Chapter 270: Divine Envoy Faka (II)

No one is watching, and Faka is free to move. I also feel comfortable. He saw that there were only a hundred thousand people in the city, but the business was very prosperous. Most of the people who migrated from Phoenix were wealthy nobles and merchants.

Taxes in Metatrin City are complicated, but the effective tax rate is very low, and any business can be profitable. And many of the things on offer here are hard to buy in other cities. Even Qin Yin's garrison in Phoenix noticed the presence of Metatrin City.

Because of the acquiescence of Holy Rock City and its remote location, Phoenix's garrison had no intention of attacking, but instead sent a caravan to purchase magic cores and wood.

After Saleen left, Daniel organized his men to hunt at sea, and the supply of magic cores was quite sufficient. He has two warships, although the battleships hunt and consume a lot of magic cores, but the resources in the sea are abundant, and every time he goes to sea, there is a large amount of income. With the addition of the magic core left behind by Salin, Metatrin City has become a small commercial city with a small reputation.

If Faka does not appear from the north side of the city, but at the west gate. There won't even be a patrol to interrogate.

Faka's feet looked unhurried, but he quickly turned around the city of Metatrin. He didn't harass the core of the city, there were more skeleton soldiers entrenched there, what made Faka strange was that the people in the city had no fear of skeleton soldiers, for people like mages, skeleton soldiers were of course a ragtag army, and they could be pinched at will, but ordinary people were not afraid of skeletons, which was a little weird.

He also felt the breath of the three kings, although he was not afraid, but he did not come to destroy Metatrin City, but had other plans. So he regarded himself as a second-level magician, and waited patiently in this city for Salin's return.

On this day, Faka saw a few pieces of the carapace of a demonic beast in the sea in a shop in the east of the city, and thought it was interesting and wanted to buy it. This thing is not of much use to others, after all, the number is too small, but Faka has its own refining method, which can make small weapons.

While discussing the price with the guys, a man rushed in outside the door, with blood on his face and a tattered look. When the man entered the shop, he picked up a long sword from the shelf, and his face was hideous. By this time, dozens of patrolling soldiers had blocked the entrance of the store.

Faka could see at a glance that this person already had the level of a junior swordsman, with a long sword in his hand, and a fierce aura exuded from him. The soldiers outside the door are all swordsman rank. Seeing that this man had a weapon, they took out their bows and crossbows, but they were afraid of hurting the customers and men in the shop, so they did not rush in immediately.

The guy who was talking about the price with Faka had a calm face and retreated into the counter, and the fugitive with the sword in hand took one look at Faka and was shocked that there was a magician here!

"Why are the people out there chasing you?" said Faka, who asked the man without any problems. The man was stunned, obviously not understanding what Faka said.

Faka speaks the Chinin language with a Scochenian accent. The man obviously didn't understand for a minute, holding the long sword in his hand and looking panicked.

Seeing this person's expression, Faka did not have any suspicions, he has now figured it out, in Metatrin City, as long as you don't approach the core area, it is actually very loose, and the people who monitor him have long since withdrawn. Metatrin City is developed according to a commercial city, and there is no need to test yourself again as a second-level mage. Otherwise, the city will have more mobile population in the future, so how many spies will be needed to complete such a huge surveillance task?

"Mr. Mage. Help me!" the pursuer spoke, and as soon as he spoke, he spoke in a strange lingua franca.

Although the lingua franca comes from Mels, the difference is huge, and it has nothing to do with Old Myers. Fortunately, Faka is very knowledgeable, and although this man's accent is strong, he can quickly understand it with his numeracy skills. It's just a change in the scale, and magicians are good at this, not to mention magicians who focus on spiritual cultivation.

Faka glanced at the huge glass window of the shop, outside which more soldiers were gathering, and even one more magic apprentice with a dozen skeleton soldiers. Although the combat effectiveness of skeleton soldiers is not strong, it is only for large battlefields. In this kind of capture operation, the skeleton soldiers are not afraid of the sword, and can control the enemy with their bodies to the death, and it is not a big deal to lose them.

Farka walked out of the shop and beckoned to the captain of the soldiers, who was a senior swordsman, very young, originally a private soldier of a noble family, and later the nobles took refuge in Rex and moved their families to Metatrin City, and there was no need to raise so many soldiers, about half of the private soldiers were bought by Rex for money.

The captain of the soldier was well-trained, and when he saw the dress of the farka, he did not dare to slack off, took a few steps forward, and saluted the farka. He said, "Master Mage, that man is a runaway slave, please don't interfere." ”

Faka frowned and said, "I heard that Qin Yin forbids the slave trade. ”

Faka is right, the Qin Yin Empire prohibits the slave trade, although this Metatrin City is not Qin Yin's territory, it can be attached to the Kushui County, and the laws of the Kushui County are no different from Qin Yin, and there should be no slave trade here. Faka himself hated slavery, because slaves were not pure enough in their beliefs, and once they were freed, they were more likely to betray the gods than ordinary people.

The Holy See allowed the Tangulas Empire to have slavery, in essence, in order to weaken the power of the Tangulas Empire, so that the Holy See can fully develop again, but it does not mean that the slavery system is beneficial to the Holy See, in the long run, the slavery system must be eliminated, otherwise the Holy See will encounter a bottleneck of development and can no longer expand.

In the past two years, the war between the Tangguras Empire and Qin Yin has fully embodied this, often tens of thousands of slave soldiers will be killed by a banner regiment of Qin Yin, and even the elite troops who command these slaves will be affected. Qin Yin's investment in Garulan was basically local troops. The combat effectiveness was far inferior to Qin Yin's Royal Swordsman Battalion, and even so, the battle situation in Garulan was still stalemate, and it was impossible to completely open the situation at all.

Qin Yin, who opposed slavery, how could the phenomenon of slave trade occur?

"Master Mage, this man is not from Myers. The soldier's face was also a little ashamed, but he patiently explained to Faka.

Faka immediately understood that Holy Rock City had created a war puppet, and he already knew about the destruction of the East China Sea Alliance. The millions of troops of the East China Sea Alliance Army did not resist the advance of Saint Rock City. After several major battles, more than 200,000 soldiers were captured by the East China Sea Alliance. These captives, according to the laws of the Qin Yin Empire, could indeed be bought and sold.

Because they are not from the Myers Continent, Qin Yin is already very merciful if he does not kill all the foreign invaders.

"Master Mage, please save me, I don't want to mine, I'm willing to be your follower!" the East China Sea Coalition captive in the shop shouted.

Faka smiled and said, "This person, how much can I buy?"

The soldier looked embarrassed and said, "Master Mage, he didn't have much money in the first place, but he ran away and injured several of our soldiers. If you are from Qin Yin, it will be very troublesome to buy it. ”

"I'm a Skochenian. Faka said calmly.

"Then you need a deposit of 1,000 gold coins, and if he doesn't cause any trouble to our country within a year, he can only return you 500 gold coins, which is too uneconomical. The soldier, out of kindness, persuaded Faka. A junior swordsman, it is indeed too expensive to buy it with more than a thousand gold coins. Generally speaking, gold is still very important for low-level mages.

"Where can I sign the purchase contract?" Of course, Faka didn't care about a thousand gold coins, he had heard from the swordsman that he wanted to let him go mining, so he wanted to ask for details. And about the East China Sea Alliance, he is also interested in learning about it. The Holy See has always had no control over the seas, and in Faka's view, it was a huge mistake.

If it could develop a fleet like the clouds, the Holy See would have expanded to the entire continent long ago.

"That'...... Master Mage, please come with me to the town hall. "This soldier has already been persuaded, and seeing that Faka is bent on going his own way, he doesn't bother to say any more, mages are strange people, who knows what they are thinking.

Faka successfully bought this sword master, spending more than 1,200 gold coins, including a deposit of 1,000 gold coins. This deposit is basically very difficult to get back.

Faka took the swordsman back to his residence and signed a follower contract with the swordsman, and then asked.

After inquiry. Faka was a little disappointed, although this sword master was an officer of the personal guard of a certain king in the East China Sea, but that country was too small to even build a big ship on its own. But the situation on the other side of the East China Sea is very fond of Faka, hundreds of countries, scattered on more than 3,000 islands, that kind of place, but it is suitable for missionary work.

This expedition has greatly damaged the vitality of the countries of the East China Sea, and if the Holy See can take advantage of the situation, it will definitely be able to gain a large number of believers immediately.

The only trouble is that the countries of the East China Sea also have faith, and they do not believe in gods, but in a royal family, which is said to be the nobles of the First Dynasty, who migrated to the island country of the East China Sea and once established a unified empire. But the empire was short-lived, and then it split, and later emperors and kings regarded the family as their spiritual leaders.

Farka, a descendant of the First Dynasty, thought it was still feasible. If this family is really very powerful, how can it lead to the collapse of the dynasty it has established.

The matter of the mines is simple, and the land north of Metatrin City has many mines. The people from the Inquisition also came to investigate, but because it was too far away, they didn't pay attention to it for the time being. The city of Metatrin claimed ownership of these mines, but allowed nobles and merchants to invest and mine.

Although the nobles of Phoenix fled here, the escape process was not urgent, and they all carried all their family property, all of them rich and flowing. The only thing that is lacking is manpower.

Elaine specially organized a manpower to buy a large number of captives in Lianyun City, and then resold them to the investors of these mines and sent them further north for mining.

In the absence of large-scale mining machinery, this method is also the fastest way to make a profit.

Faka listened to the description of the sword master, thought about it, and didn't kill this sword master, after all, it was purchased for more than a thousand gold coins, so it was better to stay by his side and run errands. This time he came alone to negotiate some deals with Salin, and the matter of fighting and killing was left to the Cardinal Council and the Inquisition.

Anyway, what I talked about was a big deal, and if the negotiation was completed, there would be no need to be subject to various restrictions on the Myers Continent.