Chapter 182
"I'm back."
With a gentle breeze, the delicate girl opened the door and closed the door again after entering the room. There was no light. The room fell into darkness again.
Walking in the darkness, Ariel Corona did not hesitate to step forward, bare feet collided on the cold floor, and the crisp sound stopped at a huge Front of the back chair.
"Sit down. You don’t have to be so restrained when you get home. Don’t treat yourself as a guest."
A gentle voice came from the opposite side, although it was a bit older. He’s voice, but I can’t tell whether it’s a male or a female. Ariel, with her head lowered and her eyes vacant, climbed up to the chair familiarly and sat in the middle of the chair with her legs hugging her legs like a well-behaved cat, with ash-gray hair draped behind her.
"I heard that you met a very interesting young wizard from Lothar Duchy when you came." The voice of the girl directly across from the girl asked: "Can you tell me this Loren ·Your Excellency Torino, where did you attract you?"
"He is not just a wizard." The girl shook her head, her godless eyes showed a little bit of color for the first time: "He still has something on him. Something special."
"Special...thing?" The original gentle voice suddenly became a little nervous: "Are you sure?"
"He hides It's very good, but Ariel can still feel it." The girl's voice was very convinced, and the gray eyes were extremely determined: "But he was very cautious. He never showed any weak spot, it is difficult to be spotted."
"Of course." The voice is very understandable: "If he is discovered, even if he is impossible in Eboden, he can be protected. The only end is to be sent to the stake by Holy Cross Church!"
"Ariel has invited him as a guest, what should I do next?" The girl stared at the voice in the darkness: "Is it necessary to silence or imprison him?"
"No, if it is true as you said, it must be very difficult to catch him. Even if it succeeds, it is difficult to hide this matter." The opposite "person" rejected the proposal: "even more how, we don’t have to be an enemy of him, do we?"
"But he is a threat to Ariel. He has already noticed it a little. It’s only a matter of time before we start." The girl suddenly showed a look of fear.
"In that case, let him become our friend-since there is no need to do it, but it can pose enough threats to you, such people should not become our enemies, at least they should not Be hostile."
Ariel nodded, who heard this proposal: "Yes, Loren Torino once said that he came to Eboden in hopes of finding a friend.
But his purpose should be more than these. He didn't tell the truth completely. He definitely has other purposes."
"Any cunning wizard will not tell the truth to others, even more how this one Your Excellency is more than just a wizard." The gentle voice opened the mouth and said unsurprisingly: "No matter what he wants to do, we may as well help him. First try to make him owe us some favor, and then Further contact.
And...I have a hunch that what he wants to do may help us."
………………Night falls, the hotel There were only a few drunkards still lying at the dining table in the hall, and the inn guys who were tidying up. Pedestrians are no longer visible on the street outside the gate, only the sea breeze blowing in the distance and the stars under the night.
On the messy table, the hotel Boss, who had been drunk long ago, snorted in the soup bowl, still clutching leftover bones, piled with large and small ones on the side. Wine bottle.
The black hair wizard sitting on the opposite side was very comfortable sipping ale — although the taste was a bit bitter, the cool mellowness was genuine. Cheap and affordable, making this drink a must-have for every hotel and tavern.
And the information from the hotel boss who is a bit greedy for money has already covered the cost of Loren. After all, the guy who runs the hotel, the most indispensable thing in his ears is all kinds of gossip. There are also various kinds of information.
First of all, it’s about the famous Bellini family-Loren had already known a little bit before coming, but he only knew that Eboden was different from the rest of the empire. It was caused by those in the city. Controlled by a "free parliament" composed of powerful nobles.
Eboden’s nobles are also different from other regions. They are not measured by the size of their territory, but by their wealth and control. Of course, there is essentially no difference between the two.
The Bellini family is one of the most powerful Great Family, because they have controlled nearly half of Eboden’s seaport and ocean trade, and they have a say in Eboden’s fleet. .
At the same time, because of the formula of the genius alchemist Alto Bellini, the alchemy potion that can cure all diseases, the Bellini family who has nothing to come up with in the past has been invented. Suddenly all the wizards had to bow their heads to this family full of copper smell.
And the Corona family, they are also one of the important forces of Eboden, but they are much lower-key than the Bellini family. They also deal in trade, but their power is concentrated in the wizards. They have the largest alchemy workshop in Eboden under their name, and the number of wizards they fund is also the largest of all Great Family.
At the same time, this family is also the top of the nine-pointed star wizard tower. It has frequent contacts with many famous wizards and has a very strong influence.
In short, if the Bellini family is considered to be the leader of the Eboden merchant class, then the Corona family are the things of the wizards.
This analogy is not appropriate, because in Eboden, it is normal and custom for nobles to become wizards, and most of them have their own workshops and caravans-but at least in the eyes of many civilians, two This is how the family exists.
Because of Alto Bellini's alchemy potions, all kinds of strange rumors are circulating throughout Eboden. Drinking dizzy hotel boss solemnly vowed told Loren that the Bellini family intends to take this opportunity to defeat the Corona family and become the ruler of Eboden's stand by one's word.
This is what Loren can imagine-with potions that can cure any disease, the Bellini family will gain unprecedented prestige, and will even surpass Holy Cross Church, although the church’s influence in this city was originally It's very small...
Wait, it seems something is not right, Loren holding the wine glass suddenly fell into a state of contemplation.
If I got this medicine formula that can cure all diseases, what would I do?
There are only two conventional ways of speaking generally-either hide it and treat it as a trump card baby, only for yourself and those who can absolutely trust it, and you can only consider whether to use it at the last minute. .
The other is to promote it as much as possible, and it is best to be well known. Use this medicine to earn huge prestige and wealth for yourself, and at the same time, it can be far better than yourself. More powerful people build a network of relationships.
The advantage of the former is that it is safe, but unless it is really an emergency, it has no effect most of the time; the latter can give full play to its value as much as possible, but it will certainly attract prying eyes. His eyes, and offended more people when drawing some allies.
At least Holy Cross Church would definitely not want to see the existence of this medicine, because it is almost the same as denying that the "miracle" of the Holy Cross is unique and unmatched; at the same time, all Potion Masters will hate it. If they die, if they have a medicine that can cure all diseases, they will be unemployed.
And now the Bellini family’s approach looks like second, but it’s actually closer to first-yes, they do know this thing to everyone, so much so that the night watchman can bear it I can't help but want to take it away; in fact, few people have actually seen it, besides rumors, it has caused too many influences.
What caused this result? Loren had seen this kind of formidable power with his own eyes, even if it only allowed the broken finger to grow back, it was enough to shock the world.
Is it because of the prying eyes, or is it...this potion is not as perfect as the rumored one?
"It seems that we have to visit the famous nine-pointed star wizard tower."