At the same time that Levi was 'getting up' after forty-six years, on the surface of the Sebrin River, the only thing that had not changed much, a sailing ship that was clearly seaworthy was sailing upriver from the city of Drawing Water to Minas Tirith, the new ———crown of the Northlands.

On the deck, an old man in his twilight years was lying quietly on his back on a 'wheelchair' made of metal and wood, with only a slightly heaving chest, showing that he was still gasping for breath very faintly, making people worry about whether he would sleep quietly like this.

The old man opened his eyes with some difficulty, and said in a daze, "Haven't you arrived yet?" ”

This must have been the fifth time he had asked this on the road.

But the young businesswoman behind him, dressed in a long skirt and holding a wheelchair, always took the trouble to whisper in his ear:

"It's almost to the docks in the White City, Grandpa. ”

If other young people saw her gentle and careful scene at the moment, they would definitely sigh that Elisa, the 'Queen of Sword Bay' who is famous in the Northland and even the entire Sword Bay business community, would have such a soft side.

But Alyssa must have been extremely disdainful of these people's ideas.

Because if it weren't for this old man in a wheelchair, she would have drowned at sea long ago.

The old man has a very common and popular name:

John.

A merchant who used to be well-known throughout the Northlands.

And she was picked up by Old John on a ship that had been plundered by pirates and was about to sink.

On the same day, John Sr.'s own son passed away forever.

So this old man, who lost his family, regarded her as his granddaughter and raised her as his successor.

This is also extremely rare in the whole of Northland.

Fortunately, Alyssa is very smart, loves to learn, and has met a good teacher.

So since she was a child, her daily life has been to follow Old John on the cargo ship, going back and forth between Jishui City and White City, accumulating raw funds little by little.

When I was in Jishui City, I learned valuable knowledge from my teacher.

Finally, on her eighteenth birthday, John Sr. cherished a faded 'deed' and his life savings and handed her over the business of his own business.

She still remembers the look of the city hall clerk who handled the inheritance procedures for her with a look of surprise and a hint of envy.

It was only after her realization that almost all the shops and property rights in the entire White City were owned by Zelandia.

All shops and properties can be bought and sold and rented, but each purchase and sale only has a 100-year property right.

Yes, the land is still not yours, it is owned by the city-state, no, it is owned by the white dragon lord.

Even in these decades, almost no one has seen him.

Only a handful of people like her grandfather, John, have directly obtained all the property rights to the entire shop, including the land, by virtue of some kind of deed called the 'Intent Application' issued by the lord when he first started.

This has undoubtedly become the proudest thing in Old John's life, and it is often told to her as a story.

It is said that so many of their peers formed a group of 100 merchants to collect debts, and they went to the new city where it was still a wasteland, and asked for debts from the dragon named Levi.

The great silver dragon received them solemnly and gave them a choice:

Use the application form to discount the goods of the same value, or believe in him, the lord, and believe that the wasteland in front of him will become the largest and most prosperous pearl of the Northland after Jishui City in the next few decades.

But at that time, no one believed in the Silver Dragon except for him, John.

So ten years later, after the magnificent White City was built at a terrifying speed that shocked everyone, he took that application form as a matter of course, found the Silver Dragon Lord, and cashed in everything he deserved.

It is also the most valuable asset of the entire John family today———

A shop in the most prosperous area of the main city of Minas Tirith in the White City!

It is precisely by virtue of the fame of this shop among the merchants of the Northland and the ability to absorb gold, which has become increasingly terrifying with the passage of time, that Old John, who was originally just unable to inherit the knighthood of his ancestors, has become a model of counterattack in the entire Northland business circle, and a new nouveau riche among the new nobles.

However, as far as Alisa knows, there were still many businessmen who kept some such application forms with a fluke speculation.

It's just that as soon as they arrived in Jishui City with a full ship of goods, the person in charge of the Xialan Chamber of Commerce found them and offered them a price for the application form in their hands that they couldn't move.

At this point, almost all the application forms on the market have been fully taken over by the behind-the-scenes master after the Xialan Chamber of Commerce.

Soon, the merchants who thought they had made a fortune discovered that in addition to the most primitive leather and ore, the other finished products had already been sold through a 'Hogg Alchemy Supermarket' store, and the entire market in Jishui City was saturated...

Finally, when the fleet of ships from the Gem Coast and the land caravans from the Northland converged on the city of Drawing Water, the person in charge of the Hogg Alchemy Supermarket announced that all the goods would be sold at a reduced price...

The discount is so big that it's even lower than their purchase price!

This 'dimensionality reduction' blow stunned almost all the merchants and nobles of the Northlands.

After inquiring about the relationship between this shop and the emerging territory of the Northland, the merchants had no choice but to sell the meat in despair, causing the price of goods to continue to plunge.

At that time, there were even merchants who spread the rumor that this was the punishment of the silver dragon lord.

It's just that more people scoff, and the nature of dragons means that they won't do anything at a loss.

Within a few years, these businessmen confirmed their ideas.

They discovered that almost all of the leather workshops and blacksmiths in the city had been integrated by the Hoag Group and opened 'factories'.

And since the establishment of the factory, those goods have begun to be mass-manufactured and flowed out, and the quality is cheap.

From that day on, merchants, including her grandfather John Sr., finally understood that the seller's market in the Northland was gone.

And the pricing power of most of the semi-finished goods in the Northland is basically controlled by the Hogg Group, the Xialan Chamber of Commerce and the Black Rod Chamber of Commerce.

Later history books refer to this event as ———

The first industrial revolution in the Corel continent!

In the beginning, rumors were spread that everyone was going bankrupt and losing their jobs, in an attempt to shake the established situation.

That's what a lot of people think is going to happen.

Because this kind of large-scale assembly line production is bound to have a huge impact on the traditional handicraft economy.

It's just that when this impact really comes, most people suddenly find that this impact seems to be more than imagined...

Be gentle.

The people behind this change seem to have anticipated the series of reactions that would take place under this change.

So those who are on the verge of bankruptcy often take out the property purchase agreement from the drawer that has been delivered to them long ago before despairing.

The factories run by the Hogg Group are willing to accept tanners and blacksmiths from their workshops free of charge, and if they deem exclusive technology of sufficient value, they are willing to buy it at a high price, or let the technology become a shareholder.

As for the people who suddenly lost their jobs and looked dazed, before they had time to tell their families the cruel news, they saw that the 'recruitment' information of some factories had already been posted all over the streets and alleys.

After working for a period of time with the mentality of trying, I found that although the eight-hour non-stop work every day was indeed hard, the salary was more than what I used to get in the workshop...

The market is changing with each passing day, and the variety of goods is becoming more and more abundant and cheaper.

This made them, who were already at the bottom of the society, suddenly find that they can start to save some savings while meeting the needs of their family's survival, and lick some cheap gifts for themselves and their families during holidays to reward their hard work.

Then, as commodity prices fell throughout the Northlands, more and more fleets and caravans began to buy goods from the cities of Drawing Water and the White Cities.

The huge flow of people has also greatly stimulated the original catering and service industry.

And merchants like Old John realized that they were sitting on a mountain of gold and begging for food when they were in the Northland.

With the high productivity and cheap goods of Drawing Water City and the emerging White City, they can make high profits even if they just procure these goods and transport them to the rest of the Corell continent.

Because for the entire Corell Continent, these commodities are just a little ripple that they stir up, not even a wave, but they can make them all rich!

So the Age of Discovery, which belongs to the Northland, opened in advance.

And John Sr. is one of them.

Taking advantage of the dividends of the times, the Chamber of Commerce, which belonged to Old John, sold the cheap goods of the Hogg Merchant Order to Am, to Tessel, to Kassanlin, and even to Cormier and Komanso in the far inland.

Then he brought half the world's rare handicrafts, luxury goods, antiques and even magical items back to the shop in the White City.

And because of Kevin's relationship with Anna Jones, the middle and most of the mages in the entire White City are happy to go to Old John's shop to buy something.

In addition, there were often mages who found good things from his tattered antiques, and then old John simply waved his hand.

Changed the name of John's Grocery Store to Taobao Store...

Over time, it has become one of the most popular shops for magical apprentices and priests when they visit White City.

It's a pity that when John Sr. was over fifty years old and was about to retire early and hand over everything in the family to his son John Jr. to take care of, he encountered bad news.

According to the tradition of the Northland merchants, as a qualified heir to a family, one must be familiar with all the estates in the family.

As the second officer, he personally completed an ocean transaction, which is regarded as a symbol of the successor's qualifications and the experience that must be experienced.

In John Sr.'s recollections, his son was undoubtedly a much more qualified successor than he was, calm, resolute, and courageous.

In the hands of Little John, his own business will surely be carried forward even more.

Fearing an accident on Little John's voyage, he hired a magician and took another ship far behind the caravan, so that even if there was some accident, he could save the scene in advance through the ship's 'watch guards'.

Accidents did happen.

It's just that the initial accident is a bit bizarre.

Through that magic eye, John Sr. observed a female mage with burgundy hair 'descending from the sky' on the deck of the caravan, praying for shelter from the caravan.

A magician who appeared out of thin air on the sea.

This kind of strange situation, people with a little common sense, should not agree.

This can cause too many surprises.

Little John was no exception, but after seeing the woman's pale cheeks and big belly, he couldn't say no after all.

Old John, who saw this scene, could only sigh as well.

It was a decision made by his son, and he decided not to interfere with it.

It's just that he didn't expect that when the 'storm' came, the price he paid would be so painful and heavy.

It was calm a few days before accepting the woman's request to ride.

On the day she gave birth, the entire sea around the caravan became pitch black.

In the stunned gaze of everyone, a 'ghost' like a fleet emerged from the bottom of the sea out of thin air.

It's a pirate...

It's still the legendary one.

The Immortal Iluskan!

Their ship was so large and sturdy that Little John's flagship didn't even have time to strike back, and in the midst of Old John's angry and desperate gaze, it was directly smashed in two by the pirate ship headed by the ramming horn.

The red-haired female mage leapt out of the sea like a moth to the flames, and was captured by the pirates after a brief engagement.

Amidst a rude laugh and cheers, the ghostly fleet sank back into the sea and vanished.

The battle began so abruptly, and ended so quickly, that Old John could only watch the entire fleet sink rapidly.

And it was this brief confrontation that left John Jr.'s merchant fleet with only a broken deck floating on the sea.

When John Sr. and the others arrived to salvage the survivors, they found that all the human bodies had turned into skinny corpses as if they had been under necromancy...

No one survived...

Just as Old John let out a desperate scream, he suddenly heard the helpless cry of a baby.

When he found the other, she was curled up in a mussel shell floating on the surface of the sea, crying very sadly.

The mussel shell was salvaged by the crew who were also in a trance, and the baby came into the hands of Old John.

Just when I saw her piercing red hair, I thought of her mother, the woman who brought about the unjustified disaster and took the life of his son!

Old John, who was on the verge of collapse, even had the idea of strangling her.

But perhaps the baby felt the warmth of the embrace again, or was tired of crying, so he stretched out his two little hands and pulled them on Old John's chest, and fell asleep quietly.

Looking at her quiet sleeping face, Old John's murderous intent full of anger failed to get rid of it after all, holding the child born in the sea, and howling and crying.

And this child is none other than Alyssa.

And this name of Alyssa, in the elven language.

Translated as... Amyeo.

Perhaps it was the reason why John Jr. was shipwrecked at sea, and since then, John Sr. has looked down on trade at sea, and he does not intend to let Alyssa inherit his vision.

But I don't know if this is the fate in the dark.

As she grows up, Alyssa gradually reveals a talent for magic and a deep yearning for the ocean.

Whenever a storm hits, she is able to 'predict the future' and can discern her direction in the deep sea without even needing any navigational aids.

She is well deserved... Children of the Sea.

Especially when Alyssa came back from Kevin's one day, she swore to old John and said:

"Grandpa, Mr. Kevin said that the Collell continent is actually a ball! One day, I will sail around the world by boat to prove that it is round!"

Old John sighed and knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to stop her thoughts.

And as it turns out, Alyssa is a better than little John... No, more than anyone else, the job of a captain.

Since she officially took over the family business on her eighteenth birthday, John's Firm, which had already shown its decline, has been thriving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And in the following eight years, as the pirate ships successively folded in her hands, the name of "Queen of Sword Bay" Alyssa spread.

John Sr. didn't know if it was a good thing.

Maybe... This is the fate she has to face.

Old John thought so.

He's old.

He could feel that he might not have much time left.

He just wanted to go to the White City that changed the trajectory of his life before he died.

Then take a boat back to his hometown in Silvermoon City.

Just like forty-six years ago, when he went from Silvermoon City to White City.

Where did it come from...

Where are you going...

That's it, his old John...

The trajectory of a lifetime.

"Grandpa, the docks in White City have arrived. ”

Alyssa's voice rang in my ears.

"Oh... Is it... Help me up..."

Old John opened his eyes with some difficulty.