Chapter 1659 Lei Sen's trip, tens of billions of costs
After confirming the visit time, Xia Duo kept the invitation letter. Two days later, he would rely on this invitation letter to go to Jilan Tower!
After that, Xia Duo chatted with Master Aldrin for a while. Of course, he mainly hinted at the benefits of introducing new customers. Unlike what he thought before, he did not directly mention the return of gold coins.
He finally figured out that a bloodline person like Aldrin who could easily come up with a hundred thousand gold coins probably wouldn't look down on his few gold coins.
Can he still introduce a new customer and give him back 100,000 gold coins? Then how much money does he make?
For the time being, all he can do is comfort the other party with intangible benefits. Speaking of which, Xia Duo actually doesn't object to owing others favors. After all, when dealing with favors, they are all adults. There is nothing unacceptable about this.
It's just that it's not too big and it's a favor that you can't afford to pay back.
In a sense, this can be regarded as a manifestation of Xia Duo's "good nature". If he were a person with no bottom line, he would not care whether he could not afford to pay back certain favors.
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After Master Aldrin left, the two recent orders were fully understood, and Sha Duo felt relieved.
In the two days before visiting Jilan Tower, before any new orders arrived, he planned to go to Leisen Territory.
Now that we have decided to make a huge profit from the blood people of Kiran Tower, we can give up the previous consideration of selling high-grade mithril for the time being.
However, most of the money he earns from customizing orders for high-quality magic items is gold coins, which still need to be converted into specific resources.
Otherwise, do you still want him to go back and build a floating city with a pile of gold?
Of course, gold is also one of the building materials of the floating city, but gold is easy to obtain and does not require much consideration. The main thing that needs to be reserved here is mithril.
If it is before the [Mythra] device can be successfully operated, then Shado will need to prepare a large number of five-color gems or arcane crystals.
But now, there is no need to consider these.
All he lacks is mithril, a lot of mithril!
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Leisen collar.
Xia Duo's arrival did not alarm anyone, except Theremin, the Lord of Leisen who had contacted him in advance. After the two met in the teleportation room of the Mage Tower, they did not stay any longer, but went directly to the mithril smelting in Leisen Territory.
workshop.
I haven’t seen you for more than a year, and the place has changed its appearance. Before, there was only one smelting furnace, but now there are three. And further away, Xia Duo can still see four or five air pillars with faint blue flames at the bottom.
Skyrim.
This means that there is at least one workshop for smelting mithril far away.
Seeing Xia Duo looking into the distance, Lord Leisen explained in time: "The workshop here is mainly used to smelt the ores in the territory, while the one in the distance is used for ores from outside."
"Lesen Territory has its own mithril mines. Do we still need to buy them from other places?" Sha Duo asked curiously.
It seems that he doesn't care, but in fact he cares a lot. Buying minerals from other places means that Leisen Territory has become a distribution center for mithril resources.
And what Xia Duo lacks most now is mithril, so how could he not care about this!
In this regard, Lord Leisen's answer was - "Not all territories have the ability to establish their own mithril smelting workshops. There are technical reasons, cost control factors, or just historical inertia.
"Those territories have been selling mithril mines to dwarves or elves in the past. Now my bid is higher, and it can also be settled with standard mithril. This was not a good thing in the past, and they are happy to accept such conditions."
Although Lord Leisen did not directly answer Xia Duo's question, Xia Duo is not a confused person. This is the development model of a mining tycoon!
I didn’t expect that after just over a year, Leisenling would develop so quickly!
For spellcasters, mithril can be said to be hard currency, and it has only been less than a year since Netheril opened up the mithril refining technology. The Leshen Kingdom has taken the lead early, and the future is promising!
"Then I wonder what the standard mithril output of the Lesen Territory is in a month?"
"If someone else asked this question, I would definitely not be able to answer it, but if it were asked by Lord Xia Duo, I would say about 500 pounds."
"There are so many!"
Although Shado believed that Lord Leisen would most likely have reservations, this figure still shocked him. You must know that in the past, the purchase share that the Tower of Time could obtain from the Austrian Law Federation was only 100 pounds a year.
Nowadays, the monthly output of Lesen Territory alone is 500 pounds, and these mithrils can be directly circulated in the market, which is equivalent to the total amount of mithril in Netheril, and it suddenly became abundant.
"Then what is the current standard mithril price?" Xia Duo asked again.
"The average market price is around 600 gold coins."
It’s nearly one-fifth more expensive than before!
Although there are more mithrils on the market, the price has risen a lot. Xia Duo has already been mentally prepared for this situation.
The price of hard currency like mithril is definitely difficult to bring down. The current price increase may just be caused by the retaliatory consumption of Mage Nese. After all, mithril in the past was not as abundant as it is now.
Of course, with the rise of mass-produced magic items, the demand for mithril will continue to rise, which may also drive up the price of mithril.
In addition, after there are more mithrils, mages will no longer be as constrained in using them as they were in the past, which will also bring a lot of demand.
Unless multiple giant mithril rich mines that are easy to mine are suddenly discovered somewhere, it is possible that the price of mithril will fall a little in the short term, but it will continue to rise in the future.
As long as there is no substitute for it, it will be difficult for the price of Mithril to fall back again.
Xia Duo suddenly realized that this node was simply the best time to buy Mithril at a low price.
On the one hand, Netheril has opened up the mithril refining technology, and the Three Kingdoms Mithril Agreement no longer requires Netheril to export mithril, which makes it possible to purchase mithril on a large scale.
On the other hand, Nese mages' huge demand for mithril has not yet emerged. Although there may be a temporary price increase caused by retaliatory consumption, there will definitely be a small decline later.
When demand surges, the current Mithril price may never come back. If you want to buy Mithril at the current price, you may have to wait until there is excess production capacity.
As for which day it was, it was difficult for Xia Duo to guess.
After all, the development of Nese Magic is changing with each passing day, and it is almost expected that once a large consumer of mithril like the Floating City appears, it will be difficult to have excess mithril production capacity.
Currently, the floating city designed by Chateau requires at least 100,000 pounds of standard mithril, including all internal facilities.
If converted into gold coins at the current market price of mithril, it would cost almost 60 million gold coins.
Calculated based on the current earning rate of Tower of Time's monthly income of 300,000 gold coins, it will take almost 17 years to save enough gold coins. If other materials are included, it may take even longer.
Of course, the construction of the floating city can be carried out in stages, which is exactly what Xia Duo did. If you really have to save all the resources in advance to start construction, you will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse!