Chapter 182

"I'm back."

In the gentle voice of the breeze, the delicate girl opened the door and closed the door again after entering the room. The room without light fell into darkness again.

Walking in the dark, Ariel corona stepped forward without hesitation. Her bare feet collided on the cold floor, and the crisp sound stopped in front of a huge armchair.

"Sit down. When you get home, don't be so restrained. Don't treat yourself as a guest."

The gentle voice came from the opposite side. Although it could be heard clearly, it could not tell whether it was a man or a woman. Ariel, with her head down and eyes listless, climbed up the chair and sat in the center of the chair with her legs like a clever cat, with her long gray hair scattered behind her.

"I heard that when you came here, you met a very interesting young wizard from the Principality of lottel." the voice opposite the girl asked, "can you tell me what attracted you, Lord Loren Turin?"

"He is not just a wizard." the girl shook her head, and her godless eyes showed some color for the first time: "there are some special things on him."

"Special... Something?" the original gentle voice suddenly became a little nervous: "are you sure?"

"He hides well, but Ariel can still feel it." the girl's voice is very convinced, and her gray pupils are very determined: "but he is very cautious. He has never revealed any flaw, which is difficult to be found."

"Of course." the voice was very understandable: "if it was found, even in eboden, it would be impossible to protect him. The only end would be to be put on the gallows by the Holy Cross Church!"

"Ariel has invited him as a guest. What should we do next?" the girl looked at the voice in the dark: "do you need to kill him or imprison him?"

"No, if it's true as you said, it must be very difficult to catch him. Even if it succeeds, it's difficult to hide it." the "person" opposite rejected the proposal: "what's more, we don't need to be enemies with him, do we?"

"But he's a threat to Ariel. He's already aware of it. It's only a matter of time." the delicate girl suddenly showed a look of fear.

"In that case, let him become our friend - since there is no need to do it, but he can pose enough threat to you, such a person should not be our enemy, at least not hostile."

Hearing the proposal, Ariel nodded: "yes, Loren Turin once said that he came to eboden to find a friend.

But his purpose should be more than that. He didn't tell the truth completely. There must be other purposes. "

"Any shrewd and cunning wizard will not tell the truth to others, not to mention that your excellency is not just a wizard." the gentle voice said without surprise: "no matter what he wants to do, we might as well help him, try to make him owe us some favor, and then make further contact.

And... I have a hunch that what he wants to do may help us. "

When night fell, there were only a few drunks lying at the table in the hotel hall, as well as the hotel guys who packed up. There were no pedestrians in the street outside the gate, only the sea breeze blowing in the distance and the stars under the night.

On the disheveled table, the already drunk innkeeper snored in the soup bowl, clutching the leftover bones, and piled up large and small wine bottles.

The dark haired wizard sitting opposite sipped malt wine very comfortably - although it tasted bitter, the cool alcohol was real. Cheap and affordable, make this drink a must in every hotel and tavern.

The information from the greedy hotel owner has also covered the cost paid by Loren. After all, what the guy who runs the hotel needs most is all kinds of gossip and all kinds of information.

The first is about the famous "Bellini family" - Loren had known a little before he came, but he only knew that eboden, unlike other parts of the Empire, was controlled by the "free parliament" composed of powerful nobles in the city.

Eboden's nobles are also different from other regions. Their strength is not measured by the size of their territory, but by the power of wealth and control. Of course, there is no difference between the two in essence.

The Bellini family is one of the most powerful families, because they have controlled nearly half of eboden's seaport and ocean trade, and have a voice in eboden's fleet.

At the same time, because the elixir formula of the talented alchemist Alto Bellini, which can cure all diseases, made the Bellini family, which had nothing to invent in the past, all the Wizards had to bow their heads to the family full of copper smell.

The corona family, which is also one of the important forces of eboden, is much more low-key than the Bellini family. They also trade, but their power is concentrated among wizards. Their name has the largest alchemy workshop in eboden, and the number of wizards funded is the largest among all big families.

At the same time, this family is also the high-level 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 in power in the eboden merchant class, the corona family is the servant of the Wizards.

This metaphor is not appropriate, because it is normal and customary for nobles to become wizards in eboden, and most of them have their own workshops and caravans - but at least in the eyes of many civilians, the two families exist like this.

At present, all kinds of strange rumors are circulating throughout eboden because of Alto Bellini's Alchemy. The dizzy hotel owner vowed to tell Loren that the Bellini family planned to take this opportunity to defeat the corona family and become the ruler of eboden.

Loren can imagine that with the medicine that can cure any disease, the Bellini family will gain unprecedented reputation and even surpass the Holy Cross Church, although the church has little influence in this city

Wait, something seems to be wrong. Loren with a wine glass suddenly fell into a state of meditation.

What would I do if I got this medicine formula that can cure all diseases?

Generally speaking, there are only two conventional ways - either hide, treat it as a treasure at the bottom of the box, only give it to yourself and people who can be absolutely trusted, and only consider whether to use it at the last minute.

The other is to publicize it as much as possible. It's best to be known to all. Use this medicine to earn huge reputation and wealth for yourself. At the same time, you can also establish a network with those who are far more powerful than yourself.

The former has the advantage of being safe, but it doesn't work most of the time unless there is an emergency; The latter can give full play to its value as much as possible, but it will certainly attract prying eyes and offend more people when wooing some allies.

At the very least, the Holy Cross Church certainly will not want to see the existence of this medicine, because it is almost tantamount to denying that the "miracle" of the Holy Cross is unique; At the same time, all pharmacists will hate them. If they really have a medicine that can cure all diseases, they will be unemployed.

Now the Bellini family's practice seems to be the second, but in fact it is closer to the first - yes, they do know it so well that the night watchman can't help taking it away; In fact, few people have really seen, which has caused too much influence in addition to rumors.

What is the reason for this result? Loren had seen the power of this medicine with his own eyes. Even if it was just to make the broken fingers grow back, it would be shocking enough.

Is it because of peeping eyes, or... This medicine is not as perfect as rumored?

"It seems that we should visit the famous nine pointed star wizard tower."