The smell of alcohol was mixed with tobacco and perfume, and the drunken drinkers were twisting their bodies to the tunes of the bards under the high platform.
If you want to dance with a dancer in the audience, then buy her a glass of wine, but a glass of such wine will cost three to five silver coins. Of course, you will get more than just a glass of wine.
Suldak asked the bartender for a plate of nuts. Perhaps only by being in the commotion can he feel that this world full of fantasy is so real. He took a sip of the slightly sour and mellow ale, which was not bitter at all.
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After the bard sang this long song, he left the stage happily amid countless flowers scattered in the audience. This kind of people have no fixed place in their lives. They only need to collect the travel expenses to the next destination, and they will set off rain or shine.
Then resolutely and decisively cut off everything in this city.
The noise in the tavern dropped a lot, and many drinkers returned to their seats. They picked up their glasses again and chatted and laughed with the people around them. Suldak thought there would be another one right after.
There was a performance by a minstrel or a dance troupe, but what came up to the high platform was a short and fat businessman. The dress on his body was open because it could not cover his fat belly, and his round face was full of blood.
Full of smiles, he stood on the stage breathing heavily.
He shouted to the guests in the audience: "Everyone, it's time for the weekly sale of special goods again. This time we bring to you the Orcs from the New Siakis Mountains and the Ashes from the Pai Plateau.
Dwarves, lizard people of the wild swamp.”
For a while, the audience was agitated again, but there were not many cheers. On the contrary, there were boos all around, but these drinkers seemed to have known that there would be such a show, and they all stared at the high platform.
Then, someone stood up from the audience, raised his head and shouted to the businessman on the stage with great dissatisfaction: "Khan, these mountain people from the extreme north and south again, I said Kagel, you are also one of us.
How come the big and respectable slave owners in Halanza City are always selling these unworthy guys? Why don't you bring back some half-elves and Janna beauties?"
The man who spoke loudly was a stalwart nobleman. He was wearing a tuxedo, with a sword hanging on his waist, messy curly hair, and sharp and arrogant eyes. His words resonated with the surrounding drinkers.
Cagel, the businessman on the stage, said unceremoniously and angrily: "Now His Majesty Charles has reached a trade of cloth for herbs with the Silver Moon Elf World. Who else in the entire Green Empire dares to openly sell elf slaves? Aren't you afraid of being sent away?"
Go to the guillotine? I just returned with some Janna mermaids. Can you afford to build a seawater pool to raise them? Do you think that the bathtub at home can support Janna mermaids?"
The crowd around burst into laughter.
Someone in the crowd laughed and said: "Haha, Yuga, can't you be more ambitious and buy the Earl of Fornak's manor outside the mountain city to stop Cagel's foul mouth?"
The strong man named Yuga cursed unceremoniously at the critic: "Fart, that manor has been robbed by bandits outside the city twice in three years. Let me buy that manor unless I'm crazy."
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The unscrupulous conversation between the stage and the audience ignited the cold atmosphere in the tavern again. Surdak did not expect that the tavern he came to actually had a slave trading business. The businessmen on the stage saw the crowd becoming active and hurriedly
He raised his cane high and shouted:
"Okay, everyone, please be quiet..."
Then the curtain behind the high platform was lifted up, and several dwarves filed out from behind the curtain. Their hands and feet were tied with black iron chains. These gray dwarf slaves were bare-chested, with messy hair on their chins.
He also has a long beard.
The skin of the dwarves who filed out showed the color of limestone. Just like their name, they were gray dwarves. However, these dwarves looked a little sluggish, and their faces were full of wrinkles. They also had some scars on their bodies, and there was a fierce look in their eyes.
light.
Kagel, who was standing on the stage, circled around the four gray dwarves several times, pinched the tight muscles of the gray dwarves with his fingers, and said with a proud face: "These gray dwarves came to the northeast of the Pai Plateau.
They were captured in a battle with the orcs. They are good at forging, metallurgy and mining. After traveling thousands of miles to the Green Empire, they now come to our city of Halanza in Bena Province. Who is willing to transfer these superb casting skills to the Green Empire?
Will the gray dwarf craftsman buy it back?"
The nobles in the audience were already a little impatient and shouted to Kagel:
"Stop being so nagging, tell me their bidding price quickly."
Kagel pressed his cane against the solid muscles of the gray dwarf. With a confident smile on his face, he said to everyone in the audience: "Well, the starting price for each gray dwarf is ten gold coins."
Hearing Cagle's offer, the tavern suddenly became quiet, and someone shouted in the audience: "They look very old..."
Kagel heard someone say this, waved his hand to the person and said: "The life span of gray dwarves is usually 200 to 300 years old. In my opinion, they can still work for at least 50 to 100 years. This is
The reason why I sold them for ten gold coins."
"Ten gold coins..." someone in the audience rushed to say.
The first person to make a bid will immediately be followed by followers competing for it.
"Twelve!" Another noble raised his hand and said.
"Thirteen……"
In fact, Surdak was also very tempted by the price of this dwarf slave. After several rounds of fighting, it only reached thirty gold coins. Considering the lack of experienced miners in the sulfur mines, these dwarves were born with this
Ability, Suldak thought that it was not unacceptable for him to spend about fifty gold to shoot a gray dwarf.
At this time, someone in the audience had already raised the price to forty-seven gold...
Suddenly there was no more bidding in the audience, and the bar was silent.
Surdak reached out and touched his money bag, and was about to raise his hand to shout out the price of forty-eight gold, but at this moment his hand was grabbed by someone.
Surdak was startled, thinking that Karl was in the bar. He had no other acquaintances in the city of Helensa.
He turned around and saw that a magician wearing a gray robe was sitting opposite him.
Surdak suddenly remembered that this magician was the same gray-robed magician who had helped him enter the underground market when he came to Helensa City last time to sell sand wolf meat. The magician did not speak, but
Shaking his head slightly at him, Surdak wisely gave up bidding on the gray dwarf.
When the gray dwarf slave bidding ended, Dal stood up and left the tavern. Surdak quickly stood up and followed him out of the bar.
The tall magician stopped on the street, turned around and said to Suldak: "The gray dwarves are the most notorious bandits among the dwarves. Their biggest characteristic is digging holes and robbing everywhere. You can't expect them to master it."
If you buy the dwarves’ forging craftsmanship, it’s certainly impossible for them to send it to the battlefield, so these gray dwarves have absolutely no value.”
After hearing the magician explain the reason, Surdak realized that not all dwarves were proficient in forging, metallurgy and quarrying.
"You saved me from loss, thank you, Master Magician!" He expressed his inner gratitude to the magician.
The magician smiled slightly and said: "My name is Dalle. You look like a northerner, so I feel particularly friendly when I see you. Just don't think I am nosy..."