The original wetland was a large swamp, but now that winter is coming, the swamp is frozen, and the place Beta teleports to is a white ice field. The biting cold wind came from the north, and then whizzed across the flat ice field, rolling up the ice slag that would crack the skin when it hit the face, making a clattering sound.
Because both Beta and Shirley are master-level professionals, such a natural environment has little impact on them, so although the two of them are wearing thin clothes, they don't feel any discomfort.
Jessica, on the other hand, was also running around, looking very excited. She has the blood of the werewolf family, so it is not surprising that she likes the ice field naturally.
"Master, why do you want this barren land?" Xue Gong was a little puzzled: "There are no resources here, and there is no strategic value, and there is still a swamp under your feet. It is not cost-effective to build a city here. matter."
"Who said there are no resources? There are a lot of magic materials under our feet." Beta smiled, and when he spoke, he breathed out white gas: "This resource alone is enough for us to spend many years."
Shirley was a little strange: "How do you know? Since there are such precious magic materials down here, why don't other nobles come to mine them."
"Not many people know about this, and they have no experience in building cities on swamps." Beta said confidently: "But I have. For the past six months, I have been making magic scrolls, just for this day."
Shirley's eyes lit up: "Turn mud into stone?"
Beta admitted: "This is the magic. Of course, it is impossible to use the magic of turning mud into stone to change the entire swamp into a real place. After all, this place is too big. But let's first turn the swamp nearby Let the ground harden first, lest it turn into a swamp again after the winter snow melts, which is not difficult to deal with.”
"Master, let me help you." Shirley became excited: "This is the master's territory, so is our real home in the future?"
"yes."
Beta laughed lightly. In the game, the wetland was the common home of the players from the very beginning. He took out a large number of magic scrolls from the space backpack and handed some of them to Xue Li, and then the two kept throwing magic scrolls at the snow under their feet. One after another blue-yellow lights flashed, and about three hours later, the magic scrolls in the hands of the two were exhausted. Beta reckoned and measured, and they had transformed the swamp with an area of about one kilometer in length and width into a solid ground.
As for the used magic scrolls, there are about a thousand pieces and about three thousand gold coins.
This is already an unimaginably large amount of money, and not many people can afford this amount of money, but spending so much money, but only making some solid objects, is a complete waste for many nobles.
Therefore, this is why many people know that there are a large amount of magic materials buried underground here, but no one wants to take this land as their own.
In the game, Beta didn't have so many gold coins at the time. He searched for other magician players in the forum and helped them for free. It took three months to turn all the swamps in the wetland into real land. Because this is the first territory owned by the players, the players are very happy, all kinds of free support materials for construction.
Jessica watched Shirley and Beta busy, because she was not a spellcaster and couldn't use magic scrolls, so she looked very disappointed.
But Beta noticed this, he touched the little girl's head and said: "Don't worry, everyone has their own work to do, and after a while, you will be so busy that you don't have much time to sleep, so rest now For a while."
When Jessica heard this, her eyes lit up immediately.
Most people don't like to work, and they don't do it if they can. But Jessica is just the opposite. She likes to have things to do, especially to help the master. Because of her previous experience, she always believed that a maid is the most ideal career for a woman. It means that from now on, there will be a place to sleep and something to fill her stomach.
Especially Shirley's arrival made her feel that this idea was correct. Because a woman as beautiful and capable as Shirley is just the master's maid.
Shirley walked over from one side. She saw Beta touching the little girl's head, and she actually had a look of envy in her eyes: "What should we do next?"
"The next step is to build the castle." Beta looked at the sky in the north: "We have to find some laborers to work here. But ordinary people don't want to suffer in this kind of icy and snowy place, so we can only Buy slaves instead."
"There is a city where slaves are sold nearby. I think it should be Caronte."
Speaking of Caronte, there was a smile in Beta's eyes.
In the game, Caronte City was the first city to turn against Beta, and it was also the first city where the lord almost cried out from being beaten by Beta. Later, Calonte learned how to behave. As soon as Beta appeared, he immediately pretended to be cowardly and resolutely refused to participate in the coalition wars of other nobles. This made it avoid a lot of unnecessary losses, and then traded with Beta's Wetland City, which made a lot of money. money.
After reminiscing, he let the two women approach him, and Beta activated the teleportation magic.
The next second, they appeared on the road on the outskirts of Caronte. Because of the snow season, there were very few people outside the city, so when the three of Beta came out of the magic circle, they did not cause any commotion.
The three of them passed through the gate of Caronte City, and the city defenders naturally did not dare to stop Beta when they saw Beta dressed in magician attire.
As soon as the three of them entered the city gate, a young man with poor vitality came up. He bent over and said very humbly: "Your Majesty the Mage, and your wife, and Miss... I am Bu Ryder, the best guide in Caronte City. If you are a newcomer and hire me, I can save you a lot of unnecessary trouble."
This person regarded the three Betas as a family of three. Beta didn't care, but Shirley had a smile on her face, and Jessica didn't know what the other party was talking about.
Beta popped out a silver coin and landed it in the opponent's hand: "Take me to the largest slave farm in the city."
Brad looked at the silver coin in his hand, and his face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum with a smile: "As you wish, your honorable lord."
A silver coin can do a lot of things. Brad put the silver coins away carefully and walked ahead. As he walked, he introduced to Beta the types of goods sold in the surrounding shops, whether they were fair, and so on.
This is the quality that a good guide should have. Beta listened with relish, and Shirley also listened enthralled.
It turned out that the journey from the city gate to the slave market was quite long, but with Brad's eloquence, it felt like the journey passed quickly.
Stopping in front of a black building, Brad said: "The slave market is inside, but people of my kind can't get in. Please forgive me for not being able to accompany you any longer."
Beta thought for a while and said, "You wait here first, I have other things to trouble you later."
Upon hearing this, Brad immediately replied happily: "Thank you, Your Excellency, I will wait for you here forever."
For Brad, if he can earn two silver coins a day, it is really good luck.
Beta took Shirley and Jessica inside, but just after entering the door, Shirley held her nose and backed away, and so did Jessica.
"It stinks!"
The two said at the same time.
In fact, Beta only smelled a strange smell. Although she didn't like it, she could bear it. However, Shirley and Jessica were different. One of them was a divine creature and the other had werewolf blood. Both of them had a very sensitive sense of smell. type. Beta knows what virtue is in the slave market, and it is indeed difficult for them to enter such an environment.
"Then you wait outside."
Beta looked at the two women who nodded vigorously, smiled slightly, and continued to walk in.
The building is a bit dark, but the floor space is extremely exaggerated, and Beta discovered that there are stairs leading to the basement.
He walked into the building less than five steps ago when a young man with a philistine face came over and asked, "Hello, sir. I am the supervisor here. What kind of goods do you need? Please feel free to contact me." I said, as long as we let you find something in it, we can help you find it."
"I need a group of slaves." Beta looked at the other party's face, thinking about his thoughts: "300 to 500 people. I think with the strength of your club, it shouldn't be difficult to get them together."
The young man squinted his eyes for a while, and said, "We have three batches of slaves that meet your requirements, why don't you randomly check the goods first?"
"Look at all three batches."
"Okay, no problem." The young man smiled happily.
Soon Beta felt that there was no need to look at the three batches, because the slaves of two of them were not human beings at all, but kobolds and goblins.
Only the slaves of the third batch are human beings.
Among them were girls, boys, and even a baby. Beta roughly counted, and it should indeed exceed the number he wanted.
These people looked numb, no matter men, women, old or young, they all seemed lifeless.
Beta asked: "Do you know their origins?"
The young man on the side said: "The York people... offended the king of Udaligan two years ago, was hunted down by the king of Udaligan, and finally ended up in this place."
Yorkies! Beta sighed, then looked inside, thinking: "How much money do these people need?"
"Are you going to finish all of them?" The young man was a little surprised: "There should be more than seven hundred people here."
"I still think there are too few people." Beta looked at the baby with a thin face who didn't have much milk to drink and said, "Quickly report the number, I want this group of people."
"Please wait a moment, I will inform the big boss."
After the young man was surprised, he was ecstatic. He suppressed his excitement and left.