Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3737 Free Trading Zone

The residence of Count Orson and the residence of Marquis Clawwell are not on the same street, nor in the same urban area. One is in the eastern urban area of ​​​​Vetalen, and the other is in the south. Of course, both are luxurious places where only nobles can live.

So after leaving the Second Princess's palace, Xiat and Qianying turned a corner and got off the carriage together, told the servants to drive back by themselves, and informed their families at the same time.

It wasn't dark yet and there were still about two hours before dinner. There was nothing to do if we went back now, so the cousins ​​might as well go shopping together. As the "Golden City", Vetalon naturally had the charm that lived up to its title.

Vetalon is the flesh and blood heart of the empire, spreading the warm money and the emperor's policies to every part of the huge body of the Delos Empire, completing coordination and circulation.

They had no intention of going to the commercial areas that sold clothes and jewelry. They had no interest in it, so they went to the free area where adventurers and related professionals were active to see if they could find anything interesting.

When Emperor Leon Heinrich was alive, due to his overly strong desire for power, he did not allow adventurers in the empire to form guilds and alliances. If they wanted to establish corresponding organizations, they had to be under the strict supervision of the empire.

In comparison, Queen Skadi of the Principality of Belmar is extremely open-minded. She allows adventurers to form guilds and is willing to provide certain conveniences in policies. She also sets up a corresponding office, which is handled by a special official "Boken".

The Adventurer's Guild only needs to register its members and pay a certain amount of management fees to operate freely without violating the laws of the Principality. It does not need to accept the strict management and guidance of the Principality. Sometimes, the Principality will also issue some paid tasks to the Adventurer's Guild, which is mutually beneficial.

After Queen Josephine ascended the throne, she followed the example of Skadi's policy towards adventurers and made some relaxations in this regard.

There is nothing wrong in imitating the policies of other countries to learn from their strengths and make up for their own weaknesses. Josephine is not a proud person. She understands that her talents are not omnipotent, and her biggest problem is her unchanging stubbornness.

"Hyat, Qianying, do you also think there's no point in going home now? Why do you stop by to go shopping?" Hannah's voice with a hint of laughter came from behind them.

The cousins ​​looked back together and found that Hannah had changed her cheongsam, which made it difficult for her to walk, into a light, close-fitting dark martial arts uniform. She had tied her hair into a ponytail and her whole temperament was completely different. She was full of vitality and had the charm of a sporty sister.

Even though Hannah's appearance is not very stunning, she is not young anymore, nearly 40 years old. Now she attracts the attention of passers-by, who think she has a unique charm.

"Sister Hannah." Hiatt called her affectionately with a smile. They had known each other for several years and had a good relationship. Moreover, the other party was more than ten years older than her, so it was okay to call her that.

Qianying also greeted them afterwards, but she had already put on her "real body" with sunglasses on her nose. She looked cool and stylish, giving people a complicated feeling, as if they wanted to approach her because of her stunning beauty, but were afraid of being cut by her knife.

The Free Zone is an activity and trading area opened up by Queen Josephine for adventurers. As long as they do not violate the laws of the empire and accept the most basic supervision, they can do anything else. It is free here.

The three of them all liked to visit places like this, and now it was just a coincidence that they bumped into each other, so they decided to go together. Hannah said that she wanted to buy some healing potions, herbs and equipment. When she led troops to suppress bandits, her men would inevitably get injured, so excellent healing potions were very necessary and could effectively reduce casualties.

"The Imperial Alchemist Association has standardized healing potions, right?" Hiat mentioned that the reconstructed Imperial Alchemist Association has a brand new look, positive and motivated, with many beautiful results being born and popularized.

"No, no~" Hannah smiled and waved her hands, indicating that sometimes you can get really good things in the free zone. Alchemist is not a profession that requires serving in the Alchemy Association. Many adventurers choose alchemist as their secondary profession.

Adventurers come from all over the world, and they sometimes tinker with some very special goodies, including equipment and potions.

It may not have a wide range of adaptability, but sometimes it can work wonders.

For example, there is a potion that can make a human grow to a giant, and at the same time gain extremely powerful strength. An ordinary person who has never practiced can suddenly be as powerful as ten people. The disadvantage is that after the effect of the potion wears off, several bones in the body will be broken, and if you are unlucky, you will die on the spot.

Hannah continued chatting with them about family matters. When she mentioned her husband, she smiled and said, "After Earl Barn died, Hyde took over as the leader of the Iron Wolf Knights. He was very busy working outside and often only came back once a month."

The deputy leader of the Iron Wolf Knights is currently Fiona, a very talented female knight and a good friend of Rennie.

"How about your husband? Is he busy too?" Hannah asked casually with a smile.

Hyde and Ye Lin had known each other before, not too well, but they were friends.

"What can he be busy for? He's very idle, just wandering around the world. But he will come out when you call him, like a puppy." Hiatt proved it on the spot. He called out Ye Lin's name, and the latter miraculously appeared nearby, holding a handful of squid tentacles, gluten, grilled sausages and other snacks in his hands, all of which were still steaming hot.

"Liao, why are you calling me? Do you want it?" As he spoke, he handed over the snack in his hand. He had just bought it and it was slightly spicy.

"cough!"

Feiyan immediately glared at him and said, "What the hell do you want? Can you please consider the occasion and see if there are outsiders here? If you keep nagging me, I'll kill you."

Hannah, who has been married for more than ten years, smiled and didn't think it was a big deal. Women also have that need.

Immediately, a barely perceptible resentment flashed across her eyes.

Hiat and Qianying picked a string of squid tentacles and grilled meatballs respectively. They didn't eat too much and were not hungry. Ye Lin handed the snacks to Hannah, and she also picked a string of grilled tofu and said thank you.

"It's okay, you can leave now, we'll just wander around the free zone."

"Zha~ I'm leaving now. Please take care of me if you need anything."

Hannah was quite surprised. He was worthy of being the strongest adventurer, coming and going without a trace. As a cultivator with considerable strength, she was very sure that Ye Lin was not nearby just now.

Not even a trace was produced.

"By the way, what level has Ye Lin reached? It should be stronger than the foundation of the country. Of course, I am just interested."

She was referring to the origin-level strongmen. This level was recognized by most people as the realm of the country's foundation. They were definitely few and far between in the continent of Arad.

"Ah...it's taller now. He's working hard." Xia Te nodded and bit off an octopus tentacles.

In an instant, I was sure that this was something bought from the heaven. Because the Sky Sea contains rich magical power, the octopus meat has a subtle taste different from that of the Arad continent.

"Hmm...what is that realm called?"

"Transcendence."

After Hiat answered, he did not explain the higher realm in detail to Hannah, and the other party could not understand it. It was enough for her to know that the transcendents were very powerful.

After a few casual chats, Hannah opened up and said, "You know, when noble women get together, they often talk about you."

"I know, but I haven't paid much attention to it." Hiat nodded slightly. As she returned to the imperial aristocratic circle, her identity as the earl's only daughter was prominent enough to attract other people's attention, and many things could not be hidden.

The key issue is that Ye Lin is also the consort of the Third Princess, so the relationship is very complicated and weird, and there are bound to be corresponding rumors. Many people are keen to dig deep into the relationship and treat it as daily gossip.

Some people say that Hiatt was successful in all aspects, but failed in personal emotions. She was blinded by greed and failed to break up with Ye Lin as soon as possible.

"Some people gossip about you, but I can read their minds. Some people envy you very much." Hannah smiled and threw the grilled tofu skewers into the trash can on the side of the road.

"What can you envy me for? Envy that I'm with the strongest adventurer?" Xia Te joked casually. Without reading the true thoughts of those people in person, she didn't know what they were thinking.

"I envy you... your freedom."

"Freedom?" "Yes, they think that no matter whether Ye Linhua is unfaithful or not, whether he is good or bad, being with him is a manifestation of your free choice, but many people do not have the power to make this choice."

Hannah then used herself as an example. Although she and Hyde Bern Kruger respected each other and helped each other, they were a model couple in the aristocratic circle. However, her and Hyde were not in a free love relationship, but a marriage with political factors.

When the parents of both sides smiled and made the engagement, the only thing she could say about her relationship with Hyde was that they had met at some banquets but had never talked much. She just knew that this person existed.

Hannah was a few years older than Hyde. When she learned that she was going to be engaged to a boy younger than her, she was immediately filled with resistance and hated this so-called eldest son of the Duke.

Hyde also protested strongly. He was actually going to get engaged to a woman who was several years older than him. Moreover, he was not yet an adult at that time. He did not understand what his father was thinking at all.

As for two people falling in love with each other, truly falling in love with each other, and then getting married, that is another matter.

"Formal noble titles are rarely passed down to women, unless you are particularly capable or an only child. This means that most noble women are unable to choose the person they like when they are young, so they envy your freedom and your right to make free choices no matter what," said Hannah.

It’s not that aristocratic women’s marriages were arranged by their parents and the candidates were designated, but their range of choices for spouses was very limited.

Of course, the same is true for male nobles. Even if they can inherit the title, their choice of spouse is equally small, and their spouse must be able to bring certain benefits to their family.

"Thunder Sword" Cruz, who was once comparable to the sword saint Barn, suffered a tragedy because he fell in love with a civilian girl.

Hannah said, "Hiater, I'm going to be frank with you. If you hadn't chosen the path of an adventurer because of the transfer experiment, your future would probably be similar to those of the noble ladies. You would have to look for your other half within a limited range."

"But Earl Orson is an open-minded man, and you are his only child. He should allow you to marry at the age of thirty."

Hiatt agreed with what Hannah said, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "I am very pleased that they think this way. This shows that they have begun to have preliminary free thoughts. However... if Ye Lin was just an ordinary adventurer with no achievements, I guess they would not envy me. They would only laugh at me for not being able to judge people well and for marrying a loser despite being a noble."

Hannah laughed. "Haha, that's right. Successful cases are always easily analyzed over and over again. Your seemingly random actions were obviously completely unintentional. Anyone with a keen eye can tell you the whole story."

Although Hannah was very curious about Hiatt's family, she knew better than to talk about more gossip and instead changed the topic to the adventurer's free zone to see if there were any good things.

The topic turned to the second princess, and Hannah said that this was actually the first time she received an invitation from Her Highness Nosadia, so she was dressed more formally.

There is an age difference of more than ten years between her and Nosadia, so they are actually not of the same generation.

"I thought Her Highness Nosadia would express some kind of need during afternoon tea, but she didn't. She really just chatted and played games. The Second Princess is very strange..."

"By the way, did you know that the Golden Cathedral will be holding a ceremony to procure the Holy Relic?"

“My father was a believer and received an invitation from Alan Grande.”

Hannah has a lot to say.

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At night, the Second Princess's palace was still brightly lit, as if it were daytime, and the darkness could not penetrate any corner here, even though only she and her team of maids lived here.

The second princess, Nosadia, leaned back against a soft cushion, sipping sour fruit tea in a daze. She did not even touch the knife and fork that the chef had prepared for her, as it had already gone cold.

After a long time, the clock struck nine.

The second princess finally came to her senses and said to the maids waiting beside her: "You guys heat it up and eat it, don't waste it, and then prepare water for me to take a bath."

After the second princess finished her bath, she put on her pajamas, took a book from the study and brought it to the living room. When she was ready to read quietly, she found that Ye Lin, who had disappeared in the afternoon, suddenly appeared here.

In front of him was a large glass bottle filled with dried Suan sour fruits and some snacks wrapped in tin foil, which were steaming and emitting fragrant aroma.

The second princess raised her eyebrows, unable to hold back her emotions, and said teasingly, "Isn't it a bit rude for someone who left without saying goodbye to enter my annex palace without permission?"

"I left you a note saying I had something to do and would be out for a while, but you didn't seem to see it." Ye Lin pointed to the note that was pressed down by the porcelain cup on the coffee table. It was still the same as when he left.

The second princess looked in the direction of his finger and indeed found a note. Her expression instantly eased a lot. She seemed to have not noticed that place. The note was the same color as the porcelain cup.

"Will you not send a message from your maid?"

Ye Lin spread his hands helplessly, saying that he had dismissed all the maids at that time. If he wanted to leave a message for you, he would need to call someone in first, which would easily be discovered by your group of friends who had afternoon tea.

"I heard from your maid that you didn't eat anything at night. Maybe you have no appetite. I brought you some snacks from outside so that you can try them for a change."

A smile appeared on the second princess' beautiful face. She waved her hand to let the serving maid leave, and then sat on the sofa opposite Ye Lin. She was wearing a loose one-piece pajamas, and the hem exposed a section of her snow-white and delicate calf.

She picked up a skewer of some unknown meat, bit off a little, chewed it slowly, and commented, "It's average. The sauce is too strong."

She crossed her legs, leaned forward slightly, shook the skewers in her hand, and said with a smile: "You haven't read too many novels and stories, where the pampered big shots accidentally eat at roadside stalls or small restaurants, and suddenly find the taste amazing, and feel sad about what they ate before, so you brought these to me?"

"People have their own taste preferences. They may not be able to adapt to the taste of a certain city. Everyone is different. I don't deny that some people are really touched by the taste of other places, but those stories are just for fun."

"Stop talking so much. If you don't like it, ask the maid to give you a whole lamb chop. I didn't eat much for dinner and I'm hungry." Ye Lin pulled the tin foil boxes towards him.

In fact, as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a milky aroma.

"Wait, I said it was average, I didn't say it was unpalatable or we shouldn't eat it. What's up with these sour fruits?" The second princess pulled the tin foil box towards her, her expression completely turning from gloomy to sunny.

Ye Lin explained that the Su'an sour fruit sent by the Third Princess won everyone's praise, and then when the party was over, the Second Princess packed most of the fruits into gifts and distributed them out, so he ran to the God Realm and bought some more and brought them back to give to her.

"You said that you traveled from Vetalen to the God Realm in two hours?" The Second Princess' eyes changed quickly. She knew that Ye Lin was very strong, but she had always lacked that kind of very intuitive feeling.

The second princess had been to heaven, so she knew how long it would take to get from the Delos Empire to the west coast and then to heaven.

If it is an ordinary person, if everything goes well, it will take about a week to complete the process.

"To be exact, it was more than ten minutes. I went to the God Realm to buy something and came back. I also took care of some other things."

He went to the curator to hand in his daily tasks, and by the way, he got close to the big-breasted leader Ophelia for a while, and then received daily milk drinks from the poet Alice and the talented woman Nuo Yu.

Moreover, his trial blade still had traces of the eldest princess and Judy's lipstick. When the two of them were arguing, Ganzhe couldn't help it, so he shook his whole body and added fuel to the fire.

"Thank you." The second princess did not mention the money. The other party had already said it was a gift. To mention money again would be disrespectful and impolite.

"It's okay, just do me a favor. I want to watch you make wine." Ye Lin took out a large bag of grapes. They were all the freshest grapes, and they were all plants from the divine world, rich in spirituality.