Chapter 184 We are sneaking across the border!

Mullen glanced at Hugo rather suspiciously.

"You? Big deal?"

"Come on, just for those refugees outside the city, no matter how big the deal is for you, you can't handle it."

Mullen knew Hugo well.

The other party, like other goblins, has a keen business sense and a smart mind.

However, his business plans are somehow always linked to those refugees.

Hugo will think of various ways to find work for the refugees.

Although he can earn a commission from it, there is really not much profit to be made from the refugees themselves.

After all, the odd jobs that can be arranged for refugees are often quite simple, and they don't make much money at all.

The base number is there, no matter how much you take the commission, you won't be able to make much money.

For example, for the refugees he found for Malen to help him purchase metal minerals, Malen would only provide him with 20 copper coins as a reward.

This job doesn’t happen every day.

He had to wait until Mullen received an order from the bully, or the weapons and armor displayed in the store were sold, and new weapons needed to be replenished.

The situation was similar for the other odd jobs Hugo found.

In comparison, the "stand-in" business he launched can use gold coins as the unit of calculation, which is already Hugo's biggest business so far.

Hugo didn't take Mullen's complaints about him seriously, and said seriously:

"I really have a big deal this time!"

"First, I won't stay near Ceylon City very often in the future, but I will need a large amount of metal ore raw materials, and I need someone to help me complete the acquisition here. You should have channels to contact other ore merchants."

"Second, Maren, don't you really want to master the magic given to the dwarves by the God of Forging? Can you really create the weapons of the dwarf blacksmith? I have a way!"

Maren seemed to have been stabbed in a sore spot and shouted dissatisfied: "What does it mean to truly forge a weapon for a dwarf blacksmith!"

"I am the Dwarf Forger!"

"How many times have I told you!"

"I have dwarf blood. I am a mixture of human dwarves. My grandmother is a hill dwarf with pure red blood!"

"The God of Forging has not given me magic, but He is still testing me. The time is not mature enough."

"I will definitely become a famous dwarf blacksmith in the future. What's wrong with naming myself in advance?"

Hugo didn't bother to argue with the other party. He had never met Maren's grandmother, and he didn't know whether the other party had so-called dwarf blood.

"In short, my deal provides you with two options."

"Either help me pay attention to purchase some needed minerals, or come with me. I can take you to a place where you can learn the magic of the God of Forging."

Malen sneered: "How is it possible that you can learn magical arts as easily as you want? It's such a good thing, why don't you become a mage..."

"Ice Bolt!"

Hugo stretched out his right index finger, concentrated on constructing the spell model, and chanted the magic spell.

Arcane energy gathers at your fingertips.

A small ice arrow about the thickness of a finger was condensed out of thin air, and hit the wall with a "snap" in the direction Hugo pointed.

The wall was slightly cracked by the impact, and some ice flowers began to spread around the impact point.

Level 1 magic [Ice Arrow] condenses ice arrows that attack the enemy, with a weak freezing and slowing effect.

Mullen was stunned.

He just said it casually.

Why did Hugo really know how to do it?

After not seeing each other for several months, how did this guy get the favor of the goddess of magic and become a professional mage?

"Want to learn?" Hugo hooked his fingers at Maren and showed a seductive smile.

"Follow me, you can learn it if you want to."

…

The next day, there was a "dwarf" in the team returning to the Misty Valley.

Mullen joined the team carrying a pile of forging tools.

The 20 refugees recruited were not idle either. They were also in large and small packages.

The thing I carried this time was not luggage, but various metal minerals.

Mainly ordinary iron materials, accompanied by a small amount of high-quality refined iron, and some scattered gems and the like.

Hugo spent a lot of money to acquire these gadgets through Mullen's channels.

Hugo had no intention of earning the rewards of a god of knowledge simply by recruiting new followers.

Let them help carry goods along the way. Isn't this a ready supply of cheap labor?

Mullen, who temporarily joined the team, was still dubious.

As for what Hugo said, as long as you offer your faith to that great god, you can learn all kinds of magical arts and magic after becoming his believer, and you can also eat and drink without worries.

Mullen's first reaction was actually:

"Isn't this guy deceived by a cultist?"

The Glow God Religion in the Ceylon Territory once preached that some cultists who believed in evil gods would use arguments such as how to gain power and master divine arts to trick people into going to their gathering places.

In fact, the deceived victims are sent to be sacrificed to the evil god.

The Glow God Cult specifically reminds you not to believe in such statements to avoid threatening your life and safety.

After thinking about it, Maren felt something was wrong again.

"With Hugo's mentality, it's pretty easy for him to deceive the cultists. How could he fall for the cultists' bait?"

You know, there were actually cultists who sneaked into the kingdom and came to the refugee settlements to commit this kind of fraud.

At that time, Hugo brought dozens of refugees with him, pretending to believe what the cultists said, and then said that they were really tired and hungry, and hoped to let them have a full meal before setting off.

The cultists were suppressed by the Glorious God Cult and hid from place to place every day. They had no property to speak of. In order to collect some money to buy black bread, they almost sold all the black robes they were wearing.

It was not easy to buy food for Hugo and the refugees, but Hugo led the Glorious God Cult to arrest people when they were only halfway through the meal!

Not only were the cultists caught in one fell swoop, but Hugo also let them have a meal for free.

Maren couldn't believe that Hugo would be deceived by the cultists.

But as the team moved towards the border of the kingdom, Maren felt more and more that something was wrong!

"Hey! Wait a minute! Hugo, the new territory you are talking about is across the border, outside the Dark Forest, right?"

Hugo gave a positive answer.

"Shouldn't we stop at the border defense line to rest first?"

"Why is it getting more and more desolate?"

Maren could see the [Past Glory] magic light wall standing on the border line, and estimated that the distance was less than ten kilometers at most.

Hugo said as a matter of course: "It's desolate!"

"Who told you that we are going to go through the border defense line into the dark forest?"

"We are going to sneak across!"

"What the hell?!" Maren was shocked: "Didn't you say it was a normal transportation job before!"