Chapter 58: 58 Preliminary Cooperation

For Luoning, the purpose of walking into the Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce was to shop, but this did not prevent him from obtaining a great deal of information.

And in order to facilitate the transaction, Huke practically told him everything he knew and was able to speak about.

Aside from the prices of various goods, Luoning discovered an interesting item—the Magic Core.

In his understanding, a Magic Core was the source of a Magic Beast's Magic Energy, acting similarly to a battery. After Huke's explanation, his understanding of the Magic Core's function deepened by a layer.

A Magic Core is a crystalline object; even if ground into powder, it remains granular and can still react with mana, which is the reason it can serve as a material for Spell Ink.

Furthermore, when a Magician uses Mental Power to perceive a complete Magic Core, they can sense the Spell Pattern inside the core.

This Spell Pattern is the key to a Magic Beast's ability to use Magic, and it is also the origin of how early Magicians mastered Spell Patterns.

When a Magic Beast can use multiple spells, its Magic Core often contains many Spell Patterns. These Spell Patterns can be tightly integrated, and Magicians need to dismantle them; this is one of the daily research tasks for a Magician.

Through this kind of research, a Magician can significantly increase the probability of mastering a spell, which is far more effective than practicing by comparing it to a spell book.

Luoning, however, had no particular feelings about this.

After all, he mastered spells after practicing them a few times by comparing them to a spell book, and he felt that learning Magic did not have much difficulty.

Perhaps the difference between a genius and an ordinary person lies right here.

Just like that, the conversation continued for Along time before both sides finally turned the topic back to shopping.

Luoning did not dawdle and immediately requested to purchase five purple Magic Crystals, twenty-seven bottles of Level 2 Spell Ink, six pieces of Level 2 Magical Beast Leather, and the spell books for "Small Fireball" and "Fireball Technique."

The Magic Crystals were for the initial charge;

The Spell Ink and Magical Beast Leather were materials pre-prepared by the Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce for Magicians to craft Spell Scrolls.

A 10ml bottle of Spell Ink sells for 6 gold coins and can, on average, draw one Level 2 Spell Scroll;

A piece of Magical Beast Leather sells for 15 gold coins and can, on average, craft five Spell Scrolls.

The prices of the two spell books were relatively cheap, basically equivalent to half the price of a spell scroll of the same level, costing only 10 gold coins in total.

Purchasing these four categories of items totaled a consumption of 762 gold coins!

The bulk of it was the Magic Crystals, with five pieces worth 500 gold; the Spell Ink was 162, and the leather was relatively less, costing only 90 gold coins.

Luoning now had a total of thirty bottles of Spell Ink, which, combined with six pieces of Magical Beast Leather, could craft thirty Spell Scrolls, earning back 510 gold coins; he spent a lot, but he would also earn quite a bit.

Seeing such a large order, Huke's eyes turned into gold stars, and he wished he could call Luoning "Grandpa."

Of course, Luoning still had to haggle a bit; he ultimately cut 32 gold coins off the price and, in the process, asked for a high-quality Feather Pen and a book explaining the crafting of Spell Scrolls.

When seeing Luoning out, all the clerks on the first floor were startled, and one by one they cast the most enthusiastic gazes at Luoning, especially some of the more attractive waitresses, who only regretted not having the chance, otherwise they would have wanted to go with Luoning.

Outside the Chamber of Commerce building, Huke saw Luoning to the exterior.

"Lord Luoning, then it's settled; one month from now, that is, at the beginning of October, I will arrange for a Caravan to go to your territory!"

"Haha, you are welcome!"

Luoning smiled and reached out his hand, and in the other's stunned state, shook hands with him enthusiastically twice.

The proposal to have the Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce come to Shanlin Town was actually put forward by Huke; on the surface, he said it was to collect the newly crafted Spell Scrolls, but in reality, it was to continue selling Spell Ink and Magical Beast Leather to Luoning.

After all, even if Luoning crafted thirty Healing Spell Scrolls over the next month, the Chamber of Commerce would only profit a few dozen gold coins.

But if they could sell more Spell Ink to Luoning, they would earn much more.

For Luoning, very few caravans came to Shanlin Town.

He could use the pretext of the Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce coming to promote it, which might even have a good effect and make other caravans interested in Shanlin Town.

As for the risk of the woodland that must be traversed to reach Shanlin Town, this was not something Luoning needed to worry about.

The Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce is the largest Magician's Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom, and its strength goes without saying. Arranging for an Advanced Knight to pick up and deliver goods would be completely problem-free.

Let alone Magic Beasts, even Baron Leisen of Sain Territory would not easily provoke them if he saw them.

Watching the backs of Luoning and his two companions as they left, the smile on Huke's face never faded.

Meeting such a big spender was his good fortune!

"Promotion, raise!"

Huke felt very excited just thinking about it; in his eyes, Luoning was a money tree, and a money tree facing him at that.

"Such a big client must be reported to Lord Jishu He'er!"

Jishu He'er was the general manager of the Silva Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce's branch in Muma City, a Fifth-level Chief Mage, who spent most of his time in the Chamber of Commerce building.

Huke organized the receipts and gold coins, spiraled up the stairs, and reached the top floor.

Setting aside the matters on Huke's end, Luoning, having walked out of the Magic Energy Chamber of Commerce building, had already completed the main purchases for this trip to Muma City.

What remained to be bought were only wrought iron, farming tools, and going to the slave exchange to ask about the prices of slaves.

Seeing that it was noon, Luoning took Aierlong and Maiken with him into the tavern where he had agreed to meet with Tangmu and Jialun.

Calling it a tavern, it was actually a restaurant; it was just that there were more people drinking in the lobby.

As soon as he entered, the noisy shouting and yelling surged into Luoning's ears; this place was even livelier than a vegetable market in the morning.

Luoning took a look; most of the people eating and drinking in the lobby were hunters and mercenaries.

For these people who were accustomed to adventure and running about, being able to eat and drink with their partners was the happiest time, so most of them appeared particularly heroic when drinking, their voices were quite loud, and some were even accustomed to spouting some vulgar language.

They were basically all Free Citizens, with only a very small number being special slaves who did not need to farm.

Although there were Professional Knights among them, very few could reach the level of an Intermediate Knight.

Although they were Transcendental, without a background or channels, it was very difficult for them to enter the sight of nobles or major forces, and thus they lacked the channels to join them.

After all, for some nobles, they would rather temporarily hire Transcendental whose origins were unclear than accept their allegiance.

A thought flashed through Luoning's mind about whether to hire a few Professional Knights to deal with Sain Territory, but this thought was crushed by him as soon as it appeared.

The business of mercenaries was mainly concentrated on escorting caravans, accepting specific commissions to hunt Magic Beasts, protecting certain figures, and the like; if one wanted them to deal with a noble territory, it would require paying an exorbitant price.

And even if you paid, the other party would still evaluate the odds of winning and the potential crises. If the odds of winning were not high and there was a possibility of offending a larger noble, the mercenaries would likely not be willing to come and throw their lives away, no matter how much you paid.

Furthermore, due to the instability of mercenaries, who lacked the loyalty of knights within a territory, if Luoning were to hire them, it might happen that before he could take any action against Sain Territory, Baron Leisen would have already known his intentions in advance.

However, having said that, as long as these mercenaries earned enough money, or their own strength reached a certain level, or they formed a powerful mercenary group, they would still be qualified to sit down and talk with nobles.

It is said that the leaders of the Black Gold Brotherhood and the Bolante Bandit Group, who are active in the southeast of Wushan Territory, both started out as mercenary groups.

Now that their ventures have succeeded, they have not only occupied several cities in the southeast but have also left Weijinsi and his people with no way to deal with them.

In short, nobles have the lives of nobles, and commoners have the ways of commoners; most of the time, they do not intersect.

Luoning paid eight silver coins and had the attendant prepare a separate, spacious private room for them, which blocked out most of the noisy sounds from outside.

He held five Magic Crystals in his hand, and at the same time, he took out the Magic Crystal spoils he had obtained from Pedro from his Space Ring.

The six Magic Crystals have been gathered; now it is time for the first recharge.

(End of this chapter)