Moreover, the materials taken from the dragon's body are not available to anyone, even the strong who have just entered the legend must be cautious when facing the dragon, and always beware of the dragon's revenge. There are actually quite a few strong people on the continent who can slay dragons, but there are really few strong people who can slay dragons and have a fanaticism for collecting wealth.

The midsummer carnival of the deep blue is gradually becoming popular. Although it is not as large as the auction conventions of the three empires, it is superior in terms of the supply of top-quality materials, both in terms of quantity and quality.

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This year's Midsummer Carnival is at least three times larger than the previous one, and this estimate is only based on the direct invitation from Deep Blue, so the difficulty and complexity of the preparation has increased by more than ten times.

Both the main dark blue tower and the fringe areas had to be cleared out of a large area for the nobles who were already scheduled to attend. A large number of caravans, retinues, warriors, and mercenaries can live in villages and towns outside the dark blue. Nearly 10,000 slaves and thousands of craftsmen had been sent to build three new towns in the shortest possible time, and then rent them to visitors. After the midsummer revelry, the three towns can also be used to arrange new immigrants.

The deep blue became more and more prosperous, the role of the port gradually became prominent, the products and abundance of the northern continent became more and more known to the south, and a huge fleet of ships began to come to the floating ice bay one by one. It is not yet the peak season, and the port is already saturated, so the long-term black gold has begun to prepare for the expansion of the port, and with the help of this carnival, the nobles who come to the deep blue can clearly understand the value of the products of the northern continent. The top material is the brand, and the huge basic material is the profit, which is the torrent of rolling gold coins!

Once Deep Blue's strength exceeds a certain tipping point, the ambitious Grey Dwarves will have to consider expanding into the Northern Continent. Yes, the Northern Continent is the world of powerful and aggressive polar gray dwarves and orcs, but the polar gray dwarves are also famous for being able to be bought. Black Gold is ready to use its special identity to gradually erode the tribe of the Grey Dwarves, and the ultimate purchase target is the Stormhammer!

However, the blueprint is grandiose, and the most important task at the moment is to count the things thrown out by the legendary mage for auction, and the black gold must be sorted out as much as possible, the value is identified, the auction reserve price is verified, and then handed over to the painter to make an auction catalog. Time is running out.

In a room of more than 100 square meters, all kinds of strange and inexplicable things were piled up nearly ten meters high! Under all kinds of miscellaneous objects, there was actually a complete dragon skeleton buried! Any necromancer would go crazy when he saw it. But the gray dwarf was in a slightly different mood, and he himself seemed so short in front of this mass of treasures that had to be looked up. Sorting them out is no easy task.

The number of Black Gold assistants had always been the lowest among the Grand Magisters, so much so that this time, when he arranged all the work, he found that he didn't even have one more man left for himself. Black Gold tagged a star meteorite and began to think about adding more people for the first time, but at the thought of the gold that would be paid out of his own account for these people, the gray dwarf immediately shook his head firmly and threw himself into his work with greater enthusiasm.

The principle of the legendary mage's selection of auction items is actually very simple, she will throw out the things that are about to expire, the ones that are not clear about the use, the things that are not pleasing to the eye, and the things that really can't be put down. Over time, the Legendary Mage's collection has changed. The first is the absolute increase, and then the proportion of rare materials and materials taken from rare creatures is also increasing rapidly. Another project to improve is a variety of rare metal minerals that are not produced by Norland itself. And the currency common among the strong, all kinds of magic crystals, are also steadily increasing. Many of the original rarities became more and more difficult to get into the eyes of legendary mages as time passed, so that they had to be cleared out in the end. The warehouses where the legendary mages are stored are all personal half-planes, which are not very big, and there will always be a time when they are full.

For example, the keel, which was Su Helen's core treasure twenty years ago, has become a waste of valuable space twenty years later.

And from the production of the midsummer auction every four years, anyone who cares can roughly judge the strength and wealth of the legendary mage through guò reverse speculation. As the Midsummer Carnival Auction became more and more abundant and rare, Deep Blue also sent a clear signal to the mainland Haoqiang, that is, the power of the legendary mage was still in the channel of rapid ascent. So after each Midsummer Carnival, Deep Blue will usher in four years of rapid prosperity.

The Midsummer Carnival is a true event of the deep blue. This is a grand event to realize dreams, an opportunity to soar to the sky overnight, and a possibility of sudden outbreaks. Most of the nobles who come to Deep Blue can take the opportunity to expand their network, and ordinary people also have several times more opportunities to contact the powerful than usual, and it is possible to get opportunities beyond their dreams. The midsummer carnival is still the season of alcohol, and the time when many young girls are dragged to bed willingly or unwillingly.

In fact, three months ago, Deep Blue began to prepare for the midsummer carnival. It's just that this kind of festival was originally meaningless to Richard and Stevenson. Richard was moving at his suffocating pace as always, and Stevenson was painfully balancing himself and his opponent. And now, thanks to the strategy of gold coins, Stevenson has taken the Midsummer Carnival more seriously than ever. If you can find a few top-quality enchantment materials from the legendary mage's private lot, it will have a decisive impact on the victory of the match.

Several of the options offered by Santa Cruz, although not available due to Stevenson's current technical capabilities, are valuable and can be effectively implemented if specific rare materials can be found to replace the technical effects with their natural effects.

For example, if you get the Ice Dragon's Tooth, then the Snow Hare can greatly increase its Cold Resistance and add two new abilities: Frost Spear and Frost Stabb. The dragon skin gives the snow rabbit the effect of cold immunity, and the winter wolf's natural magic will be invalidated. The magic crystal of the abyssal scavenging behemoth will cause the snow rabbit to spew out a highly corrosive acid, not to mention the winter wolf, even if the polar mammoth is sprayed, there will be a few more deep pits on the body.

Another property of rare materials is that they can greatly reduce the difficulty of drawing magic pattern structures. For example, if the increased cold resistance of the dragon skin could have reached 100, then only 10 on the snow rabbit is enough to be immune to the cold attack of the winter wolf. The remaining 90 resistances are negligible. In other words, because of the strength of the material itself, just a small part of it can be used to meet the requirements of Santa Cruz, and it can also reduce the difficulty to the point where Stevenson can make a Cheng dù. And Stevenson has already heard from Black Gold that a considerable part of the private inventory sold by the legendary mage this year is related to dragons.

This is actually a tricky and extremely wasteful practice, but since the Solam family has invested tens of millions of gold coins in order to train a constructor, they don't care about adding another two or three million investments. Otherwise, the costs already invested will be meaningless. The Grey Dwarf saw this, and instigated the legendary mage to make the decision to use the competition to re-select the Constructor's disciples in half a year. In order to get this spot, the Solam family will definitely pour gold coins into the deep blue.

The situation then turned out as the gray dwarves had predicted.

So at an internal meeting, the Grey Dwarves triumphantly introduced the results achieved so far, and invented a term called sunk cost for the tens of millions of gold coins that the Solam family had invested in the early stage. For to the Grey Dwarf, this money is like a heavy ship sinking in an ice bay, its sinking will wipe out all the investment, but if you want to rescue it, it will drag more ships to the bottom of the sea. Sunk costs are the reason why many people go further and further down the wrong path.

The Grand Magus were speechless and shocked, they didn't expect Black Gold to be able to comprehend such a truth from the gold coins and intrigues of the worldly philistine. They can't help but change their attitude towards black gold. Although they have worked together for ten years, the deep-seated prejudice against the polar gray dwarves cannot be diluted in ten years. Although Deep Blue has been prospering in an accelerated manner since Helen Su appointed Black Gold as the treasurer, everyone would rather think that it is a testimony to the growth of the legendary mage's power, and has nothing to do with the gray dwarves.

And over the past decade, the Grey Dwarves have been working to reinvent the idea that the treasurer is not just a bookkeeper.

The upper class has the upper level of politics, the middle level has the pressure of the middle level, and the people at the lower level actually just need to finish what is asked of them, and they don't even need to do it too well. If this requirement is not met, then there are only two ways out, one is to degenerate to the lowest level of the social structure, and the other is to simply break the rules, subvert the class, overthrow the original upper class in a violent way, and then degenerate again to the bottom of the society after the new upper class gains power.

This is the law, Deep Blue is like this, Holy Alliance is like this, and Norland Continent is like this.

In a certain way, although he has obtained the admission qualifications, Richard, who has to rely on the joy of the legendary mage to obtain learning resources in the early stage, is more like a lower level, while Stevenson, who has the continuous support of his family, is in a middle level at the moment. So when the two classes meet by chance on the eve of a midsummer revelry, of course, it will not be pleasant.