740. Merit exchange
Surdak didn't get any details from the succubus Aphrodite about the contract summoning magic circle, and there were many things in Dodan that he needed to do in person before he could continue, so he didn't stay long on the lava mine and returned to Dodan through the Void Gate summoned by Aphrodite.
In order to resist this beast tide, Duodan Town not only obtained a large amount of Warcraft leather, but also stored a large amount of Warcraft fresh meat.
The fresh meat of the second-level demonic beasts is naturally a sought-after commodity that merchants are vying to buy, but due to the problems of transportation and storage, these beast meats will not lose their magic power until they are packed into the sealing box, the sealing magic box is expensive, and the flesh and blood of the first-level demonic beasts are not very valuable, and no one will put these beast meat into the sealing box.
Therefore, in the market of Duodan Town, animal meat has been full of streets recently, and those animal meats that cannot be sold are all dried into sausages and bacon, and some are salted to make ham.
In addition to these, there are also boxes of wolf teeth in the town, which can be polished into wolf tooth arrowheads, and can also be made into crafts such as wolf tooth necklaces.
Surdak needed to sacrifice the heads of the beasts, and in addition to the heads of the beasts hunted inside, Selena also bought some of the heads of the beasts at a low price in the market.
However, the heads of those rare monsters are not so cheap.
Merchants bid for the heads of monsters to bring back to Wilkes City to find a master tanner to make specimens, and many nobles like to hang wolf heads on the walls of their living rooms.
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As the cavalry in the garrison camp entered the canyon outside the northern wall of Dodan Town to fight, in just half a month, the cavalry battalion gave birth to more than 20 cavalrymen who had successfully turned around.
These cavalrymen are all retired veterans in the barren land, many of them are ninth-level warriors, and they can't break through for various reasons, some are physically limited, some have old injuries on their bodies, and more veterans have been unable to comprehend the 'potential'.
They have all recently been blessed by the blessing of the god of Surdak's 'Divine Blessed Body', and after breaking through the limits of their own physique, they naturally have some new understandings.
Successive breakthroughs were also expected by Surdak, but he didn't expect so many people to advance.
As long as he has time, Surdak will skin it himself, and since he has enough beast head sacrifices in store now, he has blessed himself with the blessing of the god of the 'Divine Blessed Body', as well as the 'True Eye'.
Although the lasting effect of the 'True Eye' lasted less than two quarters of an hour, Surdak was not afraid to consume those worthless monster heads.
In the process of skinning the second-level demonic beasts, two demonic beast skins with life patterns and one demonic spirit bone with life patterns were obtained.
Two of the leathers with the life pattern were peeled from the black-backed ice horn rhinoceros, and they were the same part, on the cheeks and forehead under the rhino horns, but the life patterns on these two pieces of leather were both ice amplification magic patterns, which had a certain increase in the magic effect of the ice magician, and Surdak didn't think any warrior needed it.
Therefore, after knowing the function of this life magic pattern, he almost didn't look closely at it and put it into the sealing box.
As for the demon pattern spirit bone, it was found on a moon blade fire wolf king, the spirit bone is precisely the forehead part of the wolf king's skull, in order to get this spirit bone with the life magic pattern, Surdak can only endure the pain and destroy a precious second-level demon beast head, but the life magic pattern on this magic pattern spirit bone is worth the price, and the added attribute of the life magic pattern is explosive power.
Both Samira and Andrew have taken a fancy to this life pattern.
It's just that Andrew has a salamander's life pattern implanted on his body, and he has to wear the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure, so his own carrying capacity does not allow him to have a second magic pattern colonization suit.
However, Samira can be colonized, and as a half-elf archer, explosive power is also what she needs.
A piece of life pattern has been colonized on her right arm, and this life pattern can only be colonized into her left arm, but a person's body is limited after all, once the body is full of magic patterns, the increase in power from the magic pattern is limited.
Surdak felt that this Moonblade Fire Wolf King had just advanced to a second-level demonic beast, so the attributes of the life pattern on the demonic beast were also quite limited, so it was not recommended that Samira's second magic pattern be implanted with this life pattern.
Surdak made this piece of demon skin spirit bone into a demon pattern cultivation suit, and also put it into the demon sealing box.
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Some squadron leaders secretly approached Andrew and asked him to tell Surdak that they were willing to spend some of the merits earned during the battle outside the city to exchange for an ice horn horn to prepare for magic weapons in the future.
Surdak thought about it, and also felt that since these magic materials were hunted by everyone, the cavalry also had the right to obtain magical materials such as demonic beast leather, rhinoceros horn, and mane beast fangs.
Most of the magic materials they got were also for the purpose of making magic weapons and leather armor, so they simply wanted to take out some ice rhino horns and rhinoceros skins, and ask the blacksmiths and leather masters in the city of Highlandsa to make such magic weapons and leather armor.
Surdak had a friendship with a master tanner-maker in the city of Highlandsa, and several of his sets of salamander leather armor were made by the master skin-maker himself.
However, he had no contact with a high-level blacksmith, so he could only write to his friends Carl and Lance, asking them to find a master forger on his behalf, as Ice Rhino Horn was used to craft magic weapons, and Lance should know someone in this area.
Originally, he only wanted to convert the exploits of these cavalrymen into some gold and silver coins, but now he knew that the cavalry had more ideas.
At the beginning, Surdak prepared five sets of salamander leather armor for himself, in fact, he was going to accumulate a magic crystal, and asked an inscription master to use the salamander leather armor to make a magic pattern structure, these salamander leather armor are the substrate for making magic pattern construction, as for making five sets at once, it is also to fully consider the failure of the inscription master's production, since there are conditions, then be fully prepared.
Before Surdak could find the inscriptionist, he had obtained a set of 'Earth Shield' magic pattern constructs, and the matter was put on hold.
Now Surdak is not enough to bear the magic pattern construction due to the implantation of the keel, so the demand for the magic pattern construction is not so urgent, so he did not look for an inscription master.
Five sets of salamander leather armor were given to Samira, and he usually wore one set, so the remaining three sets of leather armor were useless.
Surdak was going to take out all three sets of salamander leather armor, plus some magic crystals, gold coins and other things, and list a merit exchange list inside the barracks.
However, the top three rewards on the merit exchange list are only written with magic patterns, and there is not even any annotation behind them, but the required merit is ridiculously high, and it is clearly stated that it requires 30,000 merit points to be exchanged, and three sets of salamander leather armor, on average, only 10,000 merit points are needed per set, and the current merit exchange list is very limited, 700 merit points for a magic crystal, and 100 merit points for a gold coin.
The merit redemption list also indicates that a finished blade made of ice rhino horn will be added in the future, and the bearskin armor and ice horn rhino leather armor will also be added to the list later.
The exchange ratio was decided by Selena, Surdak and Andrew after discussing for half a night.
Every magical beast hunted now has to give a fixed merit to the warriors in the garrison camp.
The merit that a first-level demonic beast can only get is only twenty points, and the second-level demonic beast is much higher, about five hundred points.
Don't look at the merit points of the first-level demonic beasts, it seems that there are very few, but there are a large number of first-level demonic beasts that can't stop a hunt, and a large-scale hunt, those junior demonic beasts are all pulled into Duodan Town.
On the contrary, the second-level demonic beasts seem to have a lot of merit points, but they are almost impossible for ordinary cavalrymen to touch, and even if they do, they basically call Andrew, Gulitham, and Samira over, or simply lead them to the city to kill, and the actual harvest is not much.
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The merit list was written on a piece of magical parchment and hung on the wall at the entrance to the garrison's canteen.
As soon as the list was posted, the entire cavalry battalion exploded at once, for no other reason, that is, in the past half a month, as long as the ordinary cavalry participated in the battle, almost everyone had five or six hundred merits.
There are even more low-level officers at the level of squad leader and squadron leader, and those cavalrymen who have advanced after fighting overnight, and basically each of them has nearly a thousand merits.
The person who had accumulated the most merit in the garrison camp was neither Andrew nor Gullitum, but Samira, who always sat in the crossbow control seat of the bed when he had nothing to do.
In just half a month, this half-elf archer had accumulated nearly 20,000 merit points, far ahead of Andrew's merit by more than 8,000 merit.
In fact, less than half a day after the merit exchange list in the garrison camp was announced, the three sets of salamander leather armor ranked fourth, fifth, and sixth on the list were exchanged by the squadron leaders of the first squadron, third squadron and fourth squadron of the cavalry camp, and the others were half a step late and failed to exchange for these three sets of top-grade leather armor.
Of course, these three squadron leaders also comprehended the 'potential', and they successfully advanced to become first-turn fighters a few days ago.
They themselves have nearly a thousand merits, and the remaining missing merit points are made up.
Crook, the squadron leader of the first squadron, has a very good relationship with Andrew, and directly borrowed nine thousand merits from Andrew, and also signed an agreement with Andrew, if he can't repay Andrew's exploits, he will compensate Andrew for this set of salamander leather armor, then it means that Andrew exchanged nine thousand merit points for a set of salamander leather armor, which can't be considered a loss.
The third squadron and the fourth squadron coincidentally thought of crowdfunding, and the cavalry in their squadron were almost all from the same village or neighboring village.
When fighting, there is such a set of leather armor to protect the body, and the defensive power is far from being comparable to those full-covered heavy armor, and it has both the flexibility and lightness of leather armor.
War horses will not be overloaded and unable to run for a while.
Everyone knew that this set of salamander leather armor was worth far more than fourteen magic crystals, so let's grab it first, and then use it immediately, it's nothing more than a matter of dividing the money after the fact.
On the contrary, there is no one to exchange magic crystals and gold coins.
Surdak didn't expect this to happen, and someone would actually borrow merit points, and everyone would collectively exchange for a value-added leather armor suit.
However, since the soldiers in the camp didn't know what the magic pattern was, and the 30,000 merit points seemed to be an astronomical amount, no one dared to risk exchanging them for a while.
The reinforcements brought by the Chester Great Swordsman have just arrived in Dodan Town these days, they have just participated in a few days of hunting operations, and they don't have much merit themselves, seeing that the three sets of salamander leather armor on the merit exchange list were exchanged out in less than a day, the seventeen squadron leaders jointly found Andrew to protest, everyone wants good things, and the squadron leaders think that after the beast tide, everyone sits down and bids for merit.
Some people also took the opportunity to ask Andrew what the top three on the list were.
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In order to calm the turmoil of the merit exchange list, Surdak had to return to the village of Wall specifically for this matter, so that Luke put down everything in his hands and personally went to the city of Highlandsa to watch the master leather maker make high-grade leather armor.
You must know that it takes at least three days to get from Pupu Mountain to Hailanza City, even if it is on horseback, and it takes six days to go back and forth.
Unexpectedly, it only took Luke seven days to bring back five magic blades made of ice rhino horns, three sets of ice horn rhino leather hard leather armor, as well as two Paglio spears and five arcane swords from Highland City.
To be able to get these in one go, Surdak's young magician friend Lance made a lot of efforts, and accompanied Luke almost the whole time, first visiting the city's master leather makers and casters, and then went to the newly opened trading house in the city of Highlandza and bought two Paglio spears and five arcane swords.
In addition to this, Lance also handed Luke five bottles of secondary healing potion.
The magical herbs that Surdak sent to Lance were made into healing potions by the magic apothecary on the day he received them, making Lance the hottest figure in the Magic Guild of Highlandsa City.
Over the next few days, the nobles who visited Lance and wanted to buy a healing potion from him were three times as many as he had.
There was nothing Lance could do, there were only so many magic herbs sent by Surdak, and the magic apothecary almost did his best to prepare these healing potions, but due to the scarcity of magic herbs, everyone was rushing for healing potions.
Luke came to the city of Hylanza and found Lance for help, and Lance naturally had to do everything he could......
After all, Lance felt that he owed Surdak too much favor this time.
Luke handed over these magic weapons and leather armor to Surdak, and the heart hanging in his throat fell back to its original place, and on the way back to Puss Mountain from Hylanza City, he didn't dare to close his eyes at all, basically just changed horses and people, and rushed back to Puss Mountain day and night.
With such a large amount of money, I was really going to be hijacked halfway, and I probably couldn't afford to lose it in ten lifetimes.
Surdak returned to the military camp in Dodan Town with this batch of magical materials, and added these exchange items to the list, and the barracks became lively again, and everyone knew that Commander Surdak was not only generous, but also had an endless stream of good things in his hands, as if they were inexhaustible......
The other two captains in the barracks, Adams and Gallatin, were not surprised by this, as they had learned something from the Archswordsmen of Chester that Surdak had chosen them by the Marquis of Luthor.
Therefore, it was determined that Surdak was able to come up with so many good things at once, and it was secretly supported by the Marquis of Luther.
A marquis with great military achievements, the treasury should be full of these magic weapons and leather armor......