Chapter 1234 Caravan

On the plane of Faerun, the Hatak Great Plain has always been a very famous absolute forbidden zone, because any intelligent creature with visual organs can see a tower standing between the sky and the earth at the far border of the Hatak Plain. The Bright Moon Magic Tower blooms brilliantly day and night, so in order to avoid getting close to the "landmark building" that represents danger and terror as much as possible, except for a very few traveling merchants who want money and life, they have the courage to cross the Great Plains of Hatak Apart from conducting business with distant kingdoms, the vast majority of merchants who pursue wealth can only honestly avoid the vast green grasslands and go to other countries to seek wealth from the farthest border of the Hatak Plain.

However, it is not easy to bypass a large plain that cannot be seen at a glance and once carried the size of an imperial kingdom. Originally, because the area of ​​​​the Faerun plane is too large, even if it is only a trade exchange between two small kingdoms It is already difficult, and now it is necessary to walk five times more than the straight-line distance, which makes the already dangerous and time-consuming business journey more time-consuming and laborious.

After all, there are always countless magical creatures wandering in the open wilderness, and any of these terrifying existences with the strength of full-level professionals can cause disaster to ordinary caravans.

Therefore, in order to ensure safety as much as possible on the long road with no guarantees at all, no matter how courageous the rich and powerful merchants who conduct cross-border trade often have to hire at least two and at most five full-time professionals as protection. , and even if the road is unimpeded, it will take at least five years for a round-trip business operation!

For most ordinary people, such a business operation is a "big decision" that they will never participate in a few times in a lifetime, and for those nobles who can hire professionals, organizing such a large-scale business trip is often You need to block up most of your own property to barely support it—although cross-border trade, and the traded things are specialty magic resources definitely represent amazing benefits and wealth, but once it appeared on the journey of five years ago without going to the village or shop. Any problem, even a big noble in a small kingdom will lose everything.

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrible monsters, and boring and amazing travel time... The two countries separated by the Hatak Plain are really unlucky. Any trade between them is a huge gamble, and Every caravan walking close to the border of the Hatak Plain must also be a bunch of trembling crazy gamblers.

For example, this group of caravans that have just traveled halfway is a typical example of gamblers-this is a trade brigade that bears the full worth of three big noble families in the Kingdom of Hominaz!

The Hominaz Kingdom is located in the northern part of the Hatak Plain. This area is specialized in a kind of magic metal that is very suitable for making formal magic circles. The pure metal deposit is a by-product of a legendary strong man who failed to challenge the "Whispers of Destruction" and released a powerful spell, but there is no such useful thing in the territory of the "Pudarados" kingdom in the south of the Hatak Plain. The fact that magic metal exists seems to prove this conjecture.

In terms of national strength alone, the Kingdom of Potarados, which has no metal deposits, is much stronger than the Kingdom of Hominaz. They must be extremely jealous of a magical metal mine, but the two sides separated by the "Hatak Great Plains" It is impossible for a country to solve the ownership problem of a rare resource through war, the most "perfect" way, so the trade with huge benefits came into being.

The nobles of the Kingdom of Hominaz organized caravans to sell magic metals to the nobles of the Kingdom of Budarados to earn a lot of gold, and the Kingdom of Budarados used several gold deposits to buy scarce magic metals. In this way, The circulation of the economy began to operate, and those big nobles who were on the verge of bankruptcy were willing to regard this risky trade as a gamble for a comeback.

Gambling requires chips. A caravan walking in the wilderness consisting of dozens of fifty-meter-tall "siege behemoths" full of magic metal containers is the so-called chips. Now the "chips" are going to find The gold, which represents wealth, can be taken back to revitalize one's own family. For this reason, everyone in this business team must live at least on those "siege behemoths" that can run at a constant speed for decades without sleep or food. five years.

What a huge caravan, they are as mighty as a traveling town.

It's just that in this "town" with a rough style, there are some unique scenery that are incompatible with the wilderness and sand, for example... a pampered girl in her teens and a team of young people who are good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and various performing arts Maids are not in line with the conventional "trading caravan" style of hard work.

Under normal circumstances, a well-disciplined caravan cannot tolerate the existence of "useless labor", and a young lady with only two ranks of warriors and a group of chattering and beautiful little maids obviously cannot belong to the "labor force" Therefore, their status in the caravan has never been self-evident.

That's right, although no one will say it explicitly, but in fact...they are part of the products that are planned to be sold.

And compared to the expensive value of magic metal, whether it is a noble lady or a group of well-trained little maids, they are just "gifts" to "show their attitude". They are the marriages of three noble families. A tool is a background bond used to "maintain friendly relations" with the noble family of Budarados.

In fact, the noble girl who is sitting on the railing on the back of the "Siege Behemoth" and watching the road far away is "sighing every day" because of her identity and fate that she has to go far away.

"Oh, the magic tower in the distance is so beautiful, no matter how long you look at it, you will never get tired of it. The purple light and blue stream shadows are intertwined, and even the clouds are slowly rotating around it. I really don't know how to get closer. How shocking it would be to see such a magical building... Anna, people say that in that magic tower lives a terrifying archmage who can destroy a country with a wave of his hand, you say what they say is true ".

Staring dazedly at the bright light that the magic tower spilled into the sky to stir up the situation, the aristocratic girl whose voice was full of yearning couldn't help asking the personal maid beside her while shaking her slender legs.

It's not hard to see that this girl who is still in her cardamom age is really curious about the legend about the mysterious magic tower and the "Evil Archmage".

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