Goddess Wanhua Mirror

"That's right! This suit really fits well."

"Guide, mentor!"

After putting on new clothes, Romi Ann blushed a little shyly. Lu De immediately said that this would be her regular clothes from now on, and she would wear it every day, and then asked Manny to make another set for her as a change of clothes.The reason is that since I became a nun, I should look like a nun.

After paying the full price of the two sets of nun uniforms on the spot, Lu De led Romi Ann out of the tailor shop and came to the village chief's house which was being expanded.

Thanks to the substantial increase in population compared to last year, the current Songshu Village is rapidly upgrading from a village to a town, and many supporting facilities have to be built.Relying on his status in the village, old Roma took all the business of the tavern and the hotel into his own hands, and planned to hand over the management to his second son, Rob, while his eldest son, Ron, continued to be his militia captain.

Regarding the village chief's behavior of eating more and taking more, the villagers have no opinion at all, but everyone also admits that their family has never been vague about their contribution to the several major incidents in the village.When the old Roma was fighting bandits, he was ahead of many young people, and he even flinched for it.

In addition, the village chief simply picked the best "meat" and never said that he would not leave soup for other people in the village, so at most everyone scolded him behind Old Roma's back in private, but they didn't say anything. What resentment.

When Lude came over, old Rom was directing his second son and several kobolds to build a new house.This old guy seems to have made up his mind not to be a farmer. He sold all the fields at home, and then bought the houses next door to build a "big hotel"!

Lude had talked to him before. Old Rom was eager to open the tavern because he wanted to do business with adventurers and mercenaries. Their village is located on the northern border, next to the Void Forest, so many people come here every spring.

But in the past, the village was poor and there were no decent service facilities, so most adventurers would choose to settle in Ximu Town, and they earned all the money, so Pine Tree Village could only be greedy.

But this year, the situation has changed. Songshu Village has risen amidst adversity, but Ximu Town has been sluggish and began to decline, so the old man had the idea of ​​"replacing it" in his heart.

And Lude came here just to talk to him about this matter.

End of this chapter

Mercenaries and adventurers, this group of blood-licking desperadoes, are probably one of the groups with the strongest spending power in this world apart from princes and nobles.

Because it is a job that could kill them at any time, many of them have developed the habit of enjoying themselves in time, and spend their lives drinking and drinking as soon as they get paid for their hard work.Smart people with a little bit of long-term planning will use the money to upgrade equipment and purchase consumables, and the expenses in this area are also not small.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that mercenaries and adventurers are one of the main promoters of the world's service industry economy, and the supporting industries have formed a relatively complete industrial chain.

Originally, Lu De did not object to the development of the tertiary industry in the village, but he did not want the village to blindly follow suit and only see the benefits of attracting mercenaries, while ignoring the various disadvantages that may be caused by the influx of foreign population.

We must know that although mercenaries are consumers who have money and are willing to spend, they are also "cancers of public security" that cause headaches for all town managers and law enforcement agencies around the world. For many mercenaries, fighting is almost like drinking. Must-have traditional entertainment.

At present, Songshu Village only has a size equivalent to a town, but has not established a corresponding management organization. When something really happens and organizes one again, the situation may be out of control.

That's why Lu De approached Old Roma and proposed to form a village committee that could truly perform management functions, instead of the current council of elders with completely unclear responsibilities.On the contrary, this made Lu De the real leader in the village. The villagers were used to asking the priest to make decisions on big and small matters. These trivial matters seriously took up his time and energy.

For Lu De's suggestion, the old Roma also expressed his agreement. After all, the wisdom of the priest is obvious to all in the village, and everyone has formed a kind of trust.And he also feels that there are too many things in the village now, and it really needs more people to share them in order to manage them.

So regarding the establishment of the village committee, even if it was decided so directly, Lude suggested that it was best for Roma to choose the young and middle-aged people in the village, and provided him with some reference candidates. Life experience and supervision will suffice.

In Lu De's plan, the main responsibility of the village committee is to assist the village head in the daily management of the entire Songshu Village. Its main members include security committee members, publicity committee members, sanitation committee members, and accounting committee members.Each committee member is accompanied by two or three assistants according to the situation, each of whom is only responsible for his own duties and powers, and must report to the village chief regularly.

According to Lu De's estimate, in Pine Tree Village with more than 3000 people, about 20 people in the management of the village committee are enough. At least at this stage, there is no need to make such a comprehensive administrative organization, but it seems too bloated.

The two were talking about the details of the village committee when the eldest son of the village, Ron, came back.

Seeing this, Lu De hurriedly called him over, saying that he had just discussed with Old Rom and had decided that he would be the first security committee member of the Songshu Village Committee. Just leave it to them.

After hearing this, Ron looked dazed, feeling as if he had been promoted, and then slapped his forehead fiercely, saying that he almost forgot the business.

"Master Priest, Dad, a small group of adventurers just came to the entrance of the village, and they said they would stay overnight in our village. I don't know if they are true or not, so let Gouzi and the others stop them outside."

"Come so soon?"

Hearing that an adventurer came to the door, Old Rom hurriedly asked how many people had come, and learned that there were only five people, three men and two women, so he asked Ron to bring them over first, while Lude held his chin and thought about a question.

The mercenaries and adventurers who will come to Pine Tree Village to stay overnight will most likely go to explore the Void Forest.Most of them accepted the entrustment to find some rare animals and plants, and even hunted demihumans, and some got some information about the treasure and went to the treasure hunt spontaneously.

And depending on the strength and luck of these adventurers, at least a small half of them entered the forest and never came out again.

However, according to Old Rom, this year's adventurers are indeed a little earlier than in previous years, which makes Lude a little worried. Maybe they heard the rumors about the dragon, so they came here to die right?

We must know that among the bards of all countries in the world, the legend about the "Dragon Slaying Warrior" is always the most popular story for young people with dreams of becoming famous.But if you listen to too many stories, it is inevitable that there will be some people who are fooled and lame, thinking that they are the chosen one, as long as you give him the best sword in the village, you can kill the evil dragon, marry the beautiful princess, and start your life from then on. peak.

Lude is not worried that these "dragon slaying warriors" may threaten the safety of Nidhogg's family, because usually, most of these stupid young men who rush to register as adventurers when their brains get hot, most of them may even kill the dragon. They hadn't seen anything before, and because of their lack of strength, they fell on the first mission of their dreams.

Even if it is a top human being as strong as Hamilton, if he wants to deal with the dragon, he has to rely on the undignified tactic of sneak attack. If the general mercenary hears that a dragon has appeared, they will basically put it on the map. An area is marked as a "restricted area", and you will try to walk around it in the future.

But there are exceptions to everything, and some adventurers will sell information about giant dragons or other super monsters as a kind of "commodity".These "intelligence hunters" might not be stupid enough to provoke the dragon themselves, but they would sell the location of the dragon's lair to those who wanted to provoke it.

Soon, Ron brought a few adventurers over. Lude took a closer look at these people. They were all human, and they looked young. The equipment was not bad. There were swordsmen and bows and arrows. Hands, and even a magician, but the rank should not be high.

The captain of the team is a young swordsman in his early twenties. The young man is handsome and tall and strong. He is wearing a leather armor with excellent workmanship. There is even a decorative pattern on the hilt of the long sword on his waist. He must be from a pretty good family background. , and may even be the youngest son of a nobleman.

A group of people came to the door of the village chief's house and found that there was also an old priest who was not young, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Village Chief, and this...Master Priest. My name is Denzel, and I am the captain of this adventure team. We hope that we can stay in the village for one night. In addition, we would like to ask you about the giant dragon. news."

End of this chapter

"Oh~ I'm really afraid of something!"

The young adventurer didn't notice the headache on Lude's face. He was still inquiring about the information about the dragon, and introduced his teammates confidently, saying that everyone is a well-trained elite. !

Due to the fact that in the current era, in the process of news dissemination, problems such as lag and information deviation are almost inevitable, so several adventurers do not know that the dragon incident has passed for five full months, nearly half a year. Time, and the information they got has changed hands many times, and the content has long deviated from the truth.

What makes Lude even more puzzled is that the giant dragon is the top existence of magical creatures in this world. Even the great magician Hamilton, who is known as the "Fire Saint", dares to brag in front of Lude and say that he is in the "peak state." "Hey, you can compete with the just-adult giant dragon [-]-[-], but these youngsters say confidently that they have a way to win.

It was only then that Lude vaguely noticed that in the bags brought by these young adventurers, there seemed to be two objects emitting strange energy fluctuations.

Therefore, out of the unique prudence of the old cunt, Lude did not laugh at the overthinking of these young people face to face, but smiled and gave Old Rom a wink, asking him to arrange a place for these adventurers.

So old Roma asked his son to lead a few adventurers to find an unused vacant house in the village to live in.The hotel on his side is still in the renovation stage, and the kobolds who were called to help build the house are hiding in the house at the moment, so it is really hard for adventurers to see them, so as not to cause any misunderstandings.

After these people left, Lu De told Old Rom to arrange people to keep an eye on them, and not let the villagers have any contact with them.Before finding out the purpose of the other party's visit, the news about Nid Hogg must not be revealed.

Taking Romi Ann back to the temple, Lude immediately called Hume, and then told her what happened just now, hoping that she would work overtime at night to secretly get the luggage of these adventurers.

Lude wanted to figure out what was exuding strange fluctuations, maybe it had something to do with their obviously abnormal dragon-slaying self-confidence.

So that night, God of Thieves went out in person, and within 15 minutes of going out, he brought back what Lu De wanted.After they opened the package, they found that what caught Lude's attention was an ancient book and a huge ornate sword.

These two things exude very strong fluctuations in magic power, which can only be hidden by special sealing cloths, but even so, some of them still leaked out, successfully attracting Lude's attention.

Lu De picked up the ancient book that looked quite old, and was shocked by the golden title on the cover at a glance.

"Damn it! Complete Dragon Slayer?"

Looking at the big gilt characters on the cover, if it weren't for the strong magical fluctuations exuding from this book, Lude might not believe that there would be such a "dragon humiliating masterpiece" full of slots in this world.

So he flipped through it casually, and found that the writing on the book seemed to be quite decent. It introduced the types and living habits of giant dragons in detail, as well as how to find their lairs, how to effectively deal with them, and attached With vivid pictures, people subconsciously think that the author of this book must be a dragon expert, and has hunted and killed many dragons by himself.

In addition, Lude also discovered that this book was actually written with dragon's blood, and he had personally experienced the special magic fluctuations emitted by the text when he healed Ned Hogg's wife Tawawa.

"No wonder these guys are so confident, so they came here with a strategy!"

"Pfft~!"

Lude was feeling emotional, but Hume on the side suddenly laughed out loud, as if he had just seen someone else being tricked.Lu De looked at her, then looked at the "Encyclopedia of Dragon Slaying", which made him always feel that something was wrong, and asked with a frown.

"I said, don't you know something?"

"Guess who wrote this book?"

"you?"

"No, guess again!"

"It's not you...then it must be a dragon!"

"correct!"

Hume, who has never revealed his real age, has an unimaginable social circle and knows many hidden truths that are not known to the public.

She told Lu De directly that the original author of this book was a green dragon named Sanders, who, like Hume, liked pranks very much.One day, this guy suddenly came up with a wicked idea that he thought was very interesting, and wrote a copy of "The Encyclopedia of Dragon Slaying" by himself, and then secretly spread it to the human world.

Just as Lu De was almost fooled just now, the book itself is very deceptive. The book itself is covered with rare unicorn skin, and the content on it is written with fresh live dragon blood, so it can Exudes a unique wave of magic power, which has not dissipated after hundreds of years.

But in the book, only the part that introduces the habits of the giant dragon and how to find the dragon's lair tells limited truths, and the rest of the "dragon slaying tactics" are all made up by Sanders.

The purpose of Sanders, the green gold dragon, in writing this book is very simple, that is to fool the human beings to take the initiative to find the giant dragon to give away their heads. Later, he felt that only one book was circulated, and the efficiency of fooling people was too slow, so he did it back and forth. Several copies of the same book came out, and a matching dragon sword was also included as a gift.

This cool-looking great sword, like the book, is designed to deceive people.There are a lot of blessing magic attached to the sword, which makes this big sword look more like a magical weapon, but there is a "dark thunder" hidden among the many magics, which will make the sword emit a giant magic weapon after it is unsheathed. The sound that can only be heard by dragons has the same effect as a siren.

No matter what the state of the giant dragon targeted by the dragon slayer is, even if it sleeps like a dead pig, it will be awakened instantly by the harsh noise made by this sword, and then it will wake up with the unique super strong aura of dragons. There is not even a scum left after killing the intruders.

So with the intention of giving it a try, Lu De pulled out the sword a little bit, but within three seconds, he saw Kang Na flying out from the back room with her fangs and claws, and using her pink and tender meat ball Little Claw, aimed at the big sword with a vicious "young dragon combo", and it didn't stop until Lude retracted the sword.

The little guy glared at Lu De very angrily because of this, it felt as if he was complaining that Lu De had no sense of public morality, that he didn't sleep well at night, and even played vibrato at the highest volume!

For this reason, Lu De had to hug the little guy to comfort him for a long time, and finally fed several balls of divine power before he was able to coax him well, feeling secretly in his heart.

"This dragon named Sanders is really wicked!"

End of this chapter

After flipping through this cheating book roughly, Lude asked Hume to return the things intact, and at the same time repeatedly told her to restrain her "nature" and not to take advantage of it.

These young adventurers were sleeping soundly at this moment, not knowing that they had just been stolen by a god!

After Hume left with his things, Lude thought about countermeasures while comfortably stroking the soft and furry young dragon in his arms.

Out of goodwill, Lu De didn't want these young people to lose their lives in vain because of a wicked dragon's prank, but told them the truth directly, saying that the "Complete Book of Dragon Slaying" and the great sword were fake, It is estimated that they will not believe it, but think that Lu De is a liar.

Lude was thinking about something, when Aina came out from the back room in her pajamas, rubbing her eyes and calling Kanna's name.

"Master, have you seen Kang Na?"

"Well, here it is."

Seeing Connor being held in Lude's arms, Aina walked over sleepily and hugged the baby dragon into her arms.The little guy lay on Aina's plump chest, and his expression looked more comfortable than before when he was in Lude's arms.

I don't know if it's because of their similar age. The two little guys have the best relationship on weekdays and sleep together every night. So after running out for a while, Kang Na found that the "hand warmer" in her arms was missing. Aina followed suit and found it.

"Master, it's so late, why don't you go to bed?"

"I have to deal with some things, you go on to sleep."

"Oh."

Holding the baby dragon, Aina took out a small cloth bag the size of a palm from the pocket of her pajamas, and then covered the light circle above Kang Na's head under Lude's embarrassing gaze.

Seeing this, Lu De thought that this stupid girl really has a way. The strange halo above the young dragon's head is shining 24 hours a day. Kang Na has no ability to adjust the brightness, so in order not to affect her sleep, Aina Made a blackout bag by myself.

The next morning, Lu De got up and opened the window, only to find that it was raining heavily outside.For the villagers who had just finished spring plowing and planting, the heavy rain came in a timely manner, which seemed to indicate that there would definitely be a good harvest this year. No small negative impact.

Denzel and his companions are all new adventurers who completed their registration last summer. Because they have "Dragon Slaying Encyclopedia" and "Dragon Sword", these young people are eager to become famous with full confidence Li Wan.

All the members of their five-person team are descendants of nobles, but none of them are the eldest sons of the direct line.Denzel's father was a viscount, married one wife and five concubines, and gave birth to a large family of children. Denzel was the youngest in the family, and his mother was still a concubine.

Therefore, after his father passed away the winter before last, the atmosphere in the family obviously changed. The eldest brother born to his wife inherited the title. Although he didn't explicitly drive the other half-brothers out, he didn't give him any good looks.

Denzel had known for a long time that this day would definitely come, so he took the initiative to express his opinion to his elder brother, saying that he wanted to be an adventurer and go to the vast world outside to have a good time.The other party naturally gave him support, and pretended to be generous and gave him a good set of equipment and two family secret treasures, that is, the "Dragon Slaying Package" that looked very bluffing.

The situation of the other members of the team is similar, because they are not qualified to inherit the family property, they are not qualified to be knights, and they don't like to be controlled by soldiers, so they choose to be a free and unrestrained adventurer, dreaming that they can rely on slaughter Dragon comes out on top!

Looking at the heavy rain outside the window, Denzel and his companions were all sighing. Even rookies like them knew that it would take a great risk to forcibly enter the forest in such a ghostly weather.

At this time, the magician in the team suddenly pointed to the temple not far away in the center of the village, and said to his companions.

"I said, just in case, should we go to the temple to buy some holy water for exorcism?"

"Hanett, we're going to slay dragons, not exorcise ghosts. What's the use of buying holy water? Besides, we don't have much money left now."

"You can't say that, you don't need holy water to slay a dragon, but what about before encountering a giant dragon? I read some historical materials from my instructor. The Void Forest was an ancient battlefield hundreds of years ago. No one knew about the great battle that year. How many people died in the end, there will definitely be a lot of undead!"

"You're right, but...the holy water is not cheap!"

"Then leave the work of bargaining to me! Don't forget, I am the daughter of a merchant, and I am also the flower of the chamber of commerce!"

The female assassin in the team flicked her bangs quite confidently. The girl considered herself to be the "face value" in the team, and her reason for being an adventurer was different from that of the other four companions in the team. It was because she escaped marriage. The one who ran away from home is actively chasing the tall and handsome Denzel.

So everyone adopted the suggestion of the magician brother, Denzel took the magician and the female thief who was in charge of bargaining, and went out to the temple to buy holy water for dealing with the undead.From where they live to the temple, the straight-line distance is less than 200 meters, and it takes less than 3 minutes to walk there.

The three of them went out and walked quickly towards the temple. As they walked, the magician brother first discovered something that surprised him, that is, the roads in this village were well repaired, It is very flat, and there are gutters on both sides.

If the same rain was in other villages, or even quite a few towns, the road would have become as muddy as a swamp, and if you walked on it carelessly, you would leave your boots behind.

In addition, there are public trash cans in this village, and street signs can be seen at every intersection with the name of the street marked on it.They didn't pay attention to these subtleties when they first came here yesterday afternoon, but they discovered the difference today.

"It's obviously a border village, so it looks pretty decent!"

"The village head here must be a capable person!"