The prison in the city of El is just a wall away from the camp of the Knights of the Guard Battalion, where all kinds of criminals in the city of El are imprisoned, including the murderers among the wanderers, the thieves in the thieves' union, the civilians who have broken the laws of the Empire, and some slaves who have absconded and been recaptured.In this El City prison, for the people of the Grimm Empire, the prisoner who lives in the water prison is equivalent to announcing his death sentence.In this late winter and early spring season, no one is in good health enough to survive a full day in this water prison.There was a thin layer of ice in the water prison, and the temperature in the sewage was freezing, but the barbarians who were waiting to be executed were locked in the water prison, and the shoulders and collarbones of these barbarian slaves were pierced by chains the thickness of the baby's arms, and the chains locked their bodies tightly to the stone pillars in the water prison, and their hands and feet were heavily shackled, and their eyes were squinted and motionless, and if it were not for the nostrils spewing some water vapor from their breath, they would have thought they were dead.I covered my mouth and nose, frowned and endured the fishy smell of the prison, only stood at the iron railing of the water prison for a moment, and asked tentatively to the soldiers guarding the prison: "Since these barbarians are all prepared for the memorial ceremony, can you please help me deal with these ten barbarian captives belonging to me, I only want the left ears of those ten barbarians!"
”The soldier kept shaking his head and complained to me: "The butchers on our side of the prison are not well manned, and they really can't help you, since His Excellency the Grand Knight Arnold has handed over these ten barbarians to you to deal with, I believe you will definitely have a way to deal with them, so please take these ten barbarian prisoners away!"
”"But I think it's safer for these big guys to stay in the water prison!""
You see, the current situation in our prison here, there are not so many people to manage these barbarian prisoners now, I don't want you to raise these barbarians until the day of the memorial ceremony, what is more safe than killing them directly?"
The little boss who was standing on the side and was in charge of the prison guard complained to me with a bitter face.I took a deep breath and asked the little leader, "You mean you want me to kill them directly?"
”His reason, which I had never thought of, said: "Your Excellency, perhaps it is best for you to take them to the orchard outside the city and lynch them in private, as many noble lords who have taken prisoners of war have chosen to do, and their bodies can be buried directly under the fruit trees.Otherwise, such a barbarian corpse weighing hundreds of pounds would be very troublesome to dispose of" I also think of the refugee laborers who are still cleaning the battlefield now, and they seem to have a great time carrying the barbarian corpses.It seems that since it is very troublesome to carry the corpses, many people are more accustomed to disposing of the corpses on the spot after killing.So the irresponsible prison guards, after taking the ten barbarian captives out of the water prison, handed them directly into my hands, and looked at the ten mentally exhausted barbarians with heavy chains on their shoulders, and Ruka and I looked at each other speechlessly.I wish I could be at the gate of the prison right now, stab them in the heart with a long dagger, end their lives, and then cut off the left ear of the ten barbarians who belonged to me, turn around and leave, and let the prison guards dispose of the corpses of these barbarians!
I guess Grand Knight Arnold probably didn't expect ten barbarian captives to cause me such troubles, and if he knew, he would not have been stingy to help me make up for each of these barbarians.While thinking about it, I suddenly thought of a good way to transport the barbarian captives, that is, to borrow the space-time teleportation gate in Xinliu Valley, first send these barbarians into the underground cave of Xinliu Valley, and let those orc warriors help me keep an eye on them, and then I put the portal outside the city There is a horse trading market not far from the street, where there are many independent stables to rent, many horse dealers will bring some horses here, and then temporarily rent some stables, and sell these horses to the knights in El City.Because there are not only horses in this world, but also wolves, dragons, argali, and other animals of all kinds, some stables are relatively very independent.I rented a small stable from one of the owners, and then, Ruka and I drove the ten barbarian captives into this small black room, and before the barbarians could come to their senses, they decisively injected the power of thunder and lightning into the space-time breaker, and countless electric snakes fell from the sky, and they swam nimbly around me, forming a huge ball of electricity in my hands.There was a burnt smell in the air, and an electric arc was constantly flashing on my body.Those sluggish barbarians sat in the corner of the stable wall, watching in horror at the electric snakes dancing in the air, the rich thunder elements gathered together, and kept making crackling sounds, those dazzling electric sparks burst out with a dazzling arc of light, I had already urged the thunder and lightning power of my entire body, all of them were condensed between my hands, and in the crackling sound, the space-time fragmenter smashed the electric ball.A dense cloud of thunder was completely shattered by the space-time fragmenter, and those fragmented arcs were pulled by the space-time fragmenter's war hammer, in the streamer of electric arcs, slowly converging into an oval space-time portal, carrying the space-time fragmenter in my hand, I stepped into the portal, and found that the underground cavern had become a different shape.The walls of the rough rock caves were all invisible, and on both sides of the cave were huge oak barrels neatly arranged, the portal altar and more than 50,000 barrels of golden cider here were sealed in this cave, and there was a stone cave behind it, which was also filled with a large amount of materials picked up from the town of Maas, which had now been stacked by Karantso, and I was shocked for a while to see the orderly appearance of the stone cave.Karantso sent a total of eight orc warriors to guard the place, and she was worried that the greedy and selfish goblins would see that they were hoarding a lot of supplies and looting it, so she built it like a huge warehouse, which not only contained a large amount of golden cider, but also some magical copper ingots, magical herbs, and fine ironwood, which were all best-selling items to be shipped to the horse grocery store.The exit on the other side of the underground cavern has been completely blocked by Karantso with a boulder, leaving only a single exit, and it seems that a small stronghold has been formed here.In order to maximize the defense power here, Karantso also worked hard, she completely moved the simple blacksmith shop in the orc village into the underground cave, just to let the orc blacksmiths in the tribe live here, this is because refining magic red copper, as long as you have a crucible and coke, you can do it anywhere, so Karantso let the orc blacksmith stay in the underground cave, it is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.At the same time, there is also a workshop for the processing of magical herbs in the underground cavern, and the two orcs who were handling the magic herbs in the cave saw me coming down from the altar and hurriedly ran over to salute me, although I repeatedly asked the orcs to call me by my name, but they called me my master like Karantso.Those orc male warriors prefer to call me Lord Lord, and in their eyes, the entire Xinliu Valley belongs to me.Looking at the underground cave that was well managed by Karantso, I suddenly had a new idea, Karantso has been complaining to me that the stalls in the Xinliu Valley are too big, and there are people going to the wild to collect magical herbs, and there are people going to the mountains and forests to cut ironwood, and there are people hunting, and even some orc children in the village have to help the adults share a little, they have to drive a group of yellow sheep to find a place with abundant water and grass every day, so that more than a hundred orcs are obviously a little busy.She's been trying to get me back from the slave market, after rescuing some orc slaves.But the problem is: how many people in the entire Grimm Empire dare to sell orc slaves!
No one can withstand the thousands of miles of pursuit of the werewolf tribe warriors, in the entire northern provinces, the orc slaves are very unmarketable, the main reason is that no one dares to buy, unless those orcs voluntarily become slaves.No matter how those orcs lived, even if they were extremely poor, few people volunteered to become slaves, such as Karantso, there are very few examples, Karantso was actually to raise money for those orcs to return to the Pai Plateau, so he sold himself to the slave market, usually this kind of thing is very rare, plus, since the beginning of winter, the slave market in El City has stopped trading, for a while, I can't find any orc slaves who need to be rescued."
If you can, please help me get Karantso!"
I said gently to the beast girl."
I'm here for you, master!"
The orc replied respectfully.After the two orc warriors escorted the last shackled barbarian into the underground caverns of the Willow Valley, the orc warriors held the barbarian captives in a large iron cage."
Put them in a cage, starve them for a few days, don't worry about what to do if they starve to death, their vitality is far more tenacious than you think!"
I said to one of the orc warriors beside me, touching the large iron cage with my hand."
Yes, my lord!"
The orc warrior said respectfully.Originally, this big iron cage was made to lock up the white-spotted saber-toothed tiger, and for a while, I had the whim to put the white-spotted saber-toothed tiger in Xinliu Valley into a cage, bring it back to El City, and sell it to those rich nobles.Later, I checked the information and found that these white-spotted saber-toothed tigers are very rare, and once they appear in El City, they will inevitably remind many people of Xinliu Valley, so the plan to sell white-spotted saber-toothed tigers has been put on hold, leaving such a large iron cage in this cave.The iron cage is not very high, those barbarians can only bend their knees and squat when they get into the iron cage, very aggrieved, and the depths of their eyes still show a wild and untamable fierce light from time to time.I groaned for a moment, thinking that the shackles on his hands and feet alone were not enough to restrain their movements, and said to the orc warriors, "I don't think these barbarians will know what obedience is, I will go to the magic shop and buy some magic contracts, and before that, I want to cut off their left ear" "Yes!
Your Lordship. ”The orc warrior stood by the iron cage, like a pig, put his hand into the cage, picked up the pigtail on the head of a barbarian, put his head on the iron cage, and cut off the left ear of a barbarian with a knife in his hand, "You must watch over them, don't let them run, these barbarians are far more terrifying than some monsters in the mountains!"
”This is a phrase I repeated to the orc warriors before returning to El City.After handing these barbarian slaves into the hands of the orcs, I and the Minotaur Ruka, with ten blood-stained barbarian left ears, left the caverns of the Willow Valley.Time flies by on the beautiful dividing line, and in the blink of an eye, the southeast trade winds send the breath of spring to the entire province of Sloit, the snow melts, everything recovers, and the mountains are full of green and vibrant scenery.Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit has always been by my side, I did not carry my bags along the Galloping Horse River to find the memories of the past as in previous years, but honestly followed Mentor Heidi at home to learn ice magic talismans, and in my spare time, I would draw magic scrolls and sell them in the magic grocery store, and now my horse's magic grocery store has become very famous.I successfully passed the final magic test and became a second-year magic apprentice.This year's Magic Awakening Ceremony in El City is not as many as last year, because in the winter, the Storm Bear destroyed several small towns around El City, in order to escape the disaster, many school-age children followed their parents to migrate south, and this year's Awakening Ceremony became only nineteen children who became magic apprentices, only half of last year's number, and there are a total of thirty-four magic apprentices in our class.Every day is between home and the academy, between two points and a line of peace, this summer, I have broken through two levels in succession, and now I am a ninth-level magic apprentice, and the speed of my breakthrough bottleneck upgrade is rare among the magic apprentices of the previous magic academies.There are actually many reasons for this, the two biggest reasons are that the magic vortex in my body allows me to have a strong magic recovery power, constantly drawing magic scrolls, draining the mana in the magic pool, and then restoring the mana through meditation, so that the volume of my magic pool is constantly increasing.And I don't need to deliberately improve my affinity for ice magic, because I have already mastered ice magic when I was in the first grade.In this way, I became a ninth-level magic apprentice before winter came.