Chapter 666 (2/2)

“It’s impossible to slay a dragon, and I’ve never heard of huge dragons within the vicinity of this place,” Kabbalah said with a smile to give the warrior some reassurance. But his eyes seemed to reflect worry, “But… if it were creatures like ogres or a group of trolls, the situation would already be very bad.”

He muttered something to himself, then sent the scared warrior out to appease the poor. Kneeling down before the altar, he started to pray.

Sui Xiong, unquestionably, received his prayers right away. When he finished listening to the introduction of matter, he frowned and cast his sights over to Dahl City.

At one look, he immediately saw an evil aura like black smoke rising from the lord’s manor.

“The temple is small, yet it carries such a strong, evil aura. The water is shallow, yet it accommodates so many despicable creatures!” he snorted. He paid no heed to the lord and his people; instead, he headed out to the wilderness surrounding Dahl City.

In the sharp eyes of the gods, all kinds of living creatures found in the wilderness were clear in sight. Be it the wild beasts, or the demons—none would be able to escape Sui Xiong’s observing eyes. Carefully, he scanned the wilderness to roughly learn more about which demon communities around this area were relatively more dangerous. After sorting out this information, he came up with a map. Together with a soft, white light, he dropped the map right before Bishop Kabbalah.

Kabbalah hurriedly picked up the map and skimmed through it. Then he started to smile.

With this map, he had enough.

After delivering this map to them, Sui Xiong did not leave right away. Instead, he continued to stay up in the skies above Dahl City to keep watch.

This city had been around for hundreds of years. This territory that was located by the edge of the Great Marsh was created only after generations of families had kept it in an operational state. It was not wealthy, nor were its lands fertile. It also did not manufacture any special products. But Baron Dahl was quite rich, and his wealth far exceeded the level at which this territorial land could provide.

If nothing else, just the porcelain ware in his restaurants and those spices used in the kitchens made it easy to know how rich he was.

In this world, fine porcelain and superior-grade spices were extremely precious. The former needed materials of superb quality and outstanding craftsmen, while the latter required suitable climate and soil. Both were hard to come by; they could only be found through sheer luck. After years of development, generally, for the former, only a few dwarves from the plains who believed in the God of Craftsmen were capable of producing such fine porcelain. The latter could mostly be produced in some temples that believed in Goddess Gaia, but the production level was pathetically low.

Sui Xiong was no engineer before he traversed the world, and he only had a bit of knowledge on agriculture. So even though he often saw the main characters making fritted glass or making gourmet powder in the time travel novels that he read, he was still at his wits end in the area of “production.” Just dealing with this steel-making blast furnace had taken him so many years in total. Eventually, he still had to hand over the information to Palin and company where the project was brought to completion.

This was why he had never thought of wanting to frit glass and porcelain. This was something he truly could not do.

As for spices, before traversing the world, he knew nothing about spices at all, much less trying to harvest them.

But… at present, in the low-grade spices market within the Main Plane, a substantial portion was under the control of Church of the Void Mask. They were mainly the products manufactured by several medicine fields, as well as by bay leaf planting on the borders of Garth City. As for the high-quality spices, only the deep-sea-produced ambergris was mostly under his control, and that would still depend on maintaining a good relationship with the Goddess of the Ocean.

Baron Dahl had a lot of spices in his possession, which not only included bay leaves of mid-range quality but also other expensive food flavors, like “fragrant pepper” and “clear Patchouli oil.” He owned even more varieties when it came to things like incense. To support such extravagant spending, even the merchants from the Commonwealth of Gold Coins would certainly not be able to afford this, much less a baron.

“Where exactly does the wealth of this lord come from?” Sui Xiong could not help wondering as he carefully observed the situation within the lord’s manor.