The receptionist surprised by the quality of the salt looked at William and spoke "dear customer, could you wait a moment while I go to consult with the manager", William nodded, he had already been warned by the twins about the quality of the salt they had for what I expected this reaction.
After a few minutes of waiting, the receptionist came out and invited William to go to the second floor, William nodded and together with the twins went up to the second floor of the business house where a man whose body implied that he loved food was waiting for them coupled with his strange curved mustache and his formal suit made a rather peculiar impression, he invited them to take a seat while he had some tea.
"Good morning my dear gentleman, My name is Adams Harris and I am the owner of this business house, I would like to ask for your name", "My name is William and I am the chief of a small coastal town".
The twins had advised Williams on how he should speak in front of other people for business in this world, so giving his name and title, Adams nodded "I see, could I ask the origin of this product?" As he spoke, he placed the sack on the table.
Williams replied "recently there was a landslide in the mountain range, and a rock of salt ended up near the town, after several months of work we managed to get the salt to achieve that consistency."
Adams nodded, "Very well, and how much of this salt do you have in your possession?"
"Currently we have 20 bags of salt", Adamas was startled when he heard the amount, he thought they would have 1 or 2 bags, but 20 bags would be enough to earn a small fortune, it was a great deal.
After a few moments of contemplation Adams spoke "if the quality of the 20 sacks is equal to this, I am willing to buy them for 200 gold coins", William looked at the twins, and both nodded, although it was a low price, they were in Somewhat remote place so it was a good deal.
William agreed "it seems like a good deal to me, I would like you to see another product, it is a good that we produce in my village, and I was wondering if it has any value for you" Adamas was happy since he was going to amass a good fortune with the 20 sacks of salt so I accept William's next product without question.
It was a small bag just like salt and had a fairly fine white powder, although it looked similar to salt, but the grains were darker and larger than salt, after looking at it for several moments Adams asked "can I know for what is this product for?"
William replied "it's called sugar and it's used to prepare drinks and desserts, please taste some with your tongue, then add some in your tea and taste it", Adams was quite curious so he followed William's instructions, once tasted it was surprised by the sweetness.
Then he put it in his tea, and he couldn't help but sigh at the sudden change in taste of his tea, Adamas had tasted some Honey Bee and he knew how delicious it was, however, he knew how difficult it was. to get
Seeing his hand again, he saw the strange crystals in a new light, many ideas and fantasies clouded his mind, with good propaganda, soon all the nobles wanted some, he knew how coveted honey was and how difficult it was. get it, now he had something that could replace it, could even expand his business across the nation.
With shining eyes Adams asked "Tell me Mr. William, how many sacks do you have of this product, and you told me that they produce it in your village, may I ask if you plan to continue selling it?" William had planned this result, he had chosen this house of business, because it seemed a bit small compared to others, if it had been taken to a manager and not the owner, it would have left, it wanted to create an association to maintain a sales channel for its products, therefore the best thing would be to associate with a small chamber of commerce that becomes dependent on their products.
William nodded "that's right Mr. Adams, right now we have 20 sacks in the outskirts of the city, but we can sell you 10 sacks a month", Adam was very happy, if he managed to ensure a stable supply of sugar he could earn a great fortune as long as handle everything properly"
After making a deal, William talked to Adams to get him some Muos (the strange buffalo/sheep), he also requested shields, swords and some leather armor, lastly he requested wheat seeds and some other grains.
Although it was a small chamber of commerce, getting all these items was easy for Adams, and soon 30 Muos, about 40 wheat seeds and 50 sets of armor and swords had fallen under the power of William, the exchange of sacks Salt and sugar was carried out at night, with the help of several carts, since Adams did not want to attract attention.
The whole mission was fast and William had accomplished his goal, with the muos and the weapons, it took them 3 days to get back to the village, it was all the fault of the muos who had to be herded by the ostriches.
Once in the town it was time to advance the plans, the muos gave milk, wool, fat and meat, and had a high rate of reproduction, therefore, it was time to increase the food menu and start with the business of textiles.
Also William had started to expand the town, he planned to try to attract new inhabitants, for the moment he had located several small towns to the north, they were spread over a plain that was crossed by a stream, they usually had to face hundreds of dangers, like some beasts flying, bandits and diseases, since they had no money they had no other choice but to group together and try to survive.
William prepared several buildings that had bathrooms and many rooms, a total for 500 people, in turn he had ordered to clean the north road, with the addition of the ostriches to the town cleaning a row of trees was quite easy, although they had the trucks and tanks their number was limited, with the ostriches they moved the fallen trees quickly, they were also good at fighting and killed many small creatures like wild boars, and vampire rabbits.
The villagers soon became very fond of the ostriches and William had to ban their consumption, luckily they had muos and enough fish to feed 5 villages, time passed while they prepared to attract new inhabitants and 3 more weeks passed while they prepared everything.
In these weeks, William had taken some time to help the twins study, each of William's brothers had their own specialty, but he himself was considered an all-rounder, he was good in most fields of study and he was able to easily resolve the twins' doubts.
From math, to basic biology and chemistry questions, the twins were really grateful to William for keeping his word, therefore they also made time to do his part and teach William magic.
Humans had mastered magic thanks to the magic stones found in dungeons, it could be said that a dungeon was considered the greatest treasure of a nation, although it could become a huge source of trouble.
Any human could become a magician, it only required learning the runic language and by using a magic stone he could cast spells, the spells were divided into 5 levels, level 1 and 2 were considered basic spells and would have quite mild effects, for example , a slight breeze, light a fire, hold a sphere of light, etc.
Spells 3 and 4 were somewhat more complicated as multiple runes needed to be activated and would have much greater effects such as fireballs, blades of wind, even creating a wall of earth, they were generally spells used solely for war.
Lastly, level 5 spells were considered strategic spells and would have to be cast by multiple mages, and would have a disastrous effect over a large area, they were often not used unless absolutely necessary.
The runic language could be considered as a language that gave orders to the mana, it could be done singing or writing it with a special ink, both forms had their limitations, for example, if it was sung it depended on the memory and speed of the magician, while the written depended on the size of the magical device being used.
Humans had created many magical devices, which were basically made up of a core made up of magic stones enclosed in some geometric shape, then the faces of the geometric shape would have various runes engraved on them that depending on their activation order a spell would be cast.
The magic stones were divided into 3 ranks depending on the mana concentration: low level, medium level and high level, these magic stones could be mainly extracted from a dungeon, therefore the dungeons were considered national treasures.
For some strange reason you couldn't place more than 2 magic stones together, and the runes tended to have an activation distance so the size of the magic devices had its limitations, this also limited the number of runes that could be written on the surfaces of the stones. these devices which gave a fixed number of spells depending on the faces that the device had.
Magic devices were generally spherical, and could be considered as the most important tool of a magician, the twins had a magic device made up of a low level magic stone, it was quite small so it only had 2 spells scrutinized and they were level 1 More than a weapon, it was a souvenir that their father had given them and it was what they had used to propel the boat during the pirate attack.
This was the magical system that human beings had developed, however, it was not the only one that existed, each humanoid race had developed its own magical system and although they were similar they had their differences, there were also magical creatures that were born with a magical nucleus able to store mana for later use in magical attacks.