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Xiaobai: "How come you have everything?"
"Of course, I'm traveling, so I have to prepare more. But it's limited to what I can find in the Mage Tower."
Xiaobai: "Then do you have anything to eat?"
Wang Mo Mo took out a bean and said, "Yes. This is something my junior uncle brought back from a trip to a certain dimension. If you eat one, you won't be hungry for a day."
Xiaobai: "Can I have a taste?"
The wizard nodded.
Xiaobai grabbed it and swallowed it in one gulp. Then she immediately looked distressed: "This is not sweet! And it tastes like rice."
Wang: "Yes, my junior uncle has studied it. This is the starch with super high energy density. Ever since he introduced this thing into the Mage Tower, all the teachers in the tower who were obsessed with research have gone crazy. They don't eat at all. If they are hungry, they just throw a pill of this and it's solved.
“Later they discovered that if people didn’t eat, their stomachs and intestines would shrink and they would get sick.
"This disease may not be cured by using the Remove Disease Scroll. The spare scrolls in the tower have all been used up. There are no priests and no one can cast the Remove Disease spell. We have no choice but to urgently purchase a large number of Remove Disease Scrolls from other planes."
Xiaobai: "I suddenly think being a mage is quite interesting. When I just came out of the tribe, I wanted to see what a mage was like, so I turned into a bird and watched outside the window of a female mage apprentice for a whole day. I found that she was just reading books, reading books, and reading books all the time."
Wang picked up the telescope and looked into the distance while responding, "It's mainly because our Mage Tower is different. Our teaching principles...are more focused on practice. After all, the founder has that kind of personality."
Xiao Bai looked at Wang suspiciously: "And then he taught a nerd?"
Wang: "My scores in experiments are very high! Whether it's magic experiments or science experiments, they are all very high!"
Xiaobai: "What is an experiment?"
"that is……"
"Ah, I don't want to listen! I don't want to listen! It must be another difficult sentence to understand!"
**
Elizabeth was circling under the mast at this time, and every few steps she looked up at the two people on the top.
The dwarf was smoking nearby, and seeing her like this he asked, "How about you also let the druid turn into a bird and pull you up? Why didn't the wizard think of this just now, and insisted on riding a leopard up there?"
Elizabeth was shocked: "If I go up... there won't be enough space, right?"
Marika: "Just take off your bustle."
"How many times have I told you to stop using honorifics from now on?"
"That won't work. You are an official envoy visiting Monrovia. I am your servant and bodyguard. I must use honorifics." Marika said seriously, "Back to what happened just now. I will help you remove the crinoline, or just change into a riding skirt, and then you can go up."
"But... this makes it seem like we're competing for favor! The most important thing is that Xiaobai doesn't have that idea at all, and neither does the king..."
As he was speaking, a bird fell from the top and suddenly turned back into Xiaobai.
Elizabeth was shocked: "What will happen to the king if you come down? If he slips, no one can save him! We don't have a resurrection scroll now! If he dies, an angry wizard will come with an army of demons to kill him."
Xiaobai: "He has prepared the Feather Fall Technique, don't worry."
Elizabeth: “Huh?”
Xiaobai: "It's the Feather Fall Technique! Where's my meat?"
Flint pointed to the ham on the wooden box next to him.
Xiaobai went over and picked up the ham. Just as he was about to eat it, he suddenly frowned and stopped.
Flint: "What's wrong? Too salty, isn't it? Here's some water."
Xiaobai: "No. I'm suddenly not hungry and don't want to eat at all."
Everyone looked at her.
Elizabeth: "You kept talking yesterday."
Marika corrected her, "She has been talking all the time except when she is sleeping. Whenever I see her, she is always chewing something. I suspect this is a druid's trait, which gives them the stomach of a bear and the rumination habits of a cow."
Xiao Bai yelled, "It's that bean! This guy gave me a bean to eat, saying that I wouldn't be hungry for the whole day after eating it, and that eating this thing would cause my stomach and intestines to shrink! He made me sick!"
Flint laughed. "What a coincidence! He also made Elizabeth sick! Heart disease! Wait, this is supposed to be a joke, right?"
Xiaobai threw down the ham, shouted "I'm going to find him", turned into a bird and flew into the sky.
**
Five minutes later, in the cabin of the Star Chaser, Wang looked at Xiaobai rolling on the bed and gently touched his forehead: "I didn't expect that the first trouble we had after starting the journey would be to solve the problem of Xiaobai not wanting to eat meat."
Elizabeth: "She just said that eating that would make you sick..."
"Yes, if you don't eat for ten years, you will get sick." Wang replied, "In her case, she will be able to eat meat normally tomorrow."
Xiaobai: "I can't eat meat for a day? Ugh, kill me!"
Wang: "Actually, you just feel itchy and want to eat meat, but you are not hungry, so your body resists eating."
Xiaobai replied pitifully: "Yes."
Wang: "The solution is very simple, Gao Trick, just knock her out and let her sleep through the day!"
Gotrek began to crack his fingers.
Xiaobai: "I don't want it!"
The dwarf stopped the barbarian who was about to attack: "Don't, what if you beat her to death? I don't remember how long ago, the wizard of the team I was in was afraid of water. In order to let him cross the river with us instead of casting spells to blow us to death, the people in the team decided to knock him out.
"Finally, the barbarian beat him to death with one punch."
Everyone envied the silence.
Even Xiaobai stopped yelling.
Wang spoke for everyone: "You are a pastor."
Facing everyone's gaze, the dwarf held out his hand and said, "Why are you looking at me? At that time, I had just left my hometown and could only cast first-level magic. What could I do? By the way, I can't do anything now either. I mean I can kill him with one punch. You have to ask the future me who is favored by Kailin and has obtained high-level magic to come back."
Wang was shocked: "Okay, I get it. We need an alternative plan. Let her hold the whole piece of meat in her mouth. She doesn't want to swallow the meat now anyway. This way, at least she can taste the meat."
Elizabeth exclaimed, "No! I don't agree!"
Wang looked at her in astonishment: "What are you shouting about? What does this have to do with you?"
"Eh? I thought..."
Marika: “I think he meant regular meat.”
Wang: "Of course it's ordinary meat, what else?"
Elizabeth: "Then I'll ask the crew to prepare the meat."
She turned around quickly and walked out of the cabin with her hands and feet together.
Wang asked everyone in bewilderment, "What happened to her?"
The dwarves, drow, and werewolves all laughed.
The wizard scratched his head in confusion.
At this time there was a knock on the door.
Wang: “Come in!”
The captain of the Star Chaser opened the door and came in: "I just saw Miss Langdon go out with a red face. What happened?"
"No." Marika answered on behalf of the king, "Just report your story."
The captain nodded. "I'm here to report our progress. According to our current speed, we will cross the boundary between Landon Territory and River Valley Territory at noon tomorrow. River Valley Territory built a sluice gate on the river to collect taxes."
Wang: "Watergate?"
"Yes, because the Valley Territory doesn't have any special products, many merchant ships departing from the Landon Territory don't stop there.
"The cargo ships here in Langdon's territory are loaded with products from the other side of the World Mountains that come from Shield Road. The profits are very high. If they are shipped to Monrovia, they can make a lot of money. Every inch of space in the warehouse is worth a lot of money.
"No merchant ship would carry the short-distance goods from Langdon Territory to River Valley Territory because the profit is too low. These goods can only be transported by merchants using horse-drawn carriages, which takes several days.
"The river valley leaders watched as a large number of merchant ships continued to pass by them, but they did not stop or pay taxes. Finally, they built a water gate at the narrowest part of the river valley to collect taxes."
The king stroked his chin and murmured, "That's why Bruce wants to marry the Duchess of Riverdale. After these two duchies are controlled by the same family, no one will collect taxes from them. The trade route will probably be twice as prosperous."
"More than that," the captain said. "Paying taxes at customs is one thing, but waiting in line is another. The administrative efficiency of the Valley Territory... well, it's far worse than Langdon's. A town has been developed near the water gate to provide entertainment for sailors waiting to pass customs."
Wang: "Right now, the River Valley Territory should be managed by the people sent by Bruce, right? The Duchess is still trying to have a baby in Langdon City."
The captain frowned: "You don't know?"
Wang: “Know what?”
The captain handed over a letter. "This is the letter that Duke Langdon ordered me to pass on. I thought you must have known about it in advance. There are rumors that the people sent by the Duke to the Valley Territory were placed under house arrest. I guess this letter should contain the official document entrusting you to handle this matter."
The king was shocked when he saw the wax seal on the envelope with the Langdon family crest printed on it.
The dwarf slapped his thigh and said, "This cunning guy is using us to death!"
Chapter 74: First Arrival at the Valley
The next morning, as soon as Wang entered the ladies' room, he saw a water stain on Xiaobai's bed.
Wang: "Do you still wet the bed?"
The hair on Xiao Bai's head stood up, and he roared, "It's saliva!"
Elizabeth yawned and said, "She was drooling all the time yesterday and had to drink water to replenish her water. I dreamed of being a monk practicing by a waterfall at night."
Wang: "No, no, monks can't just practice next to a waterfall. They have to sit inside the waterfall to train their mind and expand their sea of energy."
As he said this, the king's eyes naturally shifted to Elizabeth, and then he was stunned.
Elizabeth just remembered that she was wearing a nightgown. She screamed and tried to use something to block it, but decided not to do so halfway.
Xiaobai looked at the mage, then at the warlock, changed the direction of the meat in his mouth, and drooled even more vigorously.
Wang looked like he understood something and spread his hands. "I don't mind. It can't develop into a relationship anyway. As long as we take precautions, this is also a new experience. It's a good opportunity to accumulate experience."
Elizabeth: "I mind! I don't want to fuck you at all!"
Wang: "But based on my observations and the knowledge I have, you are obviously..."
Marika dragged the wizard who was about to continue talking and threw him out the door: "Next time I will set a trap at the door. If you don't knock and come in, go to the dwarf and ask him to use the restoration spell. Oh no, our priest can only use inferior restoration now, which probably can't repair such a serious injury."
After saying that, Marika slammed the door and came over to hug Elizabeth, who was about to cry but had no tears.