Path of light

Chapter 474 475. Floating device

The seaside in Castletown at night is quiet and deep, with the sound of waves lapping against the rocks, and countless waves turning into foam.

The beautiful crescent moon is hidden in the clouds like a green gauze tent. The clouds in the night sky are very thin, and you can even see the wind circle formed around the moon.

Every time the wind circle appears, the next day will be windy.

At this time, the southeast wind is almost always blowing on the sea, which means that tomorrow will definitely be a good weather for sailing sailing. The sea breeze will drive medium-sized sailing boats to the highest speed...

On the deck of the Black Pearl, the aroma of grilled fish wafts out from the green plant shed on the roof of the ship.

Roy, Woods, Claire, Moira, and Sabrina were sitting on scattered chairs on the ship's deck. There was a barbecue grill in front of Roy, and the grilled fish on the iron net continued to cook under the charcoal fire. After soaking the oil, Roy sprinkled some seasonings on it, and the aroma instantly became more intense.

The roof of this boat building has been turned into a flower garden by Woods. Originally, there were only some flowers of light here, but now in addition to those flowers of light, there are many other flowers, and even some vines have begun to spread throughout the boat building. superior.

The most exaggerated part of the current Black Pearl is the mainmast of the ship. The mainmast was damaged in the battle and could no longer be used as the mainmast, but Woods used the Druid's 'resurrection' spell. , let this dead tree sprout new branches.

Now the main mast is even integrated with the keel of the Black Pearl's hull. It can be said that the main body of the Black Pearl is a large and vibrant tree.

Even on the observation deck at the top of the main mast, a lush canopy of trees has grown, providing shade...

Therefore, although the Black Pearl has been stranded on the beach near the pier for five years, the ship has become increasingly new, and the entire hull is made of wooden planks without any signs of decay.

Usually only Miss Tiffany lives here. As the chief magic pharmacist of the Alchemy Workshop, Woods usually lives there, but returns to the Black Pearl every two days to take care of the plants on the ship. .

Miss Tiffany is still studying at the Elf Academy, and occasionally goes to the alchemy workshop to help out in her free time.

Everyone's eyes were all on Roy at the moment, listening to Roy telling about the naval battle on the Queen Evenni Islands...

Roy talked about taking a boat back to Castletown in one breath, then picked up the water glass in front of him and took a big sip.

Claire looked at Roy in shock. He thought that Roy had been reorganizing the mines on the Pagisto Plateau during this period. Unexpectedly, he arrived at the Queen Egwene Islands with 5,000 mixed elf warriors. Join this naval battle.

"So recently you were not at all on the Pagisto Plateau in the Partington plane, but were fighting the gray dwarf bandits on the Queen Egwene Islands?"

Roy spread his hands and said, "That's pretty much it."

Fortunately, he has two impressive wins.

Except for Claire, everyone looked at Roy with envy. Everyone thought that Roy was so handsome during his trip to the Queen Evening Islands.

But Claire, who is a Silver Moon Elf noble, knows a little bit about the inside story. He knows that the current situation in the Queen Egwene Islands is not as optimistic as Roy said. On the contrary, it is more like a meat grinder, constantly Involve elven warriors from all over the battlefield into this battlefield.

However, Claire felt a little relieved when she heard that Roy was in the Key West Islands behind the Queen Evenee Islands. And when she heard that Roy had won two consecutive victories recently, Claire said to Roy:

"What kind of material resources do we need from us?"

Claire is not usually involved in the daily affairs of the alchemy workshop. He is only responsible for coordinating the goods traveling between Castletown and Padstow City, and solving some things that Woods and the others cannot solve.

For example, this time the alchemy workshop sold all the magic herbs and primary magic potions in the workshop to the human business group. It was Claire who made the decision after asking many questions.

Claire usually takes music courses at the Elf Academy, composes some music scores, and occasionally participates in some performances in Castletown. She is also very busy at ordinary times.

Hearing Claire ask this, Roy shook his head.

"The Silver Pegasus Legion provides all supplies, so we don't need them yet."

Roy thought about this battle with the gray dwarf bandits. He not only captured more than 2,000 gray dwarf prisoners of war, but also harvested some three-masted sailing ships. Although the conditions of those ships were not very good, at least they were three-masted sailing ships!

"By the way, I also captured eleven sailing ships in the Key West Islands..."

Roy did not mention the three-masted sailing ship. Everyone thought that Roy had only captured eleven flying fish boats. Such small fishing boats were very common in Castletown Port.

Miss Tiffany was lying on the wicker chair, with long green algae-like hair hanging down the back of the wicker chair like a waterfall. Her face was covered with a thick layer of seaweed mud. At this time, she suddenly raised her head and said solemnly Said to Roy:

"This time I will go with you to the Queen Egwene Islands."

"Ah? What about your courses at Elf Academy?" Roy asked.

"I only signed up for two courses this semester, one of which was elementary fire magic. At the beginning of this month, the fire magic teacher told me that my fire element affinity was not enough, which means that no matter how hard I study, , in the end it’s all the final assessment of junior fire magic!” Miss Tiffany said with some frustration, then she suddenly raised her head and said with a rich expression: “But I can help you, Roy, let me and You go to the Queen Egwene Islands.”

"If you really want to go, fine!"

Roy had no reason to reject Miss Tiffany.

"Roy, I want to go too!" Moira immediately wrapped her around, holding Roy's arm and acting coquettishly.

"That's not possible. You have to complete this semester's courses. There's actually nothing interesting over there at the Queen Egwene Islands. Compared with Castletown, it's just a countryside. You only need to stay for three days and the whole place will be covered." You can walk all over the island!"

Roy would never agree to Moira's adventure in the Queen Egwene Islands, where there were wars almost every day.

Sabrina sat silent.

Roy didn't want to continue chatting on this topic, so he asked Woods:

"Woods, how has the alchemy workshop been doing recently?"

"Well, we have been refining primary magic potions every day for more than two months since we opened. Since our primary magic herbs are relatively cheap, the material cost is very low. In fact, the biggest daily expenses are the salary of the magic pharmacist and the rent of the workshop. , the profit in these two months is almost the same as the expenditure." Woods said honestly.

"This time the human merchant ship arrived in Castletown City. We reached a deal with them. The nine thousand bundles of primary magic herbs and 317 boxes of primary magic potions that were backlogged in the warehouse have all been sold. In addition, , and also sold 20,000 silver ingots, 15,000 tin ingots, and 5,000 mithril ingots to this human caravan, which should make a fortune."

Woods flipped through a parchment account book and introduced it to Roy.

Roy did not expect that there would be so many magic herbs, magic potions and metal ingots to be sold to this human business group. He had no good impression of the human business group. Jefferson died at the hands of a group of human crew members.

"The transaction price of these supplies has been determined. Tomorrow morning Claire and I will go to the ship to get the balance back." Woods finally said: "Roy, do you want to come with us?"

"Okay! I'll go with you guys."

Roy resisted the urge to slap his forehead and agreed.

These two guys sent so much goods to the ship, but they came back without settling the bill!

But then I thought about it, the merchant ship was docked at Castleton Harbor after all, so there was nothing wrong with Woods and Claire making such a move.

Thinking that this batch of goods had almost emptied the Padstow City warehouse, and that some of the magic herbs in it belonged to the businessman Augustus, Roy couldn't help but ask Woods: "Can we do this this time?" How many magic crystals did you get back?"

Woods specifically looked at the bottom line of numbers in the account book, then smacked his lips and said, "Almost 180,000 magic crystals."

Roy was also shocked when he heard Woods reported such a large amount:

"so much?"

Woods said while checking the accounts:

"Yeah! For this amount, nine thousand bundles of primary magic herbs were sold for 45,000 magic crystals. Another 317 boxes of magic potions were sold for 63,000 magic crystals. There are also Five thousand mithril ingots sold for 50,000 magic crystals, and counting those silver and lead ingots, there are exactly 180,000 magic crystals!"

If more than 180,000 magic crystals were exchanged for Kohler, it would be just a small goal.

A year ago, Roy never thought that he would make so much money in the elf world.

After Woods said this number, Moira and Miss Tiffany immediately shouted...

The barbecue party in the evening did not last long. After everyone dispersed from the Black Pearl, Roy carried a few grilled fish to the door of Mrs. Winnie's pharmacy, not forgetting to visit his old friends here.

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The next morning, Roy, Woods and Claire met at the port pier.

At this moment, the Castletown Port pier is still full of various wooden boxes, and a lot of goods are constantly being transported to the pier. Roy can see that some wooden boxes also contain slightly higher-end magic herbs.

Unexpectedly, this human business group was so powerful, purchasing magic herbs at Castletown Port.

Roy and Claire had been busy here all day yesterday and were quite familiar with the situation at the pier. They took Roy directly to a large sea ship on the easternmost side of the port pier. The ship hung down along the side of the ship. Many ropes, and many crew members tied to the ropes, were using shovels to clear the oysters and barnacles from the ship's walls.

Walking onto the deck, Claire took out a receipt, and the crew immediately took the three of them to the captain's cabin of the ship.

In the captain's room, there were several human warriors wearing magic-patterned leather armor. They gathered around a round table in the corner and were playing cards with great interest.

On the sofa in the rest area on the other side, there were several human businessmen wearing aristocratic costumes sitting there. They were sitting there chatting in a language that Roy could not understand.

When Roy, Woods, and Claire were led by the crew to several businessmen, the businessmen immediately stood up and welcomed the three. Then the eyes of several human businessmen almost all fell on Roy, and they even exchanged words with each other. They looked at each other and communicated.

After Woods, Roy and Claire sat down, a human businessman said something to Roy, but what he said was probably in Green Empire language. Roy couldn't understand it at all, and looked at that person with a confused look on his face. A human businessman.

"Sorry, I thought you were also from the Empire, so I couldn't help but say hello to you in Imperial language!" The human businessman immediately switched to Elvish to communicate with everyone. He was very fluent in Elvish.

It's not like he was mistaken for a human being by others once or twice. Roy took this very seriously.

"It doesn't matter. I am a half-elf and have lived in Castletown since I was a child." Roy introduced himself: "The elves here call me Roy."

The human businessman quickly said: "My name is Alvin, and I am the director of this business group.

Yesterday, all your goods were put into the cabin and sealed, and there were no problems! Currently, we have two payment methods:

The first is the simplest. I can have thirty-six boxes of magic crystals brought over right away, so that we can get both money and goods.

Of course there is a second way of trading, which I think is more mutually beneficial to you and me.

Our business group came here across the endless sea, and we also brought some goods. I suggest you pick some of these goods. I guarantee that these goods are very high-quality and cheap. We can barter, so please be careful now. think about it……"

Recently, Woods has been communicating with these businessmen...

But at this moment he hesitated, turned his head to look at Roy and Claire, and pursed his lips.

"What goods do you have?" Roy asked curiously.

The human businessman's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "Magic cloth, sculptures, oil paintings, jewelry, and some magic materials, magic pattern structures and advanced magic scrolls..."

Roy frowned, he was not interested in this.

Thinking of an old dwarf craftsman who told him that when he was on the Pagisto Plateau, there was a magical airship that could fly in the sky on the Roland continent, so Roy asked casually:

"Do you have a magic airship here?"

The human businessman looked at Roy with wide eyes, and then explained: "That thing is about the same size as this five-masted sailboat. We can't bring the magic airship over..."

When he said this, a human businessman next to him came over and whispered a few words to him.

The human businessman immediately became energetic again and said to the three Roys:

"Although we don't have a magic airship on board, when we passed by the dwarf country at the end of the New Siakis Mountains this time, we made some deals with the Stan dwarves over there and bought a batch of floating devices from them. These floating devices are the power source of the magic airship. Under normal circumstances, there are almost sixteen floating devices installed on a magic airship. If you want these floating devices, the price will be at a certain discount..."