Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 161. 159. Prosperity Belonging to the Frontier

In the earl's mansion of maned wolf city, the butler is still discussing with the earl.

"My lord, then the young master will take someone to the Frostwolf Forest?"

"New horses have been negotiated, counting the remaining ones, 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. Let him get acquainted with how to run a knight order alone, and then get acquainted with the future barons and viscounts. "The earl said so, but in his heart, he remembered the promise brought by the representative of Bai Xiao's family half a month ago.

"Lord Earl, as long as you can send troops, our Baixiao family is willing to provide a piece of ice potion! The raw material of this potion is very rare blue ice grass. If we win, our family is also willing to provide you with a piece of ice potion!" Intermediate medicine." The son of Eldest Prince Bai Xiao, that is, the oldest grandson of Dusen Bai Xiao, came to negotiate in person. This young man who is younger than Fernando is already a great knight.

The potion made from the blue ice grass can soothe the earl's wounds, and only if he lasts long enough can he persist until Fernando becomes a great knight and is eligible to inherit the earl.

Being able to produce such a rare magic plant made the earl also feel emotional: now the Baixiao family is backed by the throne and the fairy queen of the capital, and the family strength is far from what it was before. I am afraid that once Li Qi becomes the past, the Baixiao family will be able to Became a duke.

"Say hello to the people in the black market and sell some unused magic goblins to Viscount Lant," the old count told the butler, "I have spent too much money recently, and I need to withdraw some funds.

Don't give it all at once, sell it bit by bit. "

. . .

There will be a ball in the Earl's Mansion in the evening to welcome all the viscounts and barons. As spring is approaching, there will be a group of new demon possessors who have made breakthroughs and promotions in various territories. Various families are also willing to use this opportunity to show fresh knight apprentices to their colleagues.

However, Lante really doesn't like this kind of social activities, and he is afraid that once he is absent, other nobles will arrange some inexplicable tasks or rumors for him.

I can only use the time before the banquet to go to the black market first. It is still from the tavern to the underground market last time. Last time Rand just looked around. This time he wants to see more bookstores and magic plants here. shop and magic leprechaun shop.

The black market bookstore is located in a corner. After entering, you can only feel that it is a small storefront. There are bookshelves on both sides of a narrow passage. Most of the bookshelves are hand-copied books, and a few printed books are the teachings of various gods. Most of the books were printed by the various churches of the Temple Alliance, and they were given to well-known believers, lords, or various grassroots church organizations.

"My lord? What do you want to see?" The shopkeeper dressed as a magician apprentice greeted him.

"Are there any teaching materials for the magic school here?" The teaching materials are still the books that Rand is most concerned about.

"No, it's very difficult for such books to end up in the black market." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, but the bookstores on the border did not have such rare goods.

"Have you got a map? Or a book of local anecdotes?"

"Come with me," he said, leading Rand around the bookshelf on the left, and came to the back. There are 2 rows of strange caves here, and the bookshelf against the wall is more than 3 meters high.

The store took Rand to find an area, saying that everything Rand wanted should be here.

Rand had plenty of time in the afternoon, and there were only dozens of books on the shelf, so he flipped through them one by one.

The underground black market outside the bookstore always has relatively dim light. Although there is some lighting in the bookstore, it will make your eyes dry after reading books like this for a long time.

Rand carefully flipped through a few books, all of which were a collection of local anecdotes from all over the kingdom, a collection of big family gossip, and local legends, none of which made him feel bright.

Rand was the only customer in the store. The storekeeper saw Rand go through every book like a sieve, and felt that he sincerely wanted to buy something useful, so he brought over a bunch of parchment-bound books.

"My lord, I don't know what you are looking for. These books all meet your requirements, but some of them may be a little damaged after a long time."

This store made Rand very satisfied. Although there was nothing he really wanted here, his attitude was very sincere.

Rant casually flipped through the parchment scrolls brought by the boss, and one of the notes made Rand very interested. It is difficult to verify the date of this note, but there are some very secret runes on the cover and back cover. Rand looked at the very clear.

After opening it, there was a booklet recording the geography and products of the Benma Plain. In 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?" Ranter thought while rubbing the runes on the scroll.

The Galloping Horse Plain in the pamphlet did not mention the large barbarians, the black-scaled horses, or even Yeqi City. There were only a dozen or so cities with their names, sizes, and some ruins.

Of course, the word magic turbulence was already mentioned in the booklet, which means it was written within 1000 years.

Lant did not hesitate, and bought this booklet with seriously outdated information. Although 1000 years have passed, some terrains, landforms, and even mineral veins recorded in it should not have changed.

In addition to a 1000-year-old booklet, Rand also bought a large amount of waste paper from the bookstore. The bookstore has existed for many years and stored many moth-eaten and moldy books and booklets. Rand plans to re-pulp the waste paper into new paper.

At the entrance of the magic material shop, Rand encountered a slave auction, which was the kind of slave auction Rand had seen on TV in his previous life. All of them had tall heads with feet, or herbivorous animals with hooves under their legs. The orcs were taken in turn to a stone platform.

The slave owner loudly announced the slave's age, height, weight, health status, and what he was good at, and then a group of people below began to call for prices. All the slaves were women, and the reserve price was 10 gold coins. Basically, the bigger the final transaction price, the more expensive it was. .

"The nobles in this world have very unique tastes," Rand saw a female orc with a height of more than 3 meters, with antlers and ears on her head, and hooves on her legs, who was called for 70 gold coins. sigh. "Could it be that they want to eat deer antler?"

The 7 or 8 slaves were quickly bought away, and the crowd around the table gradually dispersed. Rand didn't want to join in the fun, but unexpectedly, the owner of the magic material store recognized Rand.

"My lord, please come to the store to have a look, we have prepared good things for you." The store was very flattering to Rand, which caught him off guard.

"For me? Do you know me?" Rand pointed to himself.

"Look at what you said, the owner of our store belongs to the Maned Wolf Knights, the knights in the entire northwest region, who doesn't know you?"

When Rand entered with the owner of the material store, he realized that he was known to everyone in the entire black market. Everyone knew that Rand had at least tens of thousands of gold coins in his hand and hundreds of demon possessors under him. Undoubtedly the largest consumer market for magical items in the North West Territories.

(End of this chapter)