Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2254
the next day.

Xia Duo left the Floating Void City early and returned to the magic ship. After a night of hard work, the commander of Janjit City had quelled all the rebels. Finally, according to the statistics of the tax official Jam, a total of 600 slaves who could be sold were captured. Many people!

According to the price that Xia Duo and Jam had negotiated at the beginning, each slave was 26 Makala, and the total cost was only 26 Makala, or [-] gold coins.

This is really not expensive for Xia Duo who can use the arcane crystal to settle the settlement. If there is no restriction on Imaska's side, he can buy all the surplus slaves here.

Although Xia Duo said before that there is no extra crystallization of arcane energy, no one would think that hard currency such as energy gems can be obtained easily.

After a deal, both parties were very satisfied with the result. Jam felt that it was a good deal to trade only a few slaves for the precious energy gems.

For Xia Duo, no matter what it is, no matter how high the price is, as long as he can settle it with the crystal of arcane energy, he will make money.

And because it is in Imasca, which is far away from the Westland, Xia Duo doesn't have to worry about the follow-up impact at all, even if he only makes this one-off sale, it is completely worthwhile.

For the traded slaves, Xia Duo temporarily placed them in the Arcane Garden of the Floating Void City, and he planned to deal with those people when there were fewer things at hand.

Being left in the cold for a period of time can also make those people think about their situation, absorb and assimilate better than the territory.

……

In today's Janjit City, most of the rebels have been turned into slaves, and Xia Duo has taken them into their pockets, and the rest of the transactions have been completed before the rebels started their uprising.

After that, Xia Duo and Percher didn't stay any longer, and soon left Occupy Special City, thinking about the next place to trade and galloped away.

On the way, Xia Duo chatted with Jam about the slaves of Imasca intentionally or unintentionally, "Just now I noticed that those slaves are obviously different from the orthodox Imasca people. Is there any explanation in this?"

"Those are the Mulan people, the great master of craftsmen, His Majesty Kotan, the natural slaves that His Majesty the Great Emperor Kotan sought for the people of Imaskar, because they will never be able to become craftsmen because of their dull aptitude."

When talking about the Mulan people, Jam did not have any special contempt in his eyes, as if he was talking about a dead thing without life, or how can the owner despise his own property?

"In Imasca, apart from the Murans, there are also some Kadi, Dupa, and Urgas who were enslaved due to sin or other reasons, but because these ethnic groups have craftsman talents, So as long as you work hard to become a craftsman, anyone who is not enslaved because of sin can get rid of slavery."

This sounds plausible, but slavery itself is the biggest unreasonable thing, Xia Duo just echoed, and did not express his inner thoughts.

"Then who are the Imaskars, Jam tax collector?"

"If you only look at bloodlines, the earliest Imasca people are actually Dupa people, but because of the rise of the artisan lords of the past, the concept of the Imasca people is far from limited by blood. As long as you can become a craftsman, you They could be called Imascans."

"Then do you think I can become a craftsman?"

"Of course, as long as you swear allegiance to the great master of craftsmen, even outsiders have the opportunity to become Imaskans."

"Ha ha."

Of course, it was impossible for Xia Duo to swear allegiance to Emperor Imaskar, but it can also be seen from Jam's answer that the degree of secrecy of Imaskar's creation magic system is far less than he imagined.

As long as you swear allegiance, you can get the possibility of becoming a craftsman. This threshold is really too much. After all, even taking an oath may force a spellcaster to agree to a too harsh personal attachment.

The essence will not be much different from Netheril's agreement to join the Mage Tower organization.

Judging from the experience of Soriel, the artisan road here can actually be bought with money, but Xia Duo is now an outsider, and Jam controls the purchase channel.

If you want to buy it, you have to bleed!

But as long as you can buy it, what's the point of paying a little money?

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo already had a plan in mind. During the next voyage, he did not mention any topic about creation magic with Jam.

Until the magic ship came to the next city——

"That is the holy place in the hearts of all Imaskars, the residence of the great master of artisans, the Great Emperor Omanod - Inupuras."

When talking about the Lord of Artisans, no matter what kind of environment Jam is in, he always shows respect and love, which makes Xia Duo curious.

Why does this kind of ruler who brought the country to the brink of collapse still have such staunch supporters, but after thinking about it, this Jamben is the tax officer brought by Omanod to oversee the transaction, if it is all disloyal to the boss Otherwise, it is impossible for this country to survive.

If you think about it this way, I am afraid that the trading locations that Jam chose before were also deliberately selected, and they should all be areas that are pro-Omanord faction and have relatively stable rule.

But even so, the farce of the rebels attacking the city was encountered, and one can imagine how chaotic other areas will be.

Looking at the majestic city lying quietly on the surface plain in the distance, Xia Duo could smell a faint smell of decay in his heart, but it was impossible for him to say that in front of Jam, but——

"Jam Tax Collector, do the Imaskars like purple?"

"Master Athos, you must have seen the color of the buildings in the city of Inupuras to think so, but the fact may be the opposite. The reason why the buildings in the city are purple is only because the purple stone from the southern mountains was used. "

"Is there any particularity about that material? Let the Imasca people insist on using it even if they don't like it?"

"That kind of stone has a high affinity for space after special treatment. It is an important material for building the transmission center. Half of the Inupuras you see now is actually built inside the etheric layer. The one in the sky A purple star, to some extent, is the projection of Inupras."

"It turns out that's the case, but can such secrets be told to outsiders casually?"

"What kind of secret is this? Guests only need to go to Inupuras in person, and they will see with their own eyes more than what I said, not less."

What Jam said made Xia Duo more interested in Inupuras. As the magic ship approached a little bit, the capital, which was generally purple from a distance, finally revealed more of its true colors.

The first is the towering giant tower, surpassing almost any kind of building that Xia Duo has seen so far, except for the floating city.

Around the giant tower, there is also a vast urban area with purple as the main color. Unfortunately, when viewed from the sky, it can be clearly seen that the commercial atmosphere in the city is not active, and there are not many pedestrians on the street.

(End of this chapter)