Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Castle of the Tyrant
Joviel Castle is located in the middle of Zhonghai City, and is not inferior in scale to Pointe-Noire Castle. Although it is not built on a high mountain, it is bordered by the largest lake in the city to the west and north, which is about 30 square kilometers long. Half of the castle is surrounded by a lake, and the other half faces the most prosperous part of Zhonghai City, which is just the perfect place to be a natural landscape and a dividing line from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Zhang Mu took the core members to the top of the castle.
Leng Yun couldn't help but praise: "It's really nice here." β
"Indeed."
The castle is topped by a platform with a tiled floor, and a third of the area is a crescent-shaped open-air swimming pool.
There are several small kiosks filled with high-end drinks and snacks.
Zhang Mu walked to the edge of the platform and looked high.
The huge lake is right in front of you, and the calm surface of the lake is only connected to the castle, and the castle has also built a small pier for purpose, and several cruise ships are moored, blowing a cool breeze with a slight humidity, which is refreshing. Some boats of all sizes on the lake are leisurely drifting and swimming, and the sun is setting, and the scenery is picturesque. When you turn your head, the other side of the castle is full of high-rise buildings, advertising screens, red lights, flashing with each other, empty boats floating in the air, shooting out shining pillars of light, bustling and noisy, brilliant lights,
Lin Caiyan said enviously: "How much does this cost?" β
Qiao Weier said very proudly: "After my mother agreed to give me the castle, my mother handled it single-handedly, do you know how much it cost?" Your kind of mercenary group is enough to buy five or eight! β
There was originally a small castle here, and the ChΓ’teau de Joviel was a major expansion of the original one. Annexing several nearby high-end residential areas, who let Qiao Weier have a powerful father and a rich mother?
Du Rongrong was holding on to the railing, her eyes were about to fall out in shock, "Wow, it's so beautiful!" β
A piece of land in such a location that is hard to find. It is unimaginable that Qiao Weier should have been rewarded with such a castle by the city lord in order to complete a mission.
The castle is not completely built, only the walls and the main castle, gardens, docks, and other buildings have been repaired, and designers who are proficient in earth magic are working intensively. This shijie is very fast to build a house, such a castle, from the groundbreaking to the completion, about a month can be.
Qiao Weier likes to show off the most, especially when the human is boasting, she immediately raised her head proudly, "As long as you walk one street to the Zhonghai Warehouse, if you exchange something, you can get it at any time." In addition, the first auction hall of Zhonghai City is located three streets away, not far away, 20 minutes by scooter. Of course, citizens can't enter this kind of auction, at least they must have a low-level title......"
Joviel kept showing off that there were warehouses, auction houses, gold shops for withdrawing or exchanging coins, and the city's premier casinos, casinos, hotels, and so on.
"Actually, it's nothing." Joviel got carried away and said, "Let me show you my collection for many years!" β
The group walked out of the main fort to see Jovier's collection.
Qiao Weier has been focusing on searching for wise people for several years, up to the top of the three ministries and nine bureaus, and down to the common people, as long as Qiao Weier likes something, is in a good mood or looks pleasing to the other party, she may spend money to buy it, if she is in a bad mood or the other party is not pleasing to the eye, Qiao Weier will directly rob it. Over the years, it has also created an amazing treasure trove.
Like a greedy dragon, Joviel likes to collect all beautiful things, no matter how valuable they are, whether they are valuable or not, as long as they are rare and beautiful, they will be included in Jovier's treasure trove. So the items in the treasure house are of different quality, but there is a common point, and each piece is extremely beautiful.
Collections are not limited to dead objects.
Jovier has a problem, she likes to collect beautiful women!
There are more than a hundred beauties in the castle, all of them are charming and glamorous. It's not a problem with sexual orientation, Jovier doesn't like women, not even men, she collects beautiful women and has no interest in beauty itself, she just likes beauty itself. She has an almost paranoid pursuit of beautiful things, whether it is jewelry or beautiful women with different styles.
When Qiao Weier saw Leng Yun and Lin Caiyan, the reason why she behaved like that was actually because she took a fancy to the beauty of the second daughter, so she moved the idea of including it in the collection.
In addition to liking beautiful things, Jovier likes to raise monsters, and she even opened a colosseum in the city, without the slightest profit, and even lost a lot every year, but she never tired of it. Qiao Weier has more than 500 magical beasts, all of which are of any type, and they are used for fun. When she first saw Blackpaw, Qiao Weier's first reaction was to take it, in fact, she just wanted to expand her pet team.
Although Du Rongrong did not hesitate to Qiao Weier, she had to envy her, this kind of second ancestor who spent money like dirt was a real local tyrant!
"I'm a veteran collector and the owner of the Colosseum, the city's premier ...... However, after playing for so many years, I'm a little tired. Recently, I have a new interest, I hope to be promoted to the knighthood for meritorious service, if you assist me, the case of the tribute ship is solved, the things in the castle, you can choose! You can choose any beautiful woman! β
Zhang Mu's eyes fell on the auction hall a few blocks away, "How is the situation in the auction hall?"
Qiao Weier said: "The auction is jointly organized by dozens of cities in Xihai Province, and the online auction mode is used, which means that as long as you participate in the auction, you can bid on all kinds of treasures in Xihai Province. The title is the basic qualification to participate in the auction, the quasi-iron knight is too low, the number of places is very limited, you need to participate in the bidding first, buy a place, in order to get a place. The dark gold weapons that can be bought with five or six thousand green crystal coins in the outside world will be fried at least 3 times as high as in the auction, what can you buy as a poor egg? Besides, the auction only took place once on the fifteenth day, just a few days ago. β
If you go to a dwarf mine with a master blacksmith to buy it, you can receive level 35 dark gold equipment for hundreds of thousands of gold coins, but once the dark gold weapon flows out of the mine and enters the bustling city, it is normal for the value to double or triple.
Zhang Mu sorted out the funds.
Kill the alien natives today, get 1.5 million gold coins from the natives, and exchange them for 15,000 green crystal coins, Zhang Mu can take out 1,000 green crystal coins himself, and sell some high-level materials, such as the scales, bones, and tendons collected by hunting poison Jiao, to make up a total of 30,000 green crystal coins. This amount of money is not a small amount, but when encountering some real treasures, I am afraid that I will not even be able to reach the low price, and entering the auction with the lowest title, it may cost about 5,000 green crystal coins just to buy a place.
The money ...... It's better to keep the acquisition of the Wind Thunder Stone.
Zhang Mutong felt a sense of frustration.
Although he is second to none among the human race, he is not worth mentioning compared to the local tyrants of different races.
Zhang Mu had about 1,400 alliance contributions left, and opened the alliance's exchange system, so he decided to exchange some useful things from the alliance's warehouse first. The exchange system is very complex and huge, and there are more than a dozen kinds of classifications alone, such as weapons, armor, exercises, skills, materials, life, elixirs, potions, alchemy, and curiosities......
Zhang Mu opened the weapon classification and selected the classification of level 40 dark gold weapons.
[Demon Sword] level 40 mid-grade dark gold artifact ......, with an exchange price of 500 points contribution.
[Ink Light Sword] Level 40 low-grade dark gold artifact ......, with an exchange price of 350 contributions.
[Lore Sword] Level 40 mid-grade dark gold artifact ......, exchange price 520 contribution.
Zhang Mu glanced at the catalog, there were more than a dozen dark gold weapons of the sword class that had not been exchanged, but none of them were of the top grade weapons of the dark gold merchants, all of them were of mid-to-lower quality, and the price of each piece was not low. Zhang Mu suddenly had no desire to exchange weapons, since he wanted to change weapons, he naturally had to change the most haode, and these grades were a little lower.
Then there's the armor class.
The armor is much cheaper, but it didn't make Zhang Mu particularly satisfied. Zhang Mu thought, since the weapons that can be bought with coins, why spend contributions in exchange?
Zhang Mu opened the daily necessities.
Life items are all recipes, various production tools, life experience books, and so on.
This made Zhang Mu a little interested.
[West Sea Millennial Salt], B-grade cooking ingredients, magic essence salt formed in the West Sea, containing magic liliang, added during the cooking process, increases 10% of food attributes, and can make food more delicious. The exchange price is 30 contributions/bottle, and the stock is 433 bottles.
[Devil's Island Secret Cooking Oil], a B-grade cooking ingredient, uses several rare creatures on Devil's Island, and the cooking oil made from a secret recipe contains magic liliang, which increases the cooking success rate by 10% when cooking no more than B-grade ingredients, making the food more delicious. The exchange price is 50 contributions/bottle, and the stock is 31 bottles.
Zhang Mu directly changed 5 bottles each. This is a good thing, especially devil oil, it can improve the success rate of cooking, Zhang Mu's cooking skills are about to be promoted to the master level, if there are these materials to assist, his certainty is much greater.
[Ten Thousand Years Fire Copper Cauldron], a B-level production tool, is a magic pot forged from Ten Thousand Years of Divine Fire Copper, which increases cooking speed by 300%, food attributes by 30-50%, and success rate by 10-25%. It can only be used by chefs above the expert level, and can be exchanged for 300 contributions.
Zhang Mu's broken pot should have been replaced a long time ago.
Zhang Mu continued to flip down.
Another thing jumped into view.
[Master Oodore's Cookbook], a BB-level cookbook, a cookbook left by God-level chef Oodore when he was promoted to a cooking master, which can greatly improve his cooking skills after use. Exchange 500 worth of contributions. Redemption Authority: Premium Citizen or above.
Zhang Mu became short of breath.
Because just below that cookbook, there's another cookbook.
[Grandmaster O'Odo's Cooking Technique], A-level cooking technique, the cooking technique left by God-level chef O'Oduo when he was promoted to Culinary Grandmaster, a rare grandmaster-level life experience book in the mainland. Exchange value of 8,000 points of contribution. Redemption Authority: Gold level or above.
This is a grandmaster-level life skills book!
Just exchange the price...... It's really incredibly expensive, 8,000 contributions are directly worth 8 million gold coins, in fact, it is far more than 10 million gold coins.
The difference between the master and the grandmaster is actually thousands of miles apart.
Grandmaster-level life occupations are basically the pinnacle of life occupations, there are few in the whole continent, far fewer than the number of Holy Spirits, even if the Holy Spirit faces Grandmaster-level life occupations, they need to respect them.