rune hunter

Chapter 27 The Girl and the VIP Card
The White Lion family started out as an army, but an overly powerful army would make the capital suspicious. For 300 years, every White Lion lord has carefully controlled his army in a low-key manner, limiting the elite knights of the White Lion Knights to less than 3000, preventing outsiders from grabbing any handles.

But in fact, the main force of Istaren is the city defense, public security and surveillance forces controlled by the "Three-headed Dog of the Gatekeeper". , in fact, everyone in Istaron knows that they are the subsidiary legions of the Knights, and they are excellent fighters who can go to the battlefield directly with weapons.

In addition, every youth over the age of 17 in Istaren City must serve in the military for three years. They are the real militia and reserve forces.In other words, everyone in the city of Istaren is a soldier!

In addition, the white lion also secretly controlled the only unstable factor in the city - the mercenaries.The so-called killing order, in El's view, is to train these mercenaries on the one hand, and on the other hand to distribute military supplies to them in disguise to enhance their strength.

These mercenaries can be said to be a group of rabble, most of them are rough men who only know how to be brave and ruthless.Even a large-scale mercenary regiment cannot defeat a knight squad.The white lion wants to use such a negligible power, which shows that the family is cautious about every detail.

To establish a century-old foundation, both military control and a politically minded city are essential.El looked thoughtfully at the white lion banner fluttering from the top of the tower in the inner city of Istaren.

"Hey—hey! Come back to your senses, you're back to your senses!"

A delicate white hand waved vigorously in front of El's eyes, awakening El from his contemplation.He turned his head abruptly, and the first thing that caught his eyes was a head of orange-red shoulder-length hair.

The girl standing in front of him and waving looked to be about his age, tall and almost as tall as El, with straight and slender legs.Wearing a crimson uniform and skirt, she appears to be a student of some academy.

"Brother, are you a fellow of Jupiter Firm?" The tall girl asked, pointing to the logo on El's clothes.

"Yes, miss." El nodded with some doubts.The old businessman asked him to wear this sign in the morning, but he still didn't know the meaning of it, so he said cautiously: "I'm working for the firm now, is there anything I can do for you?"

Of course, there is a reason for El's being so polite. He has heard that the academy is a place where humans pass on knowledge, and the students who study in the academy are all human elites.But in this era "academy" is the exclusive privilege of the aristocratic class.In other words, the students who can study in the college are either rich or expensive.

"That's really great. I'm just worried that I can't find anyone to help me." The tall girl said happily. When she smiled, she showed her small canine teeth, which made her already pretty face even cuter.

The girl turned around and searched for a long time in the schoolbag she was carrying, and took out a golden metal card with the logo of Jupiter Firm on it.

"This is the highest-level VIP card of Jupiter Firm. That means I...my family is one of the biggest customers of your firm! Brother, if it's convenient for you now, please do me a favor."

"This...ahhaha, of course, of course." I knew it was a ghost, El cursed secretly in his heart, but on the surface he could only nod with a dry smile. After all, the firm now has its own share, so we can't tear ourselves down.

"Thank you so much, little brother." The tall girl relaxed her nervous expression and smiled: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to ask you to help transport some goods, it doesn't take much time, and I will give you wages .”

"It's okay, I happen to have nothing to do." El thought for a while and said, he was just shopping leisurely this afternoon, and there was really nothing to do.

"Then please come with me!" The girl politely raised the corner of her skirt and thanked El earnestly.

"Miss, my name is El, what should I call you?" El asked.

"You can call me Laurana," said the girl, who did not reveal her last name.

El followed Laurana out of the square and walked into another commercial district he was not familiar with.To his surprise, the girl's target was also a weapon shop.

Although it can't be compared with its counterparts on Central Avenue, this weapon shop is able to operate in such a prosperous area so close to the square, which naturally has its own unique features.

What Laurana wanted to buy was also arrows. Maybe she asked El for his help when she saw that she was carrying two arrows, and hoped that he could help her choose one.But what she wanted to buy was another kind of thornwood arrows, and she wanted a whole ten bundles at once!
The white-feathered ebony arrows are special arrows for the army of the White Lion Knights. They are heavy and require a hard bow to shoot, and only professional archers can control them.And this kind of thornwood arrow belongs to the configuration of the militia. The arrows are made of cheap thornwood, and the matching iron arrowhead has no ridges and blood grooves.The damage and accuracy of thornwood arrows are not very good. Its advantage is that it is light and fast. It can be used as long as the bow can be drawn. It is the most common arrow in Istaron.

There are thirty arrows in a tube, two hundred arrows in a bundle, and two thousand arrows in ten bundles. What is the use of so many arrows for a little girl?El was a little confused for a while, and what made him more entangled was the price of the thornwood arrows. A bundle of arrows only costs one gold coin, and there are discounts for wholesale here.

"El, please take a closer look for me, is the quality as good as they say?" Laurana said secretly, tugging on El's sleeve.

El took out a thornwood arrow from it and weighed it in his hand. To be honest, he hadn't used such a light arrow for a long time. This kind of arrow is only suitable for beginners, or ordinary people who don't know how to shoot arrows at all.

"Ordinary thorn wood is not dried enough, and there is still moisture in it. The arrow handle made in this way will be a little soft, but it is not easy to break. Ordinary hunting bows can shoot a hundred steps away, and the actual effective lethality should be seventy. Step around."

El decided to tell the truth with reference to the level of normal people. If it were him now, he would be able to shoot this kind of arrow for more than two hundred steps, but this kind of data is meaningless.

"Did you hear that? Boss!" Laurana proudly crossed her hips, her eyes gleaming with gold coins. "I brought an expert here to look at the goods. Is your kind of goods worth the price?"

Even a girl who is usually gentle and well-educated will explode with unbearable lethality when bargaining. This is a woman's natural relief.

Listening to El's explanation, the boss's face turned green, and he almost cried when he heard the girl's words.Obviously, this young lady is terribly shrewd, and I'm afraid nothing can be gained from her.

After being escorted out of the weapon shop, the little girl had a happy smile on her face.Under her relentless pestering, the price of the ten bundles of arrows was reduced to seven gold coins.The angry boss refused to provide delivery service, so the coolie's work fell to El.

Loading the bundles of thornwood arrows onto the rented flatbed cart, El exerted a little effort, and the cart started to run briskly.

"I didn't expect you to have good eyesight, thank you, El." Laurana walked beside El, clasped her hands together with a smile, and said gratefully: "I actually saved so much money, I must give you double The salary is good."

"You are so generous." El said, it's just a matter of lifting a finger, and if you have money, you can earn it or not.

The next stop was the vegetable market, where the girl purchased hundreds of catties of dry cheese and salty ham.Compared to those arrows, the price of food is very cheap, and of course it is also extraordinarily heavy.However, if you use a flatbed car, it is still within El's tolerance.

Laurana found an inn near the city gate and stored these things in a horse box. Since they were not particularly valuable, there was no need to worry about them being stolen.

Touching the wallet, there were only some scattered silver coins left in it. The girl sighed pretentiously, then clenched her little fists tightly, as if to cheer herself up.

"Is this okay?" El took his reward, casually looked at the food on the flatbed truck and asked: "If you want to go to the Red Stone Ridge, the road is not so easy, the rest of your A little money is not enough for the deposit for renting mules and horses."

"It doesn't matter, mules and horses can get from classmates... eh?" Luo Lana suddenly realized, her eyes widened in surprise: "How do you know I'm going to Red Stone Ridge?"

"If you weren't interested in the news about Hongshiling, you wouldn't be in the square at that time," El said.

"Seeing that you bought so many supplies, you think you want to do business in Hongshiling. I'm just curious, why do you think you can trade with those mercenaries? They are all year-round hardworking guys, only half Months, how could you not be fully prepared?"

"Hmph, surprisingly sharp." The girl who was pierced raised her nose and coughed deliberately. "However, your vision is limited to this. The so-called business opportunities, it is precisely to seize the blind spots that others cannot notice, in order to be able to win by surprise."

"Oh? That makes me even more curious." El laughed inwardly, still pretending to be curious on the surface.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if I reveal a little bit to you." Laurana smiled pretendingly, "In fact, I received the news that the caravan was robbed by kobolds last night, and I immediately went to the library to check it out. Relevant information. Hmph, do you think kobolds are as easy to bully as ooze monsters? Those mercenaries whose brains are full of muscles will suffer a lot this time.”

"As far as I know, the kobold's fighting power is not much stronger than that of goblins." El thought for a while and said.

"That's not an ordinary kobold." Laurana seemed to have a plan in mind: "El, I think you are very reliable, do you want to go with me? If you make money, how about giving you [-]%?"

"I'm very sorry, Miss Laurana, I still need to go back to work in the firm." El shook his head and refused, and now Bart was still secretly eyeing the firm, so he didn't dare to leave without authorization.

"It's okay, there will be a chance." Laurana raised the corners of her mouth, showing her small canine teeth.

(End of this chapter)