Don't call me evil god

Chapter 184 We are sneaking here!
Maren glanced at Hugo rather suspiciously.

"You? Big deal?"

"Come on, with those refugees outside the city, you won't be able to handle the business no matter how big it is."

Mullen knew Hugo well.

The other party, like other goblins, has a keen business sense and a smart mind.

But somehow his business plans were always linked to those refugees.

Hugo would find various ways to find jobs for the refugees.

Although he could earn a commission from it, there was not much profit to be made from the refugees themselves.

After all, the odd jobs that can be arranged for refugees are often quite simple, and they can't earn much money after working all day.

The base number is there, and no matter how much commission you take, you won’t make much money.

For example, the refugees he found to help Malen purchase metal minerals, Malen would only pay them 20 copper coins per trip.

This job doesn't come every day.

It would have to wait until Maren received an order from a sucker, or the weapons and armor displayed in the store were sold out and he needed to forge new weapons to replenish the stock.

The situation was similar for the other odd jobs Hugo found.

In comparison, the "stand-in" business he created, which uses gold coins as the unit of measurement, is Hugo's largest business to date.

Hugo didn't take Maren's criticism of him seriously and said seriously:

"I really have a big deal this time!"

"First, I won't be staying near Ceylon City very often in the future, but I will need a large amount of metal ore raw materials. I need someone to help me complete the acquisition here. You should have channels to contact other ore merchants."

"Secondly, Maren, aren't you dreaming of mastering the magic bestowed upon the dwarves by the God of Forging? Can you really forge the weapons of the dwarf forgers? I have a way!"

As if a sore spot had been touched, Maren shouted in dissatisfaction: "What do you mean by a weapon truly made by a dwarf forger!"

"I am the dwarf forger!"

"How many times have I told you!"

"I have dwarven blood. I am a half-human and half-dwarf. My grandmother is a pure-blooded hill dwarf!"

"The God of Casting has not bestowed the divine art upon me. He is just testing me. The time is not ripe yet."

"I will definitely become a famous dwarf forger in the future. What's wrong with me proclaiming myself as such now?"

Hugo was too lazy to argue with the other party. He had never seen Maren's grandmother and didn't know whether she had the so-called dwarf bloodline.

"In short, my deal provides you with two options."

"Either help me keep an eye out for the minerals I need, or come with me. I can take you to a place where you can learn the magic of the God of Casting."

Ma Lun sneered: "How can you learn divine arts just by wanting to? If it's really that good, why don't you become a wizard..."

"Ice Bolt!"

Hugo stretched out his right index finger, concentrated on constructing a spell model, and chanted the incantation.

Arcane energy gathers at his fingertips.

A tiny ice arrow about the thickness of a finger condensed out of thin air and hit the wall with a "pop" in the direction Hugo pointed.

The impact created some cracks on the wall, and some ice flowers began to spread out from the point of impact.

The first-level magic [Ice Arrow] condenses an ice arrow to attack the enemy, with a weak freezing and slowing effect.

Maren was stunned.

He just said it casually.

How come Hugo really can do it!
I haven't seen this guy for a few months. How come he got the favor of the Magic Goddess and became a mage?

"Want to learn?" Hugo hooked his finger at Maren and showed a seductive smile. "Come with me, as long as you want, you can learn it too."

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The next day, there was a "dwarf" in the team returning to Misty Valley.

Maren joined the team carrying a bunch of forging tools.

The 20 recruited refugees were not idle either, they also carried large and small bags.

This time, what they carried was not luggage, but various metal minerals.

Mainly ordinary iron, accompanied by a small amount of high-quality refined iron, and some scattered gemstones and other things.

Hugo spent a lot of money to buy these things through Mullen's channels.

Hugo had no intention of earning rewards from the God of Knowledge simply by recruiting new believers.

Ask them to help carry the goods along the way. Isn't this ready-made cheap labor?
Mullen, who joined the team temporarily, was still in a state of doubt.

As for what Hugo said, as long as you offer your faith to the great god and become his believer, you can learn all kinds of divine arts and magic, and you will never have to worry about food and drink.

Mullen's first reaction was:
"Could this guy have been deceived by the cultists?"

The Cult of the Light of Ceylon once preached that some cultists who believed in evil gods would use claims such as gaining power and mastering divine arts to deceive people into going to their gathering places.

In reality, the deceived victims are sent to be sacrificed to the evil gods.

The Glowing God Cult specifically reminds people not to believe such claims lightly, so as to avoid putting their lives in danger.

On second thought, Mullen felt something was wrong.

"With Hugo's mind, it's okay for him to deceive the cultists, but how could he fall for the cultists' trick?"

You know, there were cultists who sneaked into the kingdom and committed this kind of fraud in the refugee camps.

At that time, Hugo was leading dozens of refugees. He pretended to agree to believe what the cultists said, and then said that they were really tired and hungry, and hoped that they could have a full meal before setting off again.

The cultists were suppressed by the Glowing God and had to hide from place to place every day. They had no property to speak of. In order to collect some money to buy black bread, they almost sold the black robes they were wearing.

We finally bought food for Hugo and the refugees, but when we were only halfway through the meal, Hugo came with the people from the Church of the Glow to arrest people!
Not only were the cultists caught in one fell swoop, but Hugo also got a free meal from them.

Maren couldn't believe that Hugo would be deceived by the cultists.

But as the team moved toward the border of the kingdom, Maren felt more and more that something was not right!

"Hey, wait a minute! Hugo, the new territory you're talking about is across the border, outside the Mirkwood, right?"

Hugo answered in the affirmative.

"Shouldn't we stop by the border defense line to rest first?"

"Why is it getting more and more desolate as we walk?"

Maren could even see the magical light wall of [Past Glory] standing on the border, and estimated that the distance was less than ten kilometers at most.

Hugo said as a matter of course: "It's desolate!"

"Who told you that we were going to take the border defense line and enter the Dark Forest?"

"We are trying to sneak across the border!"

"What the hell?!" Maren was shocked: "Didn't you say it was just a normal delivery job before?"

"How did we become illegal immigrants?"

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There will be another update later, I’m working on it.

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