However, the cost of accommodation and horse placement is much more expensive than food, and my money is totally not enough. It seems that I have to leave in a few days. Although I still want to see the prosperity of a real big town in another world, I am helpless because I am short of money. I don’t even have money to buy the customized equipment I had planned, let alone such a luxury as shopping.
I never thought that a demon hunter like me, a supernatural being from another world, would not be able to receive any missions...
Just as Livia was thinking bitterly while stuffing the last sausage into her mouth with a copper fork, the tavern owner came over after serving another guest who had just come in.
"Oh, I remembered something."
"Um?"
Livia put down the fork in her hand and looked at him puzzledly.
"Why don't you tell me you want to do some work to earn some money? I heard that a noble in the inner city seems to be recruiting people, and the advance payment alone is 5 farongs."
Um?
Inner city nobles recruiting?
Livia became interested, but...
Inner City...
He remembered that the leader of the Knights Templar had said before that he was not allowed to go to the inner city, and he became a little hesitant.
"are you sure?
Which nobleman is it?"
Livia thought about it and decided to find out the situation first. If it was true, then after she joined, the leader of the Knights Templar would not have offended the nobles.
"Hmm..." The tavern owner touched his chin, as if recalling something.
"I think so. I heard from a few inner city guards who came here to drink a few days ago. I'm not very clear about the details. After all, those noble lords basically won't come to a place like mine. The most important person I've seen in all these years is the deputy of the Knights. He still comes to me to purchase some good wine."
After thinking for a while, the tavern owner spoke slowly, seeming a little uncertain.
Livia frowned upon hearing this. There was no way to do this. She didn't even know the general situation, so where to start?
"By the way, you can go ask the guy who claims to be a wandering knight living in a nearby inn."
The tavern owner seemed to suddenly remember something and spoke to Livia.
"A wandering knight?"
"That guy seemed to think that the accommodation conditions here were too poor, so he ran to a high-end hotel on the other side. So I only met him once and exchanged a few words with him."
"I don't know much about him. You can go ask them what he talked about with those drunkards when they were drinking together."
The tavern owner supported the counter with one hand and pointed behind Livia with the other.
"Hello!
Peso, who the hell are you calling a drunkard?
Hearing a discontented and rough mutter from behind, Livia turned around and looked in the direction the tavern owner was pointing, her eyes fell on a table near the counter, where there were three people. A handsome but very old man was holding a glass of wine with a red face, muttering and cursing. The glass was shaking with his hand, spilling light yellow wine with bubbles.
"Henry, when are you going to pay me back for the wine I owe you?"
The tavern owner suddenly shouted loudly at the man who was muttering and cursing over there. His strong and rough voice almost drowned out the noise in the entire tavern, and the tavern became quiet in an instant.
The man named Henry opened his lips slightly, his face suddenly turned red and he couldn't speak. His already red face looked even redder.
"This guy is like this. I have known him since childhood. He used to be an adventurer, but later he stopped because there was nothing to do around Songkani and he didn't want to leave his hometown. Now he works as a laborer every now and then, and comes to my place to drink when he makes money. Really..." The tavern owner leaned forward on the counter and explained to Livia with a smile.
"Henry, I have a man here who wants to ask you something."
After explaining to Livia, he shouted at the man named Henry.
The other people in the tavern also became quiet for a while, then laughed at the man named Henry and returned to normal. People in taverns are like this, they mind their own business and return to normal after a while.
Livia smiled slightly. In his eyes, the tavern owner seemed to have a good relationship with the man named Henry, otherwise he would not communicate like this and would not let him buy wine on credit.
“Hmm…
What’s the matter…” Henry muttered somewhat dissatisfiedly. Livia stood up and walked towards the opposite table with a wine glass. She paused in front of the three people at this table. The people beside Henry and the opposite side tactfully picked up their wine glasses and moved to another table. Livia sat down opposite the man named Henry in front of her.
Behind the counter, the tavern owner raised the corners of his mouth subtly.
Having been a tavern owner for so long, he could see that although the black-haired young man dressed as a bounty hunter still acted and spoke in a childish manner, he had a special aura. He had only felt it in the knights from the royal capital. Even the guards in the inner city did not have this aura. In this case, he might as well sell himself first. He didn't lose anything anyway, and it was always worthwhile to make friends with a guy who might be quite powerful.
this……
That's how a tavern owner survives.
"What do you want to ask?"
The man named Henry put down the wine glass in his hand, squinted at him and asked.
"Well, Wandering Knight, how much do you know?"
Livia drank the wine in the glass in her hand, then looked at the other party seriously and asked.
I have to say that the wine here is a little worse than that in Kovag, but the food is much better.
"That guy, I do know something about him, but...
50 Lundins. "
Henry raised his head and said this, and suddenly changed the subject, looking at the black-haired young man in front of him with a cunning look in his eyes.
"Um?"
Livia didn't realize what 50 Londin meant for a moment.
"Message fee: 50 londins."
Henry squinted at him and spoke softly.
This guy...
I didn't expect there would be a message fee.
Livia understood what he meant and frowned, he didn't have much money on him now.
"Just to find out some information is also..." Livia was about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted, "You also know that I owed that guy Biso money for drinks, just consider it as helping me pay back the money..." Henry suddenly said with a wry smile, touching the back of his head.
"25 londin."
Livia didn't say anything else, but he felt that 50 rondins was still too much, so he directly quoted a price according to the old saying of bargaining in half.
"make a deal!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Henry, who was drunk in front of him, suddenly shouted.
Hearing this straightforward reply, Livia's heart sank. He knew that his offer was still too high, but there was no need to bargain. In that case, let it be.
He grabbed a handful of copper coins from the leather bag around his waist, about thirty or so, and threw them all on the greasy table.
"Go ahead."