I really only stop

"...Forget it, it doesn't matter now."

This guy has changed a lot.

Looking at the desolate figure in front of him, Lu Xi couldn't help but feel such emotion in his heart.

Different from the gorgeous aristocrat who was so proud and rich in equipment that could support an equipment store when I first met him, Lei Ze now has a haggard face and gloomy eyes.

Not to mention the expensive equipment, even the golden silk magician's robe that he was wearing was gone.

The current Lei Ze looks like a down-and-out uncle who has been laid off by himself in middle age and sits on the curb blowing cold wind and thinking about life.

Still, the shift isn't without its benefits.If this world is a novel that pretends to be face-to-face, the previous Lei Ze belonged to the kind of miscellaneous fish noble villain who simply jumped out to give the protagonist a refreshment, but now he has transformed into "there may be hidden behind the scenes". What a poignant tale of event openers'.

Since I accidentally struck up a conversation just now, let's continue the conversation along the lines of curiosity.

Really curious about what happened to Lei Ze, Lu Xi tentatively asked:

"...After the last duel, are you bankrupt?"

"You still have the face to say!"

Like an enraged lion, Lei Ze's eyes seemed to be burning with angry flames, even though there was some dust on his face from nowhere:

"How can there be such a duel! After I woke up from the Holy See, the scrolls, equipment, props and wallets were all gone. If I didn't call someone to send money urgently, I wouldn't even be able to pay for the medical expenses! That's what you said." Can you bring everyone a happy duel'?! Bah!"

In many cases, the Holy See only charged a very low labor fee symbolically for the use of holy arts. If they couldn't even afford this amount, the financial situation of the patients would be very worrying.

Facing Lei Ze's angry questioning, Lu Xi just spread his hands with a smile:

"Don't slander the good guys, we made it clear before the duel, 【Any losses incurred in this battle shall be borne by both sides of the battle】——who told you to only pay attention to the restrictions on me, and put the other Wai' such an important second half of the sentence has been missed."

"you--"

Lei Ze was speechless for a moment.

Although he neglected the study of magic due to mundane matters, Lei Ze, as a nobleman, was extremely sensitive to money issues.

After the Holy See woke up and saw himself in a more miserable situation than being robbed, Lei Ze immediately thought of reporting the robbery to the Cavaliers—unfortunately, his brain automatically called out Lu Xi at the beginning of the duel. proposed conditions.

It wasn't until then that Lei Ze realized that all the opponent's actions were premeditated, and this was an actual robbery called a duel!

After thinking about it, this matter has developed to the point where I can't blame others at all, and everything is ruined by one word-【greedy】.

How did my brain go to the point where I chose to have a 'happy duel' with this kid!

"—Damn it! If it wasn't for that guy, if it wasn't for being scammed out of money twice by that guy, how could I, the majestic Razer Quinn, have fallen to where I am today!"

Thinking of this, Lei Ze slammed the bench hard, his voice filled with blood and tears:

"I can't even find a small copper coin all over my body. I can't go home! Let alone maids, even if my dog ​​sees me, I want to bite!"

"twice?"

At first, following the inertia, I thought that the "liar" mentioned by Lei Ze was referring to himself. After hearing the number of times, Lu Xi reacted belatedly:

"Are you sitting here because you were cheated? And you were cheated twice in a row? Who has such a great ability?"

"Who else could it be!"

Lei Ze gritted his teeth hard, and squeezed out the remaining words from his throat:

"It's that... the pirate dealer who sold me fake scrolls!"

Chapter 280 The first fake

When first seeing Lei Ze, Lu Xi felt very strange.

Although he almost emptied the collection of props on the wild noble in that duel, and then scrapped all the precious defensive equipment on Lei Ze with his own blow, but only to this extent, it is very It's hard for Lei Ze to be downcast to the decadent look of sitting on the curb in front of him.

"Could it be that the second time you were deceived was after the duel?"

Clearly thinking of something, Lu Xi's eyes became weird:

"I thought I could make up for the beatings from society through a duel, but I didn't expect you to be so naive."

"Who told you to beat me in such a way to make people angry?! As a nobleman, it is the sacred mission bestowed on us by God to recover after losing face!"

Recalling his angry self at that time, Lei Ze covered his face in pain:

"...But, all the scrolls and props on my body have been taken away by you kid. It will take at least a year to get up to the previous level-but, I am not reconciled! If there is hatred If I repay it, this unwillingness will turn into a poisonous thorn in my heart, and I can't bear that kind of pain!"

"At this moment, the pirate dealer who once sold me the scroll of the forbidden technique of mimicry appeared in front of me again—"

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"—Yo, Boss, do you want some goods?"

"..."

Staring silently for a few seconds at the strange cloaked man who suddenly appeared beside his hospital bed, with the upper half of his face covered by a mask and only showing an infuriating smile, Lei Ze suddenly raised his hand angrily, but was caught by the latter Dodge with a hippie smile:

"You still have the face to appear in front of me! It was promised that you can get the forbidden scroll cheaply, but what did you sell me in the end? It was because of your fake that I was killed by that treacherous adventurer." It's so miserable!"

"Oh, oh, you can't say that."

Even in the face of Lei Ze's fierce accusations, the cloaked man still maintained a standard and even a bright smile:

"As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Compared with other unscrupulous merchants, the products you buy from me may be different from the original products, but at least they will not be useless waste. A piece of paper~"

"This!"

Lei Ze's accusation was held back.

As the cloaked man said, although the scrolls I bought from him took a long time to charge, the power that erupted in the end was almost the same as the genuine ones.Considering the price factor, buying the scroll of the cloak seems to be more cost-effective.

"...Tsk, forget it."

Feeling that he couldn't find any arguments against the cloaked man, Lei Ze snorted coldly and looked away from him:

"Then what do you want to do today? Make it clear in advance, don't try to sell me that scroll again, the effect is only said, and there is that side effect, it can't be used in actual combat at all!"

"Boss, I have also heard about the fact that you lost at the hands of adventurers."

Instead of answering Lei Ze's question directly, the man in black heaved a long sigh:

"It's really a pity. Boss, you are so powerful. If you add a little bit of props to assist you, you can definitely defeat that adventurer with ease."

"Humph! That's natural!"

The inherent arrogance of being a noble has long made Lei Ze selectively forget how beneficial the conditions of the duel are to himself. The long-term thinking of money first has made him mistakenly believe that any problem can be solved with money.

After pondering for a while, he looked sideways at the man in black in front of him:

"Don't go around the bush, listen to what you mean, is it possible that you still have powerful props in your hand?"

"The boss is smart!"

The man in black gave a big thumbs up, and threw all kinds of compliments at Lei Ze as if he didn't want money:

"You said it was a coincidence. I happened to have a batch of props and equipment with many effects and powerful abilities in my hand. I have [-]% confidence that if I get so many props, I don't even bother you to do it yourself. That adventurer will Being beaten by props can't find the north! Money offensive, props crushing - this is the fighting method that can best highlight the gap between you and that ordinary adventurer!"

"Well."

Hearing these words, Lei Ze's face was obviously shaken to the extreme.

He was just about to get back to Lu Xi, and when he was worried that he didn't have any props and equipment, the guy in front of him who came to his door completely solved his urgent need - what's more, the reason why he desperately needed these props was not just for revenge.

Yes, even now, Lei Ze still has not given up his delusion about Sky City Osiris.

Although his knowledge of magic is far inferior to that of commoner mages who study hard, but as a nobleman, Lei Ze has one thing that the latter can't catch up with no matter what-that is the profound foundation.

Relying on the experience and heritage accumulated by his ancestors in his family, Lei Ze keenly realized the huge value behind Sky City.If this is not enough to make him try his best, the following discovery is enough to make him crazy——

He found related items from the mysterious sky city from the family's treasury.

Without thinking about other possibilities at all, the ecstatic Lei Ze directly took that seemingly uneasy small cylinder as the key to controlling Sky City.

The moment he discovered the small cylinder, he felt that he had touched the door to ancient power and wealth, and he was the destined child.

It is precisely because of this that he submitted an application for support to the already loosely managed Magician's Guild.Knowing that his own strength was not worth mentioning, he deliberately waited for the adventurers who were looking for Sky City to come out safely before showing up—who knew that he hit a big snag later.

I thought that hope would be cut off, but today, the sky is bright, and the sky city is destined to belong to me, Lei Ze!

Despite the ecstasy in his heart, Lei Ze showed a hesitant look on his face:

"...It doesn't matter if I buy them all, but this time, there won't be any problems like the scrolls last time, right?"

"No way."

Hearing these apparently 'agree' words, the smile on the corner of the cloaked man's mouth became even brighter.After a while, he lowered his voice again:

"However, I want to tell you in advance that these goods are privately produced by the foundry and have not paid taxes to the empire [black goods]. If you buy them, they may not be protected by the laws of the empire—of course, the price will be cheaper A lot, this is also my consistent trading style~”

If the man in the cloak didn't take the initiative to mention this point, Lei Ze might still feel a little suspicious, but the other party's candid attitude at this time made him completely at ease.

So what if you spend more money!As long as everyone obtains the sky city before everyone realizes its value, Lei Ze's name will surely resound throughout the entire continent!

"Okay, how many are there, I bought them all!"

"Boss is big~"

The cloaked man immediately bowed humbly, with a light tone in his tone:

"Then, the transaction is established."

PS: [Counterfeit]: The boss is generous, give me some (→)

Chapter 281

"...So, you were cheated twice by the same person, and you paid IQ tax on all your money except real estate the second time?"

Looking in shock at Lei Ze who was crying bitterly in front of him, Lu Xi first strongly expressed his contempt for the act of fraud itself and his humanitarian sympathy for Lei Ze, but then changed the subject and euphemistically expressed "Next time No matter how much money you can come to me, I also want to kill a fat sheep” and successfully made the latter run away crying, shouting ‘I don’t want to see you again! '

All I can say is that life is amazing.

Looking at Lei Ze's fleeing back, Lu Xi slightly shook his head.

However, the man in black robe he just mentioned is quite interesting.

Among other things, let's take the scroll of the forbidden technique of mimicry that I seized as an example. With the addition of the time-stop ability, compared with the original product, the defective parts are almost negligible.

If Lu Xi finds this so-called 'liar', he can buy a large number of scrolls of the forbidden technique of mimicry that can most obviously improve his own strength at a cheap price-although there is a wealthy woman designated by the empire at home, it can save a little money Why not do it?

——It's useless to think so much. Looking at the skillful appearance of the 'liar', the other party is obviously a professional 'sheep slaughterer' who specializes in targeting wealthy nobles. It is probably difficult to see a person like myself who never reveals his wealth. Come to him.

Encountering Lei Ze on the way was just a small episode of today, after slightly shaking his head, Lu Xi continued walking towards home.

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"Huh? What kind of nerve is wrong with Weiweixi?"

Zelika, who got up long after the sun had risen high, first called out to Lu Xi in a daze, and only after realizing that the latter did not respond to her as usual, did she realize that he was staying on the table note:

[I'm going to find Uncle Faron to raise the adventurer level, don't read it—PS to Celica: You lazy Lika who is reading this note, the so-called successful person is to use someone's sleep time to improve his strength man of.If you are a mere E-level, just watch it honestly with your fingers in your mouth. When you wake up, I will already be a senior adventurer whose level is much higher than yours!Huh ha ha ha ha! 】

"boom."

Silently burned this provocative note into slag with a black flame, and the next moment, Selika's rants like a machine gun resounded throughout the room:

"Huh?! Is that guy an immature kid who would show off to others the rare card given by drinking a drink?! Why did you leave such an obviously provocative message just for me? The last note is 'huhahahaha 'What's going on again? Face-jumping? Ridiculous? No! This is the biggest [declaration of war] against me!!"

"Ah, Celica finally woke up."

Attracted by Zelika's exasperated voice, Nana just shook her head, turned around and walked towards the kitchen:

"Wait a minute, I'm going to ask Cook to help you heat up the meal. Before Lu Xi left, he specially ordered that he should make a pity for the height... um, cook one more for the lovely Celica. Boiled eggs - yay!"

"What, what?! Just now, Nana wanted to say subconsciously, what exactly did she change her words with a comforting smile after realizing something?!"

Without missing the fleeting slip of the tongue of the soft girl, Celica's innate intuition, which Lu Xi dubbed "the beast's intuition", came into play again.Without a trace of hesitation, Celica grabbed the corner of Nana's clothes:

"I just said something is wrong! That weak and weak Xi has been provoking me from the note to the message today! What did he do?"

"...Well, in fact, he is really just going to raise the adventurer level."

Apparently, she also saw the contents of the note that Lu Xi left on the dining table, and Nana thought about it seriously:

"Besides, what this note says is correct. If Lu Xi is really promoted, even if he is only promoted from [E-rank] to [D-rank], from the level of adventurers, he is also our senior."

"—No way! The senior in this family is obviously me!"