Cockscomb City was located in the easternmost part of the Iron and Steel Ridge Kingdom. It was the central city of the territory of Marquis Zhi Ling, Benedict Gubuasu. Marquis Zhi Ling's territory was called Rooster Hills and was said to be larger than Iron Hoof Island.
Naturally.
The land was so vast that the size of the territory was meaningless. Most of it was covered by primeval jungles, inhabited by a large number of World of Warcraft. Many primeval jungles were restricted areas for human activities. Even Sky Knights did not dare to rashly set foot in them for fear of being attacked by high-level World of Warcraft.
Humans on the continent built large cities on flat plains and gathered along the roads between cities to ensure the safety of survival and communication.
Many long-distance trades required Orders of Chivalry guards.
Ordinary merchants could not afford to hire regular Orders of Chivalry guards, so they hired mercenary guards. Therefore, the existence of mercenary groups was always legal.
"Gubuasu is a fruit magic ingredient that tastes like a mixture of chocolate and pineapple. It is an expensive specialty of the Gubuasu Family. It is said to be a variant of the cocoa fruit, which can be used to produce chocolate. Our country's chocolate is imported from Cockscomb City. "
The one who introduced Liszt was Captain Leiden. He was once again assigned to Liszt's subordinate, Orders of Chivalry.
The count had already gone to Rooster Hills Castle to attend the welcoming banquet hosted by Marquis Zhi Ling and hold a military conference. Liszt strolled around Cockscomb City, buying some local specialties: "Chocolate sales are huge, why is there no lord planting cocoa trees in our country?"
"Probably because the climate is not suitable, or maybe there are no cocoa sprites."
Cockscomb City was larger than Coral City. The buildings on both sides of the streets were seven-story wooden buildings. The residents ranged from richly dressed aristocrats to ragged serfs. There were also many Knights dressed like them, presumably Knights who participated in the Orders of Expansion.
"Hi, Viscount Liszt." Soon, someone took the initiative to greet Liszt. It was a young viscount from Golden Island who came to Coral Island to attend a wedding.
Liszt recognized him. He had personally received him before. "Viscount Cyril, you're also here to stroll around Cockscomb City?"
"Haha, I am not interested in Cockscomb City. I am going to the elven market to see if there are any suitable sprite worms. I am going to buy a few."
"Elven Market?" Liszt's interest was piqued. "I also plan to go and have a look."
"Then let's go together."
Following Viscount Cyril, the group soon arrived at the Elf Market located in a corner of Cockscomb City. This was a small wild sprite trading market, which did not sell many sprite worms. Liszt had collected a magic book called 《Wild Sprite Worm Market Selling Prices》, which recorded the sprite market.
In Steel City, the capital of the Steel Ridge Kingdom, there was a large market for wild elves. The prices of elves there were clearly recorded in books.
For example, a Venus flytrap sprite worm was sold for 3,600 gold coins. He had bought it from Viscount Jonas for 700 gold coins.
However, mosquitoes and flies were rampant in Steel City. Every household liked to buy a Venus flytrap and grow it at home. Even if the Venus flytrap's ability to catch insects was very low, as long as the scale of cultivation was increased, the effect of catching mosquitoes and flies would still be good.
On Coral Island, Venus flytraps were practically useless. There were not many mosquitoes and flies, and commoners could not afford them. Aristocrats had other ways to drive away mosquitoes and flies.
Along the way, Liszt gradually gained a clear understanding of the prices in this small sprite market.
Their prices were similar to those in Steel City, generally around one or two thousand gold coins. As for the useless sprite worms, their prices were around several hundred gold coins. As for the potion-related sprite worms, their prices went up to two thousand gold coins. The most expensive sprite worm Liszt saw was priced at three thousand eight hundred gold coins. It was a mystic fruit sprite worm.
The mysterious fruit was not a potion, but it could enhance the human tongue's sense of taste, making it an excellent accompaniment to meals.
"It's too expensive. I won't be able to recoup the cost of buying it. Coral Island's population is too small, and there are not many aristocrats. There is no demand for the mysterious fruit." He shook his head, not intending to buy it.
Instead, he wanted to buy some grain-type sprite worms.
Unfortunately, the price of grain-type sprite worms was not cheap, not less than two thousand. The value of the grains produced by the sprite worms for ten years simply could not make up for the price of the sprite worms themselves. If he bought it, it would evolve into a lesser sprite. Once it evolved, he would make a huge profit.
After all, grains were an important component of human food. The grains produced by a lesser sprite could feed countless people.
Liszt was very short on grain-type sprites. He only had one wheat sprite worm, one corn sprite worm, and two wheat sprites worm. Perhaps the corn grass worm could also be regarded as a grain-type sprite worm. After all, he now had cob corn and corn corn.
"The wheat sprite worm costs 2,300 gold coins, which is not cost-effective. I don't have that many gold coins right now. Forget it, I'll wait for the territory to breed on its own. I have the smoke mission, so the source of sprite worms is not a problem. "Liszt silently calculated and gave up on the idea of buying.
He was going to continue to look for the black nightshade sprite worm, rubber sprite worm, and thorns sprite worm. As long as the price of these three sprite worms was not outrageous, he would not hesitate to buy them.
Unfortunately.
After looking around, he did not find them.
There were less than one hundred sprite worms being traded in the elven market, most of which were useless sprite worms. The trade of sprite worms was not prosperous enough to begin with. Many of them were supplied by lesser aristocrats who were incapable of operating them. Greater aristocrats would only buy and not sell them. For aristocrats, sprites were always scarce.
If Viscount Jonas had not encountered financial problems, he would not have sold the black nightshade sprite worm and the Venus flytrap worm.
… …
After leaving the elven market, Liszt asked Captain Leiden: "When will the serf trade be held?"
"Not yet, but once the war starts, mercenary groups will soon come to contact us … We only need to prepare a ship at the seaside, and the mercenary groups will escort a large number of serfs to trade. The time is very short, maybe within an hour, the trade will be completed, and then everyone will leave. "
Captain Leiden had participated in many development orders and was very clear about the serf trade.
There were even some serf trades where the villages were plundered on the same day, and the serfs would be escorted to trade on the same day.
Captain Leiden added: "We can also contact the serf traders and have them buy the slaves. They always have a way to obtain a large number of slaves. Then we only need to wait for their worn-out wooden ships at the seaside. We don't even need to go ashore to complete the trade. "
This kind of serf trade was obviously to prevent the Orders of Chivalry from discovering the trade.
It was a lot safer, but the serf traders would take a cut. It was better to directly trade with mercenary groups.
"Do our Coral Island generally trade directly, or do we contact the serf traders?" Asked Liszt.
Captain Leiden smiled mysteriously.
Seeing that no one was approaching them, he said in a low voice, "Leader, do you know how those small lords who are often invaded along the coast survive? Their territories may not have much production, but the mercenary groups they raise are even bigger than some of the mercenary groups raised by the big lords … They are all secretly engaged in the slave trade."
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