Arrival at the Black Market

Cook is a Knight who knows how to get along with people. →

Or perhaps, having spent years navigating the Gray Area, Cook has learned to attract repeat customers.

A few or ten Magic Coin are not a small amount; if that money had been given to the Sea Lizardmen just now, this conflict probably wouldn't have broken out.

This also shows that Cook is an impulsive, passionate, but also discerning Level 1 Knight.

This kind of Knight, Saine, is quite willing to make friends and interact with them.

After Saine returned to the ship and rested for about an hour, Cook set sail again.

Their Alchemy Powered Ship has already passed through the most dangerous eye of the giant storm.

It's currently the end of the storm season, and there probably won't be any major storms later on.

Aside from bandits like the Sea Lizard who might require some attention, there shouldn't be any other major problems.

Unlike Saine, the Knight and Mage aboard Cook's wrecked ship were not all heading to City of Munich.

Almost two days after the battle of the Sea Lizard, the first passengers began to disembark.

He disembarked at a tiny Li Island in the middle of the ocean.

This Li Island is small and, on the surface, doesn't seem to have anything special about it. It's unclear why this person chose to come here.

However, based on Cook's whispered conversation with him, Saine vaguely heard that the two agreed that Cook would need to return here to pick him up and take him back to Stormwind City in a few months.

The passenger was a male Quasi-Magician.

Saine wondered if he was going to get promoted here, or if he had some other research project.

As for the truth, no one will bother to investigate.

After the male Quasi-Magician disembarked, for a period of time, passengers would disembark almost every few days.

The passengers disembarked at various locations, some at the trench, others at an island.

Among them, Saine noticed that the disembarkation point of two Advanced Apprentice seemed to be inhabited by a number of sea creatures.

Making private deals with the sea creatures wasn't just something Saine was doing; others were doing it too.

Cook's fare was quite high, and whether those two Advanced Apprentice could recoup their investment or even make a profit through smuggling depended on their own abilities. This also shows that Knight and Mage operating in the Gray Area, regardless of their actual strength, at least possessed strong character and willpower.

Saine disembarked relatively late, and the place where he disembarked was also the destination for most passengers on Cook's Black Ship.

When Saine led Yuli off the ship, not only did the Brown-Robed Magician, who was also of first-level strength, follow them off the ship, but there were also five other people traveling with them.

At this point, only two passengers remained on Cook's ship.

City of Munich was not their final destination; they would continue southwest for about a week.

"When will you be back?" Saine asked Cook.

Because he had a fairly good impression of Cook, Saine was inclined to continue traveling on Cook's Black Ship when leaving the black market.

"I won't be back for about a month. I also have some things to take care of," Cook said, scratching his head.

While talking to Saine, Cook kept glancing at Yuli behind him.

Cook had already witnessed Yuli's strength in the battle against the Sea Lizardmen.

Cook was genuinely envious of Saine for having such a beautiful and powerful Soul Slave.

However, despite his envy, Cook's wealth absolutely cannot afford such a top-tier slave, who is at the peak of level one and comparable to level two combat power.

In addition, Yuli's appearance, gender, and degree of submission will all increase her value significantly.

Generally speaking, the price of such a top-quality Soul Slave will not be less than 3,000 Magic Coin.

"I'm quite curious, what exactly is at the bottom of the ship?" Saine asked Cook with interest.

Cook looked troubled, but he didn't hide it from Saine, because Saine was about to disembark, and given Saine's strength as Soul Slave and his wealth, he probably wouldn't be interested in what Cook had.

A small red and pink fish appeared in Cook's hand.

"This is it. We transported 2,700 Luo Fei Fish this time, but we lost 500 in the previous battle," Cook explained.

The small fish in front of him was only the size of his palm, Saine knew nothing about it.

I could only vaguely sense that the little fish in front of me possessed an extremely gentle aura of water Elemental Power.

What Saine didn't know was that these Luo Fei Fish were special marine fish bred using specific methods, and were considered a top-tier food that only the highest-ranking marine creatures were entitled to enjoy.

In the past, the trade of Luo Fei Fish was limited to the various Holy Tower, Knights' Hall, and Sea King Hall.

Aside from the fact that the Holy Tower Magician can cultivate and produce Luo Fei Fish in large quantities using special methods, the Luo Fei Fish naturally bred in the ocean are simply not enough to satisfy the needs of the advanced sea creatures.

However, with the progress of civilization and the deepening of trade among sea creatures, some large chambers of commerce and organizations have gradually become involved in the transactions.

Cook's approach, to put it bluntly, is to compete with the Holy Tower, the Knights' Hall, and those large merchant organizations for business.

Furthermore, Cook's trading partners were quite interesting; he did not choose powerful, high-level sea creatures as collaborators, but instead opted for a mid-level sea creature.

The attraction of Luo Fei Fish to marine populations is universal; these tiny fish contain the trace elements necessary for the growth of most marine species.

However, in the past, this rare fish was monopolized by the high-ranking marine creatures at the top of the pyramid.

What Cook did was to open up trade routes among those mid-level sea creatures with decent strength.

Saine even speculated that the reason the Sea Lizardmen attacked the Black Ship might also be related to the small fish that Cook was smuggling.

However, this type of fish is ultimately only useful to sea creatures, and the price of the Luo Fei Fish is not high. If Saine wants to study it, he can simply buy it from the various Holy Tower.

Nodding and bidding farewell to Cook, Saine and Yuli stepped into the black market behind them.

City of Munich was its name twenty years ago; now the place is called the Wave City.

This is a prosperous city located on a large island. If Saine had not known this beforehand, he probably would not have been able to associate him with the black market.

And Wave City is indeed not a purely black market.

This place only becomes a black market and Gray Area during storm season.

When the storm season ends, the arrival of ocean liners or airships from Holy Tower and various large merchant groups transforms the city back into a sunlit Wave City.

It is so white it cannot be whiter; it is a city Rule Protection the Holy Tower and the Knights' Hall.

This natural transition from gray to white signifies that this island city must have a sufficiently robust protective umbrella.

Sure enough, after landing on the island, Saine quickly discovered that it was different from the other cities he had passed through before.