The Tower of the Great Sage is not at a traffic intersection, and there are no special resources nearby. Even the nearest village was deserted not long ago because of the tower owner.
But there are still more travelers coming to or passing by the Tower of the Great Sage. There are adventurers, mercenaries, merchants, and noble representatives, either with a purpose or without. Of course, after businessmen smell business opportunities, they will be the most diligent people.
The mall system opened by the Magicians Association is undoubtedly a powerful trading tool. Someone once came to the Tower of the Great Sage and mentioned this idea to Lin. However, after hearing that the association had paid for the mall system, everyone backed down.
Selling at a reduced price? What will that make people who bought it expensive before think? Kill those who sell at a reduced price, and then kill those who buy cheap. This is the confidence of the Magician Association.
As for cooperation and shareholding, Lin just smiled at such suggestions. You can't trick anyone by tricking your father. The Magician Association is not your biological father. If you cheated me, it would be just right for me to beat my son. Lin still wants to live a small life comfortably, and does not want to have a wealthy and powerful life.
Therefore, these merchants settled for the next best thing and came to the Tower of the Great Sage to purchase the specialty products in their eyes, magic stones with browser systems. That's right, I don't know since when, magic stones that replicate browser magic have become a hot commodity.
Strictly speaking, the browser magic stone can only be regarded as a magic prop, which is an item that can be used by ordinary people without magic power and does not require any talent. Of course, basic literacy is all you need.
If you bring your own magic stone, it only costs I Kil to copy the browser magic to the association. Transport it to other places and resell it to other nobles or adventurers. You can add III to V Gil (3-5 gold) to the price of the magic stone.
There is such a price difference because the only two places that can copy and sell browser magic knowledge are the Wulian City in the headquarters of Xijia District and the Tower of the Great Sage. If you don't want to travel long distances, you can only accept the merchant's price.
Other tower owners who own magic towers can also use the energy pool to install browsers and then infinitely copy the magic stones of the browser system. But they only dare to secretly use it for their apprentices, and they dare not blatantly sell this knowledge to the outside world.
Because by doing that, it was not Lin, a newbie magician with no background, who was offended, but the senior officials of the Xijia branch of the Magicians Association. There were only five inspector teams before, and they worked together to invite a certain tower master to return to their headquarters in Wulian City as a permanent guest. Who would be so short-sighted?
Of course, the association's big move is not without cost. When the news that someone else was selling browser magic stones came out, as the convoy of carriages and horses from the affiliated chamber of commerce arrived to transport supplies, the steward on board the carriage asked about it insinuatingly to see how the tower owner would react. .
However, someone pretended to be respectful and presented an account book, recording all the merchants who came to the Tower of the Great Sage to purchase browser magic stones and their quantities, and of course the share amount originally agreed with the association. Other than that, nothing else was said about related events.
Generally speaking, magicians sell their own knowledge without going through an association, so they don't have to pay the commission, but Lin still followed the original verbal agreement. Some people may question whether there will be more for less. But Lin gave him what he didn't need to give originally. If he really cared about it so clearly, it wouldn't just be a blank look.
Faced with the fact that other magicians also came to make money, Lin did not explain it clearly, but his attitude was: if the association sells, there will be a commission; if I sell, the association will also take a commission; if others sell, the association will take care of it.
Then there was the big event where the inspectors of the fifth team went to visit a certain tower. The intensity and determination of the authorities to curb piracy amazes those who have experienced this on earth. Although it is difficult to stop copying secretly for use by friends and relatives, but if it is sold on a large scale by merchants, you have to be prepared to be greeted by the association.
However, competition in the magical world does not matter much to ordinary businessmen. They only focus on their own profitable parts. This means that the magic stones required for browser magic do not necessarily have to be of standard size. It was about the size of a human fist, and it had some weight.
If you cut a small magic stone into the size of a fingernail and add some silver and gold pieces, it can be easily processed into a piece of jewelry. The value of necklaces, earrings, rings and other items that are both beautiful and practical in the eyes of the nobles depends on the other person's IQ.
Therefore, a large number of merchants came to these two places, each time carrying dozens or hundreds of magic stones, spreading the forum to the world other than magicians. This is a change that the senior leaders of the Xijia District Chapter did not expect, but they are also happy to see it.
The behavior of the businessmen represents that the forum, an information medium, has officially entered the world of ordinary people from the hands of magicians, and has begun to spread beyond the Xijia District.
The most direct manifestation is that due to the efficient circulation of information, people pursuing interests also move in large numbers. Businessmen have nothing to say. Another large group is the adventurer and mercenary groups that are difficult to separate clearly.
In the past, such people could only stay in the stronghold set up by the Adventurer's Guild or the Mercenary Guild--usually a tavern--wait for a suitable mission to appear, then accept the mission and set off to the destination to complete the mission. 'Ten days of waiting, ten days of walking, half a day of fighting', these ten words describe the situation of the adventurers and mercenaries very well.
Before receiving clear information, these people did not dare to leave their original stronghold rashly and go to other places for development.
Nowadays, there are forums. Originally, it was just a magician in a group team, posting news about himself in a semi-showy manner. It quickly evolved into the exchange of information from various places, and then the two major guilds' branches in the southwest peninsula of the mainland also established discussion sections on the forum, and the rules for task release were quickly completed.
Perhaps the business of the tavern strongholds of the two major guilds has deteriorated. Instead, various adventurer groups and mercenary teams have gone to places where their force is needed more efficiently, solving many old age problems in remote areas. As a result, the credibility of the two major guilds has improved a lot in the evaluations of civilians and nobles.
It is difficult for the top management of the two major guilds to evaluate whether this change is good or bad, but for the adventurers and mercenaries, their income has actually increased. Although it has also become much harder, after all, they are less wasted waiting. rest time.
It turns out that remote villages faced the threat of Warcraft, and they had to send their own personnel to the guild stronghold to ask for help. The two major guilds are waiting for a suitable group to take over the task before heading to the entrusted village. Usually as long as there are survivors in the village, that's great efficiency.
One of the most common situations is that when the adventurers who accepted the commission arrive at their destination, they only have to collect the corpses and conquer the monsters as revenge. Although the reward may have been given to the two major guilds first, and the guilds will also give it to the team that completed the task, there is no one in the village asking for help. This is inevitably frustrating, and many budding adventurers cannot overcome this psychological barrier.
The second situation is that when the adventurers who accepted the commission arrive at the destination, they find that the task has been completed by the adventurers passing by, and of course they will not get the reward. Now the travel expenses were wasted, but there was no income. Mr. Baobao protested.
The forum has undoubtedly changed the problem of low efficiency in the past. As long as the adventurers or mercenaries are willing to work hard, they will be in a state of "walking for ten days, fighting for half a day, then walking for ten days, and fighting for half a day". There is no time to wait.
A recent major incident highlighted the terrible efficiency brought by the forum.
The origin is the Kingdom of Alava within the Sijia District branch of the Magician Association. A small border noble under it issued a task of 'exploring the abandoned mines'. A team had just finished their mission and planned to return to the town where the mercenary guild had a stronghold. The mercenaries who were getting paid accepted this mission from the forum. In their eyes, it was a mission to kill time.
The next day, this mission was upgraded to a 'discover gray dwarf' extermination mission. The gray dwarves are quite notorious among the uncivilized races. Basically, when humans find each other, they destroy them first and then consider other things.
It's the same this time. There are constant requests for help on the forum, and people are constantly announcing how many people they have killed and how many they have harmed.
Eventually, a large barracks was formed outside the abandoned mine. Adventurers and mercenaries continued to come from far away and enter the mine; or they brought wounded soldiers out of the mine to rest temporarily. At the same time, there are also caravans bringing various supplies, weapons, and food, and sometimes they also take away trophies from mercenaries and adventurers.
For a total of twelve days, after an intense battle for the tunnels and clearing out the original mine tunnels and new tunnels, more than 500 highly skilled warriors and magicians broke into a gray dwarf settlement and Completely destroy it. Afterwards, statistics showed that a total of MCXVII (1117) gray dwarves were killed, and the casualties on the human side were far lower than this number.
This event was recorded as a 'major victory' in the records of the Mercenary Guild and the Adventurer Guild. The trophies plundered from the settlements also allowed those who went into battle to return home with great rewards; the relatives of those who were injured or died also received compensation.
Afterwards, some people analyzed that this gray dwarf settlement should have accidentally dug a passage to the surface world. However, without being completely prepared, they were attacked by ground forces. I originally thought it was just a small fight, but I didn't expect that an encounter turned into a decisive battle.
By the time the gray dwarves woke up and began to seriously face humans with a warlike attitude, they were already at a disadvantage, and then they were all finished.
If this settlement had not been discovered and this group of gray dwarves had not been exterminated, when they broke out of the surface, the neighboring noble territories would have faced a disaster. At this time, the unprepared human side did not know how much it would cost to achieve the same results.
Of course, in this incident, no one sang about the importance of the forum. They only focused on the heroes in this war of annihilation. Several groups that were originally unknown have become widely known due to their outstanding performances. There are also bards who compose poems and sing them everywhere. But such achievements were unimaginable in the world before the forum.
Another event where the forum played a big role was the ongoing turmoil in the Warcraft King War in the Dodorian Mountains.
Whenever the king of a region dies, the monsters in that region will continue to make trouble until the next king appears. In the process, either those who have lost their strength due to fighting and are in urgent need of food, or those who are expelled losers, these monsters will break into the human world and prey on people who are unable to resist.
In the past, the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary Guild would of course issue summonses to call on people with lofty ideals to protect civilized society. However, it is still limited by efficiency issues. The warriors and magicians who respond quickly are usually the same group of people active near the area. The ones with the larger number are the local nobles. But the nobility is a group that has more than enough self-preservation but not enough offense.
But this time, the Thunder and Lightning Legion, belonging to Earl Sita, who was on the front line, shined brightly. With the legion as the backbone, the warriors who came quickly with support after receiving the call from the forum, firmly guarded the borders of the human world, and even showed signs of advancing into the forest under the Dodorian Mountains.
The Kingdom of Huesca to which this place belongs has even begun to discuss whether to send pioneer nobles to open up new territories.
No matter what, life on the peninsula on the southwestern edge of the mainland has been affected by the forum and has become different from before. And all this happened in less than a year.
