Chapter 32
The city gate was half open, enough for a small number of troops to enter.
Wu Wei led the guards and entered the city openly, meeting with the dragon knight Marcus who came to greet them.
""Dear Mr. Dragon Knight, my troops have traveled a long way and are a little tired. Please prepare a batch of food and meat so that I can reward my men. Don't worry, money is not a problem."
As soon as they met, Wu Wei spoke first and then launched a money offensive.
With a wave of his hand, several subordinates came up with a wooden box. After opening it, a burst of golden light shone, reflecting an attractive light.
It turned out to be a whole box of gold bricks!
"These can be regarded as deposits for purchasing food and supplies. If there is any excess, it can be exchanged for equivalent spiritual crystals."
Wu Wei had an indifferent expression, as if he didn't care about the gold at all.
In fact, when he returned to Blue Star not long ago, he got a large amount of gold and silver.
The bank vault had been secretly pried open by him, and this box of gold was really nothing.
But Marcus couldn't be so calm. Even though he was a dragon knight, it was impossible for him not to be tempted by so much gold.
"No problem, leave this to us! Your army has come from afar to support the kingdom, we will never let you starve and suffer! Please enter the city first, let us entertain you tonight, and food and spirit crystals will be delivered soon."
Marcus showed a gentle smile, warmly invited Wu Wei and others to enter the city, but his heart was already full of joy.
In this world, precious metals such as gold, silver, and brass are excellent additives for making monster-level standard equipment. They are also needed when building high-level territory buildings. In short, they have many uses and are real strategic materials, which have always been in short supply.
At the same time, in addition to spirit crystal settlement, the best thing to use for large-scale transactions between countries and races is precious metals.
Such a box of gold, if used only to buy basic supplies, is enough to meet the expenses of dozens of legions of tens of thousands of people for half a year.
The other side has only a force of less than 10,000 people, and it doesn't cost much at all. There is a lot of money to be made from it.
Then there is the requirement to exchange the remaining gold for equivalent spirit crystals, which still contains a lot of Benefits.
There is no fixed exchange rate between spirit crystals and gold. Even if an ordinary price is set, the Quarry Castle can still make a fortune.
Thinking of this, Marcus looked at Wu Wei in a completely different way. He changed from looking at an inexplicable country lord to a wealthy man who could make him a lot of military expenses.
The only thing that puzzled him was how could a lord in the wilderness be so rich? Did he find a gold mine in the wild?
He had never seen such a rich pioneer knight in his life.
But it is a good thing to meet such a guy once, I deserve to make a fortune!
When he was secretly rejoicing in his heart, he didn't know that Wu Wei was also secretly saying that this trip was worthwhile.
There are indeed a lot of spirit crystal reserves in these human kingdoms!
He had learned about the various precious metals in this world through Alexiel before. The price, such a box of gold, if converted into spirit crystals at the most unfavorable rate, can be exchanged for nearly one million spirit crystals. The garrison of a border town accepted the deal without a second thought. It seems that they can afford at least tens of millions of spirit stones.
He couldn't imagine why these human kingdoms had so many spirit crystal reserves. Shouldn't this kind of thing be insufficient? How could there be so many surpluses?
Wu Wei, who never had enough spirit crystals, really couldn't figure it out, but at this moment he had realized that the gains from this journey might very well exceed his expectations.
That night, Wu Wei and his guards were warmly received by the garrison of the Quarrying Fort.
The commander of the garrison of the Quarrying Fort even personally entertained Wu Wei, the lord of the Territory of Weird Light, in the city lord's mansion.
Wu Wei readily followed suit and attended the banquet with peace of mind.
The banquet really began when night fell..
At the banquet table in the City Lord's Mansion, Marcus sat in the main seat, Wu Wei sat in the VIP seat, and two winged sin angel maids stood beside him. On both sides sat the Dragon Blood Venerable Gruin and the young wild mage hero Charles.
In other places, several high-ranking military officials from the Quarry Castle accompanied him.
Exquisite dishes were served on the table, and the aroma soon attracted most of Wu Wei's attention. God had mercy on him. In the more than 20 days in the Ain Continent, he had never eaten anything that could be called a dish.
If it weren't for maintaining his mysterious and wealthy personality, he would have started to feast on it long ago.
After Marcus, the host, greeted them, everyone began to taste the food slowly.
During the meal, someone introduced the dishes to Wu Wei.
Wu Wei was really surprised to eat these exotic delicacies.
First of all, he didn't expect that the living standard of the human race in this world seemed to be at the level of the ancient Middle Ages, but they knew how to enjoy cooking. A banquet in a military town could actually produce hundreds of different dishes with a wide variety of styles.
Secondly, what surprised him was the ingredients in this world. There were too many kinds, and everything could be used for cooking. The dry and hard-to-swallow, strange-tasting monster meat he had eaten on the long journey turned out to be unexpectedly delicious after careful cooking.
This made him sigh: It seems that this world is not monotonous with only war and killing as the main theme!
Presumably, in terms of eating, our Daxia nation should have enough room for communication with the Ainn people.
Just as everyone was eating and talking politely to each other, and the atmosphere was hot, a man dressed as an adjutant came behind Marcus and whispered a few words in his ear.
After getting Marcus's signal, the adjutant came straight to Wu Wei, held a delicate little box in his hands and handed it to him, and gently opened it.
Inside was a pile of extremely exquisite oval-shaped luminous gems, with different colors and extremely dazzling.
Wu Wei was stunned and immediately asked in confusion:"What is this?"
His question stunned everyone present, and they didn't know what to say for a moment.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Wu Wei's heart skipped a beat and he suddenly realized that something was wrong: he might have made some common sense mistake!