Panda never thought that he would have a cameo as a thief on this day.

And it's not a lone thief, it's a gang.

Including him, a total of seventeen skilled and nimble traversers accepted the task. They will travel to the major cities of Thrace to find warehouses where metals, especially iron ingots, are stored, and the contents – most notably iron ingots – will be loaded into their inventory and brought back to the castle.

The reason why the "iron ingot" is repeatedly emphasized is to prevent them from being dazzled and misprioritized when they see gold and silver treasures.

After automatically issuing that windfall, the traversers really didn't lack money - or rather, they didn't actually lack money in the first place, it was just enough for their own use, not enough to build their territory.

"I don't mean you to ignore the gold and silver treasures and steal only iron ingots. Before leaving, Sanyu emphasized bitterly, "I mean, it's your own business to steal anything else, but you must not let go of the iron ingot!

"Sanyu this guy, what a fuss!" Walking on the road, the panda remembered the scene where Sanyu emphasized "iron ingots" twice, and felt funny, "It's just a bunch of iron ingots, what's there to care about? ”

After a few days, he realized that he had taken it for granted.

Sneaking into the warehouse of a baron's castle in Thrace, he saw only piles of grain and wood, and nothing else in small quantities. It's just gold coins or something, people definitely don't pile up money in the material warehouse, but why are there so few iron ingots?

Looking at the dozen or so iron ingots in front of him, the panda felt a little painful.

(It's a baron, it's just a little bit of iron ingots in the material warehouse?!)

He weighed it, and it was about two kilograms, which could be lighter or heavier—taking into account some leftovers and other losses in the processing process, it was estimated that this one would be built in the future, probably a commonly used knight's broadsword.

There are twelve iron ingots like this.

This is all the iron ingots in the baron's castle storehouse.

The panda still didn't give up, and searched carefully in the warehouse, but after all, he couldn't find anything else, so he could only leave in a huff.

Leaving the castle, he found a safe place and complained in the chat channel.

Anthony immediately laughed at this complaint.

"What do you think iron ingots are? They are very precious and important strategic materials! Generally speaking, as long as they are available, they are most likely to be used immediately and turned into weapons or tools. I'm a little surprised that you can find more than twenty kilograms of iron ingots in the warehouse of the Baron's castle. ”

The panda sighed and asked, "Then what should we do? If we need to scrape up forty tons of land in this place, how long will it take?"

"It's really not good, you can also buy it. Anthony replied, "It's just...... Buying iron ingots in large quantities is too easy to notice. Moreover, in the iron ingot business, non-regular customers or buyers with status, will definitely not be able to get involved. Even if you have money and want to find a big chamber of commerce, it is not easy to buy hundreds of kilograms of iron ingots as soon as you open your mouth. ”

The panda asked helplessly, "Then where am I going to find so many iron ingots, and am I going to steal the warehouses of those big chambers of commerce?"

"No! don't attack the Chamber of Commerce!" "Without waiting for Anthony to reply, he spoke without sleep, "unless we have to, not only must we not offend the merchants, but we must try to win them over." The Tara Khan Territory is located in the middle of the Western Continent, with inconvenient transportation and rich mineral resources. It is very difficult to develop without a commercial supplement. ”

"By the way, the Tara Khan family should have a well-connected chamber of commerce, why don't you look for them?"

"Of course I did, I found them just after I stabilized my rule. Anthony replied, "But...... Don't say I don't know, I'm shocked when I say it, it turns out that within the kingdom, there are many forces that crowd out Count Tarakhan. I don't know if it's because of political reasons, or because the identity of the demon contractor is vaguely suspected...... In short, if you want to buy daily necessities such as grain and cloth, it is no problem, but if you want to buy strategic materials such as war horses, weapons, and iron ingots, the purchase channels will be very affected. From last year to this year, the Tara Khan Collar has bought less than 600 kilograms of iron ingots. ”

"Six hundred kilograms? That's a little bit. ”

"There's no way, just this bit of iron has made it very difficult for the affiliated chamber of commerce of the Tara Khan family. The side branch of the family in charge of the chamber of commerce repeatedly persuaded me not to rush and take my time...... He is very loyal, and he sees both prosperity and loss very thoroughly. ”

Anthony shook his head, sighed, and continued to say in the chat channel: "In his opinion, Tara Khan is located in the north of the kingdom, very remote, very safe. I've put a pause on large-scale development now, and for a while there should be no special need for iron. I didn't know that there would be a big war in a few years, and no amount of iron would be enough!"

"So many people died last time, isn't there a lot of iron after the weapons and armor are returned?" asked Kazune.

"How is it possible to return weapons and armors?" Sleepless answered this question, "We only hate that there are not enough weapons and armor, how can we return the ready-made equipment?" Some time ago, several of us in the enchantment department spent a lot of time enchanting all the selected weapons and armors, which really exhausted us!"

The panda also had an impression of this, and Bing Lin talked to him about it.

Of course, the enchantment on the armor of that batch of weapons is the lowest level, regardless of the armor, the unity is "weak vitality enhancement" - for the traversers, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is not the most important, the most important thing is that their body is good, the body is good, and the potential for training and growth is great, so that they can be trained as elite soldiers as soon as possible.

In order to gather enough materials for enchantment, they made a big deal with the druids of the Miscellor Forest, exchanging precious magical materials such as mythril from the castle for a large number of enchantment materials from ancient trees. The scale of this business was large, and the druids were naturally overjoyed, but it greatly enhanced their friendship with each other, which was a windfall.

Currently, the druids of the forest of Miscelleur have sent a young man named Édouard Jeannay to act as a liaison. This young man was almost completely unrecognizable as a druid except for spells, and he looked like a young doctor in a white robe, studying medicine with Anka all day, and I don't know what he was thinking.

Just as Panda was thinking, the thief "Bounty Hunter" who had gone deep into the primeval forest with him to search for the Earth Walking Dragon spoke in the chat channel.

"Do you want any other iron tools besides iron ingots?"

"What iron?" asked Anthony.

"Torture instruments. Gondor (the bounty hunter) replied, "I was in a viscount's castle and found that his torture chamber had a lot of metal torture equipment, which added up to hundreds of pounds of iron. ”

The panda's eyes lit up and he immediately set off to return to the castle where he had left.

There wasn't much iron in the warehouse, but there was one in the castle!

It doesn't matter if it's a torture instrument or something else, as long as it's a large piece of iron, you can't let it go!