Volume II: A Thousand Worlds, Chapter 148, Astra
Before the giant ship entered the port on the shore, it had already attracted a large number of onlookers.
The big fight that started outside the harbor caused the surrounding pedestrians and ships to stop.
Dare to kill Karma in public, knowing that no one in Astrari will offend this race for no reason.
"The master of the underworld was directly beheaded by this person, and his strength must be extremely strong." Among the onlookers, many good players noticed this, and tried to keep a safe enough distance from Ma Yang when they retreated.
He's just too fast! Not even Karma's special abilities can be fully captured!
"You're a newcomer, right? Now the city is going to be lively. The tavern in the city was discussing this matter at this time, and it also greatly contributed to the growth of the tavern's turnover, and the tavern owner was very happy.
"Astra is never short of news!"
"Cheers to Astra!" The sound of glass clashing kept coming, and barrel after barrel of spirits was brought to the table.
Astra is made up of free adventurers and rushers, and the aborigines earn money by providing basic living resources, and the special geographical location has created the civilization of this city, on the edge of the vast Black Sea, in all directions, surrounded by sea and land transportation channels.
Here you can meet all kinds of strange creatures, such as cyclomuloids and scorpion-like soldiers, all of which are frequent visitors.
There is also a devouring beast that can store goods in its belly, and its three- or four-meter-tall body has a disproportionate belly, which is the favorite transport vehicle of the merchants here.
"The cutest devourer! My Devourer here is the best in all of Astra! The amount of food is small, and the belly is big! Gentlemen, come and see! ”
There are quite a few traders who specialize in selling Devouring Beasts, and when they are not transporting goods, the Swallowing Beasts are half a meter tall, but they are still round.
The cute pair of big eyes and not sharp fangs make this docile little animal the best playmate for many children.
The special ability is to swallow any cargo or creature into the storage bag in the stomach, which can keep it fresh and stored for a long time.
This guy's price is cheap, because it is easier to breed, so these vendors who sell them make a lot of money, after all, it is a consumable, and it is easy to lose it during transportation.
Found everywhere in Astra, especially in the harbor, many small devourers open their mouths and wait for ships docked on the shore to unload their cargo.
Mayang's giant ship is particularly conspicuous in the port location, which naturally attracts the attention of many porters.
These porters are Beast Tamers who own many Devourers, and they have better recipes for better abilities for Devourers.
Although everyone was a little cowering, there were still bold porters who cautiously stepped forward and asked Ma Yang if he wanted to hire some devouring beasts to carry the goods.
"How much does it cost to carry once?" Ma Yang looked at the little man in front of him, who should be a young man similar to the dwarf clan, and there was still some bruise on his face, which seemed to have just been sent to someone not long ago
Born to fight.
"For a day's transport, each Devourer will cost five silver coins." There was some cowardice in his voice, as if he was frightened by Ma Yang's battle just now.
"How many heads do you have? Bring them all. Ma Yang took out a gold bar and handed it directly to the young man.
Holding the gold bar, the young man was a little incredible, but he still raised his head and looked at Ma Yang and said, "Boss, this gold bar is enough to buy me these devouring beasts!" It doesn't need so much! ”
"There's still a lot of room to use you, so help me move things."
The people in the cabin carried out some of the vegetables produced and the seafood caught during the journey, which were packed into simple wooden boxes and eaten by the devouring beasts waiting outside the ship.
The porters around them could see this, and when they saw the gold bars, their eyes showed greed.
A gold bar of this size is worth a thousand silver coins, and this kid is shit luck anyway.
The murderous and unblinking strong man, led by the young man, walked along the harbor into Astra, leaving the homeless people in the giant ship for the time being, after all, the new arrival in the city, I don't know if it will bring a threat.
If what Karma said was true, the city would not have been very friendly to the weak, and would probably have been taken as their slaves.
"I've just been here, are there any rules in this city?" Ma Yang was asking the teenager who was the guide all the way.
The boy is a subhuman race, and he has some goblin and orc blood in his body, which makes him so short.
"Astra is a free trade city-state, located in the east of the Calamity Continent, close to the endless Black Sea, and the most abiding rule is respect for the strong, that is, an existence like you, boss, will be respected here!" There was no longer the initial cowardice in the boy's tone.
During the exchange, he noticed that the boss's personality was very stable, not like the kind of person who was murderous, and the worship of the strong in his heart began to float.
The city-state's buildings were neatly designed, with sky blue and white as the main colors, and fishing nets hung on the roofs, which were later learned to prevent flocks of migratory birds from coming to the city to feed.
"Yo! Ark, I've finally found a guest today! ”
From time to time, acquaintances would greet the boy on the side of the road, and Ma Yang could feel that these people were sincerely enthusiastic about the boy.
"Ark! There's a fresh blind grain beast in the store tonight, and this time there's money to eat a big one! The little brother standing outside a restaurant also shouted loudly to the boy.
The young man nodded vigorously and continued to lead Ma Yang along the road.
"It seems that your popularity in the city is not bad, how can you be beaten?" Ma Yang asked.
"In society, I often offend people because of some small things, so I'm used to it." Ark touched the wound on his face, which was still aching.
Beside him, Ma Yang raised his hand and gently stroked his face, controlling the wood attribute elements to fall on these bruises.
"Follow me, and you won't be bullied.
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These words made the corners of the young man's eyes moisten, and Ma Yang saw the young man's emotions, so he stopped asking anything.
There are many such homeless people in the underground city, and when I was a child, my parents often helped the homeless people around me, and they had to lend a helping hand to the victims in time.
Astra had no specific city walls, and grew from a coastal town to a large city-state with a large number of people and vast territory, due to their highly liberal nature.
There is no city lord, and there are no city guards, and all rules are based on strength.
Everyone in Astra is consciously upholding the rules of the city-state, and although there are constant small frictions, there is basically no big fight.
"The paving on the periphery of the city-state belongs to the Architects' Guild, and from the north side of the minaret is controlled by the Hades, and to the south is the free zone, and now we go to the free zone trade market, where we can trade goods."
No one knows exactly when the minaret where Astra stood, was built, and according to legend, the first lord of Astra lived in the minaret, who guarded the land for endless years.
Where there is an exchange of interests, there will be many races that will relocate their territories here.
Around the periphery of Astra, hundreds of tribes, large and small, exist, and the buildings of the poorer tribes resemble slums, tattered and glued to the edge of the city.
After a long period of development, the scope of these tribes was gradually settled, and the evolution of the living communities followed the law of development, and they had their own unique planning methods.
The City of Wealth and Freedom! This is another name for Astra, although it has been given many titles.
After a period of walking, we finally came to the territory of the free zone, where the banner was engraved with an unknown bird, and in the most obvious place it was written in the local language.
The trade market is full of stalls, displaying many materials that Ma Yang does not recognize.
These materials are exchanged through nearby trade routes, and they are generally sold for a good price.
"Uncle, what is the price of this batch of goods?" Ark led Ma Yang to a chaotic shop, and in the half-open freight platform stood a middle-aged man who was also not tall, and he should be of the same race.
The devouring beasts that followed behind were very eye-catching when they came here, making the surrounding merchants look sideways, all staring at this new batch of goods.
"Let the Devourers come here, put them all here." The uncle led the way to the courtyard at the back, which looked like a scrap recycling station in his hometown to Ma Yang.
The devourers slammed their round bellies and spat out all their cargo. The merchant reached out and took the vegetables in the wooden box into his hand, sniffed them, and took a bite on the vegetables.
"How much food like this?" The uncle said, directing the guys in the store to come and carry the goods.
"Hundreds of boxes, right? I didn't take a closer look. ”
"How about a box of ten gold coins? That's the right price, right? The uncle said with a happy face
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Just now, when he ate these fresh vegetables that he had never seen before, he found that the taste was very refreshing, completely different from the local food, and the things they ate were very coarse.
Rarely would such a delicate grain be available to them.
"Ten gold coins!" Ark was frightened, if he was a little nervous when he first talked to Ma Yang, now he was really frightened.
To know what the value of ten gold coins represents, a full meal in an ordinary restaurant only costs two or three silver coins, and one gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred silver coins.
This is definitely a list, according to half of the commission, if this order is made, the gold that Ark can get is enough for him to open a decent small shop.
But Ma Yang was unmoved, he didn't expect these cultivated vegetables to be so valuable, and he was looking at the store manager with the eyes of a fool.
"I feel that the volume of goods is so large, and it is also a big burden for you, since you are a kindred of Ark, then I am not difficult to speak, just do me a favor."
"What's the busy?" As long as you can communicate, there is room for cooperation.
(End of chapter)