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Chapter 12 Shiroishi Trading Company
The Wizarding Introduction states that all beings with their own reason and extraordinary power can be called wizards—or knights, or knight wizards.
Although a knight's strength is far inferior to that of a wizard, the power a knight possesses is still extraordinary and can crush ordinary people.
"My lord, these two pirates who have infiltrated, although they are not knights yet, their skills and physical training are already close to their limits."
"They were definitely the elite of the pirates," the knight said, glancing around as he looked at the two corpses at his feet.
"My strength is more than enough to deal with them, but it's absolutely impossible to kill them without making a sound."
"Look, sir." The knight lifted the two corpses, one in each hand, exposing their wounds.
"At the time, the two pirates were trying to break into the warehouse and hide elsewhere so they could cooperate with the pirate fleet."
"But there was a third person in the warehouse at the time."
He silently approached the two pirates from behind, and in an instant, he drew his sword, killing them almost simultaneously.
The knight stated the key point of his words.
A third person was hidden in the warehouse, completely unnoticed by the two pirates, and left no trace in the warehouse.
A third person who is almost non-existent, as if appearing out of thin air.
"At least, it's the power of a Grand Knight!" the knight judged.
"Even more terrifying than the Great Knight."
Upon hearing this assessment, the boat owner broke out in a cold sweat.
"No, there is no third person!"
"You're the one who killed those two pirates," the ship owner said in a low voice.
Knights are divided into low-ranking knights, mid-ranking knights, and high-ranking knights.
For ordinary people, a Great Knight represents the highest level of extraordinary power they can access and imagine.
Whether it was a great knight who secretly hid in this cargo ship, or a force even more terrifying than a great knight who hid in, neither of them were things the owner of this cargo ship could afford to offend or contain.
So don't speculate or try to verify!
"Understood." The knight nodded and lowered his voice.
Soon, the two left the warehouse—but instead of repairing and locking the warehouse door, they left it open and used this as a pretext to designate the area around the warehouse as a restricted area on the ship, forbidding anyone on board from approaching it.
"As expected of a merchant who dares to do business across the sea, he is indeed wiser than ordinary people." After the ship owner and the knight left the vicinity of the cargo hold, Loon returned to the cargo hold.
"Perhaps..." Luo Ang pondered, and an idea suddenly popped into his mind.
A merchant who trades across the seas, a ship owner who always sails around the world, must have extraordinary knowledge and pay attention to many things.
If there are strange and unusual events in a certain place that seem to be related to witchcraft, ordinary people may not take them seriously, but a merchant who does business all over the world will definitely pay attention to these things.
Even if he hadn't paid attention to these things before, it would be much easier for him to do so later and to gather these clues than for others.
Most importantly, the ship's owner seemed to be very rational, very clear about the boundaries of his actions, and very clear about what should be thoroughly investigated and what should be turned a blind eye to.
"Let's find an opportunity to meet the owner of this ship."
"If he is also interested, then cooperating with him would be a good idea."
Luo Ang thought for a moment, then took out the longsword that had killed two pirates and hung it in front of the warehouse door.
Soon, the night passed.
The next morning, the knight brought a pot of seafood porridge to the warehouse entrance to train. As soon as he looked up, he saw the longsword hanging at the warehouse entrance.
So, on the night of the second day, the ship owner brought the knight to the front of the cargo hold, then had the knight stand guard outside the cargo hold while he stepped into the cargo hold alone, and without saying a word, knelt down with his back to the door.
Just as he was about to kneel down, Luo Ang's spiritual power stirred and transformed into a tangible hand, lifting the ship's owner up.
This is another characteristic of wizards.
Mental force interferes with reality.
If a wizard wants to deal with an ordinary person, he doesn't even need to use magic. He only needs to use his mental power to give a gentle push when necessary... and he can easily take a person's life without anyone being able to find out.
Of course, in reality, a wizard who wants to deal with an ordinary person doesn't need to care about leaving any traces.
"Twenton Whitestone of the Whitestone Merchant Guild greets the Wizard. The one guarding outside is the low-ranking knight Royce." The ship owner, maintaining an awkward posture of almost kneeling, bowed respectfully to Loon, who had revealed himself.
"You know about wizards?" Loon started a conversation, adding more strength to his mental energy to completely lift Teonton up.
"My lord wizard, when I was in the Orchid Islands, I delivered goods for a wizard," Teonton said.
"There are wizards in the Orchid Islands too?" Loen couldn't help but smile.
Taking the initiative to contact this merchant was indeed the right choice—and sure enough, a message about a wizard appeared right in front of him.
If the wizard of the Orchid Islands were to travel there on his own, it would take who knows how long it would take to find the Orchid Islands.
Having been imprisoned in the Beacon of Prosperity for three years, he naturally assumed that wizards were a reclusive group who did not actively interact with ordinary people.
But now, listening to Teonton's account of his experiences dealing with the orchid wizards of the Orchid Islands, Loon suddenly realized something else.
True wizards may be those who have transcended the ordinary people.
But the wizard apprentices were clearly not like that.
They still need the existence of ordinary people to make things easier for themselves.
They don't have to do everything themselves, such as obtaining the materials and tools they need.
Take, for example, the old man who died at his hands. The clothes in his storage bag, besides the wizard robes, were obviously not made by him!
This made Luo Ang even more certain that dealing with chambers of commerce and supporting one of his own was the right choice.
However, how to bring it up requires careful consideration.
Making a chamber of commerce do things for you for no reason is no different from extortion.
He had no experience in this kind of thing.
After a moment's hesitation, Luo Ang continued speaking.
"If I want you to help me keep an eye out for other wizards and help me communicate with them, what price would I need to pay?"
Luo Ang said in a deep voice, suppressing his inner guilt.