Generally speaking, bandits and bandits were rarely seen around cities. After all, there were guards in the city, and as long as the lord was not an idiot, he or she would know how much the appearance of bandits around the city would affect the city's business system.
Without trade routes, there would be no taxes.
Therefore, generally speaking, the guards of the major cities would carry out a carpet-like sweep around the city to ensure that the trade routes were smooth.
However, this method was not very reliable in the desert. Not only did the desert's climate change, but the terrain also looked different every day. As long as there was a strong gust of wind, the shape and direction of the sand dunes would change. The desert bandits were like fish in water in such an environment. As long as they fled immediately after the robbery, even if the guards chased them, they would be able to escape, and the guards would not dare to pursue them.
It could be said that desert bandits were a unique phenomenon in Sunderland.
However, even such desert bandits had a sense of propriety. They knew that if they robbed too harshly, no caravan would be willing to come again. Therefore, as long as the caravan surrendered, they would not kill indiscriminately, and they would only rob about half of the goods.
Although for the caravan, having half of the goods robbed would make a lot less profit, there would still be some profit, and if they were not robbed, they would make a lot of money.
Therefore, even though Sunderland was rampant with desert bandits, there were still many caravans coming and going.
Although the merchants were not too afraid of desert bandits, the lord hated them. In the lord's view, these desert bandits robbed them of the taxes that should have belonged to them.
Interests were the biggest catalyst for hatred in this world. The lord and the desert bandits had a life-and-death relationship, and most of the dual earth and fire Mages belonged to the various lords of Sunderland.
Now, Beta saw an earth and fire Mage besieging a group of desert bandits.
Four walls of sand were erected high, trapping more than a dozen desert bandits in a mouth shape. The earth magicians threw fireballs into the walls one by one. Every fireball that was thrown into the walls was followed by a scream. The desert bandits wanted to jump out, but the sand walls were too high, so they could only suffer the magic attacks inside, screaming and cursing.
Every time the Mage threw a small fireball, she would laugh strangely. Although her voice was arrogant, it was very pleasant to listen to.
That's right, this was a female Mage. She had the unique wheat-colored skin of the people of the Sand Nation, which shone brilliantly under the sun.
Unlike other plains or woodland countries, where mages almost covered their entire bodies with long robes, in this hot desert, the female mages here were dressed like dancers. They only wore a tube top, a short skirt, and a luxurious magic cloak to prove their identity. That was it.
Beta saw the female Magician, and the female Magician also saw Beta. She first looked at Beta for a while, then relaxed and waved at Beta enthusiastically.
Generally speaking, it was almost impossible for a Magician to appear among the desert bandits. After all, a Magician's status was very noble, and most lords were willing to provide for them. There was no need to run around for money.
Moreover, Beta had fair skin and bright golden hair. His head, in particular, shone with a golden luster under the sun, which was completely different from the common dark brown hair here. It was obvious that he was a foreigner.
There was no need to make a fuss about a foreign spellcaster. Besides, he was so good-looking.
With that in mind, the female Mage down below waved at Beta.
Beta nodded at the female Mage in greeting and continued walking slowly.
The female Mage felt rather regretful to see Beta leave. Then, she launched an inhumane attack on the desert bandits who were trapped in the sand walls. The smell of meat soon spread out.
Shirley, Emma, Jessica, and Alice, who were in the space of Mystra's Mansion, naturally saw that too.
Shirley smiled and said, "Desert women are not strong, but they have quite a temper."
Emma, however, frowned and said, "It's inappropriate to dress like that. She even winked at Beta. I can tell that she's not a good woman."
Shirley, however, smiled. "The priest robes of the Church of Storm are also very sexy."
"But at least we're wearing something on our upper bodies." Emma snorted.
Alice smiled as she watched them bicker. She felt much better after coming to Sunderland, the kingdom of the desert, and looking at the boundless, empty world of sand. In Bronze Drum City, she thought of Kail every day and couldn't be happy.
Betta continued moving forward. The scorching desert was a disaster for ordinary people, but for Betta, who cultivated both magic and martial arts and had a physique of more than 10, it was nothing. He didn't even need to put on a fire-resistant shield.
Feather Fall could not only reduce the effort needed for walking, but it could also slightly increase the speed of walking.
Not long after, Betta stood on the sand dune and saw a city on the horizon in front of him. As far as he could see, he could clearly see camel caravans coming and going under the yellow city gate.
The desert was a merciless place that could devour almost all life, but it was a place full of vitality. Perth was the only place in the desert that could survive, and it was also the most suitable place for survival in the desert.
Beta came to the city gate. There was no one ten meters around him.
Nobody was willing to mess with spellcasters, whether or not the spellcasters were natives.
Beta walked into Perth without paying a toll, because nobody dared to collect it. The streets were crowded with hawkers on both sides of the street. They had placed a large piece of linen on the ground with all kinds of goods on it, but most of them were local specialties, such as sand sculptures or desert cactus fruits.
In the game, the Desert Cactus Fruit was very popular among the players because it was one of the main ingredients of the strange dish 'Fruit Fish'. The Fruit Fish had a special effect. After eating it, it would replenish the energy of the consumer for a whole day.
Although the effect wasn't very obvious, after 24 hours, the effect couldn't be underestimated. It had almost become one of the dishes that players had to carry.
However, cactus fruits weren't easy to preserve. They would stink in two days after being picked and begin to rot in about four days, so preservation was a great problem. And there was a shortage of fresh fish in the desert. Although many NPCs knew that the fruit fish was an excellent dish, they didn't make it in large quantities.
However, in the game, there were high-level merchants who brought their own "goods spaces" with them. They brought cactus fruits in large quantities to other countries and sold them at high prices, driving the cactus fruits in Perth to sky-high prices.
And the first batch of people who did this were naturally the members of F6. Betta had also shipped goods with his cousin and made a small fortune.
The magic coordinates of Perth were also set at that time.
For more than three hundred years, the layout of Perth hadn't changed at all. It was still the same three horizontal and three vertical lines. The only thing that changed was the order of the buildings' height.
For example, Beta remembered that there used to be a famous "mechanic" shop nearby, which was full of first-class wheat-colored beauties. All the 6 members except his cousin had tried it, and when they came out, they all gave it a thumbs up and praised it. His cousin came later and was about to step in to try it when a beam of light shone down from the sky and directly set the mechanic's shop on fire.
Then his cousin discovered that if he dared to jump into such a place, a beam of light would immediately shine down from the sky. Although it couldn't burn people to death, it could set the shop on fire. As a result, he lost all interest.
At that time, Beta still remembered that his cousin once complained gloomily to them: Although as a Paladin, I should indeed follow the precepts, but there are so many NPC Paladins and the Goddess of Light doesn't care, so why does she have to spy at him every day?
Was she a player? Beta was speechless when he heard this at that time. He had always felt that his cousin was favored by the heavens since he was a child. He was born with an unbelievably handsome face, a good brain, and a lot of loyal friends. Just by playing a game, he could become a Paladin that ordinary people couldn't become.
He was online for less than three hours every day, but his leveling speed was extremely fast … He wandered around every day, first picked up a loli dragon, and then every three or five days, the Goddess of Light would raise his level.
Didn't they say that the leveling up of a priest depended on devotion? No matter how he looked at it, his cousin didn't have much faith in the Goddess of Light. At most, he regarded her as a good woman. And the Goddess of Light's reaction was simply like she had taken a fancy to his cousin … Huh? Wait!
Beta, who was wandering around, suddenly stopped. He suddenly thought of a problem. Since there was no difference between the people in the game and in reality, then it didn't seem too difficult to accept that the Goddess had taken a fancy to his cousin.
In this way, he could understand why his cousin had such good luck in the game … In the later stages, the Goddess of Light gave the Shield of Light, the Sword of Light, and the Armor of Light to his cousin. This was a treatment that even the Holy Pope didn't have.
And his cousin clearly didn't contribute much to the Temple of Light, but he ran around all day, killing people for fun.
Now that he thought about it, if this was a woman's love for her man, then everything made sense.
Thinking of this, Beta finally understood why his cousin's behavior was a little strange in the later stages, and even said such words as the Goddess's poop was fragrant … He was most likely fooling around, definitely.
Beta couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air. His cousin, such a heartless person, actually flirted with the Goddess of Light in the game … What if the Goddess of Light in this world also had a projection memory?
It shouldn't be. If the Goddess of Light had it, then the Goddess of Woking should also have it. After all, in the game, the Gods and the players had a lot of indirect interaction.
If that was the case, the Goddess of Woking should directly know his identity as a Golden Son.
He must have thought too much … Beta narrowed his eyes and looked at the large number of cactus fruits on both sides of the street. There were no players in this world who fried fruits, so the price was very low now.
Or...buy some to prepare, and make some fruit fish in the future. Anyway, he had cooking skills now, so it was very simple to make fruit fish.