In the blue sky above a stretch of sand dunes in the continent of Elusaria, a girl riding on a flying broom appeared. At this time, she was looking forward excitedly and expectantly, moving forward at an extremely fast speed. Flying furiously.
And who is that traveler whose beauty and talent seem to radiate from a distance, even the bright sun in the sky cannot help but be inferior, and even the yellow sand on the ground is so jealous that it constantly emits amazing heat?
That's right!
That person is none other than the traveling witch, me—Irena!
"..."
Someone was facing the hot wind, looking at the scenery ahead, looking at the endless yellow sand dunes, with his long gray hair flying in the wind, blue eyes, wearing a black robe and wearing the same color The girl Irena, wearing a witch hat, a yellow bow tied at the collar of a white bottoming shirt, and a bear head brooch symbolizing a witch on her left chest, was like this, narcissistically admiring in her own heart.
However, narcissism is narcissism, but the weather was still really hot, so much so that her thin white shirt had become wet and stuck to the greasy skin on her chest, and you could even see a little bit of it. The curved outline of the chest is gone.
Moreover, since she was flying at high speed on a broomstick, while holding the tail of the broom with one hand, she had to cover the witch hat on her head with her other hand, otherwise, it would have to It can't be blown away by the strong wind.
At this time, just like a bad little girl teacher who always wandered around, Irena also did not go to the game today. Instead, she directly used her broom to fly away from the floating island and across the sea. Came to the desert area of this continent.
In fact, Irena has never been interested in that competition, but she is very enthusiastic about traveling. This is when she accepted the call and came to this world. She refused to participate in the competition, but she was not in a hurry. Main reason for leaving.
In the past few days, she has only gone back at night, and during the day she has come down and wandered around the continent of Elusaria, observing and exploring the unique scenery, folk customs, and culture of this other world. Favorites, historical documents, unique urban ruins, etc.
As for the competition, she just casually looked at the battle reports when she went back to know who won and who lost, or who stood out.
Anyway, even Hermione, who lives in the same room with her, doesn't know very well what she has been doing recently. She prepares to attend dinner every day and never misses it. She is afraid that the other party still thinks she is on the floating island. Wandering around in the city, or do you go to watch the game every day?
Of course, those things are not important. What is important right now is: the further you fly, the higher the temperature will be, especially in broad daylight and when you are wearing a black witch robe!
Therefore, Irena couldn't stand it anymore. She felt that she must solve the current predicament as soon as possible.
"hateful!"
"It's so hot..."
Covering her brow slightly with the brim of the witch hat, Irena squinted her eyes again and glanced at the scorching sun in the sky.
Then, she looked at the continuous sand dunes under her feet, which although they flew by quickly, did not reflect any less heat. Finally, Irena, who was tortured by the heat wave, couldn't stand it anymore.
"no!"
"If this continues, I will be roasted and fucked..."
"No, I have to take a rest first."
"!!"
"Yes!"
"There seems to be a desert town there!!"
So, after looking forward for a while with the eagle eye technique, Irena quickly discovered a small town located in a valley next to the sand, and there seemed to be human figures there. She knew that there might be residents and At the resting place, she pressed her broom, turned it slightly, flew towards that place and landed.
…
"ha!"
"Come alive."
"It's just that the water is a bit unpleasant to drink..."
"never mind!"
Half an hour later, after eating the special food she ordered and drinking the large glass of well water in one gulp, Irena finally took a long breath and gave a rare look on her face. A trace of satisfied flush was revealed.
This is a yellow sand town with not many residents, probably only about a thousand people, and it mainly produces some precious ores that are not found elsewhere. Perhaps, that is the real reason why it is still maintained and has not been completely moved. Bar?
"?"
While putting down the cup, Irena also noticed that she seemed to be surrounded by people here.
There were a lot of little kids around, men and women, and some young guys with awkward faces were hiding at the door and window edge of the shop to peek at her. Some even pointed and said something in slang.
However, Irena didn't care.
After eating and drinking enough, she just patted her hat to remove the yellow sand stained on it, then stood up and walked casually towards the counter.
After all, it is normal for someone as beautiful as Irena, a genius who combines wisdom and beauty, to be watched by others, but...
Anyway, even in this small shop, this place was still really hot enough that she just wanted to leave as soon as possible!
"Huh?"
"Hey! Boss!"
"How do you sell these fruits of yours?"
Suddenly, Irena saw a basket of strange fruits placed on the counter. There were two of them in the meal she had just ordered. They tasted pretty good, so she planned to ask about them.
"One gold coin and half a frame!"
The boss didn't hesitate and told the price directly.
"!!"
"So expensive?!"
Hearing this, Irena was startled, and subconsciously protected her purse that was gradually drying up.
However, considering that this was a desert with few products, she endured it and decided not to eat the wilted and broken fruits first, but to pay the bill first. As for the fruits, she could wait until she was ready to go back in the evening before considering it?
After all, her teacher’s palace has everything, and there are plenty of fruits. Some are produced on the continent of Elusaria, and some are simply transported across dimensions from Pandaria and other places in the world of Azeroth. , so she is not too curious about what she is seeing.
"??"
"this!"
"A glass of water for one silver coin?"
"!!"
"Why don't you go and grab it?!"
Soon, when checking out and seeing the price written on the bill, Irena couldn't help but burst out. She directly slapped the counter and angrily stared at the profiteer who had reddish-brown skin and looked a little skinny and asked. road.
"Guest, you misunderstood..."
"Unlike outside, our town has only one well that produces water. Except for the local residents who have one bucket per household per day, they can only distribute less than ten buckets of water to the passing vendors, and one bucket I want to sell it for a gold coin!”
"In my store, we only have one barrel per day. Do you think it's expensive?"
"Also, guests, you don't know that many merchants may have to wait for several days or even half a month in order to save enough water for their return flight."
"And if you weren't a new face, and if the latest batch of vendors hadn't just left, I wouldn't have just sold you that large glass of water."
"Here we have to save some water!"
Facing Irena's questioning and angrily scolding, the boss seemed to be used to it, and after explaining the situation, he directly asked questions and complained.
After all, this is a desert, and food and water are very precious, especially water. But the other party just comes to the desert to eat and drink. Where can he get cheap food?
"So that's it!"
After thinking about it, Irena, who felt that what the other party said was reasonable, couldn't help but nodded, feeling that she had indeed made a fuss just now.
"!!"
"correct!"
"If I sell you a bucket of water, how much can you pay?"
Irena, who was about to pay the bill, suddenly asked.
Recently, because of traveling everywhere, she has spent a lot of money on various things, so much so that her finances can no longer bear it.
After all, she is not the kind of poor traveling girl. Everywhere she goes, she has to spend a lot of money on food, drink and shopping. Therefore, gradually, her wallet is empty, so that Misaka did it two days ago. When Mikoto wanted to borrow money from her, she dug all over her body and only took out a few gold coins?
Therefore, if she wants to continue traveling, if she doesn't want to ask her little teacher for money while eating, drinking and sleeping for free, she, Irena, must find a way to make some quick money as soon as possible. Just enrich yourself!
And now, isn't the water that the boss just mentioned a huge business opportunity?
"you?"
"You came with a caravan and transported water?"
As he spoke, he was startled for a moment. Then, the boss subconsciously wanted to stretch his head and look at the dazzling yellow sand town street outside the store, wanting to see what Irena's caravan was like. Where.
"oops!"
"Stop looking, there is no caravan!"
Irena called out to the other party, crossed her arms, and asked impatiently.
"Just say it!"
"If I fill all your barrels, how much money can you give me?"
She came here alone on a broom. There was no caravan at all. As for how to get the water, that was her own business and had nothing to do with the other party.
"are you serious?"
"Well……"
"Okay, let me take a look..."
"There are twenty-four empty barrels here. If you really have a way to fill them, I can give you eight... no, ten gold coins!"
The boss calculated it, hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, stretched out two full slaps, and added.
"besides!"
"You don't have to pay for this meal."
Here, food and water are the hard currency, and money is secondary. This is the main reason why traders who have traveled thousands of miles to traffic minerals are willing to spend a lot of money to buy well water that is worthless outside. .
"!!"
"Then you can sell at least twenty-four pieces?"
"You profiteer!!"
Irena was a little angry, because the other party actually wanted to take advantage of her so much, and still thought she was the kind of person who didn't know how to count?
but……
Angry, thinking that she had no channels and didn't know who to sell to, she still bitterly took out her short wand and walked to the front of the barrels.
"Clear spring like water!"
After watching for a while, Irena didn't care whether the barrels were clean or not, she just used a simple spell. Then, while the boss was stunned, the empty barrels were filled one after another. Buckets of clean water.
"call!"
"done!"
"Give me money!!"
Soon, when the twenty-four empty wooden barrels were filled with overflowing clear spring water and wet the floor, Irena turned around with a smile as if she was relieved, and stretched her hand towards the boss without any politeness. Out of her delicate hands.
"!!"
The boss didn't pay, but immediately rushed to a wooden barrel, picked up a handful with his hands and drank.
"It's really water!"
"So sweet!"
But when he discovered that it was indeed water, and that it was sweet and refreshing spring water, which was better and clearer than their desert well water that was full of the smell of caustic soda, he was instantly stunned.
"Could it be that it's still fake?"
"Give me the money quickly!"
"As promised, ten gold coins!"
Irena, who was obsessed with money, continued to urge her and laughed so hard that her eyes almost curled up.
"you……"
"Are you a witch?"
Finally, the boss realized something and asked directly with some anxiety and caution.
"No!"
"I'm a witch!"
"Give me the money quickly!"
Irena corrected and urged again.
"ah?"
"well."
"I'll get it for you right now!"
The boss thought about it for a while. He didn't know the difference between a witch and a witch, so he simply went to the counter without any intention of cheating, and then quickly took out two stacks of golden of gold coins and placed them on the counter.
"ha!"
"Thank you very much!"
Irena smiled happily, stretched out her hand, and pulled them into her pocket.
Now it’s good, at least I have travel expenses for several days.
Moreover, she decided to record this place in her diary and calculate the coordinates when she went back at night, and then wait for the next time, when she has no money to travel after a while, she would come again?
"cough……"
"It's really easy for witches like you to make money..."
Shaking his head and looking at Irena's proud and excited look, the boss picked up the bucket lids one by one to cover the barrels. At the same time, he didn't forget to look back and smacked his lips at Irena with some heartache. ,
"easy?"
"Do you know how hard it is to be a witch?"
"besides!"
"There is too little water vapor in the air here. Normally, if you only need one part of magic power to fill a bucket of water, now you need at least three to four parts!"
Magic cannot create water out of thin air. Magic is just a kind of energy. When they use magic to create water, they just consume energy to liquefy the water vapor in the air into water. Therefore, in this desert Gobi , the magic power that needs to be consumed must be more than other places.
"That magic power is almost enough to blow up your small town with fireballs!"
Irena said angrily.
If she was the kind of devil who does evil and does all kinds of evil, she could destroy this place with a fire, and then all the gold, silver and jewelry here would belong to her alone. In that case, she would be more than just a Earn just ten gold coins?
"ah….."
Sure enough, the boss was frightened and took a step back.
"Guest, are you kidding..."
Immediately afterwards, he was speechless and realized that Irena was just joking and making metaphors, and did not really choose to do such terrible things, and then he started to laugh.
"correct!"
"Let me ask you something, this place on the map, where is it?"
"do you know?"
After a free meal and a small profit, Irena, who was about to leave, suddenly remembered something else. Then, she took out a map and photographed it on the counter.
"oh!"
"here it is……"
"That border fortress of the ancient Kingdom of Bardia?"
"But that place was abandoned hundreds of years ago. Why are you going there?"
After looking at the map and getting instructions from Irena, the boss quickly understood where the marked point was.
"Guest, you'd better not go."
"That place is far away from here. It takes many days to walk from the desert!"
"You don't know yet, right?"
"Back then, the Border Guard Corps of the Kingdom of Bardia had a big war with the barbarians there, and many people died. Now there are demonized monsters and undead everywhere. I advise you not to go there. "
"Very dangerous!"
Immediately afterwards, the boss kindly persuaded and explained the situation to Irena as clearly as possible.
"thank you for your kindness!"
"But I still want to go!"
"I'm flying there. I should arrive soon. Besides, I'm a powerful witch. I'm not afraid of those monsters and undead!"
Speaking, Irena proudly puffed up her chest.
Thanks to the teachings of some terrible little girl teacher, and of course, maybe some nasty bear?
Anyway, Irena has a lot of actual combat experience, and her magic level is far beyond that of ordinary archmages. Therefore, she doesn't pay attention to the scary monsters and undead things the boss talks about.
"Stop talking!"
"It's so hot here, it's unbearable!"
"Just tell me where it is!"
While talking to this red-brown old man, another layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on her neck. Therefore, Irena was already impatient to leave here and find the place on the map. .
If she moves faster, maybe she can make it back in time before dinner?
"To the northwest."
"It will take seven or eight days to walk along a dry river bed. When we see a large area of fortress ruins covered with yellow sand, we should be there."
"I can't guarantee how long it will take you to fly."
The old man rarely saw people flying to their desert. After all, those big flying birds and griffins were too expensive, and they couldn't carry heavy goods. In addition, those merchants were not particularly wealthy people. , so he really couldn't calculate how long it would take the other party to fly there.
"Very good!"
"correct!"
"Do you have any specialties here?"
"Like something delicious?"
Irena, who was about to walk out, suddenly turned back, dropped a gold coin, picked up the box of fruits, and asked with a smile.
Irena decided to bring some specialties from this desert back to comfort the little teacher who comforted her. After all, she herself had been eating and drinking for free and sleeping in the palace for so long, so she always wanted to bring some specialties. To give something back.
Just like….
Among the things she ate just now were fruits that looked like dried fruits, and they tasted quite good. She believed that her teacher, a naughty little girl who especially liked snacks, would definitely be interested. of.
"Ahead, at the corner of the street!"
"There is a lame old woman who specializes in selling various specialties. You outsiders should like her."
The boss didn't hesitate and pointed in another direction.
"Thanks!"
After saying that, Irena used magic to put away the box of fruits and then turned around and walked away, leaving only a faint scent of sweat in this dilapidated shop where merchants rested for food and supplies.
"!!"
"Hello!"
"Guest! Those are two pieces of gold..."
Looking at the gold coins left by Irena, and thinking about the weight of the box of preserved fruits just now, the old man just wanted to chase him out. However, thinking that he seemed to be able to make a lot of money from the other party, he paused and finally Still stopped.
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