On Komya Island, the underground entrance to a freshwater lake on the northeastern coast, Sacco and Golobo were talking boredly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Eh, Sacco, have you heard? The boss pulled two boxes of those black stone chips that we grabbed below last time and got them on the mainland and sold them for 2,000 gold coins! ”

Sacco nodded, and said, "Of course I heard about the letter from Milton." However, don't you feel at ease about the boss? We're here to keep watch, and when we go back, we'll definitely have a penny of gold. ”

"I'm not worried about that." Golobo scratched his oily head that hadn't been washed for an unknown number of days, and said, "The boss has never lost us money, not like the bastard of old Baines." I'm not going to talk about this thing, I want to say, how can those black stone pieces be so valuable? ”

"Sombra heard what kind of magic mineral it is, I don't know." Sacco said, "How many people can figure out those mysterious things?" ”

Golobo looked at it: "You say, those things called Sombra are found underground. The last time we went down, we ran into more than one convoy of Faceless monsters. You say, those black crystals are so valuable, why don't we go down and do two more votes? ”

"Isn't it okay?" Sacco said, "The boss said, let's just stay at the entrance of the cave." You don't see, there's a whole huge dungeon down there! Just throw down our three melons and two dates, if they are discovered, it is estimated that none of them will want to come back alive. ”

"Alas, I said why are you so cowardly!" Golobo said a little unhappily, "It's not once or twice that we do this kind of thing, and we are very experienced." As long as there are twenty or thirty people, go down there, find some small-scale convoys, set up an ambush or something, blind in the dark, and kill all the monsters you see, and you don't know it, isn't it over? Then next time, grabbing a small transport team is the income of tens of thousands of gold coins, don't you want to? ”

Sacco said that it was false not to be tempted. Isn't it just for money that everyone comes out to be mercenaries? A trip to tens of thousands of gold coins, under normal circumstances, where can I encounter it?

It's just that, relatively speaking, Sacco, who used to be a knight, is much more stable than Golobo, who has always been reckless. I only heard him say: "These things, the boss said it, and you can't act rashly without the boss's order." If something goes wrong, who can take the blame? ”

Golobo said, "Hey, you're just cowardly! Don't keep carrying the boss out and talking about things! If we can do a good job, the boss will definitely only praise us. How can you, who was afraid of wolves and tigers, get rich? ”

Sacco frowned: "You guy, now you don't even listen to the boss's orders?" The boss told us to guard here, and we have to guard here! Don't think of any bad ideas, I'm the main thing here, and if you want to act, you must get my consent! ”

"Good, good...... It's boring......" Golobo said helplessly.

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Dane didn't know about this conversation at the entrance of the cave, otherwise he would have realized that Golobo's brainless guy must be making some kind of trouble again. He is now riding the waves at sea.

A new batch of black crystals, a full twelve boxes. This is a cargo worth tens of thousands of gold coins, and Dane will not dare to borrow it from someone else's hands, so he has to go on such a trip himself to rest assured. Moreover, in addition to running merchants, Dane's trip also had an important purpose, which was to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the caravans on the mainland.

Dane wouldn't just sell Sombra once. When he knew that there was an abundance of magical minerals under Komya Island, he was destined not to let go of such a large vault. The development of the territory has an extremely huge demand for funds, and if the money does not come out of the ground, where else can it come from?

Of course, the dungeon controlled by the Faceless is a huge obstacle that Dane must overcome to bring the underground world under his control in the future, but it definitely can't stop Dane's determination. Later, after his own power developed, the first thing he had to do was to completely wipe out those faceless ones. Not to mention the black crystal veins that must exist, even the heads of those faceless ones are very valuable to throw them in the temple as sacrifices.

In the future, he will definitely control more black crystal production, and it is a good thing to take precautions and establish a relatively stable cooperative relationship with a reliable caravan first. Goodale was a good choice, a halfling merchant who was shrewd and believed that he had enough power in trade to maximize the profits brought by Sombra. Moreover, his own power is not very strong, so he is not afraid of the shopkeeper bullying customers, but if something really happens, Dane will naturally support him, and at the same time, behind Goodale there is a huge business organization such as the Charr United Chamber of Commerce, which will not suffer too much loss.

In addition to selling Sombra, it also means to establish a relatively good relationship with Goodale and the Shire Federation behind him.

Here we have to mention the Shire, which is a subcontinent. The so-called subcontinent is of course not as large as the Orodic continent, that is, the so-called main continent, but since the word 'continent' is crowned, it is by no means comparable to ordinary islands.

On the continent of Shire, the number of humans is not large, and the main races are two, halflings and gnomes. These two small races, thousands of years ago, were originally inhabitants of the mainland. However, due to the inferiority of the race itself, they are the fastest defeated group in the war of racial hegemony. It's not like today's human beings, who have become the kings of the core region of the world; Nor is it like the orcs, who can dominate the vast eastern wasteland; Not even the elves, dwarves, and barbarians who control the forests, mountains, and plateaus, at least they haven't been driven out of the main continent.

But these two races have their own strengths. Halflings love food, love to enjoy but are very industrious, and are notoriously powerful in business. And the gnomes, in the thousands of years since they settled on the Shire continent, have developed a route that is very different from that of other races. Although they do not have outstanding magical talents, and it is difficult for them to produce powerful warriors, the profession of alchemist is quite outstanding among their race. Based on alchemists, the potions and magic machines developed are not weaker than some magician organizations, or even stronger!

The two short races, plus some of the elves who had settled in the Shire, made it a paradise to see Orodick across the sea.