373 Who Are You? (1/2)

”It's not that I'm afraid of trouble,” Roland explained, ”I just don't want to waste time.”

”Why?” Cage asked as well. He shared Andonara's doubts.

Roland explained, ”As I said before, I didn't want to convince a stubborn elf that it would be a considerable waste of time even if it worked. At that time, I just wanted to find another breakthrough.”

”You really weren't playing hard-to-get?”

Roland shook his head. ”No, I was just thinking that since there are these two professions, there must be some other people in this human world who know what they are. Since Sejuani won't talk about it, I'll go find someone else.”

”How will you find them?” Cage asked. ”Do you know any other elves or half-elves?”

”That's not the case,” Roland said with a smile, ”but I would think that a particularly well-informed organization like the Mercenary Guild, the Assassins Guild, or organizations like the Assassins Guild would have information on these two professions.”

”But they may not be willing to tell you.”

Roland laughed lightly. ”It's not that I underestimate them, but the courageous spirit of these guilds is nothing special. If ten gold coins can't buy them, I'll give them thirty; if thirty can't buy them I'll give them fifty; if fifty isn't enough, I'll give them a hundred. This should be their limit, and besides, intelligence is something that is meant to be sold. There is no information that money can't buy, as long as the price is right and a channel is found. I'm sure it's even possible to find out exactly what color the underwear of the queens of all the countries wear every day.”

Cage laughed aloud. Although he was the senior, he was also a rather open-minded man due to his early years as a mercenary, and could even be said to have a rather heavy prodigal air about him.

Roland's minor dirty joke was actually quite to his liking.

He thought Roland was an interesting person, not one of those pretentious, dull Mages.

Moreover, this person's mind was quite flexible. He wouldn't be stubbornly fixed on a point and knew how to go around any obstacles, and most importantly, when Roland chatted, his innocuous words would reveal a message from time to time.

He was rich… very rich.

To buy a piece of information for a hundred gold coins without blinking an eye, his niece probably wouldn't face any hardships if she followed him.

After these two or three days, Cage had become quite agreeable to Roland as a person and thought that he was indeed worthy of his niece.

After returning to Reed, Roland and the others stayed there for three more days before setting off on their tour again.

Roland's expression turned stern as he said, ”I understand.”

Then Roland and his party parted with Cage. Andonara was a little reluctant; after all, since childhood, Cage treated her as if she were his daughter.

Nothing noteworthy happened in the leg of the tour that followed.

Roland passed through twenty more cities with Magic Towers, and only a third of the chairmen were willing to share their experiences with him.

But even that was enough. Roland picked up many tricks learned through experience with magic, and after blending them all together, he also comprehended a native specialty on his own.

Metamagic: You can infuse small amounts of magic power from other schools of magic into the spell you're currently casting and produce special, unknown effects.

This technique was quite useful. After infusing some wind magic power into the large fireball, the stability of the large fireball would be reduced, but the ballistic speed and the power of the blast generated when it exploded would be increased.

And by infusing a little spatial magic into the Ice Ring, the Ice Ring would produce a ”leap” effect, no longer a circle cast with the caster at its center.

However, Roland still couldn't control the distance and direction of the leaps, and didn't find a pattern in it for the time being.

If the leap ability of Ice Ring could be fully controlled in the future, then Ice Ring would have a remote control effect without Roland having to teleport to cast it at a close range every time.

This greatly enhanced his own safety during combat.