Chapter 722.
Chapter 722 – Scavenging
Kagome’s question caused Dozer to fall silent again.
After a moment, the other party answered in a low, feeble voice, “Keri-sama, going out to sea …… is too dangerous for me.”
Seeing that Keri did not speak, he gathered courage to defend himself again.
“Actually, it’s not just me, almost all of the third level apprentices who followed Mentor Kaz over at that time chose to stay. When Mentor Kaz finally left, there was only one third level apprentice and a few second level apprentices left with him.”
Korie sighed, this was everyone’s own choice, it was impossible for her to interfere.
At this time, perhaps the carriage had been parked for a bit too long, the curtain was lifted a small slit, and several pairs of eyes hid behind it to peek.
Seeing that, Ke Li changed the topic, ”What are you doing now? Working for the Baidon Academy? Or have you joined some wizard organization?”
“I’m just one right now. Not joining an organization here, working directly for the city of Kaukoust. Those people in the back are refugees I brought back from the border of Khema and Knares.”
Kori raised an eyebrow, “Abducting people from the Duchy of Khema?”
Population was a big deal for every country, and Dozer, a second level apprentice, shouldn’t dare to secretly abduct people in private.
“No, Lord Keri.” Of course, Dozer knew that Keri came from a noble family in the Kemah Duchy, and quickly explained, “Kemah and Knuckles have been having small-scale wars break out over the years, and the number of refugees and slaves have been growing. This is the population I bought back from there, and it has been licensed by the local lords.”
Dozer also showed Korie the proof of the license he had hidden on his person.
Korie knew that Archduke Kira did not want the population of Kemah to continue to decrease, but she was powerless to stop the lords at the border from buying and selling population.
It was just that Korie didn’t understand, “What does the city of Kaukoust need so many refugees for?”
It was obvious that all the towns around here had been emptied by Archaust. Why are they still buying people?
“This, I don’t know either. I’m just in charge of sending people to the outer city.” Dozer continued to say with his head lowered.
“Forget it, don’t want to think about that, the marquis position was given to my brother anyway.” Korie bristled, not wanting to ask any more questions.
“Then I won’t keep you any longer, go about your business.”
Kagome finished her sentence and flew back to the boulder she was just meditating on, sitting with her eyes closed.
Dozer hastily bent down and bowed again.
Only then did he return to the wagon and continue on his way.
Korie’s location wasn’t too far from the outer city of Kaukoust, and it didn’t take long for Dozer to successfully pass through the outer city gates and enter the outer city after he continued his journey.
After entering the outer city, he followed the established route and arrived at an office, looking for a third level apprentice, handing him the ones on the carriage and getting a small bag of magic mirrors.
Just before leaving, Dozer suddenly remembered the Kore he met today.
That red-haired freckled girl had already grown up, and if it wasn’t for the familiar fluctuation of spiritual power, Dozer wouldn’t have dared to recognize the other party at all.
Although the spiritual power in Keri’s body was familiar, the intensity almost took his breath away.
Thinking that the other party had at least advanced to a full-fledged sorcerer, while he was still a second-level apprentice, Dozer’s heart that had been cowering for years was suddenly awakened.
He gritted his teeth and stopped the third level apprentice who was about to leave.
“Senior, we’ve introduced so many people, how come we don’t see them appear in the outer city?”
Who knew that the face of the opposite Third Grade Apprentice unexpectedly sank immediately, and his original kind smile was gone.
“What, are you curious? If you’re really particularly curious, I can let you send them over.”
Dozer’s heart jumped, instantly knowing that where these refugees were going was definitely not simple, he hastily accompanied with a smile and said, “No, I’m just casually asking, you’re busy, I won’t bother you anymore.”
Dozer was so scared that he left directly.
And the third level apprentice who stayed in the office snorted coldly and watched him leave. The Dorze who left thought about it and ran to the trading center again, using the magic crystals he had saved up these days, he bought a magic book.
Holding the expensive book that he didn’t know how many hands it had passed through, he silently thought, “Not seeking to be promoted to a full-fledged sorcerer, a third level apprentice, it should be possible, right?”
……
Saul picked up a tattered book from the dust and carefully shook the dust from it.
It was a sorcery notebook.
It looked weathered as well.
Even though Saul had been careful to shake it, a few pages were shaken onto the ground along with the dust.
After leaving the small building where Sorcerer Yona was, Saul did not immediately head towards Baidong Academy, but instead wandered around the academy as if he was not doing his job.
He would sometimes pick up some books left behind by wizards, as he was doing now, and sometimes he would stay in a room for a while.
The book he picked up this time was a formal wizard’s sorcery notebook. Purely hand-bound and very thick, but the magical markings on it had disappeared.
“Some experimental insights that can be taken back to the newcomers of the wizard tower to study.” Saul picked up the pages that fell on the ground and casually stuffed them back in, then put them into his storage.
“It seems that the radiation from the disaster that erupted in the inner city in the first place was quite high, and these simple sorcery books and sorcery spells have been scrapped.” Penny also flew around the room, helping Sol find useful materials.
On the other side, Herman put down a few glass bottles in his hand and turned back to Saul and said helplessly, “Master, the materials here are all contaminated and deteriorated, there’s no way to use them.”
“That’s normal, the protective measures for materials placed outside are usually not very good. Look to see if there are any secret chambers or something like that, physical chambers are hard to find out the end of the story through mental scanning.”
Herman nodded, then found a wall and crashed into it.
His spirit identity worked well at this time, and physical facilities without magic power basically couldn’t stop him.
Saul continued to rummage through the original owner’s notes and books, only while rummaging through them, he noticed that they seemed to show signs of having been moved.
The thickness of the dust on the bookshelves was different.
“Brother Saul, brother Saul!” Penny flew to a corner and suddenly flew back.
Saul thought Penny had made some new discovery, but instead, he heard her say excitedly, “I found living people again!”
“Oh?” Saul became interested, “Where?”
Penny said, “There were two of them, and they were consciously hiding their presence, which is why I found their dreams.”
“Anyone who can consciously hide their presence is either a wizard like Jonah but in better shape than him, or some other intruder.”
The protection of the inner city of Kaukoust was tight to say the least, but loose to say the least.
Relying entirely on sorcery spells to protect it, there was no human intervention, so once a sorcerer like Saul found a way in, he was able to get in through the loopholes.
“We’re definitely not the only ones who are interested in Archaeust. Maybe these people will know what’s going on in the inner city.”
Saul raised his hand and pulled back Herman, who was rampaging inside the house, then put away the Nightmare Butterfly and flew directly out of the room towards the place where Penny had found the living person.
Along the way, Saul deliberately restrained his magic power fluctuation, maintaining it at around the second rank.
And his proximity soon aroused the alertness of the targeted two.
But what made Saul slightly surprised was that the first one to come out and sneak up on him was actually a …… cat?
(End of chapter)