A hero drinks red without leaving a bottle

Chapter 1 Prologue - Heroes Never Care About Money

The sound of the winter snowstorm blowing in the crystallized forest is like the cry of a child, heart-piercing and unreasonable.

In such weather, all animals in the forest, even those monsters with thick fur and at the top of the food chain will stop foraging, and they will curl up in their lairs, licking their sharp claws, honestly Literally stay there and wait for the snowstorm to pass.

But human beings are different. Compared with the vast majority of monsters that still rely on fur and claws to survive, they are too stubborn and too smart.

Human beings stubbornly built towns on the bitterly cold land, and cleverly built all the houses in the towns into half-buried houses, just to resist the snowstorm in winter.

Lambas Eleanor carefully drilled out of such a half-buried arc-roof house. The bitter wind and snow made him quickly close the door behind him, separating the warm space inside the house from the snowy hell outside. After quickly throwing a large bucket of swill into the distance, he opened the door even faster and retreated into the arc-roofed house.

The splashed swill lost all its heat and froze before it hit the ground.

The snowy night outside was cold and dangerous, but Eleanor's hunting station was warm and quiet.

In the stove that is as tall as a person, the flame is burning fiercely, and the orange fire permeates every corner of the station with heat. Lambas, who poured out the last bucket of swill before closing the store, sits back at the thick stone-carved counter. In the back, after wiping the countertop with a rag made of horned animal skin, he said cautiously to the last guest sitting opposite him:

"We're closing the shop."

Although he hoped that the customer in front of him would check out and leave quickly, his tone was still calm and peaceful for no other reason - he felt that the last customer in front of him might not be easy to provoke.

Under the light and shadow of the flames in the fireplace, the person sitting in front of Rambas gently put down the wine glass in his hand and nodded slightly.

He is not well dressed, and the style of animal skin clothing that is very common in the local area makes him look like more orcs than humans. On a few exposed forearms, you can see strong muscles protruding like stones, which seems to contain Unparalleled strength; his short white hair stood up like icicles on a cliff, and matched with his sharp and chiseled appearance, it gave people a sense of calm and prestige.

However, the fundamental reason for Rambas to talk to this man calmly is not his appearance—most of the men in Eschenbach have this look, no, the key to making Rambas calm is that the man's eyes flash from time to time Liman like a carnivorous beast, and the strangely shaped epee on his back.

Most of the hunters or adventurers who went to and from Eichenbach and went hunting in the dense forest used long-range weapons, traps and magic as the main means of attack, and melee combat was always the last resort.

[Only] Those who carry a heavy heavy sword and give up long-range attacks and fight directly are either fools or powerful fighters.

So he is very polite to the man in front of him, which is the same reason that he was mean to the woodcutter who sold him firewood during the day. He never gambled and only played safe cards—an old woodcutter with no background You can rise and fall at will, but the fighters in front of you have to be careful.

However, what the man said the next moment made the calm expression on Lambas's face disappear:
"I have something I want to sell to you to pay for my drink and the firewood you should pay Barney Ross during the day."

One sentence, two meanings, each of which made Lambas alert and angry: first, the man in front of him didn't seem to intend to pay; second, he seemed to want to help the woodcutter Barney Ross who he sent away during the day .

Human beings are intelligent and stubborn. Rambas intelligently understands the situation he may face next, but stubbornly refuses to accept the reality.

"We don't accept barter here, and, though I don't know what that Barney Ross guy told you, I paid for my firewood."

"However, the proposed price list hanging at the entrance of the government affairs hall in the town says [firewood: 10 copper coins per catty], but Mr. Eleanor took 1 catties but only paid Mr. Ross 20 copper coins, isn't it? Is it?" The man with the epee raised his head and looked at Lambas calmly.

"This is the market, isn't it?" Lambas replied slowly, while raising his hand, he paused on the bar with his wine glass, "The guide price set by His Majesty's ministers cannot accurately reflect Eschenbach's price. The situation in such a small place."

"Yeah, the market, hehe," a sarcasm appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, and he looked like a cat before killing its prey, "Then let's go back to the previous topic, I hope to sell some things, Come pay for my drink, and Barney Ross...”

"We don't accept barter," Lambas raised his voice, "and, you'd better not stand up for Barney, let me tell you, Eschenbach, mine, firewood is only worth this price!"

As Lambas finished speaking, the door behind the inn owner opened, and his confidence—a young woman in a robe came out slowly, her golden hair was tied behind her head, her complexion was as fair as snow, and her eyes were blue. The light of wisdom shone in her eyes, and a pair of pointed ears from her elf mother trembled slightly.

Serena Eleanor, the daughter of Rambas, is a second-level mage of the Empire who is visiting relatives during the winter vacation.

And, the security guard who made a temporary guest appearance at the hunting station.

"Sir, please don't embarrass my father," Serena tried to calmly persuade while carefully keeping a distance from the caster, "We really don't accept barter, and sir is probably just passing by." The small town of Eichenbach, can't you? You can't protect Barney Ross forever."

Mage Serena also didn't like some of his father's behaviors, but if she had to choose between defending her father and upholding justice, she would choose him decisively.

So at this time, the mage's meaning is very clear - once you leave, Barney Ross, who is helpless, will still live here. Good thing.

"Ma'am, I think your father will be happy to buy these goods from me."

The man grinned, and then something that almost made Serena's jaw drop happened - the man in front of her, who looked more like an orc berserker than a human, raised his hand and grabbed it out of thin air, like a mage opening the mage space Generally speaking, a war hammer that looked extremely tattered was pulled out from the sky!

The man in front of me is a mage? !But why is there no magic fluctuation? !And even if he is a high-level battle mage, which mage would store such a tattered hammer in the mage space? !
"Let me clear the package now, and let's talk about business. What I want to sell to you is this [Indomitable Power], the price is 2 gold coins, 33 silver coins, and 70 copper coins. Thank you." Sairei Na watched as the man squinted and smiled as he pushed the big hammer in front of her father.

Are you kidding me, such a broken hammer sells for two gold coins? !How could my father accept such a deal...
"The small shop doesn't have that much money." Lambas sneered.

"It's okay," the man shook his head. "You know, I never care whether the store has enough money when I sell things. Believe in yourself, you have money."

As the man's voice fell, an incomprehensible thing happened to Serena. Her sane father, and it was absolutely impossible for him to be a mage-like father, raised his hand to grab the air, and actually grabbed two of them out of thin air. Four gold coins, four silver coins, and seven ten copper coins were handed over to the man.

"10 silver coins are used to pay for my drinks and meals, and 1 silver coin and 50 copper coins are left for Old Barney—this is the difference," the man put a large handful of coins on the bar with a smile, and muttered while counting, "I Leave one gold coin, and give you the rest, as compensation for your soul loss, okay? This way everyone is happy, and old Barney has money to buy necessities tomorrow to survive. You made money, and I got it Fun, okay?"

After all, the man pushed part of the money back to the stunned Lambas.

"Wait, me, this money, what's going on..." Lambas looked at everything in front of him that he couldn't understand at all, stuttered and couldn't speak.

He couldn't understand at all, how did he grab so much money out of thin air?

If he had the ability to change real money, what kind of hunting station would he open? He would have gone to live in the capital with his daughter, and he would have brought his wife back from the elf?

Rambas was surprised, and her daughter Serena was even more surprised. As a mage, she is much more knowledgeable than the father who taught him. As far as she knows, in this huge world, if you look around, there are so many mages in the Seven Kingdoms. And alchemists, no one has been able to do such a thing without a little magic fluctuation.

How could her father, who had failed to pass the magic apprenticeship exam for seven years, be able to?

He can't even do five years of magic and three years of simulation.

So, impossible!

However, now there may be a reason to do it...
"The empire strictly prohibits mages who are not officially authorized to cast spells on currency. If it is made of gold, it is even more strictly prohibited. Although I don't know who you are, but since I saw it, as a mage, I can't just sit idly by." Serena pulled her hands out of her sleeves, sparks oozing from her fingertips, as if there were fireflies flying, she looked at the man with a serious face, and said, "Please come with me to the nearest mage tower!"

"Oh, it turned out to be a prohibited item," the man nodded, "No wonder old Barney was frightened by me so he didn't want it, and he didn't make it clear. Really, it seems that the trading system can't be used casually in the future, cut, Blind me 10 points for nothing, I made a mistake."

Trading System?Points?Serena listened to the man mumble words she couldn't understand.

"But today's matter, if you don't talk about it, I won't talk about it, and no one will know. It's just a small amount of money, forget it?" The man pushed the money like a blue bus, smiling all over his face.

"Sir, you were very principled when you asked for firewood money for old Barney. Why are you so unprincipled now? We can't ask for this money, so you have to go with us!" The mage Serena stared, frightened. Rambas, who was about to put away the money, shrank his neck.

"Now I don't have any principles at all. You don't want money, and I won't stop you. I can hand over all my gold coins to you, but if I go to the Mage Tower with you, then it's free," the man said. Shrugging his shoulders, the beast-like gleam appeared in his eyes again, "You can do what you want, I can do what you want, let's go first."

After all, the man got up and left.

"Stop!" The dots of fire condensed into a long whip of flames in the air, rolling towards the man.

The second-level spell, Flame Prisoner, is the only spell that Serena knows that has the effect of imprisonment.

The next moment, just before the fire snake licked the man, a green mask that kept spinning suddenly appeared, covering the man's entire body.

The flames hit the shimmering green cover, just like water hitting a rock, the flames splashed in all directions, and then disappeared without a trace.

Serena could sense that her magic power was cut off out of thin air.

Turning around abruptly, a suffocating cold and bloody breath emerged from the man. The bloody smell made Serena feel like her mouth was full of blood, and the coldness made the young mage feel that everything in her body and surroundings The heat seemed to be sucked away by something.

The raging flames in the furnace suddenly turned into an ice blue color, and the blood-colored light boiled in the man's eyes.

Serena panted heavily, the cold and bloody breath was like a knife cut, making her almost unable to breathe, as her chest rose and fell, the mage felt that her heart and lungs seemed to be freezing, and the bloody breath lingered in her mouth, making her She was about to gag.

The next moment, the man took a deep breath, the blood in his eyes disappeared, and the color of the flames also changed from ice blue to orange. Seeing that he fell to the ground, his face was trembling with horror, the place where he fell had already ooze A large puddle of water-stained female mage, he couldn't help showing a dumbfounding expression on his face.

"Unexpectedly...why did this happen, that lady over there, believe it or not, I really didn't do it on purpose."

After finishing speaking, the man pushed open the door and walked into the wind and snow.

The wind and snow whizzed around, but it couldn't hurt him at all. While walking towards the distance, the man with the big sword on his back recalled the choice made a week ago, and couldn't help but curse:
"MLGB, it would be great if there is an actor, how friendly, but, if this is the case, that female mage should spread some interesting rumors. If this is the case, it will be fun, right? Hehe..."

While muttering, the man hid in the darkness.

Only a few runes on the big sword remained, glowing faintly in the darkness.

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