Chapter 162 159. Prosperity belonging to the border
Bristle-Wolf City Count's Mansion, Butler are still discussing with Count.
"Sir, will the young master lead people to Frost-Wolf Forest?"
"New horses have been negotiated. Counting the remaining horses, it is enough to form a Knight team for him.
Besides, the purpose of going to suppress the bandits this time is not to kill them all. First, let him get familiar with how to operate a Knight Order alone, and then get familiar with the future Baron and Viscount." Count said this, but in his heart, he remembered the promise brought by the representative of the White Owl Family half a month ago.
"Sir Count, as long as you can send troops, we White Owl Family are willing to provide a copy of Ice School Magic Potion! The raw material of this Magic Potion is the very rare Blue Ice Grass. If we win, our family is also willing to provide you with a Mid-Rank potion." White-Owl The son of Eldest Young Master, the eldest grandson of Dusen·White-Owl, came personally to negotiate. This young man who is younger than Fernando is already Great Knight.
Magic Potion made from Blue Ice Grass can relieve the wounds on Count. Only by holding on long enough can you persist until Fernando becomes Great Knight and is qualified to inherit Count.
Being able to produce such a rare Magic Plant made Count also feel emotional: Now White Owl Family is backed by the throne and Royal Capital Fairy Queen, the family's strength is far from what it used to be. I'm afraid once Richie becomes a thing of the past, White Owl Family will become Duke.
"Say hello to the Black Market people and sell some unused Magic Fairy to Landen Viscount" old Count told Butler, "I have spent too much money recently and need to withdraw some funds.
Don't give it to him all at once, sell it bit by bit."
Count's Mansion will hold a dance in the evening to welcome all Viscount and Baron. Spring is approaching, and a group of new Mana-Wielders will be promoted in each territory. Each family is also willing to use this opportunity to show the fresh Knight Apprentices to their colleagues.
However, Landen really doesn't like this kind of social activities, and he is afraid that if he is absent, other nobles will arrange some inexplicable tasks or rumors for him.
He could only use the time before the banquet to go to Black Market. He still went down to the underground market from the tavern last time. Last time Landen only had a general look. This time he wanted to see more of the bookstore, Magic Plant store and Magic Fairy store here.
The bookstore of Black Market is located in a corner. After entering, you can only feel that it is a very small store. There are bookshelves on both sides of a narrow passage. Most of the books on the bookshelf are hand-copied books. A few printed books are doctrinal books of various gods. Most of these were printed by the various churches of the Temple Alliance and then given to well-known believers, lords or various grassroots church organizations.
"Sir? What do you want to see?" The shopkeeper dressed as Mage Apprentice came over.
"Are there any textbooks for Magic School here?" The textbooks are still the books that Landen is most concerned about.
"No, it is difficult for such a book to end up in Black Market." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, but the bookstores on the border did not have such rare items.
"Are there any maps? Or books introducing interesting local facts?"
"Follow me," he said, leading Landen around the bookshelf on the left and to the back. There were two rows of cave-like bookshelves here, and the bookshelf against the wall was more than 3 meters high.
The store owner took Landen to find an area, saying that everything Landen wants should be here.
Landen had plenty of time in the afternoon, and there were only a few dozen books on the bookshelf, so he looked through them one by one.
The underground Black Market outside the bookstore always only has relatively dim light. Although there is some lighting in the bookstore, reading books like this for a long time will make your eyes irritated.
Landen flipped through several books carefully, which were all Kingdom collections of local anecdotes from various places, collections of big family gossip and local legends, but there was nothing that made him feel bright.
Landen was the only customer in the store. The store owner looked at Landen looking through every book as if through a sieve. He felt that he sincerely wanted to buy something useful, so he brought over a bunch of parchment-bound books.
"Sir, I don't know what specific content you are looking for. These books all meet your requirements. It's just that some of them may be a little damaged due to their age."
This store made Landen very satisfied. Although there was nothing he really wanted here, his attitude was very sincere.
Landen casually flipped through the parchment the boss brought over, and Landen was very interested in one of the notes. It was difficult to verify the age of this notebook, but there were several very secret Runes on the cover and back cover. Landen could see it very clearly.
After opening it, there was a booklet recording the geography and products of Gallop Plains. At the time recorded in the booklet, Gallop Kingdom had not yet destroyed the country.
"Can such an old book be preserved because of these Rune?" I thought while rubbing the Rune and Landen on the scroll.
Gallop Plains in the brochure does not mention the blockbuster Barbarian, Black-Scaled Horse, or even Night-Kirin City. There are only the names and sizes of more than a dozen cities, and some Ruins.
Of course, the word Magic Turbulence has been mentioned in the booklet, indicating that it is a book less than 1000 years old.
Landen did not hesitate and bought this booklet with seriously outdated information. Although a thousand years have passed, some of the topography, landforms and even mineral veins recorded in it should have remained unchanged.
In addition to a thousand-year-old booklet, Landen also purchased a large amount of waste paper from the bookstore. The bookstore has been in existence for many years and has stored many books and booklets that were damaged by insects and mold. Landen plans to re-pulp these waste papers into new paper.
At the entrance of the Magic Material store, Landen encountered a slave auction, which was the kind of slave auction Landen had seen on TV in his previous life. Each tall herbivorous Beastmen with feet on his head or hooves below his legs was taken to a stone platform in turn.
The slave owner loudly announced the slave's age, height, weight, health, and what he was good at, and then a group of people below began to bid. All slaves were female, and the base price was 10 Gold Coin. Basically, the taller the slave, the more expensive the final transaction price would be.
"The aristocrats in this world all have unique tastes," Landen looked at a woman Antler who was over 3 meters tall, with Antler and deer ears on her head, and hooves on her legs. Beastmen was called 70 Gold Coin, and she kept sighing in her heart. "Do they want to eat deer antlers?"
7 or 8 slaves were quickly bought, and the crowd around the table gradually dispersed. Landen originally did not want to join in the fun, but to his surprise, the shop owner of Magic Material recognized Landen.
"Sir, please come to the store and have a look. We have prepared good things for you." The store owner was very flattering to Landen, which caught him a little off guard.
"For me? Do you know me?" Landen pointed at himself.
"Look what you said, the owner of our store is Bristle-Wolf Knights, Knight in the entire northwest region, who doesn't know you?"
When Landen followed the owner of the material store, he realized that he was known to everyone in Black Market. Everyone knew that Landen had at least tens of thousands of Gold Coin and hundreds of Mana-Wielder under his control. There was no doubt that Northwest Territory was the largest consumer market for magic supplies in Northwest Territory.