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I didn't get far, it just got so dark that I couldn't see the road, but luckily the timer reset and I was able to set up camp here. The night flew by instantly, although it seems that lately I’ve only been doing what I’m sleeping, but moral fatigue is an evil thing to throw it off, there’s not always enough sleep, it’s worth going through, overcoming, and then the spirit will be freed.

            In the morning, after a quick bite of the rest of the provisions, I went on. On the nearest lands, the undead did not even smell, for the attack they were driven from all over the area, and the robbers did not have time to migrate to these places. Therefore, there was nothing to fear, and I could afford to relax and just admire the surrounding views. And there was something to admire: to the left of the road a pure birch forest, to the right a field with cornflowers on the horizon, merging with the sky of the purest blue color. 

            The task for today was far from heroic. I need to get to the inn, sort out my inventory, refresh my provisions and prepare for my stay with the scorpions, what might be waiting for me there, I have no idea, so it's worth being safe. 

            While I was making plans, nature began to change dramatically. Here the trees have ended, the steppe has gone. The main color changed from green to yellow, the only thing that remained unchanged was the sky. The sky was still the same blue and clear, which could not but rejoice, a clear sky gives hope for a brighter future.

            By evening I was already in the town, standing near the desert, in this area the temperature had risen sharply. Despite the fact that I stayed in the same country, the architecture has changed and acquired oriental shades. The city, for the most part, was made of white stone houses with domed roofs, narrow streets and palm trees. 

            Not far from the city, the players hunted lizards, the level of both hunters and lizards was no higher than the fifteenth, which means that this is a low-level location. While admiring the scenery, I noticed something was wrong, on the side of the road in front of the entrance to the city, three stuck to the girl. He recalled the camel, slipped into invis and ran to the place of the showdown. Approaching them at a distance of ten meters, he heard a conversation:

You don't seem to understand. This is our location, and here everyone pays us if they want to farm. So drive the gold and get out of here.

- But I really don’t have any, I only have ten coppers.

- So, now you are flying to rep, and in the evening you owe not one gold, but two, and if you don’t bring it, you can not enter the game. You will have many deaths, so many that you will go crazy. You understood?

            While they were crucifying, I analyzed their Persians, three aggro with red nicknames of the fortieth level. Level 7 girl. Of course, she can't do anything to them. Therefore, I cut infrasound and issue:

- I have another suggestion. 

            It was funny to watch how they bravely turn around, and when they see the level, they droop. They didn’t even try to fish, with such a difference as ours, their chances tend to be negative. And although this is not entirely true, they do not need to know that my actual stat level is sixty-eight.

- You throw off a hundred gold¹ and get out of this loki, otherwise I will reset you and take the gold with gear. 

But we don't have that many.

            I put them on the black list and I see long faces, they received alerts about this.

- Let's have as much as we can. 

            Threw off fifty gold. For the initial loki, a lot of money, but it won’t work.

"I'll be here in fifteen minutes with the rest of the money." Bring what you have. The one who will not be in fifteen minutes will regret much more. 

            With these words I take off the heads of two and, without throwing off the inertia of movement, I bring out a double blow to the chest of the third, he hangs on the swords for several seconds and falls like a carcass. I collect loot from them. And I turn to the girl.

- Don't worry, we'll teach them a lesson. I doubt that after this day they will remain in the location. 

Thank you, no one would stop to help.

I don't like aggro, I really don't. So no thanks. Now wait, we need to set up a trap plan.

            He called a group of nearby farming players. 

- Guys, I pay five gold each for the info. You need to throw a group of Malvina and disperse to all exits from the city. If you see someone from the list leaving the city, unsubscribe to the chat. Don't ask for trouble, don't shine on nicknames. Let's hurry, we don't have much time. 

            The guys, seeing the nicknames of their offenders, fell off point by point, like racing horses. Ten minutes later, the last observer reported that the point was occupied. A quarter of an hour passed, there were no aggressors, but they did not leave the city either. A friendly trinity appeared twenty minutes later with joyful cries that they had collected. 

- You late. You have fifteen minutes.

            With these words, they again set off for rep². Well, let's wait a little more. I collected the loot again, putting it in a separate bag. Now they also dropped a dozen gold coins. This time they arrived in fifteen minutes, thirty seconds and turned in two fifty coins and one forty. 

- There is not enough.

- But you knocked them out, you have them.

- The penalty is increased to one hundred and fifty coins. There will be another such jamb, I will increase the fine again. Fifteen minutes.

            And again rep for our friends. And again they lost part of the gear. During this hour, they lost almost all the equipment. This time they came on time and brought everything. Finally, having sent them to rep, I collected the last loot and, taking Malvina, went to the hotel, where we agreed to meet with our safety team, which, fortunately, was not needed. I really didn't want to run after them. 

            We arrived at the hotel earlier than the others. Therefore, he ordered a table and, leaving Malvina to wait for the order and the company, went to rent a room. This time I decided to reconsider my opinion about a private room. You can break into a private house, but not into a private room. And since I have acquired things of great value, I don’t think it’s rational to store them anywhere else. Besides, when traveling, I can access the room from any hotel and inn. 

            Therefore, the choice approached thoroughly. I took three rooms. One small bedroom, furnished in brown and white. A calm atmosphere will allow you to relax, and it will be possible to have a better rest, I took a bed, a bedside table and a soft carpet from the furniture. I don't need anything else in the bedroom. The next room is an office, there is already most of it. For starters, a comfortable secretary table, a bookcase, a mini-bar, a fireplace with an automatically updated woodpile, a couple of comfortable chairs at the table and in front of the fireplace, a mini-table for the second chair, a large world map that is automatically updated when buying maps or personal exploration of the area. And the third big one is a warehouse with convenient shelving and cabinets of various formats. It cost me one gold a day. Paid for ten years in advance. Let it be, it's easier

            When I finished with the room, the guys were already packed. I sat down at their table, it turns out that they were waiting for me and did not touch the food. I invited them to join the meal and immediately gave the promised money, I do not like to be indebted. After the meal, he said goodbye to everyone except Malvina, and without prying eyes gave her the gold taken from the Agres and their gear. Her gratitude knew no bounds. In fact, such outpourings are embarrassing, so I quickly rushed off to the magic academy. There he ordered an artifact that can identify things without an appraiser. Luckily it wasn't as rare as I thought, just expensive, very expensive, but the anonymity was worth it. Having paid off twenty-five thousand gold for the benefit of the development of magic, I went to the guild of cartographers. Fortunately, despite the late hour, the guild was opened and with pleasure for five thousand gold provided me with a complete map of Lemrado and a partial map of the Black Sands Desert. Partial because it has never been fully explored. 

            The last thing left to do is go to the bank, where he deposited sixty-nine thousand gold into the account. Now I have only a round sum on hand, I was going to keep it separately.

            Tonight, business in the city was over. Therefore, I went to the room, I still have to audit and place things in the warehouse. First of all, he threw gold into the chest, exactly one hundred thousand. The next were the armor knocked out of the engravers. Thanks to the crystal, their characteristics became known:

            "Shield of Fortitude. Shield from the Fortitude Set, the set includes: shield, helmet, cuirass. The minimum level to use is 250.

Requirements:

Strength - 300

Physique - 300

Bonuses:

Strength + 150

Physique + 150

Armor + 300

            When defending in place, the effect of armor + 30%. When wearing a full set, the effect increases to 40%.” 

            "Helmet of Fortitude. Helmet from the Fortitude Set, the set includes: shield, helmet, cuirass. The minimum level to use is 250.

Requirements:

Strength - 300

Physique - 300

Bonuses:

Strength + 100

Physique + 100

Armor + 250

            When defending in place, the effect of armor + 30%. When wearing a full set, the effect increases to 40%.”

            "Cirass of Fortitude. Breastplate from the Fortitude Set, the set includes: shield, helmet, cuirass. The minimum level to use is 250.

Requirements:

Strength - 300

Physique - 300

Bonuses:

Strength + 400

Physique + 400

Armor + 100

HP regeneration + 10 HP per second 

            When defending in place, the regeneration effect is 30 HP per second. When wearing a full set, the effect increases to 50 HP per second.

            Next is the heart of the lich. After checking with an artifact, a description appeared.

            “The heart of a lich is a reservoir of magical energy with a volume of 10,000,000 units. Self-fill capability: +50,000 units per hour. Fullness: 5 550 000.

            The two wands turned out to be twin brothers:

"Level Limit: 100

Minimum specifications:

Intelligence - 150 

Wisdom - 150 

Intelligence Bonus - 125 

            Fires lightning that deals damage - intelligence * 3. Limit - 10 lightning per hour.

            The staves turned out to be not finished products, but blanks, very high-quality blanks made of precious woods with inlaid stones, but there was no magic outline in them, so this is a potential weapon with any characteristics and bonuses.

            But the misericord pleased.

            "The Misericord of Mercy. Legendary, indestructible item. Misericord, made by special order of a knight-errant. Parameters: Strength +10% of the hero's strength. Instantly kills a downed enemy who accepts defeat. 100% chance to ignore armor on mercy hit."

            Of course, you don’t use it in a regular battle, but one day it can be very useful. So I immediately added it to my outfit.

            Further scrolls, with scrolls of fireballs and firefighters, there were no problems. I just counted them and put them in the closet, they turned out to be forty and thirty-two, respectively. But the scrolls from the tubes had to be checked. 

            There were five of them in total. 

            The first scroll of learning the teleportation skill. It was used immediately, although it requires a lot of mana, but strategic movement on the battlefield is extremely important. 

            “The unique skill teleportation rank 1 has been studied. The hero instantly moves to a distance of 10 meters. Cooldown: 60 minutes. Cost to activate: 500 mana.

            I wonder why unique? And not understanding the dirty trick, I decided to postpone this knowledge for later.

            Two scrolls with the skill of a meteor that falls from the sky at an angle of forty-five degrees and rolls in the direction of fall. At the landing site with a radius of one hundred meters, it dealt damage of one million units and, when pumped in, dealt another fifty thousand over a distance of five hundred meters. 

            An extremely powerful scroll, but only for mages. Activation required 100,000 mana.

            Two more Tsunami scrolls. A wave ten meters high rose and moved in the indicated direction for five kilometers, causing damage of five hundred thousand to everyone along the way. The restrictions were that the beginning of the tsunami must be taken from the water and all the same one hundred thousand mana to activate.

            The last thing left in the inventory is books and elite alcohol. 

            "Fifty-litre cask of 200-year-old wine." 

            "A 50-litre barrel of 200-year-old whiskey."

            I left the kegs in the vault, what to do with whiskey, I didn't know yet, I don't like whiskey. But I'll keep the wine for myself, but for later, when there is something to celebrate.

            The books took their place in the office. So I started building the library.

            It took almost three hours to sort the items, and finished after midnight. I spent another half an hour putting everything in its place and making a list, it will come in handy when there are more items. 

            Fortunately, this work is over. It’s not mine, I’m more tired than from training, but order is a necessary thing. Judging by the map, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I will reach the goal of my journey, which means I need to get a good sleep before leaving. 

Golda - from English. Gold - gold. 

Rep - from English. Respawn - rebirth. In computer games, a place of constant appearance of some object or character in the game world, occurring at a certain point (respawn point) in the game space.