At the Earl's Mansion in Maned Wolf City, the housekeeper was still discussing with the Earl.
"Sir, will the young master take people to the Frostwolf Forest?"
"New horses have been negotiated. Counting the remaining horses, it is enough to form a team of knights for him. Besides, the purpose of going to suppress the bandits this time is not to kill them all. First, let him get familiar with how to operate alone. Join the knights, and get acquainted with the future barons and viscounts." The count said this, but in his heart, he remembered the promise brought by the representative of the Bai Xiao family half a month ago.
"Lord Earl, as long as you can send troops, our Baixiao family is willing to provide you with an ice potion! The raw material of this potion is the very rare blue ice grass. If we win, our family is also willing to provide you with an ice potion. Intermediate potion." The son of the eldest son of Bai Xiao, the eldest grandson of Dusen Bai Xiao, came to negotiate in person. This young man, who was younger than Fernando, was already a high knight.
The magic potion made from blue ice grass can relieve the count's wounds. Only if he can hold on long enough can he persist until Fernando becomes a knight and is eligible to succeed the count.
Being able to produce such a rare magic plant made the earl feel emotional: Now that the Bai Xiao family is backed by the throne and the Fairy Queen of the Royal Capital, the family's strength is far from what it was before. I'm afraid that once Li Qi becomes a thing of the past, the Bai Xiao family will be able to Became a Duke.
"Say hello to the people on the black market and sell some unused magic fairies to Viscount Lant," the old earl told the housekeeper.
"I have spent too much money recently and need to get some funds back. Don't give it to him all at once, sell it bit by bit."
. There will be a dance at the Earl's Mansion in the evening to welcome all the viscounts and barons. Spring is approaching, and a new group of demon-lovers will be promoted in each territory. Each family is also willing to use this opportunity to showcase the fresh knight apprentices to their colleagues.
However, Lant really doesn't like this kind of social activities, and he is afraid that if he is absent, other nobles will arrange some inexplicable tasks or rumors for him.
We could only use the time before the banquet to go to the black market first. We still went to the underground market from the tavern last time. Last time, Lant only had a general look at this shop, the magic plant shop and the magic goblin shop.
The black market bookstore is located in a corner. After entering, you can only feel that it is a small store. A narrow passage is lined with bookshelves on both sides. Most of the bookshelves are hand-copied books, and a few printed books are the teachings of various gods. Most of these books were uniformly printed by various churches in the Temple Alliance and then given to well-known believers, lords, or various grassroots church organizations.
"Sir? What do you want to see?" The shopkeeper dressed as a magician's apprentice came over to greet him.
"Are there any magic school textbooks here?" The textbooks are still the books that Lant is most concerned about.
"No, it is difficult for such a book to end up in the black market." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, but the bookstores on the border did not have such rare items.
"Are there any maps? Or books introducing interesting local facts?"
"Follow me," he said, leading Lant around the bookshelf on the left and to the back. There were two rows of cave-like bookshelves here, and the bookshelf against the wall was more than 3 meters high.
The store owner took Rand to find an area and said that everything Rand wanted should be here. Lant had plenty of time in the afternoon, and there were only a few dozen books on the bookshelf, so he looked through them one by one.
The underground black market outside the bookstore always only has relatively dim light, although inside the bookstore, it will make your eyes sting.
Lant flipped through several books carefully. They were all collections of local anecdotes from various parts of the kingdom, collections of big family gossip and local legends. None of them made him feel bright.
Lant was the only customer in the store. The shopkeeper looked at Lant as if he was going through a sieve and felt that he sincerely wanted to buy something useful, so he brought over a bunch of parchment-bound books.
"Sir, I don't know what specific content you are looking for. These books all meet your requirements. It's just that some of them may be a little damaged because they have been for too long." This shopkeeper made Lant very satisfied, although there was no real one like him here. Wanted, but his attitude was very sincere.
Rant casually flipped through the parchment scrolls that the boss brought over. One of the notes interested Rant very much. The age of this notebook was difficult to verify, but there were several very secret runes on the cover and back cover. Rant looked at it. very clear.
After opening it, there was a booklet recording the geography and products of the Benma Plain. At the time recorded in the booklet, the Benma Kingdom had not yet been destroyed.
"Is it because of these runes that such an old book can be preserved?" Lant thought while rubbing the runes on the scroll.
The galloping horse plains in the booklet did not mention the large barbarians, the black-scaled horses, or even Yeqi City. There were only the names and sizes of more than a dozen cities, and some ruins.
Of course, the term "magic turbulence" has been mentioned in the booklet, indicating that it is a book within 1,000 years old.
Lant did not hesitate and bought this book with seriously out-of-date information. Although a thousand years have passed, some of the topography, landforms and even mineral veins recorded in it should have remained unchanged.
In addition to a thousand-year-old brochure, Lant also purchased a large amount of waste paper from the bookstore. The bookstore has been in existence for many years and has stored many books and brochures that were damaged by insects and mold. Lant plans to re-pulp these waste papers into pulp. into new paper.
At the entrance of the magic materials store, Lant encountered a slave auction, the kind of slave auction Lant had seen on TV in his previous life. They were all tall herbivorous creatures with feet on their heads, or hooves underneath their legs. The orcs were taken in turns to be brought to a stone platform.
The slave owner loudly announced the slave's age, height, weight, health, and what he was good at, and then a group of people below began to bid. All slaves were female, and the base price was 10 gold coins. Basically, the taller the slave, the more expensive the final transaction price would be. .
"The nobles in this world have unique tastes," Lant said as he watched a female orc who was more than 3 meters tall, with antlers and ears on her head, and hooves on her legs being called 70 gold coins, and kept thinking in her heart. sigh.
"Could it be that they want to eat deer antlers?" The 7 or 8 slaves were quickly bought, and the crowd around the table gradually dispersed. Lant originally didn't want to join in the fun, but to his surprise, the owner of the magic materials store recognized them. rand.
"Sir, please come to the store and have a look. We have prepared good things for you." The store was extremely flattering to Lant, which caught him off guard.
"For me? Do you know me?" Lant pointed at himself.
"Look what you said, the owner of our store is from the Knights of the Maned Wolf. Who among the knights in the northwest region doesn't know you?" When the owner of the Lant Follower material store entered, he realized that he was incomparable in the entire black market. No one knows, but everyone knows that Lant has at least tens of thousands of gold coins in his hands, and has hundreds of demon worshipers under his command. There is no doubt that Lant is the largest consumer market for magic supplies in the Northwest Territory.
