God's family

The Manlai Forest is actually just a small part of the east side of the Southwest Great Forest, but because it is closer to the place where humans live, it was given a unique name.The Great Southwestern Forest is a paradise for elves, and Manlai Forest is no exception.

The elves are the same as other races, and they also live together in the form of tribes. Usually, the tribes communicate with each other, advance and retreat together, and the king of all the elves is the king of the elves.Elves have always been proud creatures, and they do have enough pride.They have long lives, beautiful appearances and wonderful singing voices. They have enviable talent for wood magic since birth. Using magic is as easy as learning to speak; they are also born good hunters, agile and agile. Traveling through the dense forest, shooting the prey with a bow and arrow is as natural as breathing.

The elves are kind and noble. They are peaceful in nature and like to live in peace and tranquility. Even if they have great power, they don't like to kill. So few elves are willing to become adventurers, living a life of hardship and danger, often stained with blood. In addition, they are arrogant and not gregarious, so even if there are elves who leave their homes for various reasons and become adventurers to earn money, most of them are alone.

The forest where the elves live is also known for its abundance. They can live in their own homes completely self-sufficiently without restraint, so there is no need to communicate with other races. However, some elves are kind and curious about other races. Willing to associate with them, most of the elves in the elf tribe in the Manlai forest belong to this category.They don't leave the forest often, but they don't prevent human businessmen from entering the forest for exchange and trade, and everyone gets what they need. Although the forest is more dangerous, human merchants are always willing to take risks in exchange for some precious things from the elves. , to be sold in human society.

After deciding to go to the elf tribe in Manlai Forest to find out, Ron and the others did not leave directly. Instead, they went to Kuima's equipment store again and asked the dwarves who had been there before what they needed to pay attention to. The answer is to suggest that they pretend to be business travelers.

"The elves in Manlai Forest do not reject humans, they are willing to trade with human merchants, but it does not mean that they also welcome human adventurers, because for most tribes, human adventurers mean trouble .” Kuima tapped the pipe in his hand on the edge of the table and knocked off the ash, “However, even if you pretend to be a business traveler, it doesn’t mean that you can successfully enter the tribe of elves. The vigilance and xenophobia of elves Sex is innate, even merchants, most of them only trade outside the tribe, and are not allowed to enter the tribe—as for how you mix in, it depends on your own.”

Kuima's words made Roger and the others a little helpless. They didn't know much about elves, so they couldn't draw up an appropriate policy at all-for now, they can only take one step at a time.

Speaking of pretending to be a business traveler, it was a headache for the three of Roger.Both Lacente and Leon are swordsmen, with strong physique and agility. Whether it is words, deeds or behavior, they have already deeply imprinted the traces of adventurers. They are definitely not good candidates for pretending to be business travelers, and if there is only Roger People pretending to be businessmen, but it's a bit awkward. After all, places like Manlai Forest are the territories of another race. Even the merchants who come and go mostly need to go together to be more confident.

After a little discussion, the three decided that Roger, who looked more "civilian", would pretend to be a business traveler and stay in the town for a while, waiting to see if there were other businessmen or caravans planning to enter the forest.Firstly, with real businessmen as cover, it is easier to win the trust of the elves, and secondly, with a large number of people, the three of them have smaller goals and it is easier to act.

Fortunately, they didn't wait too long. After all, Manlai Forest is one of the few places where they can trade with the elves, and it always attracts the attention of merchants. On the third night, a group of merchants walked around I rushed to the only hotel in the town, and planned to set off into Manlai Forest early in the morning after rectifying.

"Excuse me, if it's possible, can you let me go with my guards?" Seeing the opportunity for everyone in the caravan to relax and relax, Roger walked up to a caravan with a friendly and slightly arrogant smile. In front of a middle-aged man with a big belly, kindness and shrewdness, who seems to be the leader of a caravan.

"You?" The man looked at Roger suspiciously. Although he also had a friendly smile, he didn't look very friendly. "Are you planning to enter the Manlai Forest?"

"Yes, my name is Roger. This is my first time to go out to do business, and I don't have much experience. I spent time and energy on a few times, but I didn't make much money. Then I was told that I can trade with the elves here. The obtained elf products can make a lot of money, so..." Roger smiled a little unwillingly, his tone was full of resentment, but also with anticipation. The small businessman with a sense of superiority has learned a lot.

The man who introduced himself as the Canam man relaxed a little, but rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "To tell you the truth, the things of the elves are not so easy to exchange, there must be goods they like, and every The amount that can be exchanged at one time is not much..."

Roger knew that in Canum's words, it was obvious that the last sentence was the point.The elves have always worked by hand, and they don't regard making certain types of items as work like humans do. Once it becomes a hobby, the efficiency of making things will drop significantly, depending on their mood, so every time a caravan enters Whether the forest can have a big harvest is unknown, and naturally I don't want more people to share the pie.

However, although Roger understood what the other party meant, he showed more concern about the former, and frowned in annoyance, "Then... what do the elves like?"

"Some things that are not available in the forest where the elves live, such as the food grown in the fields, the fish, shrimp, coral, and pearls in the sea." Kanam casually said that he didn't seem to intend to help Roger with all his heart. .

Roger was annoyed that he hadn't checked in advance, he only brought some money, and planned to spend money to buy it, but he didn't expect that the goods of the elves would be exchanged for other things, and then he pestered Canum to hope that he would wait He went to the forest to explore the way, and it was not in vain for him to come here this time.

Kanum saw that he was very young and unprepared, completely unable to snatch his own interests, and almost had no intention of suppressing comparisons, he just laughed at him a few words that human currency cannot be used by elves , so he turned his interest to Roger himself—probably wanting to know how he wanted to be a businessman without knowing anything.

Roger blushed, and looked like a ignorant kid who didn't know much about the world. He used extremely clumsy concealment methods to tell about his fabricated life experience in advance, expressing that he was interested in being a businessman since he was a child, and his family members But he didn't like it, so he left home on impulse, wanting to do a big career to prove himself.

Concealment is always more provocative than openness, and human beings have always been more willing to believe the "truth" that they "detected" themselves, rather than what was told by the other party.

After Roger "concealed" his own background while inadvertently showing the family crest on the pocket watch that Leon gave him, the sharp-eyed Canum's movements froze for a moment, and even the originally somewhat perfunctory smile Immediately became more sincere.

Only nobles have family crests, and even the little-known nobles have never been comparable to ordinary people.Although if it is not a big family with an extremely noble status, it is not rebellious for a child of a nobleman to become a businessman, but most noble families will not encourage young people with such "aspirations", so Roger said The rhetoric of leaving home without authorization to make a career is not against the norm.

"You said, you have two guards..." Kanam's eyes flashed, and he looked very interested, "I don't know how skilled they are? Although Manlai Forest is a relatively busy trade route, it is also There are many dangers, besides, I heard that the activities of monsters in the vicinity have been rampant recently, but this time we did not bring too many guards, if..."

"They are amazing!" Roger cheered up immediately, and before Canum finished speaking, he couldn't wait to pour out his praises on Lyonte and Leon. At the same time, he had long been paying attention to this The two people in the situation also went downstairs in due time.

I have to say that if Nexant and Leon tidy up carefully, they can still be very coaxing. They are handsome in appearance, imposing, and tall and strong.

"them……?"

"They are all swordsmen, real swordsmen!" Roger said with a final word.

In this era, there are two real swordsmen as guards, and they don't think of anything other than nobles. Kanum, who had doubts about Roger's fabricated identity, immediately believed it. On the one hand, he was secretly delighted. He brought this noble young master who didn't know anything into the forest, and he could have two swordsmen who looked good enough to help guard his caravan. On the other hand, he was a little worried that the other party was actually a gangster. The forest would turn on his caravan.

Recently, the mainland has not been peaceful. Many villages and even small towns have encountered troubles due to some unknown reasons. The refugees who lost their homes became bandits, and many adventurers also took advantage of the fire to rob them. As for the loss of people and wealth, in the end, life was also involved.

Kanum is an old-fashioned businessman. Because of his caution, he escaped many disasters. Finally, he was able to climb from a civilian businessman with no background to the position of caravan leader. At the same time, he also respected himself. His vision is very confident.

The noble young man who called himself Roger was innocent and innocent, the black-haired swordsman named Laycent was honest and honest although he was taciturn, and the red-haired swordsman Leon was straightforward.No matter how you look at it, the three of them don't seem to have bad intentions. After pondering for a long time, Kanum finally nodded and agreed to the request of the noble young master Roger, and borrowed his two guards to protect him The caravan has more reliance, and each can be regarded as taking what they need.

Roger happily praised Canum's kindness and help, and his satisfied expression was self-evident, and Canum was also very satisfied with his choice, and he didn't even know what kind of evil god he had been incomprehensible with since then fate...

In short, everyone discussed it properly, and met at the hotel gate the next morning, and entered the Manlai Forest together.