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The spring hunting season has arrived for Velveer.

When the first animal's roar sounded in the forest, the land seemed to feel it too. The sound flowed in the wind and blew from the northern border to the south, quietly telling the fragrance of the first blooming flowers of basil, and the budding growth of vegetation. .

So people who heard the call gathered from all directions to this land, some with weapons and armor, some driving carts pulling goods, the Baihe waterway that had been silent for the whole winter became noisy again, and the road that had been frozen for several months, people in twos and threes Suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes.

This is Dave's fifth year on the journey to Velvet.

Dave is a high-level mage, of course, he is also an adventurer, and occasionally he will also serve as a mercenary if he has business. Called a full-time talent.

Part-time talented people are like many Hall mercenaries. They take a break when there is good business, and then earn living expenses and meals by doing odd jobs. They completely regard mercenaries as a job and do whatever they want If you quit being a mercenary and go back to your hometown to raise trees and plant land, you will have no sense of honor and self-awareness about your status as a "talented person".

That is to say, treating "talented people" as a part-time job, and not thinking about desperately fulfilling the talent that you have been given.

Most of the alien races are so... so disturbing...

He didn't know how to describe it.

When Dave came to Velveer for the first time, he was young and energetic and wanted to challenge this adventurer's gold nugget. However, because he was not familiar with the place, he was already taken by Velvet's team before he reached the foot of the Moon Mountains. The desolation and barrenness taught me a thorough lesson.

The dilapidated road is always one big pit and another small pit. His horse stepped on the pit before he started to run and limped. He could only run there in the direction of the Moon Mountains. Along the way, the monster forest blocked the way and there were no supplies. Dave walked almost to the ground on two legs before seeing the manor where the villages gathered.

It takes three or four days to walk to such a manor to come across one. There is no town, no city, or even a market. Dave cursed this poor place and trekked in the wilderness for half a month before he was lucky enough to meet a team. The Huor clan team that went out to buy supplies was able to drop by to the gathering point at the foot of Moon Mountain.

During the spring hunting season, there will be scattered such small gathering points at the foot of the Moon Mountains. The locals set up tents and rent them out to merchants and adventurers. The business of processing materials.

However, due to the scattered gathering points, each gathering point is basically people from the same village or the same manor area, resulting in not so complete types of work in different gathering points. Sometimes Dave just wants to drink a cup of basil mulled wine, You have to walk for more than an hour on a muddy broken road to another gathering point to get a drink.

Moreover, prices, miscellaneous fees and taxes are not uniform, and the trading rules in the gathering points are different. Although the Moon Mountains are indeed a good place to make money, Dave paid a lot of money for the first time to figure out the basics here. rule.

Fortunately, he was born in a wealthy family, so he didn't lack such a little money to manage relationships.

A young Hall girl acted as Dave's guide the first time he climbed the Moon Mountains.

Most of the men of the Hall tribe are wandering outside, and Dave vaguely knows that in order to curb the development of the Hall tribe in the Moon Mountains, the Hall mercenaries cannot accept tasks related to the Moon Mountains. The prey they brought down from the mountains They will also be taxed more heavily.

It's not fair.

Yes, of course not fair.

When Dave tried his best to speed up his pace to keep up with the figure of the Hall girl in front of him, he couldn't help feeling the crushing of that kind of talent, and even began to wonder whether the person in front of him was as human as himself Otherwise, why would her footsteps be as light as a bird born in the mountains, and walk on the rough and steep mountain roads like flat ground.

Talent is unfair and neither is experience.

Dave's first trip to the Moon Mountains ended badly. He fell under the claws of the first monster he encountered-a monster living in this northern border mountain range that he once had on the school training ground. The defeated Warcraft was not at the same level at all, just a face-to-face, and the bloody aura rushing towards his face stunned him for a second, and after such a short second, his consciousness was only left with darkness.

Later, it was the girl who carried him down from the mountain. She couldn't beat the monster but knew how to drive it away. With a wounded and blood-smelling encumbrance, she could also avoid the monster that was restlessly hunting for food in spring. Return to the gathering point at the foot of the mountain.

The girl did not miss this part of the reward, and Dave left Velvet with an empty purse and a broken heart.

perhaps……

There is also a little bit of a young boy's mind that is just beginning to fall in love.

When Dave regrouped and came back the next year, he went to the same gathering point with that little bit of thoughtfulness, looking around to find the girl from the Hall clan.

——He remembered that girl's eyes were smiling, like a sly cat, her laughter was as clear as a silver bell when it echoed in the mountains and forests, her silver hair was braided into a big braid, and the end of her hair was tied with a golden red rope.

He remembers...

He didn't find it.

So Dave went for another year.

Another year.

Another year.

From a rookie who didn't know anything to a veteran on this mountain road, he became more and more used to the remoteness of Velveer, he could trot on the road on a horse, he could find it wherever he went with his eyes closed, and he would never go up the mountain again. I was frightened by the monsters that suddenly jumped out, and I once hunted a powerful monster that is worthy of praise alone.

His strength has also risen accordingly, from a marginal branch of the family to a rising star who is highly valued, it is only natural that someone introduces a demure and dignified lady to be married, who is in the right family and has a beautiful face, just right for him to marry.

So this should be his last year at Valverde.

Dave rode the horse that had been with him for many years, saw the shadow of the Moon Mountains from a distance, and knew that he was about to set foot on the border of Velvet.

In the winter, Velvet was entrusted to His Royal Highness Lucien, who is now the Duke Velvet. Therefore, Dave deliberately brought a lot of extra money in preparation for the new lord who would send extra money to him in order to make money. They collect taxes.

A large part of Vilvid's tax revenue is supported by adventurers like them. Although the status of nobility, even if it is just a status of being promoted from a commoner to a knight, can also exempt them from a considerable proportion of tax obligations, but the overall The base is there, no matter how small the ratio is, it is still a big piece of meat.

From the county directly ruled by the empire to the land ruled by the lord, the policy will naturally change. Dave only hopes that the tax will not be raised too much. The Moon Mountains are so long and there are so many mountain passes. Everyone runs to Velvet , It’s not because of the poverty here, the imperial taxation is not so high.

……

The new lord has indeed brought new changes to Velvet.

After seeing the wooden sign erected beside the road, and the large characters on it [go straight ahead of the Moon Mountains], and the graphics of the mountains and the arrows pointing forward were drawn under the words, Dave used his intuition as an adventurer to feel It's different when it comes to Velvet.