Xu Lai didn't know that he just wanted to put some pressure on Count Aini, but Count Aini almost panicked.
He originally wanted to delay Jimmy's time, because it would take a long time for him to reorganize and train the army himself.
But what Xu Lai didn't know was that the pressure he put on him was so great that he almost forced Count Aini to launch an siege regardless of the risk.
Of course, Count Ani's siege may not be successful.
But under such pressure, if something goes wrong, Count Aini will probably order a return to camp immediately.
At that time, Xu Lai will not be fighting in the field with Count Aini, but in a siege battle.
In the siege, even if everything goes well, the losses will not be small, whether it is Aini or Xu Lai.
But even if he knew it, Xu Lai couldn't change it now.
Besides, he is so busy now that he has no time to answer Aini.
Starting from noon until evening, Xu Lai visited a total of eleven advent heroes.
They come from everywhere, and some come from abroad. Fortunately, after they arrived in this world, communication with each other was no longer a problem.
These eleven people are not all in the tavern.
Xu took a look at the bill. There were a total of 27 advent heroes living in the tavern. Among them, 17 people lived in the second floor with better rooms, and only 10 people lived in the first floor.
Among the 27 people, 6 were not there. Roland asked him about it and said that they had signed up to join the army, which surprised Xu Lai.
Xu Lai silently remembered the names of these six people. In any case, they did not wait passively, but took the initiative to take an opportunity, which made Xu Lai feel good.
I just don't know what they will think when they come back at night and hear about Xu Lai's visit during the day.
Anyway, Xu Lai missed these 6 people.
However, since they signed up to join the army here in Xu, they can always be seen in the future.
And if they register here in Xu, they may not be able to do well in the future.
There are 21 people left, 10 of them, Xu Lai doesn’t want to pay attention to them at all.
Although there was a lot of information about the 11 people he went to pay homage to, based on their consumption during this period, Xu Lai already had a rough outline in his mind.
Among these 11 people, some refused the assistance from the City Lord's Palace and chose to pay for it themselves.
Although there are a few people who paid for it from the city lord's palace, the bills show that all the expenses are very reasonable and there is no exaggerated consumption.
To put it simply, these people did not treat Xu Lai as an easy target, which made Xu Lai at least have a good impression of them.
Finally, there are a few. Although the consumption is occasionally relatively high, they are not too excessive. At most, they can only be regarded as taking advantage of small things.
This was considered a shortcoming, but Xu Lai could accept it, and combined with their previous resumes, Xu Lai was quite satisfied, so he stayed on.
For the remaining 10 people, Xu Lai made it clear to the tavern owner that he should go to those people to ask for their accounts. The city lord's palace would not be responsible.
These guys basically regarded Xu Lai as their scapegoat. They wanted to eat the best steak every day, paired with red wine, and asked the shopkeeper to help find coffee.
Oh my god, this is not the earth, where did the coffee come from?
However, there is still red wine in the tavern, and it is said that the wine is of extremely high quality.
Xu Lai didn't know whether the quality was high or not. Even if it was served in front of Xu Lai, he couldn't taste it.
But the price is high enough, a cup costs ten gold coins, plus steak, foie gras and so on. Fortunately, they didn’t ask for caviar, otherwise Xu Lai would have the urge to beat the shit out of them.
The most outrageous thing is that they don't care about their own consumption. Even if they have nearly a hundred gold coins a day, Xu Lai will buy horse bones as a thousand gold coins.
But they even drag their subordinates to the tavern to eat. They just eat and drink for free because they don’t need any money.
"Lord, you are joking. If the City Lord's Mansion does not settle this bill, how can I explain it to the boss?"
Xu glanced at him and said calmly: "How do you explain it to your boss? That's your business.
If you are free, ask him for me by the way. I also want to ask him. An explanation.
Without your connivance and bewitchment, how dare those idiots spend so unscrupulously?”
A strong young man from the prairie, Xu Lai just gave it to him. They were all moved to tears for the 15 gold coins each person received as a settlement fee.
And these guys, just for the soldiers they recruit, spend more than a dozen gold coins every day.
Even Xu Lai was never harsh when recruiting soldiers. He had at least 4 or 5 kinds of food every day, with a combination of meat and vegetables, and enough steamed buns and hot soup.
But even so, a dozen gold coins are enough to feed an entire team for a month.
If you include their own expenses, how many people Xu Lai would die every day, including the pension, would only make the soldiers who followed him fearless of death.
No matter how rich he is, he doesn’t want to invest in these people in vain.
They don't even have the basic sense of propriety, and they have been able to survive without any accidents. Xu Lai can only say that they are lucky enough.
"Of course, that's not what Deputy City Lord Su told us back then."
Xu Lai snorted coldly: "Oh? What did she say?"
The shopkeeper He glanced at Xu Lai tremblingly. At this time, the guard beside Xu Lai had already put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
The shopkeeper didn’t want to offend Xu Lai, but this was a huge sum of money that even Xu Lai felt pained. Ten heroes and hundreds of recruited soldiers were fed and drank, which amounted to thousands of gold coins in one day. Some people stayed for a relatively long time, and the shortest one stayed for 3 or 4 days. According to the accounting, it was a full 30,000 to 40,000 gold coins.
Even if we only count the cost, there are still less than 10,000 gold coins here. How can he, a working shopkeeper, afford it.
This kind of thing, even a small shopkeeper would not dare to do it without the approval of the boss behind the scenes.
But after all the losses are calculated, will the boss bear it himself?
So, no matter how scared he was, the shopkeeper still said: "Vice City Lord Su sent someone to tell him earlier, saying that these heroes will stay in the tavern temporarily, and all their expenses will be taken care of by the City Lord's Mansion. "
Xu Lai nodded and said: "I know about this.
I remember that the first batch of heroes were brought here by someone sent by the city lord’s palace. "
The shopkeeper nodded quickly and said: "Yes, yes, I remember it is the housekeeper of the City Lord's Mansion, Mr. Harris. "
Xu Lai smiled and said: "I have acknowledged the people Harris brought and their bills.
Don’t worry, you won’t lose a penny. You settle the bill for me now and I will pay you now. "
"So, what about these 10 heroes? ”
"Did I bring them?"
The shopkeeper shook his head.
"Then when they come, will they be accompanied by people from my city lord's palace?"
The shopkeeper shook his head again.
“Then do they have relevant documents from my city lord’s palace, which can prove that they were entrusted by the city lord’s palace and came here to eat and drink for free?”
Cold sweat was already dripping from the shopkeeper's forehead. He knew very well that Xu Lai had already made it clear that he was going to default on the bill, but he couldn't say anything.
Because it was true as Xu Lai said, there were people from the city lord’s palace accompanying him at the beginning.
Later there were more people, and both Su Ya and Harris were extremely busy, and there was no time to take care of them.
For the next few, Su Ya directly asked them to stay in the tavern. When the tavern owner heard that they were from the city lord's palace, he opened the upper room first without saying anything.
Xu Lai sneered and said: "People are doing it, God is watching. If your boss is not convinced by my approach, let him come to me as soon as possible!"
After leaving these words, Xu Laiwang rushed to the magic guild.
His magic guild has been upgraded to level 4, but Xu Lai has never visited it once.
I came here this time just to expand my spell book again.
As soon as he arrived at the Magic Guild, Nofa, as the president and Xu Lai's magic consultant, personally greeted him.
Xu Lai smiled and said, "Did you react quickly? I haven't even come in yet, and you came out to greet me?"
Nofa bent down and saluted and said: "You don't know that since I took over the Magic Guild, I have combined with several mages to insert investigative eyes all around the Magic Guild and the base camp.
After your castle is built, I plan to install a permanent water mirror spell in your castle.
This way, you can clearly see all the movements outside the castle. ”
Xu Lai was surprised, isn't this magic surveillance, and quickly asked: "Then can this investigative eye see invisible units?"
Nofa shook his head and said: " The only one who can see invisible units is the Eye of True Seeing
However, the coverage range of the Eye of True Seeing is not far away, and the cost of deploying it is far greater than that of the Eye of Detection. For the time being, we are not able to deploy so many.
But if you only need to monitor the entrance and exit of the city gate, or the narrow part of the city wall, then there is no problem. "
Xu Lai nodded and said: "Then you should start it as soon as possible. First, plug up the city gate or something for me.
I have been upgrading the castle recently and some walls are missing. I always feel like something is missing. "
Nofa smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will start making arrangements immediately. I believe it should be completed within three days. ”
"Okay, take me in and take a look. I'm here today to copy magic.
By the way, if I copy it at my own magic guild, I should be able to get a discount!"
Nofa smiled bitterly and said: "You are joking, the entire magic tower here belongs to you, and we are able to study spells here because of your credit.
If you don't charge us, we will I'm so grateful. How dare I take your money?"
Xu Lai laughed and didn't say anything more.
The entire magic guild has 4 levels, and when it is built, it comes with level 1-4 spells.
However, there are very few level 4 spells, only 3. However, if there are enough mages stationed in the magic guild and there are enough resources, new spells can be continuously researched, and even strategic level spells will be born. .
There were only three level 4 spells in total. Xu Lai didn't pick and choose, and copied them all directly into his magic book.
In addition to level 4 spells, there are 4 level 3 spells, 5 level 2 spells, and 6 level 1 spells.
If you can cultivate to the level 5 magic guild, you can also give birth to 2 level 5 spells.
As for the legendary level 6 forbidden spell, it cannot be learned by magic guilds. It can only be recorded in pyramids built in the wild. (End of this chapter)