The Lord of Ashes

Cook is a very good knight.

In other words, having been walking in a gray area all year round, Cook also knows how to attract repeat customers.

A few or ten magic coins are not a small number. If this money had just been given to the sea lizards, this conflict would probably not have broken out.

It can also be seen from here that Cook is also an impulsive and bloody first-class knight who also knows right from wrong.

This kind of knight Thain is still happy to make friends and deal with them.

After Thain returned to the ship and rested for almost an hour, Cook set sail again.

Their alchemy-powered ship has passed through the eye of the most dangerous giant storm.

It's the end of the storm season now, and there won't be any big storms in the future.

Except for bandits like the Sea Lizard clan, who may need to pay attention, there is basically no trouble in other aspects.

…

The knights and magicians who boarded Cook's broken ship were not all going to Munich like Thain.

Almost two days after the Battle of the Sea Lizard, the first passengers began to disembark.

The place where he disembarked was a small island in the middle of the ocean.

This island is very small, and on the surface, it doesn't seem to have anything special. I don't know why this person chose to come here.

However, according to Cook's whispered conversation with him, Thain vaguely heard that the two agreed that Cook would need to return here to take him back to Stormwind City in a few months.

This passenger is a male quasi-magician.

Thain guessed that he was going to advance to the next level here? Or is there any other research project?

As for what the truth is, no one will investigate.

Since the male would-be magician disembarked, for a period of time, almost every few days, corresponding passengers would disembark.

These passengers disembarked at various locations, some disembarked at the trench, and others disembarked on an island.

Among them, Thane noticed that there seemed to be many sea tribes living in the place where two senior apprentices disembarked.

Not only Thain is doing private transactions with the Sea Tribe, but other people are also doing it.

Cook's shipping fee is not low. Whether the two senior apprentices can make back their capital from smuggling, or even make a profit, depends on their own abilities. It can also be seen from here that knights and magicians walking in the gray area, regardless of their strength, at least have good character and will.

Thain disembarked late, and the place where he disembarked was also the destination of most of the passengers on Cook's black ship.

When Thain took Yuri off the boat, not only the brown-robed magician, who was also a first-level strength, also got off the boat, but also five other people.

At this time, there were only two passengers left on Cook's boat.

Munich is not their final destination. They will continue sailing southwest for about a week.

"When will you come back?" Thain asked Cook.

Because his senses about Cook were pretty good, Thain also tended to continue riding on Cook's black ship when leaving the black market.

"I won't be back until about a month later, and I have some things to do." Cook scratched his hair and said.

While talking to Thain, Cook kept glancing towards Yuli behind him.

During the battle with the sea lizards, Cook had already seen Yuri's strength.

Cook was envious from the bottom of his heart that Thain had such a beautiful and powerful soul slave.

But envy is envy. With Cook's net worth, he definitely cannot afford to buy such a top-notch slave who is at the peak of the first level and comparable to the second level of combat power.

In addition, Yuli's appearance, gender and degree of surrender will increase her net worth.

Generally speaking, the price of this kind of top-quality soul slave will not be less than 3,000 magic coins.

"I'm quite curious, what's at the bottom of the boat?" Thain asked Cook with interest.

A look of embarrassment appeared on Cook's face, but he did not hide it from Thain, because Thain was about to disembark, and with Thain's soul slave strength and net worth, he probably didn't like Cook.

A small red and pink fish appeared in Cook's hand.

"This is the thing. We transported 2,700 snails this time, but in the previous battle, we lost 500," Cook said.

The small fish in front of him was only the size of a palm, and Thain didn't understand it.

I just vaguely felt that the little fish in front of me had an extremely mild aura of water elemental power.

In fact, what Thain doesn't know is that these snails are special marine fish cultivated by specific methods. They are top-notch ingredients among marine tribes that only high-level marine tribes can enjoy.

In the past, the trading of snails was limited to the major holy towers, the Knights Hall and the Neptune Palace.

Except for the magicians of the Holy Tower who can use special means to cultivate and produce snails in batches, the snails naturally bred in the ocean alone are simply not enough for the high-level marine people in the ocean to consume.

But now, with the advancement of civilization and the deepening of the Sea Tribe's trade, some large chambers of commerce and organizations are gradually getting involved in the transactions.

Cook's approach, to put it bluntly, is to compete for business with the Holy Tower, the Knights Hall, and those large chambers of commerce.

And Cook's trading partner is also very interesting. He did not choose a powerful high-level sea clan as a partner, but chose a certain middle-level sea clan.

The appeal of snails to marine populations is common. This small fish contains trace elements that are needed for the growth of most marine populations.

But in the past, this rare fish was monopolized by the high-level sea tribes at the top of the pyramid.

What Cook did was to open up trade routes among the middle-class sea tribes with good strength.

Thain even further speculated that the reason why the sea lizard clan launched an attack on the black ship might be related to the small fish smuggled by Cook.

However, this kind of fish is only useful to the sea tribe after all, and the unit price of snailfish is not high. If Thain wants to study it, he can go to the major holy towers to buy it.

After nodding and saying goodbye to Cook, Thain and Yuri stepped into the black market behind them.

…

The city of Munich was called twenty years ago, but now this place is called Wave City.

This is a prosperous city located on a larger island. If Thane didn't know about it in advance, he might not be able to connect him to the black market.

And Wave City is indeed not a pure black market.

Only when the storm season comes, this is a black market and a gray area.

When the storm season ends and the ocean ships or floating ships from the Holy Tower and various large business groups arrive, this place turns into a wave city shining in the sun.

It couldn't be more white. It is a city protected by the rules of the Holy Tower and the Knights' Hall.

This natural transition from gray to white marks the island city. There must be a sufficient protective umbrella.

Sure enough, after landing on the island, Thain quickly discovered that this place was different from other cities he had passed through before.