Rhodes explains the social hierarchy of the Disa Alliance from the perspective of a slave trader. Wiltok didn't understand what he meant by saying this, but the half-elf professionals fell silent, seeming to be thinking about their future.
After a while, the archer Lisen was the first to ask: "Captain, do you mean that I have no chance of being promoted to a venerable person?"
"No."
Rhodes glanced at him indifferently and said: "You are more talented than me, but it is a pity that you are an archer from the legion. They will tell you that it is difficult for legion professionals to be promoted, and they need a lot of resources to have a chance to go to Dragon Nest City. Hold the secret ceremony of promotion. I tell you now, this is a complete lie."
"How is your talent compared to Bottom, the Red Lion of the Adventurer's House? Have you accumulated more wealth than Bottom over the years? Even Bottom, the Red Lion, can't be promoted to the fifth level. How can you? Chance?"
Lison clenched his fists and then unclenched them, and said depressedly: "Then why have I worked hard to make money all these years?"
"Suddenly losing your goal, you feel that what you are doing is meaningless, but it is meaningful to the high nobles."
Rhodes unfolded his wet cloak, put it in front of the fire to bake, and said: "The lives of the highland nobles are precious, and they are also afraid that the civilian professionals will go crazy one day and run to assassinate them. Highland City gives the civilian professionals a little hope, To prevent you from messing around."
Li Sen smiled bitterly and said: "In the end, this hope is also a lie to half-elves. No matter how hard we try, we can't climb up..."
Captain Rhodes ignored him, looked at Huck and Max, and said: "Adventurers in the alliance say that if you have wealth, you will have everything. This sounds reasonable, but I don't believe it at all! The adventurer's home is in Braun The wealth accumulated in the town is amazing, but it is far from the level of the wealthy families in the lower states. I dare say that my former master is definitely richer and more powerful than you. Didn’t he go bankrupt inexplicably and all his children and relatives died? "
"The famous families in the highlands control the promotion paths and the places to go to Dragon's Nest City. It's easy for them to train fifth-level venerables. No matter how rich the wealthy families in the lower country are, they have no way to please the Dragon King Palace, so they can only go to the highland nobles. They say there is a quota. As much as you want, we are all making it for them. If you don't give it, others will naturally deal with you, just like my former master."
"Rod, if you have something to say, just say it." Max said dissatisfied.
The slave trader smiled and said to Huck first: "Master Huck is a strong man with a mirror heart, but you are no longer young. You rely on Dr. Cole's secret medicine to stay active, but your physical fitness and strength will inevitably continue to decline. "
Am I old? No... Huck touched his short hair, his face full of doubts. His hair used to be soft, but after eating the Shadow Lurker's eggs, it became prickly, like an angry hedgehog.
Rhodes said to the Dark Hunter again: "Lord Max, you have been cursed by the cold-hearted curse of the Orc Shaman. Ordinary medical methods are of no use to you."
"I heard that a secret ritual needs to be held?" Max said hesitantly.
The leader of the Iron Cross Regiment talked about secrets that ordinary half-elves cannot touch today, showing that he has extraordinary knowledge. Max also put aside his contempt for Rhodes.
Rhodes said: "It's the Mystery of Promotion... Only the Mystery of Promotion can lift your cold-hearted curse, but you are a fourth-level dark hunter born in the legion, and you can't be promoted to the fifth-level Venerable. However, there is still hope. . Transforming the dragon vein can increase the life level. Problems such as aging, decline, and cold-hearted curse can be solved. You can also gain super physical fitness. Your strength, agility, physique, and intelligence will be greatly improved. If Mr. Harker transfers to the third level The dragon-veined half-elf's personal strength should not be much worse than that of Xiulant from the famous Golden Oak family."
Huck took a disapproving bite of the lamb shank. He only listens to Wiltok now. Rhodes wants to win over him, but there is no way.
Max's eyes flashed and he asked, "Isn't it that simple?"
"There must be a way."
Rhodes nodded and said: "Dragon-veined half-elves are the strongest force that the highland families rely on. They only select members from the servants to form powerful dragon cavalry. It is the consensus of the highland families that the dragon-vein channels should not leak out. However, there are exceptions to everything. .”
"I work for the famous Yinpanjiao family, and I can introduce you to Yinpanjiao." Rhodes said with a smile: "Yinpanjiao's rise in Highland City is rapid, and there are not so many rules. With Master Huck's With the strength, Master Max’s experience, and my guarantee, the famous Yinpanjiao family will definitely not be stingy with the two Dragon Vein quotas.”
Huck heard that Rhodes was poaching Vertok for the Highland nobles. He said with cold eyes: "Silver Plate Corner? Never heard of it. Are they also slave traders?"
Few adventurers talk to Rhodes about "slave traders" in person. And Huck made no secret of his disgust and contempt for slave traders.
Rhodes didn't pay attention to his tone, and said with an unchanging smile: "Yinpanjiao started his business by selling slaves, and has a bad reputation. But in this world, no one is more innocent than anyone else. The Adventurer's House relies on the secret medicine of awakening and the secret medicine of sublimation. , there are also mixed-race training camps, making money in Braun Town, and you are not just lying on the bodies of various adventure groups to suck blood? How different are the things you do from those famous nobles? "
Hacker suddenly had a fierce look in his eyes, but Wiltok raised his hand to stop him and said to Rhodes: "The Adventurer's House I saw is helping the mixed-race people find a way out."
"Then we are all equally noble." Rhodes said with a serious expression: "Famous families bully wealthy families, wealthy families bully civilians, and civilians bully barbarians. If the half-elf civilians don't have barbarians to bully, do you know what they will do? The Disa Alliance has For a period of time, the bandit group rose up and formed a rebellion. The Earth Temple suppressed it with an iron fist, eventually causing the death and injury of more than 200,000 half-elves. This was the fundamental reason for the Earth Temple's loss of power. After the alliance's bandit civil strife was settled, the city-state council first formed The Adventurer's Guild hopes to restrain those civilian professionals who have armed forces. Unfortunately, the effect is not obvious, and it is difficult to distinguish between adventure groups and thieves groups. It was not until the city-state council began to implement slavery that the security situation in the alliance began to improve. Although there are still some gangs of thieves, their activities are not as rampant as before."
"There have always been people within the Alliance who have proposed 'abolition of slavery'. Haha, this is really ridiculous. If the Abolition of Slavery Act is passed, how will the barbarian slaves in the Alliance survive? They will all launch a rebellion!"
Rhodes realized that he was a little excited, breathed a sigh of relief, and said sincerely: "I am offering you a way out of good intentions. You can think about it, and when you have thought about it, come to me at any time, and I will definitely make arrangements for you. "
Wiltok tilted his head, stared into Rhodes' eyes, and said after a while: "You haven't told me yet about the professions exclusive to famous families in the highlands."
Rhode's heart dropped instantly. A few days ago, he saw Wiltok's appearance after his disguise, and he didn't think much about it. However, in the past two days, Wiltok's split to win over the Iron Cross Group aroused Rhode's vigilance. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, suspecting that Wiltok had plans to kill people and silence them.
The slave trader's performance just now was to show off his network resources, but the target of his performance was actually the professionals of the Iron Cross Regiment, telling them not to betray their leader if they wanted to change the dragon's vein.
This is precisely the most dangerous moment.
Rhodes could not see through the details of Vertok at all. If the opponent suddenly attacked, with Huck's strength, the Iron Cross Regiment would not be able to withstand the attack of a strong man with a mirror heart.
Fortunately, everything is over.
Rhodes smiled and said: "I don't know much about the exclusive professions of the famous families in the highlands. I know two. The Golden Nightingale family in Rapid City has moonlight dancers. They master the unique 'Wind Spear'. The current clan leader of the Golden Nightingale family Croton is a level 8 moonlight dancer. It is said that his wind spear skills are invincible and he has no rival in the entire league. Another exclusive profession is the 'Balance King' of the Golden Winged Angels."
"It is said that the 'King of Balance' has no expertise. After igniting the secret blood, their strength, agility, intelligence, and physique are all outstanding. They can use some abilities of other professions, and their individual strength is extremely powerful."
Huck and Max both glanced at Wiltok involuntarily.
The Balance King has no expertise, but his strength, agility, intelligence, and physique are all outstanding, and his combat power is extremely powerful. Isn't this Vertok?
Could it be that Wiltok is actually the heir to the famous Winged Angel family, and he lived in Braun Town because he was murdered?
"Balance is perfection." Wiltok commented incomprehensibly, then frowned and asked: "Where is the famous winged angel family?"
Rhodes coughed and said: "The Winged Angels family alone occupies the City of Light, which is the largest city-state in the Disa Alliance, the headquarters of the Goddess Sect, the headquarters of the Adventure Union, the Palace of the Dragon King, and the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Alliance... She is the first city-state of the Disa League and is ruled by the head of the Pillar Gate."
"City of Light, the famous Winged Angels family... I must go and see it." Wiltok was fascinated, and then looked at Rhodes with a half-smile, and asked: "You said you took refuge in the famous Yinpanjiao family, how could you know that? What a secret?"
Cold sweat broke out on Rhode's forehead. He knew that he was careless and let the news slip, and Vertok saw the clues.
Just as he was thinking about it, he was trying to remedy the situation. Dark hunter Max suddenly said with a solemn expression:
"No, there is danger approaching, we are being tracked by the enemy!"
Vertok immediately stood up and listened. The night owl in the forest makes a cooing sound, and it is difficult for others to detect the message. However, the experience of Goblin Wowo told Wiltok that it is the warning expressed by the night owl after seeing the gnoll.
"It's a jackal, coming for us."
Rhodes didn't bother to put on his boots and stepped on the bonfire with bare feet. Vertok reached out and pushed him away, preventing him from extinguishing the fire.
Jackals have night vision, and extinguishing the campfire has no effect on them, but it has a greater impact on half-elves.
At this time, the unique weird laughter of the jackals came from the dark forest. The laughter of Hu, Hu, Hu came and went, like the low roar of ghosts in the forest, cold and terrifying, revealing cruel malice, and making it impossible to pinpoint their location.
Jackals are relatively common orcs, possessing second-level or higher strength, cruel, insidious, cunning and suspicious. They hunt in groups as a family unit, with numbers ranging from a dozen to more than thirty.
Under normal circumstances, well-trained half-elf professionals can deal with gnolls. However, the ferociousness ratio of jackals is thirty to one. On average, there will be one ferocious jackal of level three or above for every thirty jackals.
The ferocious gnoll has wild intuition and can predict danger.
This group of jackals dared to launch a night attack on the half-elf professionals, which showed that they had full confidence in their own strength.
Rhodes and his men couldn't help but look nervous, and even Max turned pale and felt uneasy. If he hadn't been cursed by the orc shaman, he wouldn't be afraid of these orcs at all.
"Wiltok, it's still too late for us to move to the forest glade. If we fight the gnolls in the woods, we will be at a huge disadvantage!" Max said eagerly.
"Don't panic, stay calm." Wiltok picked up a few hemlock javelins, and regardless of whether they could hit the target, he used the original method of all things and threw them with all his strength into the dark depths of the forest.
The fast-flying javelin hit the big tree in the distance, making the sound of wood chips exploding. The gnoll's howl paused obviously, then continued to echo in the forest.
"These beasts are not going to stop, I have to smash a few hyena heads!" Huck put on his combat boots, cursed, and began to equip himself with two pairs of heavy stainless steel shield blades.
Wiltok suddenly said: "Huck, you roar at them."
"Ah? Should I yell?"
"Yes." Wiltok nodded affirmatively and added: "The roar must not only be loud, but also let the jackals know that you are very angry now and want to rush over immediately and smash them into pulp."
