In the prime of life, old age, and extremely old, these are just simple descriptions of the dragon's own age.
But when it comes to ancient, ancient and ancient times, it does not simply describe the age and status of the dragon, but is directly related to the years, just like it represents the literal meaning.
There are no ancient dragons less than 800 years old. The ancient dragons start a thousand years ago. The ancient dragons are at least an ancient existence that has shocked the entire continent for more than 1,200 years.
Even a mortal who lives for more than 1,200 years can become extraordinary, let alone a highly intelligent dragon that will continue to grow as long as it lives.
Even if one does not have the power to destroy the world, it cannot be measured by common sense. It is not uncommon to have thirty+ hit dice or even a large number of professional levels.
This depends on his reputation and wealth.
One thing is certain, that is, the greater the reputation of the dragon, the more extraordinary its strength is.
Feiyan is not the most famous among the ancient red dragons. Not to mention the Dragon of the Gods, Tchazzar. Even Klaus, who is so powerful in the North and has the nickname of Roaring Old Dragon, cannot compare with him. However, He is definitely not an unknown person, mainly because he has not been seen for a century.
There are legends that he is dead, and there are also legends that he has left Faerûn and gone to other material planes or inner planes to cause trouble.
But Gavin knew that this ancient red dragon neither died nor left Faerûn. It just entered dragon sleep in one of his lairs. In 1373, he would be killed by the Lich Samar, the leader of the Dragon Worship Cult. Stur woke up from the dragon madness rolled up, succumbed to the influence of dragon madness, and burned all the way to the vicinity of the Lake of Steam. In Selmer City and Minta City, he used his dragon breath to wash the ground, set the entire city on fire, and killed everyone. More than half of the residents of each city disappeared without a trace again.
Just be careful and don't wake this guy up. You can't stop planting beans just because you heard a rabbit calling.
If this is the case, there is no need for him to develop. There are similar powerful beings in most places in Faerûn.
Gavin's cold reaction made Village Chief Jinbao somewhat embarrassed. He laughed and said, "I'm overthinking it. Since the Baron can recruit kobolds as servants on a large scale, he must have known about this aspect for a long time. Those ancient red Dragons often sleep for centuries. Who knows when they will wake up next. The main reason is that the Giant Plains are dominated by monsters. It is not easy to meet a more normal neighbor. I don't want your city to be destroyed. .”
"The dwarfs are a bunch of damn dwarfs."
"The gnomes are a bunch of damn liars, the real good gnomes are the dead gnomes, kill them all."
"How could a group of dwarfs have the guts to come to our city?"
"We should warn the kobold king that all gnomes are liars and don't be fooled by their sweet words."
Seeing the dwarf convoy, the reaction of the kobolds was somewhat fierce. There was a fierce light in their eyes that could not be concealed. Many of them couldn't help but gathered around them. Some even took off their slings. If it weren't for Gai, Wen and Shanobah stood side by side with them, probably already starting to attack.
Gavin looked at Chief Jinbao with some surprise and said, "Has your village of Querosa provoked the kobolds in the Troll Mountains before?"
There was helplessness that could not be concealed on the face of the dwarf village chief, "The hatred between kobolds and dwarfs does not originate from the world, but from our racial gods, our racial gods, the vigilant protector Galglisten Gold , once because of a joke, the original cave of Kurtumak, the kobold race god, was collapsed. From that time on, all kobolds had a natural hatred and distrust of dwarfs, and our territory It is easy for overlap to occur, and naturally conflicts are more likely to occur. I can guarantee that since our village of Querosa was established, we have not had any conflicts with anyone, including the kobolds in the Troll Mountains."
"So that's it." Gavin nodded in understanding, "As long as there is no direct conflict between you, it will be easy to handle. Lord Sanoba, you don't need me to teach you what to do next, right?"
The black dragon girl held her head high and said: "No need, because since joining the Dwarf Statue City, they no longer need the god of the race. They only have one belief, and that is the Dragon Oak Territory, and that is the lord."
"It's not me, it's the Mother Dragon Oak Tree." Gavin corrected him. He wanted to reshape a race, not only in terms of body, but also in terms of soul and belief. He wanted to shape the Mother Dragon Oak Tree into the new belief of the kobolds in his territory. What has been decided from the very beginning, the Dragon Oak Mother Tree has also shown its potential in this regard, because she can carry the soul imprint. After the Dragon Oak Dreamland is opened, it can directly carry the soul.
Experiments have proven that the souls of the kobolds who left their soul marks on the Dragon Oak Mother Tree will no longer go to the kingdom of the god of their race after death, but will go to the Dragon Oak Mother Tree and the Dragon Oak Dreamland, where they will appear as dream spirits. appear in the form.
Now that the Dragon Oak Mother Tree is in an upgrading state, Gavin cannot channel her power. Otherwise, in the previous scene, the Dragon Oak Mother Tree would inevitably intervene and take the opportunity to collect a wave of kobold soul marks.
You can make up for this matter afterwards, so you don’t have to worry too much about waste.
Just look at the reaction of the kobolds from the Dragon Oak Territory. They just looked at these dwarfs with vigilance and did not show the hatred that came from their bones.
"Understood, loyalty belongs to the Lord, and faith belongs to the Dragon Oak Mother Tree." The black dragon girl corrected her obediently.
After listening to their conversation, Jin Bao couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and said, "Aren't you afraid of incurring the wrath and revenge of the kobold god Kurtumak by doing this?"
Compared with their behavior of directly poaching the corners of Kurmatuk's faith, Gal Flash Gold's collapse of the opponent's original god-ascension cave can be forgiven.
Gavin showed a sly smile and said: "We just gave these kobolds one more belief. We have not completely rejected the fact that Kurtumac is the god of the kobold race, and we have never denied that he is the origin of the entire kobold race. Where does his anger come from? The kobold's instinct to serve the dragon is also given by him. Our behavior of strengthening the kobold race is honoring him. Even if we are dissatisfied in our hearts, we will be patient because of it."
There are subtle differences between the God of race and the God of faith.
The former is often related to the origin of this species. In myths and legends, they are usually the first born of this race, and they are also the creators of this race. Their blood flows in their bodies, and their souls have their own blood. His preferences and personality.
Faith is not that important to them. What is important is the development and growth of the entire tribe. The greater their number, the stronger his power.
Compared with the few kobold souls Gavin has stolen now, the number of kobolds born due to the development and growth of his Dragon Oak Territory will be greater. As long as there is no large-scale death of Dragon Oak Territory kobolds, Kurtu Mark He couldn't feel that many of the kobold souls that originally belonged to him had been stolen.
The dwarf village chief made a general praise gesture towards Gavin and said: "Master Baron is smart, we look forward to your success. After all, we don't want to fight with the kobolds every day. This is very meaningless. It's better to do it all." Let’s take advantage of our strengths and join forces to find a better life.”
"Oh, what do you mean by taking advantage of each other's strengths?" Gavin continued to follow the conversation. There were some things that he couldn't take the initiative to ask, and had to wait for the other party to take the initiative.
"Lord Baron, you are really refreshing." Jinbao glanced around, as if he was afraid of prying eyes, took out a jewelry box from his arms, handed it to Gavin and said, "Before that, please take a look at what's inside." thing."
After taking the jewelry box, Gavin did not open it immediately, but said with a smile: "If I guessed correctly, what should be inside should be a magic ring or necklace made of recycled gemstones, right?"
In addition to being world-famous for their inventions, dwarves also produce the best gems and craftsmen in Faerûn.
They even have a very special profession, the Gem Finder.
This profession is extremely good at finding gemstone veins, mining various gemstones, and is also good at processing and producing gemstones.
This dwarf village takes root in the monster-infested mountains, certainly not to run a giant farm, but for the unique gems here - troll gems.
"The Baron's guess is correct." Village Chief Jinbao nodded and admitted, "This is a regeneration ring we made using the local gemstones."
Before the other party could explain, Gavin had already opened the jewelry box. There was not one ring inside, but a whole row of five rings in total.
The shape is very unique. The silver ring is covered with small runes that can barely be distinguished by the naked eye. It is inlaid with carefully polished recycled gemstones. The ring is exactly the same, but the sizes of the recycled gemstones inlaid on it are different, ranging from the size of a rice grain. The rows are about the size of peanuts.
Before processing, a regenerated gemstone of this size has one to five points of rapid medical ability respectively. I wonder what effect it has after processing?
Secondary Rapid Medical Ring: The wearer of this ring will gain one point of rapid medical ability and have the ability to treat minor injuries once a day.
This is the ability of the lowest level regenerated gemstone ring that is the size of a grain of rice.
After being processed by the dwarfs, the original abilities of these gems are still there, and they also possess healing spells. This makes this ability not only useful for oneself, but also can benefit others. Needless to say, the practicality is based on this alone. To treat minor injuries once a day, this ring is worth more than a thousand gold coins, because the price of a bottle of potion to treat minor injuries ranges from thirty to fifty gold coins. It is a one-time consumable, and this ring is used every day. It can be used once, not to mention the rapid medical ability it brings to the wearer.
The remaining four rings are called the intermediate fast medical ring (two points of fast medical ability and one time to treat moderate injuries), the advanced fast medical ring (three points of fast medical ability and one time to treat serious injuries), and the powerful fast medical ring (four points of fast medical ability). and one cure for fatal wounds), a ring of extreme rapid healing (five points of rapid healing and two cures for mortal wounds).
Their value has skyrocketed from one thousand gold coins to twenty-five thousand gold coins.
That's not all. Village Chief Jinbao changed his hands and took out another jewelry box, which also contained five rings. Inlaid on them were real recycled gemstones, ranging from the size of corn kernels to quail eggs. Big or small, the name is called the Regeneration Ring.
It is also divided into five types: secondary, intermediate, advanced, strong and extremely effective. In addition to the necessary abilities of the gem itself, the first three can also perform one to three limited regeneration techniques. This kind of regeneration technique can only be used to connect limbs. , but it cannot allow the subject to regenerate the severed limbs. Strong and extremely effective, each have the ability to use regeneration once or twice.
The price starts at 30,000 and doubles in price. The extremely effective regeneration ring can be sold for 150,000 gold coins in the market, and you still have to grab the scalp.
Regeneration is a seventh-level spell that can only be used by level 14 priests. Not to mention its effect, it can not only bring the dead back to life, but also continue to fight again and benefit your teammates. Although the regeneration ability is not as good as that of trolls, the problem is There is also no fatal flaw like the troll's fear of acid and fire.
After a rough valuation of these magic rings.
Gavin only felt a buzz on his forehead, and an uncontrollable numbness from his feet to his head, which was the result of high excitement.
From the seizures in the hands of the troll army, plus the regeneration gems presented by these kobolds, he had no less than two hundred gems in his hands.
Not to mention anything else, he has at least thirty more regeneration gems in his hand that can be made into powerful and extremely effective regeneration rings, not to mention there are more than a dozen regeneration gems larger than this size.
If all of them were made into a regeneration ring, the value would definitely exceed tens of millions, which is a full five times higher than Gavin's original valuation of more than two million.
Sure enough, the most profitable business in this world is never selling raw materials, but making them into finished products, wiping out all the value.
The value of the Dwarf Statue City is far higher than my own valuation. If it is managed well, it will be extremely simple to earn several million a year for myself.
His heart was so excited that he almost jumped out of his chest, but Gavin used his powerful control over his body and expression, which belonged to the Psychic Variety Master, to remain motionless. He handed the two jewelry boxes to the village chief Jinbao again and said. , "Do you want to cooperate with us and use the recycled gemstones in my hands to make this kind of recycled ring for sale?"
"That's right." The head of the dwarf village carefully put the two jewelry boxes back into his arms, rubbed his hands and chuckled, "Lord Baron, we are not bragging to you. No one knows the characteristics of regenerated gemstones better than us. We, the gem craftsmen of Querose Village, did not hesitate to move the entire village here for these gems. We have studied them for a hundred years before we have the craftsmanship we have now. If you take the regenerated gems you captured from the trolls, Leave it to us. I promise not to waste any of them. I will make them all into this kind of regeneration ring for you. Well, it would be better if you could give us a few of the bones of those noble trolls. Regeneration gems and They are the perfect match.”
"How to calculate the processing fee?" Gavin asked, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
"You provide the raw materials, we provide the craftsmanship, and the finished products will be split 50-50 after sale." Lion, the head of Jinbao Village, said loudly.
"Why don't you go and grab it?" It was not Gavin who spoke, but Shanoba. She didn't know the value of the regenerated gemstones and the rings just now, but her instinct made her feel that the price was too outrageous, "You guys Just do some processing, and you want to take half of the profits. How can there be such a good thing in the world? Don't brag yourself so much. There are many gem craftsmen in the world. I don't believe that we have mastered the raw materials and can't find a suitable processor. , Even if it causes waste, it doesn’t matter, at least, the benefits will be greater than leaving it to you.”
"What the Baron meant." Village Chief Jinbao stared at Gavin, who was the real owner of this place.
"Shanoba will be the city lord of the Dwarf Statue City. From now on, she will have full authority to handle the affairs here. There are very few opportunities for me to directly intervene in the affairs here. If you cannot convince her, our cooperation will not proceed smoothly. "Although Gavin is not a good player in this area, he knows how to seize the opportunity. Since Shanoba has jumped out, let her continue to be in the front and compete with the other party on the price.
Anyway, he now knows the true value of the regeneration gem. With targeted research direction, it will be much simpler. It just takes a little effort, but he still has an ace in his hand - the legendary arcanist Filancini.
"This deal sounds outrageous, but our hundreds of years of craftsmanship involves a lot of scientific research expenses. Countless wasted regeneration gems. You are just eating ready-made. If you don't believe it, just find someone to study it. Regeneration The internal structure of a gemstone is unstable. If it is not treated specially and is worn for a long time, once the internal strength is exhausted, it will become a useless waste stone. The regenerated gemstone that we process into a regenerated ring will become a useless stone. There is no need to worry about this." In order to strive for greater benefits for himself, the village chief Jinbao could only slightly reveal the flaws of the regenerated gems, "This is why the number of regenerated gems has not been increasing."
"You can't let us bear the scientific research expenses for you for hundreds of years, right?" Shanobah directly objected arbitrarily, regardless of the scientific research costs, "Researching regenerated gemstones is a matter of your own free will and has nothing to do with us. If you don't do anything, There is no sincerity in cooperation, cooperation cannot be negotiated, and your craftsmanship will be in vain. After so many years of research, I think it is more reasonable for you to offer a high price."
"Thirty-seven points, we are three, you are seven, is this okay?" Village Chief Jinbao gritted his teeth and stamped his feet. He could only make a big concession. He felt that he was playing the piano to a bull, and the other party was a bit indifferent, so he simply refused to take over. Under the circumstances, there is no way to negotiate this deal.
(End of chapter)
