"Ken talked to me?" he asked.
Regarding Antitina's question-Brando looked at the locals like refugees, and he was not surprised. Here, even life itself is a fragile thing worthless. Antitina probably never thought that in some places you can get a boy for the price of a sheep, and if it is a girl, the price is even lower.
With a little power or strength, you can trample on the existence of others wantonly. Both the robber and the lord are killing people, the difference is that one is outside the city and the other is inside the city. Even if you kill people in the street, you only need to pay the local lord a little money—it's darker, maybe he even wants you to kill two more.
Because in the eyes of some lords, real gold coins are much cuter than those who still need to spend money to feed.
Antitina was taken aback for a moment.
She thought it was Brando who was dissatisfied with her previous performance. Although she felt a little wronged, she lowered her head and replied: "... Sorry! Lord Lord, I am too capricious."
Brando spread his hands: "You misunderstood, I never blamed you, Miss Antitina."
The noble daughter raised her head and glanced at him, as if confirming the authenticity of his words. But then she lowered her head again and said nothing.
"If we are in our territory, we have to go further south." Brando replied again.
"Going south?"
Antitina was really stunned now: "Leaving Tonigel, it's just wild."
"Have you heard of pioneer knights, Antitina?" Brando asked.
"what-"
The noble lady couldn't help but yelled, how could she not know this. Those young nobles and knights who have no territorial inheritance obtained the right to expand the territory of the kingdom from the Temple of Flame, and took a few sects to go to the barren wasteland to open up a brand new territory by themselves. This story sounds like Like the fairy tales from the bedside stories of the past. But she never expected that such a legend would happen to herself. At first she felt a little flustered, after all, opening up territory in the wilderness sounds beautiful, but it is actually an extremely dangerous thing. Such a thankless thing has not been patronized by Eruin for a hundred or two hundred years, so this moment sounds more like a fantasy.
But then she calmed down again. What is the danger? Compared to her crumbling old house in Braggs, she lived a life that was almost invisible to these people. Isn't the latter still at least a glimmer of hope? Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Brando again—the pioneering knight. The title of Eruin sounded like those classical heroes, full of enterprising spirit. Although dangerous, but romantic, not to mention that no matter what aspect, this lord meets the best standards in her heart.
It's just a pity that he already has a sweetheart.
Antitina lowered her eyelashes, and couldn't help but feel a little moved.
She looked at Roman next to her again. After experiencing two bad records of wandering around on the dangerous battlefield twice, Brando had been educated thoroughly, and she was still on the safe side. But right now, her gaze was falling with interest on the other side, and then she said to the young man on one side crisply, "Brando, look over there—"
This eldest lady seemed to have a natural ability to attract everyone's attention, causing Antitina and Brando to look back at the same place and look at the place she pointed.
There are many foreign travelers on the street, just like them—
In fact, since Brando produced the earth-shattering artifact response last month, the news circulating in bars and hotels in various places has been rumored that Dnell has an artifact. The bards from all over the world have brought these news to To the north, risk-taking adventurers flocked to the north. Mercenaries, explorers, not to mention bounty hunters who smell the wind, they themselves are like hyenas or sharks smelling blood, they have already packed up and gathered here.
Even the Star and Moon Council and the Dark Tower wizards sent spies. Although the nobles were enthusiastic about the situation of Eru due to wind and rain, they all sent their own eyeliners. For a while, Denel turned out to be the first Graf (Princess Regent). Territories) One step at a time.
In just half a month, the floating population in this area has more than doubled. This is because Tonigel is always facing the threat of war and there is a certain risk, otherwise it must be an adventurer's paradise scene. If it were in a more peaceful period, the local lord would have been smiling.
But now, the situation has become a little complicated.
Brando's eyes swept over these people one by one—as if his noble identity was so distinct from these people. These adventurers are as incompatible with the local people around them. Standing in the middle of the street, it is as if there are three completely different worlds on the street at the same time.
That feeling is like three types of people depicted in three completely different expression styles in the same picture scroll, with distinct static and dynamic.
The adventurers have nothing to do with the locals, and the locals are unwilling to provoke these lawless men—at least most of them are. But the part that Roman refers to is an exception.
In Brando's eyes, you can see that a small group of adventurers are distributing food to some local scrawny children. This scene actually gave him the illusion of going back in time, as if he had returned to the world of the "Amber Sword" in the past, and the players who had excess compassion did the same. But he immediately shook his head to throw away this unrealistic fantasy. Although most of the adventurers are profiteering, there are still some young people who venture out just for their dreams.
It's like seeing the four men and two women in front of you.
"Sure enough, it's a young man." Brando couldn't help but think that adventure is not in fact as romantic and full of swords and shadows as mentioned in the bedside story, of course, it is full of swords and shadows that there is no lie. However, the life of adventurers is actually harsh and bloody, and they have to frequent those dangerous places, just like mercenaries, life and death are very common, and compared with risks, the benefits are pitifully low. Although there is no shortage of people who get rich overnight, most of them end up as a pile of bones in an unknown place.
Because of this, most adventures have to be made practical and profitable. And only young people will act with unrealistic ideals. Brando can even speculate that these young people may not even start traveling for long.
Or just after a wealthy merchant or aristocrat.
But first he turned his head and asked, "What are you looking at?"
However, he immediately saw the business lady's beautiful dark brown gem-like eyes rolled, as if an idea full of creativity had come into being, and he felt that something was wrong, "What do you want to do?" Brando couldn't help but asked a little vigilantly. Little Roman's repeated detachment from ordinary people had already made him involuntarily vigilant.
"That's it." Roman replied naturally.
"Roman, we don't have much food with us anymore," Antitina reminded her in a small voice as if she understood her thoughts in a moment: "The consumption of so many people and horses is not a small sum of money. If you want to buy so much food locally, you have to deal with the local lord. Have you forgotten the last time?"
The daughter of the nobleman said that Brando went to the other party to purchase food while passing through a small nobleman's territory, but the other party fell in love with Akane, who went with him, and sent a private guard to abduct people that night. Although more than 30 private guards of the Dark Iron rank were a little overwhelmed in front of Brando, and the final result was that they were defeated by the young men, and they were also severely blackmailed. A wake-up call for everyone.
Although the kingdom has not yet collapsed, the local lords have long been brazen.
When Antitina said so, Brando couldn't help but glanced at the girl with some emotion. I thought the last time it was okay, it was an unknown little nobleman, but this time it was Baron Grudin. Although this guy is not worth mentioning in Eruin's history, his father, Earl Jean Dernell, is no ordinary person. It is estimated that he led people to kill today, and tomorrow will be staged the scene of the Earl's army chasing and killing him.
He even suspected that Grand Duke Luen's army could move freely in the territory of Count Dernell. Perhaps the Princess of the Royal Party had reached an agreement with the Lord Earl. At least the secret alliance is indispensable. Of course, sooner or later he will have to deal with these vampires one by one, but that has to wait until he is full of wings and has a decisive say. Although it sounds a little unpleasant, it has to be said that power is at least one of the most important rules in the world.
Unexpectedly, Roman shook his head happily after listening to Antitina's words, and said with a little mysterious face: "Brando, Antitina, haven't you found out?"
"Find what?"
"The way to do business—"
"what?"
Brando couldn't help touching the girl's flat jade forehead, thinking it might be a fever. On the other hand, the wild elf element made the sister of the sisters stare and curiously asked: "There is a saying in our hometown that businessmen do not go with poverty-Miss Roman, are there business opportunities in such a barren place?"
"Tiya!" Sister Flor gave her a stern look.
The little elf girl was so scared that she stuck her tongue out, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back into her stomach.
But Roman didn't care about the little girl's retort, and naturally replied: "You can't say that. Aunt said that wherever there is exchange, there are merchants."
"That's right," Antitina shook her head, knowing that Tiya was right. It is not only poor, but also backward and closed, and there are no special products. There is not even a road for horse-drawn carriages to pass between the various territories. Commercial behavior is just a very distant term: "But there is even a lack of necessary conditions for exchange..."
"Is that so, isn't that an exchange?" The merchant lady asked with interest, watching the behavior of the young adventurers.