Xia Duo left the floating city early and returned to the magic ship. After a night of hard work, the commander of Zhanjit City had quelled all the rebels. Finally, according to tax officer Jam's statistics, a total of 2,600 salable slaves were captured.
More than a hundred people!
According to the price negotiated by Sha Duo and Jam at the beginning, each slave was 100 makaras, and the total was only 260,000 makaras, which was 260,000 gold coins.
This is not expensive for Shado, who can use arcane crystals to settle. If there are no restrictions on Imaska, he can buy out all the excess slaves here.
Although Sha Duo had said before that there were no more arcane crystals left, no one thought that hard currency such as energy gems could be obtained easily.
After a transaction, both parties were very satisfied with the result. Jam felt that it was a great deal to exchange some slaves for cherished energy gems.
For Xia Duo, no matter what it is, no matter how high the opponent's price is, as long as it can be settled with arcane crystals, he will make a profit.
And because he was in Imasca, far away from the Western Continent, Xia Duo didn't have to worry about the subsequent impact. Even if he only made this one-shot deal, the trip would be completely worthwhile.
Shado temporarily placed the slaves who were traded in the Arcane Garden of the Floating City. He planned to deal with those people when there were less things on hand.
Being left out for a period of time can also allow those people to think about their own situation and absorb and assimilate into the territory.
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In today's Zhanjit City, most of the rebels have been turned into slaves, and the rest of the transactions were completed before the rebels rose up.
Afterwards, Xia Duo and Percher did not stay any longer, and soon left Occupy City, thinking of the next trading place and speeding away.
On the way, Shado accidentally or unintentionally chatted with Jam about the slaves in Imasca, "I just noticed that those slaves are obviously different from the orthodox Imasca people. Is there any explanation for this?"
"Those are the Mulan people, the great masters of craftsmen, the natural slaves that His Majesty the Great Emperor Kotan sought for the people of Imaskar, because they have dull qualifications and will never be able to become craftsmen."
When talking about the Mulan people, there was no special disdain in Jam's eyes, as if he was talking about an inanimate dead thing, or how could there be any reason for an owner to despise his own property?
"In Imasca, in addition to the Mulan people, there are also some Kadi people, Dupa people and Urgas people who were reduced to slavery due to crimes or other reasons. But because these groups have craftsman talents,
Therefore, as long as you work hard to become a craftsman, anyone who is not a slave due to sin can escape from slavery."
This sounds reasonable, but slavery itself is the biggest unreasonable thing. Chateau just echoed it without expressing his inner thoughts.
"So, Tax Collector Jam, who are the Imaskans?"
"If we only look at it from the perspective of blood, the earliest Imasca people were actually the Dupa people. However, due to the rise of the masters of craftsmen in the past generations, the concept of Imasca people is far from limited by blood. As long as they can become craftsmen, they are all
You could call them Imascans."
"Then do you think I can become a craftsman?"
"Of course. As long as you swear allegiance to the great Lord of Craftsmen, even outsiders will have the opportunity to become Imaskars."
"hehe."
Of course, it is impossible for Shado to swear allegiance to Emperor Imasca, but it can also be seen from Jam's answer that the degree of confidentiality of the creation magic system on Imasca is actually far less high than he imagined.
As long as you swear allegiance, you can get the possibility to become a craftsman. This threshold is indeed a bit excessive. After all, even swearing may force a spellcaster to agree to a too harsh personal dependence relationship.
The essence will not be much different from Netheril's agreement to join the Mage Tower organization.
Judging from Soriel's experience, the craftsman path here can actually be purchased with money, but now that Xia Duo is an outsider, Jam controls the purchase channel.
If you want to buy it, you have to bleed a lot!
But as long as you can buy it, what does it matter if you spend a little money?
Thinking like this, Sha Duo already had a plan in mind. During the rest of the voyage, he did not mention any topic about creation magic with Jam.
Until the magic ship comes to the next city——
"That is the holy place in the hearts of all Imaskars, the residence of the great master of craftsmen and the great emperor Omenode - Inupras."
When talking about the Master of Craftsmen, Jamu showed reverence and love no matter what environment he was in, which made Sha Duo curious.
Why would such a ruler who has brought the country to the brink of collapse still have such staunch supporters? But then I thought about it, this Jam is actually the tax collector brought by Ormanod to supervise the transaction. If this is all disloyal to the boss,
If so, it would be impossible for this country to survive.
If you think about it this way, I am afraid that the trading locations that Jam previously chose were also deliberately selected. They should all be areas that are pro-Omanod and have relatively stable rule.
But even so, there was a farce of rebels attacking the city. One can imagine how chaotic other areas would be.
Looking at the majestic city lying quietly on the plains in the distance, Sha Duo could faintly smell a trace of decay in his heart, but in front of Jam, he could not say that, but——
"Taxmaster Jam, do the Imaskans like purple very much?"
"Mage Athos, you must have thought so after seeing the color of the buildings in Inupras City, but the fact may be exactly the opposite. The reason why the buildings in the city are purple is just because they use purple stones from the southern mountains.
"
"What's so special about that material? Do Imaskar people insist on using it even if they don't like it?"
"That kind of stone has been specially treated and has a high affinity for space. It is an important material for building the teleportation center. In fact, half of the Inupras you see now is built inside the etheric layer. The one in the sky
A purple star, to a certain extent, is the projection of Inupras."
"So that's the case, but can such secrets be disclosed to outsiders casually?"
"What kind of secret is this? As long as the guests go to Inuplas in person, they will see more than what I said, not less."
What Jam said made Shado more interested in Inupras. As the magic ship got closer, the capital city that looked generally purple from a distance finally revealed more of its true colors.
The first is the huge tower that towers into the sky, surpassing almost any other building Sha Duo has seen so far, except for the floating city.
Around the giant tower, there is a vast urban area with purple as the main color. Unfortunately, looking from the sky, it can be clearly seen that the commercial atmosphere in the city is not active, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets.