It's like a person who ploughs the darkness but serves the light, it may be a paladin, but it can also be an electrician. And vice versa, a person engaged in a somewhat pickled livestock breeding business, in addition to ordinary merchants, may also be a "quasi-aristocracy".

In Medici, not all nobles could afford to build a fort in the city of Beit, with intricate shapes, spear-pointed towers or tall arced arches, which could be used to maintain the fort and maintain a decent living in order to be considered a "nobleman" (high nobility).

The Shang clan was very wealthy, some of them owned rich fiefs and maintained a decent life through stable taxation, some owned industries such as iron smelting and steelmaking, and the generous annuity dividends became the guarantee of the family, and some were like the Egu family who were cut leeks, monopolizing the resources of the entire city......

Compared with the wealthy Shang family, the average Medici nobleman is much dwarfed. After the abolition of widespread slavery in the Empire, even some nobles could not afford the commission for hiring slaves.

Naturally, their standard of living has dropped a lot. In order to maintain the most basic decency, these nobles began to exchange wealth by ceding noble blood.

Wealthy merchants could court, or marry their daughters to nobles, provided they had to prepare gifts that they could "get their hands on".

Generally speaking, a proper dowry or dowry is an industry that can continue to generate income. In this way, the merchant rose to the rank of "quasi-aristocracy". Slightly inferior to the nobles, but much more noble than the commoners.

Kumat, who runs the third largest camel farm in Medici, is one such "quasi-nobleman", who obtained the status of "quasi-noble" by marrying a nobleman and becoming a son-in-law as a son-in-law.

This makes him have to pay a large amount of profit every year to cover the expenses of a noble family, but the effort is always rewarded.

Relying on his status as a "quasi-aristocracy", he expanded his business twentyfold in ten years, and became a great merchant in the camel breeding industry that was among the best in the whole of Medici.

The shrewd merchant was well aware of the fact that "one cannot betray one's own class", so when the Obsidian Council gave him an order to join forces and resist the open buying of the Sand Rhino caravan, Kumat immediately chose to comply. Of course, according to his estimates, doing so will also bring him more income.

The purchase of hundreds of sand rhinoceros beasts is a big business with a total value of close to 100,000 silver Kate. In order not to make a mistake in a certain link, this big businessman did not send a representative, but chose to go to Nome to sign the purchase agreement himself.

Surrounded by many bodyguards, Kumat walked into the city that had just experienced the war.

The stand-in, which had been prepared long ago, came in handy at this time, and followed the team to the inn to stay overnight. And the big businessman himself quietly left the team with two bodyguards after dressing up in disguise.

"This ...... Hell, what's going on?" Passing by the two bazaars east and west of Nome, which he had visited before, Kumat saw workers leveling the land with stones. It's just that when he saw clearly what the workers were, the merchant couldn't help but exclaim: "The blazing sun is above, and it actually ...... There are people in service who make the undead work. ”

"For the sake of safety, please don't meddle with your business!" the two vigilant bodyguards immediately reminded, and at the same time, with their wide frames, they couldn't help but sandwich Kumat in the middle, and hurried out and turned into an alley.

They weaved through the alleys to the door of a nondescript apartment. It should be in the wealthy neighborhood of Nome, and the surrounding streets are still full of pedestrians, and the apartments on the street are all small independent buildings of about three floors.

"It's like a place where humans are supposed to be. Kumat looked around, muttered, and walked into the apartment in front of him.

However, his judgment only lasted about half an hourglass, and the obsidian council commissioner in the apartment made the big merchant completely change his previous opinion.

"Whoever wants to stay under the same roof as that guy is a brainless pig beast......"

After a terrible meeting, he returned to the caravan's inn, and ordered a large glass of light beer with hibiscus nectar. While sipping in the room, he cursed endlessly.

That guy must also be the descendant of a nouveau riche from a "quasi-aristocratic" background - he seriously ran the camel breeding industry Kumat, and never considered himself an upstart. Nor did he ever experience his father-in-law, a true and respected local aristocrat, "being treated with arrogance."

Kumat had thought that he had assisted the Obsidian Council in its actions, and a little "respect" was indispensable. But the commissioner spoke as if he had taken advantage of them, and pressured him to take some silver from the merchant's pocket.

In the end, the man also threatened himself with two tricks: first a puff of white smoke rose from the room, blocking the hearing and hearing between himself and the bodyguard, then the carpet suddenly turned into a quicksand trap, and then ......

As he recalled, it was as if the scene had reappeared, and the scene in the inn suddenly became the same as the apartment. Kumat immediately jumped into bed, fearing that the carpet beneath his feet would turn into a quicksand trap again.

When he wondered if the Obsidian Guild's caster had cast some listening spell on him, he rushed over to take revenge on him after hearing his insults, the scene suddenly changed.

A terrifying beast appeared in front of Kumat. The monster was encased in blue scales, but its toes and claws reflected the glow of metal. Its saliva dripped onto the ground, eroding the ground into a large crater.

It's a dragon! The great merchant immediately remembered what he had heard earlier—the owner of the sand rhinoceros caravan was actually taking care of the dragon Pasha. And his own sabotage of his plan to purchase sand rhinoceros at a low price undoubtedly affected the interests of the dragon.

"Mr. Kumat," the dragon asked, leaning his head closer.

"Please...... Excuse me, what's the matter?" the merchant forced himself to compose.

"There's a trivial thing I have to tell you, do you know how much my claws will hurt if I press you down?"

The dragon took a malicious step forward, and Kumat seemed to hear the floor cracking. He let out a scream of his own involuntarily, but it didn't help much other than make the dragon in front of him look more hideous.

"Multi-...... How big?" asked the merchant in a trembling voice.

"Not at all. The dragon smiled, and stamped its feet around Kumat's bedside.

The sound of the floor cracking continued to irritate the merchants, screaming one after another.

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