Chapter 215 Everything Goes Well
Catherine looked at the wooden wine glass in Amber's hand and asked doubtfully, "Is the bet still the same?"
Amber Xiu said casually: "Of course, as long as you can take the cup out of the city, I will do whatever you say."
Catherine looked at Amber several times, grabbed the wine glass, and quickly left the bar.
But not long after, Catherine returned to the bar dejectedly and said angrily: "You plotted against me. I was stopped again when I was leaving the city. They said there must be something wrong with me leaving so quickly. As a result, they smashed the bar when they checked!"
Amber smiled and said, "I didn't plot against you, it was fate. After these two experiences, you should understand that things that seem simple are impossible to do. You may still be thinking that if you just held on a little longer and rushed out of the city, you would have won. But it's useless. No one can change the destiny that has been set, not even the gods."
Amber used his fate-weaving ability to weave two failed fates for Catherine. So no matter how hard Catherine tried, she could not win.
However, only this kind of small bet can weave fate at will. It is impossible to let Amberxiu weave a destiny for the Ryan Empire that it will perish tomorrow. Doing so will definitely lead to spell failure and then backlash from fate.
This ability can be understood as extending a paddle into the river of fate and using it to control the direction of part of the river. It is no problem to create a few whirlpools with a small amplitude, but if you want to use a paddle to block the flow of the entire river, the paddle will only break. Unless Amber is the dam that blocks the river, trying to change the fate of those behemoths will surely end in shattering.
Although Catherine still couldn't fully understand all this, she believed what Amberxiu said and stopped dwelling on topics related to Naomi. Instead, she said with emotion, "If it's really like what you said, then the prophecy wizard is too miserable, like a slave to fate."
Amber: ...
"If you say that again, I will weave a bald future for you!" Amber said angrily.
Catherine covered her head and didn't dare to speak anymore. Bald head was too scary.
After a while, Catherine asked again: "What should we do now? Should we wait for Harvey here?"
Amber nodded. Harvey had brought Amber's life box to this city and appeared in this tavern. Calculating the time, Harvey would appear in two days at most.
But before that, some preparations need to be made.
"Catherine, we're going to take a commission later," said Amber.
Catherine asked: "Take a commission? What commission?"
"Whatever, as long as it's exploration-related, underground ruins, monster caves, or anything else. Take off your mask and ask the bartender to recommend one to you."
"Ah, aren't we supposed to wait for your students here?" Catherine asked curiously.
"Don't ask so many questions, you will know when the time comes." said Amber Xiu.
Catherine could only obey and walked to the bar to chat with the orc bartender. Catherine, who took off her mask, not only got the best commission recommended by the bartender, but also got a promise of free lifelong service from the tavern. Catherine showed off the free sea buckthorn wine in front of Amberxiu, but only got a roll of the eyes from Amberxiu.
This girl doesn’t even know what free of charge means?
The reason why bars offer free meals to beautiful women is to ask them to help attract men who have excess testosterone and need to release it urgently.
However, seeing that Catherine was so happy, Amberxiu was too lazy to expose her and started to study the commission.
Someone in Ganlu City has issued a commission to investigate a magic cave outside the city. Because the situation is tense now, no one knows when Ryan will attack Ganlu City, so the prices of these exploration commissions outside the city have doubled.
Catherine's beauty lived up to expectations, and it was obvious at first glance that this commission was a pure profit.
It is said that there may be underground sand lizards in this cave, and adventurers are needed to go and investigate and find definite evidence of the existence or non-existence of underground sand lizards. The reward is thirty gold coins.
Underground sand lizards are a type of monster from the Underdark. Adult sand lizards can reach the legendary level, but they are rare. This type of monster rarely appears on the surface, so this commission only requires investigation, and the reward of thirty gold coins is already very good.
Amberxiu didn't even need to go to the cave to check. He could confirm by throwing the dice of fate that there were no underground sand lizards there at all. It was probably other magical beasts that left similar traces.
But Ambershoe did not come for the reward, he came to prepare Harvey for his "death".
In the prophecy that Harvey saw, he would go to explore a dark place with a team of adventurers, and then encounter an ambush by monsters, and Harvey himself would die in this raid.
But because Harvey himself couldn't see many details, his description to Amber was quite vague.
What Amberxiu had to do was to fabricate this false prophecy for Harvey and control everything in the prophecy in his own hands. Adventure was allowed; team-up was allowed; Warcraft was allowed, but death was not allowed.
The easiest way is undoubtedly to find a commission yourself, and then arrange a script for Harvey to help him get out of the shadow of death.
This commission to find underground sand lizards is very suitable and is the best stage.
No wonder I brought Catherine with me. Thank God, everything is fate.
After drinking a few glasses of wine, Amber Xiu took Catherine out of Ganlu City and came to the monster cave. Amber Xiu checked it for a while and quickly came to a conclusion.
This is not an underground sand lizard, it's just a nest of sandworms.
Sandworms and sand lizards sound similar, but they are actually completely different things.
The underground sand lizards that can hunt on their own are at least fifteen meters long. They can swallow the strongest orc in one gulp with their mouths open. Their teeth are highly poisonous, and the scales on their bodies are so hard that even a paladin needs several Holy Slashes to break through their defenses.
This thing is also good at sneaking into the ground to launch attacks. Most adventurers are swallowed up before they can even see the opponent's appearance.
Sandworms are very weak desert creatures that are almost harmless to humans, but they are also good at burrowing underground, so the traces left by a large nest of sandworms crawling underground are very similar to those of sand lizards.
Amberxiu could just catch a few sandworms and go back to report, but he naturally wouldn't do that.
Amberxiu opened his private space and took out a pile of white bones.
Catherine frowned as she watched because the bones were full of a rotten smell.
"Is this... the bones of the underground Los beast?" Catherine asked.
"Yes, a friend gave it to me. I used these bones to assemble several skeleton tanks before, which taught those holy warriors a profound lesson. But now, I want to combine them into something else."
Amberxiu moved quickly, piecing together the bones as he wished, and soon they became a lizard-like skeleton.
The underground Los beast was originally a herbivore, so Amber took some human canine teeth and embedded them into its mouth, making it a big mouth full of sharp teeth.
Then, Amberxiu created another imaginary soul and stuffed it into the skeleton.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The skeleton of the "sand lizard" began to move. Although it looked clumsy, it was quite powerful.
Ambersu then cast Leila's real illusion on the "sand lizard", covering it with a layer of lifelike sand lizard skin, which made it look no different from a real sand lizard.
Catherine was also amazed. If she hadn't seen with her own eyes how Ambershu faked it, she would have thought it was a real underground sand lizard.
But this thing looks ferocious, but it's actually just a larger low-level undead. A few hits with a hammer will probably break it apart.
Amber looked it up and down, refined the details, and then said with satisfaction: "If it's just a lie, it should be almost done. Go to the ground and have a nap, little guy. Now is not the time for you to show up."
At Amber's command, the undead sand lizard clumsily dug up the yellow sand on the ground and buried its body in it.
This speed cannot be compared with that of a real sand lizard, but as long as it hides in the sand, it is not easy to find.
Everything was ready, and Amber took Catherine back to the bar and submitted the "evidence" of the appearance of underground sand lizards.
The evidence was simple: a broken scale of an underground sand lizard, just part of Amber's collection.
The scales of this magical beast are an unpopular alchemical material, and Amber happened to have a small amount in stock.
The orc bartender couldn't tell the age of the scales, but after submitting them, Amber was quickly rewarded with thirty gold coins. The original commission to investigate the cave was changed to subjugating underground sand lizards, and the price was increased to one thousand gold coins.
Unfortunately, no adventurer in the tavern was willing to take the challenge.
What if it is an adult underground sand lizard, then it is at the legendary level. Who would do it with only one thousand gold coins?
But the client can't pay according to the legend. What if it's not a legend? Anyway, if the task is left unanswered for a long time, there will always be someone willing to take it.
Everything went just as Amberxiu had expected, so smoothly that he himself couldn't believe it.
After waiting in the city for two days, Harvey appeared in the tavern in Ganlu City just as Amber had calculated.
But Harvey looked much more miserable than Amber had imagined. His head was wrapped in yellow and black gauze, and his right hand was bandaged, as if he had been severely beaten.
And Harvey is not the only one, there is also a dark-skinned...
Catherine saw the girl who helped Harvey into the tavern and frowned and said, "This is a hybrid of an elf and an orc!"
The dark-skinned girl in front of him had the long ears of an elf and the fangs of an orc. Her facial features were softer than those of an orc, but rougher than those of an elf. It was obvious that she was a hybrid of the two races.
But the elves generally do not marry with other races. Occasionally, they do, but they are mostly with humans, and most of them are handsome men and beautiful women.
There is usually only one possibility for the hybrid of orcs and elves to appear. A poor elf was kidnapped by orcs, and then... only in this way can a hybrid of the two races appear.
In other words, the appearance of this girl represents the tragic fate of an elf.
Catherine clenched her fists. As the Queen of Elves, she felt extremely heartbroken just imagining it.
Amber Xiu comforted him, "Don't be sad, maybe he is a drow elf."
Catherine glared at Amberxiu. Although she felt that what Amberxiu said was immoral, the thought made her feel much more relaxed. She really didn't know whether to say he was vicious or gentle.
Amberxiu didn't have so many other thoughts. Harvey had already appeared, and he would complete his redemption as long as he waited for the moment when he realized something.
(End of this chapter)