"Matriarch of the Maraton family, ...... of Welheim"

"What Malaton ......" Lin Li was a little confused at first, but he was only halfway through his words when he almost bit his tongue: "You mean Maraton Workshop?" ”

"That's right......"

"What a big deal...... Lin Li looked at Esare dumbfounded, and after watching for a long time, he muttered a sentence to himself.

That's too much...... In the entire Kingdom of Fran, if there is still a force that can compete with the Mannis family for wealth, it is probably only the Maraton family.

The legendary king [***] fire merchant single-handedly indulges more than seventy percent of the forging business in the Kingdom of France, but most of the things that are related to forging are marked with the mark of Maraton Forge Workshop.

The Maraton family, the Mannis family, these two behemoths, almost completely dominate the economic lifeblood of the kingdom.

In terms of business strategy, these two behemoths are completely different.

The golden-plated roses of the Mannis family have bloomed almost all over the kingdom of Fran, and even in the most remote villages, the symbol of the gilded roses can be found, and in Ysera's words, when he dies, the gilded roses will definitely bloom to heaven!

The Maraton family, on the other hand, is a well-known military businessman.

The most elite equipment of the Maraton Forge Workshop has always been provided to the King's [***] team, such as the Sky Knights, and all the cavalry armor in their hands comes from the Maraton Forge Workshop.

To put it mildly, if there were no Maraton forges, today's Kingdom of Fran would probably still be just the country where magicians had to wear armor whenever there was a war.

The Maraton family started much later than the historic Mannis family, which began 600 years ago and has not reached the peak of its glory until the last 300 years.

At that time, the Maraton forge was just a small blacksmith shop, but with exquisite forging skills, this small blacksmith shop, in hundreds of years, step by step climbed, to this day, in addition to monopolizing the arms business of the Kingdom of France, but also extended their tentacles to various fields.

In the past 600 years, the Maraton family has gradually penetrated into every corner of the French kingdom with its amazing wealth, from the court to the army, almost every position, there are people from the Maraton family, all kinds of interests are entangled, deeper and deeper, and more and more tightly entangled, and now it is said that the Malaton family has completely become a terrifying behemoth.

Today's Maraton family, both in wealth and power, can be said to have reached the pinnacle of glory, even the equally rich Mannis family cannot be compared with them, because behind this behemoth, stands the entire team of the King of France[***].

The patriarch of this generation of the family, Wilheim, has won the trust of His Majesty the King, has been in charge of the military affairs of France for 30 years, and his title has risen again and again, and now he is the Duke of the Kingdom.

This is what the Maraton family is known to be today.

"The Madias you wounded is Wilhelm's second son." Esare glanced at Lin Li, his expression a little worried.

"I'm surprised......" Lin Li touched his nose and smiled a little embarrassed, to be honest, he really didn't expect Matthias to be so prominent, the son of a dignified [***] fire merchant, but unfortunately he was a little stupid...... Esare didn't speak, but there was a hint of confusion on his face.

There was one thing that he couldn't figure out even when he thought about it.

Wilheim's surname, how could he not know, it was a character who must be retribution, the Malaton family has produced a magical genius like Madias for hundreds of years, and when he was only a few years old, he was sent to the Magic Guild out of the city by Verheim, and this Madias did not live up to Wilhelm's expectations, and he had already reached the level of a twelfth-level magician at a young age.

Verheim's love for this young son, even the ants of Orlana knew that before the start of this trial, Verheim used all kinds of connections, and even said that he had mobilized the chief magician of the palace Aegis to help, so that Madias could achieve good results in this trial.

This matter has long been no special secret in the aristocratic circles of the Kingdom of France, and even Esare, the head of the Sky Knights, who is not often social, has heard of it.

But no one expected that the trial had just begun, and Madias was broken by someone, which was undoubtedly like a slap in the face for Verheim.

With the surname that Verheim must report, how could he let go of the young magician in front of him?

Esare couldn't figure out how this kid could possibly stand here after slapping Wilheim and still have the leisure to hang out on the black market?

Esare couldn't figure it out, but Lin Li had already figured it out.

It seems that during this period of time, the two people in the magic guild have indeed been under a lot of pressure...... However, Lin Li didn't say anything, just secretly kept this matter in his heart.

"Do you want me to help?"

"No more trouble." Lin Li shook his head and rejected Esare's proposal.

As the head of the Sky Knights, if he is willing to come forward in person, even if it is Verheim, he will probably have to sell him a little face, although it will not expose this matter, but it should be no problem to give the two sides some chance to turn around.

Of course, this kind of turning around must be based on the premise of Lin Li's bowing his head.

And this is also the reason why Lin Li refused.

It's not that Lin Li doesn't bow his head, but when he bows to someone, it usually means that in the next second, he will smash a brick on this person's head.

Besides, he didn't want to owe such a big favor.

After putting the matter aside, the two chatted a few more words, and it was not until almost noon that Lin Li left Esare's house and walked all the way back to the Magic Guild along the street.

Before walking into the guild hall, Lin Li went to the equipment store on the corner again.

I got ten Flame Salamander skins, but they were all rawhides, and the untanned rawhides were as hard as iron plates, and it was impossible to make leather armor to wear on the body...... Well, it's okay to make a shield and hold it in your hand...... "Good afternoon, Wizard Ferry." ”

"Good afternoon, Boss Buck." Lin Li said hello to the boss, looked around at the new equipment, and then asked casually: "How's the business?" ”

"Good luck today, I just sold a few pieces of armor, hehe, it's really thanks to the magic of Ferry, if you hadn't left me some eternal pure gold last time, these armors would definitely not be so easy to sell......"

"It's just a small thing, it's nothing ......"

The two have done business back and forth a few times, and now they can be regarded as acquaintances, plus the last time he smelted the eternal fine gold ore, Lin Li saw that some scattered ore was not easy to smelt, so he simply gave it to this boss named Buck, as a personal favor.

Buck himself runs an equipment store, how could he not know the value of eternal pure gold, even if it is these scattered ores, it is by no means something that anyone can get, not to mention Lin Li's gratitude at the moment, and thank Lin Li once he sees it, but it makes Lin Li a little embarrassed.

"By the way, Boss Buck, I came over today, in fact, I want to trouble you with something." Lin Li looked around the equipment shop, chatted with Buck for a few more words, and then handed over the package in his hand: "I have some monster skins here, can you help tanning it, I'll get it in two days." ”

"Absolutely." Buck is also a man who knows how to be grateful, and the eternal Adamantite ore given by this young magician has helped him a lot.

If it weren't for the eternal pure gold plating, how could those few pieces of armor be so easy to sell?

"Ten in total, how much do you calculate?"

"What's the ...... of money" After Buck took the package, he rejected Lin Li's reward in one bite: "You have done me such a great favor, I haven't had a chance to thank you, what did you do to tann a few pieces of monster skin?" Magician Ferrey, if you talk about money again, you'll look down on me Buck......"

"......" Buck was so resolute, Lin Li didn't expect it, but since he didn't take the money, Lin Li couldn't be reluctant, but thanked him again: "Then I'll trouble you." ”

"What kind of ...... is this?"

Buck was not wrong, the business in the store these days was really good, Lin Li had just handed over ten Flame Salamander skins to him, and before he could turn around, another customer came to the door.

There were two young adventurers here, a thief and a warrior, they all seemed to be mixed well, the warrior was carrying a two-handed giant sword on his back, and as soon as he entered the door, Lin Li could see at a glance that this was a fire-based magic weapon, among the Orlana adventurers, those who could afford to use magic weapons could be regarded as the number one person.

As for the thief, a pair of boots made Lin Li look at it in surprise.

If Lin Li is not mistaken, these boots should be enchanted too fast.

It seems that both adventurers are well mixed.

The facts also proved Lin Li's guess, and as soon as the two of them entered the door, the warrior asked: "Boss, I heard that you sell eternal pure gold armor here?" ”

Seeing that a customer came to the door, Buck could only smile apologetically at Lin Li, temporarily put the package on the counter, and greeted him with a warm smile: "This gentleman, you really have a good eye, I not only sell Eternal Adamantite Gold Armor here, but also sell weapons from Maraton's forge workshop, do you want to see this spear?" ”

"The weapon is not needed for the time being, you bring the armor to me first, if it is really as good as the rumors outside, I can consider buying two." It can be seen that this warrior adventurer is here for the Eternal Pure Gold Armor.

It was a bit unexpected that just a few pieces of scattered Eternal Adamantite Ore could bring such good business to an equipment shop......

(To be continued)