my age of magic

Chapter 399 197. The Value of Slaves
I hurried back to the entrance of the slave market. I was running fast all the way, passing through the hypocritical faces hidden behind the masks of indifference. My heart was a bit regretful at this moment, and I was already numb. Seeing the werewolves of the orc race, they were so indifferent. Time has wiped away the last bit of my nostalgia for my childhood, leaving only a layer of imprint like a veil. Thinking of this, my heart rises inexplicably for some reason. Trembling, I don't know when, after even this layer of veil is gone, what will be left in my mind at that time!
Bobby, who was behind me, was left far behind by me. He chased after me panting, and watched me running madly to the gate of the slave market, standing in the endless crowd of people, silently staring blankly at me. At the base of the wall in the distance, there are a group of slaves waiting to be sold. The children of Saiyang have disappeared. I stand helplessly in the crowd, and I don’t know where to find them.

Panting, Bobby caught up with me, put his arms around my shoulders and said to me: "Forget it, Jia, if you miss someone in the slave market, the chance of seeing her is very small, and the population flow here is huge. Who do you want to meet?"

"People in my tribe!" I said with some frustration.

"People from your tribe?" Bobby looked a little puzzled, he turned his head and looked at me carefully, and then said: "You never told me that you have a clan tribe, you are from the wild side People who are exiled here?"

I shook my head and looked in the direction of the Pai Plateau from a distance. In the mountains at the eastern foot of Pai hundreds of miles west of the city, there is a hidden river named Ulutu. The water there is below zero all year round. Animals that jump into the river will be frozen into ice cubes within a few minutes. There is the most lively town in the orc tribe. Its name is Gludin, and it should be my childhood hometown.

"No, my hometown is in the Pai Plateau. There is a beautiful and rich town of Gludin over there. My brother lives there. He may have his own new territory now, and his territory is drowning. , there are dangerous monsters of the undead system everywhere, and it is also the best hunting ground for adventure groups, if there is a chance, I can take you there for a walk." Feeling frustrated, he shook his head, looked at Bobby's concerned eyes, and said to him sincerely.

Although Bobby, the fat man, has no magical talent, although he is lazy, although he is only a second-level magic apprentice until now, and he is one of the few people with the worst magic scores in our class, but he has extremely sincere eyes and treats friends. His enthusiasm filled my heart with warmth.

"It turns out that your hometown is in the orc tribe! No wonder your body is always burning with endless fighting spirit. Did you live there when you were a child?" Bobby said to me in amazement as if he had discovered a new continent. with.

The two of us were walking back in the slave market, shoulder to shoulder, and he said enthusiastically: "If you grew up in the orc tribe, you must be interested in the food of the orcs! I know There is a restaurant near the slave market that is good at making exquisite dishes of the orc tribe, I remember their most delicious vegetable dumpling, it is one of the few vegetarian dishes I like to eat, it is great!"

Lettuce!The softest side of my heart suddenly seemed to be touched, how could I not know?In the most difficult days of leading the Raitu tribe in the wasteland, we survived by eating vegetable dumplings, but even though I have thousands of misses in my heart, I absolutely don't want to eat it.I really want to know who is so weird, who dares to open an orc-style restaurant in this small town of El, and sells food from the famine on the wasteland.

"That restaurant's business is booming, let me think about it! The most delicious thing there is a strange food called 'vermicelli'. A plate of guinea pig stewed vermicelli costs two silver coins. It's too fucking dark." Bobby obviously suffered a lot, and was very dissatisfied with the expensive prices of that sideboard.He then said to me: "Jijia, after buying slaves later, I will take you there to have a good meal of hometown food, but the slave auction in that venue is only in the morning, and the slaves there are definitely the entire market. best quality."

He put his arms around my thin shoulders, put his big head next to my ear, and asked me in a low voice: "Tell me, what kind of slave do you want to buy, and I can give you advice later."

Bobby asked me like this, but I didn't know how to answer him. I didn't want to deceive him, but it was impossible to tell him the secret about Su. If that was the case, it would be harming him.

Bobby thought that I couldn't say it, and he was very considerate, so he felt that I should be ashamed to say it, so he asked me directly: "Do you want to buy a slave who can fight and serve as a guard?" How can we, as magic apprentices, not have a personal guard to guard us! But female war slaves are not so easy to find!"

A boy my age feels infinitely mysterious towards the opposite sex, ignorant and naive, yearning for the bumpy and exquisite curves, Bobby thought I was the kind of thin-skinned and full of women just like him Curious, I naturally think that I want to buy a female slave, but for a magic apprentice, the slave around him is best to be a close combat slave, which can greatly protect the magic apprentice who is better at long-range attacks.

I am just choosing a slave for Su. The slave who can accompany her all day is naturally the best female slave. If she has a certain combat power and can respond to emergencies in a timely manner, that would be the best. So What Bobby said at this time was exactly what I thought in my heart. I nodded without hesitation, and signaled to him: What he said was exactly what I wanted.

When we re-entered the slave auction site, the round of young human slaves just now had been completely auctioned off. It seemed that the nobles in the venue had a lot of purchasing power!We slipped in again through the back door, and there happened to be a beautiful elf slave girl standing on the circular booth in the center of the stage. Under the illumination of the surrounding candles, the whole elf slave girl was wrapped in a thin layer of veil, and her body was hazy. The dream is like a dream, the big eyes are as clear as spring water, and the big eyes are full of touching sadness. A head of dark green long hair hangs behind her head, and her ears are as white as jade, with a pointed shape. It is transparent, and the blood vessels inside are clearly visible.

The aristocrats in the audience, who were originally sitting comfortably in their chairs, began to discuss in groups, and the enthusiasm has spread to the whole audience.

"Wow! Elf female slaves, this kind of top-quality goods are rare in auction houses in the slave market! Are you interested? Elves are born to be very good shooters, and many of them even have magical talents. If you can do this A female slave follows you all day, don’t let all the men in El City go crazy with jealousy!” Bobby whispered to me with a smile on his face when he saw the female slave standing on the table.

At this time, I was also looking at the elf slave girl on the stage without blinking. I am afraid this is the first time I have seen pure blood elves. They are obviously a little thinner than us humans, with white skin and Their dark blue eyes and slender and pointed ears make them obviously different from us. Elves are elves, and there is no need to distinguish them carefully. Those natural physical characteristics are very obvious.

To be honest, I am not greedy for the beauty of elves. Compared with the beauty of elves, which is pure and refined without any fireworks in the world, I prefer girls who are so beautiful in the world like Qige, Helena, and Sophie, but However, among these girls, Ying Li was the one who really touched the depths of my soul. Her faint eyes, shy smile and intoxicating dimples at the back door of the Magic Academy made me unable to breathe.

If Nichols, a half-elf, is [-]% similar to us, then the elves are completely different from us.

Just as I was carefully looking at the rare elf slave girl, Bobby rubbed his hands beside me in embarrassment, thinking hesitantly, only three seconds later, he gritted his teeth , slapped his thigh hard with his hand, and said with some regret: "This is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If I miss this time, I don't know when I will meet such a pure and good guy. Instead of taking advantage of those old rabbits... "

"Ahem!" The person next to him coughed violently at Bobby's words.

Bobby shrank his neck in fright, and then immediately turned his voice and said: "...Masters and nobles, why don't we create a little opportunity for our young people, Ji Jia, don't worry, this time is worth ten years of pocket money , I will also help you snatch her back. If you really want to reject me, then you don’t want to be friends with me sincerely. True friends never care about these things, especially us magic apprentices, and we don’t need to put money away. It's right in your eyes!"

"..." He blocked my words directly in his throat, what else can I say.

A middle-aged man in a well-crafted aristocratic dress sitting on the right side of the front row beside us finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned his head and said to Bobby with a wry smile: "Hey, little Bobby, you Why don’t you listen to the opinions of your friends, maybe they don’t like elf girls, but maybe they like orc girls, the way to get along with friends is to accept what they think in their hearts, and don’t jump to conclusions!”

He was the one who coughed violently when he heard Bobby's words just now.He was wearing an exquisite tuxedo embroidered by hand, and even his hair was meticulously done. The way he looked at Bobby made people feel extremely familiar.

Bobby also put on a smile all over his face, his fat face was like a sunflower in full bloom, and he obediently said to the middle-aged nobleman with a charming smile: "Uncle, why are you here!"

The middle-aged noble looked at Bobby lovingly, sighed and said, "If I hadn't happened to be here, would you have given this elf slave girl I collected so hard to give to your friend?" ? Do you know how much trouble I got and how much I paid for this elf girl? Not to mention how much trouble this girl has? If you want to give it to your good friend recklessly, you will only give it to him You have caused a big trouble! When I say this, I don’t expect you to understand now, but in the future when your friend encounters some trouble because of this elf slave girl, please don’t complain that uncle didn’t remind you!”

"Jia can be said to be my best friend. He has always stood up for me in the Academy of Magic. If I didn't have Ji Jia to help me during the adventures in Xinliu Valley, I don't know how much I would have suffered. Who told you not to collect Enough 'hydrotherapy' magic scrolls, I was almost killed in the valley because of it, and it wasn't Jijia who helped me..." Facing the questioning of the middle-aged nobleman, Bobby defended without flinching.

In fact, we want to say that the elf slave on the stage is not what I want. I want to buy a war slave who can accompany Su. Even if the elf slave has a talent for fighting, a female slave who is proficient in bow skills is far inferior to a melee type. slave girl!

The tone of the middle-aged nobleman seemed to be powerless to stop Bobby's willfulness, and finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I don't want your pocket money for ten or eight years. When the time comes, you will come to find me when you are short of money." Me! However, I must remind you that you only need to have one good friend like this, you know?"

Bobby nodded hurriedly at this time, I frowned and wanted to say to Bobby: You should listen to my opinion!
At this time, there were already people bidding non-stop on the field, and the initial starting price was not a gold coin transaction. The direct starting price was: a magic crystal.When the old man in white on the stage revealed the reserve price, a small group of people unexpectedly cursed in a low voice:
"Damn it, it's actually a magic crystal!"

"Is that elf made of gold? It's not sold with gold coins, my God!"

Those wealthy nobles were complacent about this. When they called for the price for the first time, there were more than a dozen nobles calling for prices at the same time. The old man in white quickly found the price in the voice of calling for prices at the same time. The nobleman with the earliest bid and the highest bid announced: If no one raises the price, the elf slave girl will belong to that nobleman!

Of course, the competition is extremely fierce. In the end, the price of the elf female slave has been raised to fifteen magic crystals, which is almost an astronomical sum. Only a few nobles persisted until the end. Difficult, every time you add a magic crystal, you have to pay seven or eight more gold coins. For the nobles in this small town, it is impossible to have a few magic crystals in a year. It is unacceptable for ordinary nobles to spend a year or two, or even more income.

After all, the aristocratic family also has a huge expenditure, the maintenance of the manor, the salary of the manor servants, the daily luxury life, etc., everything is piled up with gold coins.

At this time, an aristocrat sitting in the front row of the theater suddenly raised his hands, lowered his head and shouted with determination: "Twenty magic crystals! Whoever pays a copper higher than this price, I will give it up!"

The auction hall was suddenly as silent as a moonless and starless night.

The middle-aged nobleman next to Bobby finally sighed, and said with some regret: "It seems that El City is still a bit too remote and barren after all, and the purchasing power can only reach such a level. If it is in the imperial capital, such an elf A female slave needs at least fifty magic crystals, and if it’s Sloit City, it needs at least forty magic crystals, hehe, it’s a joke to want to have beauties here in mere twenty!”

The middle-aged nobleman snorted coldly, and said softly to Bobby behind him: "It's probably because there hasn't been an elf with such pure blood in El City for a long time, Bobby, tell them how much this elf should be worth! "

The old man in white on the stage was still confirming whether someone would increase the price again, and the middle-aged nobleman had quietly left the table...

At this time, Bobby, who was standing next to me, stood up very confidently, with his belly pouted. Before the old man in white finished speaking, his smile became very cheap, his round face was full of oil, and his eyes were blocked by his face. Squeezing his fat into two thin lines, he smiled and shouted: "I will give you fifty magic crystals!"

The entire auction field seemed to be plunged into an abyss of extreme cold at this moment, and there was not even a breath of breath on the field.

(End of this chapter)