Episode 4: Dragon Blood Warriors Chapter 2: Returning Home (below)
In the courtyard of the Baruch family mansion, Hogg was lying on a chair flipping through an extremely thick book and reading it carefully.
“Lord Hogg, dinner is ready.”
A female servant walked over and said respectfully.
Ever since butler Hiri took little Warden to the O’Brien Empire, there wasn’t a single servant amongst the entire Baruch family, Hogg was at the very least the patriarch of the Dragon Blood Warrior family, so he couldn’t just go and do the work of an underling on his own. So Hogg also gritted his teeth and hired a female servant.
“Oh.”
Hogg closed the book in his hand, glanced at the maid servant next to him, and sighed in his heart, “Luckily, those nobles know that my son is now a talented magician of Ernst Academy and are willing to lend me gold coins, otherwise the days would be much more difficult to live.”
“According to the current tax rate of Wushan Town, it can barely cope with the taxes of the kingdom and the salary of the escort team.”
Hogg felt suffocated when he thought about it, when the family passed on to his generation, most of what could be sold was sold out.
Fortunately ……
He, Huo Ge, had two sons, two marvelous sons.
“Linley is now a fifth level magician, graduation is coming soon, by then the family will be able to hand it over to him, and I’ll be able to do what I’ve always wanted to do.”
Hogg got up and walked towards the living room, when suddenly – “Lord Hogg, Lord Hogg.”
Hillman’s voice rang out from a long distance.
Hogg suspiciously looked towards the gate of the mansion, just a moment later Hillman stepped in, and beside Hillman there was a burly teenager.
Seeing the teenager the smile on Hogg’s face immediately bloomed and he greeted him with a big smile, “Linley, you’re back, haha, it’s just too good to be true, this is really a big surprise.”
“Agatha, please prepare a more sumptuous dinner.”
Hogg affectionately patted Linley’s shoulder, “Good boy, all caught up with my height, right, you usually don’t wait until the end of the year to come back, how about this time?”
Linley smiled mysteriously, “Father, I’ll tell you after dinner.”
“So mysterious?”
Hogg deliberately frowned.
Next to him, Hillman laughed, “Lord Hogg, Linley, he did tell me that he had prepared a mysterious gift for you. When I asked him, he still wouldn’t say anything.”
“Uncle Hillman.”
Linley frowned at Hillman.
“Fine, I won’t say, I won’t say.”
Hillman laughed.
As night fell and the land was dark, several candles burned in the Baruch family’s living room, illuminating the entire living room. Only after dinner had been eaten, the servant Agatha had cleared the table, and only Linley and Hogg were left in the hall, did Linley place his package in front of his father.
“This is?”
Hogg looked at Linley in confusion.
“Open it later.”
Linley got up and went to close the living room door, and Hogg couldn’t help but laugh, “So mysterious? Still have to close the door.”
Linley sat down confidently, “Father, you open this package.”
“I’d like to see what you have in here.”
Hogg curiously opened the parcel, not realizing that there was a large bag in the middle of the parcel, the mouth of the large bag strangled tightly, a large number of magic crystal cores stuffing the bag bulging.
Hogg touched this big bag and wondered, “Such a big bag, it doesn’t look like gold coins, could it be gravel?”
Hogg was a bit puzzled, and while saying that, Hogg opened the bag.
Once the bag was opened – flowery, colorful various magic crystal cores emitting brilliant colorful light, Hogg looked at the eyes can not help but spend, which is full of a large bag of various magic crystal cores, Hogg is a lifetime have never seen.
“This is a magic crystal core?”
Huoge’s eyes were rounded in shock as he looked towards Linley, and then swallowed hard, Huoge had also seen magic crystal cores before, but he had never seen so many of them. So many magic crystal cores were too visually shocking.
Linley nodded his head and said, ”Yes, almost all of the inside of this bag are magic crystal cores, and just a small amount of a dozen or so are magic crystal stones. According to the value of the magic crystal cores recorded in the books, these magic crystal cores should be worth more than seventy thousand gold coins.”
“More than seventy thousand gold coins?”
Hogg felt his heart twitch viciously.
Over the years, Hogg had been plagued by money, and now that he was asked to take out five hundred gold coins, Hogg was afraid that he would have to go out and borrow money. His predicament could be imagined.
More than seventy thousand gold coins!
What concept? More than seventy thousand gold coins can definitely feed the entire Baruch family for a hundred years.
“Of course, more than 70,000 gold coins is just a figure calculated according to the price recorded in the book, the price recorded in the book is still from the past, today’s price should be slightly higher. It’s estimated to be able to sell for eighty thousand gold coins.”
Linley replied honestly.
Hogg looked at the flowery pile of magic crystal cores in front of him and felt as if he was dreaming, his entire being having a feeling of floating.
“Hoo, hoo!”
Hogg took several deep breaths before barely calming down.
“Linley, where did you get these magic crystal cores?”
Huo Ge suddenly reacted, staring deathly at Linley, “You went to the Magical Beast Mountain Range?”
Linley nodded, “Yes, father, these magic crystal cores were all obtained from the Magical Beast Mountain Range.”
“You, you ……”
Huo Ge was a little annoyed, “The Demonic Beast Mountain Range is the number one murderous place in the entire continent, how big of a deal is it to enter it, why did you go in without consulting me, do you know how dangerous it is inside?”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Huo Ge laughed to himself.
Linley had even gone in, so of course he knew how dangerous it would be inside.
Huo Ge looked at Linley, who was silent with his head bowed in front of him, looking like he was ‘listening carefully to a reprimand’, and couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh, “Linley, it’s not that father wants to scold you, you have to know that you’re now a genius magician of the Ernst Academy, and that your future accomplishments are unlimited. The burden of our Baruch family is going to fall on your shoulders. After all, your brother is still young, and I don’t know how long it will take for him to become a true Dragon Blood Warrior. You’re shouldering my hopes, the hopes of our Baruch clan, so you can’t treat your life like a child’s play.”
Linley didn’t dare make a sound.
“Take off your top and let me see if you’re injured.”
Hogg suddenly said.
Take off your blouse?
Linley hesitated, with his clothes on others couldn’t see it, but Linley himself was clear about how horrifying the densely packed injuries on his body were.
“Take it off.”
Hogg frowned.
Linley hesitated for a moment, and ultimately took off his short shirt to reveal his sturdy upper body, which was also densely covered with wounds, and there were even a few wounds that belonged to fatal wounds!
Seeing the horrifying scars on Linley’s body, Hogg felt his heart tremble.
Huoge trembling hand slowly touched to Linley’s chest, as well as the abdomen that a few almost fatal wounds, see these wounds Huoge’s heart was sour, his own son in the end suffered so much tribulation, how to survive from the brink of death, Huoge did not even dare to think.
“Linley, you ……”
Huo Ge choked.
“Father, I’m not fine.”
Linley immediately comforted.
Huo Ge looked at the pile of magic crystal cores next to him that represented great wealth, and then looked at the horrifying scars on Linley’s body that were like interlaced tree roots, Huo Ge’s entire body trembled slightly.
He hated!
Hated himself for being incompetent and useless!
Taking a deep breath, Huo Ge looked up to the heavens speechless, then said in a low voice, “Linley, you’re tired from rushing around all day, go rest earlier.”
“Yes, father.”
Linley quietly left, leaving only Huo Ge sitting quietly in the candlelit burning parlor ……