Chapter 39 A Wave of Riches
"180!"
"200!"
"No, the highest price for mythril is 180 gold coins per pound. 200 is impossible!" Arthur said stubbornly. Although he could ignore a few gold coins, it was impossible for him to ignore thousands of gold coins.
As Princess Angela's executor, he had to do everything to protect Her Highness' interests and her honor.
He would be the bad guy by doing certain things that the Princess couldn't do or couldn't even think about doing.
William and Lautner glanced at each other. They both knew that they would not be able to sell the mythril at more than 200 gold coins per pound Blue Moon Town.
However, it was safe to do the trade here. They didn't have to worry about an Elf leaking information about the transaction, or even get someone to rob and kill them.
"Let's settle this. 500 pounds of mythril, 180 gold coins per pound, so it's a total of 90000 gold coins!" William nodded at Arthur.
Arthur looked annoyed. He didn't have a good impression of William, or it could be said that he didn't have a good impression of any Blackleaf Forest's Prince. "That's right. If we make the trade now, you can bring the mythril over and you can leave."
"How about we round it up and make it 100000 gold coins?" William asked carefully.
"…"
Arthur, who had already turned around, slowly turned back. His gaze was cold as if he was saying, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
However, his endowment of being handsome ultimately took its effect.
He didn't know why.
Arthur's impression points suddenly grew to 67 points, which happened to be William's charm level…
Arthur didn't know if he had become crazy, but he suddenly said, "It's not an easy trip here for you either, so I'll give you 91000 gold coins!"
William immediately stood up. "Settled. Lautner, get Nox to bring the mythril over so we can bring the gold coins back!"
The transaction went very smoothly.
The Blackleaf Elves, the Moonlight Elves, and the Snow Elves all had something in common, and that was pride.
They would never cheat on a simple transaction.
Unless it concerned the fate of their race.
Even Arthur, who already regretted saying such a thing to William and had already run away…
As for the Princess who was raising a white little horse, they did not meet again.
William did not miss them either. He wasn't in too much of a rush to return home. He got his men to rest for a few hours and have a big meal before they started their trip.
According to the current production of the mithril mine, they would be able to produce about 100 pounds of mythril every month. As such, William and Arthur made a deal to trade 50 pounds of mythril every month so that would give them a fixed income of 9000 gold coins every month.
"With the 91000 gold coins we got through this transaction and those that we can get in the future, as long as my Lord uses it reasonably, we will definitely be able to expand our town into a city within six months!" Lautner exclaimed softly. "Border Town is finally on the right track."
Ever since they had arrived at the town, William's rise was not slow. In fact, some would say that it was very fast.
They had the iron mine and mythril mine that had appeared suddenly, bringing a source of gold coins and building foundation.
There were the Dwarfs as well.
There were also those darn Orcs that had given much experience to the Elven warriors in the territory.
One had to know…
Apart from training, eating magical beasts, and magic potions, NPCs could only increase their experience through fighting. If an NPC went through life and death battles, they would be able to level-up several levels.
The speed of growth of NPC warriors that had survived for a hundred battles was comparable to players.
This was also why the levels of NPCs in war could grow rapidly after the version limit was removed with new updates of the game.
Lautner, who was originally level 56, was able to level up two levels after fighting the pale Orc, who was higher than him, directly reaching level 58.
Although he was still an Intermediate professional, he was still closer to the upper limit of level 70.
At this thought, William couldn't help but glance at Lautner. He wanted to find some powerful monsters to let his bodyguard level up to the version's level limit as soon as possible.
Seeing that type of scheming gaze, Lautner slowly closed his mouth.
However, he could still hear that word…
"Uncle, I heard there are man-eating monsters nearby?" William asked thoughtfully as he sat on his horse.
"Ah? Is there? Is there such a thing…?" The corners of Lautner's lips twitched. Man-eating monsters lived in groups and liked dark, humid places, so they would usually choose to stay in caves near a lake.
Their ability?
Because they lived near lakes, they would find animals, magical beasts, and anything that could move, taking a drink by the lakes.
They were very strong…
William pretended not to understand as he said, "How could there not be any? You know there are two mountain valleys to the south of Border Town right? There's a large lake in the middle and that is where the source of our Rainbow River is.
"To be honest, I have some ideas for the ocean and that lake.
"We can definitely build two piers near the lake and ocean and make some fishing boats. With that, not only will we increase our food sources, but we will also enrich our food.
"However, if we want to approach the ocean, the quickest way would be to go via the lake. Otherwise, we have to go around it and through the two mountain valleys. If that were the case, we would definitely make some losses. Not only would the journey be harder, but it would be dangerous too!"
"If my Lord has any problems, please say. You don't have to call me Uncle…" Seeing William was not going to give up, Lautner had no choice but to continue asking.
"How about you find some time and kill the man-eating monsters and the other monsters by the lake?"
"No problem."
"Alright." William nodded, ignoring Lautner's crying face. There was no choice, he didn't know how to reject the idea, so he decided to carry it like a real man.
…
On their way back, nothing happened.
The depths of Blackleaf Forest were very dangerous. However, that was only for individuals or small groups. When faced with large groups, most magical beasts weren't interested in taking them as food.
Similarly…
Having so many gold coins with them, William wasn't interested in fighting the magical beasts they saw, in fear that an accident may happen.
Finally.
They saw Border Town.
William and his men finally heaved a sigh of relief. Odom stopped his work, coming forward to welcome the group with bright eyes.
"It has only been six days and my Lord is already back. You're really quick!" Odom's eyes were fixed on the boxes and boxes of gold coins…
Dwarfs and giant dragons had similar interests. They all liked bright, shining gold coins.
Dwarfs liked to mine as well. That was why the old Dwarf empire and the current seven Dwarf kingdoms were all extremely rich. Their wealth was incomparable to those normal human nations.
"Stop looking! I'll increase your pay!" William waved a hand in front of Odom's eyes. As he entered the town, he actually saw many unknown faces.
"Who are they?" William was a little curious. Did Curry bring the slaves over in advance?
Odom pointed at them. "They are all poor people from the Black Lava Dukedom and Iron Dukedom. They found out that Border Town is expanding and paying for labor, so they came here to work.
"In the six days you left, we have had more than 200 new people. It seems like the numbers are going to grow as well!"
"Do they want to settle here?" William saw many young people. They were all good material…
"Quite a lot of people have this thought. After all, a growing town is at least a hundred times stronger than those vampire-like nobles in the human nations!" Odom exclaimed.
To be honest, more and more people had started to join the neutral faction because the human nobility system suppressed the peasants too much…
