my age of magic

Chapter 1108 211. Scrapped Bed Crossbow

I really admire the courage of the creator behind converting a luxury manor covering an area of ​​one hectare into a black market.

The title of a nobleman who can own such a large mansion in the inner city must not be low. This nobleman should have returned to his hometown in Durva province with his family, but the managers left behind turned the manor into a black market, and even Guards are arranged at the gate, and the exit tax is collected from buyers and sellers, which means that there is no cost to enter the gate, but if you want to take away the goods, you must pay a certain tax to the market manager.

The shrubs in the garden and square in front of the manor have all been removed, and the lawn is full of various commodities. The vendors put the goods on the lawn and squatted quietly behind the pile of goods.

The so-called black market in Tanton City looks more like a second-hand market that can be bought and sold freely. It is full of old things that can be used from the ruins, including many old furniture, metal utensils, and broken art statues. , oil paintings and some metal tools, etc. These commodities occupy a large part of the market area. After the fall of the entire outer city of Tanton City, the Nebulu spiders destroyed most of the buildings in the outer city. After the outer city of Dunton, the people in the city moved all the valuable things in the outer city to the inner city.

Probably no one wants to buy this junk at a time like this.

I asked Mr. Billy: "If these commodities cannot be sold, will the sellers still have to pay the market manager to pay taxes when the market closes at night?"

Mr. Billy said as he walked: "If you want to take the goods out of here, you must pay taxes. These rags will always stay in the market. The market here is strictly managed. No one will steal these worthless things at night. As long as it is placed in the market and not taken out, no one will collect taxes."

Walking inside, I found that many of the things on the stalls are daily necessities, old clothes and blankets. Among these products, blankets are more popular products, and there are some raw cowhide that can be used to build tents. There will be people squatting down in front of products such as cooking pots and utensils to ask the price.

Obviously, the residents of Tanton City feel worried about the status quo of life, so they buy these products that can be used outdoors.

Maybe these things can be used when the city breaks down and flees.

Mr. Billy was very optimistic about the current situation. He saw me looking at the bundled blankets on a floor stall, glanced at the stall owner, and whispered to me: "These are junk that no one wants. The displaced homeless people picked up things from the outer city, and they put these things here, just wanting to change some food to fill their stomachs."

Seeing my hesitation, he said to me again: "Now in Tanton City, only food, magic spar and magic metal are the hard currency."

He pointed to the fountain of the manor, and said to me: "The food trading area is on the stone steps of the castle over the fountain. I'm going to buy some oats and wheat flour there. I have to stock up a little bit every time. I don't know when the war will come. When the outbreak broke out, the food supply was forced to be interrupted, and at that time, even if you want to buy it, you will not be able to buy it.”

Hearing what he said, I widened my eyes and asked him, "Mr. Billy, don't you spend all your savings on food?"

Mr. Billy laughed heartily, patted the money bag on his waist, and said to me: "Of course, the money for buying food this time is your rent."

Mr. Billy said that at this time, the price of wheat flour in Tanton City has increased by five times compared to previous years. Now a pound of wheat flour costs about fifteen copper coins, and a silver coin can only be exchanged for less than seven pounds of wheat flour. If it keeps going up, I am afraid that even white bread will be unaffordable.

When I came to Tanton City, I didn't have the slightest interest in the food in the city.If there is a food shortage in Tanton City, maybe I can get some food from Xinliu Valley to help the people here.

Seeing my lack of interest, Mr. Billy knew that I was not interested in black market food, so he had an idea, and said again: "I see, do you want to buy weapons? Arms dealers are all gathered in Next to the stables, there are also some war horses that have retired from the battlefield for sale, but you don’t want to buy those war horses, those horses are not injured or disabled, you can only buy them back and kill them for meat.”

I was a little curious and said, "Were weapons still sold in the black market?"

Mr. Billy's eyes were full of fear, and he said with lingering fear: "Yes, many of the weapons dealers over there are people who went to the battlefield to pick up corpses. Most of the weapons were picked up from the battlefield. You communicated with them. Be careful and don't conflict with them, they are all desperadoes."

"Oh, yes, I'll be careful." I said, waving Mr. Billy.

Afterwards, he led Kalanzo, Katerina and Justus to the stable on the left side of the manor.

There were a lot of people who came to set up stalls in the black market. Many stalls were connected to form many winding roads in the garden and square in front of the manor.Holding Katerina's hand and walking in the bustling market is really an indescribable beauty.

The stables are actually a row of open low houses. When I walked over, I found that there were a few obviously wounded war horses tied in the stables. A stall owner was standing next to the stables, and when he saw pedestrians passing by, he would say with all his might These horses are some retired war horses, which can easily carry luggage and goods through the Black Forest. I bypassed the horse seller and found a stall selling weapons.

There are all kinds of weapons on these weapon stalls, but it seems that most of them are standard weapons in the infantry regiment. Spears and sentry swords are the most common weapons in these stalls. There is also a jet-black weapon. Looking at those stalls, almost every stall has a few big black iron guns with a length of more than five meters, and moon blade axes weighing hundreds of pounds. These are all black iron weapons of spider warriors, and are now on the black market Stalls selling weapons can be seen everywhere.

I stopped in front of a stall at random, pointed to a big iron gun, and asked the stall owner, "How much does this black iron spear cost?"

The stall owner looked up at Katerina and me, then at Kalancuo and Justus behind me, and seemed to see that we were not easy to mess with. He took a deep breath and said, "Ninety A piece of silver."

A large iron gun made of magic black iron weighs more than 300 pounds, and the price in Tanton City is actually less than one gold. Here comes the magic black iron.

I suppressed the joy in my heart, carefully counted three heavy black iron guns and two moon blade axes on the stall, and asked him casually, "Where is this moon blade axe?"

"One gold coin." The stall owner said without thinking.

"How come light weapons are more expensive?" I asked the weapon stall owner strangely.

"Haha, of course the ax is more convenient to carry. Why don't you even understand this truth?" His sharp laughter was a bit harsh, and he spoke with a strong Tanton City accent, and he spoke very fast, let me listen It's a little hard.

He stepped on the heavy moon blade ax and said to me in a low voice: "As long as you can carry such an ax to the city of Pereira, you can sell a magic crystal by sitting on the ground. If you There is a way to go back to Durwar through the portal, and the price can be doubled. Do you want to buy them back, just to smelt magic black iron?"

I nodded.

He patted his forehead speechlessly, didn't say anything else, pointed to the five black iron weapons on the ground, and said to me: "If you are willing to buy all these black iron weapons, you will be charged ninety silver for each weapon." It's alright."

I readily took out five gold coins from the purse and threw them at his booth.

He hurriedly picked up the five gold coins, put them in his mouth one by one, and bit them again. After confirming that they were correct, he immediately showed a warm smile, stood up from behind the booth, and quickly took out fifty silver coins from his purse. Give it to me, and ask me graciously: "Do you want to tie all these black iron weapons together for you?"

I shook my head.

Katerina beside me helped me pick up the heavy silverware.

I manipulated a bit of mana to open the magic pocket, and put these black iron weapons into it one by one.The stall owner stared at me with wide eyes, and just about to exclaim, he immediately closed his mouth.

In this way, I took Katerina to buy all the way along these weapon stalls, almost every stall has several black iron weapons, some stalls have more, some stalls have less, as long as the price is within the same The gold ones were all bought by me.

In fact, there are some other things in my magic fanny pack. After 23 black iron weapons are installed, the magic fanny bag is already full, but I did not stop buying these cheap black iron weapons, but put Another magic waist bag was tied around his waist at the same time, and then he continued to put black iron weapons into the magic waist bag.

Watching me put one black iron weapon into the magic pocket after another, the weapon stall owner widened his eyes, watching this scene in disbelief, and then glanced guiltily at the direction of the market entrance, tightly Clutching the gleaming gold coin in his hand, he closed his mouth.

Almost every weapon stall owner showed surprise when they saw me put the black iron weapon in the magic pocket, and then chose to shut up with the same tacit understanding.

In fact, when I have five magic waist bags around my waist, my magic apprentice's robes are already bloated, and it is not so pleasant to control five magic waist bags at the same time. A small half of the black iron weapons were swept into his magic pocket.

But then, I saw something more valuable - the bed crossbow.

Unexpectedly, such military-controlled weapons are also placed in the back booths. The booths with bed crossbows occupy a large area, because a bed crossbow is almost as big as a double bed. These are military bed crossbows. The base of the crossbow is more like the base of a wooden wheeled carriage. A heavy crossbow with a wingspan of three meters is installed on the base. This heavy crossbow can easily shoot a three-meter-long crossbow bolt to a thousand meters outside.

Because this kind of heavy crossbow is too bulky, a wooden carriage base is installed so that the heavy crossbow can be pushed around. This is the original design concept of the bed crossbow. Later, a winch was installed on the bed crossbow. The crossbow is a warrior who steps on the strings of the crossbow with his feet and presses his shoulders on the back of the crossbow to pull the heavy crossbow apart.

The tension of the heavy crossbow on these bed crossbows is designed to be stronger. Even ordinary soldiers can’t push the crossbow strings with their legs. However, a bevel tooth winch is designed on the bed crossbow. The bevel tooth winch is a The transmission device from the kingdom of dwarves only needs to keep turning a winch like a rudder by hand, and the string of the bed crossbow will be slowly tightened.

The bed crossbow can be adjusted up, down, left, and right by the foot plate, and the left and right directions can be adjusted by 180 degrees, but the pitch angle can only be adjusted by about [-] degrees.

This kind of bed crossbow is the sharp weapon for hunting and killing spider warriors. No matter how strong the carapace is on those spider warriors, they cannot stop the shooting of the bed crossbow. , Those spider warriors couldn't resist at all, but because of the high cost of the arrows attached to the magic pattern circle, they have not been able to be popularized in the army.

To build the town of Trum, a solid city wall must be built in the end. In addition, if you want the town of Trum to have a certain degree of defense, it is on the one hand to hire some adventure groups, and on the other hand to form your own armed forces. And buy some large defensive weapons, obviously these bed crossbows are very suitable to be placed on the top of the city.

In my opinion, bed crossbows are far more powerful than those catapults.The catapult must be formed in scale, and then it will have a certain lethality when it forms a coverage strike.

I walked to a stall with a row of bed crossbows. The stall owner looked like a nobleman. Although he didn't have a noble badge on his chest, it could be seen from his manner and speech that he would definitely accept it. With a good education, he is wearing a light leather armor, with a Western rapier hanging on his waist, his beard is trimmed cleanly, and he is wearing a hood. He is sitting on a bed crossbow and chatting with the stall owner next door.

Seeing me coming, he immediately jumped off the bed, stood up straight, saw that I was wearing a magic apprentice robe, and nodded slightly at me, but did not speak.

I asked him, "Is it okay to buy these big guys in Tanton City?"

He smiled very freely and said to me: "If you buy a military bed crossbow in good condition, maybe after this war is over, people from the military will come to your door, but what I sell are just some scrapped bed crossbows. The scattered parts removed from the crossbow, these bed crossbow parts are all removed from the damaged bed crossbow on the battlefield, these are some scrap products..."

Later, in order to prove to me that these bed crossbows were all loose parts, he patted the heavy crossbow on the wooden bed vigorously, and said to me solemnly: "Look, this is only the upper part of the bed crossbow. When I picked it up, Only the arched back part is intact, and it has been repaired by craftsmen before it looks like this, don’t worry, no one will trouble you when you buy these things.”

"So, how much do you pay for these heavy crossbows?" I asked the noble stall owner with a smile.

(End of this chapter)