Today, North Duisburg needs to provide 60,000 giant crossbow arrows to the magic seal workshop every month, North Duisburg has a large turnover box, a box can hold 500 giant crossbow arrows, and every week there is a large magic caravan ten meters long loaded with thirty boxes of giant crossbow arrows to be transported to the rune workshop in the seventh block of the imperial capital, these giant crossbow arrows will only stay in the rune workshop for half a night before being transported to the magic seal workshop in Xinliu Valley.In addition, North Duisburg also provided 8,000 sets of base materials for the fire gathering technique and miniature tornado charm copper plates every month, and the huge amount of orders every month made me a guest of honor in North Duisburg, and every time I came to North Duisburg, no matter how busy Count Robert was, he would put down what he was doing and set aside some time to receive me personally.In fact, I didn't come to North Duisburg this time to lower the price of Count Robert, I simply wanted to add a large amount of order to Count Robert, but Count Robert himself didn't believe it.Almost all of the seventeen lords who were with the Prince of Wales and wanted to make war money had ordered a batch of crossbow arrows from me.Yesterday the Marquis of Haslaber came to me at the Royal Academy of Magic and brought me an order agreement for ordinary crossbow arrows, I had no idea that he would find an order for 500,000 crossbow arrows in just three days.You know, this is not the ordinary steel cluster arrows used by archers, but the giant crossbow arrows made of alloy steel doped with black iron, each giant crossbow arrow can be exchanged for almost eight pots of ordinary steel cluster feather arrows, I don't know where he got these orders, but so many orders are pressed at once, at least it will take four months of sleepless work on the two magic marking machines in my magic seal workshop that are now working day and night to be able to deliver all the orders of the Marquis of Hasrab.I didn't expect that some of these orders were actually grabbed from North Duisburg.If it hadn't been for Count Robert telling me, I wouldn't have known that I had unknowingly become the fourth largest supplier of giant crossbow arrows in the imperial capital.Of course, I have always believed that sooner or later I will become the largest purchaser of giant crossbow arrows in North Duisburg and even in the entire imperial capital.Because these dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows are completely piled up with countless failed products, in order to have more magic giant crossbow arrows, at present, the base of the magic mark can only continue to increase, and the excess ordinary non-attribute giant crossbow arrows must be dumped, even if the price is a little lower, it is better than rotting in the hand and recasting.For these lords, as long as the quality of the crossbow arrows in my hand is okay, they don't care too much about what the pattern on them is, and the magic pattern engraved on the blade of the crossbow arrows can make these arrows look more classy.At present, an average of twenty-five giant crossbow arrows can be engraved to successfully produce a two-attribute magic arrow, and the success rate is only four percent, some time ago, four old dwarf craftsmen told me that the success rate of marking dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows can be increased to five percent, but I haven't heard them talk about it again after so long, I guess there must be some obstacles.Last month, I went to the Hiero plane, and the affairs of the imperial capital were all handed over to Arya, and for a whole month, all the crossbow arrows and rune copper plate base materials in North Duisburg were transported to Arya's home, and the rune plates and magic pattern spider silk produced from the magic seal workshop in Xinliu Valley were also directly moved to the warehouse of Arya's new family courtyard, and when I returned from the Hiero plane, the magic caravan in North Duisburg resumed delivery to the rune workshop.The street in front of North Duisburg is always bustling with traffic, and it is very lively at any time, with dozens of smaller blacksmith shops lining the blacksmith workshops, dozens of which form a forest of steel, and the billowing smoke draws several white ribbons in space, some of which are connected to the white clouds in the sky.Count Robert and manager Goss stood at the gate of the Duisburg blacksmith workshop and waved goodbye to me.At this time, Chris Andy, the head of production at the blacksmith workshop in North Duisburg, hurriedly walked up to Count Robert and whispered a few words in his ear.When Count Robert heard this, he made an apologetic gesture to me, indicating that there was other business to attend to in the workshop, and hurried away with Goss.I wondered what was going on inside the workshop, but I couldn't go back, so I boarded the magic caravan with Katarina.As the caravan passed through the crossroads, I happened to see a caravan of thunderrhinos parked in the back streets of North Duisburg, carrying a cargo as huge as a hill.As the magic caravan passed through the backstreet, I asked the coachman to pull the caravan on the side of the road, and when I looked out the window, I saw a group of dwarves standing at the foot of the thunderous rhinoceros, dressed like a canned box with a large hammer hanging from their waists.Don't underestimate these dwarves, they are powerful, hot-tempered, and stubborn like donkeys, but every dwarf is born a master of blacksmithing and a very good warrior.Boxes of heavy cargo were unloaded from the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros, and each box made a dull sound as it landed on the ground.When the last wooden box was removed from the back of the Thunder Rhino, the relieved Thunder Rhinoceros let out a long low roar, and when I saw the flags fluttering on the wooden houses on the backs of the Thunder Rhinoceros, I recognized that it was the banner of King Stan, one of the Seven Great Monarchs of the Dwarven Realm, and there was no doubt that these huge and heavy wooden boxes must have contained steel ingots brought from the Dwarven World.Countless blacksmith workshops in the Grimm Empire have been repeatedly studying the composition of these superb steel ingots, but it has been proven that only the steel ingots shipped from the Dwarven Kingdom are the best, North Duisburg has always had very close trade relations with the Dwarven Kingdom of King Stan, and Count Robert has always told me about the full-covered armor forged in their workshops, and the steel is transported from the Dwarven Kingdom.Seeing those thunder rhinos that seemed to be buried deep in my memory, I suddenly had an urge to climb on the back of the rhino for a while, I pushed open the door of the carriage, walked out of the carriage, and stood in the bustling flow of people, as if the world suddenly stopped in an instant, and there was a reversal of time and space around my body, as if I had returned to the time when I lived on the back of the thunder rhino in my childhood.Almost three years were spent on the back of the thunder rhinoceros, at that time, although the body suffered from the erosion of this fire poison twice a day in the morning and evening, but for me it was the most relaxed and happy period of life, on the back of the thunder rhino, almost no need to think about what tomorrow would be, lying in bed every day drinking rice porridge, listening to old Kuru tell how delicious white bread is in the human world, the sun rises on the horizon in the morning, and sets between the mountains in the evening, although every night I don't know if I can see the next morning's sun again, But the days are carefree.At that time, I was not afraid of death, like all orc children, and Kuz and I had to try something we thought was brave every day.But now?
I never even wanted to tell Kuz that I was alive, and every time I thought of that mesmerizing wasteland, I felt a sourness and a faint sadness flow through my heart, and it was an unusually bitter taste.I stood at the corner of the street, and Caterina stood beside me as if she felt my strangeness, standing shoulder to shoulder with me.Looking at the dozens of thunder rhinos crowded into the backstreets of several kilometers, Caterina smiled and said to me: "I can't imagine that I can still see these big guys here in the imperial capital, do you want to go over and have a look?"
”I shook my head slightly, and said to her, "Let's go, we'll have to go to the trading house of Qige to have a look." ”After getting into the magic caravan, Caterina asked, "What's going on at the comptoir?"
”Sitting down on the soft leather sofa, pouring myself a glass of golden cider, and after drinking it all, I said to Katarina, "Arya told me that there is a large backlog of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks in the comptoir. ”"How so?"
Caterina asked in surprise as she sat down on the couch opposite, her ruby eyes blinking.I said to Katarina, "A manager in charge of sales over there sold the primary magic herbs and corpse fire oil in this shipment to the lord of the south, probably because the manager felt that if this matter was investigated, he would not have any good fruit to eat, so he resigned with the employees who were involved in the sales and transportation of the business house that day. ”"That's the case on the rune workshop, and it's like this on the merchant house!
Now don't the managers on the imperial capital's side have any credibility at all?
”Caterina said huffingly.Katerina's words reminded me of Nick and Brennan.Then she couldn't help but ask, "How much money did they take away?"
”I poked my eyebrows lightly with my finger and said, "Probably they are worried that they have their lives but they don't have their lives, and there are other employees in the firm, so they didn't take the money privately, but each of them should have taken a good benefit, but now the whole firm is in a state of semi-paralysis, a large number of newly arrived canned meat and meat floss are waiting to be processed, and a new batch of employees will continue to be recruited, and Arya has rushed there early in the morning to deal with these things, and I must show up at this time." ”Nick and Brennan took away all the hired craftsmen in the rune workshop, but they didn't take any of the assets of the rune board, obviously not wanting to cause trouble for themselves.At this point, Caterina suddenly remembered Kig, and she complained to me, "Kig has not been heard from for so long on Etiah's side. ”Although I was also a little worried, I was more convinced that there was nothing that Qige could not do, so I comforted her: "It is estimated that the postmen of the two countries never communicate with each other, and the caravan's way of sending letters is too slow, and the letter she sent must have arrived on the way." ”Caterina pressed me back, "So what are you going to do with this?"
”I twisted the faint stubble on my chin with my hand and said to Katarina: "This matter can't be settled like this after all, I want them to take mine and give it back to me, and I will vomit it out if they eat mine, I don't believe that no one has caused this matter, and I will catch those behind-the-scenes masterminds, and settle accounts with them." ”"Hey, you're not trying to make a big deal out of it, are you?
You are now a person of status in the imperial capital. ”Caterina said to me.I patted my forehead with my hand, then sat up from the soft leather sofa and said to Caterina: "Yes, you don't say that I still have to forget, I should go to the logistics department but exchange some merits that belong to me, now these black magic crystals should be enough for me to be promoted to a first-class earl, get ready, tomorrow we will go to the logistics department." ”"Okay, I'll listen to you."
Caterina smiled softly at me.Walking into the trading house, I found that the inside still looked messy, and in the courtyard behind the trading house were a large number of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks wrapped in oiled paper, some of which were piled up like a hill and covered with some tarpaulin, probably because I was worried that I would get wet in the rain.Although the spring of the imperial capital is very rainless, but the warm and humid air of the Endless Sea blows over, once it meets the cold air on the ice and snow tundra in the northern part of the northern border, the formation of extreme convective weather will cause rain, sometimes even some hail and the like, although canned luncheon meat is not afraid of rain, but those canned boxes of pig iron will be full of rust once exposed to the rain for too long.As for the oiled paper on the outer layer of the meat floss bricks, it is even more resistant to rain soaking.Arya and her maid Betty stood in the backyard cloister, and the employees in the comptoir were moving goods to the comptoir's warehouse, and there were few employees, making the comptoir more and more deserted.The door of the warehouse, which should have been full of magic herbs, was open, and there were still some elementary magic herbs scattered on the ground, and the entire warehouse was empty.Similarly, a warehouse next door that stored corpse oil was opened, and none of the oil drums containing corpse oil were nowhere to be seen.Arya saw me walk in from the outside with Caterina and asked Betty to move two chairs out of the firm."
How's it going?"
Come to Arya and ask her.Arya threw the quill in her hand into the inkwell, supported her white chin with both hands, and said to me with a smile: "It's not as bad as expected, and the payment has been fully settled, but the business bank needs to add some more manpower." ”"Have you found out who is making trouble in there?"
I asked Betty, the maid beside her.Betty glanced at Arya quietly, and when she saw that Arya didn't have any expression on her face, she shook her head slightly.Arya said to me, "You should now focus on the backlog of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks, which are easy to store, but there aren't many empty warehouses in the trading houses. ”Then she said to me, "There is another magical airship from Gurudin's town that will arrive in the airport town this week, and I have to organize the staff to prepare to pick up the cargo before the airship arrives." ”