The merchant Malacombe sat in the living room on the first floor of the small building in the garrison camp, looking down and calculating the path of the Thunder Rhino Merchant Regiment.

Surdak and the Great Swordsman of Chester sat on the other two sets of sofas, delicate bone china teacups on the square table in front of them, and the black tea in them was steaming, and Malacom's thoughts drifted away.

The Thunder Rhino Merchant Order was inherited by Malacombe from his father.

In just twenty years, the business of the merchant group has shrunk from covering the entire Bailin plane to only operating the area south of Wilkes City, and the entire northern region has been divided by other merchant groups.

In order to reduce costs and unnecessary expenses, Malacomb continued to reduce the number of Thunderrhinos in order to ensure that the remaining Thunderrhino caravans were fully traded.

But even so, his Thunder Rhino Business Group continues to decline every year.

At present, there are large pastures in the northern part of the White Forest Plane, and the lords are not short of horse teams, so the nobles have formed their own merchant groups.

Thunder Rhino Transportation is not competitive at all.

Now some merchant groups in Wilkes City have begun to infiltrate the southern occupation zone of Wilkes City and begin to gradually occupy the southern market.

If it weren't for the beast tide, the merchant Malacombe would have already begun to compete with those small merchants for the southern market.

A small group of ghost-patterned red ants infiltrated the northern area of Bailin, and the horse team could not stop the ambush of the ghost-patterned red ants at all, and his thunder rhinoceros merchant group was ordered to be in danger. He was requisitioned by the military headquarters to transport war supplies and support the northern border towns.

This incident has caused dissatisfaction among many elders in the family, and he can only try his best to calm down the family disputes caused by this incident recently.

It's not that he doesn't want to be a supplier to the military.

In fact, the merchant group can only get some stable transportation business if it has a military background.

When the Bednar people opened up the White Forest Plane, the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group entered the White Forest Plane because the Thunder Rhino could carry all kinds of materials in complex terrain.

The lords of the province of Bena fought on the White Forest Plane and gradually carved out a land with a radius of nearly 1,000 kilometers.

However, Malacom's great-grandfather died on the battlefield to open up the territory, his grandfather was seriously wounded while leading a caravan to the front line to deliver supplies, and died not long after rushing home, and his father lost two legs while transporting supplies......

In his generation, the only condition for inheriting the Thunder Merchant Group is that he must promise not to be a military merchant group.

I remembered that my father was holding his hand before he died, and said, 'Malacombe, I know you...... You are the same as me when I was young, you want to develop and grow the merchant group, I don't care what you do, but you must not become a merchant group with the army, they always want to send the Thunder Rhino Behemoth to the front line, hey...... I don't want to wait until you've lost something to find out you're sorry......

Outside the window there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and a troop of horsemen swept past the window, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Malacombe retracted his thoughts, picked up the teacup and blew it on his lips before he asked Surdak, "Baron Surdak, you said you want to buy these sixteen modified Thunderrhino ......?" ”

There was some bitterness and reluctance in his voice, but there was a kind of determination in his eyes.

Surdak and Chester Archswordsman looked at each other before saying, "That's right, but if you want to become a merchant group, we are also very welcome, the Luther Legion will continue to be stationed in the White Forest plane for a period of time, I can help you apply for the greatest convenience, and...... Aren't we trading right now? ”

After saying that, he paused again before continuing: "This is actually no different from the merchant group with the army. ”

Merchant Malacombe rubbed his temples and brought the teacup to his lips again to take a sip of tea, he put it down and said to Surdak, "I have decided to sell you these sixteen Thunderrhinos!" ”

For Malacombe's decision, not only Surdak was stunned, but the Chester Great Swordsman was also surprised.

Previously, Surdak had proposed to the merchant Malacomb that he would take over the sixteen Thunderrhinos, and that he would not only return the entire cost of the 23 Thunderrhinos, but also buy the 16 Thunderrhinos at the original price.

Such a huge transaction, Surdak thought for a moment and said, "In this case, sixteen thunder rhinos, epic sharp bows and the previous arrears, I can pay you 1,600 magic crystals......"

This amount of money is equivalent to the cost of ten primary demonic pattern builds, and Surdak finds himself really far away from the Knights of Construct Order.

"Originally, I wanted to make some more money, buy some more magic pattern constructs, and form a knight order!" Surdak smiled and said.

The Great Swordsman of Chester was stunned, and then said:

"Assemble a Knights in Armor? I'm afraid this is really a bit difficult, not only is it difficult to buy magic pattern construction now, but also those war horses are also hard to find, even if the Grand Duke of Newman wants to buy a black-scaled horse, he has to go to the Duke of Salta in person, in addition, you also have to consider the daily maintenance of these magic pattern construction, and each construction knight must also have a full-time inscription master...... That's an inscriptionist! Not the mages that are ubiquitous in the Wizardry Guild. ”

Surdak just said it casually, but he didn't expect the Chester Great Swordsman to know so much.

Surdak sighed lightly and said, "So...... Each Constructed Knights can show the true essence of an aristocratic family. ”

Malacomb smiled and said to Surdak: "Of course, to form a team of Constructed Knights independently, not counting the salary paid to the Constructed Knights, it will cost at least one million gold coins just to prepare for it. ”

"If the knights have the weapons in hand, and they only need to prepare the war horse and the magic pattern structure, then they will need at least 800,000 gold coins, and they will need to find so many knights. What is the reason for a noble lord who does not have a certain prestige to follow? ”

The three of them talked about constructing the Knights, and Surdak found out that in fact, implanting the life pattern was probably another way, although the magic pattern printed on the body was a little worse than the magic pattern construction, but the cost of the life pattern was not high.

Surdak spent a lot of money to buy these Thunder Rhinos, not to form a caravan and prepare to start commercial trade on the White Forest plane.

His idea was to form a regiment of archers with mobile turrets, and also to act as a logistics team, and these modified Thunder Rhinos could be completely transformed into war behemoths on the battlefield.

The only trouble is that these thunder rhinos eat a huge amount of food.

The wheat bran, hay, and bean pressed bean cakes that need to be eaten every day will be a lot of money alone.

Alfalfa grass is abundant in the town of Dodan and costs nothing, but wheat bran and beans need to be purchased from merchants.

The two sat on the sofa on the first floor and discussed it for a whole afternoon, and finally settled on the deal.

Surdak pulled out a magic contract scroll and made some terms of the deal with the merchant Malacom, and signed his name on it.

After seeing off the merchant Malacombe, the Chester Archswordsman finally realized a problem: where did Surdak get the money.

Before coming to the Bailin plane, the Marquis of Luthor was worried that Surdak would not be able to afford the military expenses for forming a cavalry battalion, so he had a new cavalry battalion in private.

It's just that there are some differences with Surdak on some employment concepts, so the new army of the cavalry battalion did not pull to the Bailin plane in the end.

After thinking about it, I finally thought of the hard carapace that lay on the grassy slope outside the town...... Think about it, there will be a magic crystal behind each hard carapace, and there will be at least thousands of red ant hard carapaces covered with grassy slopes.

These days, the cavalry battalion goes to the hills and mountains almost every day to hunt ghost red ants.

Seeing the way these cavalrymen hunted ghost-patterned red ants, the Chester Great Swordsman was not surprised...... That's how it should be.

……

In order to complete the deal, Surdak could only transport the wooden boxes full of magic cores back to the small building, and then pull up Gulitmu, who was eating and drinking, Andrew, who was gambling with the veterans in the cavalry camp, and Samira, who was practicing archery on the archery range, and everyone worked together to unravel all these magic cores.

Fortunately, Surdak has the 'True Eye', which allows him to see through the hard skin of the magic core and see the outline of the magic crystal inside.

The magic cores that have been selected by Surdak himself basically contain molded magic crystals.

The rest of them contain incomplete crystals, which can only be made into fragments of crystals, and now they don't have time to deal with these cores, so they have to be packed back into the box.

Early the next morning, Surdak brought 1,600 magic crystals to the camp of the Thunderrhinoceros caravan and completed the deal with Malacombe.

The two sides will continue to work closely together.

The business of transporting hard armor leather will also be handed over to the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group, and Surdak has recently accumulated a large number of hard armor, and through the leather workshop in Hailanza, Surdak has now completed the replacement of 500 war horses with hard leather armor made of soldier ant leather.

All 500 sets of hanging armor made of black iron will be eliminated, and they will be sold by Malacombe's Thunder Rhino Merchant Group.

This time, Malacomb also brought ten pieces of magic pattern construction, a hundred magic weapons, and Surdak will also pay the merchant Malacomb 600 magic crystals, Surdak couldn't help but pat his forehead, thinking about these magic crystals owed...... Is it to pay off the debts with those magic crystal fragments?

Surdak also asked Malacombe to help him train some of the local indigenous herders to become Thunderrhinoceros pilots.

He also had to buy some bed crossbows from the Magic Market and load them on the platform on Thunder Rhino's back.

The number of Thunder Rhinos had increased to eighteen, and it was impossible for Surdak to remove all the thirty-two bed-ridden crossbows left on the northern wall......

……

The second shipment of hard carapaces to Bena City has been loaded and loaded onto the shelves of the Thunder Rhino Caravan, and is about to depart from Dodan Town.

The merchant Malacombe is taking the final count with his entourage, and the hard armor will be transported to Bena City to be handed over to the Brunei manager of the Gophilo family.

At the same time, there is also a large number of fresh ghost pattern male ant monster meat brought to the butcher shop owner Shande.

Hathaway and Beatrice will also leave Dodan Town with the Thunder Warriors, and their short vacation will come to an end.

Hoping that they would stay and help him with the town's affairs, Hathaway and Beatrice thought about it for three nights and decided to return to Pena.

Chester, the Great Swordsman, will also be on his way to Wilkes City with the Thunder Rhino Merchants.

……

Surdak stands on the hard carapace of the ghost-striped male ant next to the entrance to the south side of the town.

The Thunder Rhino Merchant Group took heavy steps, and gradually moved away in the rumbling roar.

With the scent of roses still lingering on his lips from the kiss of Beatrice and Hathaway, Surdak withdrew his gaze from the distance and leaped from the hard carapace of the male ant, which was more than two meters high.

He knew that the two fiancées would not stay this time.

Before the big wedding, you may not see each other too often.

This time, the Marquis of Luthor stuffed himself into the legion under his command, making it clear that he had rushed over to brush up on his merits.

Now that this merit has been accumulated, as long as this beast tide is over, the reward for promotion to the knighthood should be passed on.

The Marquis of Luthor needs to hold a decent and grand wedding for his daughter, and nothing else is lacking, the only thing he lacks is the identity of Surdak, obviously as a baron, marrying the beloved daughter of the marquis's family, it is always a little undignified to say it.

Surdak guessed that he might well become a viscount.

It's just that I didn't expect that the army garrison would get so many benefits.

Marquis Luthor had never mentioned the information of the White Forest Plane before, and it was obvious that he was also testing Surdak, and how much power he had would gain from it......

It's no wonder that the noble lords are scrambling to squeeze into the plane.

Sure enough, the richness here is much better than the sulfur mines in Pubao Mountain......

……

Hathaway and Beatrice stood on the platform on Thunder's Rhino's back, their hands holding on to the wooden railing, and the town of Dodan grew smaller and smaller in the distance.

The Thunder Rhino walked very smoothly.

Standing on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros, the breeze on the prairie ruffled Hathaway's golden curls, and she covered her long hair with her hands, and Beatrice took out a gauze towel to help her wrap her long hair.

The corners of Hathaway's mouth curled up slightly, a sweet smile bloomed, and she turned her head to hug the fleshy Beatrice tightly, and whispered:

"This is his life, and it will be ours."

Beatrice, who was visibly sluggish and didn't quite understand the meaning of Hathaway's words, asked, "How long is he going to be here?" ”

Hathaway smiled even sweeter, her gaze falling on the snowy peaks of the towering Thorny Mountains in the distance, thick clouds like a pile of white wool piled together.

"It's possible that it will stay on the fence forever."

"Why?" Beatrice asked.

"This may no longer be a border town, the imperial territory of the White Forest Plane will continue to extend north to Invercargill Forest, where I am afraid that two mines will be opened up in the future, and he will open up Invercargill Forest, and at least one-third of this forest and this large hilly mountain area belong to him." Hathaway whispered to Beatrice.

"What about these ghost-patterned red ants, that forest doesn't have such a natural danger as the Thorny Mountains, how can you keep it when the beast tide comes?" Beatrice covered her mouth in surprise and said in a low voice.

"That may be a long time later, but we need to prepare sooner." Hathaway pulled Beatrice into the cabin, sat down on the bench, and said easily, "I want to go back to Bednar City, so I'll start looking up this information." ”

"Good! Let's ...... together"