Ruby's Otherworldly Adventure

After passing through the forest path, Ruby saw a fence with wooden piles not far away, obviously this is a small town.

After thinking for a while, Ruby put away the shield and the sword of wind that were shining with magic streamer, and replaced it with the long sword that only had five attacks at the beginning.In fact, in this world, it is not bad for ordinary long swords to have a +2 attack. Without enchantments, a +4 effect is considered a well-made long sword.As for +5, it must be a weapon that can only be produced by an experienced blacksmith.

After tidying up the appearance, Ruby took out the bag made of rags in her spare time at night, filled it with the prey she caught in the forest, and then walked towards the entrance of the town with the bag.

It's noon now, and most of the townspeople in the town are still running around for their livelihoods. Occasionally, there are a few idlers wandering around the town with nothing to do. When they see a stranger coming to the town, they look them up and down. Then he looked away in disinterest.

Saiduo Village is close to the forest, which is full of wild beasts and low-level monsters, so it attracts a large number of mercenaries.For this reason, Modo Town has become a transit point between the city and the World of Warcraft Forest, where the general mercenaries rest and take a rest, and the mercenaries who come and go for consumption also support many townspeople.

In this environment, the townspeople are also used to the existence of mercenaries.In other words, they quite welcome the arrival of mercenaries.In their eyes, most of the mercenaries who are fighting for life and death are bold in their actions, which is equivalent to the God of Wealth who gives them money. Who can have trouble with money?

"Ah...it looks really lively." Ruby looked at the mercenaries in the town in twos and threes and said with emotion. "It's better to get rid of the useless things first." She thought.

"Hey, little brother, is there a place to buy animal skins?" Ruby asked a passing mercenary.

"It's over there. I'll take you there. It just so happens that I'm fine." The vicious-looking young mercenary was surprisingly easy-going, and offered to lead the way.

"Thank you so much. By the way, little brother, you look fierce, but I didn't expect you to be so enthusiastic." Ruby hooked up with the young mercenary familiarly.

Hearing this, the red-haired mercenary smiled wryly, then shrugged helplessly and said, "It's natural, and I can't help it. I often scare the children in the regiment to tears like this. Fortunately, everyone in the regiment doesn't mind." The mercenary said Twist the corner of his mouth, but this action made his expression more ferocious.

"Hehe... I think it's okay." Ruby smiled dryly when she saw the red-haired mercenary's scary expression, and comforted: "As long as you get used to it, it doesn't matter much, right? There are many people in the mercenary business It looks vicious."

"Thanks to your good words, my teammates often comfort me like this. To be honest, I'm getting used to it." The young man made an indifferent gesture, and it seemed that he didn't care about it.That's right, a mercenary is not like a pampered noble young master, who has the time to be sad about his appearance every day.It is also because most mercenaries are very free and easy that Ruby dared to talk about this topic.

While talking, the two arrived at the buyer's place.Because of the town's special geographical location, many fur merchants are also waiting here, waiting for the first-hand purchase of the wool that the mercenaries ventured to obtain, and by the way, earn some price difference from those mercenaries who find it troublesome to travel to the city again.

"Okay, I'll take you here, I have to leave first." The red-haired mercenary waved his hand and bid farewell in his energetic voice.

"Thank you very much." Ruby said goodbye to the kind mercenary gratefully, and then remembered that she didn't know the name of the kind person. "Well, forget it, if there is fate, we can always meet." She thought comfortingly.

After selling the sorted beast furs to merchants, Ruby took the 83 silver coins and a money bag that came with her, and began to think about where to go next.

"Where should I go next? Oops, I have no idea at all..." Ruby scratched her somewhat messy hair in annoyance, wandering casually in the town.

After wandering aimlessly like this for a while, Ruby came to a hotel, talked to the proprietress wearing a gray-blue apron, learned about the price of the hotel, took out a silver coin, and booked a two-day stay single room.

After paying the rent, Ruby confirmed the room with the help of the proprietress, and then left the hotel to see if there was anything special happening in the town.

What makes her regret is that this village is quite peaceful, people are busy with their own affairs, and there are no heated quarrels.

Well, there are still fights between children, such as Ruby now sees a boy with freckles pushing a girl the same age.

"Mary! You didn't give up selling that pile of weeds? Humph, do you think you'll be as lucky every time as before?" The freckled boy laughed and wanted to snatch the flower basket from the girl.

"You rascal, let me go, you nasty rascal!" The girl in the patched sackcloth gray dress screamed, holding a basket full of wildflowers in her arms, trying to hide Freckled boy.

"Give me that broken basket of yours!" The freckled boy, or Jeff, snatched Mary's basket with all his strength, but the fight was too hard, causing the bouquets in the basket to scatter all over the floor.

Seeing the bouquets scattered all over the ground, Jeff lost interest in grabbing the flower basket instead.I saw him throwing the basket casually, deliberately crushing a few feet on the scattered flowers, and then continuing to hit the girl who was about to cry: "Hey, Mary, I didn't mean it. But those broken flowers of yours don't matter. Can’t sell, do you think those noble ladies can be so kind every time, pity you to buy those wild flowers you can see everywhere? Wild species without a father!” Jeff said viciously.

Feeling that the freckled boy was going too far, Ruby decided to intervene in this matter (yes, since she knew the achievement requirements, she decided that she must keep her mind if she has nothing to do).She took a few steps forward, walked to Jeff's side, deliberately lowered her voice, and said in a rough voice: "Let me see, a boy is bullying a girl? Hey, boy, do you want to be taught a lesson by me?" After speaking, she was satisfied to see that Jeff's freckled face turned pale with fright, and after giving Mary a hard look, he quickly ran away.

The girl who was rescued thanked Ruby gratefully: "Thank you, big brother, if it weren't for you, I would be bullied by that villain Jeff again today." Put it in the flower basket you just picked up not far away.

"That, Mary." Ruby paused a little, "How much do you pay for a bouquet?"

Mary raised her head and said in a panic: "Brother, you helped me, how can I ask for your money? In fact, as Jeff said, all my flowers are picked in the field next to the town Yes, it’s not worth much at all, and you can get a lot of them once you pick them. It’s just a fresh picture, and the ladies and ladies in the town feel sorry for me, so I can sell a few. If you want, I will give them to you. "As she spoke, she tried to stuff the flower basket into Ruby's arms.

Seeing the girl doing this made Ruby dumbfounded.She accepted Mary's flower basket, then took out a silver coin from her pocket, put it in the girl's hand, and said, "I really like these flowers, so you don't have to feel like I'm cheating. I'll take this basket of flowers as your thank you gift." It's down, but I'm very interested in your flower basket, this silver coin can be used as a tuition fee for you to teach me how to weave flower baskets."

Mary glanced greedily at the silver coin in her hand, and then reluctantly returned the silver coin to Ruby: "Brother, how can this work? It's just a basket weaving. If you want to learn, I will teach you now, but this silver coin I won't accept it, my mother said that one should not be greedy, let alone you just helped me."

Ruby was troubled by the girl's stubbornness, so she decided to make Mary accept the silver coins in another way, so she said to Mary: "Mary, for an adventurer like me, any skill is precious, because we never know When will you use it? If you think learning basket weaving is not worth the price, then you can teach me a few more straw weaving skills that you know, maybe I can’t make it that day and I will have to rely on it to make a living.” Ruby ended up with a little joke.

Under Ruby's persuasion, Mary accepted the silver coin.She carefully hid the silver coin in the pocket of the gray skirt, and she couldn't help showing a look of joy on her face.With this silver coin, she and her mother will be able to eat well for the next month. You know, a pound of low-quality black bread only costs one copper coin!

After receiving the reward, Mary brought Ruby home, and she pointed to a dilapidated wooden house shyly: "This is my home."

Ruby smiled and nodded to show that she didn't care, followed Mary into the wooden house, then sat on a tattered chair dragged by Mary, and began to learn straw weaving from Mary seriously.

Mary is a serious and careful child. Since she promised to teach Ruby, she guided Ruby to weave the basket step by step, and slowed down the speed in her hands from time to time to try to let Ruby see clearly.

During the process of learning and teaching, Ruby chatted with Mary, and as the conversation deepened, Ruby also learned about Mary's family situation.

Mary's father is a guide from the small town to the outskirts of the World of Warcraft forest. You must know that the mercenary industry is full of dangers, so having a guide who is familiar with the environment can greatly improve your chances of survival, so mercenaries who come to the World of Warcraft forest for the first time to hunt generally A guide will be hired to lead the way.And for the sake of good pay, Mary's father gritted his teeth and kept working in this risky job.However, there was an unforeseen event. Once when he was serving as a guide, he was bitten by a wild animal. Fortunately, he was brought back by mercenaries.But after that he was febrile and comatose. Mary and his mother cried and exhausted their wealth but failed to wake him up, and finally passed away in the grief of the mother and daughter.

In this world, it is very expensive to ask a priest to take action. Even the lowest-level priest apprentice will charge 10 silver coins for treatment once.Even if it is a medicine that is cheaper than the divine magic of the priests, it is not affordable for ordinary people.So illness is equivalent to death for the poor, and it also means returning to poverty for civilians with a little spare money.Therefore, when a patient is born, they generally endure it. If they cannot survive, they will find a pharmacist to buy some medicine and pour it down.

Originally, Mary's family was considered a wealthy family in the town, but after treating Mary's father, the family had no money.So Mary's mother took Mary and moved to the slums, earning a living by washing clothes for others.

Mary's mother can get one and a half copper coins a day, and if the business is good, she can earn two, which is only enough for the mother and daughter to buy the worst black bread and eat half full. So the sensible Mary went out to buy flowers, trying to reduce the burden on her mother.

In the conversation with Mary, Ruby once again realized the cruelty of this world. For the people at the bottom, being alive is the greatest luck.