The country of steel, Orsenburg.
Dorothy took a deep breath of the magic particles that filled the air in Osenburg. Sure enough, she was still relatively comfortable with the air of her own country.
"Cough... That's why I don't like coming to the country of steel."
"It should be industrial waste gas."
Joshua patted Ciri on the back, trying to make the poor spellcaster feel as comfortable as possible.
The special air of the Iron Country did have a big impact on Ciri, and even Deathwing standing on her shoulder made a strange coughing sound, and her figure gradually became blurred.
"Industrial waste gas? The air is filled with magical particles from the alchemy factory. Although it may be unaccustomed to, it is harmless to the human body." Dorothy, as a local, firmly believes in this.
"Harmless." Joshua glanced at Orsenburg.
This is the first time Joshua has come to the country of steel. The difference between this country and Nolan and Farosi is... The scenery of "steel is power" is revealed everywhere.
The architectural style is composed of dark colors, and there is absolutely no colorful feeling like Nolan and Farosi, and there are "chimneys" sprayed with light gray light particles everywhere.
This kind of scenery can also be seen across the river of Cogwheels in Nolan, but the entire city of Osenburg is composed of various alchemy factories.
"The air is filled with shards of original spar. According to the research of the Nolan Necromancer Association, human beings in it will indeed lead to a certain exhaustion of their breathing ability."
An old voice sounded behind Qiao Xiu, accompanied by a few more "gugugu" sounds.
"But... I think I'm fine... "
Dorothy looked at the filthy old man.
It's hard to imagine that Qiao Xiu called one of Nolan's Seven Sages in gray for the acquisition of the Chamber of Commerce!
Nolan's sage came to visit the country of steel, and the local city lord should have come to greet him in person, but the man in gray didn't care about these "unnecessary ceremonies".
"Where is the headquarters of the Silver Pattern Chamber of Commerce?"
Qiao Xiu stopped a magic car from a post station on the street. As one of the most prosperous cities in the country of steel, Orsenburg seems to have fully popularized the magic car.
"Block 22."
The man in gray rudely sat in the co-pilot seat, and Joshua, Ciri, and Dorothy could only squeeze in the last row.
At the beginning of the design of this magic car, only two people could sit in the back seat. Although Joshua sat on the far left side, Ciri, who was sitting in the center, was still attached to Joshua's body.
"That's right. Today's breakfast is honey bread."
Joshua could clearly feel the temperature coming from Ciri, as well as the faint fragrance.
"What honey bread?" Ciri didn't understand Joshua's words for a rare time.
"It's nothing."
Josh shook his head and told the driver in the driver's seat the location of Block 22.
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Dorothy returned to the headquarters of the Silver Vessel Chamber of Commerce in the magic car.
The front of the chamber of commerce is still as sluggish as before, and there are no guests at all.
When Dorothy opened the door and walked in, she found that the atmosphere inside was a little strange.
"Miss, are you... back?"
A maid approached Dorothy cautiously.
"What about the rest?"
Dorothy glanced at the interior of the firm and found that it was terribly cold inside.
After her father's business failed, the number of people employed in the business was reduced from more than 100 to more than 40 attendants, but now there are only three people in the entire hall of the business.
It was Dorothy's maid who was answering to Dorothy.
"They all... left. Miss I heard that you angered Lord Aitek. It is rumored that Lord Aitek is very angry and is going to tear down our shop." The maid whispered in a fearful voice.
Sure enough
Although Dorothy did not expect her escape from marriage to develop into such a bad result.
She looked at Qiao Xiu behind her, and Qiao Xiu didn't seem to care about these things, and took a look at the interior of the business.
"Do you have a basement here? Or a vault or something?" Joshua asked.
"Yes, come with me."
Dorothy also stopped thinking about the issues that troubled her, and took Joshua directly to the interior of the firm.
The scale of this business is much larger than Qiao Xiu imagined. There are three floors in total, not only the shops specializing in selling goods, but also the windows of pawn shops and the hall on the second floor for selling "treasures" and auctions. .
"The Silver Vessel Chamber of Commerce has been around for almost a hundred years." Dorothy came to a dimly lit room inside the firm, where there was a door locked by an inscription. "The most glorious period of this firm was when my grandfather was still in the business. When he was alive, he expanded the size of the chamber of commerce tenfold, and the trade route spanned three countries, but it is a pity that after the defeat, this is the last store of all."
"I can see it."
Qiao Xiu came to the tunnel behind the door. All kinds of strange patterns were carved on the walls of the tunnel. Although they had been scratched a lot, some of the patterns were made of gold powder.
"The inscription of the elves."
The man in gray, who was at the back of the team, looked at the frescoes carved on the wall, and instantly recognized what these things came from.
"Elves?"
Qiao Xiu thought that these things were just things made by the owners of the Chamber of Commerce to show off their wealth.
"The ancient elf language, there are many buildings in Nolan's underground ruins inscribed with these inscriptions." The man in gray stopped and pondered the surviving inscriptions on it. "These inscriptions have worked before, and they look like It's a large defensive barrier, little girl, who is your grandfather?"
"I... my grandfather was just an ordinary businessman."
Dorothy didn't expect that these strange patterns in her warehouse would surprise the man in gray so...
"But he used to tell me a story," Dorothy whispered.
"story?"
"What... an angel's gift, it seems that his initial wealth was bestowed by an angel who fell from the sky." Dorothy said, "I don't quite believe the truth of this story."
"Interesting." The man in gray stroked the whiskers of the owl who lived there.
Joshua fell into silence, and Dorothy's words reminded Joshua of the "high elves" mentioned by the dark elves.
Dorothy took Josh to the basement.
It looks like it's been used as a wine cellar for wine storage, surrounded by wooden barrels piled up.
"My grandfather kept a lot of treasures here in the past, but most of them were sold by my father, and then it became a wine cellar."
Dorothy held a radiant raw spar and illuminated the dimly lit basement.
"Treasure? Are there any leftovers?" The man in gray was interested, but he looked around but found nothing more.
"This...there is one, but in my room I used it as a mirror when I was a kid," Dorothy said.
"Show me your mirror later... Although I have heard that 'ruins' have been found in many places other than Nolan, this is the first time I have discovered that someone is using the inscriptions in the ruins today."
The man in gray came to the center of a wine barrel rack, and then stabbed his staff into the bricks on the ground.
The owl, who had been standing on the shoulders of the gray-clothed man, jumped to the top of the staff, and a magic circle composed of pure white inscriptions spread out with the gray-clothed man at the center.
The magic cast by the grey-clothed man is a defensive enchantment.
The reason why Joshua entrusted the grey-clothed man to Osenburg was to build a barrier that could protect the crystals of the World Tree.
The value of this thing is enough that many people risk it to steal or grab it.
Qiao Xiu did not think that the current silver-patterned flower trader would be able to secure this crystal.
This construction lasted a full three hours. When the construction was completed, pure white order inscriptions could be seen flashing in any corner of the entire underground warehouse.
"You can put that crystal here, and it will be safe and sound."
The gray-clothed man tapped his staff again, and the soil on the ground suddenly rose up and turned into a stone pillar with grooves embedded in crystals.
"Miss Dorothy, I think it's time for you to get to work too."
Qiao Xiu embedded the crystal in the groove, and a magical barrier instantly separated Qiao Xiu and the crystal.
The crystallization of this world tree can be regarded as an official residence in Orsenburg.