My Magic Age

I really admire the courage of the founder behind the transformation of a one-hectare luxury manor into a black market.

The title of a nobleman who can own such a large mansion in the inner city must be quite high. This nobleman must have returned to his hometown in Durva Province with his family, and the manager who stayed behind actually turned the manor into a black market. Guards are arranged at the door to collect door taxes from buyers and sellers. This means that there is no cost to enter, but if you want to take away the goods, you must pay a certain tax to the market manager.

All the shrubs in the garden and square in front of the manor have been removed, and the lawn is filled with various commodities. The vendors place their goods on the lawn and squat quietly behind the piles of goods.

The so-called black market in Tanton City looks more like a second-hand market that can be bought and sold freely. It is full of old things that have been picked up from the ruins and can still be used, including a lot of old furniture, metal utensils, and broken art statues. , oil paintings and some metal tools, etc., these businesses Products occupy a large part of the market area. After the entire outer city of Tanton City fell, the Niburu Spiders destroyed most of the buildings in the outer city. As the spider warriors evacuated the outer city of Tanton City, the people in the city They moved everything of some value from the outer city to the inner city.

Probably no one wants to buy this junk at a time like this.

I asked Mr. Billy: "If these goods cannot be sold, when the market closes in the evening, do the sellers still want the market manager to pay taxes?"

Mr. Billy said as he walked: "If you want to take goods out of here, you must pay taxes. These rags will always stay in the market. The market here is very strictly managed. No one will steal these worthless things at night. As long as you keep it in the market and don’t take it out, no one will charge taxes.”

Walking inside, I found that many of the things on the stalls were daily necessities, old clothes, and blankets. Among these products, blankets were the most popular products, as well as some rawhide that could be used to build tents, and things that could be used in the wild. There will also be people squatting down in front of products such as cooking pots to ask about the price.

Obviously, the residents of Tanton City are worried about their living conditions, so they buy these products that can be used outdoors.

Maybe these things can be used when the city is broken and fleeing.

Mr. Billy was very optimistic about the current situation. He saw me looking at the blankets tied on a stall, glanced at the stall owner on the ground, and whispered to me: "These are the rags that no one wants. Displaced homeless people collected things from the outer city. They put these things here just to exchange for some food to fill their stomachs. "

Seeing my hesitation, he said to me again: "Now in Tanton City, the only hard currencies are food, magic crystals and magic metals."

He pointed to the fountain of the manor and said to me: "The grain trading area is on the stone steps of the castle beyond the fountain. I want to go there to buy some oats and wheat flour. I have to stock up a little bit every time. There may be a war. The outbreak has forced the supply of food to be interrupted. By then, even if you want to buy it, you will not be able to buy it. "

Hearing what he said, I widened my eyes and asked him, "Mr. Billy, you haven't spent all your savings to buy food, have you?"

Mr. Billy laughed cheerfully, patted the money bag on his waist, and said to me: "Of course, the money you spend to buy food this time will be your rent."

Mr. Billy said that at this time, the price of wheat flour in Tanton City has increased five times compared to previous years. Now one pound of wheat flour costs about fifteen copper coins, and one silver ingot can only exchange for less than seven pounds of wheat flour. In this case If the price continues to rise, I’m afraid I won’t even be able to afford white bread.

When I came to Tanton City, I was not interested in the food in the city at all. If Tandon City really encounters a food shortage, maybe I can bring some food from Xinliu Valley to help the people here.

Mr. Billy saw my lack of interest and knew that I was not interested in the food on the black market. He had an idea and said, "I see. Do you want to buy weapons? The weapons dealers are all gathered here." Next to the stables, there are also some war horses that have been retired from the battlefield for sale, but you should not buy those horses. Unless they are injured or disabled, you can only buy them back and kill them for meat. "

I said with some curiosity: "Weapons are still sold on the black market?"

Mr. Billy's eyes were full of fear, and he said with lingering fear: "Yes, many of the weapons dealers over there are people who go to the battlefield to pick up corpses. Most of the weapons are picked up from the battlefield. You communicate with them." Be careful and don't conflict with them, they are all desperadoes."

"Oh, okay, I'll be careful." I waved to Mr. Billy and said.

Then, he took Kalantso, Catalina and Justus and walked towards the stables on the left side of the manor.

There are many people who come to set up stalls in the black market. Many stalls are connected together, creating many winding roads in the gardens and squares in front of the manor. Holding Catalina's hand and walking in the lively market, there was something indescribably beautiful.

The stables are actually a row of open low houses. When I walked over, I found that there were indeed several horses with obvious injuries tied to the stables. A stall owner stood next to the stables. When he saw pedestrians passing by, he would say These horses are retired war horses that can easily carry luggage and goods through the Black Forest. I bypassed the horse vendor and found a stall selling weapons.

There are all kinds of weapons on display at these weapon stalls, but it seems that most of them are standard weapons of the infantry regiment. Spears and sentinel swords are the most common weapons on these stalls. There is also a kind of black weapon that is more common. Looking at those stalls, almost every stall has several black iron guns over five meters long and moon blade axes weighing hundreds of pounds. These are the black iron weapons of spider warriors. Now they can be seen everywhere on the black market weapon stalls.

I stopped at a random stall, pointed at a big iron spear, and asked the stall owner: "How much does this black iron spear cost?"

The stall owner looked up at me and Catalina, and then looked at Kalancuo and Justus behind me. He seemed to see that we were not easy to mess with. He took a deep breath and said: "Ninety silver coins."

A big iron spear made of magic black iron weighs more than 300 pounds, but it is sold for less than one gold in Tanton City. This is simply a bargain. Such a big iron spear can at least melt dozens of pounds of magic black iron.

I suppressed the joy in my heart and carefully counted the three heavy black iron spears and two moon blade axes on the stall. I asked him casually: "What about this moon blade axe?"

"One gold coin." The stall owner said without hesitation.

"Why are light weapons more expensive?" I asked the weapon stall owner curiously.

"Haha, of course the axe is more convenient to carry. How come you don't even understand this?" His sharp laughter was a bit harsh, and he spoke with a strong Tanton accent, speaking very fast, which made it a bit difficult for me to hear.

He stepped on the heavy Moon Blade Axe and said to me in a low voice: "As long as you can carry such an axe to Pereira City, you can sell it for a magic crystal on the spot. If you can go back to Durva through the portal, the price can be doubled. Do you want to buy them back just to smelt magic black iron?"

I nodded.

He patted his forehead speechlessly, without saying anything else, pointed to the five black iron weapons on the ground, and said to me: "If you are willing to buy all these black iron weapons, each weapon will be counted as ninety silver coins for you."

I readily took out five gold coins from my purse and threw them on his stall.

He hurriedly picked up the five gold coins, put them in his mouth and bit them again and again. After confirming that they were correct, he immediately showed a warm smile, stood up from behind the stall, and quickly took out fifty silver coins from his purse and handed them to me, and asked me attentively: "Do you want me to bundle all these black iron weapons together for you?"

I shook my head.

Caterina beside me helped me take the heavy silver coins.

I. Controlled a trace of magic power to open the magic waist bag, and put these black iron weapons in one by one. The stall owner stared at me with wide eyes, and just wanted to exclaim, but immediately closed his mouth.

In this way, I took Catalina along these weapon stalls to buy all the way. There were several black iron weapons on almost every stall, some stalls had more, some stalls had less, as long as the price was one gold, I bought them all.

In fact, my magic waist bag still contained some other things. After putting in 23 black iron weapons, the magic waist bag was already full, but I did not stop buying these cheap black iron weapons. Instead, I tied another magic waist bag around my waist without caring about my image, and then continued to put black iron weapons into the magic waist bag.

Watching me put black iron weapons into the magic waist bag one by one, the weapon stall owner widened his eyes and looked at this scene in disbelief, then looked at the direction of the market entrance with a guilty conscience, tightly grasped the glittering gold coins in his hand, and shut his mouth.

Almost every weapon stall owner showed surprise when he saw me put black iron weapons into the magic waist bag, and then chose to shut up tacitly.

In fact, after I had five magic waist bags wrapped around my waist, my magic apprentice robe was already bloated, and it was not so pleasant to use magic power to control five magic waist bags at the same time. I have swept half of the black iron weapons on the weapon stall into my magic waist bag.

But then, I saw something more valuable - a bed crossbow.

I didn't expect that this kind of military-controlled weapon was also placed on the stalls at the back. All the stalls with bed crossbows occupied a large area, because a bed crossbow was almost as big as a double bed. These were military bed crossbows. The base of the bed crossbow was more like the base of a wooden-wheeled carriage. A heavy crossbow with a wingspan of three meters was installed on the base. This heavy crossbow could easily shoot a three-meter-long crossbow arrow a thousand meters away.

Because this heavy crossbow was too heavy, a wooden-wheeled carriage base was installed so that the heavy crossbow could be pushed around. This was the original design concept of the bed crossbow. Later, a winch was installed on the bed crossbow. The ordinary heavy crossbow was pulled open by a soldier stepping on the crossbow string with both feet and his shoulders on the back of the crossbow.

The heavy crossbows on these bed crossbows are designed to have a stronger pulling force. Ordinary soldiers cannot kick the crossbow strings even with their legs. However, a parachute capstan is designed on the bed crossbows. The parachute capstan is a transmission device from the dwarf kingdom. You only need to turn a rudder-like capstan by hand, and the crossbow string will slowly tighten.

The bed crossbow can be adjusted up and down, left and right, and the left and right directions can be adjusted 180 degrees, but the pitch angle can only be adjusted about 30 degrees.

This kind of crossbow is the weapon for hunting spider warriors. Even if the shells of spider warriors are strong, they can't stop the crossbow's shooting. If you can engrave "wind control" and "armor penetration" on the crossbow arrows, those spider warriors can't resist it at all. However, because this kind of arrows with magic pattern arrays attached are expensive, they have never been popularized in the army.

To build the town of Trum, you must eventually build a solid wall. In addition, if you want the town of Trum to have a certain defensive capability, you have to hire some adventure groups on the one hand, and you have to form your own armed forces on the other hand, and buy some large defensive weapons. Obviously, these crossbows are very suitable for being placed on the top of the city.

In my opinion, the power of the crossbow is far more powerful than those catapults. The catapult must be formed into a scale and form a coverage attack before it can have a certain lethality.

I walked to a stall with a row of crossbows. The stall owner looked like a noble. Although he didn't have a noble badge on his chest, his manners and conversation showed that he must have received a good education. He was wearing light leather armor, a rapier on his waist, a neatly trimmed beard, and a hood. He was sitting on a crossbow and chatting with the stall owner next door.

When he saw me coming, he immediately jumped off the crossbow and stood up. Seeing that I was wearing a magic apprentice robe, he nodded slightly at me, but didn't speak.

I asked him, "Is it okay to buy these big guys in Tanton City?"

He smiled very freely and said to me, "If you buy intact military crossbows, maybe after the war is over, someone from the military will come to you, but I only sell some scattered parts removed from scrapped crossbows. These crossbow parts are all removed from the damaged crossbows on the battlefield. These are all scrapped items..."

Then, in order to prove to me that these crossbows are all scattered parts, he patted the heavy crossbow on the wooden bed and said to me confidently, "Look, this is only the upper part of the crossbow. When I picked it up, only the back of the bow was intact. It was repaired by the craftsmen before it looked like this. Don't worry, no one will bother you if you buy these things."

"So, how much are these heavy crossbows?" I asked the noble stall owner with a smile.