A strange world

Chapter 213 Section 66. Newspaper

"My throat is itchy..."

Before he could finish speaking, Annan suddenly ran into a soft embrace that could not breathe. The image of an insect falling into a spider web and getting entangled tighter and tighter appeared in his mind.

"You still need to study..."

"I can hold little Annan and study."

The fanatical elf mentor buried his head in his black hair and gasped. Annan thought again that he had held a kitten transformed into a golden dragon like this... Does it like this?

"Ah... the tower master... asked me to come..."

"Tower Master?"

The elf mentor let go of Annan and released a "power word" to shut up Annan who was about to lie.

It's really hard to fool a high level mage.

Soon after, Annan walked out of the room disheveled. He first tidied his messy black hair in the unmanned corridor, used the cleaning technique to tidy up the mage's robe, restored his elegant aristocratic posture, left the mage tower, and drove to the Church of the Goddess of Wealth.

During the turbulent years when the gods lost contact, the Church of the Goddess of Wealth was one of the few unaffected churches because of their teachings and wealth.

Such churches of gentle and orderly gods rarely cause turmoil, such as the Church of the Goddess of Fertility and the Church of the Mother Earth, which happen to be the only churches in Breeze City. The further south you go, the more prosperous you are and the more churches there are. According to the bards, in the southern city-states with a population of millions, countless churches, esoteric cults, and sects with extreme doctrines are doing the deeds of Khorne, just to get the gods to pay attention again.

"Your Majesty, the goddess of wealth, welcomes you, King of the North."

The nun brought the priest Annan had met before.

"Okay." Annan responded and told the priest what happened to him.

"This is indeed strange. Mr. King of the North, have you encountered anything recently?"

Encountered a lot... Annan thought, but before seeing the blue dragon, those dragon hunting teams - Annan suddenly remembered the pink blood mist that erupted from the injured female warrior and the charming words on the road.

"That sounds like the work of a succubus," the priest said.

"Succubus?"

Speaking of this, Annan's energy became concentrated, and then he was annoyed that he didn't realize it at the time, and passed by the succubus twice.

"These minions from the abyss always want to get involved in our world." The priest comforted Annan who looked regretful. "Don't worry, the goddess has no time to lower her gaze for the time being, but we still have rare magical scrolls to remove the curse for you..."

"How much?"

"A low-level purification magic scroll should be able to solve the problem. We recommend that you choose a medium-level purification magic scroll, which also has the effects of protecting skin, whitening, and enhancing durability."

"So how much?"

"Because you are the King of the North, we will only charge you 29 gold coins."

"...Will there be any negative effects on me if the curse is not removed?"

"Don't worry, this curse can't make you a succubus——"

…

"——At most, let me say some uncontrollable words occasionally."

In the study room of the city lord's palace, Annan and Olmedo complained.

"You got rid of the curse?"

"No, that's too expensive."

29 kinnars, which is almost the annual expenses of 29 families, Annan still cannot accept this luxury.

Olmedo sipped the hot tea with great interest: "Try to say a few words?"

"Lord of Breeze City, please respect yourself."

After joking for a while, Olmedo suddenly said seriously: "Annan, you are the King of the North."

Annan didn't know why Olmedo suddenly said this.

"Can you imagine that the old head of the Lawrence family had to do everything himself? Even I can't do everything myself."

"A King in the North should be steady and imposing."

"It's more efficient to do it in person, and..." Annan hesitated, "They all have their own things to be busy with."

Uncle Holly mingled with the woodcutters, and Aunt Susan with the working girls.

Mr. Fast and Evelyn have to keep the tavern running so that the citizens have something to do at night.

The bard wanders around Breeze City all day long, working hard for "Betal's Redemption" and promotion to the elite.

Mr. Victor worked hard to hold on to the library under the blazing sun.

Soruman Bronzebeard didn't even have time to transport wine, and was immersed in the blacksmith shop making tools.

Andrew Luna travels back and forth between the Morrowind Tavern and the Morrowind Tavern branch.

After Francois, Lorna came back, they and Ingrid were busy with the development of Xingyue Bay;

One of West and Claudia was following the businessman, and the other was meditating hard.

Even Martin was studying swordsmanship with Fast all day long, and then Fast enchanted the sword because he always put enchantments on it.

Outstanding territorial citizens such as Losi and Kerrian also assumed responsibilities.

Only Annan, the lord of Xingyue Bay, had nothing to do.

As for why you go to Fortune Church in person instead of having the pastor of Fortune Church come to your door...that's because it's more expensive.

Annan was willing to spend a thousand gold coins to take magical images, and happily threw a thousand gold coins to Michael to refine gunpowder, but he could not accept spending money on meaningless things.

"Stop talking about me, did Grogda help me investigate?"

Olmedo pointed to the pile of books at the corner of the table: "They're all there."

Annan picked up the top book, The Adventures of Oakham, the bookmark between the pages saving him from rummaging through it himself.

[...Occam popped his head out of the swamp, and what did he see! A brightly colored village, but the people in the village are not people, but orcs with fangs, brown skin, and thick bodies! 】

[The orcs discovered Occam and dragged him out of the mud. Occam tried to escape but failed. The orcs tied him to a wooden frame and built a bonfire——]

Annan was turning to the next page with anticipation when he suddenly realized that he was not here to read the story.

"Captain of the guard!"

Call the guard captain outside the door and ask him to take away the stack of books, "I need information about Grogda in recent years."

Annan, who calmly ordered Olmedo's people, sat back on the sofa.

"What do you think of the school I proposed earlier?"

The school in Xingyue Bay was already under construction. Annan described the benefits of the school and made her realize the importance of the school.

A worker can only sell his physical strength. Woodcutter, farmer, fisherman, miner...but a literate worker can do more and do it better.

Literate farmers know how to increase crop yields, fishermen know when to fish, woodcutters know which trees are valuable and easy to chop down, miners know when to run—

Annan, of course, was waiting for Breeze's literacy rate to increase so he could naturally promote the newspaper.

A normal newspaper should contain: news that is more real than the gossip in the tavern, the happenings around the town, the recruitment of professional mercenary teams and the work of recruiting workers, news and news from the North, the Kingdom of Rekaner and even the continent of Allen. The valuable knowledge that can only be learned in the Mage Tower can also be used to wipe your butt. Isn't it expensive that a newspaper like this costs 10 copper coins?