Beit was the capital of the American Empire.

The city is built in the shape of a wheel, and the center of the wheel is actually the hub of the city.

All the major public institutions and the palaces of the pharaohs were located there, where grand staircases and elegant columns competed for beauty.

From this small circle in the center, a wide avenue of well-groomed stones stretches in all directions, lined with tall trees that are verdant all year round. These roads lead to the seven gates of the city walls and the seaport to the north.

It's Opat Day, and the celebration is in full swing.

All Medici celebrate the festival in their respective cities, but not as much as the people living in Beit – the Medici, who are closer to the Pharaoh, are naturally more impressed with the festival that symbolizes the great benevolence of the Pharaoh.

The palace doors were opened, and the attendants took out from the pharaoh's private treasury a large amount of pale beer, pre-baked white bread, spatula venison cooked with cheese, and roast pork breast sprinkled with expensive spices...... Send it to all the Baits who are willing to celebrate the Pharaoh.

In addition to being able to get free food, more entertainment is also taking place in the streets of Beit.

Hawkers pile up colourful stalls, gullible people throw their money at games of chance, dancing bears roam the streets, and illusionists attract the admiration and gaze of young and old.

"It's really lively here," Ques, who came out of the terminal and took on a human form, walking next to General "Big Belly", his guide on his trip to Bait, "This atmosphere makes me very comfortable, but I don't know if I can keep it forever." ”

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After conquering the camel empire, creating the "half-dragon camel", and completing the construction of the dragon nest outpost system in the island world, the young blue dragon returned to the ash world.

The follow-up work on the Raiders of the Bottom Moks and the trade with the Polar Bears Federation was handed over to the Half-Lich Snead and the Ogre brothers, respectively.

Counting the days, the "war vacation" of the bloody war is coming to an end, so Quest must seize the time to consolidate his power in Medici and convert the supplies he has obtained from the island world into a part of his own strength.

With this goal in mind, the Scales of Eternal Order Chamber of Commerce is fully operational.

In just a few months, a large amount of Medici goods were dumped into the island world, and a large amount of precious metals such as gold and silver flowed back to the ash world.

Silver is a strategic item - due to the fact that the "Silver Bullet Offensive" was used against the Tanari demons and achieved good results, all the silver brought back from the island world was kept by Quith for his own use.

As a result, gold became the general equivalent used by the Scales of the Eternal Order to pay for interdimensional trade and purchase the materials needed to create the Floating Behemoth.

And those businessmen have expressed their overwhelming approval of this, and it can even be said that they are eager to do so.

Never before had so much gold poured into the ashes, but fortunately, according to the habits of merchants, most of this gold was hidden as treasures by them and did not enter the market, otherwise the relatively weak trade system of the Medici might be broken.

The first official to learn that the dragon Pasha used gold to settle transactions was the wind-soothing army belonging to the Great Vishur.

In a sense, they are indeed "pervasive", especially within the Medician Empire, where no disturbance can escape its keen eyes and ears.

However, although the wind-shearers knew that the dragon Pasha possessed a large amount of gold, and even the whereabouts of the gold were clearly known to them, there were still different theories about its origin: in order to enjoy the interests of the island world, when conquering and occupying it, Quis only used the power of the dragon's lair territory and did not use even a single soldier of the Pasha's title.

There are two theories about the truth of this secret, and the merchants who have traded with the Scales Chamber of Commerce of Eternal Order: one is that the dragon Pasha has invoked the wealth accumulated by the dragon's nest since ancient times, and the other is that Quis may have discovered a gold mine.

Some of them are so active that they even take some gold to find a spell divination that is proficient in prophetic magic, and want to find out.

It's just that Quiz was already on guard, and he smelted the original camel gold coins in the island world and turned them into small gold bricks to pay the merchants of Medici.

Without the shape of the original gold coin, any divination regarding the origin of the gold bricks cannot be used, and at most it can be found that a small amount of brass has been infiltrated into the dragon to increase its hardness when it smelts gold.

Gold mixed with brass is still hard currency and is also extremely valuable.

In fact, most of the merchants' curiosity stopped there, after all, they didn't have to risk angering the dragon Pasha, just to satisfy their curiosity.

But some, whether intentionally or unintentionally, heard the news that the Obsidian Council in the city of Beit had learned that the thoughts of those noble mages of Medici were very different from those of the merchants.

Gold is one of the universal equivalents between the planes, and its importance to mages is self-evident, and gold in the world of ashes has always been extremely scarce, and the gold mines that have been discovered by Medici have been exhausted hundreds of years ago.

All documents that have been kept secretly indicate that there are no gold mines within the Dragon's Lair Territory. Moreover, there is no precedent for storing gold in the texts about the Blue Dragon Race.

Then Quest was able to use gold as his means of payment, presumably in the newly controlled Pasha Domain, which belonged to the Medici Empire, and found a gold mine that had not been mined by its predecessors, or even unexplored.

It must be so, the "stubborn" Obsidian Council firmly believes.

Money is a treasure that moves people's hearts, and a gold mine that has yet to be mined is a treasure that no one can ignore.

It shouldn't belong to a dragon, not a Pasha, only the pharaohs of Medici, and perhaps the noble spellcasters of their noble families, deserve that kind of wealth.

Of course, the previous temptations of the dragon Pasha, and the bitter fruits swallowed afterwards, were enough to make the Obsidian Council face up to Quest's strength and skill, so they chose to attack from other angles to better and safer Quest's advantage.

The authority of the pharaoh is a good starting point.

As a Medici Pasha, they spent the week after Opat in Bait every year, where they had to report to the Pharaoh and pay the taxes of their domains.

Originally, due to the invasion of the U-Sang Empire, cities such as Nome and Spart, under the rule of Queth, would have two years of tax relief.

However, due to the recent business scale of the Scales Chamber of Commerce, this preferential treatment has not only been cancelled, but even the tax quota has been increased by two percent. Therefore, the young blue dragon had to come to Bait according to tradition, so as to appeal to the pharaoh for his "bitterness".

As soon as he stepped off the leviathan float made of the leviathan, the big-bellied general of Medici, who was familiar with him, greeted him, and then he had the words before.

After hearing this, the "big-bellied" general couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, waved his hand to let the soldiers stand a little farther away, looked around again, and then said:

"Please be considerate, Lord Pasha, that I have only come to do your guiding work at the behest of the Pharaoh. That doesn't mean I'm in league with those guys. In fact, I don't think their intentions will succeed. After all......"

He pondered his vocabulary.

"Your Excellency the Great Vishur has always been your loyal ally. ”