Soon, more than ten days had passed since "John"'s death, and the impact of the incident gradually dissipated in the upper circles of Jinsha Port.
During this period of time, John has been practicing hard under the identity of Klaus and rarely goes out. It seems that he is working hard to prepare for the family trial mission in the near future.
In more than ten days, both Marvin's contact to purchase the manor and Drew's repair of the damaged Daffodil Street store were completed.
Five days ago, John had moved out of Hessensel Manor and moved into a large medium-sized manor in the west of the Mid-levels.
Although the location here is a bit off, on the edge of the Mid-Levels Mountains, its advantage is its large area, covering an area of just over thirty acres.
You must know that this is not the kind of country manor with a farm, with hundreds or even thousands of acres of land at every turn, but Jinsha Port where every inch of land is valuable. Even Heisensele Manor, the most luxurious manor in the mountainous area, only has an area of two meters.
About ten acres. After all, the nobles do not need to grow their own vegetables. They have large-scale farms, pastures, plantations and other industries in the suburbs and countryside. They can just ask the servants to transport what they want to eat.
Therefore, as the face of a family, the manor in the Mid-Levels Mountains naturally has to focus its money and energy on the creation of exquisite and luxurious buildings and garden scenery.
The manor purchased by John is truly unique in such a large area in Jinsha Port City.
The 30 acres here are as large as nearly 100 acres in the previous life. The land of more than 60,000 square meters can be used to build a medium-sized residential complex housing thousands of households.
The original owner of this manor was a descendant of a nobleman from the Roman region. During the coup that year, the federal government deprived him of many properties. After coming to the west, he also belonged to a lower-level family among the aristocrats. Naturally, there was no way to do so in the core of the Mid-Levels Mountains.
In order to compete with those powerful families, this vast but remote land was originally used to build a manor.
And because of the aristocratic reputation and luxury-loving temperament, that family spent a lot of money to build this manor, filling almost half of their net worth. Over the decades, they built this manor into a palace as luxurious as an ancient Roman style. In terms of architecture,
It is so exquisite and sturdy that it is not inferior to the manors of several big nobles in the core area.
Therefore, this classical-style manor is also very famous among the upper class circles of Jinsha Port.
This time it happened that the second generation owner of the manor failed in his investment and was in urgent need of cash flow. In order to maintain the last dignity, he had to sell the manor.
Although the location is remote, it is still in the middle of the mountainous area. The wealthy merchants on Ailong Street are not qualified to buy. The small nobles who are qualified to buy suddenly cannot afford so much money. The powerful nobles have their own manor and want to buy it.
It’s also not appropriate to buy it elsewhere. It’s not appropriate to buy an additional manor in the middle of the mountainous area.
Therefore, this manor with an asking price of fifteen thousand pounds has been on the market for more than a month and no one has taken any interest.
According to John, he is only planning to find a smaller manor to buy. After all, although there are many powerful people in the Mid-Levels Mountains, there will inevitably be a few down-and-out nobles whose families are not able to maintain their dignity. There are still a few manors for sale.
However, after Marvin discovered this expensive but remote manor, he had an idea and reported it to John.
"You mean that run-down manor?"
Since the establishment of this manor, the family has gone from bad to worse, and now they have to sell the manor to maintain their respectability. Therefore, the aristocratic circle in Jinsha Port nicknamed the manor as the Broken Family Manor, and no one mentioned the original name.
After seeing Marvin's strong recommendation, John decided to go to the manor to have a look in person.
After all, it is a high price of fifteen thousand gold pounds. In this era when the annual tax revenue of a big city like Jinsha Port does not exceed one million gold pounds, even in Jinsha Port, excluding those big families, there are few people who can come up with so much cash.
There won't be more than a hundred people.
What made John really determined to buy this place was when he personally inspected the house and discovered that the aura or magic power in this area was relatively abundant, almost as good as that in the core area of Hessensel Manor.
You must know that in this world of extraordinary power, when nobles choose to build manor houses, although there is no Feng Shui here, they must hire professionals to check the composition of the land.
Places that tend to gather negative energy are not only inhabited by living people, but also used as cemeteries for the dead. Ordinary people don't know, but the upper class people all know that it is powerful. Once a corpse turns into a corpse, spend money to find someone to deal with it.
, is also a trouble.
Therefore, there are also professional exploration scholars in this world who are similar to Feng Shui masters.
John felt that when the manor was first explored, they must have been half-assed or had not discovered it at the time. It was only in the days after the manor was built that the aura of the place gradually flourished.
This should be a place where magic power gathers. In the words of the previous life, there should be a spiritual vein under the manor, forming an earth vein spiritual cave. Although it may not be large in scale, it is definitely no worse than the core area in the mid-level mountainous area.
So he spent more than 10,000 gold pounds to get it, and he definitely made a lot of money.
According to the supernatural world, this place where magic power gathers is a blessed place that can speed up cultivation, and long-term residence will increase the chance of awakening the extraordinary bloodline.
The mage towers built by mysterious and powerful mages usually have to choose this kind of place to build.
John spent most of his own money in the past few days, and now it is less than 500 gold pounds, but Klaus still has 5,000 pounds of cash and tens of thousands of gold and silver jewelry stored in a safe in his small vault. The latter is gram
The inheritance left to him by Rouse's parents.
His mother was a Countess of Franz. She married his father with a rich family fortune, which made many noble children envious. Naturally, these properties are now left to Klaus.
Lucien, the cheap uncle, couldn't stop his nephew from leaving, so he was willing to offer John the money, but John, who was not short of money at the moment, refused.
Finally, with Marvin's efforts, John bought the manor for thirteen thousand five hundred gold pounds.
Is more than 10,000 gold pounds expensive?
Of course it’s expensive! Generally, a small manor only costs a few thousand pounds, and that is already the entire net worth of some small and medium-sized wealthy businessmen. This is not 10,000 yuan. Calculated based on the gold content alone, 10,000 gold pounds is roughly equivalent to more than 1,000 pounds in John’s previous life.
Ten thousand yuan, and if compared with the purchasing power of cash, the price will be several times higher.
In other words, John bought a mansion worth tens of millions. With such a location and area, if such a mansion were to be bought in a first-tier city in his previous life, it would probably be impossible to get it for less than 100 million. And there is no place in a big city.
Build you a manor of hundreds of acres.
Therefore, this kind of ancient Roman-style manor with exquisite and luxurious architecture is worth the price for him just for the buildings above it, not to mention that it also comes with such a large piece of land, which is very useful whether it is used for practicing magic or setting up formations.
Generous.
The previous name was removed, and the fancy carved words of Silver Moon Manor were replaced on the marble porch stone wall at the entrance.
Due to a lack of manpower and the area of the new residence was too large, John also borrowed a group of servants from the Hessenser family to clean up the entire manor, leaving only a few familiar faces who had previously served Klaus as maids and male servants.
Take care of the daily life of the manor.
Moreover, on the pretext of focusing on cultivation, John did not hold any celebrations after moving into his new home. He did not attend any of the parties or receptions at Sands Harbor these days. He only took the time to go to the Victoria Detective Agency on Wensley Street.
So, I sent the rewards from the first two commissions to my predecessor’s two detective friends.
He didn't sit in the office for too long because he always felt that the female detective looked at him a little strangely.
Did you discover something?
John couldn't help but think about it as he left, but then he forgot about it, because after more than ten days of hard training in seclusion, he finally restored his strength to level 5 less than three months before the start of the trial mission.
The ranger has reached a state of transcendence that is about to break through.