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Wang: "No, I'm a mage, the normal kind."
When he said he was normal, his teammates except Elizabeth exchanged glances.
Elizabeth: "He always casts spells with great precision, unlike a wild mage who would lose control."
The dwarf raised an eyebrow. "Oh, is that so... Anyway, now you believe that I am Cailin's priest?"
"You obviously are," Wang exclaimed. "That dance step is indeed tap dancing."
The dwarf asked again: "Then, as Cailin's priest, it is normal for me to give up a little stubbornness for the right price, right? Give me the adamantine warhammer, and I will join you!"
Everyone looked at each other, and Elizabeth, as the "investor", nodded: "Yes, of course."
Wang: "Actually, I just wanted to prove that you are Pastor Kailin. You can show us your holy emblem. A pastor's holy emblem cannot be fake. If you really can't do it, you can channel positive energy once. At that time, your holy emblem will glow, and that light will be genuine."
The dwarf was stunned, then began to blow his beard: "Kaelin's belly button! You bastard must have done it on purpose!"
Carlis Newman is the patron saint of dwarves and goblins. Dwarves do not hate dwarves, but they hate goblins, so they use Carlis Newman's belly button or horns as insults and catchphrases. Now the dwarves are obviously furious and are directly cursing their own god.
But Kailin is a casual god and probably won't care about this.
Wang: "I thought you knew this, you just like dancing."
The dwarf's beard was blown up. "You... forget it. Anyway, as Cailin's priest, I can make appropriate adjustments when the price is right! This is the requirement of my faith! As a dwarf, I am still stubborn."
Elizabeth: "Just to confirm, you are ready to join us, right?"
"Yes, but I need to get the Adamantite Hammer first."
Chapter 13 This is the will of the god of wine
After receiving the dwarf's response, Elizabeth jumped up excitedly.
The king gasped, then said to the princess seriously, "Your Highness, in the future when we fight, you must not jump, because it may distract me and prevent me from casting spells."
Elizabeth looked confused, "Huh? You're distracted too?"
Misha Sara laughed, "He dislikes the noise of your chain mail."
Although the cat-man tried to help the wizard, Elizabeth immediately reacted: "You bastard!"
"This is the decision of my body, and I'm still trying to overcome it. I think once I overcome it, my attainments in enchantment spells will surely make great progress." Wang said seriously, and it seemed that he was really looking forward to his own progress.
Elizabeth said faintly, "I am the consumable material for you to improve your magic, right?"
Wang: "No, you are still the princess of Langdon County?"
Silence fell again.
A few seconds later, the dwarf asked in confusion: "I only knew that fools could be warlocks before, how come now wizards can also be fools?"
Elizabeth: "No, he's not stupid, he's just more... well, focused on what he's interested in."
The cat-man almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and she immediately chimed in: "After all, this is someone who can be our commander."
The dwarf pushed up the helmet that matched his armor so that he could see the wizard's face better. "This coward is the commander of the team? Carlis Newman's horns. I have been in many teams in the past two hundred years, but this is the first time I have been in a team led by a wizard."
Elizabeth: "As the funder of the team, I think we should let smart people think about the team's next move."
Misha Sara: "Her Highness trusts the Master's brain very much... I just don't know when she will start to trust his nz..."
The king suddenly raised his right hand to interrupt the ranger: "Be quiet, someone is eavesdropping on us."
Everyone immediately quieted down and looked around.
The halfling and the big mercenary who were at Rat Father's door just now have returned to the tavern. Apart from Wang and his men, there are no other humanoid creatures in the entire square - the corpse hanging on the gallows obviously cannot be considered a living creature.
Zhuo Er said: "I think we should return to the three wild boars first."
"Three wild boars?" the dwarf exclaimed. "There's only sissy honey beer! No no!"
Elizabeth: "Think of your adamantium hammer."
"Oh!" The dwarf stroked his beard, "Uh, this..."
Wang: "Why don't we let the three wild boars start selling strong liquor from today? Can't the lord's daughter buy strong liquor?"
The drow explained, "Daddy Rat's liquor is produced by the guild's brewery. Bob only has connections with local merchants. If he is asked to buy liquor, he can only buy those high-end liquors that are so expensive that they are shockingly expensive."
Elizabeth: "I can bring some wine from home to... uh, Reverend, what's your name?"
"Flint Steelfurnace, servant of Cailin, follower of wine and adventure." The dwarf introduced himself proudly, waving the spoon in his hand as he spoke.
Elizabeth: "I can get you some good wine from home, Mr. Steelstove."
"Call me Flint. Now that things have come to this, I will reluctantly go to the tavern." The dwarf threw the spoon in his hand and said, "Lead the way."
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As soon as she returned to the three wild boars, the princess immediately opened the wardrobe and crawled through the portal inside.
Flint looked at the rest of the team, "So who is this? The princess's maid?"
Wang: "She is the princess herself."
"Oh! I've long noticed that she has an extraordinary temperament!" said the dwarf confidently.
The king didn't care about the contradictions in the dwarf's words. He said, "For the sake of future cooperation, let's introduce each other. Priest, what is your field? I remember that the fields provided by Kailin include luck and travel..."
"It's luck and travel," the dwarf interrupted the wizard.
Wang: "Then how do you use the warhammer? Think about it carefully. Kailin's image doesn't hold a warhammer, and he doesn't have a war field..."
"Look at this, mage!" The dwarf removed the arm guard on one side of his full body armor, revealing his solid muscles. "To me, a warhammer is just like a mace, both are light weapons."
"That makes sense." Wang gave a thumbs up.
The priest asked back, "What about you, Mage? Tell me about your school and your expertise in magic."
King: "I am a wizard of the School of Divination. I cannot cast the School of Protection, and I am not very good at the School of Enchantment."
The dwarf immediately cursed: "Damn it! Doesn't that mean I have to be responsible for those protective spells? I have to use precious divine spell slots to prepare protective spells!"
Mark: "Actually, our rogues can handle most of the enemies."
The drow folded his arms across his chest and said nothing.
Then everyone introduced themselves in turn, and then the dwarf asked the most important question: "So what are we gathering here for? To kill all the princess' brothers? Or to find an extremely powerful artifact and use the power of the artifact to kill all the princess' brothers?"
Wang: "No, we are heading to the city's sewers..."
Dwarf: "Sewer! Although your underground engineering is crude, it is still much better than these lousy buildings on the ground. Why are we going to the sewer? I guess it's the ancient artifact sealed down there by the Langdon family!"
"No, we're going down there to investigate the goblin tribe we wiped out last week. We suspect they have something to do with the disappearance of stray cats and dogs in the city."
When the king finished speaking, the dwarf's eyes widened. "What the hell? Such a playful task, are you kidding me?"
Wang: "Of course, this mission is just to get the team ready. The ultimate goal is to seize the throne in the future."
"Oh," the dwarf's eyes immediately returned to their original size, "this is normal. I say this is the real conspiracy!"
King: "In fact, we have already met the princess's opponent once today. We fought in the Gallows Square."
"I heard that ten people in the guild died. They were killed by the princess's new wizard using the Phantom Killer... Could that wizard be you?"
Wang nodded: "That's me. But I didn't use the Phantom Killer. I only used an Invisibility, a Grease, and a True Strike."
The dwarf raised his eyebrows and observed the wizard carefully again: "Are you... an experienced veteran? I can't tell the age of humans. To us, most humans look like babies, with smooth skin and no beard. But... I think you are not very old, right?"
Wang: “I’m eighteen.”
"An eighteen-year-old third-ring spellcaster!" the dwarf exclaimed, "and can speak the languages of dwarves and elves! How did you learn so much knowledge?"
Just as he finished speaking, the door of the closet opened, and Elizabeth, who had changed her clothes, came out with a pot of wine in her hand: "I don't know which kind of wine is stronger, so I took the one that smelled the strongest."
"Carlis Newman!" The dwarf called out the patron saint of dwarves and goblins by name this time, without mentioning horns or belly buttons. "That's halfling liquor from the Shire Hills! Bring it here and let me have a taste!"
As he said this, he drank the bee beer in the oak cup in front of him in one gulp and knocked the empty cup hard.
The princess took the wine but did not come over immediately: "As for the warhammer, there is no adamantine warhammer in my family's arsenal. It is said that the last warhammer was also awarded to the knight as a symbolic weapon during the last knighting."
The dwarf frowned, "A duke whose city is at the starting point of the Shield Road, and whose city is next to the prosperous Lahnlan River, and you don't even have a fine gold warhammer in your arsenal.
"Your Highness, this is either because the management is chaotic and it is difficult to prevent thieves, or... or all parties are preparing for war."
The princess sighed, "I think it should be the latter. Big brother is strengthening his own strength. Well, Mr. Pastor, can I owe you the war hammer first? You can use this refined war hammer first, and wait..."
Dwarf: "When you become a duchess? Or when you wear the crown of Kusania?"
Elizabeth pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer the dwarf's question for a moment.
The dwarf stood up and took the wine from the princess. "Forget it, as long as there is good wine to drink, I will join. This is the will of Cailin, the God of Wine. I just received his oracle! So shall we go to the sewer tomorrow?"
Wang: “That’s the plan at the moment.”
Elizabeth's interest was rising. "I'm ready. Tomorrow I will say that Marilyn and I are going for an outing, but I will use the teleportation scroll to meet you. Outsiders will always think I'm in the carriage."
Wang: "In order to... reunite, use a teleportation scroll? That thing costs 4800 gold lira!"
Elizabeth: "Oh, not the expensive ones, but a new scroll that has been circulated recently from Shallow Water City. It can only be given away to one person, and it only costs 1500 gold lira."
The dwarf drank a whole cup of halfling liquor, and then said: "I see, you are playing house with the princess!"
Chapter 14 The Morning of the First Adventure
The next morning.
The tavern established by Bob has accommodation rooms, but due to the special nature of the tavern, these rooms are not open to ordinary guests. Instead, they are used as dormitories for the princess' servants.
The wizard was assigned a north-facing house, and the howling north wind blew into his window all night long.
However, this did not affect the king's sleep.
In the morning, the energetic wizard began to prepare the spells to be used today with great interest.
The first step in preparing spells is to make a list of the spells you intend to cast today.
The main activity today is to enter the sewers to explore. It is predicted that a battle may occur, so Wang increased the proportion of combat spells in the list.
The second step is to open the spell book and review the elements of the spell according to the decided spell list: spells, gestures, casting materials and the underlying operation principle of the spell. Wang always liked to skip this step in the past, and then he was severely scolded by the teacher.
"Don't trust your memory too much!" the teacher said, "Make sure you check the spellbook carefully! Otherwise, one day you will lose your life because you trust your memory too much!"
From then on, Wang would carefully read the spell book every day when preparing spells.