Chapter 18 The Sin in the Alley

The next morning, Ryan declined his best friend George's suggestion to go to the woods to pick nuts again, and came to the blacksmith shop.

As soon as he entered the blacksmith shop, he felt a burning sensation. The blacksmith apprentices were still busy, and the blacksmith Boris Patton was forging an iron sword, which immediately made Ryan's eyes light up.

When he was about to go over to take a look, Drus, who was pulling the bellows, waved to Ryan eagerly: "Ryan! Here you are!"

Hearing this impressive name, the blacksmith apprentices who were originally concentrating on their work were shocked!

Immediately, several strong blacksmith apprentices looked at each other, and saw a sense of urgency in each other's eyes.

The expression on his face probably meant: "Why is this kid here again! Moreover, he came early in the morning instead of in the afternoon. What bad luck!!"

The blacksmith Borris took the initiative to greet him: "Ryan, you're here!"

"Yes, Uncle Borris! Hey, you're making a long sword today!" Ryan pretended to have just seen it and took two steps forward, intending to observe Borris's forging techniques.

The burning sword blank was obviously longer than the average one-handed sword.

"Yes, I'm going to help a friend make a hand-and-a-half sword today!" Borris said simply.

Ryan suddenly realized that the hand-and-a-half sword was a kind of sword between the one-handed sword and the two-handed sword.

It has advantages in length and attack power over the one-handed sword, and is easier to carry than the two-handed sword. The users are usually nobles, bounty hunters or mercenaries, and it takes a certain amount of training to use it flexibly.

"By the way, Ryan, you got familiar with the bellows last time, so continue to help Drus with the bellows today." Borris didn't let Ryan idle and quickly assigned him a task.

"Okay, Uncle Borris!" Although it was still the bellows, Ryan still readily agreed.

Ryan also wanted to learn other things such as smelting, forging iron nails and iron pots, but it takes time to build trust between people.

If Ryan had money now, of course he could speed up this relationship. Maybe today he could get Borris, a stingy guy, to start teaching him to forge some iron items.

But he was poor!

Thinking of this, Ryan hated Hamilton, the new sheriff.

Ryan walked to the bellows, and Drus quickly made way with a look of joy: "Ryan, you were already very skilled in pulling the bellows last time, so I'll leave it to you here."

After that, Drus was as flexible as a monkey, and quickly came to the blacksmith Borius, with an expression of eagerness to learn, staring at Borius forging a half-hand sword.

Ryan smiled, he bet that Drus would not be able to watch for long, and would be assigned other work by the blacksmith Borius.

Sure enough, within five minutes, Borius sent Drus to smelt iron ingots.

Ryan couldn't help but laugh in his heart. The blacksmith Borius was famous for his stinginess with his craftsmanship in the town of Shining Gold. Without real money, he would definitely not teach you real things in a short time.

Unless you stay in the blacksmith shop for a long enough time!

No longer distracted by observing others, Ryan focused on pulling the bellows!

[You have worked on the bellows, and your related comprehension has improved! 】

【Your skill of bellows is improved, experience +3】

【You focus on the blower, blacksmith apprentice career experience +1】

Except for going home to have lunch with his family at noon, Ryan spent the whole Sunday in the blacksmith shop.

Of course, the results are also gratifying!

Ryan turned the frame to the second page, the blacksmith apprentice career panel. The progress of blacksmith apprentice lv3 is more than half, which means that if everything goes well, he can be promoted to lv4 on the Sunday of next week.

【Blacksmith Apprentice lv3 (265/500)】

【Bells lv3 (395/500)】

[Horseman Level 2 (295/300)]

[Horseman Level 1 (56/100)]

As the sky was getting dark, Ryan, who looked a little tired, walked out of the blacksmith shop and prepared to return to the Habsburg manor.

At the same time, in a remote alley not far from Ryan, something sinful was happening!

In a low-rise house, a thin boy was knocking on the door, intending to go out to buy something. Suddenly, a piece of rag covered the boy's mouth! Immediately

, the thin boy began to struggle.

"Ugh!!"

"Damn it! Brat, be honest!" A deep male voice sounded!

The next second, a sharp dagger flashed with a cold light and appeared in front of the boy's eyes.

In an instant, the little boy did not dare to struggle.

After a hemp rope immediately tied the little boy tightly, a piece of coarse cloth was forcibly stuffed into his mouth, and then a pair of strong hands directly put him into a large black cloth bag.

After a while, two burly figures carrying black bags quickly disappeared in the alley.

"Boss, what do you think the higher-ups want so many children for?"

"Including this one, we have already captured the eleventh child! I heard that other brothers are also capturing children?"

"Could it be that the nobles have such a great demand for pedophiles and girls recently?"

"But... how can the nobles be interested in these skinny, smelly street kids or poor children?" Scarface seemed to be confused and turned to ask the bearded man next to him.

"Scarface! Is this something you need to worry about? This is a request from the higher-ups. As long as the money is in place, we will do our best. Why do you care so much!" The bearded man replied unhappily.

But after thinking about it, he seemed to think that what Scarface said made sense, and added: "It shouldn't be the demand of the nobles in the county town. I heard that this seems to be the request of the Wilderness Brotherhood."

"However, you'd better not ask about this in front of outsiders, otherwise I'm afraid you won't know how you died!"

"Yes, yes! Boss is right!"

"By the way, Boss, we have almost searched the north of Shining Gold Town. I will check the south in a few days."

"Be careful. The new sheriff Hamilton seems to be very concerned about this matter. If he is targeted, it will be troublesome!" The beard warned.

"Don't worry! Boss, I always push the snack cart along the street. Which children are suitable targets, I can pick them out at a glance!" Scarface patted his chest and promised.

"Boss, if we get the money this time, where should we go to have fun first? The prostitutes in Shining Gold Town are too low-quality. Why don't we go back to the county town to play for a few days, just in time to avoid the limelight?!" Scarface seemed to have thought of something beautiful, with a mean look on his face.

"Damn! Scarface, you will die in a woman's belly sooner or later! But what you said makes sense. After we get the money, let's go back to the county town." The bearded man thought about it and agreed with Scarface's suggestion.

"This human skin mask is really uncomfortable to wear. It's too tight! Boss, can you help me get a new one?" The burly man named Scarface complained.

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Ryan seemed to hear some movement in the alley beside him, but after stopping to listen for a while, he shook his head and continued to walk towards the Habsburg Manor.

What he didn't know was that he had just crossed paths with sin!

(End of this chapter)