NOVEL NEXT Chapter 30
Chapter 30 Thieves Guild II
After arriving at the Thieves Guild, Lord originally planned to ask his own questions quickly and obtain some key information, but after seeing the posture of the Thieves Guild, Lord changed his plan.
Rhode moved the parchment from the middle of the table to him, wrote “The Situation in Crullod” on it, and then pushed the parchment to the old man on the opposite side.
The old man picked up the quill in front of him, quickly wrote the text on the parchment, and then slowly pushed the paper toward Rhodes with both hands.
Rod took it and looked at the parchment at the same time, which said “Heroes Return, 3”.
The experience of the previous life made Rohde understand that the first half of the parchment is the answer to his question, and the numbers written in the back are the total gold coins Rohde needs to pay.
The Thieves Guild guarantees that the information it sells is correct, but it will only provide a little information at a time. If you want to know more and more detailed information, you need to spend a lot of gold coins to inquire multiple times.
Rhodes believed in the credibility of the Thieves Guild and would not easily sell some unconfirmed information. Seeing the answer written by the old man, Rod fell into thinking.
Rod’s purpose in asking this question is to use this question to confirm the period of the game he is in.
According to Rhodes’s memory, when he first entered the game in his previous life, the game’s first expansion piece [Ruined God of War] was about Cruelod’s barbarian leader Tanan. The battle of the Qatar mage.
Seeing this passage written by the old man, Rod had certain ideas about the period he was in, but he did not dare to fully confirm it.
Rod took the pen, wrote “the hero’s name” on the paper, and then handed the parchment to the old man.
The old man took the parchment and wrote “Tanan, 5” on it.
Just the name of a hero is worth 2 gold coins, which is the value that intelligence can bring. Rod knows that this is not too expensive. If you want to know the approximate combat ability of a hero, you need to pay more gold coins.
Seeing this name, Rod was also completely sure of the period he was in, which was just the beginning of the game, the early stage of the first expansion.
Earlier, when he got Elott’s pendant, Rod had this hunch that he might have returned to the beginning of the game, that is, when all players had just entered the game, but Rod was not sure.
At this time, after the inquiry, although only fragmentary information was obtained, based on the game experience of the previous life, Rhode was completely sure that he had indeed come to the early stage of the first expansion.
In this stage, the hero Tanan just completed his adventure on the mainland, took all his treasures, returned to his hometown of Cruelod, began to integrate all the barbarian tribes of Cruelod, and accumulated strength to fight against The mage of Bracada.
This is the meaning of “The Return of the Hero” written by the old man.
Quickly thinking about the other contents of the first expansion in his mind, Rod then wrote on the parchment “The city’s freelance chamber of commerce, a natural hero.”
Rod asked this question in order to obtain some intelligence on his soul mission. According to the records on the map, the previous Elotter sold Rowling at the freelance chamber of commerce in this city.
The old man took the parchment paper, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then wrote “Transferred, 10” on the paper.
Generally speaking, what freelance chambers of commerce want to do cannot hide from the thieves’ guilds in the same city. The thieves’ guild selling the information of the freelance chamber of commerce in this way also led to the war between the two major forces in the later period.
The old man deliberately only wrote a few short words. If Lord wants to know the situation, he will definitely continue to ask questions, which will cost Lord more gold coins.
Rod did not care about these methods of the old man, but wrote the “transfer destination” on the paper.
After receiving the parchment, the old man did not write the answer to the question directly on the paper, but glanced at Rod.
Rod understood what the old man meant. It was nothing more than that this news was more secret than the previous news, and at the same time more valuable. He was afraid that Rod would not be able to produce so many gold coins after knowing it.
Rod nodded to the old man. After receiving Rohde’s signal, the old man quickly wrote down the message, and at the same time returned the parchment to Rohde.
Luo Luo looked down, and it said “City of Sorrows, 60” on it.
Just a place name requires 50 gold coins, far more than all previous news. Just a place name is certainly not worth such a high price, but under Rhodes’s problem, it has a high value. This is exactly the benefit that can be brought by the combination of intelligence.
Perhaps due to the location, the information of the freelance chamber of commerce in a city is obviously more expensive than Crullod, who is almost on the other side of the continent. After getting a few thousand gold coins, even the cost of paying for this news is a problem.
As for not paying the bill after asking the news and forcibly leaving by force, Rod never thought about it. Those who did this in the previous life were all wanted by the Thieves Guild.
With high bounties and detailed information provided by the Thieves Guild, many high-level assassins will choose to take on such tasks.
At this time, the message in the memory flashed by. Rod seemed to have thought of something. He drew a symbol on the parchment, then wrote “meaning, place” on the paper, and then pushed the parchment to the old man on the opposite side.
This symbol comes from Elrot’s badge in the space ring, and Rod has also seen this symbol in Elrot’s magic book.
Taking the parchment handed back by the old man, Rod saw the answers to his two questions above: “Black Crow Undead Spell School, 62” and “Diya, Sorrowful City, 65”.
As if to tell Rhode the value of each answer, the old man marked the gold coins to be paid after each answer. But Rod’s attention is obviously not on this, but on the place name, the City of Sorrows.
Seeing this place name appeared twice, but the price was completely different, Rod fell into deep thought.
What happened in the first expansion, the identity of the Necromancer, the Screaming City, the soul mission…
The old man on the opposite side also saw Rod’s thoughts, without any urging, but put his hands back in front of him, waiting for Rod’s next question.
It didn’t take long for Rod to end his thoughts, put his hand in his arms, and took out the 100 gold coins that had been put in a bag in advance from the space ring, and quickly divided out 65 gold coins in front of the old man. Put it on the table.
Then, according to the practice of inquiring in the quiet room, Rod put the parchment in his pocket and walked out.
Outside the door, the previous waiter was still waiting here, ready to lead Rhode back to the hall of the Thieves Guild.
The old man stayed in the quiet room, reached out his hand and swept it away, the gold coin disappeared suddenly, then he took out a new piece of parchment from a hidden compartment under the table, and waited for the next guest who came to inquire.