If you're an ordinary adventurer, you'll probably be interested in the village of the undead – rummaging through boxes and cabinets may be able to find a lot of valuable things. But Green, as a big lord with tens of thousands of square kilometers of territory and a future super real estate tycoon, can't look down on this little money at all!

Explore a ruined village, why not go home and learn how to farm!

Therefore, after realizing that this path was not working, Green decisively chose to turn back. After a long circle, Green and his party finally returned to the main road.

After a day of traveling, we finally arrived at our destination at 10 p.m. - Eagle's Nest City.

Due to the presence of monsters, the layout of towns in the Kingdom of Norsbod adopts a binary layout of the separation of towns and castles: the towns where the inhabitants live are quite far away from the castles that guard the fire of order, and the Eagle's Nest is no exception.

The castle of Eagle's Nest is located on a steep mountain, and it is necessary to climb a narrow mountain path to reach the lord's castle, while the inhabitants are mainly located in the river and the mine below, facing the castle from the distance.

When the monsters attack, the inhabitants will go to the castle to participate in the defense, and those who have not had time to evacuate will hide in their cellars and pray that they will not be discovered by the monsters. Since sealed monster nests in the castle attract other monsters, the inhabitants hiding in the cellar usually remain undetected by the monsters as long as they do not actively expose themselves.

Green pulled the carriage and walked along the road into the small town by the river.

The total population of Eagle's Nest is about 20,000 people, but because the population is distributed in three areas: the riverside, the foot of the mountain, and the castle, the population of each area is not too large. It's more like a castle + two towns than a city.

Green pulled the carriage and walked into the town, where he soon found the town's exchange.

An exchange where commodities are traded looks like a warehouse and market, where vendors large and small buy and pick up their goods, much like the wholesale markets on Earth.

Green dragged the carriage directly into the exchange and found one of the heads of the exchange.

"Wheat and mushrooms? Can you show me the goods? The trader held a ledger and stroked his mustache.

"Absolutely." Green pulled the tarpaulin from the carriage.

The trader opened a pocket and looked at the wheat inside.

"These wheat ......," the trader suddenly looked up, "have you entered the Forest of the Dead?" ”

"Forest of the Dead?" Green blinked, "Where is that?" ”

"A forest full of negative energy."

"Hmm......" Green thought for a moment, took out the map, opened it, and pointed to a location on the map, "Is that forest of the dead you are talking about?" ”

The trader looked at the map in Green's hand: "Hmm...... That's right, this is it. Your map is a bit old, not to mention it hasn't been updated in ten years, right? ”

"What's going on in this forest? How did it become a forest of the dead? ”

"A certain clever young master has done a good deed!" The trader snorted coldly, "Originally, it was only necessary to build a fence and enclose this lair, but a certain lord was clever enough to destroy the lair, and it turned out to be what it is now." ”

"Destroying the nest?" Green blinked, "How did he destroy the lair?" ”

"Who knows. The idiot is dead anyway. Don't talk about this gossip. The trader pointed to the wheat in his pocket, "These wheat are polluted by negative energy." ”

"It's okay, just take it to the sun and bask in it, you can't eat the dead."

"We can only buy this batch of wheat at the price of inferior old grain."

"What about the price?"

The trader flipped through the ledger in his hand, turned to one of the pages, and handed it to Green: "This price." ”

After some negotiations, a cart of grain ended up selling for only a few silver coins, and the yield was much lower than Green expected, which made Green feel a bit at a loss. Fortunately, Green's real purpose was not to sell grain, but to disguise himself as a merchant to inquire about commodity prices, purchase weapons and equipment, and minerals.

After selling the grain in the car, Green began asking traders about the prices of local goods.

"Eagle's Nest is a specialty of freshwater fish and copper ore, as well as timber." The trader glanced at the maid behind Green, "If you have enough capital, you can also consider doing the oalcum and greenstone business." ”

The main output of Eagle's Nest is freshwater fish, timber, and copper ore, as well as some of the copper ore's associated ores, gorichal, and greenstone. Orichalcum is a very hard magic metal, while greenstone is a magic gemstone.

"I have a little bit of capital in my hands, so I prefer to buy finished products directly, such as weapons and equipment."

"If you want to buy weapons and equipment, you should go to Angsali, not here. It's just a mining area. ”

"So...... What about agricultural supplies such as pickaxes, hoes, and sickles? ”

"Pickaxe?" The trader looked Green up and down, "It seems that you also heard that our Chamber of Commerce has a backlog of ore picks not long ago." Although the pickaxes are backlogged in our hands, it is not a problem. This is Eagle's Nest, and the pickaxe will be sold sooner or later. ”

"A backlog of pickaxes? What's going on? Did something happen? Green asked curiously.

The "......" trader's expression froze slightly, as if he didn't quite want to answer this question.

"If you tell me, I might consider buying the pickaxes you have."

“…… Forget it, it's not a secret anyway, and it doesn't hurt to tell you. The trader sighed, "Some time ago, after the demonic night, all the pickaxes in the mine were gone, and it was suspected that it was a thief." The miners had no pickaxes, so it was naturally impossible to continue mining, so our chamber of commerce hurriedly brought in a batch of pickaxes back, but I didn't expect the lord to order the craftsmen to use copper ore to create a batch of pickaxes, and as a result, the batch of pickaxes we entered was backlogged in our hands. ”

Green blinked. This incident may sound familiar, could it be that I was the one who stole the pickaxe?

"How many pickaxes do you have?"

"A thousand."

That's it? I thought there were many. Green pouted: "How much are you willing to ship if I want to?" ”

Trader: "Oh? Do you really want to buy it? ”

"If the price is right."

"A pickaxe, two silver Carter."

"What if I buy all a thousand?"

"I can give you a nine-percent discount."

"Hmm...... Do you buy this here? Green pulled out an egg-sized magic crystal from his bosom.

"Mana Crystal?" The dealer's eyes lit up, "This chamber of commerce can buy at the market price." ”

As an energy storage medium, Mana Crystals are needed to drive magic circles, use items, replenish the mage's own mana loss, or even make mana recovery potions. So in a sense, the Mana Crystal is a hard currency.

"What is the market price set by your chamber of commerce?"

"It is calculated in terms of energy concentration and total amount of energy. The higher the concentration, the higher the total energy and the higher the price. The trader paused, "Can I measure the amount of energy?" ”

"Yes."

The trader walked into the office with Green and tested the magic crystal with an instrument that looked a bit like a microscope.

"Hmm...... Five thousand three hundred mana, the purity barely reached the second grade. The market price is one hundred and six Carter Silver Coins! ”