As the night got darker and the moon rose into the sky, John and his group left the underground black market through another secret passage and took a carriage back to the mountainous area.
It's not that they don't want to continue shopping in the black market, but they don't have enough gold pounds on hand.
Even though Arthur had warned him before coming, John thought he was fully prepared, but he also underestimated the price of extraordinary materials. Only seven or eight items had already cost him a full five hundred gold pounds.
It's almost clean.
That's five hundred gold pounds! The two-story shop he bought on Daffodil Street only cost more than three hundred pounds.
Klaus only brought two hundred pounds of gold tickets, which made him feel very uncomfortable as he was happy to see Hunter but did not satisfy his own shopping desire at all. However, it is not easy to tell me that I am Hessenser in the black market.
As the eldest son of the family, people would give him credit, so he could only wait until he got the money next time.
John had to sigh at this, the noble family had no surplus food!
Even if he and Klaus had their own income after the separation of the family, he was considered a wealthy person among the aristocratic children, and he still had to worry about money.
Different from the previous jade and jade hunting, most of the materials he was interested in were also valuable in this world. This was known from the several expensive extraordinary alchemical materials that Klaus purchased.
Fortunately, the jade and jadeite ores he ordered before have been arriving one after another, which alleviated his shortcomings in extraordinary materials. Gold and jade are almost omnipotent spiritual materials for Xuanmen monks, and their properties are peaceful, so many materials can be used.
Gold and jade instead.
On the way back, John wondered if he should make some extraordinary items to make money?
Compared with those deceptive things, John is still very optimistic about the prospects of the amulets he produces. With his spiritual power, the amulets made using the method of Taoist consecration and blessing do not require extraordinary spiritual materials. Generally, gold, silver, and jade will suffice.
, although such temporary magic weapons have the disadvantage of timeliness and may lose their effect in half a year or one year, but compared to the many deceptive gadgets I have seen on the black market before, this is definitely a conscientious product.
After thinking about it, John decided that when his shop was renovated, he would sell a batch of amulets he refined and make a lot of money.
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At the same time, thousands of miles away to the south of the White Eagle Federation.
In a palace with the toughness and Roman luxury of the Holy Empire, as well as some cold and gorgeous palaces of the Gothic Dynasty.
The old King William III sat quietly on the throne, listening to the Prime Minister's report below.
"Your Majesty, the above is the final selection. Wait until two months before the event starts, and you can send the invitation letter in advance."
The third generation nodded.
"That's it! Send the invitation letter to the Brooke royal family first. After all, they are the farthest away."
There was a hint of disgust in the king's tone, but due national etiquette was indispensable, he still ordered the prime minister to do this.
After the Prime Minister stepped down, a woman in royal attire who looked to be in her twenties, but was extremely mature and beautiful, with a hint of resentment and desolation in her eyebrows walked in from the back of the palace.
It was Helena, the eldest princess of the Emsdam royal family who was coming to say goodbye to the king.
"Father, do you have to invite Brooke? Can't you directly establish the direct bloodline of the branch of the family as the candidate?"
Charles IV looked at his daughter, a trace of love and guilt flashed in his eyes.
"This is a decision jointly made by me and several ministers. The White Eagle Federation is aggressive. Although we are not afraid of them, they will not prevent the enemy from disrupting the succession of the throne. I have to choose to involve Brooke to muddy the waters."
Princess Helena, who looked like a young man in her twenties but was actually nearly forty years old, said dissatisfiedly:
"I understand what your father and your ministers are doing, but I did not give up the throne just to let the Brooke royal family get their hands on our sacred crown of Emsdan! When the Heisenser family became a nobility, the Stuart family
Franz was still a barbarian on the seashore. If the empire had not suffered too much in resisting the invasion of the pagans, and Franz and Ivan were holding back the careerists within the empire, all the emperors of the past empires would have unified the old empire long ago.
How could the mainland turn Brook, a small island country, into an empire on which the sun never sets?"
The old king smiled helplessly and said:
"Everything you said is right, but the world didn't know earlier. In the past two hundred years, the empire has been tricked by the Holy See and other countries, intentionally or unintentionally. However, the results of the other side are not good, and the two religious wars have been broken up.
Franz's vitality, and after they overthrew the monarchy twice and established a republic, the internal conflicts were greater than the external ones, and they completely lost the opportunity to compete for continental and world hegemony. After all, there is no one like Bonaparte now!"
"As for Brooke, it seems that they sat back and watched the battles between the mainland countries and took the opportunity to become the biggest winner in the colonial era. However, their small local area is their biggest disadvantage. If they wield a sledgehammer with small hands, there will be a crisis one day. As one of the most disgraceful characters,
Isn't the Holy See of Light split into old and new factions and large and small factions? Even the Pope was invited out of the Holy City twice and was manipulated by Franz. Now his prestige has been greatly lost. There are various good and evil gods outside.
The church is always watching, trying to take a bite out of the corrupt Holy See of Light."
"It can be said that there is basically no winner in this conspiracy that has lasted for two hundred years! Maybe there is a winner, and that is His Majesty the King of Knights. After all, among the ancestors of the empire, he is the only one who has successfully ascended to the throne and held the throne high."
Listening to her father's analysis, Helena said: "Father, I understand everything you said, but I just have resentment in my heart..."
The old king patted his daughter's hand lovingly: "Since you are dissatisfied with those outsiders participating in this competition, why not help that little guy you like? Didn't you say before that you would go to the White Eagle Federation to inspect him?"
Princess Helena's eyes lit up.
"Why don't I say goodbye to you now? So, father, you agree with me cheating? No, I shouldn't say cheating. I am also doing this out of the kindness of the elders to the younger ones."
"My father, you are still as wise as you were when you were young. It should be that time has made you wiser. Anyway, I have nothing to do in the country. After so many years, I should go out for a walk..."
William III reached out and stroked his beloved daughter's smooth hair. As a mage, she had enough means to protect her skin and hair from being damaged by volatile substances in the laboratory.
"Emsdan is still too young, and there is no strong man like the national-level Golden Master. Xue Tong and White Wolf need to have a transcendent who is in charge of the country to deter the White Eagle Federation, otherwise you take them all there.
The safest thing is that you should listen to White’s advice more when you go out this time, and don’t be reluctant to give up the rare items that can save your life when you encounter danger.”
"Father, don't worry! Selma will be busy cleaning up the poisonous insects lurking in the kingdom recently. You know that neither White nor I are good at this, and I have given up the throne. It is estimated that no conspirators will be interested in murdering me. What's more, White and I have given up the throne.
I can’t wait for those guys to take action! Exposed enemies are always easier to deal with than enemies hidden in the dark. White and I are either vegetarians or master assassins. If we can’t beat them, it’s easy to escape.”
Touching her belly, Helena's eyebrows flashed with a ruthless expression as she thought of her infertility situation.
Watching his beloved daughter leave, William IV sighed secretly.
"There is really no warmth between countries. If we had not been soft-hearted..."