Chapter 192

Wayne's words were met with silence. Indeed, reality is not a game, and the world does not stop after a task is completed.

For an organization like the Defias Brotherhood, they might not have the ability to retaliate against the powerful and secretive Wayne, but after Wayne leaves, the Lawrence family, as ordinary farmers, might suffer brutal retaliation from this group of robbers.

Next time, it might not be as simple as kidnapping. The world of Azeroth is not a fairy tale, and the tragedies that occur in this world are even more insane than those in the Wizard World.

Farmer Mr. Lawrence might not have thought of this at first, but after being reminded by Wayne, his face immediately became much gloomier, and he fell into deep thought.

And the farm girl Julie was very angry. She picked up a piece of bread on the table, took a few fierce bites, and then said to Wayne:

"It's really abominable, Mr. Wayne. This farm was built by my parents over seven years with a lot of hard work."

"We farm and work honestly and have never done anything against our conscience."

"Why should those robbers want us to give them the farm, and want us to work for them for nothing? We are not their slaves. They are even more bastardly than those orcs."

Although Julie had just reached adulthood, she was also a child who had experienced the Orc War and lived a displaced life. Although she was not old at that time, she had also suffered a lot and suffered a lot, which did not hinder their longing for a new life.

Mr. Lawrence was silent for a dozen seconds, suddenly sighed, looked up at Wayne, and said:

"Mr. Wayne, can we hire you for another task?"

Wayne heard this, thought for a while, and said:

"Mr. Lawrence, I have my own plans recently, but you can explain the task first. If it doesn't conflict with my plans, I should be able to accept it."

Lawrence was somewhat disappointed, but still said: "Just as you said, Mr. Wayne, our farm is too dangerous now. For the safety of my wife and Julie, I decided to temporarily abandon the farm and take my family to Goldshire to take refuge. My brother is the mayor there, and he will take in our family."

Ding! Task triggered 【Escort the Lawrence family to Goldshire】, expert-level.

Do you accept it?

Goldshire! Wayne pondered for a few seconds and ignored the task that appeared in his mind. Of course, he knew this small town, the first novice town encountered after the human race's birthplace. As long as players who had played human professions in the Alliance were somewhat familiar with this place.

His original plan was to go to the resource-rich Stormwind City to buy some exotic products, potions, weapons, equipment, or other valuable things.

However, when he encountered the Defias Brotherhood, it reminded him of the political struggle in Stormwind City at this time, the black dragon princess, the controlled king, and the nobles who colluded together, making him a bit reluctant to go to that kind of place that was prone to trouble.

Now Mr. Lawrence wanted to go to Goldshire, which aroused some of his thoughts.

In his impression, Goldshire was a small town closest to Stormwind City, with rich resources and complete equipment. It seemed that there were also many skill trainers, which just met the requirements of his action this time.

Perhaps, going to this small town first was not bad. It was not eye-catching, and he could buy what he wanted. Even if he needed other things, he could hire people to go to the city to buy them for him.

Thinking this way, Wayne feigned thought for a moment, then agreed to Mr. Lawrence's task, and also accepted the expert-level task given by the system.

Being able to find a powerful adventurer like Wayne as a bodyguard, Mr. Lawrence was also very happy. He increased the reward for this escort task to twenty gold coins, which was already a quite generous reward for ordinary adventurers. In addition to being an acknowledgment of Wayne's strength, it was also partly to repay his life-saving grace.

"Thank you for your help, Mr. Wayne. Please allow us to delay on the farm for a day. After all, with so much luggage and belongings, we need a day to pack."

Wayne nodded understandingly and said:

"No problem, I'm not in a hurry. After escorting you to Goldshire, I will probably stay there for a while. Maybe we can even become neighbors."

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A few days later, Wayne escorted the Lawrence family and several farm worker families who were willing to go to Goldshire with them into the area of Elwynn Forest.

Sometimes, Wayne had to sigh that the system must be an existence with higher-level great power. It defined this escort task as expert-level, and really didn't encounter any powerful enemies along the way.

The past tasks were also like this. The system could always predict the difficulty of the task before it happened. Presumably, this was something many gods could not do.

The escort task was quite smooth. The group added up to almost twenty people. Except for some wild beasts that didn't have eyes, they only encountered one attack by gnoll robbers. These mobs, who didn't even have proper weapons, suddenly rushed out of the forest with strange screams, and after Wayne hacked five or six of them like cutting melons and vegetables, they immediately fled in a rush.

And when Wayne, led by Mr. Lawrence, passed by a guard outpost, he even saw a quite familiar wanted poster on the bulletin board of the outpost.

The wanted poster for killing the gnoll Hogger, with a reward of up to fifty gold coins, had to be said to be quite tempting.

Unfortunately, because he had to escort everyone on their way, he didn't have time to complete this interesting task.

And after entering Elwynn Forest, the road suddenly became safe. From time to time, he could encounter a small team of guards patrolling the road. Occasionally, except for seeing some wild beasts in the forest, he could hardly see other enemies.

They walked along the road for another day. When they reached a fork in the road, Mr. Lawrence looked at the outline of the huge city wrapped in city walls and said to Wayne:

"Mr. Wayne, my wish in the past was to open a bakery in Stormwind City. My father was a quite famous pastry chef in the city."

"Unfortunately, he died in the atrocities of the orcs during the orc invasion. At that time, I had just gotten married and had just given birth to Julie, and was forced to flee to the Kingdom of Lordaeron with my brother's family and the refugees in Stormwind City, fleeing to Southshore to make a living."

"That was truly a very difficult day."

"Now, our family has to abandon the farm that we finally built. Perhaps, I should just open a bakery in Goldshire, and live a stable life with Julie and the others."

Wayne was riding on a mare borrowed from Lawrence. He thought for a while. Goldshire, as a small town closest to Stormwind City, had always been quite safe, and it was indeed much better than other places. Thinking about the turmoil that would last for decades in the future, as well as the natural and man-made disasters that appeared in various versions, he said: "This is a good idea, Mr. Lawrence. Actually, we don't need to be rich and noble. As long as we can live happily and stably with our family, that's enough."

"Although I haven't been to Goldshire, I heard it's a good place. You can indeed consider it." Because there were many people and a lot of luggage, it wasn't until dusk that they arrived at the legendary Goldshire.

This was a small town with thousands of residents, and it was also built on a major traffic route. A very important trading town.

Looking from a distance, hundreds of buildings of all sizes stood together, scattered in an orderly manner. The sunlight at dusk shone on the small town, and wisps of cooking smoke rose from the chimneys on many roofs, making the entire small town look extra peaceful and quiet.

Perhaps someone had reported it long ago. When their group arrived on the road outside the small town, a middle-aged man with a decent appearance and a handlebar mustache also brought several people to greet them from the town.

After seeing Mr. Lawrence's family and the workers behind him, a happy smile appeared on the face of this middle-aged man with a handlebar mustache. He opened his arms, made a hugging gesture, and said: "Welcome, my brother, and my niece. Come to my house quickly. Your sister-in-law is preparing a sumptuous dinner. Our family hasn't gathered together for a long time."

After Mr. Lawrence saw that person, he also immediately walked up quickly. The farm girl Julie was one step ahead of her father and gave the man with the handlebar mustache a hug first, happily saying: "Uncle James! I haven't seen you for a long time. Didn't cousin Harley come with you?"

The two brothers looked at each other. James touched Julie's hair and said with a smile:

"Harley is studying at the church school in the city now, and usually only comes home on weekends."

"She will be very happy that you can come to live in Goldshire."

Half an hour later, the other workers were arranged in the inn in the small town. But for Wayne, the life-saving benefactor, Mr. Lawrence wouldn't let him leave no matter what, and pulled him to enjoy a dinner with his brother's family.

After some thanks and pleasantries, upon learning that Wayne was also preparing to live in Goldshire temporarily, the mayor of Goldshire, named James Lawrence, expressed a warm welcome.

He took the initiative to pour a glass of red wine for Wayne and said enthusiastically: "Welcome, Mr. Wayne. An adventurer with such powerful strength as you is exactly the talent our Goldshire needs very much."

"Tomorrow I want to introduce you to the sheriff of our Goldshire, Mr. Duhan. He is a veteran of Stormwind City and also the leader of all the guards in Goldshire."

"Now that Goldshire has just been repaired, all walks of life are short of manpower, and the guards under Mr. Duhan are all new recruits who have not been tempered by battle."

"If an adventurer like you is willing to assist him, you will definitely be able to solve many problems for our entire small town."

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In a blink of an eye, half a month passed. Wayne rented a spacious house in Goldshire and lived a quite fulfilling life.

During this period, except for occasionally helping Sheriff Duhan solve some tricky problems, the thing he did most every day was to find the alchemy trainer in the small town, Ms. Silikina, to buy alchemy materials or learn alchemy recipes.

Although this Ms. Silikina was only an intermediate alchemist, she was very generous. Although Wayne also paid money to learn alchemy, this lady never hid anything and taught very seriously and meticulously, making him learn seven or eight recipes very quickly.

Among them were primary and intermediate healing potions, as well as primary and intermediate mana potions.

Because he had the experience of refining witcher potions and his own alchemy level had reached level five, his learning progress was very fast, making Ms. Silikina call him a genius directly.

After learning alchemy from the world of Azeroth, the alchemy and alchemy skills in his subsidiary skills actually merged, becoming general alchemy, and the level was also fixed at level five.

General Alchemy LV5: Alchemy product effect increased by 20%, refining success rate +5.

And the original skill expertise also changed, but because Wayne's ability points were not abundant now, he didn't choose to light up the skill expertise of alchemy.

But just like this, the harvest of this trip also made Wayne quite surprised.

Because in the witcher's world, there were no potions that directly restored magic power, but only potions like Tawny Owl that accelerated the recovery speed of magic power.

Similarly, the Swallow potion only accelerated the recovery of physical damage and would not restore wounds quickly like the healing potion in the world of Azeroth to achieve the effect of treatment.

Most importantly, although these two potions in the world of Azeroth also had requirements for usage intervals, they had no toxicity, and even ordinary people could use them normally. In this regard, they were much stronger than witcher potions and potions used by sorcerers.

It could be said that even if it was just the production method of these two potions, it made Wayne's trip to the other world worthwhile.

Therefore, in his spare time staying in Goldshire, he had been constantly making healing potions and mana potions. On the one hand, it was to improve his alchemy level, and on the other hand, it was to store this precious combat resource.

This afternoon, Wayne had just completed a task of clearing murlocs for Sheriff Duhan. After getting a bonus, he also completed the expert-level task given by the system.

He had just returned home when he saw Julie standing at his door with a basket. Her wheat-colored skin had a sign of turning white after half a month of recuperation. Her towering chest supported a blue-gray long skirt, her brown long hair was tied into a ponytail hanging on her waist, and there was a wreath made of small white flowers on her head.

Although Julie's appearance was not stunning, her figure was very good, and because she often did farm work, her body lines were not as weak as many women.

After seeing Wayne, the girl immediately revealed a cheerful smile, waved at him, and shouted:

"Wayne, Mother asked me to bring you some fruit. I've been waiting for you for half an hour."

When Wayne approached, the girl saw some fishy blood and fish scales on Wayne's armor, wrinkled her nose and said:

"So smelly! Wayne, did you go to kill murlocs today?"

Wayne helplessly took the basket from Julie's hand, then took out the key to open the door, turned back to the girl who was akimbo and had no intention of leaving at all, and asked: "Do you want to come to my house and sit for a while, Julie?"

Julie nodded immediately upon hearing this, seemingly having been waiting for Wayne's invitation for a long time.

(End of chapter)