Chapter 265 Bathroom Scenery

The night is getting darker.

The conversation with the Duke of Angmar lasted for half an hour, and knowing that the old man was weak and needed to rest, Rody said goodbye politely. When he left the room, he could see that Angmar's mood had improved a lot—obviously, his plan about "Elsa's Village" had indeed worked.

Although the economic level of the Efta Territory is considered to be in the middle and upper reaches of the kingdom, in the eyes of a modern person like Rody, it has not even completely broken away from the primitive stage of "natural economy".

The extravagant life of the aristocrats is entirely due to their extreme exploitation of the bottom class. When it comes to the overall economic level, it is really lackluster.

To make an extreme comparison: in the modern society where Rody lived before traveling, even if he came from a humble background, as long as he dared to work hard, he could still find a similar job to support his family. If there is a good opportunity, it is nothing new to make a fortune. Even if you are an honest worker, your wages are enough to eat and drink.

But in this era, the fate of the bottom peasants is extremely miserable. No matter how light the tax is, they can't earn much money all year round, and they don't even have the chance to leave their villages in their entire lives... As for getting rich and going to a well-off life, it's basically a dream .

High-profit industries such as mills, breweries, bakeries, and pigeon lofts are all monopolized by nobles-monopoly means huge profits, but these profits are still not enough to look at in the face of the sudden skyrocketing military expenditure.

At this time, the sudden appearance of "Elsa Village" is definitely a surprise: the difference between "Cracked Earth" and the real medieval world is that it has the concepts of "magic" and "warcraft". In addition to food, medicinal materials, and wood, the profits of transactions related to "Warcraft" are actually far higher than most other basic industries.

If Elsa Village can become a harbor for human beings in the "Whispering Forest", it is equivalent to allowing the resources of this forest to truly open the door to the Efta territory.

Optimize the village of the elves, establish accommodation for mercenaries or adventurers, open trade channels, collect taxes, handling fees, transaction fees, etc., and then monopolize the right to buy and sell drinks. After doing this, within half a year, the problem of military expenses Provides almost immediate relief

This plan made the Duke of Angmar very excited. He originally thought that the territory would be dragged down by the war, but the sudden turning point made him see hope—although Rody had brought him surprises time and time again, he could go all the way. Winning and killing the enemy now involves economic and political aspects, which makes Angmar have to look at him again.

"The benefits you have brought to the village have been explored to the extreme. I think even the most shrewd nobles in the kingdom are nothing more than that."

The Duke of Angmar's sigh had its own reasons, the more he looked at Rody, the more pleasing he was, and before Rody left, he still took out a letter and said: "The letter from Sally sent you.

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The wax seal has not been removed, it is obvious that the Duke of Angmar respects her very much - behind this, it actually means that he does not object to the relationship between Roddy and Sally... and in this era, it is obvious what such an attitude means

After leaving the Duke's study, Rody couldn't help recalling the girl with platinum hair: her confidence on a horse when they met at the border, her coldness when she hacked Francis to death with her own hands, her reluctance at parting and her final determination …Rhody held the letter in his hand, and suddenly found himself inexplicably looking forward to the contents.

How is she doing there? Have you been wronged?

However, such emotions quickly dissipated, and Rody froze in place with some doubts, feeling that something was wrong with his thoughts...

Why do I feel this way? Do you really have any unreasonable thoughts about her?

Shaking his head, he thought it was just a matter of concern for ordinary friends—as for Naifei...

"After finishing the deployment, let's go to Prague Village."

The village where the little girl is located is more than a thousand kilometers away, but Rody still decided to find a chance to go, of course, the premise is to complete the first step of [Judgment of the Throne of Bones].

Lower your head to open the [quest bar], and talk to Angmar and Benjamin, which means that the last step of all the previous quests is over, so apart from the experience gained when killing Ansadin and others, this series of quests The end once again provided Rody with an astronomical amount of experience. Rody dragged the records and counted them. The four or five tasks related to Ansardin, Magda, and Earl Owen added up to a total of 180,000 experience rewards.

The remaining experience and these add up to more than 20,000, but because of the level increase, the required experience has become much more than before. Rody took a look and found that the distance to the next level is only a short distance away. 3 experience points.

"It's so close... Find a mission tomorrow and get it all together."

Rody needs to upgrade to level l as soon as possible, because the higher the current level is, the quality of the leather armor he makes will increase correspondingly—of course, the wristband shown to Su Lun before is for Nata, and the basic level is required to be level 9 .

It was already dark outside the window, but the time was equivalent to 8:30 in the evening. After thinking about it, Rody thought that he should have a brief exchange with Su Lun and Nata, and asked the maid about their residence.

Two minutes later, Rody saw Su Lun who was concentrating on studying the manuscript. Although he was exhausted after traveling for several days, Su Lun didn't seem to care about the fatigue at all. When he realized that Rody came to see him, he discussed the leather-making techniques with Rody energetically.

Luo Di was naturally not interested in teaching him now, and after a brief chat, he said goodbye and left.

Walking out of this guest room, he asked about Nata's room again, then walked to the front of the guest room, and gently knocked on the wooden door...

For wood elves, the time spent "bathing" is usually not too much.

When she was in Elsa Village, Nata's bathing place was a small stream not far from the village. Because the underground spring water flows, the temperature of the stream water is always a bit cold. Summer is fine, but in late autumn, severe winter and early spring, ordinary wood elves would not choose to take a bath there—but Nata, who is obsessed with cleanliness, is an obvious exception. As long as the stream does not freeze, she will still use the icy cold water to clean it. Body…

This is also typical of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It was only when she arrived in Kig Town that Nata came into contact with the "bathtub" and understood how it was used under Rody's explanation, so she didn't confuse the purpose of the bathroom in front of her at this time.

The polished surface of the marble bathtub has a soft luster, and magic crystals are placed on the heating device driven by the magic circle, so the water temperature is always constant. Nata reached out and touched it, but she couldn't figure out where the petals in the bathtub came from, because in the impression that these flowers only bloom in summer, and at this time, there are no shadows to be found in the wild

Humans are amazing.

Nata could only sigh in this way, and then took off the slightly heavy leather armor, reached out to test the water temperature, hesitated for a moment, and slowly walked into the large magic bathtub naked.

Before that, Nata took cold showers, so when the warm water slowly wrapped her body, the comfort was something this wood elf had never experienced before... She couldn't help moaning, Immediately, he closed his mouth, his eyes widened, and wanted to get out, but because his body was numb, he couldn't help but continue to sink down——

After a long while, Nata breathed out slowly after adapting to the water temperature. After her tense body relaxed, she looked at the dome with exquisite murals and the magic lighting lamp in a daze, and murmured: "Is this... the life of a human noble?"

Undoubtedly, all this has had a great impact on Nata. Compared with Elsa Village, the "material" here is like heaven. She doesn't have to worry about monsters here, and doesn't have to worry about the damage to her body from the cold stream. Just relax and enjoy...

The hot water bath is extremely relaxing to the body, coupled with the fatigue caused by the previous journey, Nata found that her eyelids soon began to droop, she wanted to get up, but she was a little nostalgic for this comfortable feeling, unconsciously Chuu closed his eyes...

"Da da."

When the knock on the door rang, Nata, who was already asleep, didn't realize it.

Rody stood outside the guest room, and tapped the old wooden door twice again with his fingers, the slightly muffled sound was not low. After waiting for half a minute, Rody looked around to make sure he knocked on the right door - the maid said that Nata did live here...

Could it be that he went somewhere else?

Such an idea was quickly rejected, and Rody couldn't find a reason for Nata to do this, and according to the previous schedule, this time was not at all the time for Nata to sleep.

Turning the handle, the door opened easily. Instead of pushing the door and entering, Rody asked through the crack of the door, "Nata, are you inside?"

no respond.

Suspicious in his heart, Rody pushed the door open with a frown and walked in. In the field of vision, Nata's cloak was hanging on the hanger, and the short bow was placed on the weapon rack. The room was neat and tidy, without any trace of battle...

"Strange…"

According to Rody's understanding, the sound of pushing the door could even wake up the sleeping Nata. This is a warrior's instinct, so he directly concluded that Nata was not in this room at this time.

If she is not here, where will she go?

Rody stepped to the room on the left, and opened the door without thinking... He didn't know the layout of this guest room in the Duke's Mansion, so he didn't realize that it was a bathroom...

Then, Nata, who was finally awakened by the sound of footsteps, sat in the bathtub and had a face-to-face meeting with Rody.

Time seems to stand still at this moment, Rody's left hand is still on the doorknob, his eyes are quickly scanning everything in the room, the focus seems to have not been concentrated on Nata in the central bathtub...

Nata, who was awakened, sat up straight because of her instinctive reaction. Amid the sound of "crashing" water, the naked Nata exposed her upper body to the air, and her skin, which was fairer than humans, was even more visible under the illumination of the magic lights. Delicate, long hair drenched on both sides of her cheeks after being soaked, her big eyes opened in confusion, as if she hadn't figured out where she was right now...

A second later, the eyes of the two finally made contact.

Rody and Nata froze at the same time, staring blankly at each other, and didn't realize what happened for a while.

But immediately after, Rody felt his gaze fell down uncontrollably as if attracted by some kind of magnetic force—this, this, this is really a bit... dazzling