Chaoyang picked up the parchment and glanced over it, only to discover that entering the city involved not only paying 5% of the carried wealth as tax but also depositing 35% of the assets as a surety bond, an amount that was nothing short of astonishing. Had he truly been a merchant, had he not used the Dream Entering Technique to probe Moge's memory, he would probably have leaped up from his chair in fright now!
Leaving aside the blatantly extortionate surety bond, the entrance fee for cities on the Old Continent generally cost less than one Serir, and places like Magnificent Castle, those pioneering lands, didn't have such admission fees at all. He had never heard of a percentage-based levy before.
"What do you mean by surety bond? And... this entrance tax is exorbitantly high, isn't it?"
Chaoyang rubbed his temples, feeling somewhat of a headache.
It wasn't money that was worrying him.
It was that things were deviating further and further from his plan.
