Before the fall of Braun Town, Boss Bottom followed Victor's suggestion and distributed the accumulated treasure to every adventurer who participated in the defense of the city wall.
This is no small sum of money.
However, all the treasures that Victor and the others carried were taken away by the Iron Cross Adventure Group. The remaining treasures were trophies seized from the orc bone collector gang. They were limited in quantity, but of great value. In particular, the three pieces of high-purity mithril ore are extremely rare and are said to be priceless tributes. The local Thieves Guild will never be able to digest them, and it will be difficult for the Adventurer Guild branch to eat them.
There are no mithril mines in the Disa Alliance, and their transaction prices mainly depend on the strength comparison between the parties to the transaction, rather than the value of the mithril mine itself.
Harvey approached the head of the local adventurers union to trade mithril mines just to show off his power.
Water Snake Town is so small that Victor and the others don’t have anywhere to hide. Now, trouble is coming. If they blindly avoid and give in, the situation will only become more out of control. Therefore, Victor decided to respond forcefully and sent Harvey to show his strength to the locals.
The so-called strength not only refers to force, but also includes financial resources and structure.
The mayor suspected that they were bandit spies who had sneaked into the town.
So, will the bandit gang send a strong man with a mirror heart to Water Snake Town to serve as a spy?
The answer is no.
Will gangs of thieves openly sell mithril ore?
There is absolutely no such possibility.
Victor's intention was not to prove his innocence to the mayor. The mayor is not qualified enough. Because of the small scale of Water Snake Town, the military needs to rely on passing adventure groups and armed caravans to effectively curb the incursions of bandit gangs.
In other words, the Adventurer's Guild and the caravan stewards have considerable say in Water Snake Town. It's no wonder that Mayor Middleton often invites adventure group leaders and caravan stewards to open-air gatherings.
However, the armed caravans are scattered, each taking care of their own affairs, but all adventure groups, large and small, are at the disposal of the Adventurer Guild. It can be seen that the head of the local adventure union is the second-largest figure in Water Snake Town, and is even more powerful than the mayor.
The problem with the leader of the Adventurer's Guild is that he is not an administrative, judicial, or military official in Water Snake Town. He represents the interests of adventurers and his way of thinking is completely different from Mayor Middleton.
Due to the difference in stance, the attitudes of the union leader and the mayor of Middleton towards Victor and his party can be divided.
Victor does not expect the head of the union to support him during an open-air gathering, but he cannot let him become the mayor of Middleton to test his knife.
As long as the Adventurer's Guild takes a stand-by attitude, it will be difficult for Mayor Middleton to be too tough on Victor and the others.
All in all, Victor asked Harvey to show his face to the Adventurers Guild to avoid any armed conflict with the locals. As for the origin of those mithril mines, they may be products from outside the territory, or they may be the collection of a famous family, it is up to the union leader to guess. Anyway, in the absence of conclusive evidence, the union leader should not treat strangers selling mithril mines as bandits.
The use of machinations seems to be Victor's natural ability.
Of course, Harvey's exposure of his strength is likely to attract the attention of powerful people of the same level. At least the Adventurer's Guild can mobilize enough force to suppress a strong person with a mirror heart, but that will take some time. If things developed to this extent, Victor would have led his men to leave Water Snake Town and fly away. He has mastered the art of disguise and can change the appearance of both Harvey and McGrady without fear of being tracked.
Harvey went out in the afternoon and did not return to the temporary rental house until the evening.
Maddie waited for him to enter the room and couldn't help complaining: "Old man, why have you been here for so long?"
Harvey patted the heavy leather bag and said jokingly: "What? Are you afraid that I will take away all the money?"
Maddie shook his head and smiled bitterly. As an old scout, every time he went out on a reconnaissance mission and failed to send back news in time, the adventure group would jump up and down anxiously. The same principle can be applied to Harvey. Although the fighting power of the strong mirror heart is amazing, it is not invincible and can still be killed. With this alone, people from the Adventurer's Guild might take action against Harvey who was carrying the treasure.
With the caution and acumen of the scouts, Maddie has realized that they also need to deliver news in a timely manner during their activities in the city-state. Unfortunately, they have too few manpower to organize backup.
"We need smart and reliable helpers, otherwise we will become deaf and blind." Maddie muttered angrily and asked, "Did things go smoothly?"
Harvey shrugged his broad shoulders, took off his pocket and threw it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and said: "This is a big deal... I took out the mithril ore and asked for a trade. The bartender in the hotel was dumbfounded. He said that he If I couldn't make the decision, I asked the union leader to come forward and talk to me. Then, they played tricks on me and wasted a lot of my time before finalizing the deal."
"What's the trick?" Victor's voice came from the stairs on the second floor.
Just as Harvey was about to sit down and straighten up, his eyes widened immediately when he saw Victor walking down the stairs with Ruth and Jessica.
The two women wore the same long skirts and followed Victor quietly. They had dull expressions and healthy wheat-colored skin. They looked like girls who had never seen much of the world and had been doing farm work for a long time. They were completely different from the two fair-skinned, beautiful and radiant female professionals before.
Harvey almost didn't recognize them at first glance. He asked in surprise: "Sir, are they Ruth and Jessica?"
"Can't you see?" Victor walked straight to the sofa and sat down, crossing his left leg over his right leg and asked calmly. The two women followed him step by step and stood behind the sofa. Their eyes were wandering, but they could never focus. They seemed to be in a state of absent-mindedness, giving people a sense of stupidity.
Harvey looked at them carefully, shook his head and said, "The facial features are a bit similar. I can't even tell them apart unless I distinguish them carefully."
The corners of Victor's mouth raised, revealing a proud smile. He first mixed a potion to change the skin color of Ruth and Jessica, and their images immediately changed. The biggest difference between the appearance of academic professionals and ordinary professionals is the skin color. As professionals sublimate their expertise, their skin will hardly be tanned by the sun. As a result, academic professionals generally have fair skin, while other professionals have darker skin, which can be seen at a glance.
Victor used a special potion to smear Ruth and Jessica's whole bodies, turning their fair and smooth skin into wheat color, making people think that they were female adventurers first, and then they sublimated their expertise and were promoted to professionals. In this way, no one would think that they were from City State Academy.
In fact, the most important thing about disguise is to change the temperament. If a person's temperament changes, his demeanor and appearance will also change, making it difficult for people who are familiar with him to recognize him.
The temperaments of Ruth and Jessica have changed a long time ago, and their temperaments are like violent beasts. Compared with Anne and Katie in the past, they are completely different. Victor's newly developed hallucinogen is affinity to the water element and has the opposite properties of the hallucinogen used by the hobgoblin on them. When fed to Ruth and Jessica, their manic and ferocious temperaments become calm.
Victor didn't adjust their facial features at all, but Harvey felt that the two women were strange.
It only took four hours to complete the semen of Ruth and Jessica through simple methods-->>
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It was a wonderful disguise, and Victor himself was satisfied with it. He pondered and said: "When I was disguising them, I seemed to remember someone once saying to me that the trick to disguise is to turn yourself into another person. He can spend more than a year secretly imitating a person's tone. , demeanor, movements, little habits, slowly adjusting his facial features and appearance, and finally replaced the imitation object... I can't remember his name, he seems to be an experienced 'secret agent'... Have you heard of 'secret agent'? Is this a career path?”
Harvey and Maddie looked at each other and shook their heads.
Victor could only sigh secretly. He occasionally remembered some vague memories, but they were not clear enough, but after all, they were clues that could be explored.
"Harvey, did you meet any acquaintances at the hotel opened by the Adventurer's Guild?" Victor asked lazily.
"No." Harvey shook his head again and said: "There are dozens of adventurers in the hotel, and I looked around and they all had unfamiliar faces. They must have never been to Braun Town. After all, Water Snake Town and Braun Town are not in the same direction. They are separated by each other. Far away."
Victor nodded and asked again: "Is anyone causing trouble for you?"
"No. The people in the hotel seemed to have heard of me. No one dared to cause trouble for me. They were very respectful to me. When I inquired, I found out that the Iron Rhino Caravan had left Water Snake Town. Before Steward Duncan left, It seems that I have revealed our news to the adventurers. The adventurers thought that I was a venerable person, and they all called me "sir"... I have no chance to find a few blind guys to show off my power."
Harvey grinned, pointed to the money bag on the wooden table and said: "The local union leader is called Ector. He is in his 50s and is a third-level swordsman. He offered 6,000 gold towers to buy our mithril ore. I agreed, but he couldn’t come up with so much money at once, so it took me a while to get the money together.”
Maddie opened the bag, poured all the coins inside on the table, picked up one of them and looked at it carefully, then put it to his mouth and bit it, nodded to Victor and said: "Sir, these are alloy coins cast by the Adventurer's Guild. That’s right.”
These coins are made of fine iron and red copper mixed with a small amount of fine gold. One side is engraved with the palace emblem representing the Disa Alliance, and the other side is the warrior head emblem of the Adventurer's Guild. An alloy coin like this can be exchanged for 50 gold towers at the Adventurer's Guild in any city-state.
There are 120 alloy coins on the table, which is exactly the same value as 6000 gold towers.
This money is not so much the price for the union leader to purchase the mithril ore, but rather the price for a Venerable to sell the mithril ore. If it were someone with a strong mirror heart, the union leader's bid might be higher. After all, the venerable ones in the alliance are not uncommon, but the strong ones with a mirror heart are rare.
Victor did not know that before the Iron Rhino caravan evacuated the town, the accompanying adventurers revealed to the Guild Hotel that Harvey was a sixth-level venerable, almost confirming that he was from a famous or powerful family. Eckert, the head of the union, naturally did not neglect Harvey.
"It's only 6,000 gold pagodas, but this person in charge named Eckert actually spends such a long time raising money?"
McGrady counted the alloy coins on the table and sneered disdainfully: "He is deliberately delaying time and sending someone to inform the mayor, right?"
He thought that the leaders of the Alliance's Adventurer Union were as rich as Boss Bottom, but in fact the Adventurer Hotel in Water Snake Town didn't make much money. 6,000 gold pagodas was the highest price Eckert could offer. Because, with Eckert's status, three large pieces of mithril ore could be sold for up to 7,000 or 8,000 gold coins. He only earned Harvey's price difference of more than a thousand gold coins, which can be said to be full of sincerity. If Harvey asked for a higher price, he would rather not do the deal.
Harvey pondered and said: "Actor went out to raise money and brought back a strange guy... He was a little taller than Lord Victor, as strong as a brown bear, with white hair, red eyes, and... He's quite good-looking. He wears leather armor and carries a large heavy sword on his back. He is an expert in mithril mines and is also a good fighter."
Harvey's current life level is three, which deeply ignites the fire of the soul, analogous to the venerable who masters the heart of the mirror. The guy he calls a good fighter is certainly not an ordinary character.
Victor frowned slightly and said, "Tell me more about that person."
"Yes." Harvey nodded to Victor and said: "I think that half-elf's facial features are about twenty-seven or eight years old. He first checked our mithril ore, and after nodding, the union leader Ai Only Kurt agreed to pay. So, I said he is an expert who knows mithril mines."
As the beloved treasure of Dragon King Philumat, mithril mines have long been extinct in the Kingdom of Dragons. Even senior blacksmiths like Harvey have only heard of mithril mines but have never seen the real thing.
Half-elves who recognize mithril mines cannot be said to be rare, but they definitely have their own backgrounds.
"None of the adventurers in the hotel dared to talk to me, but this white-haired guy actually stopped me and asked about the origin of the mithril mine. Of course I ignored him and told him to get lost. He still refused to retreat, so I I bumped into him..." Harvey paused and continued: "When my shoulders collided, I secretly exerted my force and originally planned to knock him over. But the kid only took two steps back and fell on the stone floor. Make two footprints and stand firm."
"The white-headed boy was very strong. I knocked him away and stopped in place. This surprised me a little, and the white-headed boy was even more surprised. He got out of the way and made a weird gesture towards me, like this... "Harvey raised his right index finger and touched the center of his forehead, then moved his finger diagonally to his left chest and tapped it, then to his right chest and tapped it again, and finally returned to his forehead to form a triangular pattern.
Victor's half-closed eyes opened instantly. He stood up and imitated Harvey's movements, making gestures back and forth on his forehead and chest.
After a while, Harvey asked cautiously: "Sir, what have you thought of?"
Victor shook his head and murmured: "This gesture is a bit familiar, but I still can't remember it."
Maddie next to him said: "Sir, I feel that this gesture is like some kind of etiquette, or a secret message. The white-haired boy recognizes the mithril mine, and he can block Harvey's hit. Do you think he is the mayor's wife? Christine’s subordinate, a professional from a famous Golden Wing family?”
Victor nodded. Maddie's guess was quite reasonable. Looking at it this way, he was really inextricably linked to the famous Golden Wing family. He asked slightly excitedly: "What's the name of the white-haired half-elf?"
Harvey lowered his head, glanced at Victor secretly, and said, "I didn't ask, and he didn't say...otherwise, I'll ask now?"
"Don't!"
McGrady immediately spoke out to dissuade him: "Sir, there are strong men in Water Snake Town who can compete with Harvey. We should not be scattered, as we can easily be defeated by others... Alas, we have too few people now. We need help for things like inquiring about information." .”
Victor thought for a moment, nodded and said: "The local union leader Eckert knows him, so he can always be found. Harvey, are there any special circumstances?"
Harvey immediately said: "Yes! After I went out, the union leader Eckert chased me out and asked me if I wanted to leave Water Snake Town? He could help introduce a few adventure groups to go with us. The time is tomorrow, take a ride The fee is only 80 gold pagodas. On the surface, he seems to be soliciting business for the adventure group, but I always feel that he hopes that we will not go to Mayor Middleton’s open-air party? "
Victor touched his nose, smiled and said: "It's getting more and more interesting...Tomorrow, I must go to Mayor Middleton's open-air party."
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