A strange world

Chapter 800 Section 31. Magical Heart

But Annan felt unprecedented peace in his heart.

He took advantage of this peace to meditate: By actively attacking the rat tide and containing the rat tide, no one doubted his second place in the hunt, but he had no chance to surpass Black Watch...

Annan suddenly had a thought: Does this mean that the empire has really prepared a generous reward? And because Black Watch is the well-deserved number one, can it not only fulfill its promise with precious treasures, but also strengthen its own legion?

I didn't have a chance to get it, but I was able to find out what the treasure was.

After going out and walking around, the soldiers in the camp were languishing everywhere as if they had lost a battle.

But after another day of rest, they will be reborn, completely losing their youthfulness and immaturity.

Night fell on the Great Wall of the North, and Annan, still dressed in mage robes, came to the celebration banquet at the Black Watch station.

Before the legion commander showed up, Annan got together to talk with several forces that had developed friendships in the past few days.

The talk was all about business and trade. Annan opened theaters and commercial streets to their countries, and then purchased ores and grain from them.

Speaking of gold coins, they complained about the recent emergence of a bunch of guys holding imitation gold coins in the country. No one had dared to do this before: as the goddess in charge of wealth, all gold coins are printed with the bust of the goddess of wealth. She controls all gold coins in circulation and can punish those villains who destroy and counterfeit gold coins at any time.

But after the gods lost contact, the order created by the Goddess of Wealth quickly collapsed. The Church of Wealth survived and could only maintain its majesty in big cities. However, in small cities and villages, imitation Jinnar has been quietly circulating.

You must know that gold cannot be smelted into gold coins casually: the formation of a gold coin first requires the nobles to obtain wealth and the church grants the right to mint coins - which is equivalent to paying a tax to the church: every gold coin you smelt will be divided by the church. part.

As the King of the North, Annan has always had the right to mint coins, but there are no gold mines around Liberty City, so there is little opportunity to mint coins.

After the disorder, some small nobles began to secretly bypass the Church of Wealth and mint coins privately to the people. These are not bad. Although they are not certified by the Church of Wealth, at least they are still made of gold and cannot be seen from the outside.

The most disgusting thing is the guy who forges gold coins by plating a layer of gold on a lead block. If officials hadn't used torture and hung people on the gallows if they caught users, the controversy over counterfeiting of Kinnar would have only intensified.

All the rules of Allen's continent are based on the order established by the gods... The gods lose contact, and the world naturally falls into chaos.

Annan remembered this incident and temporarily finalized preliminary cooperation intentions with several forces.

The various powers received theatres, shopping streets and tax revenues.

Annan reaped the benefits and influence.

So who loses?

The banquet lasted for a while, and the legion commander finally arrived, accompanied by the Albek Archmage.

Annan left them and walked over on his own initiative: "Your Excellency, Army Commander, Mr. Albek."

"Well done, the blood of a warrior flows in your body." The legion commander praised.

Annan said humbly: "I am honored by your compliment."

I was still a little touched - someone finally saw through his appearance as a warlock and discovered his true nature.

Annan exchanged greetings with the legion commander and talked about the rewards for hunting.

“What does second place get?”

Annan's appearance makes it difficult for people to be wary of and reject him. Coupled with his relationship with the empire, the legion commander revealed the answer: "Ten portions of the essence of the mountains."

"So rich?"

The mountain essence that Annan bought from Wilhelm cost 2,000 gold coins.

“But it’s much worse than first place.”

Mountain Essence is actually a bit useless, and not many people or forces will buy it. It seems that it can unconditionally transform an ordinary person into a warrior, and the effect is powerful. But the nobles who want to change their fate cannot afford 2,000 gold coins, and those who can afford 2,000 gold coins do not need to change their fate.

Even if it is to train dead soldiers, instead of spending 20,000 gold coins to train 10 dead soldiers, wouldn't it be better to spend 200 gold coins to collect 10 warrior seedlings outside?

"What's the reward for first place?" Annan took the opportunity to ask.

"A magical heart."

Annan showed surprise in cooperation.

"You know?" Archmage Albek suddenly said.

"Uh... Of course, even a warlock would be greedy for this kind of treasure that can give a mage a magical talent..."

The leader of the Black Watch should be calm and indifferent to emotions and anger, but he still looked like "what are you talking about" because of Annan's words.

"Am I mistaken...?"

"The Heart of Magic is a legendary item installed in the Mage Tower. It can increase the affinity of all the mages in the Mage Tower for magic." Archmage Albek said.

Annan suppressed his shame and said seriously: "I think it suits me very well."

The legion commander let out a dull laugh, still regarding Annan as a junior rather than an opponent: "That depends on whether you have the ability."

This is discouraging, and Blackwatch is always a mountain that cannot be bypassed.

They harvested almost 450,000 mouse ears, which was not a small amount. But Blackwatch should be dozens of times better than them.

"Can I go north again?"

Annan wanted to get rid of the rat carcasses piled up in the grassland, and secretly worked hard for a while.

"Of course, tomorrow is the last day of hunting." The leader of the Black Watch Legion was not a dull person. He joked: "Do you want to work hard one more day?"

"I want to try, but mouse ears are hard to do."

Annan complains about why he collects rat ears, even though it actually benefits him - slave rats and elite rats are obviously different, but their ears are the same.

"This is the only criterion for judging military merit."

"As long as it's mouse ears?"

"As long as it's mouse ears."

Annan was thoughtful.

In the middle of the banquet, the legion leader announced that they had captured a rat priest alive.

"What's so strange about this?"

Annan wanted to do it on his own. There were many opportunities to catch the rat priests in the old king, and there were more than one.

The Archmage Albek said that the Skaven Priest knew many secrets of the McKeon clan, and Black Watch could pry them out. In the past, when the Horned Rat was still controlling the Thirteen Skaven Clans, such a thing would never have happened. possible.

After the celebration banquet, Annan left the Great Wall of the North with the dragon-taming boys Elder, Blom, Burnt Girl and Sketchpad Man overnight, and landed in a lonely camp.

Rat carcasses were still piled around, and some undead souls attracted by the strong smell of death were wandering outside the camp.

Dealing with the rat carcasses was no longer important, Annan's attention was all on the reward.

The second place ten bottles of mountain essence is certainly a good thing, but anything that can be bought with money is not important in Annan's eyes.

After getting the Magic Heart, Liberty City can train its own spellcasters.

Compared with losses, gains are worth a try!

At worst, if he is discovered, he will ask his ancestors to come out with a wheelchair and say: "He is still a child."

With this in mind, Annan took out the token placed in the magic ring and opened the portal to the Morel family.

Annan chanted in a stage voice: "Oh, my nephew Williams..."