The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 334: The Ancestral Land of the Magic Dwarves

Cross-domain trade is not an easy matter. Just using the portal of the Tower of Truth is quite troublesome.

The multi-world giant portal of the Tower of Truth is the only portal available to most wizarding guilds for cross-domain trade.

Because the cost of maintaining a portal is a huge expense for most wizard guilds, and the conversion of the teleportation target is also a unique technology of the Tower of Truth.

If a wizarding guild builds its own portal, then when they want to change worlds, they need to dismantle the portal and reset the world coordinates.

This is a considerable expense.

After nearly two months of waiting, the portal finally came to the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce's turn to use.

Whale-like cargo airships entered the portal one after another. Richard stood at the end of the caravan, quietly watching the "whale group" sink into the dark, deep, bottomless mouth of the portal.

"Gah, a multi-coordinate portal. This thing is rare even in our place."

Ulysses stood on Richard's shoulder, looking at the portal at the end of the channel, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Oh? Then how do you conduct cross-world trade?" Richard asked puzzledly.

"Gah, we will trade in the same way as you do expeditions." Ulises' eyes flashed with a trace of nostalgia, "We will build an airport outside the world, and the fleet for world trade will depart from the airport. Under the blessing of the God King and many gods in charge of wealth and trade, they will gradually accelerate to the speed of light in the star realm.

It was a spectacular sight.

Cross-border caravans are also called meteor caravans in our place, because when the caravan arrives at an airport, it will send many small boats into the world for trade and supply.

These small boats often emit dazzling light when passing through the wall of the world, and look like meteor showers from a distance.

Therefore, many worlds on the route have the habit of celebrating meteor showers, and even the gods of meteors and commerce have appeared because of this..."

Ulises could not help but talk endlessly about the civilization of the gods. There was a gleam of pride in his eyes. Although he was in the wizarding world, he never forgot his hometown.

Richard did not interrupt and listened quietly to Ulises's endless chatter.

The exotic scenery of the gods' civilization was brought to life by Ulises' words. It is hard to imagine that a person could describe the scenery of his hometown so vividly after being exiled in a foreign land for hundreds of years.

Richard believed that all this, in addition to the fact that Ulysses was the master of the world, was also the result of his countless memories.

Soon, the caravan entered and Richard entered the airship, quietly watching the dark portal swallowing the airship.

The teleportation experience of this giant portal is very wonderful. After the airship enters the portal, it is like entering a long corridor.

After flying for nearly a week, the corridor ended, and the airship passed through the dark hole and successfully entered the target world.

The first stop on the trade route is a world with a balanced wind element called Wind Dragon World. This world is rich in a special mineral called wind metal.

This mineral is one of the important materials for making airships, and is used for both commercial and military purposes.

After leaving the portal, the caravan immediately headed towards the mining area.

In a world where the wind element is out of balance, land is scarce. Therefore, the continents that are common in the ordinary world have become empty islands here.

The ocean and magma flow at different altitudes in this world like atmospheric circulation, forming a unique landscape of a world with a balanced wind element.

The gravity of the wind element balanced world is relatively small, which is the opposite of the earth element balanced world. This characteristic is undoubtedly a good thing for airships.

Less gravity means faster flying and lower energy consumption.

Due to the sky island terrain, the wind metal mining area is in a scattered state. In order to be more efficient, the caravan manager ordered the fleet to be dispersed, and each airship traded minerals independently.

In a world where the wind element is unbalanced, food has always been a major problem.

It is difficult to grow large amounts of food on the sky island terrain.

Mining minerals requires a large number of slaves, and these slaves need a large amount of food. Therefore, food is a scarce commodity that all wind-balanced worlds need.

The Nine Star Chamber of Commerce's airship was filled with food, which made their trade very smooth.

Soon, the food on each airship was replaced with boxes of wind metal ore.

The caravan stayed in the Wind Dragon World for more than a month, and finally exchanged all the food and purchased a large amount of wind metal ore.

Cheap products like food alone are naturally not enough to exchange for enough ore to satisfy the appetite of the Nine Star Chamber of Commerce, so in the end they have to use magic essence.

Richard bought a lot of minerals and some biological specimens in this world. If these things were bought in the wizarding world, the price would be at least double or triple.

After purchasing the ore, the caravan came to the portal again. This time, the caravan did not have to wait in line for long. After waiting for three days, it was their turn.

After modifying the world coordinates, the caravan entered the portal again.

This time, they came to a world where the fire element was unbalanced. All the ores they obtained in the Wind Dragon World were sold out here.

This world with an unbalanced fire element is an airship manufacturing base. Large amounts of ore are transported here every day, turned into furnaces of gold and liquid to make alloys, and then turned into airships.

After selling all the ore, the caravan immediately purchased a considerable amount of low-quality fire elemental gems, as well as some high-temperature resistant materials that are unique to the world of fire elements.

And these things will be sold out in the next world that the Chamber of Commerce arrives at, and then the above operations will be repeated.

In more than a year, the caravan passed through five worlds, which brought the Chamber of Commerce a net profit of three thousand magic spirits and the resources of an entire airship team.

When the caravan arrives at the first ring of the Tower of Truth, these resources will be sold to the local alchemy workshop.

After this trip, the net profit was about 4,000 magic essences. …

As the bow of the airship emerged from the portal, Richard's journey came to an end.

After greeting the caravan leader, Richard led dozens of magic dwarves into the Tower of Truth.

The structure of the One-Ring Tower of Truth is not much different from that of the Four-Ring Tower of Truth. The residential floor and the commercial floor are almost the same as those of the Four-Ring Tower of Truth.

Legend has it that the First Ring Tower of Truth was the first Tower of Truth and was the place where the five major factions negotiated a ceasefire.

Richard did not stay in the First Ring Tower of Truth for long, and left directly with the dwarves.

In the wizard city outside the Tower of Truth, Richard chartered an airship and began to head towards the ancestral land of the magic dwarves according to the instructions on the map.

The ancestral land of the Magic Dwarves is a mountain range located in the northeast of the First Ring Tower of Truth. During the Enlightenment, this mountain range was an important mining area for the School of Shaping. The Magic Dwarves, as slaves of wizards, mined ore day and night.

After the end of the Wizarding War, this mining area was first abandoned due to the depletion of the ore veins, and then designated as a protected area by the Parliament of Truth.

After years of restoration, this mountain range has become a tourist destination for many mortals.

After more than a month's long flight, the airship finally arrived at the mountains known as the Dwarf Mountains.

Next to the mountains, there is a huge mortal kingdom, which belongs to the enrollment area of ​​a school called Redstone Wizard Academy. After the airship flew into their territory, Richard went to the academy to report, so as not to be regarded as a hostile wizard and have the airship shot down.

The pilot operated the airship and slowly landed it at the airship field closest to the Dwarf Mountains. Richard paid the balance and got off the airship with the magic dwarves.

Looking at the mountains in the distance, these magic dwarves who have lived in the mirror world since birth actually felt a familiar feeling.

Unconsciously, tears fell from the corners of their eyes.

The wanderer has returned home.

Richard called on the magic dwarves to move deeper into the mountains, and soon they arrived at a huge mountain.

Pluto pulled away the vines on the mountain wall, and a moss-covered mine cave appeared below.

There is no doubt that this is the mine left behind by the magic dwarves.

"Okay, it seems I found the right place." Richard saw the mine and said in a relaxed tone, "The rest is up to you. I'm leaving now."

"grown ups!"

Brutus suddenly called out to Richard.

"What else?" Richard asked in confusion, "Didn't I buy you some tools on the way?"

"No, I want you to come down with us." Brutus explained in a panic, "The high priest told me that there is a secret in our ancestral land that even wizards have not discovered.

He told me that this secret might be helpful to you, and asked me to show it to you when I come to my hometown.

"Oh?" Richard was slightly surprised. "There is such a thing. I have to take a look."

Brutus bowed slightly and took out an ancient map from his body. The leather material of the map had become dry and hard. If it were not for the inexplicable enchantment protecting it, the map would have been shattered by now.

Following the instructions on the map, Brutus found a marked mine on the mountain peak. They followed the mine down, and in the moss-covered mine tunnel, Brutus's footsteps were brisk, as if something was calling him.

Richard followed Pluto for two days, and he was a little lost in the spider-web-like mine tunnels.

It is hard to imagine how much effort it would take to find the right path without the guidance of a map.

boom!
Pluto smashed the huge rock that blocked the way, and a long-sealed underground hall appeared in front of the two.

Richard waved his hand, and a breeze blew away the stale air in the hall. Although it had been there for who knows how many years, there was nothing broken in the hall.

It's just that the things inside have an extra layer of dust.

The two entered the hall.

This hall seemed to be a place of worship, at the innermost side of the hall, there was a stone sculpture of a dwarf with dragon features, and in front of him, there was an altar made of gold and inlaid with gems.

Richard felt a faint force of faith in this statue.

After many years of no worship, the power of faith in this statue has almost dissipated.

"Is this your secret?" Richard asked casually.

Pluto didn't say anything, but walked to the altar, clasped his hands together in front of the dwarf sculpture, and prayed silently for a while.

Soon, cracks began to appear on the dragonized dwarf sculpture, and as the prayer time increased, these cracks gradually began to grow larger.

Eventually, the old dragonized dwarf sculpture shattered, and a much smaller, but more spiritual-looking idol of the Fel Dwarf King emerged.

Then, Pluto put his hands on the altar and pushed it open with all his strength.

As the altar moved away, a faint life radiation appeared in Richard's perception.

"This is... a dragon egg?"

(End of this chapter)