The Collection of The End

My name is Akatosh,

Both politics and love give me headaches.

— 4E, 201, Hearthfire, 3rd, 14:17 —

At first, Parathos refused to spend 15,000 gold coins to become a baron.

She has worked so hard to help the lord lady wipe out a group of Skooma dealers, not to mention no real rewards, and she still plans to use a false title and an abandoned warehouse to make a fortune from him?

Maybe the barons in other cities still have some power, but what is Rift Valley City? Crossed daggers! Sin City! In order to stabilize and control the order in the city after the death of the previous city lord, Lord Laila not only cooperated with the Blackthorn family, but also wantonly awarded various titles that she had no right to seal out. Throwing a stone down can hit at least three barons.

"So, what exactly are Sapphire and Xiao Fan thinking? I'm not qualified to ask them to invest such a large sum of money directly, am I?" Parasos closed the door of the viewing balcony, and Xiang was investing in Sweet Bay Villa. asked the Mallory brothers, who made furniture and iron.

Members of the Thieves Guild basically have an obvious identity to collect intelligence or participate in operations, unless they are really unsuitable or not good at dealing with people.

For example, Brinjoff is a beverage merchant who likes to boast that his products are panaceas for all diseases, but as long as there is no alcohol in them, the Blackthorn family completely ignores such merchants.

Delvin Mallory and Glover Mallory are interior decorators and blacksmiths respectively. It is hard to say whether they volunteered to help clean up Sweet Bay for the convenience of joints or to take advantage of the opportunity.

"Of course this money is not for you, Parry." Glover stopped beating on the iron sheet and looked back at him: "The guild's investment is 'a baron who is valued by the lord' and 'a man who is convenient for entering and leaving the city. legal property'."

"Are you going to use this as a shortcut to the ground? Well, at least it's better than the entrance to the other cemetery." Parasos said, looking at the secret door in the basement that Delvin was tinkering with.

"As for 'being valued by the lord', you are not surprised. The extermination mission was initiated by the Blackthorn family. Why did they get rewards from the lord?" Delwin smashed a nail into the sliding door at the entrance of the basement.

"The credit is too great, ordinary families can't give rewards?" Parasos said nonsense with a reason that he didn't even believe.

"It's boring to be stupid," Glover continued to knock on his iron sheet: "Although the lord and Marwen are in a cooperative relationship, she is the weak side, and she dare not issue any orders that are not conducive to the Blackthorn family. They also have to turn a blind eye when they deal with other 'disobedient' little nobles, as long as there is an opportunity, she will make actions to expand her influence without affecting the cooperative relationship between the two parties."

Although Parasos is not good at logical analysis and reasoning, but in the team of the sharp-eyed eagle protecting the emperor, he can roughly judge the outline and motivation of some things even if he just watched the imperial nobles do things .

"Then...the original intention of the Blackthorn family was to take over that place rather than completely destroy it, but this kind of thing cannot be said on the face of it, and the lord made me a baron to make matters worse, which directly hindered their intention , I have to suffer from this dumbness." Parasos thought about it and said: "So, next, the lord will issue some tasks for me to test and win over, and the Blackthorn family will also have some in order to maintain the influence of the lord and the Thieves Guild. The action... As for the specifics, I can't guess."

"That's right, that's right, it's enough to think about it," Glover put down his work and applauded, "What will these two people do? Unless someone is very familiar with them, it's impossible to judge, my good girl —I mean Master Sapphire means wait and see,

But do not accept any entrustment that will lead to a tilted position. "

Is there any difference between correcting the last word and saying it directly? Paraisos looked sideways.

Marwen Blackthorn naturally knew his identity. Even if Lord Laila didn't know it at first, he could tell from Blackthorn's actions. It can be said that they were not only attracting "Pari the Adventurer", but also the one behind him. Thieves Guild.

She was clearly here to protect Her Highness the Princess, but in the end she stepped onto the front stage inexplicably, and the Princess herself hardly appeared in anyone's sight because of her invisibility... No, there is still, that stupid big black man indivual.

Originally, when Lord Lyra and the Blackthorn family were secretly fighting for control of the Thieves Guild, other nobles who had nothing to do with their own affairs watched from the sidelines, but the Snowhoof family stepped in.

The youngest son of the family, Esgail Snowhoof, claimed to be wooing a member of the Thieves Guild, but would neither name nor describe his appearance, and spent his days carrying around the "Mama" he bought from the temple. "Pull the Necklace" to catch thieves, robbers and liars everywhere and ask the woman's whereabouts. Thanks to him, the law and order has really improved a lot.

As the god of mercy, Mara’s temple was built in Rift Valley City, a place where no mercy can be felt at all. Mara necklaces and wedding receptions.

Speaking of the function of the Mara necklace, it is probably also a feature of the province of Skyrim. This kind of necklace, which originally only had the characteristic of slightly improving the healing effect, has become a symbol of "wanting to get married" since I don't know when.

Generally speaking, if a man sees a beautiful girl on the street and strikes up a conversation, there is a high chance that he will be ignored or that the other party is already married, but if the other party wears a Mara necklace, it means that he is not yet married. Moreover, if he intends to get married in the near future, the man's temperament, conversation, physique and financial resources will be tested at this time. If he is not extremely ugly, at least he will not be rejected instantly.

This kind of unpretentious custom can only be born in a place with rough folk customs like Skyrim Province. Parasos can testify with the stack of love letters he received from those noble ladies when he was in the capital province of the empire... Tacilius, that big bull-like man, also received a handkerchief.

"Hey! Parry, what are you in a daze for?" Delwin waved his hand in front of Parathos completely oblivious.

"I'm worried, is the woman that Esgail is eyeing an idiot?" Parathos replied, the princess can't be mentioned, and although Sapphire is also a beautiful girl, the two in front of her are her elders, saying It's not very suitable to come out, but Xiaofan should be fine...

"What!" Delvin slammed the hammer in his hand: "That stupid big black guy dares to rob me?!"

At least they have the same perception of him... No, wait, what do you mean by stealing someone from you?

"Sapphire's superficial identity is a moneylender, and it's possible to meet Esgail, but Xiao Fan is just a rare goods dealer... Calm down, calm down." Delwin began to circle around without calmness at all.

"What's a 'rare item'? Stolen goods?" Parathos asked Glover who was coming over.

"Although it also includes, it is far more than that. The so-called 'rare' also refers to 'use', they belong to the type of 'difficult to obtain, and few people need it', such as the fire that blacksmiths need to forge a certain piece of high-quality equipment." Salt, specific gemstones that were missing after the jeweler accepted the order, etc. She received a piece of Bashlan's crown long ago, and some guy who claimed to be a member of the royal family of the empire claimed to be willing to buy it for a high price, but only for the complete crown , so it is also possible for the idiot from the Xuehoof family to discover it when he sneaked into the noble's house to collect the fragments." Glover replied.

"Speaking of which, Xiaofan's blond hair and blue eyes are very beautiful, and they are in line with the aesthetics of the Nords. Although he has a bad temper, there are always people who don't care..." Parasos said halfway, and found that Delwin became more manic: "What's up with him?"

"Has anyone ever told you that you're slow?" Glover, who had nothing to do with himself, said with a relaxed expression, "Although you haven't been in the big flagon for a long time, you haven't seen him showing affection to Xiaofan?"

"No, I saw it." The corners of Palasos's mouth twitched slightly, "You don't care if you get scolded when you strike up a conversation, beat up when you get close to it, and even get blocked by the sapphire when you look at it from a distance, is it called 'showing favor'?"

"So this guy is still single." Glover glared at Delwin who came over, "What are you looking at? How old is your niece Sapphire?"

"Well, at least Esgail Snowhoof is about the same age as her." Parathos added.

"Hehehe, you're right," Delwin said with a self-defeating expression, "I don't even like Xiaofan, so how could he care about a big black guy?"

Is he exalting himself or belittling himself? Paraisos and Glover were speechless at the same time.

"Hmph, don't look at me that way, that idiot Glover didn't mention it, but I know what you're thinking, Parry?" Delwin turned his gaze to Parathos: "You like Emil, don't you?"

The entire sharp-eyed eagle likes her, okay? Princess Emilia is the cutest in the world!

No, although this kind of thing is a consensus, whoever dares to say it will be directly punished by Sister Yagami.

"I didn't mean that." Paraisos' face tightened, and then he slowly looked away, performing a vivid performance of a young man who was being talked about.

"Hmph, young man, there is nothing to be ashamed of falling in love at first sight. You must have cooperated very well in the battle in Skooma Valley, so you paid attention to it." Delwin chatted endlessly, as if someone was finally worse than me: "Come back Afterwards, I often saw you looking for her everywhere, but unfortunately, she has great stealth skills, so you haven't found her a few times, right?"

I'm so sorry that I can find it every time.

"Come on, let's have a drink for our bumpy love paths." Delwin staggered towards the wine cabinet to get the mead sent by the Blackthorn family to celebrate the baron's housewarming, while Glover thought of something and sighed Getting angry didn't stop him.

How long will this house last... Paraisos looked up at the ceiling.