Pale Emblem

Chapter 180 Adventurer's Inn

The Adventurer's Inn is the only intact building in the town of Bolong. It is tall and strong enough to be like a small fortress.

At first, the Orcs and Barbarian invaders wanted to demolish the Adventurer's House but had no idea how to do it. They even worried that the complicated high-rise building might crush a large number of Orc laborers if it collapsed. Therefore, the Adventurer's House Inn was preserved as a material warehouse for the Orcs and Barbarians.

Today, the Adventurer's House has returned to the hands of the half-elves and still serves as a tavern and inn dedicated to entertaining adventurers.

Harvey was the first to push open the wooden door of the hotel, and the others followed one by one and immediately felt the warm atmosphere in the hotel.

The spacious hall was almost full of people, mostly adventurers, as well as officers who came here for fun, and of course, the beautifully dressed waitresses, clever shop assistants, and some bodyguards and thugs armed with sticks.

Looking at the noisy scene in the hall, Victor seemed to have returned to a year ago. He paused for a moment before following the others towards the bar on the left side of the hall.

The bartender behind the bar was a young man in his twenties. He was extremely sturdy among half-elves, with well-developed muscles that almost overflowed from his skin. He also had a pair of impressive eyes, yellow eyes with vertical pupils, which always revealed a faint sense of majesty.

"Newcomer, do you know the rules?" The young bartender treated the new customer with condescending contempt. He folded his arms and raised his chin towards the weapons rack next to him, meaning that Victor and the others should disarm themselves.

Adventurers have to temporarily surrender their weapons when entering the inn. This is the rule, nothing serious. It is rare for the Adventurer's Home Inn to employ a dragon vein half-elf as a bartender.

In the Disa Alliance, the dragon veins were completely monopolized by the noble families. The new owner of the Adventurer's Inn was undoubtedly from a noble family in Luoye City.

Victor and his companions said nothing, and placed their war bows, shield blades, and various long and short weapons on the bar, and the two assistants of the Dragon Vein bartender hung these weapons on the weapon rack in order. However, Ruth and Jessica's respective swords could not be handed over. They were the silver and gold swords given to them by Victor. They were of extraordinary quality and sharpness. Once they were handed over to the famous Dragon Vein half-elf for safekeeping, it would be difficult to get them back.

The Dragon Vein bartender stared at Ruth and Jessica, and found that they had no intention of handing over their swords, so he shouted in a cold tone: "Hand over your swords, or get out!"

Victor's icy blue eyes narrowed slightly, and he was about to explode on the spot, but Jessica held his hand in time and comforted him gently. Ruth took out her purse and scattered more than 20 gold coins on the table.

The gold colliding made a pleasant sound and sparkled in the candlelight.

The dragon vein bartender's pupils suddenly became round, and his breathing became rapid. The next moment, his hands had gathered all the gold coins that had fallen on the table and held them firmly.

Most draconic half-elves have little resistance to gold, which is considered one of their weaknesses.

Ruth chuckled and said, "We need three quiet rooms, food and wine for each person, and a large bucket of hot water for bathing."

酒保先把桌上的金币扫进抽屉，才对露丝说道：“三个房间住一晚要6金塔、9人份的晚餐9金塔、一大桶热水3金塔……你们再付我18个金塔尔，酒钱另算。”

Harvey stared and asked gruffly, "Three gold towers for hot water? Are you sure you said 'gold towers', not 'silver towers'?"

The Dragon Vein Half-elf ignored him and continued, "I allow you to bring the sword into the room, but you cannot bring the sword out, especially not wandering around the hall with the sword."

Ruth deliberately winked at Harvey, then smiled and said to the Dragon Pulse bartender: "Sir, don't worry, we promise to abide by your rules in this hotel."

"This is for your own good."

After the Dragon Vein bartender finished speaking, he turned to a young half-elf shop assistant behind him and instructed, "Little Tommy, take these guests to the third floor and let them stay in the three innermost rooms. Then ask the kitchen to prepare food for nine people and send it up, along with a large bucket of hot water."

"Okay." After the young man agreed, he picked up a lantern, tilted his head towards Victor and the others, and greeted them with a smile: "Dear guests, please follow me."

"and many more."

Hermann suddenly said, "I heard that the liaison officer, Lord Clausen, is staying in this hotel. I have been asked to discuss something with him."

The Dragon Vein Half-elf bartender raised his pair of yellow-brown vertical pupils and asked in a vigilant and serious tone, "What exactly is going on?"

"Mr. Frank, the great lord of the Golden Sunflower Family, asked me to find Liaison Officer Clauson to report some things about Master Gaius and Miss Muse... Are you sure you want to know?" Hermann said lightly.

The Dragon Vein Half-Elf was silent for a moment, then stood up and said, "Lord Clausen lives on the fifth floor. I will take you to see him personally."

Harvey interrupted and said, "Captain, please go up there yourself... My brothers and I just want to have a drink in the hall."

Herman turned his head and glanced at him, snorting, "Drinking? I think you guys are here to play a few games, right?"

"Hey, just taking a look, I won't necessarily place a bet."

There were wine, meat, and women in the hotel lobby, but these things alone were not enough to attract adventurers to linger. In a corner of the lobby, several gambling tables were set up and surrounded by half-elf adventurers who were either excited or annoyed. They were playing several simple and common gambling games. Because a lot of money was bet on the table, everyone's eyes were red.

Harvey and his friends saw the gambling game and wanted to play a few hands. This was very much in line with the style of adventurers and would never make the Dragon Vein bartender suspicious of them.

So, they acted separately. Herman took Kent and followed the Dragon Vein bartender to the fifth floor to find the liaison officer Clausen; Victor, the Ranger sisters, and Burning Delina went to the third floor to receive the guest rooms; the others stayed in the lobby pretending to gamble and have fun, but in fact they were secretly trying to find out the news about the hotel owner.

A young man named Little Tommy led the Ranger Sisters and others to the third floor, and Victor was the last one to carry a large bag of luggage. He was strong and played the lowest role in the adventure team, so he always had to do some hard work in front of others.

They came to the three rooms at the end of the corridor on the third floor, and Tommy opened the doors one by one with the key. The Ranger sisters and Dalina quickly checked each room before taking the three room keys from Tommy, which was considered as their approval of the rooms here.

Victor moved everyone's luggage into the last room. He looked around and found that the room was very spacious. The 2-square-meter area only had a large bed, a wooden table and two chairs. The walls of the room were hastily painted with the cheapest mortar. The new thick cotton blanket and quilt on the bed were the only comforting items here, but compared with the high price of gold towers per night, what was this?

Little Tommy, the waiter, took out a tallow candle from his bosom, lit it with the flame of the lantern, and inserted it into the triple candlestick on the wall.

"Well, this candle is for free." Tommy whispered shyly, "If you want more candles, you have to pay for them." "I guess it's not cheap." Jessica sighed and asked, "How much is a candle?"

"Three silver towers." The young man was obviously lacking in confidence, and his price was quoted in a low voice.

Candles were definitely a luxury item in this era, but one silver tower was enough to buy three candles, rather than three silver towers for just one candle.

The most outrageous thing is that the room rate for 2 Golden Towers for one night does not include candles?

"Did you earn the money to buy the candles yourself?" Victor suddenly asked.

Tommy's facial features were still very immature, maybe only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was thin and small, and the standard waisted cotton coat for new recruits looked too big for him. Facing the strong and burly Victor, he couldn't help but shrink his neck and took two steps back.

"Hey, are you deaf? Let me ask you to answer the question." Dai Lina pushed him from behind.

Little Tommy saw that he was surrounded, so he had to answer honestly: "It's not just me... It's all of us new recruits working in the hotel... The hotel owner is the highest commander of the Braun Town stronghold. He ordered us to work in the hotel, but he didn't pay us, so we sold candles to make some money." Then he added: "This is all allowed by the bartender. We have to give him half of the money we make."

"If I were you, I wouldn't give the bartender money. At least I don't have to rush to please him tonight." Victor took out three gold coins minted by Luoye City, which were equal to 3 tals. "Please fill the sconces in the three rooms with candles."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Little Tommy bowed repeatedly and said with joy on his face, "You are such a generous gentleman." After that, he quickly took out five candles and filled the two wall lamp candlesticks. Then he ran towards the corridor outside the door.

"I don't have enough candles with me. I'll go down and get some. I'll be back soon."

The hurried footsteps of the young man quickly faded in the empty corridor. While lighting the remaining candles, Dalina asked casually, "Master Victor, do you sympathize with these new recruits in the hotel?"

Victor frowned, sighed and said, "I sympathize with all the new recruits in the stronghold... They don't know that they will soon be slaughtered by the orcs. The saddest thing is that even if we tell them the truth, they won't believe it, and the commander they trusted is the culprit who betrayed them."

"Master, don't worry. We will kill the highest commander of the stronghold tonight." Jessica said with a smile and raised the silver and fine gold sword in her hand.

She spoke in a low voice. Although there were few guests in the hotel rooms, and they were all concentrated on the first and second floors, they were the only ones who rented three rooms on the third floor. However, there were still many dragoons and mid- and high-level professionals in the hotel. It could be said that except for the Wildfire Adventure Group, all other powerful commanders in the Braun Town stronghold lived in this building.

The Ranger sisters should be careful when discussing sensitive topics with Victor.

Not long after, the shop assistant Little Tommy came back with a group of friends. They were carrying a large wooden barrel, and the rest were carrying clay pots filled with hot water, and some were carrying plates.

The recruits carried the barrels to the center of the room and poured all the hot water from the pottery into them, causing white mist to rise. After finishing their work, the recruits left the room one by one, and Tommy explained to Victor, "Sir, this is the best food we can prepare, including fresh steamed mud scorpions, charcoal-grilled pickled venison, mud melon rolls, and four glasses of sour fruit wine."

Under the young man's anxious and expectant gaze, Victor did not express his opinion, but the female ranger Ruth understood what he meant and took out a small bag of silver coins to send him away.

The alchemist demon Dai Lina picked up the wine glass on the plate, took a sip of the sour fruit wine, and said with a bitter face: "Oh, it's so hard to drink!"

Sour fruit wine itself is a low-quality wine, and the main dish of tonight, steamed mud scorpion, is also very cheap meat, and it smells fishy. The chef seems to have sprinkled a little salt on the mud scorpion and then slightly pickled it with sour fruit wine. The taste is really hard to swallow.

Considering that the several thousand people in the Bolan Town stronghold completely rely on the Godore Line for supplies, and the transport convoys are often attacked by barbarians and orcs, the food supply of the stronghold has always been tight, and half of the recruits and garrison soldiers do not have enough food every day.

The hotel staff was very dedicated in providing Victor with fresh mud scorpion meat.

You know, orcs and barbarians are also very good at hunting in the wild. You definitely can't find any alive and kicking prey in the wilderness battlefield right now. Fresh mud scorpions are probably brought back to the base by adventurers from far away places, so they are certainly not cheap.

However, it is still outrageous to charge 1 gold tael for a dinner in the hotel. And it is even more outrageous to charge 3 gold taels for hot water for bathing.

After Victor finished dinner, Jessica began to expel the alchemist demon Dalina.

"We are going to help our master take a bath soon, so you can go out." She said confidently as Victor's private slave.

The burning Dai Lina curled her lips reluctantly, then rolled her eyes, raised her delicate hands, condensed a ball of orange-red flame, and said to Victor coquettishly: "My lord, I can also serve you to take a bath... I can also help you heat the water temperature."

Her spell-like fireballs are supernatural flames that are not bound by some of the laws of reality. For example, flames can burn in water or ignite stones, etc., but supernatural flames are bound by the laws of the elements.

The time law corresponding to the void water element limits the burning time of the supernatural flame; the space law corresponding to the void wind element limits the ignition range; the material law corresponding to the void earth element limits the single burning object.

Therefore, the burning caused by Dalina's fireball cannot be extinguished, and will last for a maximum of 2 minutes, and cannot spread, and will not cause a large-scale fire. In addition, her fireball spell comes with a mental damage effect, which will cause severe pain and cause panic. If the victim's willpower cannot be exempted from this mental damage, his own energy will be devoured by the supernatural flames, and the victim will lose his ability to fight even if he survives.

In another case, if the victim successfully avoids Dalina's psychic damage, the supernatural flames on his body will be extinguished within 30 seconds, but the burns from the flames are real.

Delina actually used her precious spell-like abilities to court Victor, and the ranger sisters could not tolerate that.

They pulled Dalina and pushed her toward the door.

"I plan to remove my disguise while the master is taking a bath."

"It is our sisters' duty to serve the master."

"I can only ask you to guard outside."

"…..Prevent strangers from breaking in and never let them see the owner's true appearance."

Since Victor didn't try to keep her, the burning Delina was pushed out of the door by the ranger sisters, and the wooden door was bolted immediately afterwards.