Ghost Port City, the most famous port city in Diya.
Due to its proximity to the Ghost Sea, the concentration of undead death energy in Ghost Port City is extremely high.
The excessive amount of undead death energy makes this city very suitable for the survival of spirits without a physical body.
Therefore, Ghost Harbor is also the city with the second most ghosts in the entire Diya, second only to the capital, Sky Dome City.
Qi Ge and Hex walked in Ghost Harbor City.
The eerie black stone bricks are dotted with ruined tombs, which are the abodes of ghosts.
If the Seven Pigeons want to follow Hex home, they will inevitably pass by the Tomb of the Spirits. Every time this happens, the ghosts living in the Tomb of the Spirits will fly out and circle around the Seven Pigeons.
Hex looked around in surprise and said to Qige:
"My Lord, these unconscious ghosts seem to like you very much? They seem to be particularly active when they are around you."
Qi Ge took a look at the ghost's appearance in the sky and immediately knew what was going on:
"Ah, they are all female ghosts. It's normal. There's no need to panic."
"Is this really normal? They want to get close to you and pounce on you, but they are afraid of your power and dare not approach you, so they can only hover.
I feel like these ghosts are going crazy.”
"It's okay, they will give up after a while."
Qi Ge shook his head in his heart.
This is one of the negative effects of having too high a charm value. For unconscious female ghosts who have no self-control, I am like a beacon in the dark night, making them unable to resist the desire to approach me.
Qi Ge could only silently replace the treasure that reduced his charm with one that made [Infinite Charm] ineffective.
Now, those restless female ghosts finally found rest and returned obediently to their own tombs.
The layout of Ghost Port is a bit like Venice, and the city is divided into land and river parts.
In the river area, a large number of dense water networks and river channels have replaced the rocky roads. If you want to move between buildings, you can only use bridges and ghost rafts on the river.
Also, most of the bridges are made of ghost rafts.
These ghost rafts emitted a faint dark light on the river, flickering from time to time. From a distance, they looked like flickering fireflies.
When Qi Ge followed Hex to his home, Qi Ge realized that he had heard correctly.
Hex lived in a mausoleum in the slums in Skydome City, and he lived in a mausoleum in the slums in Ghost Harbor.
"Sir, we're here. Hey, it looks a little small, don't mind it, it will be spacious once you get inside."
Hex smiled awkwardly, looking a little embarrassed.
His mausoleum is the lowest of all the mausoleums. It is just a square cone, 3 meters high, 4 meters long and 4 meters wide. It looks like a large urn.
This type of mausoleum is usually inhabited by the weakest corpse wizards of level 5, stage 1. Any hero would not like to live here, let alone a pseudo-legend.
Although Hex's residence was dilapidated, the Seven Pigeons did not laugh at him but showed respect instead.
Hex had spent so much research money before, and if he had taken out a small part of it, it would have been enough to buy a luxurious wizard tower, but he still lived here.
This shows that he is most likely just as he says, an avid researcher who is willing to give up all material enjoyments for the sake of research.
He followed Hex into his mausoleum.
After Hex took Qi Ge on a tour, Qi Ge became more certain of his guess.
Hex's mausoleum has an internal space, with a total of five floors, each floor is more than 200 square meters, and the total usable area is more than 1,000 square meters.
In such a large area, Hex only allocated less than 50 square meters as his living area and living room, and the rest was all his research equipment.
Qi Ge followed Hex all the way and saw stone pillars, stone slabs, tombstones and research tables carved with magical runes everywhere.
The potion research area, the corpse disposal area, the magic practice area... the equipment is so complete that it is beyond Qi Ge's imagination.
“My Lord, this is my most proud device, the Trosa Magic Centrifuge, which can decompose living things into their most basic elements and help me analyze the basic composition of living things.
This is the latest model released by the Bracada Trosa Chamber of Commerce this year. There are no more than three people in the whole of Diya who own this machine. I used my connections to buy it from the Trosa Chamber of Commerce.
This machine alone is worth 800,000 gold coins.
This machine played an important role in my research into the Devil's Son and the Skeleton Cerberus. Of course, it was also because of this that I became so tight on money."
Qi Ge looked at this machine that looked like a gyroscope and was a little surprised:
"I seem to have seen this machine in my teacher's house, but it's not this small. There's a blue bottle on the left, and a stone slab covered with magic circles on the right."
“Ah?! Huh!!” Hex yelled in surprise:
"That is the top-of-the-line version of the Magic Centrifuge [Advanced Magic Analyzer]. It costs three times as much as the Centrifuge and has very high requirements for purchasing it. You must be a Mithril-level VIP of the Trosa Chamber of Commerce.
Your teacher must be a great wizard who is more enthusiastic about research than me, right? "
Research? Emm...
Does studying the Forest Archer count? Does studying Queen Medusa count? Does studying the Bunny Sisters count?
If that counts, then Mr. Agaid is pretty fanatical.
I remember that the magic analyzer was covered with a layer of dust and was piled in a corner by Mr. Aged.
This world is really unreasonable. Hextech, who is truly passionate about studying biology, has fallen to the point of selling itself for funding.
And the best research machines are gathering dust in the homes of people who have no interest in studying biology.
Qi Ge said with a look of pain on his face:
"I guess so. I'll ask the teacher someday if he's using his analyzer. If he's not using it, I'll bring it to you."
"Huh?!" Hex was delighted:
"Really? Lord, then we have a deal! With an analyzer, my research speed will definitely increase several times."
"How can I lie to you? Don't worry, I'm always very good to my own people. As long as you work hard, I'll give you everything you want.
When the time comes, no matter what instruments you need, you can just make a list for me and I will get it done for you.
To be honest, I have some connections in Bracada, which may be slightly wider than yours."
Qi Ge patted Hex's shoulder and said meaningfully:
"Okay, then get all the skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc. out of your tomb first. Clear out all the living things. I will pack up your tomb and leave in a while."
"Oh, okay!"
After seeing the scene where Duogosos personally saw Seven Pigeons off, Hex now believed in Seven Pigeons' words without a doubt.
Although he hasn't figured out who Qi Ge is, it doesn't stop him from understanding how powerful Qi Ge is.
As a poor pseudo-legend, he is the only intelligent undead in Hex's Tomb, and the other undead soldiers are his mindless assistants.
Soon, these unintelligent undead all walked out of the mausoleum under Hex's command.
Qi Ge took a look and found that in terms of high-level troops, there were more than thirty corpse wizard NPCs above level 4 on Hex's side, and he even had two level 5 miracle death knights responsible for guarding the house.
A broken boat still has three nails, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse.
Although he is poor, Hex is a pseudo-legend after all, and he still has the necessary assets.
If it wasn't Qi Ge, if it was any other player, Hextech would be something they would have to lick.
Qi Ge and Hex waited for a while, and the lord of Ghost Port City, a pseudo-legendary ghost hero, came to Hex's residence under the leadership of [Blood Dragon·True Blood Duke].
"Sir, I am Barritt, the mayor of Ghost Harbor City. May I ask what brings you here?"
The mythical blood dragon suddenly showed up, and Barrett was obviously a little panicked. He was afraid that he had not done something well enough and would be held accountable.
Qi Ge comforted:
“Lord City Lord, don’t be nervous, we are not here to inspect.
I just want to ask you to do me a favor and mobilize the power of the Yasha Fire Ring to give me the ownership of this mausoleum."
"Just this?"
Barritt was stunned for a moment.
"That's easy."
With the presence of the True Blood Prince, Barritt did not ask any questions and cooperated very well in giving the ownership of the tomb to Qi Ge.
After obtaining ownership, Qi Ge took out the [Hammer of Sequencing].
"eighty!"
Qi Ge shouted, exerted force suddenly, and smashed the tomb with a hammer.
With a bang, Hex's Tomb was uprooted from the ground and turned into a small mausoleum model in mid-air, which was put into Qi Ge's space backpack.
After reaching the master-level architect, Qi Ge's mastery of the [Hammer of Ordering] is more complete, and he can better unleash the power of the [Hammer of Ordering].
Now, he can directly pack up his own building as a whole without having to break it down into blueprints.
Qi Ge had a hunch that if he reached the legendary level, he could even pack up the city and take it away.
Hex watched helplessly as his own mausoleum was smashed into a model by Qi Ge's hammer and disappeared. He was stunned:
"Hey, my Lord, where is my home? My huge mausoleum is gone just like that?"
"Don't look at me. Your home is here. Once you get to my territory, I will help you make arrangements."
"What kind of magic is this? Incredible, really incredible."
Qi Ge explained and expressed his gratitude to the Lord of True Blood and the Lord of Ghost Port City.
He brought the still dazed Hex to the seaside and boarded a small boat to meet up with the Silver Spirit in the ocean area.
Afterwards, the Silver Spirit will take Hex back to the Chosen City, and the Seven Pigeons will take advantage of this opportunity to board the ghost ship of Ghost Port City and head to [South Tomb City].
According to Duo Gaosuo's information, the Vampire Red Wedding Dress Group is in the [Southern Tomb City].
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The situation in Bracada has become increasingly delicate in recent times.
The new upstart of Bracada, the [Jenova Chamber of Commerce] that works closely with Seri, has risen strongly.
[Jenova Chamber of Commerce] obtained a huge amount of gold coin reserves through various means, and took advantage of the weak period after the war of Bracada to buy up the high-quality assets of the entire Bracada.
Mixue Bingtang spent a large amount of gold coins, all of which were turned into factories, taverns, shops and mines that could generate continuous income.
These assets will generate predictable returns, which means that these assets have considerable value.
Mixue Bingtang used the future income rights of these assets as collateral to obtain a loan from the Bracada Treasury.
A gold mine takes five years to complete mining and can make a profit of 200,000 gold coins after full mining. Mixue Bingtang can lend out 150,000 gold coins.
She only spent 50,000 yuan to acquire this mine.
With one purchase and one loan, the cash in Mixue Bingtang's hands increased from 50,000 to 100,000.
She then used the 100,000 gold coins to continue acquiring other assets and continue mortgaging them.
In addition to this method, Mixue Bingtang has many other ways to make money with complicated rules, but the core remains the same. The core is to rely on loans to take out gold coins from the Bracada treasury and allow her to develop on her own.
Once the game of making money from money starts, it is like a snowball rolling down the hillside. The snowball gets bigger and bigger and cannot be stopped.
Every loan you make will incur interest every month.
And these interest need to be paid by Mixue Bingtang with the new loan.
Once a payment of interest is not made, the big treasury will freeze the assets of Mixue Bingtang.
But Mixue Bingtang is able to pay back all the interest, and at the same time, can lend out more gold coins and acquire more assets.
This method of expansion by relying on finance rather than on own operations was something that the local mages of Bracada had never thought of.
This is a dimensionality reduction attack from another world.
For the top management of Bracada, although they could not understand the operation of Mixue Rock Sugar, they could see that one store, factory and mine after another had the sign of [Jenova Chamber of Commerce] hung up.
They could see the rapid expansion of the Jenova Chamber of Commerce, like a raging fire.
They can imagine what kind of unexpected interests are behind such a rapid development.
As expected, many people were jealous.
But no matter how jealous they were, they dared not touch the Jenova Chamber of Commerce openly, because Seri was behind the Jenova Chamber of Commerce.
Ceri may not be the strongest legend in Bracada, but he is definitely the legend with the strongest background.
In Bracada, all demigods have a good relationship with Seri. Outside of Bracada, Seri also has friends all over the world.
She is a veteran legend who is independent of any faction yet respected by all factions. She is one of the top dignitaries in Bracada.
What to do if you can't beat them and you're jealous? Join them!
Seri has friends all over the world, even those who are jealous of him, many of them are Seri's friends.
Today Trosa will say hello and Trosa Chamber of Commerce will buy shares. Tomorrow, Titan Temple will send out an invitation letter and Titan Temple will also buy shares. The day after tomorrow, the president of the Mage Guild will come out in person and the Mage Guild will also participate.
These top dignitaries in Bracada are all investing gold coins in the Jenova Chamber of Commerce to run the business, waiting to reap the benefits and pocket huge dividends.
When there is surplus labor from Bracada's soldiers, the surplus turns into the beast called capital.
Previously, the beast had been kept in a cage by the Bracada Vault to cultivate the sickle called Titan Coin.
But now, the beast has been released by Mixue Bingtang.
More and more top dignitaries have participated in Mixue Bingtang’s money-making snowball game. Everyone wants to earn gold coins, so where do the gold coins come from?
The outside of Bracada has been sealed off by the Port City, the Church of Poseidon and the Church of Wealth. If gold coins want to make more gold coins, they can only suck blood from inside Bracada.
The top dignitaries naturally drink blood and eat flesh, while the lower-level goblins have long been penniless and have nothing left to suck, and the ones who bleed and eat flesh are of course the middle-level of Bracada.
As the Jenova Chamber of Commerce grew larger and larger, more and more small factories closed down, more and more small businessmen went bankrupt, and more and more mages were laid off.
Batches of wizards who once lived a life of luxury and extravagance found that their monthly income and expenditure began to collapse.
As prices rose and incomes decreased, they gradually became unable to make ends meet. Their gold coins continued to flow from their pockets into the market and were then swallowed by an invisible gold-eating beast.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frug
Realizing that something was wrong, the middle class began their fightback.
They first resisted acquisitions, raised the prices of their assets or simply refused to sell them, then tightened their belts, gave up some less important enjoyments, and kept as much gold as possible in their hands.
But their actions are like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of a snowball that is rolling bigger and bigger.
The trend of Mixue Rock Sugar is already established, and the monopoly of resources in the upstream and midstream has begun.
The factory won’t sell? Then you raise the price of the resources you need for production until your products sell for no profit and you even lose money.
Tighten your belt? Then launch a propaganda war, engage in hedonistic competition, and squeeze out mages with less wealth from the high-level circles, forcing them to continue to maintain their dignity in order to retain power.
Still not surrendering? Fine, I have the same factory as yours, and I have the same products as yours. I won’t make any profit, I will sell at a loss, do you want to lower the price with me?
I am big and I can handle it. How long can you hold on?
The total amount of gold coins is limited. When the liquid gold coins in the market are sucked out and controlled by a few people, the Great Depression begins.
Inside Bracada, a strange cycle began to emerge.
More and more factories are closing down, and their previously popular products - alchemical potions , treasures, war machines, etc. - can no longer find buyers.
The closure of the factory caused many mages to lose their jobs. When they were unemployed, they lost their source of income, which meant they lost their gold coins.
Without gold coins, mages would have even less people to buy the products produced by their factories, so more factories closed down and more mages became unemployed.
The snowball from Mixue Rock Sugar fell and hit the domino called destruction.
The avalanche has begun. A storm called financial crisis is brewing over Bracada and may fall at any time.
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At this critical juncture, in faraway Krulod, another storm was brewing.
"Bah! You want me to withdraw from the competition for the throne? Burlag is just dreaming!"
In the tattered tent, a tribal leader named Korg slammed the table and yelled at the gorgeously dressed barbarians in front of him:
"Why, that coward Burlag wants to use pressure to force us competitors to participate in the battle for the throne?"
The barbarian looked at Korg with indifference and contempt. Compared with his gorgeous clothes, Korg's clothes were too shabby and shabby.
If he hadn't been on a mission, he wouldn't have been able to stand the stench in Korg's camp.
The Savage pinched his nose and said:
“Korg, think about it again.
Our King Burrag is a demigod and the most prestigious lord in all of Krulod. He deserves to be the chieftain.
You are a little guy who has just become a legend. Even if you fight against King Burlag, you will die in his hands.
I just couldn't bear to see a legend with unlimited potential die in the internal friction of the battle for the throne, so I came here to advise you. "
"Bah!" Korg was furious.
"Who said that Burrager was the most prestigious lord? Who said that he deserved to be the chieftain?
So what if he is a demigod? In my eyes, he is still just an unlearned ogre!"
The barbarian widened his eyes in surprise and pointed at Korg and said:
"You, you, you! How dare disrespect King Burlag!
Have you forgotten who is protecting you?
Without King Burlag, your tribe would have been invaded by the Bracada long ago."
"Invasion? That was when I wanted to fight them, but you stopped me!"
Korg slammed a battle axe on the ground with great force, and there was a loud bang that shook the ground.
He looked at the barbarian in front of him with a mocking look and said:
"Ha. How ridiculous. What on earth can Burlag do?
He would only compromise and give in to Bracada, and would only work like a servile dog in exchange for development resources.
During the thirty years that he had been king of the tribe, the entire Krulod became poorer except for his own tribe.
And what he begged from Bracada, Bracada would eventually take back from us tenfold or a hundredfold.
I've had enough of this. We barbarians should kill and rob whatever we need!
If we don't have enough resources, we should attack the Chaos Zone to open up new territory.
Since the food supply is insufficient, we should go hunting wild monsters to obtain the Mother Goddess's reward!
Instead of using your people as slaves to pray to Bracada."
"What a joke! What do you know? Do you know how much sacrifice your words will bring to us, Krulod?
The number of people who will die in the attack on the Chaos Zone is a hundred times that of those who go to Bracada to help with the work!"
Korg remained undeterred:
"So what if there are sacrifices? Only gold coins soaked in blood can bring glory to the barbarians."
The barbarian couldn't stand Korg's shallowness anymore, and he cursed:
"You are a war maniac. A meaningless battle will only lead to the death of the soldiers and heroes who have grown up with great difficulty.
Only by developing commercial trade, opening up the market and learning advanced civilization from Bracada can we bring vitality to our backward and poor Krulod.
Do you know how Bracada developed? Do you know why Bracada is the most powerful force? "
Korg sneered:
"Business? Trade? Open markets? Learning from Bracada?
Fuck it! How did Bracada develop? What does it have to do with us, Krulod?
We, Krulod, have our own path.”
“You you you you!!”
The barbarian was so angry that he was speechless.
He took several deep breaths, then suppressed his anger and asked:
“Korg, you and I are friends. For the sake of our friendship, I will advise you one last time to give up running for the throne.
Burlag is a demigod, and you will die at his hands."
"Ha! Hahaha!" Korg laughed three times and smashed the table in front of him with an axe.
He stared at the barbarian opposite him and said word by word:
"Friends? From now on, we are not! Our friendship is as broken as this table.
So what if he’s a demigod? If Burlag is really capable, he should fight me with real swords and guns!
Goth, go back and tell Burlag for me.
Unless he can stand in front of my grave, he can get my respect! Otherwise, no one can make me surrender and give up the battle for the throne!
Come and bite me, get out of here!"
"Hmph! Here I come! Your Majesty, please."