Chapter 19 Evil Detection
"Alas, why can't I control these hands?"
Rubbing the gold coins in his hand, Amber sighed from the bottom of his soul.
This small team that was preparing to venture into the sewers generously gave them an "interview fee" of one gold coin. Even if there was no cooperation in the end, Amberxiu could still earn a gold coin for free.
Although it is reasonable for adventurers to invite mages to join the team and give them some "interview fees", a gold coin interview fee is too extravagant, as arrogant as giving a reward to the dwarf singer and asking him to shut up.
Amber Xiu, who was a little hesitant at first, could not refuse after receiving the gold coin.
But after receiving the money, Amber Xiu's worries became even stronger.
Adventurers are often like unemployed vagrants, and few are pure good people. Being willing to spend so much money, in addition to being strong, often means that the mission is extremely difficult, or there is a conspiracy to pit teammates.
After all, mages are wealthy people in most cases, and if you take a few enchanted equipment from a mage, you might earn thousands or even tens of thousands of gold coins.
But if that were the case, Amber would be even happier.
Who doesn't know how to rob other gangs?
If he fought back in self-defense, the Alchemy City would have no excuse to cause trouble for him, and Amberxiu could wipe out this adventure team and make a small profit.
A parallel import legend is still a legend. With the advantage of hiding the identity of a lich, isn't it easy to bully a group of adventurers?
The real trouble is the difficulty of the mission. If this adventure team did not spend so much money to hire a wizard to trick their teammates, it must be because they encountered extremely difficult troubles. They cannot cheat others, but they have to deal with big troubles. It feels that this deal is not so profitable.
Of course, if it really doesn't work, you can just refuse to cooperate and earn a gold coin for free.
Amber Xiu sat in the corner of the tavern, quietly waiting for the arrival of the adventure team. The orc bartender said that they came from outside the Alchemy City and would probably not arrive until the early morning.
During this period of time, Amber Xiu came up with several plans to rob the robbers and several bargaining tactics.
However, when the adventure team appeared, Amberxiu immediately realized that his efforts were in vain.
This is a team of three: a fully armed knight with even his head wrapped in a full-face helmet, a war priest wearing chain mail with a hammer as big as his head hanging on his waist, and the remaining one is a young man dressed as a wizard, who looks particularly shabby in this team.
"The holy warriors and war priests of the Ryan Empire?" Amber Xiu said in surprise.
There was no way to make a mistake, because the equipment of two of them had the rose and dragon emblem unique to the Ryan Empire. This was not ordinary stuff, but a mark that only members of the Royal Paladin Corps could possess.
If converted into titles, these two people are at least viscounts with independent fiefdoms.
No wonder they are so generous. Compared with those adventurers, these two can be considered rich and powerful figures.
But how could the paladins and priests of the Ryan Empire appear in the Alchemy City? The relationship between the two families is not very good. The Alchemy City discriminates against all Muggles who do not know alchemy and magic equally, while the Ryan Empire discriminates against all non-human races equally, just like bad people themselves hate bad people. The two countries with different discrimination standards have always despised each other.
The Lion Empire thinks that the Alchemy City has all kinds of races and is simply a heretic country. The Alchemy City thinks that the Lion Empire is not much better than the barbarians when they shout about holy light, evil, and glory every day and rush up to chop people.
Although there is no overt opposition, there has always been considerable friction.
The appearance of these two people seemed very strange, so that they were stared at by everyone in the tavern after entering the door. Everyone knew the style of the Ryan Empire. There were also a few lizardmen and drow elves drinking here. Who knew if they would directly shout "Holy Light, the evil ahead is worth fighting."
In this tense atmosphere, the shabby wizard beside the two men came out to smooth things over.
"Hahaha, this is my second time here and this tavern is still so lively. You guys take a seat first. I'll go order two glasses of fine ale."
Amberxiu didn't know that the young wizard in front of him had some connection with him. He was the wizard apprentice Harvey who followed the Porcupine Knight around outside his territory.
After hearing Harvey's words, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. This wasn't their first time here, so they shouldn't resort to violence, right? Last time, we didn't hear of a diplomatic incident in this tavern with mass casualties, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
Although this is true, there are still many customers who leave after paying for the drinks. It is torture for people with ulterior motives to sit in the same room with the paladin.
The paladin and the priest seemed to be accustomed to being alienated and sat in another corner of the tavern naturally.
He was wearing full body armor, yet he was sitting against the wall while drinking. He was indeed a well-trained paladin who knew very well what kind of people his enemies were.
Harvey was busy running around and soon he was sweating profusely.
In order to win over these two big men of the Ryan Empire, the Porcupine Knight also spent a lot of effort. Although he still couldn't figure out the purpose of these two people coming to the Alchemy City, he finally successfully recommended Harvey to them as a guide.
The two suddenly said they wanted to explore the sewers of Alchemy City, and Harvey could only run errands for them. Just applying to enter Alchemy City was enough to tire him out, and then there was the adventure permit and the search for teammates.
The paladins of the Ryan Empire want to find someone to team up with, and it might be easy to find teammates somewhere else.
Although they are rigid and racist, the strength of the Paladins is unquestionable, and they will not go against their oaths and harm their teammates. They can be said to be very reassuring teammates.
But this is the City of Alchemy, and human adventurers account for a very small proportion of the population here. What they are looking for are mages who are good at some special magic, and the number of these is even smaller.
The few mages we found before failed to reach an agreement and parted on bad terms.
The interview fee gradually increased to one gold coin. Today, they received a magic message and found new teammates, so they hurried over.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The orc bartender enthusiastically introduced Amber to Harvey.
"Hello, I'm William Harvey, a wizard's apprentice."
Harvey took the opportunity to greet him and look at the black-haired boy who looked a little younger than him.
Harvey was surprised to find that Amber's hair color, eye color, and facial features did not match those of humans from any region he knew. Instead, he had a bit of the elegant and handsome look of an elf, but he couldn't tell what kind of elven bloodline he had.
But having good looks is useless, a wizard uses intelligence to cast spells, not like a warlock or a sorcerer who relies on charm.
"Hello, I'm Ultraman Tiga." Amber Xiu directly took out his chat group username.
"Hello, Master Ultraman, I believe you should know our requirements. We need a wizard who is good at ice magic..."
As soon as Harvey finished speaking, Amber raised his hand and a ball of ice and snow energy condensed in his palm.
Looking at the magic configuration, Harvey recognized it as a freezing ray, a low-level ice trick. It was not difficult to perform a trick, even a wizard apprentice could master it as long as he practiced diligently. Just as he was about to question it, he saw the icy energy in Amber's palm split into two balls.
Double casting? A sorcerer's method... No, this is pure magical control.
Once an expert makes a move, the difference between the two is clear. Harvey has nothing but admiration for Amber. The words "Ultraman Master" just now were just a polite remark, but now it is well-deserved.
Harvey looked at the holy warrior and nodded to show his approval of Amber's ability. Harvey was only responsible for confirming Amber's ability. Whether they could cooperate or not depended on the opinions of the two people from the Ryan Empire.
"My Lords, this is the fifth one. This may be our last chance, so..."
Xavi gave him a subtle reminder, meaning that he must not make it like before when they almost fell out, otherwise he would really not have any teammates.
The Holy Warrior was indifferent to Harvey's words, and said to Amber in an almost emotionless voice: "Mr. Ultraman, my faith does not allow me to cooperate with evil people. I want to use evil detection on you. Do you agree?"
Amber: ...
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