Chapter 4: Looting

As a slave-state with a long history, the most prosperous industry here has always been the slave trade. Here, not only are there slaves captured by bounty hunters from all over the world, but even some other-dimensional creatures that wizards can only come into contact with occasionally appear.

These creatures may not be unusual to wizards who often haunt various planes, but they are extremely precious to mortals with completely different levels of life.

There was even a benefactor who paid a huge price and ordered a female elf here. The slave trade was also seen as forbidden by the Gold Order, hostile to any force that wanted to intervene.

Many people say that the Golden Council's gold coins were built on the corpses of slaves.

The slave market has a nice name - the Covered Bridge. This was due to the fact that the slave market was hung upside down under the aqueducts that were elevated in the sky. This was because most of the slaves were so filthy that the bridge hung upside down under the aqueduct, with a balcony-like platform protruding from each side.

The balcony had a staircase leading up to the aqueduct, allowing the slave owner to wash the bodies of the purchased slaves. At the same time, in this hot desert city, so many slaves are gathered together, and the heat can be reduced by the canal above their heads, and the daily water consumption of a large number of slaves is also very huge.

Of course, such a suspended trading place is also a good way to prevent slaves from escaping.

The Bahraini group rode in a beautiful carriage to the canal near the Silk Road, where thick cylindrical towers supported the sky. These stone towers served as pillars supporting the aqueduct and access to the covered bridge.

At the entrance to the stone tower is a shed in which several Knights of Truth sit upside down or sit.

The carriage stopped in front of the shed, and Gowen jumped out of the carriage to help Mr. Bahraini parliamentarian down. The golden wizard's heart that surrounded him instantly attracted the attention of the people around him. The golden scepter in his hand proclaimed his authority in the city.

Several Knights of Truth, who were guarding the entrance, immediately stood up.

When Bahrain and the others walked in, they all stroked their chests and saluted, "Everyone dies, honorable Mr. Parliamentarian"

Although the Knights of Truth also belong to the ruling class of the city, the Golden Council is ultimately controlled by the House of Glory, and the Honorable Councilor is always the core ruler of the city. The Knight of Truth is just a butcher's knife under the House of Representatives.

Balin nodded, but in only a few days he had already adjusted to his position of power.

Walk slowly into the stone tower and walk up the spiral staircase to the covered bridge.

As soon as you enter the covered bridge, a wave of boring heat hits your face, filled with a thick sour smell. If it weren't for the fact that this is a desert city isolated from saprophytic insects, I don't know how many flies would breed.

Among the people who come and go here, it is not uncommon to see glorious councillors holding golden scepters. However, because of Bahrain's special wizarding status, many people politely gave way to it.

Bahrain smiled and nodded at the magnates along the way.

Along the way, women of all colors and slaves were selected, and most of these women were numb. Bahrain walked through a few sections of covered bridges, saw hundreds of young women and slaves, and for a while did not know how to choose a woman suitable for learning financial knowledge.

After a moment of silent pause and thought, Balin shouted out to the surroundings: "I, Balin-Constantine, am an honorable member of the Golden Council, and I am also a wizard. I need 20 smart girls to help me with some math related work. So who can provide me with such a service?"

Originally, Bahrain's golden wizard's heart attracted the attention of the public, and this shout immediately jumped out of several slave traders, claiming to be able to provide him with services.

Balin nodded, leaving Gowen to contact them, while he returned to the Golden Garden to wait for the slave traders to bring someone to him to choose from.

Soon Bahrain met with several waves of slave traders in his own private garden in the Golden Garden. Picking and choosing from the more than 200 girls they brought, twenty future female accountants were finally selected.

Twenty women and slaves with a slight appearance and a clear mind actually spent sixteen gold coins in Bahrain. It has to be said that the slave trade was indeed a high-paying business.

As a result, the wealth brought by Bahrain has shrunk dramatically. This is a heavy blow to the financial career he is going to start next.

Just when Bahrain was worried about this, the slave dealer who put the gold coins in his money bag approached Bahrain with a worried face and asked with a somewhat flattering smile: "Dear Mr. Parliamentarian, I have a way to make a fortune, I would like to ask if you are interested?"

Bahrain, who was worried about the gold coins, raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Tell me about it?"

The middle-aged slave dealer immediately began to gush about it.

It's easy to say, and the money in the mouth of the slave trader naturally can't escape the word slave.

On an oasis to the northwest of the Sea of Stars, there is a small town. The ruler of this town raped the daughter of Daron, one of the five great knights of the Knights of Truth, in the last month.

Enraged, Daron led three hundred Knights of Truth to retaliate, but several attacks failed. So Daron let out a message, hoping to unite more bounty hunters to take the small town. After taking the town, all the captured slaves were given away.

It was natural for a slave trader named Hajok to want to eat the slaves.

Bahrain, who was amazed by the high profits of the slave trade, immediately became interested in his financial path.

I asked Hayok for a copy of the small town. The town was originally developed from a group of sand bandits, and has merged into an independent force of half tribe and half city-state. The current ruler of the town is named Vulture.

The small town doesn't welcome unfamiliar guests, and according to some of the Goldcoin's members who have business dealings with the town, the town has a population of about two thousand.

However, for the desert tribes, who were short of supplies and did not have the help of sorcerers to build various living facilities, the town still retained the primitive practice of expelling the elderly.

For them, the elderly lose their ability to fight or simply waste resources.

Most of them make a living by plundering, and their desire for young adults leads them to often raid young women.

After reading Hajok's information, Bahrain felt that there was something to be done in his heart. So he took Hajok with him to meet Talon.

As one of the five Grand Knights of the Knights of Truth, Daron has a high level of authority in the Knights of Truth. But the entire Sea of Stars implements a political structure of separation of powers. The Knights of Truth and the Cash Chest are also political participants. But their role is more of that of an executor than a decision-maker.

The members of the Knights of Truth and the Chest of Money are not members of the Council, and therefore cannot participate in council discussions. Not even to mention the voting rights of the glorious councilors, even the Plantagenet commissioners who do not have the right to vote and only have the right to make proposals cannot be compared. Because they don't even have the power to propose.

Therefore, when these two organizations need to reach a political decree through Parliament, they can often only make a deal with the Plantagenet members of the House of Commons, who will submit a certain decree in the House of Commons. Then privately deal with the glorious members of the House of Lords one by one to get enough votes.

This time, Daron tried his best, but he couldn't pass it by a parliamentary vote. Without a decree of the Parliament, he would not be able to use the entire Knights of Truth. In the end, he could only be driven by hatred and lead the people he recruited to take revenge out of his own pocket.

According to Talon's military rank, he was enough to command a knightly legion of more than 3,000 men. If that's the case, it's not a problem to destroy a tiny vulture. You must know that the Knights of Truth not only have knights, but also absorb many wizard apprentices.

Therefore, when Bahrain came to the Knights of Truth on the left side of the Golden Garden with the Golden Scepter in hand, he received many friendly and even stammering greetings along the way. Don't look at the blood in the eyes of these people, it seems that each of them has several human lives on their hands, and their whole bodies exude the smell of outlaws. It can be seen that Mr. Bahrain, who is an honorable member of parliament, is still like a mouse seeing a cat. What's more, Mr. Bahraini MP is also a wizard.

They have seen a lot of wizard apprentices, and many even have a few wizard apprentices under their hands, but the official wizard who embodies the heart of a wizard is a real rarity.

Bahrain climbed the steps all the way to the top, not squinting. Go straight to the third level of the Knights of Truth.

Led by two Knights of Truth guarding the entrance to the garden, he made his way to Talon's station.

Talon has red hair, is more than two meters tall, and the muscles of his body look as strong as an iron tower.

It is said that Talon came from the north of the world, the Excessive Maidan, established by the Vikings. Even among the Vikings, Talon was a formidable warrior. In one of his raids, he embezzled a large amount of wealth, abandoned his wife and children, and fled all the way to the Sea of Stars.

This man from the ice and snow of the north has climbed step by step to his current position in the hottest yellow sand in the world.

Daron still retains the bloodthirsty greed of the Vikings, and his broad face is painted with black stripes. The long beard was braided into pigtails.

There was a faint burst of desolate singing from the house behind him:

More, give me more, give me more;

If I have a heart, I can love you;

If I had a voice, I would sing;

I will wake up in the dark night;

I'm going to see what tomorrow will bring me;

I...... I...... I......

If I have a voice, I will sing.

The tower-like Daron looked at Balin who was walking slowly and grinned: "Everyone dies, honorable Mr. Wizard Councillor"

There is also a smile on Bahrain's face, and now Bahrain practices his smile in front of the mirror every night, becoming more and more relatable.

"I want to talk to you about vultures" Bahrain adheres to the tradition of a wizard and gets straight to the point without nonsense.

"Vulture, that crumb, I'm going to make it a blood eagle sooner or later," Daron roared fiercely.

The legend about the Blood Eagle, Bahrain has heard. It was a form of torture invented by the Vikings. Tie a man's hand to a wooden post, split the man's ribs from behind, and pull out the lungs and put them on his shoulders. From afar, it looks like a blood eagle with outstretched wings. And the tortured person does not die on the spot, but often wails for a long time in pain and torment.

"I'm here to help you, Mr. Darlon," Balin instinctively took a step back, startled by his bloodthirsty roar.

"How can it help?" asked Darlon

"I'm just a wandering wizard without a wizard's tower, but I can cast spells twice so far," Barin said, leaning on it. Yes, in the past few days of recuperation, Bahrain is not only planning to raise funds for the construction of the Wizard's Tower, but also has not stopped studying and improving witchcraft.

His dedication to symbols and the advancement of the wizard's heart really helped him a lot. He found that any sorcery that passed through his wizarding heart would mutate into a sun-like heat.

As a result, he cut down and improved the simplest of the two apprentice levels of sorcery. One was the Illumination Technique, in which he cut out most of the structure of the continuous illumination, leaving only a small part of the structure that turned into scorching rays. The other is the Wind Clearing Technique, which his apprentices used to clean for a living, which he transformed into the scorching wind that carries the high temperatures of the bearer.

A single entity, a group, two simplified zero-level apprentice sorcery was constructed by him in his own wizarding heart.

The first-level wizard's heart only has one or two first-level witchcraft in space, while Bahrain has given up constructing first-level witchcraft and only constructs two simplified and modified zero-level apprentice witchcraft. Therefore, Balin has calculated that the space left in the Wizard's Heart can still construct two apprentice-level witchcraft.

This is only a short time after Balin has just advanced, and when his wizarding heart slowly develops to the limit, he can construct more level zero sorcery.

However, to Balin's surprise, his alternative wizarding heart also brought a huge surprise to himself. Through repeated experiments, the two zero-level witchcraft he constructed actually reached the attack strength of ordinary first-level witchcraft.

This is equivalent to him releasing the mana consumed by the zero-level sorcery to unleash the first-level sorcery. This is also exactly what he can do without the Wizard Tower to cast two witchcraft in a row.

This is the reliance of Bahrain.

"Twice, is it official wizard's witchcraft, and how long does it take?" Talon, who lived outside the Tower of Babel, naturally heard about some of the wizards' situations. The average wandering wizard can only perform the official wizard's sorcery once, and it is the least powerful sorcery. Beyond a certain amount of power, just a little mana stored in the wizard's heart is not enough, and it is necessary to wait a long time to temporarily mobilize new mana from the natural world. That's why he asked how long it would take.

If it takes half an hour to prepare for a single witchcraft, that kind of witchcraft doesn't mean much.

"The power is no less than that of first-class witchcraft, a single body, a group, instantaneous" is Bahrain's answer.

"Shall I provide you with an ounce of moon spring water?" Daron asked again, his voice already starting to get a little excited.

Moon Spring Water is a mana solution stored in the Wizard's Tower. Normal mana cannot be stored outside of the Wizard's Heart. Therefore, the way the Wizard Tower accumulates and stores mana is by dissolving it in a liquid. This liquid is called Moon Spring.

One of the cores of the Wizard Tower is the Moon Well, and the volume of the Moon Well also determines the effectiveness of the Wizard Tower.

The Wizard Tower is not particularly related to the wizard's own wizard level. As long as the wizard has the money, the wizard can build the moon well big enough. Therefore, wizards with deep financial resources can often crush ordinary wizards, if nothing else, people have more mana than you, and the constant witchcraft bombardment can make ordinary wizards powerless to resist.

Therefore, for wizards with wizard towers, moon spring water is not precious, but gram is the most precious commodity for wandering wizards. Therefore, many wizards who own wizard towers will sell some moon spring water to the outside world, after all, once the moon well is full, the wizard tower will not be able to continue to store the absorbed mana. This is an absolute waste for wise wizards.

And one ounce of Moon Spring Water is a unit set as the standard for replenishing the heart of a first-level wizard in the limit state.

Bahrain roughly calculated the power of the spell and replied: "No less than five casts" These five casts still refer to continuous casting, and if you count the rest time in battle, Bahrain does not think that it is a problem to reach six casts.

Hearing Bahrain's answer, Daron let out a hearty laugh and beckoned, and a girl in a short skirt with wheat-colored thighs running into the house quickly came out with a bottle of blue liquid and handed it to Bahrain. A pair of large, watery eyes looked at the young wizard curiously.

"I want all the slaves I have captured plus a third of the wealth of the town" Putting away the moon spring, Bahrain put forward his own terms.

The vengeful Daron didn't think about it at all and said directly: "All the slaves, half of the wealth for you"

Bahrain is an honorable parliamentarian, and although Talon may seem rude, he will still stammer. So take the initiative to take out half of the town's wealth. It is also a gesture of goodwill to Bahrain.