Everything in the city of Mordor was built with money.
Søren had never pursued any luxury. All his accumulated wealth was either used to improve his strength or subsidize the consumption of the city of Mordor. Otherwise, Søren could definitely live a more luxurious life than a king, but as a god, he did not care about material enjoyment at all. In the future, as long as he entered the divine kingdom, then Søren could do whatever he wanted, because there was a kingdom's resources for him to squander.
Three days later.
It was a very peaceful day.
However, for the residents of Mordor, there were still a lot of novelties today, such as a ship docked in mid-air at the dock. At this moment, many people had gathered around the port of Mordor, not only the residents of Mordor, but also many merchants from the south coast and other places. At this moment, they all looked at the airship in front of them in shock. They weren't unfamiliar with this thing because, from an outsider's point of view, the entire airship was a boat. It was just that the sails had been replaced by balloons, and a propeller-like object had been installed at the rear.
Merchants were born with a keen vision to pursue profits.
So when they saw the airship for the first time, they realized the huge business opportunity hidden in it, and then they inquired about it from the higher-ups of Mordor through their own connections. The officials of the City Hall had met several groups of people who wanted to send gifts and inquire about information today. In particular, some old Chambers of Commerce controlled by aristocrats on the south coast directly asked if the Floating-Space Tower was for sale. As long as they were willing to sell it, the price was not a problem.
Business opportunity was only one aspect.
On the other hand, the forces behind the merchants realized the strategic value of the airship.
Although this thing was far inferior to the Floating-Space Tower of Mordor, if a warship could fly, and there were several cannons on it, it was also amazing combat power!
At least you could defeat a lot of enemies in the sky.
The situation was better than Sauron had imagined, because on the first day of the airship's display, many people had expressed interest in it.
There were also aristocrats from the Chamber of Commerce in Arendelle who secretly said that they could buy it at a high price.
At this moment.
Recently, Søren and Gloria were in dire need of money, so they didn't hold back. Seeing that the response was good, they immediately doubled the price. A standard airship modification cost 60,000 Kindler coins.
The net profit was about 45,000 Kindler units!
Even though Søren had offered such a high price, a batch of Floating-Space Tower modifications were quickly sold out.
The Northern Witch Council ordered one, the Wizard Alliance ordered one (probably to buy it back for research), then the nobles of Arendelle ordered three custom-made ships (there were many old nobles in the wealthy Arendelle who had accumulated a lot of wealth), followed by one order from the Southern Duchy, and two orders from the Chamber of Commerce of the Eastern Kingdom.
Even the Chamber of Commerce secretly controlled by the Principality of Rossard secretly placed a batch of orders.
Søren naturally wouldn't go against money. The technical content of the airship was not high. The core was still the application of energy and Floating-Space Ring. Part of the technology of Floating-Space Ring had been sold, but the core material for the production of Thorium was still in his hands. In other words, even if the Wizard Alliance and the Northern Witch Council knew how to make Floating-Space Rings, they still needed to buy the materials from Mordor City.
There was no need to worry about this because the production of Thorium required the synthesis of things from the Astral World, and the production in Mordor City was not very high.
Finally.
It was from the Church of Riches. The Lady of Riches was indeed the richest god, she directly placed a dozen orders. Twelve airships were 720,000 Kindler units, and Søren made a net profit of nearly 540,000 Kindler units.
It had to be said that high-end alchemy technology was really profitable!
Søren received the orders sent by the officials of the City Hall on the same day, as well as the deposits paid by many Chamber of Commerce forces. The amount was huge, reaching a terrifying amount of more than 300,000 Kindler units.
As long as all the current orders were completed, Søren would earn nearly 800,000 Kindler units in one breath!
It was far more than the tax on maritime trade.
"This is daylight robbery!"
Søren looked at the order statistics in front of him happily and said to Gloria next to him: "At this rate, we will soon be able to raise enough funds for the second phase of expansion."
Gloria's expression was quite calm, and she slowly said: "The alchemy technology required for the airship is not high."
"The Northern Witch Council and the Wizard Alliance will definitely copy it. At most, in a month or two, they will be able to make their own airships."
"I'm afraid our future orders will only be from the South Coast."
"In the future, the focus should be on [Thorium]. Making the floating ring is absolutely inseparable from Thorium. Even if they understand the technology, they must buy Thorium from Mordor City."
Søren nodded and said: "It makes sense."
"But the number of airships should be a lot by then, and the trade should be restored by then."
A conservative estimate.
The research of the airships could bring Mordor City about 3 million Kindler units of wealth, and these were all in cash. When the trade was restored, the taxes of Mordor City would also begin to increase. All kinds of benefits would be endless, which greatly made up for the current huge capital consumption of Mordor City.
In fact, the Church of Riches had always wanted to send money to Søren.
It was just that Søren didn't want it. If he took the money from the Church of Riches, he would have to give up a lot of things in Mordor City. Søren absolutely didn't want the Church of Riches to touch everything inside Mordor City.
Letting them develop in the port was already Søren's limit. The interior of Mordor City must be absolutely in his hands.
…
Everything was going on in an orderly manner.
Søren received a message from the high priest. After defeating a group of sea monsters, they successfully approached the location of the pirate island. But they hadn't landed on the island yet because it had become the habitat of the Kuo-toans.
This was a kind of large fishman.
Some Kuo-toans were more than two meters tall when they stood up. They were far more difficult to deal with than the Dark Scale Fishman or other fishman species.
Looking at the entire sea area, only the Sharkman could fight against them.
There was a message sent back by the high priest that interested Søren. It said: "My Lord. Near the pirate island, I feel chaotic magic power. "
"This is not a dead magic area, but I can feel a kind of restriction."
"It's a bit like a lock, but it's not certain yet. However, low-level spellcasters can easily fail to cast spells here. It's as if there's a force imprisoning the energy here."
"I suspect it's because of the anti-magic prison, but I'll have to wait until we enter to be sure."
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