The Tower of the Great Sage was not in a transportation hub, and there were no special resources nearby. Even the nearest village had been deserted not long ago because of the Pagoda Master, and no one was there anymore.
However, there were still more travelers coming to or passing by the Tower of the Great Sage. There were adventurers, mercenaries, merchants, and aristocratic representatives, either with a purpose or without. Of course, after the merchants smelled a business opportunity, they would be the most diligent group of people.
The Mall System opened by the Society of Sorcerers was undoubtedly a powerful trading tool. There were also people who came to the Tower of the Great Sage and proposed this idea to Lin. However, after hearing that the Association paid for the Mall System, no one did not back out.
Sell at a reduced price? What would the people who bought at an expensive price think? The Society of Sorcerers had the confidence to destroy the people who sold at a reduced price and then destroy the people who bought at a cheaper price.
As for the proposal of cooperation and shares, Lin just smiled. He could cheat anyone but his own father. The Society of Sorcerers was his own father. If he cheated his father, he would beat his son. Lin still wanted to live a comfortable life. He didn't want to live a rich and powerful life.
Therefore, these merchants came to the Tower of the Great Sage to purchase the specialty in their eyes. There were Magic Stones for the Browser System. That's right. It was unknown when the Magic Stone with the Browser Magic Stone had become a hot commodity.
Strictly speaking, the Browser Magic Stone could only be regarded as a magic tool, which was an item that ordinary people without magic could use. It did not require any talent. Of course, the most basic literacy was required.
If the Magic Stones were self-supplied, the Association would only need one Kiel to copy the Browser System. If it was transported to other places and sold to other aristocrats or adventurers, the price of the Magic Stones could be increased by three to five Kiels (three to five gold coins).
There was such a price difference because the only two places that could copy and sell the Browser System were the Five Union City in the Sijia District and the Tower of the Great Sage. If one did not want to travel long distances, one could only accept the merchant's price.
Other owners of magic towers could also use the energy pool to install a browser and then copy the Browser System infinitely. However, they only dared to use it secretly for their own apprentices and did not dare to sell this knowledge openly.
Because doing so would not offend Lin, a rookie mage with no background, but offend the higher-ups of the Sijia District branch of the Society of Sorcerers. Previously, there were five teams of supervisors who worked together to invite a certain Tower owner back to the Five Union City for a permanent visit. Who would be so blind?
Of course, Lin did not pay a price for such a big move. When the news of the Association of Sorcerers and Sorcerers, the Chamber of Commerce of Sorcerers, the Sorcerers, Sorcerers, the Sorcerers and Sorcerers and Sorcerers and Sorcerers..
A certain person respectfully handed over an account book, recording the number of merchants who had come to the Great Sage Tower to purchase browser magic stones. Of course, there was also the amount of money that had been agreed upon with the Association. Other than that, Sorcerers Sorcerers did not say anything else about the incident.
Generally speaking, if a mage sold his own knowledge without going through the Association, he would not have to pay the commission fee. However, Lin still handed it over according to the original verbal agreement. Perhaps some people would question whether Sorcerers Sorcerers Sorcerers would report more than they reported. However, Lin did not have to pay. If he really wanted to be so calculative, he would not just be a fool.
In the face of other mages who also wanted to earn this money, although Lin did not say it clearly, his attitude was: If the Association sold, there would be a commission; if he sold, the Association would also have a commission; if others sold, the Association would do as it saw fit.
After that, the five teams of supervisors went to visit a certain tower. The strength and determination of the authorities to stop piracy made the people who had experienced the Earth look at them in a new light. Although it was difficult to stop people from secretly copying for their friends and family, if they handed it over to merchants to sell on a large scale, they had to be aware that the Association would come to visit them.
However, the fight in the magic world did not have much to do with ordinary merchants. They only focused on the part that was profitable for them. This was to say that the Magic Stones needed for the Browser Magic did not have to be of the standard size. It was about the size of a human fist, and it also had some weight.
If it was cut into small Magic Stones the size of a fingernail, plus some silver and gold pieces, it could be easily processed into a piece of jewelry. The value of necklaces, earrings, rings and other things that were both beautiful and practical in the eyes of the nobles was determined by the other party's IQ.
Therefore, a large number of merchants came to these two places, and each time, they would pay dozens or hundreds of Magic Stones to spread the forum to the world outside of the mages. This was an unexpected change for the higher-ups of the Sijia District branch, but they were happy to see it.
The behavior of the merchants represented that the forum, an information medium, had officially entered the world of ordinary people from the hands of the mages, and had begun to spread outside of the Sijia District.
The most direct manifestation was that because of the efficient circulation of information, people who pursued interests also moved in large numbers. The merchants had nothing to say, but another large group was the adventurers and mercenary groups that were difficult to clearly distinguish.
In the past, these people could only stay in the stronghold set up by the Adventurer's Guild or the Mercenary's Guild, usually a tavern, waiting for a suitable mission to appear, then they would take the mission, set off for the destination, and carry out the mission. "Wait for ten days, walk for ten days, fight for half a day," these words well described the situation of the adventurers and mercenaries.
Before getting clear information, these people did not dare to rashly leave their original strongholds and go to other places to develop.
Now there was a forum, which was originally only a group of mages in a small group, semi-ostentatiously posted information about themselves. Soon it evolved into an exchange of information from all over the place, and then the two major guilds' southwest peninsula branches of the mainland also established a discussion section on the forum, and the rules for the release of missions were quickly completed.
Perhaps the business of the tavern strongholds of the two major guilds had become worse, and instead, various adventurer groups and mercenary groups went to places where they were needed more efficiently, solving many old problems in remote areas. Even in the evaluation of civilians and nobles, the credibility of the two major guilds had improved a lot.
It was difficult for the two major guilds' executives to evaluate whether this change was good or bad, but for the adventurers and mercenaries, their income had substantially increased. Although it had also become a lot harder, after all, they did not have to waste time waiting for rest.
Originally, when remote villages were faced with the threat of magic beasts, they had to send people to the guild strongholds to ask for help. The two major guilds waited for a group with suitable strength to take the mission, and then went to the entrusted village. Usually, as long as there were survivors in the village, it was an amazing efficiency.
One of the most common situations was that when the adventurers who had accepted the mission arrived at the destination, they only had to collect the bodies and crusade against the magic beasts as revenge. Although the reward might have been given to the two major guilds first, and the guilds would also give it to the team that completed the mission, the village that had asked for help was already empty. This was inevitably discouraging, and many fledgling adventurers could not get over this psychological barrier.
The second situation was that when the adventurers who had accepted the mission arrived at the destination, they found that the mission had already been completed by the adventurers passing by, and of course, they did not get the reward. This was a waste of travel expenses, and there was no income. Mr. Wallet protested.
The forum had undoubtedly changed the problem of low efficiency in the past. As long as the adventurers or mercenaries were willing to risk their lives, they would become a state of "walking for ten days, fighting for half a day, then walking for another ten days, fighting for half a day again". There was no time to wait.
A major event that happened recently highlighted the terrible efficiency brought by the forum.
It originated from the Kingdom of Alava in the Sijia District branch of the Society of Sorcerers. A small border noble under it issued a mission of "Explore the Abandoned Mine Pit." A team of mercenaries who had just finished the mission and were planning to return to the town with a mercenary guild stronghold to receive the reward casually accepted this mission from the forum. In their eyes, it was just a mission to pass time.
The next day, this mission was upgraded to an annihilation mission of "Discover the Gray Dwarves." The gray dwarves were one of the most notorious of the uncivilized races. Basically, when humans found each other, they would first eliminate them and then consider other things.
This time was the same. There were constant requests for help on the forum, and people kept announcing how many people they had killed and how many they had lost.
In the end, a large military camp was formed outside the abandoned mine pit. Adventurers and mercenaries constantly came from afar and entered the mine pit, or temporarily brought out the wounded from the mine pit to rest and reorganize. At the same time, there were also caravans bringing all kinds of materials, weapons, food, and sometimes the spoils of war from the hands of the adventurers and mercenaries.
There were a total of twelve days in total. After experiencing high-intensity battles in the mines, and after sweeping the original mines and new ones that had appeared, more than five hundred skilled warriors and mages attacked a settlement of the Gray Dwarves and completely wiped them out. After the event, a total of MCXVII (1117) Gray Dwarves were killed, and the casualties of the human side were far less than this number.
This event was recorded as a "major victory" in the records of the mercenary guild and the adventurer guild. The spoils of war from the settlement were also plentiful for the people who went into battle. The relatives of those who were injured or killed were also compensated.
After the event, some people analyzed that the settlement of the Gray Dwarves should have accidentally dug a passage to the surface world. In a situation where they were not fully prepared, they were attacked by the forces of the surface world. At first, they thought that it was just a small skirmish, but who would have thought that this encounter would turn into a decisive battle?
When the Gray Dwarves came to their senses and began to seriously face the humans with a warlike attitude, they were already at a disadvantage, and were all finished.
If this settlement had not been discovered and these Gray Dwarves had not been wiped out, when they rushed out of the surface, the neighboring nobles' territories would have faced a disaster. At that time, the unprepared humans would have to pay a huge price to achieve the same result.
Of course, in this event, no one talked about the importance of the forum. They only focused on the heroes of this war. Several groups that were originally unknown became widely known because of their outstanding performance. There were also bards who composed poems and sang them everywhere. However, such results were unimaginable in the world before the forum.
Another event where the forum played a big role was the ongoing unrest of the magical beasts in the Dodorian Mountains.
Every time the king of an area fell, the magical beasts in the area would incessantly cause a ruckus until the next king appeared. In the process, the magical beasts that were exhausted from the battle and urgently in need of food, or the defeated ones who had been expelled, would all invade the human world and hunt the powerless humans.
In the past, the adventurer's guild and the mercenary's guild would of course send out orders to gather people with lofty ideals to protect civilized society. However, they were still limited by the problem of efficiency. The warriors and magicians who responded quickly were usually the ones who were active in the area. The ones with more people were the local nobles. However, the nobles were a group of people who could protect themselves but not attack.
This time, however, the Thunder and Lightning Legion, which was under Count Sita's command, shone brightly. With the legion as the backbone, the warriors who responded to the forum's call quickly came to support and firmly defended the borders of the human world, even showing signs of advancing into the forest below the Dodorian Mountains.
The Kingdom of Hueska, which belonged to the area, even began to discuss whether or not to send out nobles to explore new territories.
In any case, life on the peninsula at the southwest border of the continent had been affected by the forum and had become different from before. And all of this happened in less than a year.
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