220.Chapter 220 – ‘Garbage’ Cleanup
Chapter 220 – ‘Garbage’ Cleanup
New Continent Middle Earth, Principality of Luwalden.
With the docking of the sea ship, especially the familiar dragon head flag, as a dragon descendant, Luo De hurriedly used the linen robe to wrap his body with scales, only revealing a pair of eyes that are still a little different from the ordinary people, and began to do the work of carrying goods at the pier as usual.
Since the great rebellion forty-five years ago, the Duchy of Luwalden has completely entered a broken state where various forces have cut off one side of the country, and it is already a matter of luck for an ordinary person to do all he can just to stay alive.
Dock porter is completely a force work, by piece billing, the employment environment than compared to the Blue Star’s takeout industry is also rolled, in exchange for the ordinary people to work hard to do a day is barely mixed with a subsistence.
But as a dragon descendant of the most he lacks is the strength, ordinary people used to make a living of the work froze by him into an income-generating business, the day’s income can often be worth seven or eight adult strong man.
However, no matter where the alien is placed in any world, it is often easy to be ostracized.
If it is not Rod’s body as a dragon descendant is also different from normal people, a few ordinary big men are not a match, it is estimated that the peers have long been surrounded by beatings to collect protection money.
This kind of combat power has naturally attracted the covetousness of many gangs near the harbor, and several times tried to recruit him as a member of the fighters, but all of them were escaped by Luo De in various ways.
The experience of being imprisoned in a ranch with his buddies as an animal and having their blood extracted as magic materials when he was young was still fresh in his mind, which made him not have any good feelings towards these gangs, and only wanted to stay far away from them.
Maybe even he himself did not expect, his life in addition to the red scales of the gang of the same as the dragon descendants of partners, the first time to develop trust and good feelings, actually is a mixed-blood Zhuoer and a gang of savage sailors.
And the other side of the ship regularly to the harbor to provide the porter position, the same for him to provide the most stable amount of income security, but also rely on this income, so that he can in the harbor of the lower part of the city to live peacefully for so many years, at the same time there is still room for relief to assist the city’s other dragon partners.
Accompanied by one silver coin of Lewaldon and seven copper coins into his hand with a crisp and pleasant sound, Rod’s mood was so good that he couldn’t help but once again muster up the courage to ask the half-blooded Draconian who was sitting on the mast with her long legs crossed and handing out money to them personally:
“Sister Aliana, can you help me see if this money I’ve saved is enough to settle in mainland Scannis?”
Aliana gave a somewhat surprised glance to this Dragonborn who had wrapped himself up tightly:
“You haven’t given up yet?”
It was only then that she remembered the request of this dragon descendant who had brought along a few companions who wanted to travel on their ship to the Old Continent to make a living.
After all, this could be a matter of immigration and even control of the entire Dragonborn, and she couldn’t help but wonder what her own Dragonlord, Davyutos, thought about it, so she said to the Dragonborn children:
No place will be the ideal country, want to change to a new place to live a decent life, first save money, and only to pay enough tribute, the dragon master may be able to look at you ‘burdensome’, or even under the banner.
Yes, in Aliana’s opinion, even the dragon beasts are treated as non-dragon aliens by the dragons, not to mention these humanoid dragon descendants whose bloodlines are even more mixed and inferior.
Their physical qualities in all aspects might be far superior to those of ordinary humans, but to the dragons, they were still just a liability, not even qualified as ‘currency’.
She did not realize that her own joke had been taken seriously by the other party, and that she had been carrying it out for decades.
Luo De instantly asked back with a bit of a nagging question, ”Abandonment? This place, ever since I can remember, has been full of injustice, discrimination and oppression, and this place is hell for us dragon descendants. Since I have a chance to escape this place, I naturally have to do my best.”
Speaking here, Rod also didn’t know what he remembered, and suddenly hung his head with some loss and said:
“Moreover, a partner of mine named Red Scale back then most likely smuggled herself to Skanis, I want to try and find her.”
That year, he had a nightmare that he was possessed by a demon named Gudmund, and then turned to ashes by Red Scale, who was also a bit off, but just when he thought he was dead, he awoke naked from the battlefield and was found by his partners.
It was Red Scale who saved him! It had to be.
Seeing such a persistent dragon descent youth, Arianna but some headache up, really a little can not bear to continue to tease the other party, so he had to reveal part of the truth and said:
“Then you may be destined to be disappointed, since fifteen years ago, the high elves began to attack into the main Scannis continent, even my master’s territory Carter Ghana have fallen, you are now even if you go over, if you are lucky not to be sunk by the elf navy in the middle of the road and fed to the fish, but also by the gang of long ears to be pulled to the front line as a slave with the fate of the cannon fodder, even so, you still want to go to Scannis to settle down? Even so, do you still want to go to Scannis to settle down?”
When Rod suddenly heard this, he felt a great disappointment and darkness engulfing him.
It was as if all the efforts he had made day in and day out for decades had lost their meaning.
“. I see, thank you sister Arianna.”
“Little Rod, I have a feeling that it shouldn’t be too far away from the day my Dragon Lord returns to the Prime Material Plane from the Bato Hell, do you want to come to my ship first to become a sailor first? When that time comes, you’ll possess another choice opportunity to realize your long-cherished wish.”
A ray of light once again surfaced in Rod’s eyes, but as soon as he thought of something, his eyes darkened once again, and he twisted his head and pursed his lips as he apologized to this Zhuoer:
“I’m sorry, I still have two companions who need my care, and leaving me, they, in this harbor city, won’t be able to survive at all.”
“Good luck then.” Arianna nodded, not persuading anything further.
After all, she had only thrown out this olive branch because she saw that this dragonborn possessed a certain amount of cultivation value; she was a Drow, not a charity organization.
Rod smiled and nodded his head, and then he put away his money for today’s work, dragging his tired body and turning to leave.
But just as Rod’s figure was about to disappear in the harbor, the Zhuoer sitting on the mast lookout rail seemed to feel something, and instinctively raised her hand, and saw a magical summoning owl land on her wrist.
Once the magical missive had been read, Aliana sat bolt upright:
“Pavla is up!”
“That boy, wait.”
Zing.
Dragonborn Rhodes, who was just about to leave the harbor, heard the voice of the half-blooded Drow behind him once again.
As soon as Rod turned around, he saw a golden trajectory falling towards him, he instinctively reached out to catch it, and then his entire body was dumbfounded.
A platinum coin! A Dwensel platinum coin!
This would have to be a huge amount of money that he could only earn by carrying goods at the docks for a hundred days! That’s if he met a captain like Arianna who naturally took a liking to their dragonborn.
“What is your order? Ms. Aliana.” For a moment even the address changed.
Only after seeing this Drow’s face full of fervor Rod panicked even more.
He had heard a lot of rumors about Drow’s lechery, and even the real dragons went down on them! Simply did not dare to think deeply.
For a while Rod thought that this Ms. Drell saw that she was about to become an adult and wanted to come and taste the fresh and tasty
Should he agree? Or yes?
Just don’t know whether his small body can carry from the ravages of the Zhuoer sister, it is said that these Zhuoer generally have the fetish of disciplining the flesh of playmates.
”I I should be able to carry it, right? It’s a Devonshire Platinum!” But just as the dragonborn teenager was thinking about it, Aliana took another enchanted dagger from her waist and tossed it towards Rod, saying:
“Here’s a task for you, no matter how many men you get, clean up the harbor district, if anyone tries to obstruct, take this Doom of Obscurity and kill him, when the sun rises from the sea tomorrow morning, I want to see a spotless harbor neighborhood.
“Spotless!
“Got it?”
After ordering this almost absurd task, Arianna leapt down from the lookout on the mast and disappeared into the lower city, leaving Rod stumped in place.
His entire head nearly exploded as he scanned the garbage and even excrement that littered the entire harbor.
Cleaned up to the point of being spotless, how was this possible!
Especially since the entire populace of Warrens Harbor or rather most of the humans in the urban areas of this century had an extremely foul-smelling habit:
That of dumping their night jars directly onto the streets in the morning and letting the shoes and wheels of pedestrians carry the filth into the distance.
So much so, that the first thing a traveler sees when they look up at the neighborhood is not an exotic landscape, but most likely a jug of auntie thrown down from the second floor by a woman with a bag of hair.
Which meant that even if he did lead the men to clean up the street, he’d be done for the next day.
“Damn! Why did Aliana give me such an incomprehensible task out of the blue in good time, shouldn’t cleaning up the streets be a need only when some big shot arrives?”
As far as he could remember, this kind of situation had only happened to him once when he was young and saw King Lulvaden out on an inspection trip.
As a result, that unlucky king had even been assassinated by the rebels in the street, and then the whole of Lulvaden had become a mess.
“Wait..! Big man?”
Upon remembering the big shot that could be followed so fervently by Miss Arianna, it seemed, there was only the possibility that it could be the
Son of the Crimson Calamity–His Highness Davyutos?
Is that legendary Highness coming to Lewaldon?
Rod, who sensed this possibility, only felt his heart suddenly beating violently.
This was his, no, their chance!
A chance to prove themselves.
A chance to make that Red Dragon Highness see the value of them, the Dragonborn!
A dragon might be strong enough individually, but he also needed dependents, followers, and even bannermen to serve him.
Just like Miss Aliana, although she was a Zorro, by relying on the intimidation and influence of that dragon, she had long been the premier captain of the entire Midway Bay.
Every time Arianna’s dragon’s head ship sailed, those big and small gang members in the whole of Warrens would have to be honest for a few days, or at least not dare to lay hands on this Drow’s crew.
“Mard, put up a fight!” With this thought in mind, Rod pulled out the dagger that was stuck in the stone slab as soon as he could, tightened his robes, and rushed towards the neighborhood where his partners were.
As long as they got this done, perhaps, going forward, they wouldn’t need this stuffy robe to hide themselves anymore.
As night fell, Rod set out with shovels and brooms with the children he had recruited under his ‘coin-spreading’ offense and the people who had dared to risk their lives for this windfall.
But even though they felt they were moving stealthily, in the eyes of the gang members entrenched in the harbor of Warrens, it was still considered to be a big action.
Although Rod was cleaning up the garbage in the streets, was this done with the consent of the gang members?
Soon, as a scream for mercy rang out, the last thing Rod wanted to encounter happened, and immediately led a group of fearful partners over.
“Yo, if it isn’t our little dragon man Rod! What? You little trash running out to ‘take jobs’ at night, have you paid your protection fee for this month?”
“No, I didn’t know you had to pay in this line of work.” Rod replied with a deep breath hanging his head.
“Then what are you still waiting for, either pay up or chop off a finger and give it to me, this is the rule of our lower city of Warrens.”
“Who made the rules?” Rod suddenly found himself becoming surprisingly calm.
The gang member was instantly somewhat dissatisfied with Rod’s ‘condescending’ attitude, “Of course it’s our Blood Jackal Gang poof, you!”
He was only halfway through his sentence when he watched incredulously as a sharp dagger stabbed straight through the leather armor on his chest, and then he could no longer speak.
It seemed that no matter what, he had never expected that the Dragonborn child who had been exploited by himself for his entire life would actually choose to storm up and stab him.
How dare you!
Luo De then proceeded to stab several times in the crowd’s attention, completely making the other party lose his movement, before he looked around at the crowd and said:
“Clean up this mass of trash, early tomorrow morning, this bunch of trash, will be completely gone.”
This was originally Rod’s inspired words used to stabilize people’s hearts, but he didn’t expect that not long after he finished saying this, sticky blood began to overflow from the depths of the street, as if there was a monster hiding in the darkness, silently cleaning up these unsightly garbage.
Seeing that the time was approaching early morning, looking at the blood on the streets and the corpses that could be seen dead on the streets just around the corner, Rod directly led his men to break into the Water Purification Workshop.
Just did not expect originally may need to break out a conflict to solve the problem, the workshop boss also do not know whether it is smelled what wind sound, directly full of smiles to ensure that free to provide clean water.
With sufficient fresh water, Rod was finally able to use the clean water to flush the streets.
After a busy night, the entire port of Warrens, the fishy blood odor, finally dissipated.
Just as Rod looked at the sun rising from the sea in a trance, reflecting on the spotless harbor streets, just as he breathed a long sigh of relief not daring to believe that he had actually completed this seemingly impossible task.
“Aang!!!” A dragon’s roar came from the sea.
Rod looked back in admiration and saw a crimson figure, flying in the company of hundreds of dragons of various colors.
It descended.
(End of chapter)