"Clorinde, can I use a gun too? I want to try experiencing this weapon." Alex looked at Clorinde with hope.
"You want to use a gun? …Hm, it's not impossible," Clorinde said in a deep voice.
"That's great! Clorinde, you're such a good person!" Alex clapped his hands, not expecting Clorinde to be so easy to talk to.
Clorinde did not deny this praise. Few people called him a good person; after all, most were in awe and fear of him.
The corner of Clorinde's mouth curved up almost imperceptibly, but… he felt much better, a little happy.
"Come with me," Clorinde turned and walked deeper into the Shadow Court. After walking a distance, he stopped and looked at Alex without speaking.
"Coming, coming!" Alex quickly followed.
Alex began to trigger the follow-up quest.
"Da da da~"
Clorinde's high-heeled steps echoed through the empty Shadow Court.
"Normally, in Fontaine, every firearm must be officially registered," Clorinde said, turning a corner at a fork in the road ahead.
"Oh," Alex responded with a nod.
"But you can be an exception," Clorinde said as they reached their destination. He pushed open the armory door with both hands.
Alex followed in and found that while there were many firearms inside, there was only one type. Unlike on Blue Star, where there are many types of firearms.
"These are all standard training muskets," Clorinde said, taking out a short handgun and handing it to Alex.
Alex took it and examined it.
"You can try these muskets first. Once you find one you like, you can collect special materials yourself," Clorinde said, then added, "Then you can come to me again, and I'll help you get an official gun permit. I'll also introduce you to a good Blacksmith."
"Okay, okay, thank you, Clorinde!" Alex's eyes narrowed slightly, and his favorability towards Clorinde soared, after all, he had given him a gun.
Finally, Alex left the Shadow Court with a training single-handed musket and a training two-handed long musket in his backpack.
As for why he carried a long musket that required one hand to hold and the other to steady for accurate aiming, and couldn't be fired with just one hand…
Well, it was because it was cool!
Just try it. Even if he didn't use the stats of the two weapons, it would be fun to play around with them.
Alex looked at the long musket and saw that an aiming scope, roughly equivalent to a 2x scope, had been added. It was sufficient and could be used for sniping.
Then, Clorinde, who was beside him, saw Alex constantly switching weapons.
Long musket, short musket, Furina's weapon.
That's right, Alex was experiencing the real-life feeling of constantly switching weapons in a game.
It's just that he didn't have a dagger right now; otherwise, it would be even more satisfying. He really felt like he was playing a shooting game.
"Oh, right!" After playing around with switching weapons for a short while, Alex suddenly stopped.
Alex's exclamation made Clorinde stop as well, and he turned to look at Alex, waiting to see what he would say.
"Let's go to the Adventurers' Guild first," Alex said, gently placing one hand on Clorinde's tall shoulder.
Lione District, Adventurers' Guild.
Katheryne looked at Alex and Clorinde approaching and smiled, "Ad astra abyssosque."
"Ugh," Alex covered his forehead.
"Welcome to the Adventurers' Guild~" Katheryne finished happily.
"Katheryne, is there any news about the commissions I posted?" Alex asked.
"Please wait…" Katheryne said, turning to retrieve some documents from nearby, while smiling at Alex.
"Commission One: Find the location of Ley Line Outcrops, where the Ley Line overflows."
"Just this morning, an Adventurer came to provide information that a blue energy cluster Ley Line Outcrop was found in the eastern part of the Beryl Region. This information is accurate and reliable; we have already confirmed it," Katheryne smiled.
"Good, good, good!" If Katheryne hadn't mentioned it, Alex would have almost forgotten that he had paid a lot of Mora to post long-term commissions. It seemed he should come and ask often when he had nothing to do.
He would just abduct Clorinde later and have him help him farm the flowers.
"Commission Two: Acquire four windwheel asters and four glaze lilies."
"Regarding this, just last night, one of our Adventurers provided information: there is a foreign merchant in Fontaine who arrived a few days ago and has many flowers from other countries for sale, including the flowers you need! Our Guild has also confirmed his existence. The price this merchant is selling at is…" Katheryne's deep blue eyes scanned the paper.
Then, Katheryne smiled and said, "windwheel aster, 30,000 Mora per flower. glaze lily, 100,000 Mora per flower."
"Hiss!" Alex took a deep breath, and the surrounding cold air entered his body, contributing a small part to warming the temperature in Fontaine.
Alex's eyes widened in anger. This was too shameless, a profiteer!
Gritting his teeth, Alex directly pulled out his Mora pouch containing 520,000 Mora and handed it to Katheryne: "Tsk, buy four of each for me!"
"Alright, please come back to the Adventurers' Guild before evening, and we will have your requested goods purchased for you," Katheryne smiled as he accepted the Mora Alex handed him.
While the task of purchasing on behalf of someone was not part of the commissions, for Adventurers of their Adventurers' Guild, such matters could be handled for free with a guarantee.
They would have the Adventurer who provided the information do it, and upon completion, they would give him the Mora reward for completing the commission Alex posted.
You might ask if there's a worry about the money being embezzled? Such things rarely happen in the Adventurers' Guild. Even if they did, the culprit would be permanently blacklisted and wanted.
The Adventurers' Guild's power was still very strong; no one dared to oppose it.
However, for this kind of generation buy operation, Adventurers could earn the difference in price. As for how much they could earn, it was entirely up to the Adventurer… Then Katheryne said, "Commission Three: Find clues about the Hydro Tulpa."
"Wait, can this one be canceled? Because I found it myself!" Alex quickly interrupted.
"Okay, you can cancel the commission. However, the ten percent handling fee will not be refunded," Katheryne nodded.
"Alright, alright, no problem," Alex nodded.
After a series of commission cancellation operations, Katheryne returned some Mora.
Afterward, Alex, who had been taken for a ride, immediately thought of the Blacksmith Shop.
Finally, he just needed to upgrade his weapons, and then he could go farm flowers and fight the Hydro Tulpa!
As long as he had Mora, he could buy crystal ore, white iron ore, or even iron ore directly.
No, wait, why should he buy raw materials here? He could just buy more refined Mystic Enhancement Ore!
He remembered the Blacksmith Shop was right below here.
Alex looked down. After a few days, he still hadn't figured out Fontaine!
It seemed he needed to quickly go to Mondstadt to get a Wind Glider first!
Fortunately, Clorinde was there. Alex asked Clorinde, and he led the way.
"Good day, Officer Clorinde, how may I help you?" Seeing that the visitor was Clorinde, the female owner of the Blacksmith Shop immediately stood up straight and said cautiously.
"No need to be nervous, Estelle. I'm just bringing someone to you this time; he wants to buy ore," Clorinde said indifferently, pointing to Alex behind him.
He hadn't expected that right after Clorinde finished speaking in the Shadow Court, they would immediately arrive at the place he was going to introduce: the Beaumont Workshop.
Clorinde had originally thought that once he adapted to using a gun as a weapon and wanted to forge his own exclusive gun, he would bring Alex over to forge it. Now, it just so happened that they came earlier.
"Oh! Yes, boss! I want a lot of ore, to be precise, Mystic Enhancement Ore!" Alex nodded obediently.
Unexpectedly, the boss named Estelle frowned slightly, hesitated, looked at Clorinde, and then finally said to Alex: "Normally, we don't sell raw ore here, as our Beaumont Workshop also needs to consume a large amount of raw ore daily."
Alex blinked and pursed his lips, waiting for her to continue.
"Moreover, Mystic Enhancement Ore requires us to forge raw ore through machines, which is very time-consuming."
"Hmm," Alex also started to feel embarrassed. Indeed, they should have provided raw ore and asked the Blacksmith to forge it.
It seemed he still needed to mine himself. He hadn't mined in two and a half years. Mystic Enhancement Ore also overflowed daily and had to be manually deleted.
But if he had to mine, he only knew the mining routes in Mondstadt and Liyue!
After all, he used to run back and forth between those two places every day, farming the open world, which led to him not needing to mine at all later on, and he stopped caring about new mining spots.
"However, since you were introduced by Clorinde, I can sell you a small amount of Mystic Enhancement Ore, but only this one time. In the future, if you come, you must provide your own raw ore!" Estelle finally gave Clorinde face and sold him a favor.
"Thank you very much!" Alex said gratefully. Now he wouldn't need to mine for a while!
Later, when he went to Mondstadt and Liyue, he would definitely mine like crazy! After all, so many weapons were waiting to gain experience.
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