The Bena City Slave Market is located on the west side of Nancheng District, close to the Nancheng Workshop District. It is the end of a free market built along the street.

This place is occupied by some slave traders all year round. The slaves have shackles on their bodies and stand on a high stone platform next to the street. Some slaves have wooden signs with prices under their feet, and some have nothing at all. As long as someone is in front of these slaves,

Stop and the slave trader waiting next to you will enthusiastically introduce the price of each slave on the stage.

The metallurgy and leather-making workshops of Bena City are planned in the same area, which is called the workshop area by the citizens.

This workshop area is close to the south city wall. The City Hall and Urban Development Department diverts water from the moat outside the city into an independent inland river in the workshop area. The industrial wastewater generated here is directly discharged to the city through a thousand-meter culvert.

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There are nearly two hundred chimneys standing in the workshop area, and there is a workshop under each chimney. The sky above the workshop is covered with thick smoke, and the slums of the workshop area adjacent to the city of Bena are also covered by the thick smoke above the city.

Shrouded in it, it can be said that the slums here were gradually formed due to the existence of the workshop area.

Dajinxi owns a high platform near the slave market. In addition to a few half-beast female slaves with green faces and fangs standing on it, there are only a dozen indigenous slaves captured from unknown planes. These slaves automatically formed on the high platform.

Two small groups, standing at the edge of the high platform, were several kobolds with ugly faces like sand skin. They were locked together by a chain, half lying on the stone platform with squinted eyes, looking a little depressed.

During the Plane War, a large number of slaves were sent to the outside battlefield, so there were almost no strong male slaves on the market.

Surdak passed through this lively market and saw several richly dressed nobles standing in front of the dwarf slaves, bargaining with the slave owners.

Dwarf slaves are quite popular in the market, mainly because they are familiar with forging and brewing ale from birth. A strong dwarf slave is more like a money-making machine.

Compared with these dwarf slaves, those orc slaves from the remote mountainous areas of the empire are not so popular.

Most of these orcs were born in the vast mountains bordering the orc tribes. Many villages there are mixed with humans and orcs. The orcs captured by slave traders from there are neither humans nor orcs. They are neither humans nor orcs.

Not protected by imperial decrees and tribal orc laws, it has become a frequent visitor to the slave market.

Samira recognized a slave trader standing under the high platform as Da Jinxi's subordinate, and secretly told Suldak.

Surdak and his party walked around the slave market and found that there were kobold slaves only on the high platform of Dajinxi. They asked the slave trader about the price of kobold slaves. The slave trader also knew him.

Samira then hurried to the warehouse and called Da Jinxi over.

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The Planar War brought unprecedented prosperity to the slave market, and many male slaves were sent to the battlefield to become cannon fodder at the forefront. As a result, the price of male slaves in the slave market was much higher than that of female slaves, and the supply was basically still in short supply.

Da Jinxi met Suldak, Samira and others in front of the stall.

"Knight Suldak, I heard that you want to buy a kobold slave?" Da Jinxi hurried over from across the street, the scar on his face turning a little red.

"That's what I meant." Suldak replied while standing in front of the high platform.

Da Jinxi's eyes lit up, he approached Suldak with a smile, turned to look at the kobold slaves, and said repeatedly: "You are so discerning, these kobolds come from the plane of Feo, look at them

You can tell how young they are by their teeth. They are easy to feed. As long as some sweet potatoes and some melon vines are needed, wheat bran can live very well. What they are best at is digging, but if you want to use them to cultivate land, that is not the case.

No, they can definitely do some simple farm work."

In order to verify the health status of these kobolds, Da Jinxi stabbed the kobold slave's mouth with an iron hook, pulled open the kobold slave's thick lips, and forcibly exposed the canine teeth inside.

The kobold slave howled dully.

Suldak stopped Da Jinxi and continued to open the lips of another kobold slave, and said to Da Jinxi: "I plan to buy two hundred kobold slaves, but before that, I want to know the price first!"

Da Jinxi touched his shining forehead and said to Suldak:

"The price is easy to say, and when you buy kobolds from me, the more you buy, the greater the discount."

"Excluding those special slaves, the current price of dwarves in the slave market is probably more than fifteen gold, and the adult craftsman dwarf can even reach about twenty gold, followed by male half-orcs who can be sent to the battlefield. These half-orcs have strong bodies. This kind of male

Orcs have a wide range of uses on the battlefield, and they basically have a price but no market, and the market price is clearly marked at fifteen gold."

"The second is the indigenous slaves transported from some small planes. These indigenous slaves can be used to cultivate plantations, but they are not suitable for fighting. Their value is about eight gold. The next level is these orc female slaves. Because of their

Due to gender issues, it is difficult for them to be sent to the battlefield. These half-orc female slaves are difficult to tame and discipline, and their physical strength is comparable to that of adult imperial people, so the price must be greatly discounted, usually around hardware."

"As for these kobold slaves, you can get another half discount on the selling price of the orc female slaves. Now it's two gold coins each. Two hundred kobold slaves only cost four hundred gold coins. With such a low price, if you have enough budget, I suggest

You should buy more..."

Surdak had just walked around the slave market and roughly inquired about the prices of slaves in the market. Basically, there was no difference from what Da Jinxi said.

Surdak thought about it carefully, and based on his limited bargaining experience, he felt that it was necessary to meet and cut half of the price... So he said very decisively: "One gold coin for each, if you can, help me select two hundred people."

A strong and disease-free kobold."

Da Jinxi didn't expect that Knight Surdak would cut him severely on top of the best price he offered.

A breath was held in his chest, which instantly made his face turn red. The words of rejection were stuck in his throat, but he swallowed them back in his stomach.

I thought that if Surdak hadn't been rushing over from the warehouse, the kobold slaves in the warehouse might have been loaded into trucks and transported to the cemetery hill outside the city to dig holes and bury them on the spot. Now someone is willing to take over, although the price is extremely high.

Low, but at least some cost can be recovered.

Da Jinxi's face turned red and white several times, but finally his face softened, and he smiled and said to Suldak: "Don't worry about this, you can choose as you like, and I guarantee that all kobold slaves have no

Regarding infectious diseases, before coming to the Green Empire, I used quicklime powder to repeatedly kill the parasites on my body, so there will definitely be no problems in this regard."

Suldak considered that if he wanted to transport two hundred kobold slaves back to Helensa, even if he rented a magic truck, he would probably have to pay a high transportation fee to the horse and carriage company, so he said to Da Jinxi: "These slaves

The final destination is my knight territory outside the city of Halanza, and you will be responsible for the transportation of this batch of slaves."

When Da Jinxi heard this, his vision went dark, the veins on his forehead bulged, and his heart was filled with thoughts of beating people.

You must know that to launch a magic airship, in addition to the labor costs of the crew and other labor costs, the sixteen magic crystals required to activate the floating device alone are worth nearly a hundred gold coins. To send these kobold slaves to the city of Halanza,

Da Jinxi has less than a hundred gold coins left.

But at this time, an assistant beside him quickly whispered a few words into Da Jinxi's ear.

The magic airship docked near the airport terminal of Bena City in Dajinxi happened to be temporarily recruited by the Bena Provincial War Command to transport war supplies to the northern part of Bena Province. Helensa City happened to be one of them.

The kobold slave passed by, but it was actually nothing.

Da Jinxi quickly puffed up his chest and said to Suldak: "It's no problem to leave the transportation to us, but I can only agree to help you deliver it to the Helensa Airport Terminal. You need to think about the rest of the journey yourself.

There is a way, and I sincerely invite you to join this pleasant journey, which will also make it easier for us to hand over these slaves as soon as we arrive at the airport terminal of Helensa City."

The other party promised free transportation, which was something Suldak didn't expect. He thought that Dajinxi would take the opportunity to ask for some transportation fees, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't even mention it.

Seeing Da Jinxi agreeing to his request so readily, Suldak also readily extended his hand and said to Da Jinxi: "Deal!"

“A pleasure to work with.”

Da Jinxi and Suldak high-fived each other, and the deal was finalized.

Surdak was also quite cheerful. He directly took the bag of gold coins that he had just obtained from selling two short-handled muskets at the Magic Trading Company in the morning from his waist, picked out fifteen coins from it, and handed the rest along with the money bag.

Arrived at Dajinxi.

The price of one gold coin for one kobold is absolutely acceptable. Surdak used two hundred kobold slaves to liberate the young labor force of Vol Village, which can also speed up the transformation project of Vol Village.

Dajinxi provided door-to-door delivery service to Suldak, so Surdak made a temporary decision, and the team followed Dajinxi's magic airship to return to the city of Halanza in advance.

Of course, in order to return to Hellanza City in advance, you have to ask for leave from Karl and Viscount Emmett.

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In the courtyard of the hotel.

"You want to leave early?"

Karl stopped practicing the wooden sword in his hand and asked the sparring knights to find someone else. He pointed to a row of wooden swords on a wooden stand in the yard and motioned for Surdak to compete with him.

Surdak stood next to the ogre Gulitem. He had no interest in this kind of wooden sword battle, so he shook his head and rejected Karl's invitation.

This kind of combat practice has many limitations. Although it can improve one's swordsmanship, it is very impractical on the battlefield.

"Well, it's your freedom!"

Looking at the ogre Gulitem in the inner courtyard, Karl felt that Surdak had considered the ogre's feelings before giving up taking the more comfortable magic airship and returning to Halanza City by land.

He said to Suldak: "In this season, there are barren mountains and ridges everywhere outside the city. In fact, there is no good scenery. It is far better to take a magic airship to appreciate the scenery of Bena Province."

"..."

Surdak thought to himself: 'I didn't say I wouldn't take the magic airship back to Halanza City...'

However, he did not explain any more. It would be the worst if these knights from the guard camp heard that a magic airship was about to leave for Helensa City and they all proposed to take this magic airship back to Halanza.

On one side are slave traders who wander on the fringes of imperial laws, and on the other are the knights of the guard camp who strictly enforce imperial laws to maintain order in the city...

A lot of unforeseen things are sure to happen on a ship.

Surdak finally held back and did not tell Karl how he would return to the city of Hiranza.

Karl wrote an application and submitted it directly to Viscount Emmett.

The Helensa Guard Battalion returned triumphantly, and Viscount Emmett signed the application without any additional restrictions.

Before the separation was imminent, Karl personally escorted the Surdak team and his team out of the hotel.

"Then let's meet in Halanza City..."

The two hugged each other.

A group of knights stood at the door of the hotel and said goodbye to Surdak.

Surdak boarded a magic caravan, and the ogre sat on the shelf behind the magic caravan. The whole magic caravan creaked under the weight of the ogre, and drove away from the road.
To be continued...