Once the most traded place in the western region of Saraf, the commercial hall in Green Capital was blockaded by the Human Southeast Alliance and then dust and cobwebs took over the building.
Now that the hall has been scrubbed, the past heads of commerce have returned to their posts. Verity was preparing for an important negotiation, and Drusilla was even more nervous than she was, even though she was only listening in.
"Relax some Leah, don't let the magic-eyed governor of commerce look funny."
"I don't want to look funny either, but you don't know either magic or dragons." Rameshirai jumped out wordlessly.
Verity gave him a blank look, "It seems I'm used to your appearances, thanks for exercising our nerves. To answer your question, it is true that I do not understand dragons and magic, but I understand businessmen. Normal business practices inevitably follow certain principles, varying according to the values of the businessman. To figure out the hobbies, habits and business focus of your opponents, you can master the situation. Third-rate businessmen look at goods, second-rate businessmen look at the network, and first-rate businessmen look at their opponents. I hope my explanation satisfies you, then again, what are you doing here?"
Rameshirai shrugged: "I am a representative of the military, ah, after all, overhand are weapons, you need the advice of professionals."
Drusilla laughed and said, "Well, cold jokes professionals, let's go inside, Vladimir wait a long time."
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Five hours later, Vlamir said goodbye to the elves with a big smile on his face. This time not only agreed on the price of standard weapons, but also negotiated a small number of enchanted weapons and the input of potions. Probably calculate the cost and profit, the magic eye governor's heart blossomed, but unfortunately the glowing stone did not progress.
Magic eye upside down floating out of sight, Velvet face polite smile immediately collapsed, turning his head with a selective expression to Ramesh Lai yelled: "Are you out of your mind! I'm about to bring down the price of the weapon and you're interrupting, making me lose a full 5% of the price, do you know how many gold coins that translates into the overall quantity!"
"You just know gold!" The ranger captain's face is also very unpleasant, "for that little premium you actually asked to delay the negotiations, if I do not stop, seven or eight days weapons are still scarce. The war has just come to an end, in case there is a bold slave catching team to reverse the attack, the responsibility of death and injury you bear?"
"Even the basic negotiation skills do not know how to dare to speak out, I counted understand what is called not afraid of dragon-like opponents, but afraid of pig-like teammates."
"What is the use of saving that little gold coin, anyway, is also piled in the warehouse of metal blocks, most of the Tia forest within the self-sufficient, I have lived in the green capital for three hundred years also did not spend much money."
"Do I need to remind you, torch mage only intend to sell things, our spices and silk weaving he is not interested. If the wealth keeps flowing out in the long run, even if the royal family is rich, it will be drained by the trade deficit, and by then the Forest of Tyria will be kidnapped by the dragons, a business practice that is all too common. You reckless, war-mongering man who knows nothing!"
"You should really let the Protector Rangers hear your sophistry, unscrupulous and treacherous merchant!"
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Drusillia sat on a wicker chair, and once she negotiated today she realized she had no understanding of business. The argument between the two friends did not appeal to her, the princess was staring at the currency table given by Flamir to estimate her private property.
The main currency of the gargoyles was also gold, although there was a difference between it and the gold coins Tia herself had molded. Vlamir stares at a Tia coin for a few seconds, then tells them it contains 91.8% gold, and argues for half an hour over the gold equivalent value. Torch mages also accept all kinds of gems as a means of payment, and this currency table is the conversion ratio of gems and gold coins.
The first line makes the princess' eyelids pop, glowing light stone is worth 10,000 gold coins per standard weight, and further down, pure color diamond 5000, and various color gems are even lower. In contrast, the glowing light stone seems to be very valuable in the eyes of the gargoyle.
Own gold coins are not much, because as a princess rarely have a need to buy. Various jewelry set with gems should not be worth much, anyway, they do not value decorative items.
The more you think about it, the more itchy you are, not only for the sake of suffering compatriots, but also for the magical magic, which has been suppressed curiosity for a long time since.
"Do not quarrel, Villette you continue commercial work, Ramesile to the city gate and wait for me, we go to buy ... visit Hora."
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Drusillia with the greatest perseverance ignored the suspicious gaze of the ranger captain, red-faced and walked ahead. From the unicorn colony turned to the river valley in front of the stone gate, Ramesile finally could not help: "I say what do you want to buy princess? Just tell the crooked merchant, and sneak off on your own."
"How do you know I want to buy something?" The princess was embarrassed to be exposed to her face.
Rameshirai pointed to the princess' backpack: "Unless I'm deaf, I can't hear the knocking of gems inside."
"Ah, I suddenly realized that you and I are actually the first visitors to the Torch Mage's residence, how exciting to look forward to that, haha." Drusillia twisted away from the topic very rawly.
The ranger captain was helpless and suddenly smiled, "I'm actually looking forward to the magic store as well." After saying that, he pulled out several starlight gems from his arrow capsule.
Princess speechless, should have known the intention was seen through, all the way embarrassed why bother.
The stone door light curtain lit up, Lysatos appeared in elven form. "Welcome, two, you are the first door-to-door customers of Saraph, you can enjoy a 10% discount, please come in." The golden dragon smiled faintly.
Drusillia reached into the light screen, felt nothing, and stepped in.
A burst of light and shadow misshapen, waiting for the pupils to adapt to the light, Druhiria's mouth opened wider and wider, the scene inside the store beyond the limits of imagination.
The backlight is a purple backlight, the space seems boundless, only to see the end of the purple light. Thousands of goods neatly suspended in mid-air, look carefully, in fact, is placed on the translucent display shelves, each display shelves are semi-circular, tilt your head can not see the top, dozens of layers of display shelves each layer of items in a clear order. A look, overlapping I do not know how many display shelves arranged open.
The two elves look down, underneath the feet is a disc-shaped silver-white disc, suspended in the purple void. Looking outside the disc, there is no road or place to land. How should one move forward.
"What a wonderful fate!" Vlamir descended from the sky, he cheerfully this circled around the two, seemingly flying at will in this space. "A brief farewell, a surprise reunion. Ah, beautiful princess and valiant ranger, what can I do for you?"
Ramesilee was a little dazzled: "Can I have a sedative, the unseen light at the edge makes me a little spatially disoriented and dizzy ..."
"Ah, I'm so sorry. Our store has not been open for a long time, the last customer we received was a spirit-sucking monster, he favored purple. This will adjust the illusion background, I guess you will like the magic jungle style."
The magic eye supervisor gave the password, the surrounding scenery quickly changed. The two elves suddenly found themselves in a jungle of light and shadow, with semi-circular displays turning into giant trees, each 50 sa meters tall, with a wide array of merchandise hung up by branches. Sunlight gently spilled through the gaps in the tree tops, and occasionally there was the crisp song of songbirds.
The view is so real that Drusilla caressed the large flower disk at her feet, the stamens quivering, the fragrance of the fragrance.
"Is this ... all an illusion?" The princess was excited and amazed.
"The master's magic store is open for all guests, of course, also in line with a variety of strange and bizarre hobbies. Just move here with the intention, no need to climb up and down."
Drusillia thought upward, and the branches underfoot held the large flower plate gradually climbed, emitting gnarled branches wrong crunching sound.
Lysatos said, "Take your time, you two, I'll be right next to you, and Vlamil will guide you."
"Okay." Drusillia couldn't wait to get closer to a giant tree. Close look at this layer of things are thumb-sized amber stone, the difference in the amber stone inside the solidification of a variety of insects, bees, praying mantis, stag beetles and so on.
"When I was small I would love to collect such amber stones with intact bugs, what is their special purpose?"
"This is the [Bug Perpetual Amulet], the merchandise that can be used repeatedly allows demonstration." Flamir plucked the smallest piece and recited a character, and the still bees in the amber suddenly jumped into reality.
The two elves watched in amazement as the one-person-tall giant bee darted in a circular pattern at the command of the magic eye, their ears filled with the buzzing sound of vibrating wing membranes. The giant bee's twitching chewing and sucking mouthparts and poisonous stinger looked alarming.
"The enable command can be set by yourself, with words and movements. The insects obey the command completely, it is good for handling and defense, and the price is only 500 gold coins."
Druhiria's eyes glowed and asked, "Is there a species suitable for alley warfare?" When she finished speaking, she felt Rameshirai's eyes burning at her.
"The biggest one, which contains giant Purgatory Centipede, is not afraid of fire and smoke, and can spray sulfur poison mist for a short distance. 1200 gold coins."
"How long can it exist?" Drusillia remembered that the contacted strange objects have a strict number of times and time limit.
"Once a day, lasting one minute."
Too short, the princess was disappointed, 1 minute didn't do much in the slave catcher's fortress.
"If you are partial to summoning, you may want to consider summoning scrolls, the species are diverse and powerful in battle, and although they are all disposable, they are cheap."
"Introduce look at it ..."
In less than ten minutes Drusillia was dizzy in a roundabout way, everything felt useful, leading to a difficult choice. She realized she didn't have a detailed plan for the rescue, nor did she know which targeted magical goods to purchase.
Perhaps she could ask the Wiser One for advice, and the key was that the Torch Mage would not divulge. The princess quietly to Ramesilai hit the ranger secret message: you drag him, I will go to the torch mage.
The ranger captain secretly spat, is to stall me, right. For the princess's intention he has guessed, headache.
The flower plate split in two, carrying the young girl traveled into the distance.
"There are so many rare and weird things, just no bow of superior quality." Rameshirai was in a bad mood and said casually.
"What did you say?" Vlamir smiled, but his eyes were a bit intimidating.
"The best bow makers in Saraph are in Tyria, even magic is hard to match, right?" This was said a little against the heart, but the purpose arrived.
The magic-eyed governor felt professional pride was provoked, and with a sly smile touched out a short bow ...