"I'll take you to a safe place first, and you can wait for me there." Lynd walked over to Deltos, who had already eaten most of the roasted octopus, and said to Ela and Yara.
Yara wanted to tell Lynd that she could take care of herself, but Ela stopped her. Ela nodded and said, "As you command."
Lynd jumped onto Deltos's back. Deltos also lifted his head from the sea monster's corpse, then opened his dragon maw and shot out a beam of freezing light that swept over the corpse, instantly freezing it into a block of ice as hard as stone.
Then, it turned around, spread its wings, and flew into the air. As it flew over Ela and Yara's heads, it grabbed them and flew into the sky, heading north towards Tolos, where there was a Miracle Merchant Guild contact point.
Lazok, as Tolos's most outstanding slinger, should have joined Tolos's fleet and sailed the seas. Unfortunately, he suffered from seasickness; even when a ship was docked in the harbor, he would get sick upon boarding. This condition made him the laughingstock of Tolos, earning him the terrible nickname of "Dizzy Head."
However, after he shattered the heads of three mockers with lead balls, no one dared to laugh at him that way again.
Now, with his slinging skills and exquisite swordsmanship, Lazok had been hired by the Governor to be the patrol captain of Garden Street.
Although this position sounded much smaller than positions like tax collector or dock manager, in reality, his authority was significant because Garden Street was the most prosperous area in Tolos. Many merchant guilds and shops gathered there, so the patrol team there was much larger than those in other areas, with three hundred regular members and two hundred reserves. Most importantly, the Council of Governors allocated a sum of money to the patrol team every month, and as captain, Lazok could directly allocate these funds.
While he couldn't pocket all of the funds, taking a small portion for himself was permissible, within the allowed scope of the big figures in the Council of Governors.
Even if it was just a small portion, it was a large sum of money for him personally, just like the exquisite Summerhall scimitar he wore, which was custom-made with this money at the Miracle Merchant Guild contact point on Garden Street.
The Miracle Merchant Guild contact point was on Garden Street, a not-too-large house that looked too ordinary, even inferior to the fur shop next door.
However, the Miracle Merchant Guild contact point was now the place in all of Tolos where the most powerful and wealthy people gathered. These powerful and wealthy people gathered here not just for the mission bulletin board and price announcement board, but more so to establish connections with the Miracle Merchant Guild and become a member.
When the Miracle Merchant Guild first established its contact point here, it once invited the city's powerful and wealthy merchants to join the Miracle Merchant Guild as members. As a result, except for a few merchants who accepted the invitation, the other powerful figures and merchants scoffed at the invitation.
However, now, Miracle Merchant Guild membership was practically a golden trade pass. Those who possessed it could trade various scarce goods at very low prices, and every transaction represented immense wealth. Unfortunately, at this time, the Miracle Merchant Guild no longer recruited new members externally but adopted a member recommendation and review system. Therefore, those hoping to join the Miracle Merchant Guild could only try every means to go to the Miracle Merchant Guild contact point and curry favor with existing members in order to obtain a membership spot.
The reason why the Miracle Merchant Guild had such strong influence in Tolos, besides the Miracle Merchant Guild's own powerful forces and massive channels for acquiring wealth, was more importantly due to the immense power behind the Miracle Merchant Guild.
It was well known that the master behind the Miracle Merchant Guild was Linde Terra, the Lord of Summerhall. Not to mention the vast territories Linde Terra owned spanning two continents, his personal prestige alone already far exceeded the power of his territory. After all, a god walking on earth was not just a title, but a fact, and any believer of the god of calamity could prove this point.
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