The smile on Marquis Waters's face was a little stiff, and there was a trace of suspicion in his eyes, like a fox trying to hide in the shadows.
He may have thought that Surdak was asking for high prices. On the black market in Handanar City, the market price of unidentified black magic crystals flowing out from those adventure groups was about sixteen gold coins, which was the price of ordinary black magic crystals.
This means that each of these unidentified black magic crystals is worth nine gold coins.
For an ordinary family of three in the Green Empire, the merit value of such a black magic crystal would allow them to live comfortably in Bena City for two years.
Noble lords who purchase unidentified black magic crystals can exchange them for achievements at the military logistics offices in the central cities of each province. When the merit points reach a certain level, their titles can be promoted.
On the contrary, if in these years when plane wars break out frequently, the noble lords need to take the initiative to participate in the war. This is also a way to gain merit.
If a certain noble fails to achieve corresponding merit for several consecutive years, then in terms of title inheritance, the title will be downgraded accordingly when it is passed on to heirs. Just like when Miss Huo Yin'er inherited the title, she was demoted to viscount because of lack of merit.
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The face of Marquis Caesar, whose specific age could not be discerned, stopped smiling, and without even saying a word, he turned around and walked towards the steps of the city wall.
Surdak didn't say anything more, but squatted down next to Samira and took a lunge, then picked up the gold-decorated shield in his right hand.
Swing the shield and draw the sword.
This is the basic movement of the Shield Warrior during his daily training. As long as he has time, he will practice it every day, rain or shine.
The Marquis of Caesar walked to the steps of the city wall and looked back at Suldak reluctantly. He hesitated for a moment before deciding to walk back, with a 'you win' expression on his face.
"At the price of twenty gold coins, how many black magic crystals can I exchange for at one time?" Marquis Xize asked.
In his opinion, although he had lost the dignity of a marquis by asking back in such a condescending manner, it was still worth it in the face of interests.
"The first time you and I negotiated, I offered you a very reasonable price, but you chose to give up the purchase. Now it is the second time that you have proposed to me the intention to purchase the Black Magic Crystal, so this time there is no more
There is a first-time purchase discount, each unidentified black magic crystal is now priced at twenty-three gold coins, do you still want it?"
Suldak stood up straight again, holding a sword and shield in his hand, and asked Marquis Xize.
"..."
Marquis Caesar wanted to yell at Suldak, 'You are such a bitch...', but he covered his lips with his fist and coughed to stop his urge to curse.
Since he inherited the title from his father, he has seldom had such difficulty controlling his emotions.
'Yes! Do I want it more? Of course I do! Isn't this the only purpose of my coming here?'
Marquis Xize closed his eyes and said silently in his heart.
It's just that the price is much higher than what he expected. It's simply ridiculously high. If he really buys the Black Magic Crystal at such a high price, it is estimated that no noble will entrust him to buy such goods on his behalf in the future.
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So Marquis Caesar knew that the price was unfeasible, but he didn't turn around and leave this time, because once he turned around and left this time, the black magic crystal deal might have completely failed.
Looking at the young commander in front of him who was filled with a strong sacred aura and a rising star among the noble lords of the Bena Province, Marquis Xizawa knew that his identity would not play any role in this transaction. On the contrary, it was
He came with the reinforcements and served as the logistics officer in the reinforcements, which actually made the young commander feel disgusted.
But he has the confidence to say so...
As a commander of the Western Route Army with hundreds of thousands of troops at his disposal, I am afraid that there are not many people in the entire Bena Province who are willing to give in.
Marquis Caesar opened his eyes only three seconds later, and then his eyes fell on Suldak again and asked him:
"What if I choose resource exchange?"
Surdak still said calmly: "It depends on the resources..."
Marquis Xize did not try to be too pretentious this time and said directly: "Horse! Gubo is here to fight the horse!"
Suldak smiled when he heard Marquis Caesar's words, as if he had seen a happy sitcom in the theater. After a moment, he put away his smile and said to Marquis Caesar:
"To be honest, what I need most right now...maybe Gu Bo's war horses!"
The deal for the Black Magic Crystal finally fell through, and Marquis Waters of Caesar left unwillingly.
He believes that this deal must still be discussed, but the two parties have not been able to find the balance point.
There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason may be that the reinforcements came to the Dak Valley rashly without receiving the order from the West Route Army, and also dispatched a regiment of constructed swordsmen to the Moyunling Highlands with a very tough attitude.
Conduct investigation.
Not only did this touch upon Lord Suldak's vital interests, but it was also likely to completely anger the young lord.
Even if he holds tens of thousands of black magic crystals, he is unwilling to sell them to the lords of Handanar County.
Although the deal with Lord Suldak failed to be concluded, Marquis Caesar was not too anxious. He could actually choose to directly contact the trading houses and adventure groups in the valley here. It is estimated that they still have a large amount of money in their hands.
The black magic crystal.
In addition, once the main force of the reinforcements enters the Moyunling Highlands, they will be able to harvest a large amount of magic crystals.
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Seeing the Marquis of Caesar gracefully walking down the city wall, although his face could still remain calm, the anger in his eyes almost burst out of his eyes.
Wearing heavy armor, Kalideker walked from the east city wall, stopped next to Samira, and asked Surdak with a puzzled look on his face:
"Boss, the purchase price he gave is not bad! Why don't you sell him?"
Surdak knew what Kali Deker meant. She meant that these black magic crystals sold to everyone the same. Even if they were brought back to Bena Province, they might not be able to raise the price to twenty gold coins. Nowadays, there are frequent plane wars in various parts of the empire.
Now, black magic crystals have begun to proliferate.
As he became more and more familiar with Kali Decker, Surdak discovered that this second-level strongman who could afford to wear heavy armor and hold a magic shotgun was an all-rounder, so he left her in the constructor
As the leader of the knights, she can arrange the daily work of the knights in an orderly manner. Throwing her to the forest camp to be responsible for the management of the entire camp can also make the camp run normally.
And as a commander, Gary Decker is sensible enough and will never make any reckless moves like Andrew did.
The man with the soul of a berserker is simply a lunatic on the battlefield...
Surdak patted the money bag on his waist and said with a smile:
"Would you be surprised if I said that all the black magic crystals in my hand have been spent?"
Gary Decker blinked and said, "What's so surprising about that..."
"The number of consumable magic weapons we have put on the battlefield in recent battles has increased rapidly. The weapons, equipment and supplies of the Aegrod tribe have also reached astronomical figures. In addition, the various rewards on the merit exchange list have also gradually increased.
If we had not won several battles, our situation would have become very difficult."
In fact, there are many secrets hidden among the Lords of Surdak, but everyone just tacitly agrees and does not take the initiative to mention them.
For example, the mysterious alchemist Aphrodite and her enhanced magic patterns, the mysterious red dragon and the ghost army, as well as the large amounts of materials that can reach the battlefield without any supply lines.
Many things are attributed to the mysterious magic...
Suldak did not expect that Gary Decker would see it so thoroughly, and said with some emotion:
"Yeah...otherwise I wouldn't have taken the risk of leading the cavalry regiment across the entire highland and all the way to the North Pass to help the Aigrod tribe build the northern defense line."
Kali Deker was not prepared to inquire into these secrets of Surdak. At this point, she changed the subject and explained her purpose:
"By the way, boss, there are many soldiers in the military camp who want to redeem the enhanced magic patterns. As long as there are enhanced magic patterns on the merit list, they will be redeemed soon. You have to take the time to redeem those rewards recently...
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Surdak didn't expect that the enhanced magic pattern marked with fifty thousand merits would actually become a hot commodity.
"Oh? Are they not going to change the magic pattern structure?" Surdak asked.
"This group of people are almost all ant cavalry who have accumulated a lot of achievements. Their own qualifications are limited. Before reaching the first rank, even if they redeem the magic pattern structure, they will not be able to wear it because of insufficient carrying capacity. If they want to break through the first rank, it is estimated that
There is only one way to go, so everyone chooses to redeem the enhanced magic patterns." Gary Decker replied: "There are also some adventure groups who are also interested in these enhanced magic patterns..."
Surdak waved his hand and said clearly: "Seal this type of reward to the outside world, and the enhanced magic pattern will not be provided to people outside the legion for the time being."
"knew."
Gary Decker responded immediately.
After receiving clear instructions from Surdak, Kalideker turned to deal with the matter at hand.
There were only two people left on the city wall, Samira and Suldak. The guards on the city wall didn't dare to get close at all, and they only stood in a row on the city wall twenty meters away.
Surdak turned around and saw Samira in a daze after completing the basic movements of Jiu-Jitsu, and asked:
"Why are you looking at me like this?"
Samira took out the Sky Strike Bow and fully pulled the string. There was no missing arrow between her fingers. She aimed at a cliff outside the city wall and said:
"It feels like you are a little different when you come back this time."
Surdak asked curiously: "What's the difference?"
Samira put away the Sky Strike Bow in her hand, turned around and looked at Suldak, with a trace of confusion in her pale red eyes:
"The aura on your body, I don't mean the holy light on your body... That feeling is hard to describe. It's as if every breath you take and every step you take are related to the wind in the mountains and the wind in the river.
The water flow and the woods on the entire mountain range are in perfect harmony with each other, just like the 'way of nature' that Dru Yin pursues."
Surdak looked down at his feet wearing combat boots, then carefully felt his breathing rate, wondering why he didn't feel anything obvious...
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The most prosperous shopping street in the Duck Valley is lined with various shops. These shops sell food, weapons, armor, groceries, and even detoxification potions, etc. The adventure group can purchase anything here.
Various types of material supplies.
Of course, the business scope of trading firms is not limited to these. Most trading firms also have acquisition business, such as unidentified black magic crystals, black-striped magic skins, black iron war blades in the hands of evil spirits, and even sharp weapons on evil spirits.
Bone spurs are also purchased by merchants, but of course bone spurs are not very valuable.
There are a lot of adventure groups in Duck Valley, which makes daily transactions very popular. The busiest shopping streets are packed with people every day.
Some adventure groups returning from the Moyunling Highlands will take some harvests to sell in the market here, mainly some bulky trophies that are inconvenient to store and transport. For example, the black iron war blade has a relatively large trading volume, followed by the black pattern.
Magic skins, adventure groups will not store large quantities of such items.
As for trophies such as magic cores and unidentified black magic crystals, the trading volume in the market is very small. The main reason is that magic crystals are easy to carry. If you sell the magic crystals, the gold coins you get back are even less.
convenient.
In addition, many adventure groups have the habit of storing unidentified black magic crystals. It is easy to exchange these black magic crystals for gold coins, but it is not so easy to buy black magic crystals with gold coins.
The rewards on the merit exchange list in the West Route Army camp can only be exchanged for unidentified black magic crystals...
Marquis Xizawa contacted several business owners in succession on the shopping street. These business owners did have some unidentified black magic crystals in their hands. The price of these black magic crystals was basically about eighteen gold coins, but when talking about it,
Considering the number of magic crystals, the total number of black magic crystals owned by these trading houses cannot even reach a fraction of Marquis Caesar's needs.
The black magic crystals purchased by the bosses of trading houses are almost all caused by some adventure groups who have spent all their gold coins and have no other goods to sell, so they sell one or two black magic crystals as an emergency.
So actually... there are very few black magic crystals on the market here.
Those trading house bosses even suggested that Marquis Xize go talk directly to the adventure group in the valley...
Marquis Waters and Caesar spent a whole day shopping on the shopping street with his entourage. He visited almost all the trading houses and contacted several adventure groups before buying thirty-seven unidentified black magic crystals.
The Marquis of Caesar looked very ugly when he returned to the military camp. He even had dinner in the wooden hut.
At night, bonfires were lit in the reinforcements' camp, which made the stars look bright from a distance.
A gust of wind blew, and gusts of smoke made the soldiers in the camp unable to open their eyes. Almost all the combat teams prepared dinner alone, making the camp a mess.
This is not the case at the Western Route Army camp not far away. The infantry soldiers who have been training for a whole day will line up to take a bath at the wash wall, and then line up to eat in the large dining hall.