The harvest festival is followed by a coming-of-age ritual that every boy and woman must go through at the age of sixteen.

Some people say that children who have not participated in the rite of passage can never mature in their minds, and that there are defects in this life, and even if they live to old age, they will do some things like children.

The night of the annual coming-of-age festival is a night for young people, who take to the streets in beautiful clothes for the festival and dance and dance to the streets with songs and dances, and there are dances for young people in every square, where all the young people are the protagonists, and you can enjoy some free food, mulled wine and other kinds of drinks without even spending money, and you can dance the night away in the square.

This time last year, I attended a big coming-of-age celebration that was probably the most memorable event of my life.

As for this year, in front of me was a whole box of primary magic herbs unloaded from the magic caravan, and most of these magic herbs had been booked by Marven to the two magic herb firms in the imperial capital, and the price paid by these two traders was to pay an advance payment for nearly a year in advance.

Last night, a magic airship arrived in the airport town from Guruding town on the Pai Plateau and brought back a large number of primary magic herbs, luncheon meat, meat floss bricks, magic antelope hides and corpse fire oil, recently there will be airships sailing to the Guruding town of the Pai Plateau almost every week, and there will also be magic airships flying to the airport town from there every week, this trade route has been completely opened by Marven, and the orc tribe is working together to resist the undead army in the death forest, and the orcs also need a lot of military supplies.

For example, the light marching tent produced by the Green Empire, although the orcs like to sleep in the wilderness in the wild, at best they are just carrying a bundle of extremely simple raw cowhide rolls, but now it is autumn, the winter on the Pai Plateau is earlier than most places in the Green Empire, once it snows, even the orc warriors with strong physique have no way to sleep on the snow, and the orc warriors also need a yurt to avoid the cold, and the emergence of convenient military materials such as marching tents has greatly improved the military life of orc warriors in the field。

Another example is the various magic items produced by the Grimm Empire, with the rising price of the originally cheap corpse fire oil cans, the orcs can no longer use this material as cheap fuel in the wild, and now the orcs have also learned to smear the corpse fire oil on the stone balls, and then use trebuchets to throw these burning stone balls into the enemy camp, or light a wall of fire in the battle to block those skeleton armies from the outside. As a result, the Fire Gathering Rune Plate and the Water Gathering Rune Board are popular with orcs, but the Miniature Tornado and Constant Frost rune plates are not popular with orcs.

Many of the lords' private domains of the Grimm Empire will have large areas of land reclaimed into large farms, the imperial people are good at growing barley and wheat two crops, and now the orcs seem to have become accustomed to wheat cake with broth, or barbecue with cereal, and eating raw jerky in the wilderness has gradually become a kind of nostalgia and ritual for the orcs. So the airships flying to the Pai Plateau, whenever there is any space, will fill bags of black whole wheat flour.

The Qige Trading House has been extremely busy lately, with all four magic airships running back and forth between the airport town and Gurudin, and Marven has hired four magic airships temporarily.

In addition, Marven also paid homage to the largest family in the imperial capital named ' Jiejie's magic airship manufacturing workshop customized two magic airships, these two magic airships cost as much as five thousand magic crystals each, and the two magic airships need at least 12,000 magic crystals from manufacturing to delivery, even if they are paid in batches, they must pay three thousand magic crystals to the Jiejie airship manufacturing workshop every month, which is almost the profit produced by Qige Trading House in the last year, and customizing two magic airships is almost unaffordable for the current trading house, but Marven relied on a large order of magic herbs to make up this huge amount of money。

I promised Zack's friends that not only would I provide them with a large number of magic crossbow arrows, but also some magic herbs and marching rations, which were in high demand in the Imperial Capital's Magic Market.

In particular, the Magical Herb and the March Ration, the former being an essential medical item in battle, and the latter became almost a belief among the Imperial warriors, most of whom believed that luncheon meat and meat floss bricks would bring them victory.

There was a loud music outside, and a group of young people gathered in the hall of this restaurant for dinner, not only did they bring accordions and recorders and other instruments, but they also sang together in the restaurant, and the cheerful singing came through the roof into the box on the third floor, where a dozen young nobles sat on the sofa, and their eyes fell on the carpet in the center of the room, on which were several large magic sealing boxes, which contained bundles of silver leaf grass and condensing grass, which were the main materials for making secondary healing potions, and these magic herbs filled seven magic sealing boxes。

Even all the herb shops in the trading hall on the first floor of the Tower of Pride can't make up so many primary magic herbs, Zach leaned lazily on the sofa, Ernestin sat on the arm of the sofa next to him, and the two of them looked at the young nobles around them who were a little glazed, Zach coughed lightly and said: " Last winter, the situation in the Hiero plane deteriorated to the extreme, Angelos City, Thunder City, and Blood Ring City were successively breached by the Nibru spiders, the outer cities of Gulabash City and Tanton City were reduced to ruins, and the inner city was almost captured by the Nibru spiders. ”

Zach sat up and took a long sip of an ale from the table, and continued: "Our legion held out until this spring, and the Nibru Spiders were under the city of Pereira, and the main battle faction of the province of Dulva decided to organize a counteroffensive. ”

The nobles all around listened to Zach tell the story of the battle on the Hierro plane.

Zach reached out and pressed my shoulder, and said to everyone with infinite emotion: " At that time, many lords did not dare to put the last bit of bargaining chips on the counterattack battle, Ernestine and I went to the imperial capital to ask for help, but unfortunately at that time, everyone was not very optimistic about the situation in the Hierro plane, no one was willing to help us, almost all of you who sat here today helped me at that time, the plane war of the Grimm Empire spread widely, I know that many families may not agree to lend me the Knights, even if those materials are probably secretly lent to me by everyone under the pressure of the family, no matter what, I am very grateful to everyone。 ”

I can seem to imagine what kind of hardship Zach and Ernestine have gone through, these lords who stayed in the imperial capital are a bunch of speculators, they will never let their legions go to death, and only when they are sure of victory will they start planning a war that can reap the fruits of victory.

Caterina and Betty were standing behind me, and I looked back at them, Betty with a bright smile in her eyes.

For today's transaction, Arya specially asked me to bring Betty, who had the list of materials for this transaction.

Zack pointed to the demon sealing box in the room, and said very heroically: "The magic herbs are all placed here, as for those marching rations are temporarily on the truck downstairs, you are going to buy them separately, or do you want to buy them together, this involves a question of share, the former you have to discuss the share you need with each other in advance, and the latter is to buy it back and discuss it yourself." ”

The young aristocrats originally thought of a set of rhetoric for trading with me, but they didn't expect it to be Zach who came forward and glanced at each other, everyone didn't know what kind of character Zack was, he was rough and temperamental, and he had a violent temper that exploded at a point, especially when he recently became the heir to the Duke of Durva, his status jumped like a rocket, and now it is even more difficult to offend openly.

So one of these nobles, the lord who had inherited the inheritance, hurriedly stood up and said: "I won't say much about how scarce these materials are in the imperial capital recently, this thing is definitely not too much in anyone's hands, since we want to form an aid legion, everyone can be regarded as connecting their own futures, we can go back and discuss the distribution of these materials, since the Marquis of Jijia has taken out so many scarce materials according to the agreement, then we will use the simplest procurement method - unified purchase." ”

The rest of the young nobles also said that the specific material distribution would be carried out in private when we went back, and there was no need to discuss this now.

Zach glanced at me, and I understood what he meant, and asked Betty to take out the list of supplies in her hand.

Zach handed the list to the noble lord and said to him: "This is the list of goods, you need to send someone to hand over the goods to my side later, and if you can't eat so many goods, you can say the specific amount to buy." ”

The noble lord took the list in his hand, carefully looked at the materials and amounts on it, and then passed the list to the other young nobles.

"Zach, are you really kidding, is anyone too much of these supplies?" he said, crossing his hands together, "not only is it not too much, but we will also pay the highest price in the magic market this month, and come and bring in those boxes we have prepared." ”

Almost a moment later, there was a heavy and chaotic sound of footsteps outside the room, and then there was a knock on the door, and after obtaining permission, the servants outside carried in more than a dozen heavy boxes, and at the behest of the noble lord, the servants opened the lid of the box, and kicked the shiny boots on a box at will, and several servants immediately pushed the box to, and a whole box of yellow, orange and orange gold coins was scattered all over the ground, and after making sure that the box was full of imperial gold coins, those servants put these gold coins back into the box again。

Betty walked up at this time and began to continue the transaction with one of the butlers under the noble lords, and each material needed to be approved at a price, and then the number was counted, etc., and there were many tedious things.

The noble lord sat down again and said with an envious expression: " Zack, I didn't expect you to have such resources in your hands, it seems that there are many factors that we can't see in the victory of the Hiero plane, the great counteroffensive battle of the Hiero plane has been written in the Imperial Capital Magic Newspaper for more than half a month, but there are still details that we don't know, I remember that at that time, it was rumored that the Duke of Jingyue in Sloit Province sent ten Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion, and there will be some lords who are willing to put their chips on you, and the pressure on our side is not so great. ”

Ernestin glanced at Zach and picked up the topic and said:

"Speaking of which, I still have to thank Giga, when the Durva Legion was defeated in the city of Angelos on the Hiero plane, a large number of heavy infantry regiments needed to retreat to Pereira City, our Constructed Knights were in charge of the break, but I didn't expect to be bitten by the Nibru spider warriors, the only thing we could do at that time was to retreat while fighting, Zack and I were both seriously injured in that battle, and then Zack and I were sent to the imperial capital for treatment, when he was bandaged like a mummy, Lord Sora found Jijia who was taking classes at the Academy of Magic, and they snatched me and Zach back from the hands of death。 ”

As she spoke, she unbuttoned her leather coat twice, revealing a scar like a centipede with countless stitches below her throat and above her cleavage. Ernestine went on to say:

"This spring, Zack and I went to the imperial capital to ask for help, but unfortunately there has been no progress in the imperial capital, before returning to Durva, I specially went to the Royal Academy of Magic to visit Jijia, I heard that he also treated the Duke of Jingyue in Sloit Province, this Grand Duke is in control of the North Wind Legion, so we asked Jijia to try to write a letter to Duke Jingyue, asking Duke Jingyue to send troops to support Durva, I didn't expect Duchess Jingyue to really agree to send troops, and immediately sent ten Constructed Knights to Durva Province, I think the Hiero Plane War can be won so quickly, and the ten Constructed Knights of Jingyue have a great relationship。 ”

Zach squinted, suddenly leaned over and put the saber at his waist on the coffee table in front of him, his pale green face became a little cold, and said in a deep voice:

"I have said so much to Ernestine, and I am actually telling you one thing, Marquis Giga is a good friend of me and Ernestine, he is studying alone in the Royal Academy of Magic here in the imperial capital, and he also opened a rune board workshop on the imperial capital, and he also manages this trading firm on behalf of His Royal Highness Qige, it is inevitable that some people will be offended in the imperial capital, but I hope you can understand the friendship between us, everyone is my friend, but in the future, if there is anything against him in the imperial capital, you can say hello- Of course it's best, it's okay not to say it, but I hope you don't get involved, otherwise we are the enemy, whether it's Durva or Salta, we will close all the doors to the enemy......"