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  A stout middle-aged man walked over and said, "Hello, are you going to use the purple crystal card to pay?"

  "Yeah, what's up." I replied lazily, having eaten my fill, now all I wanted to do was sleep.

  "May I ask you something? What is your occupation?" The middle-aged man asked with a smile.

  "I'm a magician. What does this have to do with eating? Hurry up and give me the bill, I want to leave."

  "It's like this, the reason we're called a nomination wine house is that anyone who eats here, as long as they have a certain social status or ability, can get a free meal if they just write a character for our store."

  "Well, since there's such a good thing, I'll also give you a title then." Not bad, meals are free.

  "What level of magician are you?"

  I took out the Magic Guild's ID card, "Great Mage, is this rank sufficient?"

  The shop owner's face showed a surprised smile: "Enough, of course enough, thank you for your trouble."

  It's just a casual mention - the four characters "delicious food" saved me several gold coins for dinner, it seems this magic certification card is quite useful, not bad.

  Later generations proved the wisdom of the shopkeeper, and the calligraphy of Guangzhi was later auctioned off for 20,000 diamond coins.

  I casually found an inn to sleep for a night, and the next morning, I came to the East City Gate, which was where I agreed with the strong man yesterday.

  There are indeed many people, and numerous horse-drawn carriages are parked by the roadside. I reckon this must be the merchant caravan we're supposed to escort. Isn't that a sturdy fellow? He's chatting with several men who look like merchants.

  "Hi, I'm here, when are we leaving?"

  "Ah, you're here. Let me introduce you. This is the leader of the merchant caravan we're escorting this time, Mr. Lixue Mong." He pointed to a wealthy-looking merchant and said. "And this is the Great Magician... Ah, what was your name again? I'm Long Meng Hai."

  "My name is Chang Gong Wei, hello everyone, it's an honor to escort you all with Long Meng this time."

  Mr. Meng looked at me with a distrustful gaze, "You are the Great Magician?"

  "Ah, how could you not believe? Great Light Element, my friends who heed my call will gather before me and form the holy light that annihilates everything." Only by showing off my own strength can I have a smooth journey.

  As I cast my spell, a dazzling white light suddenly burst forth from my body, pushing everyone within a 5-meter radius to the side.

  "If you have a certain level of magical knowledge, you should know that this is 6th-level defensive magic." My voice came out from the holy light.

  Everyone present was drawn in by my powerful magic, uttering different exclamations. I withdrew the holy light, "You should believe now, shouldn't you?"

  As expected, Mr. Meng immediately walked over with a smile all over his face, "Sorry, we shouldn't have doubted you, great magician, with your participation in this trip, our safety is guaranteed."

  Long Meng also walked over, just now under the power of my Holy Light, he didn't have any ability to resist at all. He said with shame: "To be honest, I was also quite skeptical of your abilities at first, but now I know how foolish I was. This time for escorting, I decide that my entire mercenary group will listen to your command."

  Everyone's flattery has made me a bit dizzy, "That's not necessary, I just don't want everyone to think I'm a freeloader, haha, you're still in charge, I'm not capable of it, just call me when something comes up."

  Like this, I and Long Meng's Dragon Warriors escorted over 100 horse-drawn carriages full of merchants and goods to begin our escort journey.

  Due to the display of my strength, everyone has great respect for me. They picked out a luxurious carriage for me to ride in and gave me the best dry rations to eat. I've become like a big shot, it seems that learning magic wasn't a waste after all, there are so many benefits. Not only do I get to eat at restaurants for free, but even being a mercenary is like being a big shot. Haha.

  My carriage was in the middle of the team, and it is said that I can take care of both front and back. When I was sleeping drowsily, I was pushed awake by someone. Opening my eyes to look, it was Long Meng, who had a lot of sweat on his head and looked very tired.

  "What's wrong?" I asked lazily.

  "Trouble, it seems we've encountered bandits." Long Meng said tensely.

  "Impossible, with such a large group of us, someone dares to rob." In my heart, the number of thieves is only around twenty or thirty.

  "How many of us are there? Go take a look." Long Meng was visibly excited.

  It seems that something is wrong. I got off the horse-drawn carriage and was stunned by what's in front of me. Now I know why Long Meng was sweating so much, because I'm breaking out in a cold sweat too.

  A group of no less than 300 people came rushing down from a small hill in front, waving flags and shouting. What a big gang of thieves! How unlucky I am. I thought I could complete the task comfortably, but now it seems to be quite troublesome.

  I, along with Long Meng and his mercenary warriors, arrived at the front of the team. The thieves' gang suddenly appeared in front of us, and all the thieves scattered around, surrounding our entire caravan like a flood.

  "Bring out your leader to talk." The bandits shouted loudly.

  I and Long Meng as well as Mr. Meng looked at each other, who would go? They suddenly pushed me out, this is also too unrighteous, but I've already come out, let's see, if it really doesn't work out, I can still run away myself. Thinking that I could escape made me less afraid, and I took a few steps forward.

  "May I ask what brings all of you gentlemen here?" My question was immediately met with loud laughter from the bandits.

  "You say we can be what, hurry up and leave all the wealth behind, let us go with our lives, otherwise, hehe." A thief wearing a black battle armor who was obviously the leader said loudly.

  "Everyone, no one has it easy, can't you just let us go?" I begged.

  "Let you go? We've waited for over a month, and finally got our hands on this batch of fat sheep. Letting you go would be a pipe dream."

  It seems that going back is no longer possible, I had a sudden idea and suddenly remembered what Di teacher told me before, the people of Xuda Kingdom are very concerned about face, especially talking about knight spirit, it seems that we can take advantage of this.

  "Excuse me, leader, are you a knight?" As soon as my voice fell, the leader in black armor hadn't replied yet, and one of his followers hastily said: "Of course, our leader has the title of Sky Knight." The leader seemed to be very proud, not bad, got hooked.