my age of magic

Chapter 1397 201. Trum Town
The small town of Trum in the south of Tanton City on the Plane of Hierro.

Bernd stood on the watchtower at the top of the clock tower, holding on to the rain-wet iron railing with both hands. The railing was painted with a thick layer of black paint, but unfortunately there was still reddish-brown rust water oozing from the cracks in the paint , The gray joints of the granite floor under his feet have not been completely dried.

There is a huge copper bell hanging in the clock tower. This copper bell was transported from the city of Tanton. It just arrived in Trum yesterday. Its surface was polished brightly by the coppersmiths. The huge ram is covered with copper skin on the top of the iron wood. When the ram is pulled hard, it hits the center of the copper bell hard, and the copper bell will emit a melodious buzzing sound.

Having a clock tower in the town of Trume means having its own time standard.

Although there is no real night and day in the plane of Yero, people living in the small town of Trum can still judge the morning and night of each day according to the bell in the clock tower. The town's first consul, Bernd, gave the real meaning to this bell tower.

For dwarves, this is nothing difficult to understand.

Dwarves' castles are usually built on underground mine veins, or on the banks of lava rivers in mountains. Those castles have not enjoyed the sun for many years, so the dwarves have their own set of time standards. There is a bell tower, which is very different from the bell tower in the small town of Trum. The bell tower in the dwarf castle has pipes extending in all directions, and the sounds representing time will be transmitted along the copper pipes to everyone in the underground castle. corner.

Trume is a small town full of vitality. Every day, people come from Tanton City to complete a transaction at the market in Trume Town. There will always be some unexpected things, such as a bundle of sun-dried kudzu root, or two complete golden thorns. These magical herbs that are definitely in demand in the Grimm Empire occasionally appear in the Yero natives. People's stalls.

There are less than 500 Yero natives living in the town, and most of these natives escaped from the dense forest south of the Black Forest.

Among these aborigines, women and children accounted for more than [-]% of the total, or even more.

When they first arrived in the small town of Trume, they had almost nothing except the bark clothes they wore.

Bernd appropriated some of the newly planned houses in the town to house these aboriginal refugees, not only gave them blankets for sleeping, but also rationed some food for these aboriginal refugees every day, such as some porridge and baked oatmeal.

In this way, these indigenous refugees from the southern part of the Green Valley jungle settled down in the small town of Trum.

For these aborigine refugees, this kind of day of getting oatmeal and baked oatmeal every day is very disturbing. What they worry about most is that if these foods are suddenly interrupted one day, what will happen to them in this small town? Life.

These aborigines gradually became familiar with the life style of this small town. They gradually realized that if they want to live in the small town, they only need to pay some labor in exchange for food or other things they have never seen before. , such as a silver coin.

It's a pity that the places that hire labor do not accept child labor, so those indigenous children cannot find any work in the small town of Trom.

Some idle indigenous children began to wander around the town, occasionally seeing them under the city wall, and occasionally seeing them on the edge of the fault mountain cliff outside the town, and sometimes they even It will appear on the open-pit iron mine outside the town, or in the small woods on the slope of the town.

After all, these native children are the children of the forest. As long as they walk into the forest, it is like coming home. They can easily pick some butter-colored pine mushrooms next to some rotting pine stumps, and a few hazelnut trees. Clusters of hazel mushrooms, they put these collected mushrooms on ropes, and then put them around their necks and brought them back to the town.

In such a rainy summer.

Every time after it rains, a lot of mushrooms will grow in the woods behind the town, and those indigenous children will always bring back all kinds of fresh mushrooms and wild vegetables from the woods, so that on their tables, except for those who eat a lot In addition to the endless baked wheat cakes, there will be an extra bowl of hot mushroom soup or wild vegetable soup.

After a certain heavy rain, the indigenous children came back from the woods. The wicker baskets behind them were filled with mushrooms and fresh cat ears. They even found a cluster of wild onions next to a stone wall. A group of children happened to be young. Pass by the market at the gate of the town.

In front of a butcher stall, an aristocratic butler who bought five fat chickens stopped these indigenous children. Although they could not communicate in words, they could still guess what the other party was going to do with some gestures, so the indigenous children The children completed their first transaction in the small town of Trume, and the butler did not make this transaction unfair just because they were a group of indigenous children who didn't understand anything.

In fact, the transaction between the two parties was completed in front of the market tax officer. The housekeeper got a basket of fresh pine mushrooms, and the aboriginal children also got a silver coin and a handful of yellow and orange copper coins. They excitedly took the exchanged coins home.

Therefore, in the following days, there were more indigenous children who liked to set up stalls in the market. They sold almost everything from mushrooms, wild vegetables and wild fruits to poultry and herbs in the woods. The indigenous people finally began to slowly integrate into this city. The small town is precisely because these natives can occasionally get some magic herbs and place them on the market stalls, and even attract some magic herb dealers in Tanton City, and occasionally go to the town of Trume to try their luck , There are even potion dealers who directly open pharmacies in the small town of Trume.

Maybe it is because there are huge business opportunities hidden in this small town, and some cheap food can be bought in the small town, so the market in the small town is slowly becoming lively, and the scale of the market is even larger than the free market in Tanton City. Even bigger.

During the construction of this town, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and masons are often used. As long as these craftsmen come to the town of Trume, they will have a long-term and stable employment contract. There are also many shops such as blacksmith shops and carpentry workshops, and this brand new town is full of business opportunities.

Buildings made of rocks rose up in the small town, and more and more buildings began to require supporting facilities, such as lime for painting walls, such as doors, windows and furniture made of hardwood, such as some family life. utensils, iron pans, kettles and such things, and some linen curtains and cheap sheets.

These demands have gradually led to some stone building materials shops, wood workshops, blacksmith shops, tailor shops, etc. These shops are like mushrooms after a spring rain, and they are slowly rising in the town. Ende supplied some semi-finished construction materials. Later, the town gradually prospered, and these shops not only accepted Bernd's large orders, but also received repair work from residents of the town.

In addition, the town of Trum is closer to the southern part of the Black Forest than Tanton City, so it is more suitable as a temporary residence for adventurers, especially after the barbarian slaves clean up the Nebru spiders in the nearby area , A lot of adventure groups came here at once.

It takes about a day's journey from Tanton City to the small town of Trume. These adventure groups were unwilling to spend time on the road, so some adventure groups began to try to live in the small town of Trume, and then they found that the In this small town, you can find almost everything you need, a market that can be traded freely, where you can dispose of some magic materials and magic crystals in your hands, and you can also buy some of the most common daily necessities.

This small town has cheap hotels and restaurants, and you can also find a blacksmith shop for repairing weapons, a carpenter workshop for repairing bows and arrows, a leather shop for repairing leather armor, etc. There is even a potion shop in the town, although there is There are very few magic potions, but these shops bring great convenience to adventurers.

The current prosperity of the town of Trum comes from three parts: one part comes from some infrastructure projects in the town, the other part comes from the town’s market, and the last part comes from the adventure groups in the town .

Now the town's outer city walls, gate towers, and archery towers have been announced to be completed. A complete sewer pipe network and water supply pipes have been laid in the town in advance. The main streets and shops on both sides of the town have also been built. Afterwards, Bernd has set his sights on the houses in the town. A large amount of infrastructure materials have been transported to the living quarters. Bernd needs to hire a large number of craftsmen. In this way, as long as they are willing to work hard, these workers at the bottom of the society can work in Tru You can find a job for a living in the small town of Mu.

In addition, it is precisely the town's market that brings more vitality to Trum. From the food business that almost caused a sensation in the entire Tanton City at the beginning, to the various buildings that are increasingly in demand due to the construction of the town The large-scale trading of materials has developed to the present. After a group of adventure groups came to the town, more high-end magic material transactions appeared in the market. The town of Trum has become a temporary place for adventure groups who want to go to the southern part of the Black Forest. camp.

After some adventure groups from Tanton City poured into the town of Trume, they brought some new business opportunities to the town of Trume. Every time they ventured out, they needed to purchase supplies in the town. Repair and replacement, of course, there are no high-end blacksmiths and leather shops in the small town of Trum, so some high-quality weapons and leather goods still cannot be repaired without damage, which is somewhat difficult for some adventure groups without replacements. have no choice.

In short, the small town of Trume seems to have become prosperous overnight.

Moreover, although the Grimm Empire still has a population advantage in the small town, more than [-]% of them are imperial, but there are also some tribal orcs, barbarian slaves, dwarves and aboriginals living in the town. Mixed living gave the town a different taste, and because the consul of the town is Bernd the dwarf, the guards of the town are barbarian slaves and orc warriors, and because they have the legal rights of the 'indigenous people' promulgated by the Duke of Samoyed. 'Notice, this allowed Bernd to implement the policy of 'freedom', 'equality', 'justice' and 'rule of law' in the town smoothly.

After the Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion arrived in the small town of Trum, these knights who returned from the battlefield brought back a lot of spoils from the south. The Constructed Knights needed to dispose of most of the spoils, because the next There will be a bigger battle waiting for them, so a lot of Warcraft materials, black iron weapons, magic herbs, etc. suddenly flooded into the free market in the small town of Trum.

There were even some materials from the Nebulu spiders in the market, such as delicious spider leg meat, giant spider poison sacs, tentacles like black iron spears, and even some that made the eyes of the adventure group red The Spider Warlord leather material.

Of course, most of the most valuable high-grade abdominal leather on the Spider Warlord's body is in my hands. What flows into the hands of the construction knight is only some slightly hard carapaces on the Spider Warlord's body. These hard carapaces cannot make magic pattern structures. But if you want to use these hard carapaces to make armor pieces, it is still possible.

A large number of magic materials appeared in the small town of Trume, which also attracted the magic material merchants from Tanton City. They rushed over from Tanton City overnight to join in the feast of sharing the fruits of victory after the victory of the war.

I took Katerina, Kalancuo, Morayal, Tauren Ruka, Justus, Bernd, Pujaka, Koni and others in a private room on the second floor of a restaurant next to the market Enjoying lunch, the lunch has come to an end, the waiters in the restaurant brought up desserts one after another, looking at some of the melted red bean ice, I sighed secretly, after all, there is a big gap between the restaurant here and the imperial capital of.

Looking at the noisy market outside, Justus said with emotion: "I didn't expect that it has only been two months since we left, and this place has changed so much. When we left the town, there were digging messes everywhere. The earth ditch, except for the surrounding city walls that look a little bit, the others are not at all, this time back... the whole town actually popped up like a mushroom after the rain, it's incredible!"

"When you look at Trum after a while, there will be more changes. I plan to gradually improve the various supporting public facilities in the town. There must be parks, public sinks and public facilities in the town. Toilet." Sitting next to Justus, Bernd was extremely happy to hear Justus's compliment, and he said to Justus with a flushed face.

After taking a few mouthfuls of red bean smoothie, I put the spoon aside and asked the descendant of the siren, "Justus, what's your plan next? Do you want to stay with us in the imperial capital for a few days?"

After thinking for a while, Justus said to me: "I want to go to Tanton City. I met some friends there. I plan to come back this time and see how they are doing..."

(End of this chapter)