Chapter 102: Clothes Make the Man

"The apprentice emblem of the Wizard's Sanctum. This is my ring. I am an apprentice of the Wizard's Sanctum!" Jess immediately said. "You can ask Master Eden Marin in the Mage Quarter. He is my teacher. And Master Andomas. They can both testify for me!"

Seeing Jess mention so many names all at once, the store owner felt a bit guilty.

"He... He's making things up here, Lord Morse."

Morse said, "I do know Master Andomas. But I can't immediately invite the high-ranking mage leader here just to vouch for you. So, if you want to get rid of suspicion quickly, cooperate well. I ask you, what do the two letters on this ring mean?"

"Jess Setho." Jess said. "These are the initials of my name."

"You are Jess Setho?!" Morse widened his eyes.

The store owner became even more uneasy. He leaned closer to Morse and whispered, "Do you know this person?"

"Jess Setho is the hero who repelled the gnolls at Stonekeep." Morse said. "I heard from the brothers in Lakeshire that Jess Setho is a strong man. He can single-handedly fight seven or eight gnolls at the same time. Even when his hand is cut off, he still insists on fighting. For this reason, King Varian personally received him... The young man is quite sturdy. Although not as strong as I imagined, but your hand is still there. Say, when did you steal our hero's things?"

Jess was shocked. What was all this? What fighting seven or eight at the same time? What severed hand? "You don't believe me, right? Let me see the king!"

"Is the king someone you can see whenever you want?" Morse said sternly. "Well, as long as you can prove that you are from the Wizard's Sanctum..."

Before Morse could finish speaking, Jess struggled to move his bound wrist, stretched out his finger, and recited, "Liuyusa!"

Suddenly, a burst of arcane light made the faces of the two people in front of him extremely pale. Morse was caught off guard and squinted his eyes, while the store owner was so frightened that he took several steps back.

"Does this prove that I am a mage?!"

Jess shouted loudly, and at the same time, the arcane light became even brighter!

"Quick... Stop it quickly." Morse covered his eyes and said.

"Can it prove it?"

"Yes! Put away your spell first, and then we can talk."

When the light disappeared, the store owner was already leaning against the back wall motionless. The prison entrance was filled with soldiers attracted by the light, huddling together and closely watching the situation inside.

Morse rubbed his eyes and said to the soldier beside him, "Find someone to go to the Mage Quarter and find that mage Marin. Invite him to come and take a look at this person."

"Understood." The soldier left the prison cell. The store owner approached and asked, "Sir, can I leave now?"

"You can't leave." Morse's attitude towards talking to the store owner was obviously much colder than before. After an unknown amount of time, Jess kept staring at the store owner, looking at him maliciously. The store owner was initially worried, but now he was even a bit scared.

Finally, there was a sound of footsteps outside the prison cell. It wasn't Marin who came, but his daughter.

"Ah? Jess, why were you caught as a thief?"

"Madam, who are you?" Morse asked.

"I am Amy Marin, the daughter of Archmage Marin."

"He is your father's student."

"Of course." Amy said. "He has been working for my father since a month ago. We know each other."

"Is he the Setho who killed the gnolls at Stonekeep?"

"Yes, he met the king at Stonekeep."

Hearing that this boy in front of them was the fighter who single-handedly fought six or seven gnolls on top of the watchtower at Stonekeep, the soldiers beside them were all a bit surprised. There were waves of low discussions outside.

Jess felt that this matter might become more and more exaggerated.

"It doesn't look like it... Could it be that what they said is wrong." Morse muttered.

"You haven't even seen me!" Jess said unhappily. "Let me go. I didn't steal anything!"

"It seems to be a misunderstanding." Morse looked at Jess's hand, then looked at the store owner and said, "Now there are no doubts at all, sir. Just by looking at someone's clothes, you can't judge that he can't own something valuable. Shouldn't you apologize?"

"I..." The store owner stammered. "I'm sorry, Mr. Setho."

Two soldiers helped release Jess. Jess touched his numb wrist and said, "Is an apology enough? Your one sentence made me get knocked out and dragged here. My head still hurts."

The store owner took out two silver coins from his pocket and handed them to Jess, saying, "This is all I have on me. I sincerely apologize. I shouldn't judge people by their appearance, sir."

Getting two silver coins for one punch was the same price as the butchered lamb recruiting live targets.

Although it wasn't much, Jess took the money and his anger subsided a bit.

Guided by the guards, he walked up the stairs and came outside with Amy. Sure enough, this was Stormwind Prison. Next to it was the canal. It wasn't too far from the Mage Quarter.

Amy looked Jess up and down and asked, "How did it end up like this?"

Jess said helplessly, "They thought I was a thief just by looking at me. I really didn't expect to actually encounter such a thing."

Amy asked, "Jess, And didn't Masteromas arrange for you to go to the Larson family to make a set of mage robes?"

"I haven't had time yet. I only met Master Andomas a few days ago." Jess said.

Originally, he didn't have much motivation to go. After being through all this trouble, he also realized that getting a set of clothes that suited his current status was quite important.

"When I first entered the Wizard's Sanctum, I met Master Andomas in the morning and was in a hurry to look at clothes at noon." Amy said. "Little brother, I don't know how it is in Lordaeron. But people in Stormwind City are not as simple as you. They all judge others by their clothes. If you wear such simple clothes but carry something that only mages in mage robes would have, they will definitely think there is something wrong with you. Either you stole something from a mage or you are planning to do bad things with magic."

Jess was quite concerned about Amy's use of the word "simple" to judge him. But thinking about it, after coming to Azeroth, most of his time was spent running around with a large group of children, stealing fruits and riding horses. He was happy all day long.

Slowly, his personality and concepts were also infected to some extent in the process of integrating into these groups of kids.

It was only after leaving Lordaeron alone that he resumed an adult life. Maybe he really was like a reckless young man bumping around everywhere.

Amy continued, "I heard that you want to go to Dalaran? When the time comes, if you want others to know that you are from the Wizard's Sanctum, you can't still go there in this outfit, can you?"

"All right, then I'll go and take a look at Larson's place." Jess said. "Hey, thank you for coming to rescue me."

"Rescue?" Amy was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's quite appropriate. By the way, what did you have that made that merchant think you were a thief?" Jess opened the package that Morse gave back to him and took out the bead necklace and the broken pocket watch. He said, "I just showed him these two things."

Amy first looked at the bead necklace, then took a look at the pocket watch and said, "This bead necklace is quite beautiful. But this pocket watch, how is it broken like this? And there is so much sand."

"It was already broken when I picked it up." Jess said. "I found it in an abandoned town in Westfall. Do you think it can still be repaired?"

Amy said, "Give it to me. I know a gnome mage who especially likes to repair these small things. I'll take it to him and see."

As soon as Jess heard that it could be repaired for free, he immediately became excited. "Is it really possible?"

"But there is no guarantee that it can be repaired."

"As long as it can be repaired!"