My Magic Age

Bernard stood on the top of the watchtower, holding the iron railings wet by the rain with both hands. The railings were painted with a thick layer of black paint, but unfortunately there was still reddish-brown rust seeping out from the cracks in the paint, and the mortar seams of the granite floor under his feet had not yet completely dried.

There was a huge bronze bell hanging in the bell tower. This bronze bell was transported from Tanton City and just arrived in Troum yesterday. Its surface was polished to a shine by the copper craftsmen. It was accompanied by a huge hammer, with copper skin wrapped around the top of the iron wood. Pull the hammer hard and make it hit the center of the bronze bell hard, and the bronze bell will emit a melodious humming sound.

The town of Troum, which has a bell tower, means that it has its own time standard.

Although there is no real night and day in the Hiero plane, people living in the town of Trum can still judge the morning and night of each day according to the bell in the bell tower. This is probably the true meaning given to this bell tower by Bernd, the first governor of the town of Trum.

For the dwarves, this is not difficult to understand.

The castles of the dwarves are usually built on underground mines or on the banks of the lava river in the mountains. Those castles have not enjoyed the sun for many years, so the dwarves have their own set of time standards. There are also bell towers in the dwarfs' underground cities. The bell towers there are very different from the bell towers in the town of Trum. The bell towers in the dwarf castles have pipes that extend in all directions. Those sounds representing time will be transmitted to every corner of the underground castle along the copper pipes.

Trum is a town full of vitality. Every day, people come from Tanton City to complete transactions in the market of Trum. There are always some unexpected things in the market of Trum, such as a bundle of dried kudzu root or two complete golden thorn grass. These magical herbs are definitely popular in the Green Empire, and occasionally appear on the stalls of the Yero natives.

There are less than 500 Yero natives living in the town, most of whom escaped from the dense forest south of the Black Forest.

Among these natives, the proportion of women and children accounts for more than 80% of the total, or even more.

When they first arrived in Trum, they had almost nothing except the bark clothes they wore.

Bernd used some of the newly planned houses in the town to accommodate these indigenous refugees. Not only did he give them blankets for sleeping, but he also provided these indigenous refugees with some food every day, such as some oatmeal porridge and baked oatmeal cakes.

In this way, these indigenous refugees from the southern part of the Green Valley Forest settled down in the town of Trom.

For these indigenous refugees, the days of getting oatmeal porridge and baked oatmeal cakes every day were very uneasy. What they were most worried about was how they would live in this town if these foods were suddenly cut off one day.

These indigenous people began to slowly become familiar with the living pattern of this town. They gradually realized that if they wanted to live in the town, they had to be willing to work hard to get food or other things they had never seen before, such as a kind of silver coin.

Unfortunately, those places that hired laborers did not accept child labor, so those indigenous children could not find any work in the town of Trom.

Some idle indigenous children began to wander around the town. Occasionally, they would be seen under the city wall, and occasionally on the cliffs of the fault mountain outside the town. Sometimes they would even appear on the open-pit iron mine outside the town, or in the grove on the slope of the town.

After all, these indigenous children are children of the forest. As long as they walk into the forest, it is like returning home. They can easily pick some butter-colored pine mushrooms next to some rotten pine stumps and clusters of hazel mushrooms under some hazelnut trees. They string these collected mushrooms with ropes and then put them around their necks and bring them back to the town.

In such a rainy summer.

After every rain, many mushrooms will grow in the woods behind the town. Those indigenous children will always bring back all kinds of fresh mushrooms and wild vegetables from the woods, so that in addition to the baked wheat cakes that they never get tired of, there will be a bowl of hot mushroom soup or wild vegetable soup on their table.

After a heavy rain, the indigenous children came back from the woods, and the wicker baskets behind them were full of mushrooms and fresh cat's ear vegetables. They even found a cluster of wild onions next to a stone wall. A group of children happened to pass by the market at the entrance of the town.

In front of a butcher's stall, a noble steward who bought five fat chickens stopped the native children. Although they could not communicate with words, they could still guess what the other party was going to do by making some gestures. So the native children completed their first transaction in the town of Trum. The steward did not make this transaction unfair just because they were a group of native children who knew nothing.

In fact, the transaction between the two parties was completed in front of the market tax officer. The steward got a basket of fresh pine mushrooms, and the native children also got a silver coin and a handful of yellow copper coins. They excitedly took the coins home.

So, in the following days, there were more native children who liked to set up stalls in the market. They sold almost everything from mushrooms, wild vegetables and fruits to poultry and herbs in the woods. The natives finally began to slowly integrate into this town. It was precisely because these natives could occasionally get some magic herbs to put on the stalls in the market that they even attracted some magic herbal merchants in Tanton City, who occasionally ran to the town of Trum to try their luck. Some magic potion merchants even opened pharmacies directly in the town of Trum.

Perhaps there were huge business opportunities hidden in this town, and some affordable food could be bought in the town, so the market in the town gradually became lively, and the scale of the market was even larger than the free market in Tanton City.

During the construction of this town, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and masons were often used. As long as these craftsmen came to the town of Trum, they would have a long-term and stable employment contract. At the same time, many shops such as blacksmith shops and carpenter workshops were also bred in the town. This new town was full of business opportunities.

Buildings made of rocks are rising from the ground in the town. More and more buildings are beginning to need supporting facilities, such as lime for painting walls, doors, windows and furniture made of hardwood, some utensils necessary for family life, iron pots, kettles and other things, and some linen curtains and cheap sheets.

These demands gradually led to some stone building material shops, woodworking workshops, blacksmith shops and tailor shops, etc. These shops are like mushrooms after rain, and they are slowly rising in the town. At the beginning, these shops only supplied some semi-finished building materials to the dwarf Bernd. Later, the town gradually prospered. These shops would not only accept Bernd's big orders, but also accept repair work from the town residents.

In addition, compared with Tanton City, the town of Trum is closer to the southern area of ​​the Black Forest. It is more suitable to be a temporary residence for adventurers, especially after the barbarian slaves cleaned up the Nibru spiders in the nearby area, many adventure groups came here at once.

It takes about a day to get from Tanton City to the town of Trum. These adventure groups don't want to spend time on the road, so some adventure groups began to try to live in the town of Trum. Then they found that in this town, they can find almost everything they need, a market where they can trade freely, and they can deal with some magic materials and magic crystals in their hands at the market, and they can also buy some of the most common daily necessities.

This town has cheap hotels and restaurants, as well as blacksmith shops for repairing weapons, carpenter workshops for repairing bows and arrows, leather shops for repairing leather armor, etc. There is even a magic potion store in the town. Although there are few magic potions in it, these shops have brought great convenience to adventurers.

The prosperity of the town of Trum today comes roughly from three parts: one part comes from some infrastructure projects in the town, one part comes from the market in the town, and the last part comes from the adventure groups in the town.

Now the town's outer walls, gate towers, and arrow towers have been completed. The town has pre-laid a complete sewer network and water supply pipelines. The main streets in the town and the shops on both sides of the streets have also been built. Next, Bernd has set his sights on the town's residential buildings. A large amount of infrastructure materials have been transported to the living area. Bernd needs to hire a large number of craftsmen. In this way, as long as they are willing to work hard, these laborers at the bottom of society can find a job to make a living in the town of Trum.

In addition, it is the town's market that brings more vitality to Trum. From the beginning, the grain business that almost made the entire Tanton city a sensation, to the large-scale transactions of various building materials due to the increasing demand for the construction of the town, to the present, after a group of adventure groups have flocked to the town, more high-end magic material transactions have appeared in the market. The town of Trum has become a temporary camp for adventure groups who want to explore the southern part of the Black Forest.

After some adventure groups from Tanton City poured into the town of Troum, they brought some new business opportunities to the town. They needed to purchase supplies in the town every time they went on an adventure, and they also needed to repair and replace their own equipment. Of course, there were no high-level blacksmith shops and leather shops in the town, so some high-quality weapons and leather goods could not be repaired perfectly, which was somewhat helpless for some adventure groups that had no replacements.

In short, the town of Troum seemed to have become prosperous overnight.

And although the Green Empire still had an advantage in population in the town, more than 90% of them were Empire people, but there were also some tribal orcs, barbarian slaves, dwarves and natives living in the town. This multi-ethnic mixture gave the town a different flavor. Moreover, because the governor of the town was the dwarf Bernd, the town's guards were barbarian slaves and orc warriors, and because he had the "Legal Rights of Natives" notice issued by the Duke of Samoyed, Bernd's policy of promoting "freedom", "equality", "justice" and "rule of law" in the town was successfully implemented.

After the Construct Knights of the North Wind Legion arrived at the town of Troum, these knights who returned from the battlefield brought back a large amount of spoils from the south. The Construct Knights needed to dispose of most of the spoils because there would be bigger battles waiting for them. So the free market in the town of Troum was suddenly flooded with a large amount of Warcraft materials, black iron weapons, magic herbs, etc.

There were even some materials from the Niburu Spidermen in the market, such as delicious spider leg meat, giant spider venom sacs, tentacles like black iron spears, and even some that made the adventure group's eyes red. Spider Warlord leather material.

Of course, most of the most valuable abdominal high-grade leather on the Spider Overseer is in my hands. What flows into the hands of the construct knights is just some slightly harder hard carapace on the Spider Overseer. These hard shells cannot be used to make magic pattern constructs. It's fake, but if you want to use these hard shells to make armor pieces, you can still do it.

A large amount of magic materials appeared in the town of Trum, which also attracted magic material merchants from Tanton City. They rushed from Tanton City overnight to join in the feast of sharing the fruits of victory after the war was won.

I took Katarina, Kalantso, Morayar, Minotaur Ruka, Justus, Bernd, Puyaka, Kony and others in a private room on the second floor of a restaurant next to the market. Enjoying lunch, lunch has come to an end. The waiters in the restaurant are bringing out desserts one after another. Looking at the slightly melted red bean smoothie, I sigh to myself. After all, the restaurants here are quite different from those in the Imperial Capital. of.

Looking at the noisy market outside, Justus said with emotion: "I didn't expect that this place has changed so much in just two months. When we left the town before, there were digs everywhere. The ditch, except for the surrounding city walls, looks a bit different, but the rest of it looks nothing like it. When I come back this time... the whole town actually pops up like a mushroom after the rain. It’s incredible!”

"If you look at Trum in a while, there will be even greater changes. I plan to gradually improve various supporting public facilities in the town. The town must have parks, public water tanks and public facilities. Toilet." Bernd sat next to Justus and looked extremely happy when he heard Justus' praise. He said to Justus with a bright face.

I took a few mouthfuls of the red bean smoothie, then put the spoon aside and asked the Siren descendant, "Justus, what are your plans next? Do you want to stay with us in the Imperial Capital for a few days?"

After thinking for a while, Justus said to me: "I want to visit Tanton City. I made some friends there. I plan to go see how they are doing when I come back this time..."