Chapter 1820 (●'?'●)?? The Traveling Witch

In the blue sky above a stretch of sand dunes in the continent of Alsalia, a girl riding on a flying broom appeared. At this time, she was looking forward excitedly and looking forward, moving forward at an extremely fast speed. Cyclonus flew.

And who is that traveler whose beauty and talent radiate from a distance, and even the bright sun in the sky can't help being inferior, and even the yellow sand on the ground is so envious that it constantly emits amazing heat?

That's right!

That person is none other than the traveling witch, I—Irena!

"..."

A certain person is facing the hot wind, looking at the scenery ahead, looking at the endless yellow sand dunes, with long gray and white hair fluttering in the wind, with blue eyes, wearing a black robe, wearing the same color Irena, a girl with a witch hat, a yellow bow tie on her white base shirt, and a bear head brooch symbolizing a witch on her left chest, admired narcissistically in her own heart.

However, narcissism is narcissism, but the weather is still really hot, so that her thin white shirt has become wet and stuck to the white and greasy skin on her chest, and you can even see a little bit of it. The curved outline of the chest.

Moreover, because she was flying at high speed on a broomstick, she had to cover the witch hat on her head with her other hand while holding the tail of the broomstick with one hand, otherwise, it would have to It can't be blown away by the gusts of wind.

At this moment, just like a certain bad-hearted little girl teacher who knows how to wander around all day long, Irena also didn't go to watch the game today, but directly flew away from the floating island with her broom, crossed the sea, Came here in the desert area of ​​this continent.

In fact, Irena has never been interested in that competition, but she is very keen on traveling, and this is because she accepted the call and came to this world. She refused to participate in the competition, but she was not in a hurry The main reason for leaving.

In recent days, she has been going back at night, and during the day she comes down and wanders around this continent of Alsalia, observing and exploring the unique scenery, folk customs, Human relations, historical documents, and various distinctive urban relics, etc.

As for the competition, she just casually looked at the battle report when she went back to know who won and who lost, or who stood out.

Anyway, even Hermione, who lives in the same room with her, doesn't know what she's doing recently. She prepares for the dinner every day and never misses it. I'm afraid the other party still thinks she's on the floating island wandering around the city above, or did you go to watch that game every day?

Naturally, those things are not important, what is important right now is: the further you fly, the higher the temperature will be, especially in broad daylight and wearing a black witch robe!

Therefore, Irena couldn't bear it anymore, and she felt that she must solve the current predicament as soon as possible.

"hateful!"

"It's so hot..."

Covering her brows slightly with the brim of her witch hat, Irena squinted her eyes again at the scorching sun in the sky.

Then, she looked at the stretches of sand dunes under her feet that flew by quickly, but did not reflect heat at all. Finally, Irena, who was tortured by the heat wave, couldn't stand it anymore.

"no!"

"If this continues, I will be roasted and fucked..."

"No, I have to rest for a while."

"!!"

"Yes!"

"There seems to be a desert town there!!"

So, after looking ahead for a while with Eagle Eye, Irena quickly discovered a small town located in a valley next to Shashuo, and there seemed to be human figures moving about in it, knowing that there might be residents and In the resting place, she pressed her broom, turned it slightly, flew towards that place and landed.

...

"ha!"

"Come back to life."

"It's just that the water is a little hard to drink..."

"never mind!"

half an hour later,

Irena finally let out a long breath after eating the special food she ordered and gulping down the large glass of well water, and showed a rare trace of Satisfied flush.

This is a yellow sand town with not many residents, only about a thousand people, and it mainly produces some precious ores that are not available elsewhere. Perhaps, that is the real reason why it is still maintained and has not been completely moved. Bar?

"?"

While putting down the cup, Irena also noticed that she seemed to be surrounded by people here.

There are quite a few little kids around, honest men and women, and some young boys with embarrassing expressions are hiding at the door and window sills of the shop and peeping at her, some even pointing and saying something in some slang.

However, Irena didn't care.

After eating and drinking enough, she just patted the hat, and after removing the yellow sand stained on it, she stood up and casually walked towards the counter.

After all, Irena is as beautiful as her, and a genius who combines wisdom and beauty like her, it is normal to be surrounded by others, but...

Anyway, even in this small shop, the shitty place was really hot enough that she just wanted to get out of there!

"Huh?"

"Hey! Boss!"

"How do you sell these fruits?"

Suddenly, Irena saw a basket of strange fruits on the counter. There were two of them in the meal she just ordered, and they tasted pretty good, so she decided to ask.

"A half frame of a gold coin!"

The boss said the price without hesitation.

"!!"

"So expensive?!"

Hearing this, Irena was startled, and subconsciously protected her dwindling purse.

However, since this is a desert with few products, she endured it, and decided not to eat the kind of rotten fruits, and pay the bill first. As for the fruits, she can wait until she is ready to go back at night before thinking about it?

After all, her teacher's palace has everything, and there are a lot of fruits, some are produced in the continent of Alsalia, and some are simply transported from places such as Pandaria in the world of Azeroth. , Therefore, she is not too strange about the things in front of her.

"??"

"this!"

"A silver coin for a glass of water?"

"!!"

"Why don't you grab it?!"

Soon, when she was checking out, seeing the price written on the bill, Irena finally couldn't help but burst out, slapped the counter directly, stared angrily at the profiteer with reddish-brown skin and looked a bit thin and asked road.

"Guest, you misunderstood..."

"It's different from the outside. Here in our small town, there is only one well that produces water. Except for the local residents who have one bucket per day per household, they can only distribute less than ten buckets of water to the passing vendors. And one bucket Sell ​​it for a gold coin!"

"In my store, there is only one bucket of rations a day. Do you think it is expensive?"

"Also, customers, you don't know that many merchants may have to wait for several days or even half a month in order to save enough water for the return flight."

"But if it weren't for the fact that you are a new face, and if it wasn't for the fact that the last batch of vendors just left, I wouldn't be willing to just sell you that big glass of water."

"In our place, we should drink water sparingly!"

Facing Irena's questioning and scolding, the boss seemed to have gotten used to it, and directly asked and complained after explaining the situation.

After all, this is a desert, food and water are very precious, especially water, and the other party just came to the desert to eat and drink, where can there be cheap ones?

"So it is!"

After thinking about it, Irena, who felt that what the other party said was well-founded, couldn't help but nodded, feeling that she really made a fuss just now.

"!!"

"correct!"

"If I sell you water, how much can you pay for a barrel?"

Irena, who was about to pay the bill, suddenly asked.

Recently, because of traveling everywhere, she spent a lot of various expenses, so that she couldn't afford it financially.

After all, she is not the kind of poor wanderer, she spends a lot of money on food, drink and shopping wherever she goes, so, gradually, her purse becomes empty, so that Misaka two days ago When Meiqin wanted to borrow money from her, she searched and searched all over her body, and only then did she come up with a few gold coins?

Therefore, if she wants to continue traveling, if she doesn't want to ask her little teacher for money while eating, drinking, and sleeping for nothing, she, Irena, must find a way to get some quick money by herself as soon as possible. Just enrich yourself!

And now, isn't the water that the boss mentioned just now a huge business opportunity?

"you?"

"You came with a caravan and brought water?"

As he said that, he was startled for a while, and then, subconsciously, the boss wanted to stretch his head towards the dazzlingly bright yellow sand town street outside the shop, wanting to see what kind of Irena's caravan was. Where.

"oops!"

"Don't look, there is no caravan!"

Irena called out to the other party, crossed her arms, and asked impatiently.

"Just say it!"

"If, if I fill up all these wooden barrels of yours, how much can you give me?"

She came here alone on a broom, and there was no caravan at all. As for how to get the water out, that was her own business, and had nothing to do with the other party.

"are you serious?"

"Well……"

"Okay, let me see..."

"There are twenty-four empty wooden barrels here. If you really have a way to fill them up, I can give you eight...no, ten gold coins!"

The boss made up his mind, hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth for the last time, extended two full slaps and added.

"besides!"

"You don't have to pay for the meal."

Here, food and water are the hard currency, and money is secondary. This is the main reason why those traders who have traveled thousands of miles here to traffic in minerals are willing to spend a lot of money to buy well water that is worthless outside. .

"!!"

"Then you can sell at least twenty-four pieces?"

"You profiteer!!"

Irena was a little angry, because the other party actually wanted to take advantage of her so much, did she still think she was the kind of person who didn't know how to count?

but……

Feeling angry, she thought that she had no channels and didn't know who to sell to, so she took out her short wand bitterly, and walked to the front of those wooden barrels.

"Clear springs are like water!"

After watching for a while, Irena didn't care if the barrels were dry or not, and just cast a simple spell. Then, while the boss was stunned, the empty barrels were filled one after another. Buckets of clean water.

"call!"

"done!"

"Give me money!"

Soon, when the twenty-four empty wooden barrels were filled with overflowing clear spring water and wet the floor, Irena turned around with a smile as if she was relieved, and stretched towards the boss unceremoniously. Out of her slender hands.

"!!"

The boss didn't take out the money, but threw himself in front of a wooden barrel immediately, and drank a handful with his hands.

"It's really water!"

"So sweet!"

But when he found out that it was indeed water, and it was still the sweet and clear spring water, which was better and clearer than their desert well water full of caustic soda, he was instantly stunned.

"Could it be fake?"

"Give me the money!"

"Okay, ten gold coins!"

Irena, who is a bit of a money fanatic, continued to urge her, and smiled so much that her eyes almost crooked.

"you……"

"Are you a witch?"

Finally, the boss realized something, and asked directly with some trepidation and caution.

"No!"

"I am a witch!"

"Give me the money!"

Irena corrected, and urged again.

"ah?"

"well."

"I'll get it for you right now!"

The boss thought about it for a while, and he didn't know the difference between a witch and a witch, so he simply didn't intend to play tricks, but walked directly to the counter, and quickly took out two stacks of golden gold coins and put them on the counter.

"ha!"

"Then thank you very much!"

Irena smiled happily, stretched out her hand, and pulled them into her pocket.

This is all right, at least several days of travel expenses are available.

Moreover, she decided that when she went back at night, she would record this place in her diary and calculate the coordinates, and then, next time, when she had no money to travel after a while, would she come again?

"cough……"

"Witches like you, it's really easy to make money..."

Shaking his head, seeing Irena's proud and excited face, the boss picked up the barrel lids to cover the wooden barrels, but at the same time, he didn't forget to turn his head and smacked his lips at Irena and sighed with some heartache. ,

"easy?"

"Do you know how hard it is to be a witch?"

"besides!"

"You have too little water vapor in the air here. If you usually only need one magic power to fill a bucket of water, now you need at least three to four magic powers!"

Magic power cannot create water out of thin air, magic power is just a kind of energy, and their witches use magic to create water, just by consuming energy to liquefy the water vapor in the air into water, so, in this desert Gobi , the mana that needs to be consumed must be more than other places.

"Those magical powers are almost enough to blow up your small town with fireballs!"

Irena said angrily.

If she is the kind of wicked and evil female devil, she can destroy this place with one fire, and then all the gold, silver and jewelry here will be hers alone. Earn ten gold coins?

"ah….."

Sure enough, the boss took a step back in fright.

"Guest, you are joking..."

Immediately afterwards, he was a little speechless, and after realizing that Irena was just joking and making an analogy, and didn't really choose to do such a terrible thing, he smiled embarrassingly.

"correct!"

"I want to ask you something, where is this place on the map?"

"do you know?"

After eating for nothing and earning a small fortune, Irena, who was about to leave, suddenly remembered something else. Then, she directly took out a map and took a picture of it on the counter.

"oh!"

"here it is……"

"The border fortress of the ancient kingdom of Bardia?"

"But it was abandoned hundreds of years ago, what are you doing there?"

After looking at the map and receiving Irena's instructions, the boss quickly understood where the marked point was.

"Guest, you'd better not go."

"That place is far away from here. It will take many days to walk from the desert!"

"You don't know yet, do you?"

"Back then, the border guards of the Kingdom of Bardia fought a great battle with the barbarians, and many people died. Now there are demonized monsters and undead everywhere. I advise you not to go there. "

"Very dangerous!"

Immediately afterwards, the boss kindly persuaded her, and tried to explain the situation to Irena as clearly as possible.

"thank you for your kindness!"

"However, I'm still going!"

"I'm flying, and I should be there soon. Besides, I'm a powerful witch, so I'm not afraid of those monsters and undead!"

Saying that, Irena puffed out her chest proudly.

Thanks to some nasty little girl teacher and, of course, maybe some nasty bear?

Anyway, Irena's actual combat experience is very rich, and her magic power level is far beyond that of ordinary archmages. Therefore, she didn't take the scary monsters and undead things that the boss said at all.

"Stop talking!"

"It's so hot in here, it's unbearable!"

"Just tell me where it is!"

While talking to this old man with reddish-brown skin, a thin layer of sweat beads appeared on her neck again, so Irena couldn't wait to leave here and find the place on the map up.

If she moved faster, she might be able to make it back in time before dinner?

"To the northwest."

"Walk along a dry riverbed for seven or eight days, and when you see a large area of ​​fort ruins covered in yellow sand, you should be there."

"How long will it take you to fly, I can't guarantee that."

The old man has rarely seen people flying to their desert. After all, those flying birds and griffins are too expensive, and they can’t pull heavy cargo, and those merchants are not particularly rich. , Therefore, he really couldn't figure out how long it would take for the other party to fly there.

"Very good!"

"correct!"

"Do you have any specialties here?"

"Like something delicious?"

Irena, who was about to go out, suddenly turned back, dropped a gold coin, picked up the box of fruit and asked with a smile.

Irena decided to bring some special products from this desert back to comfort her little teacher. After all, she has been eating and drinking for free and sleeping in the palace for so long, so she always wants to take some special products. To give back.

like...

The things she ate just now, including these dried fruit-like fruits, taste pretty good. She believes that her teacher, a bad little girl who likes to eat snacks, will definitely be interested of.

"Ahead, at the intersection!"

"There is a crippled old woman who specializes in selling various specialties. You outsiders should like her."

Without hesitation, the boss stretched out his finger and pointed in another direction.

"Thanks!"

After finishing speaking, Irena used magic to put away the box of fruit, then turned her head and walked away, leaving only a scent of sweat in this dilapidated shop for merchants to rest for food and supplies.

"!!"

"Hello!"

"Guest! Those are two gold pieces..."

Looking at the gold coins left by Irena, and thinking about the weight of the box of preserved fruit just now, the old man just wanted to chase after him, but he paused when he thought that he seemed to be able to make a lot of money from the other party, and finally Still stopped.

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