Joshua's eyes widened slightly. Even though he knew the other party had already completed the formalities and no longer intended to concern himself with a minor figure like him, he still spoke with a smile. "Honored Mr. Belfran, you chose to become an Earth Wanderer, so you must want to experience the warmth of ordinary life and see how common people live!
Our Basia City is exceptionally outstanding in that regard!
Basia Port has the lowest taxes of any port in the entire kingdom. Even throughout the Western Sea Region, these taxes could be considered cheap.
If a powerful alchemist like you wants to exchange goods with the outside world, you won't need to pay the city lord's tax at all.
You only need to pay the fixed national tax. Our Kingdom of Damboro has always treated large transactions equally, regardless of price or quantity. We only charge fifteen percent, capped at 1,000 gold coins!
Then the noble lord will charge another ten percent or so.
But our lord charges only five percent, even for ordinary goods.
As for alchemical items, sellers are completely exempt! Buyers only need to pay half of their own tax; they don't need to pay the full amount!
That's why spell-item trading fairs in Basia City have always been popular.
You see~ To celebrate our young lady's promotion, even the buyer's tax has been waived for the past half-month.
Otherwise, our remote Basia City wouldn't be so lively!
Not only have most of the mages and merchants from within the kingdom come, but many from other countries have arrived as well!
You came to Basia City after seeing some mages' movements too, didn't you?
So...would you like to take a look at those fairs?"
Hill listened for a while before realizing that this captain of