Two Jessicas

An ordinary traveler would get a silver coin for hitching a ride, but Liang Lidong didn't need it. It was a great thing for a spellcaster like him to join the caravan on their journey. Spellcasters represented strong combat power, which was a strong deterrent to anyone. With an additional spellcaster in the caravan, the journey would be safer and more reassuring.

The owner of the caravan was a businessman indeed. With his publicity, the news that a spellcaster would join their caravan to Rising Sun City quickly spread throughout Pine Wind City. In less than half a day, many travelers came to his caravan, and other caravans were willing to pay a "security fee" just to bring them along.

With this news, the owner of the caravan earned more than one gold coin. In Liang Lidong's eyes, this was a small amount, but in reality, the caravan had transported more than a dozen donkey carts to Rising Sun City.

The net profit of Rising Sun City was only a little more than two gold coins. For spellcasters, this was nothing, but for commoners, it was a huge sum.

Of course, Liang Lidong knew about this, but he didn't care. The owner of the caravan knew how to fight for his own interests, which was normal. After all, it didn't harm Liang Lidong's interests. If others could make some money for themselves without harming the interests of others, that was their ability, and others couldn't be too demanding.

As for Liang Lidong, he thought so.

The owner of the caravan was called Denver, a very ordinary name.

Denver also looked ordinary, and his personality was that of an ordinary businessman, who valued harmony and wealth. But he had an extraordinary daughter.

After the caravan set off, Liang Lidong was invited to Denver's donkey cart. This cart was more comfortable, but of course, it was far from the carriages used by nobles.

Denver was a man who traveled extensively and was very knowledgeable, so he could chat with Liang Lidong. It would be very boring if there was no one to chat on such a long journey. The two chatted from the snowy and winter plains in the north, the desert kingdoms in the south, and the barbarian lands in the west. They talked about the Elf Forest in the east, and finally talked about Denver's daughter.

His daughter was a magician, a magician from the Monochrome Tower.

After hearing the introduction, Liang Lidong was very moved. As long as players were willing and added the correct points during character creation, anyone could become a Magician. However, NPCs were different. Becoming a Magician was a very difficult task. Putting aside the problem of talent, just the money needed to learn magic was enough to make most people despair.

The Monochrome Magic Tower, on the other hand, was a place to nurture spatial Mages, which required talented spellcasters even more. The fact that Denver's daughter could enter the Monochrome Magic Tower meant that she was a one-in-a-million talent.

Denver was very pleased to see Liang Lidong's surprised expression. He continued to talk about his daughter's good points in high spirits.

She was beautiful. She was very cute and considerate. She was the cutest daughter in the world.

The money Denver made. Almost all of them were sent to his daughter so that she could focus on learning magic. After all, learning magic was a very costly thing.

"My daughter has been studying magic for five years and has already learned three spells. I remember one is called Spatial Folding and the other is Curve Acceleration. The last one is Stellar Explosion! " Denver's words were filled with great pride. "Look at the names of those spells. They sound extremely powerful."

Liang Lidong, however, frowned. Those three spells could be considered spells, and the names sounded scary, but the others should be classified as cantrips … which were the lowest level. The weakest spells were tricks that the swindlers who pretended to be bards used to deceive ordinary people.

Learning three cantrips after five years of study was already a sign that she wasn't very capable. To be honest, Liang Lidong didn't have high hopes for his daughter's future. Maybe she could manage to learn one or two low-level spells in the future. She was a high and mighty Magician in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of her peers, she was the lowest kind.

However, Liang Lidong didn't intend to say it out loud. Everybody had a goal to strive for. For Denver, making money for his daughter to learn magic was his lifelong goal.

Then, Liang Lidong learned the name of Denver's daughter. It was Martha Monroe.

Three days passed quickly. During those three days, Liang Lidong and Denver had become friends. Before they left, Liang Lidong said to Denver, "If your daughter runs into trouble someday, ask her to come to me in Reed Village near Winterwind. I'm the bishop there. Of course, if it's beyond my abilities, I'll take care of myself. "

"Of course." Denver was overjoyed. He knew very well how difficult it was for a spellcaster to make a promise.

Then, Liang Lidong parted ways with the caravan at the city gate of Rising Sun City.

It was noon. Although it was summer, Rising Sun City was built among mountains, so the temperature here was much lower than in other cities on the same latitude. Also, because of the mountain breeze, the whole city was quite refreshing.

Rising Sun City and Winterwind didn't seem to be very different in terms of layout. If anything, there were more beggars here than in Winterwind. The moment Liang Lidong entered the city, he saw a lot of beggars squatting or sitting on the two sides of the street. They were basking in the sun, their clothes ragged and their faces numb.

There were men and women, young and old among the beggars. Liang Lidong even saw a little beggar who was marked as level one.

A professional beggar? A Beggar Gang? Or a hidden class?

About three days ago, not long after Liang Lidong left the ruins, a robbery took place on the Rich Street of Rising Sun City. A dozen beggars robbed a rich man, and at the same time, they also kidnapped the woman who was in the carriage.

The sheriff was infuriated and sent all his men out. Soon, they found clues and found a lady in a ditch. Her body was covered in white stains, which mixed with the black mud in the ditch and turned into an ambiguous gray.

The force behind the lady was not weak. A dozen beggars couldn't have dared to touch her, unless there was something clandestine behind it. The sheriff investigated for two days but found nothing. In his fury, he began a massacre of all the beggars in the city.

Jessica was a beggar. She had been a beggar since she could remember, and she had been a beggar for seven years. She couldn't remember who her parents were, but she remembered her name, Jessica.

This was also a very common female name. There were at least fifty women named Jessica in the entire Rising Sun City.

Jessica's name was very common. But she was not common, or it should be said that Jessica thought she was not common.

She had a sharp nose and sharp teeth.

Generally speaking, every beggar has very sharp teeth, but her teeth are different. Her two canines are longer than ordinary people, so she can bite bones into pieces and eat them into her stomach.

The marrow in the bones was very nutritious. Jessica could crush bones when she was four years old, so she survived, although she was very thin and smelly.

She used to be a little beggar on the street of the rich. The rich there often threw the leftover bones out, so to her, the rich was her territory, as long as other beggars dared to come in. She would jump on them and fight them, although she was small. But with this ruthlessness, she "took" a small piece of land in the rich and lived like a stray dog.

Until yesterday when the beggars were wiped out.

Jessica thought she was strong, but she wasn't confident enough to fight against a dozen city guards, or she couldn't even deal with one.

She didn't know what was wrong with these city guards. They killed every beggar they saw. If it wasn't for Jessica's sharp nose, she would have smelled blood, and if it wasn't for her vigilance, she would have run out of the city as soon as she saw the city guards with their bloody weapons. Otherwise, she would have died in the hands of those murderous guards.

Jessica and many other beggars ran out of the city, and the massacre continued for a night. When she returned the next day, many familiar faces were gone, and the entire city was filled with the smell of blood.

Jessica didn't dare to go back to the rich. She was very afraid, so she stayed near the city gate. If anything went wrong, she would run out of the city.

There were no families near the city gate, and even if there were, they were poor. They wouldn't throw food out, because they didn't have enough for themselves.

So now Jessica was very hungry, very hungry. In the morning, a noble child came to the city gate, a little boy about her age. His smooth dark blond hair was tied into a ponytail behind his back, and he had delicate features. He looked at the beggars on both sides of the street from the high carriage, his face full of sympathy. Then, he grabbed a handful of copper coins from the carriage and threw them onto the street.

At that time, almost all the beggars who had escaped from the massacre were gathered near the city gate. This copper coin attracted at least a hundred beggars, and Jessica was among them.

The delicate noble boy leaned on the window of the carriage, looking at the group of beggars fighting for copper coins. Looking at his masterpiece, he laughed loudly.

Jessica snatched a copper coin from the crowd, and then she went to the food store to buy three loaves of bread. This was the best food she had ever eaten. Originally, one copper coin could buy six loaves of bread, but the store owner said she was too smelly and affected his business, so he deducted three loaves of bread from her.

Jessica didn't think it was wrong, and she even felt that it was reasonable. Who asked her to be a smelly and dirty beggar?

Enjoying the bread, Jessica was a little grateful to the little boy. She felt that he was a good person, at least giving her three loaves of bread to eat. After eating the bread, Jessica turned sideways to bask in the sun. Ever since she was young, she liked to bask in the sun after eating. She felt that it was because she often basked in the sun, so she wasn't too afraid of the cold.

Rising Sun City was very cold every winter, and many beggars would freeze to death every winter, but Jessica could always endure it.

The sun was so comfortable that she was about to fall asleep, but suddenly Jessica heard a noise among the beggars, and then it quickly quieted down. She opened her eyes curiously and saw a young man in a red robe walking in from outside the city gate. He had a head of bright golden hair, which was dazzling under the sun.

Priest, Spell Caster!

Seeing him, whether it was the city gate guards, pedestrians, or the beggars, they all shut their mouths tightly, not daring to breathe too loudly.

Jessica's whole body trembled, and she immediately prostrated on the ground. Everyone was afraid of Spell Casters, and Jessica was no exception. However, she didn't know why, but she felt that this priest was very 'scary', and there was an inexplicable pressure that forced her to surrender. She had lived in Rising Sun City for seven years, and had seen many Spell Casters, but never had she felt so uncomfortable, and her whole body couldn't breathe.

Especially when the Spell Caster looked at her, she felt her whole body twitch.

Fortunately, the Spell Caster quickly looked away, and then left, walking in the direction of the city center.

After this person left, the city gate, which had been silent for a while, finally 'came to life'. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time. Jessica patted her chest. She was so scared that she almost peed.

Everyone hoped that they could become a Spell Caster, and Jessica was no exception. Of course, she knew that this was just an extravagant hope, so her dream was to become a maid.

It was not difficult to be a maid. She only needed to sweep the floor, light the fire, and cook, but she could get a small house to stay in, a blanket to sleep, and not starve all day.

But no one was willing to hire her as a maid because she was smelly, dirty, and a beggar. But she heard that as long as a woman grew up and grew two big steamed buns, it was easy to become a maid. Nobles all liked big steamed buns. As long as there were big steamed buns, women would have a way to live.

Jessica had no doubt about this, because almost all beggars were men. Even if there were female beggars, they were either dirty and skinny little girls like her, or skinny women without big steamed buns.

After the Spell Caster left for a while, Jessica finally calmed down completely. She was about to continue basking in the sun when suddenly there was a commotion at the city gate. She straightened up and saw that the Rose Mercenary Group had returned from outside the city.

The leader was a beautiful mercenary with fiery red hair and two big steamed buns covered by white leather armor. Jessica recognized her. She was the leader of the Rose Mercenary Group, Jessica Ruth.

Everyone was called 'Jessica', but their lives were completely different.

There were 13 people from the Rose Mercenary Group who returned from outside. The last three of them were dragging a huge beast at the same time. This beast was a giant wild boar that was five meters long, and its two long tusks were at least two meters long. It seemed that they had completed a mission with a high reward.

That's great! If I was also a professional, maybe I could become someone like her. Jessica couldn't help but think.

Jessica Ruth was famous in Rising Sun City, so little Jessica naturally recognized her. She was fantasizing about what kind of life she would have if she was also a professional, when she heard a crisp sound.