Lin En glanced at Patriarch Hubbell, who had a calm face but worried eyes. He had sat down for a few minutes and had not asked Adan to take a seat. As a result, his expression turned from dissatisfied to anxious.
It is obviously worried that Aglaia City will anger Chang'an Town because of the friendly relationship between Chang'an Town and Kelben.
So he was right. Chang'an Town's original geographical advantage was completely ruined by the emergence of that road.
The Hubbell family does have a large number of outstanding mages... but this also means that there are more ordinary people who can barely make it as apprentices.
If they want to support so many ordinary people, they are not as high-minded as they appear on the surface, but need those caravans very much... Because of the friendly relationship with Waterdeep City, a large number of them are in the countries to the east of Waterdeep City and Silvermoon City.
Caravans traveling between city-states will choose Chang'an Town to rest.
It's still more than ten days' journey from here to Waterdeep!
For these caravans, it doesn't matter how bad Chang'an Town treats them, and it doesn't matter how high the price of the hotel or tavern is. This is the place where the noble Master works as a bodyguard.
And because of the prestige promoted by these people to Chang'an Town, land caravans coming from further places will also try to choose Chang'an Town as a resting place... Caravans traveling long distances do not always rush.
The leader who behaved like this would probably have died in a dark corner long ago.
In the past thousands of years, there was only one place in the wilderness, Chang'an Town, that everyone passing by could trust... But that didn't mean that these caravans didn't want to save money.
The road created by Hill is safe and wide, and can even shorten the time to reach Waterdeep City by at least half... If it is a faster horse team, it can even arrive in one-third of the time.
The mages in Chang'an Town are not stupid. They should have known what would happen as soon as they saw this road... The hotels in Chang'an Town are not cheap... at least not as good as those in the port area of Waterdeep City.
Hotels for caravanserais are cheap…
The caravan that would have rested for a long time in Chang'an Town may now only stay for one night and then leave... That means more than just a reduction in the hotel's income... Their saddlery market will also be finished.
Those in the Hubbell family who don't even have the qualifications to be a mage can make a living by being craftsmen!
This was the reason why Chief Hubbell came in a hurry: of course he wanted to come when the road was built, but without an excuse, there was no way he could visit Aglaia City under Kelben's eyes.
Although it is said that the two parties have reconciled...but who will really believe that there is no bad blood between them? I guess...well...maybe the goblins will believe it?
It happened that a certain undead priest was unwilling to try to dig up the gems on the beautiful Tower of Dusk... Yes, as soon as Linn heard the words of the 'Old Sanda King', she knew what she wanted to do.
The Tower of Dusk is the result of a level 22 archmage returning from an adventure. The beautiful dark red tower is said to be inlaid with tens of thousands of gems.
Constructed of so many gems, it is a powerful magic circle that can directly span space: the Tower of Dusk, which was originally hidden directly in the dimensional space, could not even be discovered by a 30-level archmage like Kelben.
Lin En showed a pleasant smile to the leader of the Hubbell clan who was calm and a little anxious: "Master Adanke, please sit down!
You are too polite, you can just sit down... Aglaia City has always not had so many red tapes, and the relationship between elves is not that complicated, so I didn't even pay attention, and I had to ask you to take a seat.
That road leading to the main road! In fact, it was built by our lord for convenience!
Aglaea now has an additional territory located in the Hidden Forest... Hidden Town.
A large number of people pass between the two places every day. The front section can be borrowed from the main road, but of course we can only rely on ourselves to build the back section.
Fortunately, our lord is good at earth magic, so building roads is an easy task for him.
Don't worry, Aglaia City will never take the initiative to attack territory that has not offended us... For Hill, if he has that spare time, he might as well study more magic skills.
He also has no desire for money. Speaking of which, I have never seen anyone richer than him in Faerûn.
Therefore, the Hubbell family does not need to worry about this at all... Archmage Kelben will probably not cause trouble for Aglaia again, right?
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We won't even take action against Waterdeep, let alone an ally of the Black Staff Tower!
Do not worry!
I can even guarantee that even if the Hubbell family goes to Waterdeep from this road, Hill will not have any objections... He is even less likely to engage in road tolls.
He never makes these troublesome little bucks."
Lin En said a long list with a smile, but in return, Patriarch Hubbell's face became increasingly gloomy.
Adan no longer cared about politeness issues: his initial dissatisfaction was because Linn sat down directly after coming in, without even asking him to take a seat first.
If it were the Archmage Hill who appeared here, Adan would certainly not be dissatisfied, but Lin En, the mayor, was just a bard.
Adanko, who had no idea that this was the Chosen One, was not very friendly towards Linn.
He has always felt that bards are not worthy of being called a legal profession... To be able to become the patriarch of the Hubbell family, although his talent as a mage is not great, the pride of a mage is definitely sufficient.
Otherwise, people with relatively normal thinking really cannot support a family of mage whose family members have different temperaments and even different alignments... Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Good live next door, and there is Chaotic Evil and Light Adjustment next to them.
The relationship between them is enough to drive people crazy.
So in this world, it is difficult for a mage family to maintain itself for this reason... Mages are all confident and will not think there is anything wrong with choosing a path different from that of their family. Which mage family really wants to force its descendants to have unified beliefs will definitely end up
miserable.
The evil family welcomes visitors from heaven, and the good family faces the gate of the abyss. It is a matter of course... and it may even be summoned by a level 2 or 3 mage.
Only families that believe that mages are supreme and can choose any camp can continue to exist, so the requirements for the clan leader will be high.
At least in the patriarch's heart, the continuation of the family is the most important thing, otherwise how can anyone support it?
Even though Lin En gave him a blow, Adanke still used his pride to support his dignity. When he heard the first sentence of asking to sit down, he found a good sofa and sat down without any courtesy...
But after Lin En said what he said, Adan could no longer sit still... He was not stupid, and of course he understood the meaning behind his words: Lin En already understood why he had to send it to his door.
Adanke lowered his head and silently calculated the price he could pay to change Aglaia's disapproval of this path.
At the very least, we can’t let everyone take this path!
Then she heard Lin En's faint voice: "Speaking of which, the channel between the Riven River and the Miral River has been opened in the Hidden Forest!"
Adanke suddenly raised his head, how could he not know!
Kelburn's Moonstar organization is more powerful than the Harpers on the Sword Coast, and few things can be hidden from their eyes!
Why don't they have any news?
Seeing Lin En's face, Adanko realized that Yuexing is an organization based mainly on humans... It is not easy to sneak into the top management of Aglaia City.
Even if some people followed Luskan, they would not be able to enter the Hidden Forest.
He knew that there were mithril elves in the Hidden Forest, but he had no information about what the mithril elves were doing in the forest.
Even ordinary elves are not accepted there... It is said that only the ships of the Trasil elves can enter that forest.
He should have thought of it... Adan closed his eyes... After Ruiwen River entered the Hidden Forest, there was no way out. That's because no one dared to cut down trees under the eyes of the wood elves!
But the elves dig the river channel themselves... They have hundreds of ways to move the big tree that cannot be moved to the side.
Adanke smiled bitterly, and there was no need for him to blame Kelben for the slow response of the Moon and Star Organization... Who in the right mind would dig a river in the winter?
In other words, no matter what happens, Chang'an Town will definitely lose the large caravan from Silver Moon City... Adan knows very well that if they can consume the huge caravan from Silver Moon City, they will definitely need to hire ships.
The money... that is a safe passage all the way to the sea.
In the past, you had to consider the troubles of Amberley and pirates when taking the sea route, but now the offshore is safer than the land.
In the future, Chang'an Town can only be more friendly towards small caravans. They must also contact the towns along the road and can no longer bully these small caravans... Otherwise, they may organize themselves and sit together in Silver Moon City.
The ship set off to the west, but as long as there was still a chance on land, these caravans who did not trust each other would still choose to act alone.
Adanke stared at Linn quietly: All of this is because of Lord Aglaia, and that Lord who does not show up at all is most famous for his pursuit of knowledge and huge wealth... That is the ruling party
All the dragons will be envious, and the huge wealth that even the Temple of Wealth can't match.
He knew very well that if he wanted Aglaia City to make concessions on land, Chang'an Town would have to pay more... His bargaining chips were too few.
Lin held her chin and waited for Adanko's decision. Smart people don't need to say too much to know what each other's needs are... One wants Chang'an Town's status as a transportation hub to not disappear completely, and the other wants only
It's knowledge... Lord Aglaia's wealth is enough to make all methods of throwing money at people disappear.
Chang'an Town must resolve this matter before spring arrives, and the caravans always get the news very quickly.
Lin En smiled. He had already obtained the information about the underground world that Hill wanted.