Netheril’s Glory - Chapter 1242

[Chapter 1234 Caravan]

On the plane of Faerun, the Great Plains of Hattak has always been a very famous and absolutely forbidden area, because any intelligent creature with visual organs can see a tower standing between heaven and earth, not far from the border of Hattak Plain. The Huiyue Magic Tower blooms with brilliance 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 don’t want to die, they have the courage to cross the Great Plain of Hatak. In addition to conducting business with distant kingdoms, the vast majority of traders who pursue wealth can only honestly avoid the vast green grasslands and go to other countries to pursue wealth from the farthest border of Hatak Plain.

However, it is not easy to get around a great plain that once carried the size of an empire with no boundaries at a glance. Originally, because the area of the Faerun plane is too vast, even if it is just a trade exchange between two small kingdoms It is already difficult, and now it is necessary to travel a full five times the straight-line distance, which makes the already dangerous and time-consuming business journey even more time-consuming and labor-intensive.

After all, there are always countless magical creatures wandering in the empty wilderness. These terrifying existences with the strength of full-scale professionals at every turn can cause disasters to ordinary caravans.

Therefore, in order to ensure as much safety as possible on a far-flung road that is virtually insecure, no matter how bold a businessman is to conduct cross-border trade, he often hires at least two and at most five formal-level professionals as protection. , and even if all the way is unimpeded, a business operation back and forth will take at least five years!

For most ordinary people, such a business operation is a “big decision” that cannot be participated in several times in a lifetime, and for those aristocrats who can hire professionals, organizing such a large-scale business trip is also often You need to block most of your family property to be able to support it—although cross-border trade, and the traded things are still special magic resources, definitely represent amazing benefits and wealth, but once you don’t go to the village and go to the store five years ago. Any problem, even a big noble of a small kingdom will lose everything.

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrifying monsters, and astonishingly tedious travel times… The two countries separated by the Hatak Plains are really unlucky, and any trade between them is a huge gamble, and Every caravan walking close to the border of Hatak Plain must also be a group of trembling crazy gamblers.

For example, this group of caravans that have just traveled halfway through the journey is a typical example of gamblers – this is a trade brigade that bears the entire value of the three great noble families in the Kingdom of Haumenaz!

The location of the Haumenaz Kingdom is the northern part of the Hatak Plain. This area produces a special kind of magic metal that is very suitable for making formal-level magic circles. The pure metal deposits were a by-product of a legendary powerhouse who failed to challenge “Destruction Whispers” and released a powerful spell, and there is no such useful thing in the territory of the “Budalados” kingdom in the southern part of the Hatak Plain. The fact that magic metal exists seems to prove this conjecture.

As far as national strength is concerned, the Kingdom of Potalados, which has no metal deposits, is much stronger than the Kingdom of Haminaz. They must be very jealous of a magical metal vein, but there are two gaps between the “Hattak Great Plain”. It is impossible for a country to solve the problem of the ownership of a rare resource through the most “perfect” way of war, 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 Budalados to earn a lot of gold, while the Kingdom of Budalados used several gold mines to buy scarce magic metals, just like that, The circulation of the economy began to operate, and those big nobles who were on the verge of bankruptcy were willing to take this risky trade as a big bet for a comeback.

Gambling requires chips. A caravan walking in the wilderness, consisting of dozens of “siege beasts” with a height of 50 meters loaded with magic metal containers, is the so-called chips. Now the “chips” are going to pursue The gold that represents wealth is taken back to revive their family. For this reason, everyone in this business team must live the least on those “siege beasts” who can run at a constant speed for decades without sleep, without food or drink. 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 is a unique scenery that is a little incompatible with the wilderness. For example… a pampered teenage girl and a team of young people who are good at playing, chess, calligraphy, painting and various performing arts. The maid doesn’t quite fit the toiling style of the conventional “trading caravan”.

Under normal circumstances, a well-disciplined caravan cannot tolerate the existence of “useless labor”, and an eldest lady with only two ranks of warriors and a group of chattering beautiful little maids obviously cannot belong to “labor”. Therefore, their status in the caravan is never self-evident.

That’s right, no one will say it outright, but in reality… they’re part of what’s 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 are just “gifts” to “show attitude”, they were brought out by three noble families for marriage. The tool is the background link used to “keep friendly relations” with the great noble family of Budalados.

In fact, the noble girl who is sitting on the railing on the back of the “siege beast” and watching the distant road is “sighing every day” because of her identity and fate that she has to travel far away.

“Oh, the magic tower in the distance is so beautiful, no matter how long you look at it, you won’t get tired of it, the purple light and the blue shadow are intertwined, and even the clouds are slowly rotating around it, I really don’t know how to approach it. How shocking it would be to see such a magical building…. Anna, people say that in that magic tower lives a terrible archmage who can destroy a country with a wave of his hand, you say what they say is true “.

Staring at the dazzling light band that spilled into the sky from the magic tower with blurred eyes, the noble girl who was full of yearning in her voice couldn’t help but ask the maid next to her while swaying her slender legs.

It is not difficult to see that this girl who is still in her cardamom age is really curious about the legends about the mysterious magic tower and the “evil archmage”.