It will take about a day to get to Venoa town. The old village chief asked Warren, the only 3rd-level warrior with portfolio evaluation in Eill Village, to guide for Fang Tang and Jiang Jinjiu. Having learned the awkward situation of people in Eill Village, Jiang Jinjiu disguised Warren by tanning his face and adding a fake beard. People who were not familiar with him could hardly recognize him.
In order to shorten the time, Fang Tang prepared several 1st-level divine spell, "Flat Walking", which is particularly owned by mother of cats and goddess of travel. Because other gods do not have the portfolio "traveling", this would be a 3rd-level divine spell to their priests.
With the help of this divine spell, they three could easily find the short cut and arrive at Venoa town before sunset.
Compared with Eill Village, which has more than 20 households, Venoa town is much bigger. Except the wooden bounding wall and gate, there are also guards, in leather armour and with spears, patrolling to safeguard their town.
Fang Tang's identity of being a priest makes everything convenient. These guards don't ask too much and let them enter the town.
"It's been six years since the last time I came here." Warren sighed with emotion.
Even though the reward task of hunting and killing Sarman was posted in mercenary union by village chief's associate, Warren still had an general idea about how to get to mercenary union.
The mercenary union's stronghold is in a tavern. Jiang Jinjiu was triggered after hearing the word "tavern". And they three changed their original plan of selling snake skin and fangs in the market and decided to go to the mercenary union first.
As soon as they walked to the door of the tavern, they saw a person being kicked out.
"Fuckers, kick me out just for owing you some liquor money. Snobby bastards. Wait and see, when I find the treasure, I will buy out all of your wines and pour them all!"
To their surprise, this one, who was kicked out, was a woman wearing a plain leather armor, with two daggers and many small pockets hanging around her waist. Although she was kicked out, she didn't seem to be hurt. With a fast and flexible move, she got up immediately.
"She looks like a bandit." Warren whispered to Fang Tang.
"Bandit? Who the hell tell you I'm a bandit?" They didn't expect that this woman has a pair of sharp ears and hear Warren's words.
"I'm a treasure hunter, a hunter, understand?" This woman glared at Warren.
Warren shook his head, "never heard of it."
"Bumpkin! Of course, it's normal for people like you, who are from small villages, don't know treasure hunters. We are experts in finding treasures. We could trace the remains of ancient kingdoms and explore the secrets left by gods. Whether it's money, treasures or taboo knowledge, we could find it because our goal is to find and unearth them from wherever they were buried." said the female bandit like a peacock.
"Why do I feel like she is a grave robber." Instead of admiring her, Fang Tang felt it's funny and wanted to laugh after hearing this weird woman's boasting.
She was a young woman with tanned skin and flexible and long fingers. Observing her, you would feel that she does have the talent of being a bandit. No matter how eloquent she is, this down and out air is obvious in her.
"So, you have been to many places, right?"
"Of course, from The High Forest from the south, to the Giant's Run to the east and Nlanser Islands to the west. My footprints are all over the lands and oceans."
"Go ahead bragging, I don't trust a single word coming out of you." Fang Tang thought this in his mind. If it's not because he saw that she was kicked out for not being able to pay off the liquor money, he almost believed her bullshit.
But Warren was fooled and amazed, "Wow, that's awesome. The farthest place I've been to is Flane City."
"Flane City is merely an earl city. You have to know that there are 11 earls in Norton Duchy. But Norton Duchy is only the smallest country in Northern League. "
"Miss, you are really experienced and knowledgeable. May I buy you a drink?" Fang Tang touched his chin and asked. He had a feeling that this woman could be a way for him to learn more about this world.
"I'm not an aristocrat, so you don't need to call me Miss. My name is Jona Inverse. Since you sincerely want to buy me a drink, it wouldn't be good to refuse you." Jona pretended like it's Fang Tang's honor to be able to drink with her. She seemed to forget that she was the one that was being kicked out of the tavern about ten minutes ago. Holding her head high, she took the lead in walking into the tavern.
The bartender glared at her when he saw this woman came back again. Right away, this bandit changed her original arrogant face into a terrified expression, and run behind Fang Tang to hide, " Scar, these people want to buy me a drink, they have money."
The bartender looked at them for their answer. Fang Tang rolled his eyes and motioned Warren to take out his money bag.
"What do you want?" the bartender asked.
"One of each kind, please!" After knowing that Jiang Jinjiu needs to drink thousand of fine liquors as the stimulation to improve his Kungfu, Fang Tang decided to get Jiang Jinjiu some new liquors each time they went to a new place in this plane.
The bartender glanced at Fang Tang in amazement, but he didn't say anything and turned back to pour liquors for them.
Fang Tang was impressed by this bandit woman's boasting ability just now, then he realized that he underestimated this woman with his primary judgement. After a glass of liquor, this woman started to give a full play of her ability, and she made her bombast really convincing.
Such as she blew up a Mechanical Golem, which can destroy the world, in the underground tunnel ruins of Ancient Goblin, battled Dragolich in the Roof of the World, handedly and safely went in and out Silvermoon Forest, and hobnobbed with the high priest in Dwarf's Kingdom.
This bandit woman has a red face and ears because of the liquor but her boasting was still on. Looking at her, there was a BGM, Silently Watch You Talk Big, haunting in Fang Tang's mind.
"Two years ago, you were in Lijiang, and in last year, you went to Tibet. Carried a gun, fired a gun, played with bullets like a toy. Your first sex was in Dongguan (whore intensive area ), your anal sex happened in Nanjing, you had three illegitimate children in Pakistan and seven wives in Afghanistan. Those are what you told me."
Finally, Fang Tang made a rough map of Olund after this bandit lady finished her 'legendary' experience.
In this plane, there are many races, like humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, dragons, giants and so on. And humans have now accounted for 60% of the known land in this plane, but the war has not ended. In the north, it is mainly humans who work with elves and mountain dwarves to fight against orcs. In the south, hill dwarves would unite to compete for survival space with humans. The Human Kingdom, located in the east, is busy fighting with the giants. Because of the covenant signed between elves of Evermeet island and humans, the western coast is the only place that has ceased the war, runs a prosperous business, and establishes a Gold Coin Federation that is ruled by merchants.
When Fang Tang almost got all the information he needs, he revealed his real intention in the end. Taking out of a bag, he pretended looking around, and whispered to the bandit lady ,"as an expert in treasure hunters, how do you sell the unearthed treasures?"
Seeing a ray of golden light glowing in that bag, right away, this bandit lady was half awake from her drunken mind. As she reached out and wanted to feel it, Fang Tang put the bag away.
"What is this? Did you find it from Misty Forest?"
At this time, Fang Tang either answered vaguely or skipped Jona's questions. He only asked where he can sell these for a good price.
Under the pressure of Jona's serial repeated question, Fang Tang was out of choice and admitted that he met a red Sarman in Misty Forest, and after getting this python killed, he found some gold nuggets and gem in this snake's nest. About where did Sarman get these things, he had no idea.
After seeing Sarman's head in the other package, the bandit lady couldn't move her eyes from it. By seeing her rub her hands, you can tell that she is eager to have a try.
She gave Fang Tag an address and name, and asked him to go to the market looking for the owner of that shop. Moreover, she told Fang Tang to mention her name if he wanted to sell a reasonable price. After that, she run out with excitement.
By looking at her motivated back, Fang Tang knew that she was baited.