Artificer Adventure Guide

A few days later, Hope was holding two chainsaws with more exquisite workmanship, and couldn't let go of them.

Carl couldn't resist Hope's soft and hard nagging, and made the chainsaw for her.

This caused Hope to be eager to try in recent days, looking forward to the appearance of some enemies on the sea for her to try the "knife".

"Who would expect an enemy to come to their door to chop them? Can't you expect something good? For example, a gust of wind will send us directly to the Sword Handle Bay near Sarn?"

At the junction of the ocean and the Kingdom of Breland, there is a bay shaped like the handle of a long sword.

It is a must-go place to Sarn, and it is also a hub for entering the inland from the sea.

"But this kind of thing is impossible to happen. Pirates and the like may appear at any time."

Putting down the two chainsaws, Hope looked into the distance, always on guard.

Seeing that Hope was in high spirits, Carl shook his head and turned to walk into the cabin.

After starting the lathe, he took out his hammer again, intending to add some special effects to it, such as - it would emit lightning when swinging.

"It seems that it would be good to create a heavy crossbow similar to the ability of the magic artillery master. We can't always fight the enemy in close combat?"

Carl had just finished a little bit of the magic pattern on the hammer, and he had a new idea.

But unfortunately, Carl didn't know much about the professional knowledge of the magic artillery master, and could only make a large heavy crossbow with the magic pattern of continuous shooting weapons.

Although the magic artillery master's force energy crossbow is also based on a similar principle, its power is much stronger than this simple heavy crossbow.

However, Carl did not give up on this. After completing the upgrade of the hammer, he began to continue to study the improvement of the force energy crossbow.

In the next half month, Carl and Hope continued to float towards the north.

Occasionally, they could see some islands and use them to correct their course.

But for some reason, the two rarely saw other ships.

It was not easy to see them once or twice, and the other side would not approach at all.

In this way, Carl and Hope stumbled to the offshore area of ​​Kovare and saw the long-lost vast land.

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"Ga~Ao——"

Driving the sailboat past a reef, the seagulls perched on it screamed and flew away.

In the distance, the estuary of the Handle Bay was in sight.

Until this time, Carl and Hope finally felt at ease.

There was an endless stream of ships entering the sea from here. Carl even saw several fishing boats smaller than the brig he was driving leaving the sea from the Handle Bay.

After experiencing the unpredictable weather on the Thunder Sea, he really didn't know whether these people were fearless or had a different kind of confidence in themselves.

Although it is not ruled out that they just want to fish offshore, there is a checkpoint in the Handle Bay, and customs duties need to be paid every time they enter and exit from here.

Ordinary fishermen should not be so rich as to deduct customs duties as phone bills.

As soon as they entered the harbor, the navy of the Kingdom of Breland drove up with warships. The soldiers at the checkpoint commanded Carl to stop the ship at the port. A wizard ran over to check it out with several soldiers.

"The tariff in Sword Handle Bay is deducted according to the size of the ship. Even if you are not fully loaded, you have to deduct it according to the degree of full load. The tariff for a brigantine is 500 gold coins. Do you pay directly in cash or use assets as collateral?"

Because of the popularity of dimensional bags, the long-distance transportation industry has become chaotic.

In order to have a more fair standard, the Breland government had to set tariffs according to the size of ships entering and leaving the port.

500 gold coins may be a bit too much for ordinary families. After all, in Khorvaire, a pound of flour is only 5 copper coins.

1 gold coin is equivalent to 10 silver coins, and 1 silver coin is equivalent to 10 copper coins.

A skilled craftsman's daily salary is about 1 gold coin, and the purchasing power is about the same as 100 yuan in the previous life.

500 gold coins are about 50,000 yuan.

This tax is high, but if it is not high enough, given the situation in the Kingdom of Breland, all the people in the country will probably go out to sea.

"Use the materials as collateral!"

Upon hearing this, the expression on the face of the mage immediately became much more mercenary.

The value of an item can be measured by appraisal, but there is a lot of room for maneuver.

The person in charge of valuation only needs to make a little effort, and the difference in price is enough for them to make a lot of extra money.

However, when the mage leaned out to see what Carl used to pay the tax, Carl took out a bag of Eberron Dragon Crystal from his backpack.

Seeing this thing, the mage in charge of inspection straightened his back.

No matter when and where, Dragon Crystal is a scarce resource.

No country will say that it does not lack Dragon Crystal in its country. Its value is stronger than oil in the previous life.

Especially Eberron Dragon Crystal, as the most widely used Dragon Crystal, this thing has never been possible to be "sold at a discount".

"Bring the scales!"

Turning his head and speaking in a low voice to the soldier behind him, the mage looked at Carl with a much kinder expression.

He carefully took out a piece from the bag and placed it on the scales. The mage then placed a weight on the other side to make the two ends even.

"647 grams, I paid for this dragon crystal, and this is the change!"

Quickly taking out a handful of gold coins from his dimensional bag, the mage was afraid that Carl would go back on his word, so he directly put the dragon crystal into his dimensional bag.

Eberron dragon crystal is a scarce resource for any mage, especially the Orin crystal made from it, which is a special item that can replace the spellbook.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly twice, and Carl had a clear understanding of the mage's face.

Quickly stuffing the remaining dragon crystals and the bag back into the backpack, Carl was somewhat glad that he did not take out the bigger bag.

Soon, the mage and the soldiers left Carl's sailboat, and Carl re-anchored and headed towards Sarn.

"Huh~, I almost came out with a chainsaw just now!"

After leaving the checkpoint, Hope walked out of the cabin.

It's not that she didn't want to show her head, but mainly because the tiefling race is indeed easy to cause trouble. If she was at the scene just now, it might take more time to get out of the checkpoint.

"Fortunately, I passed the customs smoothly. The situation should be better when I get to Sarn. By the way, I will write to my parents and teachers at school as soon as I get there. I wonder what they were doing during the time I was missing."

Looking at the water in the distance, Carl sighed helplessly.

According to the tariff bill issued by the wizard, it has been more than three months since he was captured by the mind flayer.

"When I have the chance in the future, I will definitely seek revenge on that mind flayer! And the one in the dungeon!"

Slapping the mast with a slap, Carl said hatefully.