Chapter 15 (2/2)

There were a few soldiers with leather armor, and they not only needed to guard the door, but also collect the taxes for entering the village. They watched Gerrard, who was as tall as the wall, then just let him in and told him to behave himself without daring to tax him.

“I’m being treated much better than the last time I was here.” Gerrard could not help but laugh, “I recall that the time when I came here as a fugitive. I was injured and sick, and those soldiers made things difficult for me on purpose, and I did not get in until I paid extra money.”

“Oh? So do you want revenge then?” Sui Xiong laughed and asked him. Sui Xiong could sense the situation around Gerrard and communicate with him with his mind.

Gerrard shook his head and mused, “I used to think I should teach them a lesson when I become someone of importance, but now I think there is no need to do that. They are just a bunch of small people who have a dangerous job with low income. The reason why they behave so badly is that they have to support their families, so there is no need for me to be angry with them.”

“It seems that you are getting a bit closer to the moral high ground.”

“Now that I have received the power I never thought I could possibly have, and I am even blessed and protected by a great God, what is the point of being fussy about those people who struggle to make a living?” Gerrard scratched his head and laughed warmly.

Both he and Sui Xiong did not notice that there was a middle-aged man walking past him, and that the man stared at his bracelet for a short while with his pupils shrinking a bit when he laid his eyes on it.

The man walked past Gerrard as if nothing had happened. As soon as Gerrard turned a corner and disappeared, the man immediately turned around, hurried to an ordinary courtyard and started to knock the door.

“Who is this?” after taking away the lid from the peephole, the gatekeeper looked through it and asked. Then, he opened the door quickly, and asked, “Vice-chairman? Aren’t you supposed to be in the Gold-panning Town?”

“I have more important things to do.” The old man explained briefly, “Go and inform the best thieves in the town, and the ‘Quick Knife’ brothers to come here… Wait, not the brothers, only the thieves.”

The large gatekeeper was in a daze and did not dare to ask further questions when he saw the middle-aged man’s serious face. He said yes, and hurried to give the order.

The middle-aged man closed the door, walked straight into the inner room, turned the corner twice, and came to a ordinary small room. This room looked quite simple, and there was nothing special about it. But he knew that at least twenty gears were set up and hidden in this room, a room that even a group of adventurers could not get out of safely.

There was a very common old man, who looked like a vendor on the street, sitting on the bed and reading. The old man frowned when he saw the middle-aged man walk in a hurry, and asked, “Grey Eyes, you are supposed to go to the Gold-panning Town to work together with our peers to make preparations for the auction to be held next month, why you are here?”

The old man’s tone was not that serious, but the middle-aged man immediately got startled, and there was sweat beading on his forehead. He quickly explained, “Chairman, I saw a very treasured object when I was walking on the street earlier today! This is really a big deal!”

“Oh?” the old man’s eyes lit up, and he put down his book. He knew clearly that what the middle-aged man, his assistant, was capable of. Although the assistant was not good at stealing or assassinating, and was very cowardly and cautious as well, which made him unworthy of the designation of “Association of Thieves”, but he had really sharp eyes and never failed to authenticate all kinds of treasured objects. Rather, he could always find something valuable from the trash thrown away by the adventurers, and this made him worthy of his nickname which had the word “eyes” in it. Since he was so excited about this object, it must really be something good!

“Sit down, and tell me. There is no need to hurry.”

“Yes!” Grey Eyes sat down and breathed deeply. Then he told the old man what Gerrard like looked in detail, and especially how the bracelet looked.

“Chairman, I swear on my eyes, that bracelet is definitely something special!” He grew very excited again, and exclaimed, “It is at least an advanced magical object… It may be a legendary object!”

“A legendary object?!” Now even the chairman of the Association of Thieves could not help but become excited. He stood up and asked, “Are you sure? What kind then?”

“I am 60-70 percent sure, but I am not sure about it’s kind. While I have a vague feeling that there was a powerful mind in that bracelet, it was probably a holy article worshiped by the people in that giant’s tribe for generations.”

The chairman nodded. A giant was a very strong race in the first place. A holy article worshiped by them generation after generation might be a legendary treasured object. He instantly got very excited as soon as he thought of the phrase “legendary treasured object”.

This world was big, but legendary treasured objects were not that common, and there was always an impressive history behind every one of them. Most of them were in the hands of the powerful, for example, a noble aristocrat, or a famous wizard, or even a leader of a big association… And his own superior, a person of great importance who governed the routine business of the whole Ash Village, also had one.

That object was the Ace card for the superior, and it could save his life when he was in danger. More than once, it had turned peril into safety or turned the tables for him. The old man thought that if he could get one too… Thinking of this, he could not help but sneer.