Chapter 21

Qin Chu calculated it, and he didn't know which idiot with a sore on his head set the ratio, one mana equals sixty-six gri.

Judging from this ratio, the items sold here are definitely cheap.

The rye buns as big as a head are enough to fill one stomach, which is not an exaggeration. Even for those miners working in the mine, it is enough to fill their stomachs. Buying two is enough for a day's food.

That is definitely whole wheat bread, black, and you can still see traces of bran and wheat bran on it. If it is on Earth, it will be called healthy, nutritious, rich in fiber, and sold at a high price.

Here, it is not a delicious food. The taste is not something that ordinary people can bear. Eating it in the throat is like scratching the throat like a thorn and a knife.

It is a pet of the nobles, and they don't even care about it.

The cakes enjoyed by the nobles cost ten manas at a time, which can buy nearly five hundred rye buns, enough for a miner for several months.

Qin Chu's set of clothes that can only be worn once cost more than a thousand manas.

The class of this world is so obvious, two classes, two worlds.

In fact, the lives of civilians have improved a little bit now, and they were even worse before.

Because of the inhumane oppression of the nobles, the lives of civilians have always been miserable. Almost all the harvests from hard work throughout the year have to be paid as taxes to the empire and the nobles.

Coupled with the invasion of monsters, it is not an exaggeration to say that they live in purgatory.

Although most civilians are numb, there are still some people with lofty ideals. Some people can't survive and start to unite their companions to resist.

In order to quell the civil strife, and because of the large number of deaths of soldiers due to fighting monsters, young civilians are needed to supplement them, so the empire slightly reduced taxes, squeezed out a little bit of benefits from the teeth, and transferred them to civilians to ease the contradictions between civilians and the nobles.

The appearance of Qin Chu is a novel character for this side. After all, it is rare for a knight to appear in the civilian area, and the people here don't know the identity of Qin Chu the hero.

Maritis and Angelica stayed on both sides, always paying attention to the situation around them. After all, there are all kinds of people here, and no one knows whether the civilians approaching them are monsters.

Sniffing the strange smell mixed in the air, Qin Chu walked towards a fruit stall full of watermelons. Inside was a short and fat man with rough skin and a face full of pits and pockmarks.

"Brother, how much is this watermelon per pound?" Qin Chu asked the melon stall owner.

The melon stall owner raised his slightly turbid eyes: "Two squares for one..."

Qin Chu almost added a sentence, damn, is the melon skin made of gold or the melon grains made of gold? He held back, after all, two squares for one, it's really damn cheap.

He wanted to find fault, but was stuck all of a sudden.

Qin Chu was too lazy to bother, stepped forward, and put his hand on the melon stall owner's shoulder.

"My lord, what are you doing?"

The melon stall owner was full of suspicion. He didn't know Qin Chu's identity, but seeing that Qin Chu was dressed in gorgeous clothes and followed by dozens of knights, he must be a noble.

It was strange enough that a noble appeared in the market in the civilian area, and now he put his hand on his shoulder. He didn't know what he did. He curled up and pretended to be scared.

"Don't pretend, monster, I can see at a glance that you are not human, why don't you show yourself quickly..."

The next moment, the Devourer effect was activated, and the invisible energy instantly surrounded the melon stall owner completely.

As Qin Chu's strength increased, the Devourer effect became stronger and stronger. In an instant, the melon stall owner only felt that the magic power in his body was like a dam opening and releasing water, surging out.

He wanted to struggle, but Qin Chu's hand was like sticking to his shoulder and he couldn't get away at all.

His face became distorted in an instant, and he screamed in horror: "Murder, murder..."

This is a very smart monster.

"The noble killed people in the street..."

Chapter 31 The Sky Continent is about to change (Three thousand collections and recommendations

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This monster is very smart. When it was attacked by Qin Chu, it did not immediately start to resist.

The crime of attacking a noble is very serious. Once he fights back, the knights around Qin Chu can kill him on the spot and scatter his ashes, leaving him no room for defense.

In this world, the power of the nobles is so exaggerated.

However, he knows that there are many conflicts between civilians and nobles. Although the royal family and the nobles have expressed their opinions and given up some interests to ease the conflicts, they cannot completely cover up the conflicts between the two classes.

He wants to use this to cause dissatisfaction among other civilians, so that Qin Chu will have some concerns and let him go.

However, what he didn't expect was that Qin Chu was not a noble, and would not do things in the way of nobles.

Listening to the howling of the melon stall owner, Qin Chu didn't care, chuckled lightly, his tone was flat, his voice was low and full of etiquette, that attitude didn't seem to be swallowing a monster at all, but more like an elegant exchange between nobles.

"Sir, you are wrong."

"I am not a noble, I am... a brave man who was just summoned."

Qin Chu stated his identity.

When the melon stall owner opposite heard this, his face changed instantly.

Although it was only one night, the events at the banquet had already spread all over the place through various channels. He knew that the newly summoned hero had a mysterious and powerful power that could directly see through the disguise of monsters.

In other words, the hero in front of him already knew his true face.

After figuring this out, he became mad and picked up the machete on the melon stall and stabbed Qin Chu in the stomach.

Dingdang...

The knife was bounced away before it touched Qin Chu's skin.

The two-handed giant sword swept across, and with a puff, it directly cut the melon stall owner in half.

Thick white liquid splashed out, and the strong stench was spreading rapidly.

After being cut in half, the melon stall owner finally showed his true appearance, which was the kind of ugly milky white insect, a phantom demon.

It was indeed a monster, worthy of being a hero.

A group of guards around him admired Qin Chu more and more.

The civilians who gradually surrounded them were furious when they saw these knights killing the melon stall owner. The newly promulgated laws of the empire no longer allowed such behavior. How dare this cruel nobleman do this?

But before they could get angry, they found the two cut pieces of insects that were still wriggling. They were pale and didn't know what was going on.

Tsk...

It's a pity that this guy's power was not completely devoured before he was killed by Maritis, at least one-third was wasted.

After a short silence, Qin Chu turned to the civilians around him and bowed slightly: "Everyone, I am the newly summoned hero of the Sky Continent... Please don't panic, I am just eradicating the monsters hidden in the city."

The hero actually entered the civilian area to eradicate monsters in order to protect the civilians?

Aren't the heroes only serving the royal family, the church and the nobles? When will they protect the civilians?

For a while, the faces of the people around him were different, and they even found it difficult to accept this reality.

Qin Chu didn't say much, and soon turned around and left, looking for the next target.

Maritis hurriedly followed from behind: "Sir, the Brave..."

She was a little melancholy, the situation just now was too dangerous.

If she hadn't acted in time, the Brave would have been in a state of turmoil.

"When you find a new target, can you tell me first? Don't touch it rashly. It's very dangerous..."

"Sorry, I can't do it. I can only confirm whether the other party is a monster after I touch it with my own hands. After all, it would be bad if I accidentally killed civilians... Of course, if you can control the target I have chosen, it would seem safer for me to check it."

Maritis' eyes lit up. This method is good. She is worthy of being a Brave. She is really smart.

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On the other side, Candice had already left the imperial city.

Her figure shuttled through a barren jungle. According to the request of Sir Horus, she must personally inform the Seventh Prince of the route of the Brave Team member Shield Guard Benson.

She didn't really want to touch those ugly guys, but she didn't have the courage to refuse Sir Horus's order.

She didn't know what Lord Horus was going to do, but she knew that she, the seven princes, and even the brave man were all pawns in Lord Horus's plan.

As pawns, they had to show their value.

The situation in the Sky Continent was probably going to change.

Traveling day and night, until late at night on the second day, Candice finally stopped in front of a high mountain.

Looking around, the forest was lush and green, and the air was filled with gray-black mist, with a depressing and palpitating breath.

At night, it was quiet, without the sound of nightingales and insects, and no wind.

This place was like a dead zone. Even if Candice had half the blood of a demon, she could feel deeply depressed.

The gray-white mist shrouded the foot of the mountain, which was terrifying and weird.

Taking a deep breath, Candice suppressed the irritability in her chest. She knelt on one knee in front of the mountain: "In the Imperial City of Orville Empire, Candice, the 34th intelligence agent, has an important matter to ask to see His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince."

There was no movement around.

She knew that because of her identity, those monsters would not easily let her meet the Seventh Prince. Perhaps at this moment, behind the fog, a group of monsters were looking at her and laughing triumphantly.

"This is a very important piece of information. If it is delayed, it may have serious consequences." Candice added.

After a long time, a light gray figure loomed in the thick fog, and a distorted, human-shaped outline could be seen in the blur.

"Candice, what important information can you have?"

"Tell me, I will tell His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince."

The voice was sharp and piercing, making people feel extremely uncomfortable. Along with the sound, the strange limbs in the fog twisted more and more frequently, and its body was like an amorphous piece of meat, squirming non-stop.

"Sorry, this information is of great importance. I must meet the Seventh Prince in person."

Candice's answer obviously angered the monster in the fog. In an instant, the gray-white fog around them rolled violently and turned into a huge skull.

There was horror in the evil.

With a whoosh, the skull flew towards Candice, opening its mouth wide, as if it wanted to swallow Candice into its stomach.

"Filthy bastard, a bastard with human blood flowing in his body, you dare to talk to me like this, what qualifications do you have to meet His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince?"

A cold light flashed in Candice's eyes, and she almost couldn't control it, but Candice held back, clenched her fingers, and the resentment towards the monster in her chest became stronger and stronger.

Obviously, I was working for them, but they didn't even want to pretend on the surface.

In an instant, the huge skull formed by the thick fog appeared in front of Candice, and the bloody mouth opened, about to swallow Candice in the next moment!

From beginning to end, Candice did not move at all.

"Stop..."

Just when Candice was about to be swallowed, a dull, drum-like sound came from the depths of the mountain.

The huge skull suddenly stopped, and then suddenly retreated, shrank, and disappeared, as if it had never existed.

"Let her in."

The thick fog parted on both sides, revealing a path.

The mountain in front of him was just an empty shell, and the inside had long been hollowed out by the monsters, used as a temporary camp for His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince.

In the thick fog on both sides, you can still feel a large number of shadowy and twisted limbs. At a glance, it only makes people's scalps numb. There are countless pairs of black or scarlet eyes that penetrate the thick fog and stare at Candice.

Even though Candice's will is quite firm, she also has goose bumps at this time. She can't feel any kindness in those eyes.

Whether hoarse, sobbing, wailing and roaring, all kinds of sounds are also penetrating her ears from all directions.

In the area where monsters live, normal humans can't get close at all. Sound, vision, smell, and all kinds of torture are enough to make the soul collapse.

Huh...

Candice took a breath, opened her eyes again, and walked deeper into the broken thick fog.

The terrifying pressure lasted for a long time, and finally, Candice stopped.

Inside the mountain, a small palace was built. In the palace, there was a throne made of bones. Two pale skulls were placed on the armrests of the throne.

On the throne, there was a huge figure.

What came to his face was a terrifying pressure. His body, which was tens of meters tall, was extremely majestic.

He had dark red skin, as tough as steel. Under his skin, one could see thick blood vessels with liquid flowing.

His limbs were covered with thick, hard scales that shone with metallic luster. His appearance was more like a giant human, except that the nails at the ends of his fingers and toes were as sharp as knives and curved like hooks.

On the huge head, there were two curved goat horns.

A huge arm supported his chin, and scarlet eyes that were bigger than a basin were staring at the small figure of Candice below.