Half-elf Notebook

Chapter 134: Outrageous Commission

Human trafficking…personnel investigation?

Ina just hummed in her heart. This kind of thing was very normal in the slums and did not make her think of anything related to it.

Every year gangs prey on vagrants, begging orphans, debtors, and missing persons who may become their commodities.

"Yes, their main delivery locations are the south and various large cities, and most of them are resold in the medium-sized city of Haigham."

Xia nodded:

"The takeover parties are the Pale Hand and Priced Garden, two local factions in Heigm. I heard that because the transaction prices there are higher, all children with elven blood will be sent there."

Elf blood...

Ina caught one of the words that was a little special.

As for those children...she felt as sad as every half-elf present.

They will express sympathy, but not think about how to stop it.

This is a cruel world, just like humans cannot empathize with unfamiliar fellow humans.

Half-elves would not go to great lengths to try to change established facts.

This is not something that will produce results just because a group of people work hard.

"Do Miss Neil and Miss Ina have any relevant information?"

"Um, I mean the news about human trafficking in Thunderstone City in the past 15 years."

Ward asked the two women without much expectation:

Neil shook his head blankly.

Obviously, she had no more experience than Ina and was certainly unable to provide any useful information.

Ina responded softly and asked tentatively:

"Is this a commission?"

She thought that since the two gentlemen and ladies in front of her were involved, it must be a big commission.

If it is a private matter, she doesn't mind providing free help. If it is a commission, she hopes to get a share of it, which is a reasonable request.

After some communication, Ward also had a certain understanding of Ina, and explained without hesitation:

"This is a commission that is no less important than the assassination of princesses from fallen countries in the half-elf circle, and it even attracted quite a few half-elves from neighboring countries."

"And it originated from an elf envoy to the kingdom who was at the level of an origin scholar."

"Origin Scholar rank?!"

Ina couldn't help but gasp.

This was the most shocking news she had heard so far, and probably today.

It was far more shocking than the fall of the Blood Gang.

She had only heard the term origin scholar once.

That is the knowledge about the magician ranks from Shu Xi's teaching!

It is known as a clear dividing line between magicians.

Below the origin, they are just ordinary people using extraordinary abilities.

And only when one reaches the origin can one be considered a truly extraordinary person and begin to understand the laws governing the operation of heaven and earth.

Rumor has it that they can even witness the rise and fall of a principality and the rise of a kingdom.

This simple description is enough to illustrate the length of their lives and their powerful strength.

Even in the vast territory of the Fulant Kingdom with a population of hundreds of millions, there is only one person who has been fortunate enough to reach this level and survive to this day.

His fame lasted for 500 years throughout the kingdom.

It is still well-known today

Even now, his figure still towers over the royal palace that Ina has never seen before.

However, there is a magician with considerable strength compared to this swordsman who has the power to overturn a war between countries and make the kingdom tremble.

The news that he was just a special envoy from the kingdom on a commissioned mission was shocking enough.

Ina really couldn't think of anything that he needed to entrust someone else to do.

At this time, Ward continued to add:

"The commission is to find the descendant of the Elf King Filivia, who was stranded in the slums of Thunderstone City 15 years ago and was abducted five years ago."

"The intelligence released said that the child might have been sent to another city through gang human trafficking..."

"As for the reward, half-elves who provide information or bring back offspring will be steadily promoted to the gold rank."

I made...

Ina couldn't help but use the swear words that the poor often used.

Her first reaction was the terrifyingly rich reward.

It seems that there is only one reward for the commission, but it is like a large amount of gold coins.

It can not only make the holder worry-free about food and clothing, but also be transformed into a string of luxurious ornaments and jewelry.

You can buy a magnificent castle and its garden with spring-like weather all year round.

Or manors, wineries, plantations, plots of land and shops, bringing inexhaustible wealth to his descendants.

Even buying a noble title is not impossible.

The same goes for rank. The gold rank itself means powerful strength, longer life, and huge benefits surrounding it.

Moreover, the number of people in different ranks often presents a trapezoidal shape.

A wizard who serves the kingdom can be awarded honors and become a noble.

That gold-rank magician might be canonized as a baron or a viscount!

And her second reaction was the winter hunt five years ago…

The hunt for strays.

Ina could not estimate how many homeless people were sold into slavery.

At that time, she didn't dare go back to the slum to confirm, but it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it would be to escape from it.

As a person who experienced it firsthand, Ina was pushed to the brink of life and death.

Among the homeless orphans back then, she was considered older, more mature, and somewhat clever.

Draw a cross and a circle in the void.

Ina judged that she was no longer able to participate in the matter with her ability to obtain information, and could only pray silently in her heart for the child she had never met.

After thinking for a while, he asked again:

"Does that child...have any characteristics?"

In fact, the child who was commissioned to be found was two years older than her based on age.

But it is difficult to use it as a criterion for judgment, after all, vagrants rarely know their exact age.

"The hair color is the same silver as His Royal Highness Prince Filivia."

This range is too broad...

Ina played with the silver-frost-like hair that fell on her shoulders and complained with a wry smile.

Among half-elves, gray hair is by no means uncommon.

And we cannot rule out the possibility that the Elf King's children may be sent out of the kingdom.

Slaves, paupers, and vagrants had no citizenship.