Chapter 204 Blacksmith and Mission

Under the leadership of the soldiers, Jiang Hai quickly left the ruins of the beach and advanced inland, and soon found the small woods mentioned.

"Sir Baron, look, that's the blacksmith." The soldier said, pointing to a man standing on the clearing ground in the forest.

In the clearings in the woods, there were ragged human refugees sitting everywhere. They had pale faces, thin skin, calluses on their hands, and their eyes were filled with bloodshot because they could not get rest for a long time.

Jiang Hai could see at a glance that they were captured by long-term forced labor.

On this open space in the forest, several blast furnaces for iron smuggling and complete sets of blacksmith tools were built. Many of the spear tips that were built before they could be assembled were piled up into a hill.

This is a small arsenal in which the dungeon army uses human captives to build weapons.

However, unlike these thin human captives, the man standing in the middle of the open space seemed particularly eye-catching. He was burly and nearly two meters tall. His bronze skin was covered with sweat and shining in the sun. His arms were as thick as ordinary people's thighs and solid muscles, like steel.

Seeing such a strong man makes people feel that he is really a talented person to let him hit the iron in the rear. He should raise his weapons and go to battle to kill the enemy with the best use.

When the strong man saw Jiang Hai coming, he walked over a few steps, looked down at Jiang Hai and said, "Are you that baron?"

"Bold, you dare to speak to the Baron in such a tone!" The guards behind Jiang Hai immediately scolded.

The strong man snorted, disagreed.

Jiang Hai asked the guards behind him to retreat, and said to the strong man: "I am the baron, my name is Jiang Hai. Are you doing anything to ask me?"

He saw the corpses of two dark elves lying under his feet where the strong man stopped. The two unlucky guys' heads were smashed and blood flowed all over the floor.

The hammer on the strong man's hand happened to have some brain particles.

Apparently, after the human army launched an attack on the beach and repelled the dungeon army, the blacksmith immediately revolted and killed the dungeon soldiers who were guarding him.

Such a fierce man does have the capital to be proud. Jiang Hai thinks it is better to be polite.

"You are very good, without the arrogance of those shit nobles." The strong man nodded to Jiang Hai, then threw away the hammer in his hand, stretched out his hand and said, "I am the blacksmith Raymond, and I'm glad our army has finally come back!"

The blacksmith threw away the hammer and hit the muddy ground, making a muffled sound. Then the two guards behind Jiang Hai couldn't help but sweat.

"The blacksmith who was holding such a heavy hammer was as light as a feather, which showed that his arm strength was extremely amazing. Fortunately, he didn't start fighting just now."

After introducing himself, Jiang Hai learned that this Raymond blacksmith was once a paladin of the Griffon Knights when he was young. After he was discharged from the army, he served as an ordnance officer at the invitation of the Lord of Cariad City, and created weapons and armor for the army.

After the army of the dungeon kingdom Negan occupied the city of Cariad, most of the residents who remained in the city were massacred. He could have escaped easily with his outstanding skills, but in order to protect the civilians, he reached an agreement with a dungeon lord. The dungeon lord left the lives of human civilians, while he built weapons for the dungeon army.

"You ask the people from the Military Control Commission to come over the food and tents and resettle these refugees first." Jiang Hai said to the guards beside him.

"But Baron, we just logged in, and the supply was only enough for one week, so we just distributed food, right?"

Jiang Hai raised his eyebrows and said, "You only need to execute my order. What, do you have any objections?"

"I don't dare." The civilian soldier dared not argue with a nobleman. He immediately ran to complete Jiang Hai's orders.

At this time, Jiang Hai also received a system prompt that the blacksmith Raymond's friendliness was up 20 points (10 points are Charm bonus).

"Thank you for your generosity," the blacksmith Raymond gave a knightly salute to Jiang Hai. This time his tone was much more sincere than before.

After thinking about it, Raymond spoke hesitantly: "Sir Baron, I have a reluctant request. I wonder if you can accept it?"

"Here you come!" Jiang Hai was delighted.

He knew that this blacksmith Raymond had a special identity and would definitely receive a task if he had a friendly look.

Jiang Hai cleared his throat and said, "Tell me, if there is anything I can help, I will do my best."

Raymond said gratefully: "With this sentence of Lord Baron, I feel relieved. There is no difficulty in this matter, it mainly has something to do with my apprentice..."

Three years ago, Raymond accepted an apprentice named Kharif. Kharif was extremely talented. In just one year, he learned all of Raymond's craftsmanship and tended to be superior to his youth. Raymond originally wanted to teach Kharif his own set of blacksmith tools, but he always felt that Kharif was a little inappropriate.

Because Raymond himself was a Paladin, he had very strict requirements on his disciple's moral character.

As a result, after the dungeon army invaded Cariad City, Harif immediately betrayed humans and surrendered to Negan's side. Moreover, he also snatched Raymond's set of ancestral blacksmith tools.

After telling the whole story, Raymond said to Jiang Hai: "If the Baron can help me regain my blacksmith tool from Kharif, I will repair your weapons and armor for free."

At this time, a system prompt also came from Jiang Hai's mind.

"You have a friendship with the blacksmith Raymond to 20, meet the requirements, and start the task of "Unfilial Person".

"Task description: The blacksmith Raymond was betrayed by his disciple Kharif and lost the blacksmith tool he brought to power. If you can help Raymond punish the traitor Kharif and regain the blacksmith tool, Raymond will be grateful."

“Task Difficulty: c+.”

"Task Reward: Raymond, the skilled, will repair it for you for free. If you can provide materials, he will even generously build or upgrade your weapons and equipment for you."

"Whether to accept the task? Be careful, if you refuse, you will permanently lose the chance to complete the task."

"Accept!" Jiang Hai made a choice without hesitation.

In his war mark, there was still a sacred gold ingot. It was the spoils obtained after killing Scar.

During the rest and rest time in the central city, Jiang Hai has never found a candidate with enough blacksmith's expertise, so this gold ingot has been kept in the storage space. Now that I have met Raymond, I come to the pillow when I am sleepy.

"I've helped you with your good fortune," Jiang Hai said to Raymond, "I hope your blacksmith's craftsmanship will not disappoint me."

Raymond was overjoyed and patted his chest loudly: "Don't worry, when I was in the Knights, I had created a lot of high-end equipment for the Grand Commander. You don't have to doubt my strength."

Since Raymond is so confident, Jiang Hai has nothing to say.

After saying goodbye to Raymond, Jiang Hai returned to the beach. At this time, all the noble generals in the Erasia army had landed. Queen Catherine was hiking and strolling on the beach, listening to the information coming from her subordinates.

After seeing Jiang Hai, the lady immediately said with a hearty smile: "Baron Jiang Hai, you have made the first contribution to this landing battle!"

"See Her Majesty the Queen." Jiang Hai walked to Queen Catherine and saluted.

Queen Catherine smiled and nodded back, then gave a wink to the private finance officer beside her.

The financial officer with brass glasses and an old pedantic look reluctantly took out a snakeskin bag from his robe and handed it to Jiang Hai.

"This is because of your outstanding performance today, the reward I gave myself to you."

"You are worthy of being Her Majesty Queen Catherine, your name is well known." Jiang Hai flattered a little.

Queen Catherine said again: "I will hold a private banquet tonight. Baron Jianghai is not interested in attending."

"At this time," he said.

"So, that's it, see you tonight."

After Queen Catherine left, Jiang Hai took out the snakeskin bag and gently weighed it, which was quite heavy.

"A big bag of gold coins."

“Rarity: Excellent (blue).”

“Category: Currency.”

“Rare Value: When sold to a system store, it gains more survival points.”

“Value: 7300 Survival Points.”

"Explanation: Royal reward from Queen Catherine."

For Jiang Hai, who once had 400,000 survival points, this bag of gold coins worth 7,300 survival points was not a big fortune. However, after crazy purchases, he now only had 12,000 survival points in his pocket. With this extra money, he could also replenish his shriveled purse.

"Brother Jiang Hai, you are lucky, I'm a little jealous." Tang Feng ran to Jiang Hai happily, looking at the wallet in Jiang Hai's hand with envy.

"Overall, you have a chance, too." Jiang Hai patted Tang Feng on the shoulder and said lightly.

Cao Qian, not far away, looked at a large bag of gold coins in Jiang Hai's hand, and his eyes showed a greedy light. If it were normal, he would definitely run over to sarcastically because of jealousy. However, thinking of the strength Jiang Hai showed in the landing battle just now, he changed his mind. The candidate who used magical incendiary bombs with such a large amount of money could not be an ordinary person.

Cao Qian is not a fool either. He used to provoke Jiang Hai because he thought the other party was just a low-level candidate with no strength. Now that he knows that Jiang Hai is not easy to mess with, he naturally won't act rashly.

"What are you looking at? Let's go!" Cao Qian scolded Zhao Yusha, his girlfriend beside him. Then he exhaled his anger and walked towards his camp.
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