Chapter 820 [0808] A Different Demacia

When the shop owner heard Silas say that he wanted to buy the colorful wand, his expression suddenly froze.

Wait, does anyone really want to buy this thing?

You know, although this colorful wand looks cool, it is still just a toy in essence - and its price is an astonishing three gold coins.

This price... is enough to buy an Enuk cub.

Even in the old district of Fosbello, the most affluent city at present, it is almost impossible for anyone to be willing to pay this price to buy a toy.

Even if someone really had the financial resources, they wouldn't be able to go to my toy store next to the school to buy it!

In fact, for the store owner, this colorful wand is actually more like a billboard - it will attract students to come and take a look. Although they cannot afford this colorful wand, at least they can afford the low-end versions.

The competition in the toy stores near the school is also fierce!

If this colorful wand is sold and the toy store next to it purchases the goods at this time, wouldn't it delay business?

Time is money!

Recently, we are catching up with the craze of wand toys. I don’t know where the magic toys are that can help enlighten children’s magical talents. All kinds of magic toys that were not sold in the past because they were relatively expensive are now sold like crazy. ——The colorful wand, which is said to be completely hand-made by the Master, is in high demand, and it is even more necessary to prepare to re-open the mold...

The shop owner now put out the colorful wands and set a high price, knowing that no one would buy them for the time being, and other stores simply didn't have such rare items, so he took advantage of this opportunity to attract traffic.

You know, if this wand maintains its glowing state for a long time, it consumes a lot of magic crystals!

But no matter what, he never thought that even though he had raised the price to three gold coins, there would still be people wanting to buy it.

And the guy who wants to buy it... looks like he's a Freljordian!

Good guy, the shop owner calls him a good guy.

The shop owner, who deliberately kept it to attract traffic for a few more days, thought about it and soon came up with a solution.

"Sir, I'm sorry. This colorful wand is a display piece. It has been shining in my place for a long time. The original crystal has been replaced. If you really want it, you can wait a few days and I'll pass it. When the goods arrive in two days, we can help you buy a brand new one from the factory..."

This shop owner has also met some rich people. These rich people don't care about money, but they care about their own face. If they spend money to buy a second-hand product, they will probably not be happy.

However, what he never expected was that the guy opposite him seemed to have read through his thoughts. He curled up his lips and casually took out a wad of gold coins from the belt around his waist.

The shop owner had a keen eye and recognized at a glance that it was a foreign trade version of the coin. It was new and bright!

Silas is not short of money. As Lissandra's envoy, he got more than 300 gold coins from the Avarosa tribe when passing through Rakstaq - Ashe really supports Frost. The witch "for the cause of Freljord", even for the Avarosa tribe, this is not a small sum of money.

Ten gold coins were arranged on the counter, and the shopkeeper's last hesitation disappeared completely with the crisp sound of the gold coins.

Shop sign?

The signboard is not as important as the gold coins!

So, with a smile, he took out the colorful wand, handed it to Silas along with the three magic crystals, and showed him the specific method of use very carefully.

After reading it, Silas nodded slightly, and then strode out of the toy store.

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That night, Silas, who was staying in the hotel, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. He seemed to be a child, fiddling with the colorful wand in his hand.

Although he can't fully understand the magic circuit in the wand yet, now that he wants to light up the wand, he no longer needs the magic crystal.

With Silas's own magic power, he could already light up this colorful wand.

It's just that compared to the magic crystal, Silas's own magic power has natural fluctuations - this is generally the case for mages without professional training - so the light of the colorful wand looks bright and dim, which seems more... Gorgeous.

Silas just played with the toy, feeling quite complicated.

He returned to Demacia successfully, but everything in Demacia was completely different from what he remembered.

Here, magic is no longer a taboo, but has become a power that is envied by everyone. Those mages known as Dharma Protectors are the ideals of many people.

Just like the nobility of the past.

To be honest, when Silas realized this, he really didn't know whether he should cry or laugh.

What Silas never expected was that the current emperor of Demacia was Laxana.

When Silas first saw her, she was just a little girl. This little girl from a noble family comforted Ino, whom Silas had once been very optimistic about, and refuted some of Silas's views. At that time, Silas believed that she was just using her origin to cover up her magic power, but that she was a ridiculous vested interest.

However, when Silas learned that she had defeated the Crownguard family, tried the Demacian nobles, and established New Demacia, Silas was almost speechless in surprise.

Silas wanted to tell himself that all this was just a struggle for power among the nobles.

But judging from the current situation in Fosbyro... at least Laxana has completely changed the identity of the spellcaster in Demacia.

In addition, as a real small town youth from Biangou Town, Silas also stood in his own perspective and found many things that were different from the past.

When Silas was still a child, his daily task was to go out and play with his friends and go home when it was time to eat.

When he was a little older, Silas needed to work for the family - from the simplest delivery of meals to his parents who were working in the fields, to picking up wheat grains after harvesting, there were not many things a child could do, but he had to contribute to the family.

Then, Silas's magical talent awakened, and he was given to the magic hunter by his parents. His parents hoped that the magic hunter could use the magic-forbidden potion to remove his "magic disease" and make him a "normal person".

Unfortunately, in a remote place like Biangou Town, the concentration of the magic hunter's potion was not high. Although Silas suffered for a while after drinking it, he did not lose his magic power.

Just when Silas was worried about his future and afraid that he and his family would be expelled outside the forbidden magic stone wall, the magic hunter chose to accept him and hoped that he would use his abilities to find those mages hiding in the dark for Demacia with ulterior motives.

The above is Silas' childhood and youth.

But in Fosbyro, the childhood of the new generation of children is completely different.

There are many schools here to provide education for children, let them read and learn numbers, let them understand history and politics, let them appreciate painting and music - and the first time Silas knew this was in a noble family's home.

The noble family was suspicious and always saw ghosts in the middle of the night, so they suspected that there was a mage in the family using despicable magic, so they asked the magic hunter to come and investigate, but the result was that his son had become a playboy and always went out at night to meet his lover.

Silas, who was responsible for confirming whether there were traces of magic here, saw the study room, the full bookshelves, and the noble young master who was forced to study by the tutor for the first time.

Silas cleverly maintained the face of his young master, thus gaining some rights to borrow books. With the training from the demon hunters, he truly learned to write and read, and was no longer an illiterate.

This was a very accidental thing, because in Demacia, even most of the first-generation nobles may not really be literate - those first-generation nobles who relied on military merits, after obtaining the fiefdom, a very important thing is to hire tutors and scribes, otherwise he will hardly have the ability to communicate with other nobles in writing.

However, all this is now taken for granted in Fosbyro.

Not only can children get an education easily, but parents also incredibly support this kind of education - you know, for a family, even a half-grown boy is already a barely available labor force. If he stays in Biangou Town, even if there is a school that he doesn't want to go to, Silas doesn't think his parents will support him to go to school.

Reading means leaving work, which means that a child does not contribute his labor to the family.

Are the people of Fosbyro so rich that anyone can send their children to school?

Full of curiosity, Silas spent a lot of time asking people during dinner, and then he was shocked to learn that in Fosbyro, studying is profitable.

If you study well, you will get money.

If you study, you will get food subsidies.

Studying can even be tax deductible.

In order to allow her children to study, Laxana spent a lot of money, so that after just one generation, the people of Fosbyro completely agreed that "studying changes destiny".

Silas was shocked.

Before the arrival of Lady Laxana, Fosbyro, where he is now, was a remote place in Demacia. There was nothing here, and the original residents could only survive by gathering and hunting.

But now, Fosbyro has been expanded many times, and the New City of Fortune and New Port of Fortune have been built. It has become a trade center located in the north. In the urban belt formed by the three cities, there are dense artificial water networks, and various factories have formed a system that Silas has never seen before. The products produced by the previous company may be the materials needed by the next company.

Magic is no longer a disease of the infected, but has become a talent that people envy. Some of the infected who once tried to escape from prison in Xiongdu with Silas have now become high-ranking officials in the local area, and many of them even have grandchildren.

This place seems to gather all the beauty of Demacia. Silas even saw a local signature dish of Biangou Town in the restaurant. After asking, he learned that this dish was brought by immigrants from Biangou and was kept on the menu because it was more in line with the taste of the North.

Silas ordered this Biangou pie.

Unfortunately, although it looks very much like what he remembered, it tastes completely different.

In the end, Silas left the restaurant in a daze and returned to the hotel.

Before entering Fosbyro, Silas thought he was an avenger, a messenger who ended the tyranny of Demacia, and a person who exposed the hypocrisy of the nobles.

However, when he lay on the bed in the hotel, his eyes unfocused as he looked at the colorful light flowing on the ceiling, he suddenly felt an indescribable sense of alienation.

Sylas thought he was going to assassinate Jarvan III or IV.

But now he found that his target was the one who had scolded and offended him, but had indeed changed Demacia.

For a moment, Sylas had the idea of ​​giving up the assassination. For him personally, this assassination was meaningless, because the Demacia he longed to avenge had long been buried by Lux.

In this case, what can Sylas do?

The old Demacia has become the new Demacia. Everything is different. Even the nobles have been judged. For the returning Sylas, the Demacia he hated did not even leave a corpse.

Revenge?

Who should he take revenge on?

What is the meaning of his revenge?

However, just when Sylas had the idea of ​​giving up, his heart beat in his chest.

At this moment, he seemed to hear the voice of the Frost Witch!

Sylas's hands shook suddenly.

As his fingers exerted force subconsciously, the colorful magic wand that he had bought at a high price suddenly exploded due to the overload of magic power, and the broken glass crystals were scattered on the bed.

But Silas didn't care about these, because at this time his blood seemed to have frozen.

In a trance, Silas even felt the feeling of the blood in his body carrying the broken ice crystals and rubbing against the inner wall of his blood vessels.

Under the intense pain, Silas's eyes suddenly bulged out, and the whole person began to roll on the bed with all his strength, letting the broken glass scratch himself all over and bleed.

Finally, after hearing a warning, the pain began to slowly dissipate.

Loosening his clenched fists, Silas lay on the bed, gasping for breath, as if he was a fish out of water.

When his breathing gradually became comfortable and he gradually had the strength to get up and clean his wounds, Silas's brain regained the ability to think - this is the power of the Frost Witch.

After accepting her power, I was completely controlled by her. After agreeing to assassinate the Emperor of Demacia, if I had the idea of ​​giving up halfway, I would be punished like this!

This is completely a pirate ship!

Karya's small class · Bloodline and contract:

The power of bloodline itself is a kind of contract. Sylas accepted Lissandra's power and signed a contract with her - if he wants to turn against her, he will be backlashed by the power of bloodline, which is fatal.