A strange world

The people of Beach Street can't escape three things: birth, death and the Bale Gang.

Calvo, the boss of the Bale Gang, liked this quote that he plagiarized from somewhere. Despite the fact that Beach Street was crowded with several gangs, the Burroughs only had the protection money for a casino and a few hundred yards of shops.

On this day, Calvo was wearing a lizard fur coat, staying in his room covered with lizard fur rugs, enjoying the service of a maid who was said to have lizard-human blood.

Soon after, the people below stood outside the door and told him that Randy had not come.

Calvo remembers Randy as a very shrewd young man. Just like he did when he was young. So Calvo never gave him a chance - because of a secret hidden deep in his heart: he strangled the former boss of the Bale Gang to death with his own hands.

"Don't Big Fris and Little Fris follow him all day long?"

Then his subordinates nervously told him that Big and Little Friez was also missing.

What Calvo wanted at this time was to let them experience the torture of "Calvo the Lizard Man" when they came back. But what he was waiting for was not the news of Randy's return, but that Randy and the five gang members died tragically outside the territory.

Calvo, the lizard man, realizes that they may be causing trouble for the Bale Gang.

And trouble soon came calling.

…

"Do you want me to use arcane missiles to pierce this wooden door and fly dozens of yards to hit an unlucky guy, or do you want Andrew to use bewitchment to make the rats in the nearby sewer crawl out and bite the people in the dream like crazy?"

Michael's words had the effect of opening the door. The closed door of the casino suddenly opened. A fat man wearing a lizard skin walked out of the door with a flattering smile on his face: "Dear Master Mage..."

"Let's get straight to the point." Michael interrupted Calvo's nonsense, "I investigated the Bale Gang's casino income when I came here. To put it simply, your casino's net profit is about 70 silver coins per day, and the Bale Gang controls More than 30 stores collect more than three gold coins every month. According to the "Spellcaster Protection Act", when impersonal forces launch an attack against a spellcaster, the person concerned can claim compensation from the attacker, and the amount is usually 50% of the force's normal revenue. %, for a period of 6 months. So from the next July to December, you need to compensate Warlock Annan 13 gold nairs every month."

"I...the Bale Gang..."

Frankly speaking, only a stupid man thinks that as long as he gathers a few people, dares to fight and kill, and recruits subordinates, he can form a gang. From then on, he will have no worries about food and clothing, and exploit civilians and businessmen. In fact, the real gangs are either owned by nobles. Black gloves, or covered by a big shot.

The Bale Gang also has them, so if they find three warriors, Calvo will even ask his men to break their legs and sell them on the black market.

But two of the three people outside the door are spell casters, and they are natural nobles. And the carriage parked on the side of the street was printed with the Mage Tower emblem that made him tremble...

Calvo, the "lizard man" who made the civilians fear him and stopped his children from crying, lowered his head and expressed his submission: "The Bale Gang will pay compensation on time."

"Send this month's compensation to the Morrowind Tavern within three days."

Michael quickly completed the claim and got on the carriage to return to the tavern. At this time, he noticed Annan's worried look.

"You don't look happy."

"Because he just killed someone?" Andrew Luna guessed. .

Annan shook his head. The death of some damn people did not make him uncomfortable. Especially the blue dragon's claws sticking out of the cracks were like playing with toys. It was difficult for him to feel the weight of death. "I'm worried that they will pass on the loss to civilian."

"You will be a good lord, Annan." Andrew Luna said happily, "Don't worry, the Bale Gang will only exploit those damn gamblers and blackmail the rich people who open shops. They know that civilians cannot extract money."

"Spellcaster Protection Act..." Annan thought of another thing, "Wouldn't the murderer who attacked Reeves' convoy have to face huge compensation?"

Michael and Andrew Luna each made different moves at this time.

Michael checked the defensive spells of the mage tower carriage, and Andrew Luna quietly diffused the warning halo.

Confirming that the carriage had not been bugged, they relaxed again.

"You finally admitted it?"

"I'm just asking."

Pretending to be the only son of the Reeves family sounds like a wonderful thing... provided you have the chance to enjoy it. Although Annan can summon the blue dragon by chance, Annan, who does not know other spells, is no different from ordinary people.

An arrow or a cup of poison could kill him.

"The Spellcaster Protection Act was just something I made up to trick him," Michael said. "What does a gang leader who doesn't even know a word know? As long as you keep forcing him to have no time to think, and then provide a way, he will naturally think about the problem."

"But there is indeed a similar bill in the south of the Kingdom." Andrew Luna added.

This mage tower carriage equipped with the Light Feather Technique was quite stable. On the way, Andrew Luna used his aria-like singing tone with a certain purpose to tell Annan about the situation in Breeze City:

For example, after the new lord Levi disappeared, Breeze City could not live without a lord. So with the push of some old nobles, a young man named Olmedo took over as the city lord.

Seeing that Annan was still pretending to be confused, Andrew Luna had to put it more bluntly: "Due to historical reasons, the tradition in the north never allows young people to become lords of important towns. But the Reeves family is an exception. As a former One of the twelve kings in the north, the Reeves family is now in serious decline, and you are the only one left in this generation...well, the only male left. So the families of the other eleven kings allow Levis to make an exception."

"Then Levis was attacked and his life and death were uncertain. The Olmedo family and the old nobles used the excuse that Breeze City needed a city lord to send Jeffrey Olmedo to the position of city lord."

That Augusta Olmedo sounds fishy.

The carriage stopped in the street, and Annan and the others walked into the tavern.

“…She didn’t think I was going to make it, and then I said, I’m going to prove it to you.”

"Did you do it?"

"If I did, I wouldn't be sitting here bragging to you."

"Hahaha, respect our lost ideals."

"Cheers! Now I can only go home and inherit the property left by my father..."

"What the hell..."

The chat in the tavern soon turned into a quarrel and then into a fight, with shouting and shouting and a chaotic mess.

Owner Andrew Luna was so used to it that he didn't even bother to separate them.

"Would you like some wine to calm down?" he asked.

"No."

Hesitant Annan asked Michael if he could borrow the wizard's tower carriage.

"certainly."

Michael and Andrew Luna looked at each other.

It looks like their little warlock friend has some big secrets to deal with.