Chapter 25: Magical Girl
The Ziggy Chamber of Commerce is the only chamber of commerce in the Volcanic Plains, founded by the Thieves' Guild, which almost monopolizes the trade and circulation of various materials such as goods, weapons, armor, potions, and food in the Volcanic Plains.
The Siggy Chamber of Commerce is powerful, with branches in the territories above the baron, relying on a unique magical way to transmit news quickly.
Old Ford contacted the Chamber of Commerce at Sisang Castle, and the news had already spread back to Descending Dragon City, and then the new instructions were sent to the treasurers of each small branch.
Old Ford and Andal came out of the branch of the Qieg Chamber of Commerce in Rock Dragon Castle just as Monyan walked out of the Lord's Mansion.
Meng Yang left the Burning Sky by their side for safety reasons, and the Burning Sky was haunted, who would pay attention to a cat in ordinary people?
After the meeting, the trio found a hotel to stay in and unloaded the goods into the room.
Meng Yang briefly explained the situation of meeting Guta, and then wrote a list on the table and handed it to Old Ford: "Old Ford, my opinion is that Gute and Ruta should not be offended for the time being, all the building materials and craftsmen, find half in each place, how about you take a look?"
Old Ford cautiously looked at the list prepared by Meng Yang, and muttered: "Master, I have already met with the people of the Qige Chamber of Commerce, and before they transport the materials purchased by the master to Yanlong Fort, I think Guta will not suspect that the materials were transported by the Qige Chamber of Commerce for us, he will only suspect that it is Ruta who is purchasing on a large scale." However, Ruta did not need to act like Guta, and he was cunning and cunning, and hired several powerful thieves under his command. I think that after the Chamber of Commerce transports the supplies to the Dragon Ruins, Ruta will definitely cause us some trouble. I'm going to deal with this batch of building materials. ”
Meng Yang nodded and said, "Andal and Burning Sky will accompany you." ”
After the elder Ford and they left, Monyan fell into deep thought.
He had seen the powerful momentum of Guta with his own eyes, and Guta was not like what it seemed on the surface, it belonged to the typical type of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. However, Monyan believes that most people are deceived by its appearance.
Monyan noticed that in the other room where he had met Guta, there were four fourth-level warriors, a female magician in a magical robe, whose medal indicated that she was a fourth-level magician. Monyan was almost certain that he would collide with two of them in the Dragon Descending Arena in the near future.
According to what Meng Yang learned about the competition, the three barons will each send two of their strongest men to compete in the competition.
Monyan has largely confirmed that Iniesta will eventually send Carry, Cora and himself into action. Of course, Kari and Cora can only be regarded as one person, and in a fight like this, the magician can't do without the magic guards.
Meng Yang saw that the few people in the room who were actively preparing for training for battle, almost all of them were level four, and he couldn't help but marvel at the huge financial resources of the ancient tower. And he knew very well that the ancient tower could raise 5,000 well-equipped troops in Yanlong Castle, build two magic arrow towers costing 200,000 yuan, and employ several fourth-level warriors and magicians, and its greatest support came from his control of a rich iron mine. In addition, 10,000 acres of fertile land have also created huge wealth for him.
From this, Meng Yang suddenly understood why the Grand Dukes were so eager to completely occupy those red areas.
Once captured by them, the countless wildlings in the Red Zone were turned into slaves and sold to the royal family for a large amount of gold, which in turn placed these slaves in the vast private territory of the royal family and created wealth for them.
Moreover, there must be countless and numerous levels of demonic beasts in the red area, magic crystals, furs, and animal bones, all of which can be sold for gold coins. Moreover, the red area is often the area where the various herbs used to make potions grow, and a bottle of ordinary potions can be sold for hundreds of gold coins, and it is also a necessary cultivation consumable for the people of the empire.
If a rare mine is found in the Red Zone, a war breaks out into the Red Zone, which is the most reasonable thing to do.
Meng Yang was suddenly full of strong curiosity about the red area, what kind of barbarians lived there, what kind of herbs, ores, and magical beasts there were, he called up the map in his memory, and slowly watched it.
Nothing happened overnight.
On the second day, a long line was formed on the street of Rock Dragon Fort, full of thirty wagons loaded with various utensils and building materials, all drawn by two horses.
It must be said that old Ford's efficiency was terrifying, and as soon as the morning dawned, he counted and loaded the thirty carts of equipment and building materials purchased from the Lord's Palace, and in view of Monyan's good performance, it is said that the Baron specially ordered that each carriage be charged only three gold coins for freight.
And these thirty carts of supplies cost more than 14,000 gold coins. The ability to turn the materials hoarded in the warehouse into golden coins is naturally a beautiful thing that makes the baron's heart bloom.
According to Meng Yang's instructions, Old Ford mobilized the people of the Lord's Mansion to go out overnight with a very low bribe, and recruited three hundred skilled craftsmen at a very low wage of thirty silver coins per person per month.
Andal and Old Ford had been busy all night, but the two of them, whose eyes were bloodshot, did not feel sleepy at all, and looked full of energy, but they were sleeping sweetly on the package of gold coins carried by Old Ford.
"You've worked hard, Andal, go hire another car, and you and old Ford will rest on the road. Meng Yang commanded.
Andal was stunned for a moment, and then his heart warmed.
In Meng Yang's body, although he had felt the majesty and killing countless times, he felt that the master was very different from the ordinary noble lord. He could feel the owner's concern for them, in fact, these days, he has been uneasy in his heart, watching old Ford busy coming and going, he can't intervene at all, he suddenly feels very useless, depressed and depressed, if he is not scolded by old Ford several times, he can't cheer up at all.
Andal walked away silently, and old Ford asked a few craftsmen to go to the hotel room and load several large bags of goods brought from Si Sang into the carriage, and then walked to Meng Yang's side and said, "Master, everything is ready according to your orders, let's go now?"
Meng Yang suddenly asked: "You must be tired and hungry after a busy night, right? Wait a minute, let Andal go buy some food, you will deal with it in the carriage, if you don't rest well, lack energy, when you get to Yanlong Fort, won't I be in a hurry?"
Old Ford grinned, a few old yellow teeth trembling and about to fall, but did not object, invisibly, some kind of tacit understanding is gradually forming between old Ford and Meng Yang.
Andal hired a wagon, bought food, and the mighty convoy left Rock Dragon Fort and headed for Ruta's territory.
Monyan did not get into Andal and Old Ford's carriages, but rode at the end of the convoy, which was evidently much slower than it had been yesterday, until it was dark and after three checkpoints, the convoy reached the fort of Yanlong in Ruta.
The situation in Yanlong Fort is not much different from that of Yanlong Fort, the difference is that Meng Yang did not give Lu Ta filial piety gold coins, and Lu Ta did not give Meng Yang a "pointing" conversation like Guta. The meeting lasted only ten minutes before it ended.
Ruta has a slender body and the same red curly hair, but her complexion is fair and slightly gloomy.
The meeting ended with a large seal on Meng Yang's passage and writing permission for Meng Yang to purchase building materials, utensils, and recruit craftsmen.
Old Ford and Andal mobilized the hired craftsmen, most of whom were in contact with each other. The monthly salary of thirty silver coins is not high in the Dragon Descending Collar, but the craftsmen have nothing to do recently, so they are naturally eager to find a job. It can not only save food for the family, but also make money, killing two birds with one stone.
This time, Yanlong City recruited a total of 500 skilled craftsmen, and Meng Yang had not had much gold left from the bandits.
The amount of building materials purchased from Ruta was twice as large as that of Rock Dragon Fort, and Monyang did this to save transportation costs and shorten transportation time.
At dawn the next day, 800 people surrounded by 90 carriages and left Yanlong City, and after four hours, the convoy finally passed the last checkpoint set by Luta and entered the territory of Longxu.
The first thing that catches your eye is a large apple orchard, and in a month's time, it will be the season for apples to ripen, but because of Lucerne's departure, there is no one to take care of them, many fruit trees are full of insects, and most of the apples have rotted. It seems that this year's apple harvest is not very good.
The apple orchard used to be an orange orchard and a walnut orchard.
On both sides of the 300-acre orchard, there are endless barren mountains and mountains, and when Meng Yang's divine sense sweeps, he sees many wild beasts lurking in them, and occasionally a few first-class demonic beasts.
Meng Yang had already made up his mind, as long as it wasn't a high-level demonic beast, he wished there were as many as possible. With this guy Burning Sky here, everything will be solved.
Monyan stepped into the ten-meter-wide gravel path vacated in the middle of the orchard and looked ahead.
Seven hundred acres of paddy fields are all barren, and the past five hundred acres of wheat fields are overgrown with weeds. Many poisonous snakes and rats haunt it, and it is very desolate.
Then Monyan saw a black ruined castle under a bare hill, built against the hill, but it seemed to be so old that it was about to collapse.
"That's Dragon's Castle?"
Meng Yang's mood suddenly became urgent, and he made a gesture behind him to speed up the march, urging the horse to speed up.
The four hooves of the iron horse made a crisp sound of hooves on the gravel road, which was particularly loud in this desolate and quiet territory.
In the blink of an eye, Meng Yang led the convoy of craftsmen to cross the paddy field and the wheat field, and suddenly, a dazzling silver light lit up in the middle of the road ahead, Meng Yang suddenly stopped the galloping horse, and the iron-hoofed horse turned around in place, when Meng Yang made a gesture, he saw that the old Ford was also giving the order to the convoy to pause.
The silver light was like a condensed light curtain, obscuring everything in front of them, and in their line of sight, people could no longer see the fiery red sky in the distance, and they could not see the Longxu Fort under the barren ridge less than three miles away.
"It's a magician!"
In the convoy, I don't know which craftsman suddenly lost his voice and exclaimed.
Hundreds of people and horses were silent for a moment, Meng Yang turned over and dismounted, standing firmly in the middle of the road, but unexpectedly made a standard and incomparably chic aristocratic salute to the silver light curtain that could not see anything, and asked loudly the moment he straightened up: "I don't know which magician is here, in Xia Mengyang, under the orders of Lord Baron Iniesta, Si Sang, came to take over the Dragon Ruins." ”
As soon as the words fell, a dazzling white shadow quietly appeared from the silver light, about thirty meters away from Mengyang, and it was actually a young woman who was suffocatingly beautiful.
Her long blonde hair was pulled casually, and her court-style white low-cut dress exposed her entire shoulders and large snow-white breasts. Her skin is incredibly white and tender, and any part of her skin makes you feel the urge to bite hard. Of course, the most preferred place to go down the mouth is the full breasts, followed by the face. Her appearance looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old at most, and her small face was calm and solemn, full of classical beauty, like a goddess for the first time.
She had a pair of light blue eyes, and she was looking at Meng Yang without blinking at the moment, as if she wanted to see Meng Yang through.
Her left hand was tucked into the long skirt sleeve, and the five fingers of her right hand were white and slender, like green onions, holding a magic wand inlaid with several thumb-sized magnificent gems, this magic wand was worth a lot of money at a glance, and she was clubbed to the ground, and at the top of the magic wand was a dragon's eye-sized ruby emitting a faint red halo, which just reflected her slender waist.
Meng Yang's eyes were cool, there was no trace of distraction in his heart, he was staring at the girl's chest, no, to be precise, it should be a pale gold medal on the girl's left chest, and there were five silver stars on the medal.
Level 5 Magician!
Meng Yang was like a thunderbolt, such a young fifth-level magician, and such a beautiful woman, but what about the magic guards beside this magician?
Suddenly, Meng Yang saw that this beauty's eyes changed, and a murderous aura rushed over, and he immediately secretly screamed badly.
Because, Meng Yang didn't need to release his divine sense to look behind him, and he also knew that the hired craftsmen must be stunned one by one now, and most of them had thoughts in their hearts, and their saliva was flowing, so it was strange not to annoy this powerful magician.
Sure enough, seeing the girl's red lips move slightly, and slowly raised the very high-level magic staff, Meng Yang suddenly opened his arms in a panic to block it, and shouted in his mouth: "Don't do it! I am really the new lord!"
The girl was obviously stunned, perhaps even more annoyed by Meng Yang's insight into the intention, snorted coldly in her mouth, and actually pointed her magic wand towards Meng Yang, and then Meng Yang saw a silver point of light flying to her chest like a mosquito and fly, and the cold air hit people, and the speed was so fast that Meng Yang was so shocked that she couldn't dodge.
In the convoy, Old Ford's face sank like water, and he whispered with a bitter face: "Oops, it's the Xuanbing Bone Piercing Technique, the master has suffered a lot this time!"
When Andal heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the burning sky, but saw this guy curled up comfortably in the corner of the fluffy cushion of the carriage, sleeping extremely sweetly, and couldn't help but be stunned: "It doesn't make sense, how can this guy care about the safety of his master?"
"Huh, how can this be?"
Suddenly, the mysterious girl suddenly screamed loudly.