Chapter 447 104. Gem City under construction
At dawn, a piece of sail appeared on the sea level outside Gem Bay.
Annan overlooks the Gem City that is beginning to take shape, as well as the long wall being built in the north.
The New Initial docked at the simple temporary port of Gem City. As soon as Annan disembarked, the children on the port presented flowers one after another - Cathy and Big Jon were among them.
"Whose idea was this?" Annan was forced to hold several bouquets of flowers.
"Sister Layla."
Cathy, who raised her head, could only see a pile of flowers.
If it were anyone else, Annan would have complained, but Leila... Annan was very pleased. The second sister finally had something to do other than fishing.
“Where did these flowers come from?”
“We picked them from the Flower Room!” Little Jon said as he jumped.
The flower room is the Gem City Garden designed by Ely Gravel - it is difficult to say that it does not imitate the palace gardens of Montreal's golden family.
He remembered that old Zoron was the head gardener of the flower room? Old Zoron's lame leg was probably going to be angry because so many flowers were picked...
Handing the flowers to the soldiers next to him, Annan asked the children to play on the beach. He came out of the port alone and walked along the pavement. Walking on a good road to the City Lord's Mansion.
The buildings currently completed in Gem City are mainly functional, such as libraries, taverns and shops.
These buildings have been designed by Eli Gravel for several months. They have the lightness of elves and the beauty of humans. The overlapping roofs retain the northern style - living in a city composed of such houses is a joy. Beautiful things.
But as Annan approached the City Lord's Mansion, his steps became heavier and heavier...
The City Lord's Mansion is a different style. The dark masonry has a knightly thickness, giving the building a northern style.
Annan's heaviness is entirely because the City Lord's Mansion represents those heavy government affairs - even though he has never dealt with it.
At this time, Annan smelled a putrid smell coming.
Annan was still wondering about the source of the rancid smell, and Ingrid's figure appeared at the window: "Your second sister asked for a pond."
"The smell comes from the pond? Why does the pond stink?"
"Miss Leila put all the sea fish she caught into the freshwater pond."
"I mean...why? Not cleaned up?”
“You won’t know if it is cleaned up.”
Annan has no evidence, but he guesses that it was Ingrid who went out to play in revenge.
"I took back the legacy of the old violet land." And Annan was ready to prove that he was not playing around.
Ingrid kindly asked the soldiers to throw out the dead fish and jellyfish in the pond, and followed Annan to the warehouse farthest from the Crystal Nest in the east of Gem City.
A smaller treasure mountain appeared in the empty warehouse.
"Don't let Ilimoyas see..."
"When will you go out again?" A smile appeared on Ingrid's face, and she directed the knight to send the gold coins. Treasury, ore sent to the blacksmith shop.
"I'm not going anywhere for the time being...except for Syltovis."
Then Annan came to the crystal lair again and visited Ilimoyasi who was lying on a shallow layer of gold coins.
He took out all the gem crystals he got from the underground hall, as well as the magnificent black gem. "Don't let Ingrid see..."
After coming out of the crystal lair, Annan returned to the city lord's palace and symbolically turned over the financial balance placed on Ingrid's table.
There are dozens of expenses, but only two incomes: Fast Pants and Magic Image.
Needless to say, magical images, at least in the southwest of the Tatooine Empire, Annan's identity can ensure that the yellow elf gets into his wallet. As for other regions and other countries... a symbolic gift of a gold coin is considered a merchant's mercy.
Fast pants and Fast shirts were very popular in the port. Workers and sailors loved the clothes that could not be worn out. The most important thing was that their price was only that of linen clothes. One half.
The ticket price for "The Fall of the Mage Tower" is 20 silver coins a piece, but Annan's name has already spread in the port. But starting from today, trade with Count Ulmit will become the main income.
About 1% of total revenue.
Magic Image and Fast Pants accounted for 98.9% and 0.1% respectively.
"Do you need me to make room for you?" Ingrid appeared outside the door.
"Don't!"
Annan dropped the financial revenue and expenditure and quickly picked it up: "I mean...um..."
Can't think of a suitable excuse? Annan moved out little by little.
For the sake of getting back 100,000 gold coins, Ingrid stopped teasing her city lord.
Before sneaking out of the city lord's palace and letting Dean Blehim send him back to Syltovis, Annan came to the golden beach that made him feel relaxed and happy.
Different from the brown beaches of Sltovis and the garbage beaches covered with broken shells, the Gem Bay, which is not polluted by human settlements, presents natural light-colored fine sand, sky-blue bay shoals, and seagulls in the The sky is chirping and circling, creating a different scenery from the ice and snow in the north.
The fourth magical image is the best promotion for Gem Bay. It's better to trick them into the theater than trick them into the Gem City - targeting the rich.
Wow----
The sea breeze carried the sounds of waves and children playing in the distance. Annan, who was hesitating whether to wade into the sea, suddenly saw Broken Tooth stepping out of the sea step by step.
"What are you doing?"
The broken teeth with wet cilia attached to the body are like monsters disguised as humans: "Ingrid thought, form a secret guard, investigate and lurk, they I wouldn’t have thought that a rat-man could swim, what a thing.”
The body structure of rat-men makes it difficult for them to hold their breath, and the cilia will also hinder them from floating... From this aspect, broken teeth can be seen. Truly gifted.
Broken Tooth was wiping himself, and the children in the distance came over, screaming and running away.
"Whoa, the Ratmen are coming!"
Only Cathy and Big Jon are still there.
“Leave Annanan!”
Little Jon rushed towards Broken Tooth, but Broken Tooth didn’t give in because he was a child, and stretched out his feet to stumble and lift Little Jon up.
The girl's charge suddenly stopped, she fell in front of Annan, and then raised her little face covered with gravel.
Annan reluctantly picked her up and said to Cathy and Big Jon who were picking up stones behind her: "Broken Tooth is one of our own."
"I went to practice language." Broken Tooth said.
Annan has long wanted to say: "Who taught you to talk like this?"
"Old orc, it said, this is what rat people say."
Annan No problem, let Broken Tooth leave, wiped the gravel off Little Jon's face, and let them continue playing. They walked towards Gem City and met Mr. Victor who was sunbathing on the gravel beach.
He saw the scene just now.
"I am going to build an orphanage for orphans." Annan came to Mr. Victor.
“Aren’t residents allowed to adopt?”
“There are too many children, and we don’t have that many residents.”
Beyond the grand blueprint of Gem City is The total number of residents is less than 2,000. There are only about twenty couples among them. Unless they are willing to raise ten orphans, they cannot digest these children.
After telling Ingrid about the orphanage and Eli Rubble about the design of the orphanage, Annan prepared to set off for Syltovis.
It's time for "Annan Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to be released.
(End of this chapter)