Chaos Crown

Chapter 103, One Sentence Triggers a Battle of Gods (5000-word chapter!)

After several days of travel, Aaron finally returned to Suzar.

When he left Suzar, he was empty-handed.

When he returned to Suzar, he filled two large carts with his things, and hired a few people to help transport them. He found a group of Cormyr Border Patrol at the foot of the mountain and recruited them as inner court knights. A soldier, and then found a few middle-aged farmers in the nearby village who had just finished harvesting the grain and started slack farming, and asked them to help transport all the heavy goods back to Suzar.

It can be seen that at least in Cormyr, Aaron's status as a viscount and the position of a knight in the inner court are still very useful.

Generally speaking, in the country, this kind of adventurer with rich loot and lonesome has always been fat in the eyes of others.

Traveling in the kingdom, apart from monster groups in the wild and alien tribes such as kobolds, gnolls, goblins, orcs, etc., the most common robbers are noble robbers, followed by army robbers and official robbers.

Yes, that's right, unlike normal people's imagination, compared to the "professional robbers" in people's impression, noble robbers are the mainstream in the country.

There used to be a noble knight named Vincent, who obtained the position of a tax collector by bribing his superior nobles. This buddy sat by the bridge and charged 5% of the "bridge toll" for each passing caravan.

He quickly made a lot of money from this, because this smart knight nobleman knows how to screen targets. He has always passed large groups of people and horses, and then focused on those travelers with fewer people and more things. Arrange for them to undergo "special inspection" in a house on the side of the road, and then tie the body to a stone with his attendants and sink it into the river.

He did at least a hundred such "businesses" before he was discovered, and he was sentenced to exile only by relying on huge bribes.

In the end, the harpist caught up with him on his way into exile and killed him. The two elite knights in charge of the escort stood aside because of "internal urgency" and said that they could not stop the "violence" of the harpist.

Therefore, more than half of the "robbers" encountered in the country's wilderness are essentially "noble robbers and their vassals of power". They are often quite influential in the local area, have backgrounds, and someone covers their robbery , while sharing their profits.

What about professional robbers?
Professional robbers are often more terrifying than noble robbers. In the environment of the kingdom, professional robbers mean that they must not only rob, but also fight against all kinds of monsters from time to time.

In other words, most of the time, a group of professional bandits = organized professional adventurers.

In the kingdom, the gold content of a team of adventurers, needless to say, right?

The wild is really dangerous. In the country, you never know whether you will meet a kind old man with a pipe in his mouth or a githyanki riding a red dragon on a forest path.

The law and order in Cormyr is much better than the chaotic Sword Coast area or the completely laissez-faire southern forest. Cormyr's army seldom engages in murder and robbery, but the greed of the patrols still happens from time to time. The boundaries between "extortion", "inspection" and "kidnapping" are extremely blurred, and the Queen Regent has to try many similar cases every month-one party claims that he has been robbed, and the other party emphasizes that this is the "protection fee" they deserve. "Just pay.

For an adventurer like Aaron, it is a small probability that the Cormyr patrol turns into a robber and directly robs him, but it is a very high probability that he takes the opportunity to extort a large sum of money from him.

Fortunately, he was a local Viscount of Cormyr and a knight of the inner court. The Obesthier coat of arms on his chest was enough to face these ordinary soldiers. He easily asked the patrol captain to send a team to escort him.

So what is legal and what is illegal, the scale is really intriguing.

In this regard, Aaron’s attitude is on the same side as the regent’s daughter, Alice Searle. Both the former king Asan IV and the current regent have been working hard to get the power to set tariffs back to Susar. , emphasizing that nobles should not set up tax cards without permission to charge arbitrary fees, and provide immunity and judicial compensation for victims.

This was naturally strongly opposed by the nobles, and the two sides saw back and forth for this.

Aaron's point of view on this matter is that no matter who collects taxes, you keep the money that should be collected, and you can take care of the things that need to be managed.

A negative example of this matter is the recent rise of the Dark Sun Cyric Church. Many businessmen operating in the Moon Sea region and the Amn region often complain that after the Dark Sun Prince controls the Moon Sea region, their so-called Management is "managing half".

Cyric is pervasive in everything that is rich and beneficial, and he will take advantage of it, and he will do everything he can to extort him.

After taking the money, Dark Sun needs to come out to take charge of order maintenance and management. Prince Dark Sun said that this is none of my business, and you should go to the gods related to the priesthood.

The Sea of ​​the Moon region, which used to be prosperous in business and trade, has always been heavily taxed and punished, but Bane, the god of tyranny, at least guaranteed the framework of laws and rules. Everyone must abide by Bane's laws. Now the new Cyric is really amazing. Everyone is at a loss, he has an idea every day, and every day.

And recently there is news that Cyric, as the king of the dead, will break the unspoken rules among the human gods for the first time—cannibals must be cursed, and Cyric will welcome all cannibals to believe in him with open arms And take their souls, as long as they show their worth...

Is this guy out of his mind?Aaron learned the news from the patrol soldiers who helped him deliver the goods.

After transporting the goods to Suzar, Aaron took out a handful of gold coins to the patrolling soldiers as a reward, and then took out a bag of silver coins to reward the farmers who assisted in the transportation at three times the normal market labor price, and gave away the harvest he had risked. Shipped to Salian House.

"Aaron? Wow, how did you come back with so much stuff?"

Aunt Mei Li still had the familiar fussing and fussing look. She saw Aaron coming back from a long distance, trotting all the way out of the house, his well-maintained face was full of joy, and he was making a lot of noise. The two maids hurried out to move the things in, and patted Aaron's shoulder happily: "Where are you going for business again?"

"I went to a good place this time." Aaron nodded with a smile, remembering all the things he encountered in the Zombie Ruins. It took only a few days to go back and forth, but he left an indelible memory on him.

"Stop standing, come in quickly, you must be tired, I'll let them boil water for you, go buy your favorite mutton, and make grilled lamb chops tonight." Aunt Mei Li chattered endlessly, she pulled Pulling him into the house by Aaron's sleeve, he immediately began to greet the whole family. , Now we have to add more clocks!
If it weren't for Aaron's recent salary increase, and considering that Aaron's promotion to the Inner Court Knight has a promising future, he would have resigned a long time ago.

No such bully!Before he came to Salian House, he had beautiful hair.

"Hurry up~ Aaron is back, everyone move!" Aunt shouted back and forth, as if she was the one who returned with a full load.

Smelling the familiar air from home, smelling the familiar sweet smell in the bakery, and looking at the furnishings that have hardly changed for more than ten years, at this moment, Aaron's tense spirit finally relaxed greatly.

This is home, this is home.

Everyone needs such a spiritual haven, where they can get proper relaxation after long-term hard work.

It's just that there seems to be something missing in the house, Aaron rubbed his chin and thought.

His previous interaction with Elf sister made him absolutely sure that his emotions had been fully recovered.

Lord Viscount immediately locked on his target.

Before the New Year, we must let Miss Pastor live in!

Eleanor, wait for me~
————I am the dividing line of living in———

After returning home, Aaron spent an hour counting the rewards of his adventure:
There are a total of seven heavy-duty extraordinary weapons made of serpentine steel, each with a market reference price of about 1000 Golden Lion coins.

Aaron handed over seven serpentine steel weapons to the Adventurer's Guild in Suzar for auction. The appearance of these seven weapons immediately caused a sensation in the city. The attraction of giant weapons to warriors and barbarians is fatal.

The Adventurer's Guild promised that the reserve price for the auction would not be less than 7500 Golden Lion Coins, and only 8% commission would be charged.

The auctioneer told Aaron privately that he should be able to get 10000 Golden Lion coins, which means that Aaron could directly pocket more than 9000 Golden Lion coins.

There are more than 200 scattered packs of Snakeman Empire gold coins after disassembly and counting, which is equivalent to about 1000 gold lion coins at the market price.

Aaron donated all the money directly to the Church of Our Lady of Silver. As for how to sell the stolen goods, that is the business of the Church of Our Lady of Silver. As a chaotic and kind church, it is not the first time that Su Lun’s believers have done such a thing. It's on.

The value of the remaining snake-man antiques and rare treasures is estimated to be about 5000 Golden Lion coins, and Aaron plans to sell them slowly.

This kind of antique art must be discounted in a hurry to sell.

So in total, the pure wealth gained from this adventure is 15000 Golden Lion Coins, which is worth Aaron's ten-year salary as an inner court knight.

Then there is a scroll of color resistance.

This is a priceless treasure, which records the forging method of serpentine steel.

Finally... Aaron set his sights on a big bag full of fishy things.

Legendary abhors the snakeskin and scales of the serpent people.

Snake meat, snake gall, snake venom and other alchemy materials.

Time to find that greedy dwarf.

Aaron sneered, rubbing his hands back and forth on his stubble-grown chin, using Tzeentch's power in his mind to calculate the plan.

If I don't let you bleed violently this time, my surname will not be Salian!

The next day, he went home to take a shower, slept comfortably, and Aaron, who put on a viscount dress, came to the dwarf's blacksmith shop as scheduled.

The blacksmith's shop in Faujar-Wilham was still as deserted as before, except for the black chimneys that spewed smoke outside and the sound of iron hammering in the courtyard.

Aaron kicked the door directly.

"The standard long sword of the guard is 95 gold coins."

"Hey! Fojar..."

"The price of a battle ax is two pieces of a long sword."

"Short, get out of here!"

"The processing fee for each extraordinary weapon is 2000 gold coins, and non-dwarven currencies are not charged... Oh, it's you."

The dwarf master craftsman opened the door. He rubbed his ugly big and small eyes. His body smelled of coal and iron filings, and his beard was messed up. Seeing that it was Aaron, the dwarf craftsman's eyes lit up, and his attention was not at all. Not on Aaron's face, the small eye hidden under straggly brows and puffy lids stared intently at the pouch in Aaron's hand.

The dwarf craftsman was quickly disappointed that Aaronti's bag was small.

Such a small bag is simply not enough to hold the snake skins and scales of the three snake-hating people.

It seems that this guy has been blown up like a god, and his strength is not very good.

The dwarf turned around disappointedly: "If you..."

As soon as he turned around, the back of the dwarf craftsman's head was hit by a heavy bag, and a strong sense of dizziness immediately turned into anger. Faujar picked up his hammer and was about to roar, when the bag leaked out But his anger disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Inside the bag was a whole piece of white and tough snake skin!The quality of the skin was better than anything Forjar had ever seen.

There was also light reflected from the surface of the cyan snake scales, Fojar picked up a snake scale with his stubby fingers, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and the dwarf jumped up excitedly: "You succeeded? !"

"Yes, I succeeded!" Aaron said with a half smile.

"What's the matter?" Fojar turned the small bag over directly, and the dwarf was ecstatic, then puzzled, and then turned into displeasure: "What's the matter? Human, do you think I'm Fojar-Wilham Is it the kind of person who doesn't believe what he says?"

"Let me tell you, we swore to sign the contract in front of the statue of the father god Moradin. How could the Stone Clan not keep their word?" Forjar subconsciously felt that Aaron wanted to play tricks, and he was aggressive: "Get out what's left, or Moradin will curse you!"

"It is you that your god is going to curse!" Aaron bent down and grabbed Fojar's collar. He was also full of anger: "Do you know what happened to me? Dwarves, you keep saying that people who hate snakes sleeping!"

"But not long after I entered, I met the living guards who hate snakes, and there are eight of them!"

"You promise repeatedly that this is an exclusive piece of information!"

"But in the snake man ruins, I met three groups of people back and forth."

"You said that there is no Sarukh Witch Lich in the ruins, yes, but there is a legendary six-armed snake inside!"

"I almost died in it, shorty, you better give me a reasonable explanation, right in front of your Father God."

Aaron threw Fojar on the ground, he put away the snake skin and scales, and waited quietly for his answer.

"Huh~" Fojar obviously didn't expect this to happen. The dwarf craftsman greedily looked at the bag in Aaron's hand, slowly got up from the ground, and snorted: "Huh~ who knew what you said not true?"

"I can swear to my god, the Silver Virgin Suelun, that what I say is true!" Aaron said unceremoniously: "I met eight snake-hating people, and I met a whole team of half-orcs , I also met a legendary six-armed snake-hating man."

The bag was thrown on the ground by Aaron: "These things are evidence!"

The dwarf opened his mouth and thought it was no wonder, he said how the quality of these snake skins and scales was so good, better than he imagined.

It turns out that this human kid met the legendary snake man!
This wave, this wave is mine!

The dwarf was not ashamed, but proud. He yelled, "Then you came back alive, didn't you? See, you didn't get hurt!"

"So you still don't think it has anything to do with you?" Aaron laughed angrily.

"Just tell me, did you come back alive? Did you tell me there were no Sarukh witches inside?" The dwarf interrupted Aaron. He folded his arms and raised his head indifferently: "Just say Isn't it?"

Aaron let out a long breath.

"Look at me, dwarf, I can be sure now, you are not as courageous as an elf maid, I thought Moradin's heirs were brave warriors, and those who walked out of the heart of the world should be honest and trustworthy, But now I understand that dwarves are just a group of goblins with beards, to be honest, the mane on the troll's back is more beautiful than your beard!"

"Signing the contract, and notarizing the statue, I think the so-called contract between you and you is not as good as a bunch of orcs..."

"You?!" The dwarf jumped up from the ground.

Aaron directly pressed his head and pushed him back to the ground. The Viscount said lightly: "Okay, I don't want to tell you anymore, I'm going to flush, and the notarized contract between you and your father will be washed away together." myself."

"You!!!" The dwarf was out of anger, and every word of Aaron stimulated the nerves of his whole body. He opened his mouth for a long time, but he couldn't find the words to fight back, so he could only keep shouting with.

Such vicious words...

He was still searching for words in his brain, when suddenly there was a thunderous sound in the sky!
"Mortal! Keep your mouth clean!"

In the courtyard, the radiant statue of Moradin, enshrined in a forge like a forge, reacted. A tall man with a strong figure and a square face walked out of the statue. His upper body was very strong, with a bucket-like Thick chest, broad shoulders, and muscular arms.

With long black hair and beard, a shield studded with jewels and a war hammer, this tall dwarf is staring at Aaron with angry eyes: "Human! You have crossed the line."

"Father God!" Fojar immediately hid behind the tall dwarf and pointed to Aaron's nose: "He is insulting the dwarf, the Great Soul Forger, our Lord, and our almighty Father God and Creator Great power!"

"Human, you'd better give me an explanation today." The tall dwarf nodded, he raised his warhammer, and pointed at Aaron's nose: "Otherwise, even if Fojar really..."

"That's right! Moradin! You better give my child an explanation today!"

A ray of moonlight diffused from the ground and enveloped Aaron, with repressed anger in his gentle voice.

A mature, beautiful, plump, motherly figure stepped out of the moonlight, with a bumpy figure holding Aaron in his arms from behind, his slender hands wrapped around Aaron's chest, and long silver-white hair hanging down from his shoulders.

"My child~ You have been wronged~ Don't be afraid, with your mother around, no one can bully you!"

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