a coincidence that Amon came here. The concierge told him that the head of the house, Mei Danzuo, had gone out a few months ago and hadn't come back yet, and the mistress was not at home. Today, he went to the square in front of the temple to watch the excitement. This made Amon a little surprised and disappointed. He came all the way but was in vain, but it is normal to think about it. It has been almost two years since Mei Danzuo left the Savage Tribe last time. He probably went to Link again. There.
Now that you are here, it is not easy to turn around and leave. Medan Zuo is not here. It is good to see his wife and say hello. If there is any difficulty at home, you can help solve it. Anyway, Amon has money and time. He waited in the foyer of the mansion until it was getting dark, when Meidanzuo's wife, Mi Yali, brought the maid back home. Hearing that a friend came to visit Meidanzuo, he also came to the side hall to meet her. See.
Amon was slightly taken aback when he saw Mi Yali, he actually had an impression! Outside the city gates, he saw Mialee and her maid among the cheering crowd as she too screamed at Gilgamesh, waving her turban. Amon thought that this person was the eldest girl of someone's family, but unexpectedly it was Mei Danzuo's wife.
Mi Yali saw Amon wearing half-worn burlap clothes, cloth shoes covered with mud, and a rough stick like a branch beside her, she frowned slightly, tried her best to keep polite, and asked politely Meng's intention. Amon took out a golden sign and put it on the table, saying, "My name is Amon. I once told Medan Zuo that I would come here to visit. He must have mentioned me to you, right? This is my token." , I wonder if you know him?"
Mi Yali recognized the sign when she saw it. Before leaving, Medan Zuo had told her that if someone came here to take out this sign, he must give him the best reception. The token in this person's hand is not only left by the benefactor of their family, but he himself is also Metanzuo's most respected teacher.
When she saw Amon take out this sign, she was very puzzled and even a little annoyed. The visitor was obviously a humble foreigner, and he was very young. How could she be willing to keep such a strange man at home and give him the best hospitality? The benefactor of Mei Danzuo's ancestors died long ago, so what does it have to do with such a young man holding a sign? Judging by Amon's appearance, it is obvious that he cannot be Mei Danzuo's teacher!
The last time Mei Danzuo returned home, she stayed behind closed doors for more than a year and did not do business. This time, she finally talked about going to business, but there was no news for several months. She was left alone at home, and there was not much money left. up. Now that Mei Danzuo himself did not come home, but such an inexplicable "creditor" came, how could it not make people angry
Thinking of this, Mi Yali replied as politely as possible but coldly: "Sir, I'm really sorry! I don't know much about this brand and I don't know you. Mei Danzuo is not at home. I dare not take in a strange man. Let the neighbors in the neighborhood gossip. He left two and a half months ago and said he would be back in five months at the most, and the time is coming soon. Can you come back in a few days? When Medanzo comes home, I will definitely give you The warmest hospitality."
After saying this, she asked the concierge to see the guests off, and didn't even leave Amon with a meal!
Amon hit a soft nail and got rejected. If he had just walked out of the deep mountains, he would have been stunned. But after going through this long journey and seeing the warmth and coldness of people along the way, he can also understand why, why bother with a woman? No one would be pleased when a poorly dressed stranger came asking for hospitality when the husband was away for a long time.
He said to Mi Yali: "I live in a nearby inn, and I will visit again after Medanzuo comes home." When he went out, he saw the worn-out cloth shoes on his feet and the Amon also showed a wry smile when the soil was stained.
Mi Yali shut Amon out and didn't give the best hospitality according to her husband's advice. After all, she was a little guilty, so she sent her maid, Fusha, to follow behind quietly to see where Amon would live, and made a plan for her husband in her heart. rhetoric. Of course Amon knew that Mi Yali's maid was following him quietly, so he couldn't help feeling a little funny.
He went to a nearby inn and asked for the best room with a hall. The daily rent was two silver coins! — Mialie was taken aback by the maid's return.
Amon did not do this purely for enjoyment or to show off. He has traveled through various city-states and already understands that the better the place to live, the less troubles he usually has. If you live in the cheapest big inn, many people sleep on grass and squeeze into a room, even if the neighbors in the neighborhood lose something, the first place to be interrogated is that kind of place.
On the other hand, Amon also needs to practice divine magic meditation every night, and needs a quiet and undisturbed environment. There are no remote mountains and fields in the city of Baron, so he can only find the most expensive room in the inn. Even the buddy They won't interrupt you suddenly without notification, which saves a lot of trouble.
The next day Amon walked out of the inn and went to a nearby clothing store to buy clothes. After a long journey, his original set of linen clothes was worn out and the two new sets he bought in Sumer Town were also worn out. Besides, the weather is getting colder and it's early winter, so it's not appropriate to wear thin clothes to walk on the street. Even if he's not afraid of the cold, he shouldn't look too glaring.
In a tailor's shop he bought two pairs of comfortable leather-soled boots, the kind Medanzo wore on his long mountain hikes, sturdy and durable, and two sets of light fur coats. According to the kingdom's law, common people's clothing cannot be embroidered with designs and colors that exceed the rules, but the beautiful patterns on the fur of wild animals are natural and are not considered against the law. The price is also very expensive.
Amon was used to wearing animal skin clothes in the savage tribe, so he looked like the young master of a rich merchant who came out to play and came to see the world in the capital. Amon had just bought clothes and changed, but happened to meet Mi Yali's maid, Fusha, who came to pick up the winter clothes that the mistress had ordered a month ago.
The shop owner was very dissatisfied and said: "These two sets of fur coats are worth 30 silver coins, but you don't pay in cash and need credit. My business also needs capital, how can I afford it?"
Fusha quickly explained: "My master will be back in a few days, and I will definitely pay back all the principal and interest. You should let me take the clothes away first, otherwise the mistress will scold me."
The shop owner said with a sullen face: "What does your mistress scold you, what does it have to do with me? Since your master will come back in a few days, you can come back to pick it up in a few days! They are all like you, and my business is still going on." Don't do it?"
Seeing this scene, Amon thought to himself that it was not easy for Mei Danzuo to earn money, but his women were quite generous in spending money, and these two sets of clothes were more expensive than the one he bought just now! But he couldn't see that Mei Danzuo's wife couldn't get the newly purchased winter clothes. He stepped forward and took out two gold coins and handed them to Fusha, "Aren't you the maid of Mei Danzuo's family? I will pay for him first." , let Medanzo come and visit me when he comes back. He knows who I am, and you know where I live."
Soon after Amon returned to the inn, someone came to visit him. The visitor was Medan Zuo's wife, and she brought all the servants in the family to wait outside the inn. Although the road was short, even the carriage was ready.
Mi Yali apologized as soon as she saw Amon: "Dear guest, you are my master's teacher, but I have neglected you. Please forgive my mistake! ... I am illiterate, and I didn't recognize the piece yesterday. brand, but after you left, I found out the family inheritance map, and only then did I realize that you really represent the identity of the family benefactor."
Amon smiled and waved his hands and said, "You don't have to apologize. It's really inconvenient to take in a strange man when your husband is not at home. How can I blame you?"
Mi Yali: "Please don't say that. Now that I know your identity, how can I let you stay in the inn? The best room has been cleaned up at home, the servants have prepared a sumptuous dinner, and the carriage is on the way. Waiting outside the door, please come with me... If you refuse this treatment, my husband will definitely blame me when he comes back. He had already told me before going out, but I turned you away yesterday, I really regret it No end, please give me a chance to make up for it.”
She begged for a long time, and only said that it was Meidanzuo's order, and she must not dare to neglect Amon, so Amon nodded. It is more convenient to live in Meidanzuo's house than in an inn, and besides, he just wanted to find It was just a quiet place, so I left the inn and followed Mi Yali back home.
Amon lived in Meidanzuo's house, and Mi Yali treated him very well, and the servants respected him very much, and they respectfully called him "Master Amon" when they met. But after the deadline agreed by Mei Danzuo and his family, no one came back, and Amon couldn't help feeling a little anxious. Could it be that something happened to Medanzo on the way? Although he is a mid-level warrior, it may be dangerous to travel long distances to resell officially controlled materials.
However, Mi Yali was very curious about Amon's identity. She always looked for opportunities to try to spy on him, and asked him many times about his background, and asked why Mei Danzuo called him a teacher? Naturally, Amon would not reveal the truth easily, and only said that he met Mei Danzuo when he was traveling, and taught Mei Danzuo some of the skills he had learned, so Mei Danzuo would call him a teacher. As for the token in his hand was left by the elders, it was because of it that he could get acquainted with Mei Danzuo.
Mi Yali has heard the legend of the ancestors of the Medanzuo family. Medanzuo's great-grandfather was a sixth-level magician and a priest of the Marduk Temple, but he did not know where he was buried during the war. Later, a hunter from afar got his relic and sent it back to Barron City, saving the family that was in trouble at that time. A few years ago, Mei Danzuo also vaguely mentioned that the hunter obtained his great-grandfather's magic book and became a magician. These were more than a hundred years ago.
Mei Danzuo never came back, and for some reason, Mi Yali had other thoughts. One day she said to Amon: "You have been in the capital for a while, but you are always wandering around the house and yard. There are many interesting places in the capital. You may not be familiar with this place. I will let the groom drive you. Fusha will be your guide and let you go everywhere."
Amon also wanted to go around the capital, and it would be best to have a familiar guide, so he nodded and agreed. That day, Amon went out in the carriage of Medanzo's house, accompanied by his maid Fusha. Before leaving, Mi Yali specifically told Fusha to take Amon to a few more places, to have fun and eat delicious food, and not to go home until after dark, and not to come back halfway.
After Amon left, Mi Yali sent his servants to the front yard, and quietly went upstairs to his room by herself, carefully sorting through his parcels lightly. Amon was very cautious in doing things. Naturally, the heavy branch staff was inconvenient to take out to play, so it was placed beside the bed, but the four special crystals inside were taken away and put into the bone.
The shape of that bone is a human rib. In order to prevent it from being lost, Amon hid it in his clothes with him. It was hidden and safe under his rib. It contained his most important things, including those obtained from the mysterious cave. All relics. The big leather pocket was not on his back, and the changed clothes were also placed in the room. There was also a small leather pocket inside the big leather pocket, which was his money bag.
Amon is rich enough, not to mention the four special sacred stones, they are just items obtained in the mysterious mountainside, and any one taken out is quite precious, so naturally it cannot be easily exposed. But he doesn't care much about money, he just knows that it is very important when traveling in the mainland, in fact, he himself doesn't need to spend any money.
After entering Baron City for a while, he needs to stay in a store and buy things, so he puts all his "currency" in his wallet, including gold coins, silver coins, copper coins, and sacred stones, which are also convenient to use. Picking and placing things back and forth in that bone is to perform the magic of space. The bone itself will not be detected by the magic of detection, but the power fluctuations when casting the magic of space may be discovered by others. Everything needs to be careful. If you can use no bones, use as little as possible, this is the capital of the king.
He brought five sacred stones with him when he left Duk, and picked up nine scattered sacred stones in the big cave. After crossing the Youdi River, Gilgamesh "compensated" him with ten sacred stones. On the way, one was given to Medanzo, Cain, and Abel, and the remaining 21 sacred stones are useless, and they are put in the small leather pocket together with the coins at the moment. Naturally, he couldn't bring so much money with him when he went out, so he only kept some coins in his pocket.
Mi Yali was a little disappointed when she found that Amon only had a few sets of clothes, but when she opened her small leather pocket and saw those dazzling divine stones and gold coins, she gasped and stood there for a long time without recovering. This is a huge amount of money, more than what Mei Danzuo has earned for decades!
Although there was no one in the room, she felt very nervous, her heart was beating wildly, and she couldn't even breathe for a while. She wanted to put the leather bag away, but she was reluctant to put it down for a long time. After putting it down, she stroked her chest with her hand, took a few deep breaths, and then began to carefully check other things in the room. Apart from his clothes and leather pocket, Amon had nothing on his body, except for the branch-shaped cane leaning against the bed.
Mi Yali reached for the "twig" with all her might, almost shaking her waist. It was so heavy that she didn't lift it with one hand. Mi Yali stretched out both hands to lift the cane off the ground, and suddenly wanted to "understand" something in her heart.
She was more or less aware of what Mei Danzuo was doing. It seemed that the stick was actually a whole piece of horse leather, but it was disguised as a tree branch to hide it. No wonder Amon insisted on not letting the maid clean up his room.
This young man has a lot of money, but he dressed so simply when he first came to Barron City, there must be something shady. He must be Mei Danzuo's "business partner" who specializes in privately purchasing refined iron and horse-leather steel that are exclusively controlled by the government. It's okay to buy and sell such things in small quantities in private, but buying and smuggling them in large quantities is a felony.
He really made a lot of money! Mi Yali sighed in her heart, and at the same time reassessed the purpose of Amon's visit. He happened to come to the door at the time Mei Danzuo agreed to go home. He must have come to receive the goods, but Mei Danzuo never came back. People probably won't have to wait too long. As for what Mei Danzuo said before leaving home, they should all be cover-up excuses, not wanting to expose Amon's identity as an illegal black market businessman.
In a panic, Mi Yali restored the things in the room to their original state, then tiptoed downstairs and returned to her room. She felt that her breathing was disturbed and she was sweating. She asked Fusha to pour water for herself, but no one agreed. I remembered that the maid had gone out to play with Amon. It was at this time that someone came to visit her brother, Enoch, the son of a merchant in the city of Baron.
As soon as Enoch entered the door, he said unhappily: "My sister, I heard that you took in a strange man to live at home. Today I asked the concierge, and you asked Fusha to accompany him to go out to play... A few days ago you Was sending Fusha back to her natal family to borrow money just to entertain that man?"