Whoosh!
Then tent curtain was forced open, then a figured rushed in from outside. The elder could not help but frown, he knew for sure that it was Beta, no one but Beta would dare break into his tent like this. He put down the pen in his hand and looked up at Beta.
The elder could not help but pause for a mont because in the hands of Beta was a bag of grain. Beta looked at him excitedly, the elder knitted his brows, “What is it Beta, did sothing happen?
Beta took a deep breath, then he put the grain bag down. And with a face full of excitent he looked at the elder and then he slowly opened the bag of grain, the contents of the bag fell towards the ground.
The elder watched the actions of Beta, then shifted his gaze towards the grain on the ground. These grains were the best grain he has ever seen in his life. He couldn’t sit still, he stood up, walked towards the Bamboo grain, grabbed so with his hands and lightly chewed on them with his mouth.
Good rice! The elder looked up at Beta and said, “Is this Zhao Hai’s grain?”
Beta nodded, the elder then said, “All bags are the sa?” Beta nodded again. The elder imdiately told Beta, “Go ask Zhao Hai to co over.” Beta did not say anything, he imdiately went outside in haste.
The elder slowly sat down, but his eyes never left the bamboo rice on the ground, such good rice, he has never seen them before in his life. If Zhao Hai supplies this rice, not to ntion half price, even if he doubles the price the elder would still be willing to trade.
Before long, the sound of footsteps can be heard outside the tent, after which Beta and Zhao Hai walked in. This ti the elder acted very polite. He got up and saluted to Zhao Hai, “Welco Mister Zhao, please take a sit.” Zhao Hai didn’t dare to act big, he returned the elder’s salute, he then went towards the elder’s right side and sat down.
This is the way humans show respect, Zhao Hai sitting on the elder’s right side shows an act of modesty. This gave the elder a very good impression. After Zhao Hai sat down, the elder looked at Zhao Hai, “For Mister Zhao to bring us such high quality grain, I am very deeply grateful for that.”
Zhao Hai quickly responded. “Elder is too polite, to get into the elder’s graces, this Zhao Hai is honored.”
The elder actually didn’t care about Zhao Hai’s modesty, he looked at Zhao Hai and asked, “Mister has such good quality grain, but why sell it to us at such a low price? I ask Mister Zhao to clear my doubts about this.”
Zhao Hai showed a faint smile as he replied, “There is nothing to complex about it, there are actually only two reasons. First, because these grains are my territories’ produce, therefore the price is very low. Second, is because I have just arrived at the prairie, and seeing the the prairie operates on an open market, the prices would be naturally low, of course, this does not an that my price would increase later, be assured elder, my food price wouldn’t change.”
The elder looked at Zhao Hai and nodded. Zhao Hai’s response was justified. The elder continued towards Zhao Hai, “How much grain could Mr. Zhao supply this year?”
Zhao Hai frowned and said, “Only 15 million pounds, my ability to transport is currently very limited, moreover I can only trade this month, after this month winter would arrive. At which point I would probably return to my territory, thus I cannot transport food here.”
The elder gave an understanding nod, humans after all would need to return to their hos. It would be impossible for them to wade the winter with the beastn race, they are not used to that kind of life, but 15 million jin of grain wouldn’t be too less upon further calculation.
Zhao Hai looked at the elder and smiled, “Elder, I don’t know if I would be fortunate enough to et with West Wonder King? In order to discuss the possibility of cooperation next year?”
The elder paused for a mont, then he replied, “I don’t have authority for this, I will report your inquiry to the prince, tomorrow I shall give you a reply.”
Zhao Hai nodded, he looked at the elder and said, “There is another thing that I want to talk with elder, now that my n has delivered the grain, they need to leave imdiately, can you look to see if I can get the paynt for this batch of grain? To save trouble of bringing them myself.”
The elder paused, then he nodded and said, “Not a problem, but these things needs to be readied, you’ll have to wait for a day. What paynt does mister want? Do you want all of them to be argali?”
Zhao Hai shook his head, “No, actually, I was going to talk to the elder about this matter. We have a few elders in the family, they are potion masters as well as alchemists. You should know, they like to collect special ingredients. Therefore, if possible, I’d want so special magic beasts and magic plants, if you were to offer your tribe’s unique magic beast that would be better. Of course, we still would accept Argali as well as wool products as paynt, I ask the elder to look into these matters.”
The elder didn’t think that Zhao Hai would have a special request. He looked at Zhao Hai and said, “Mister’s aning is, if we were to exchange the grains with so fighting bulls of our clan, then you’d offer a high price? What about magic beasts?” [TN: not the Fighting Bull clansn but instead their ‘cousin’ Fighting Bull beast]
Zhao Hai hastily replied, “Be assured elder, I’d offer the sa high price for magic beasts, but the quantities of these beasts couldn’t be many. After all, I fear that I couldn’t raise them properly.”
The elder agreed to Zhao Hai’s request, he nodded his head and said, “Well, I can give you ten Fighting Bulls, as well as ten wild blood cows. I hope mister can exchange each cow for 10 thousand jin of grain. Then we’ll use Argali and wool blankets for the rest, what do you think?”
Zhao Hai thinks for a mont then replied, “There’s no problem, ten fighting bulls plus ten wild blood cows account for two hundred thousand jin of grain, that leaves 2,800,000 jin of grain. If 2,800,000 jin were to be traded with argali, it would be 1,400 heads. So I’d like 1000 heads, and the for the rest I’d like 600 blankets. If your tribe has any magic plants, this number can be lowered, what do you think?”
The elder nodded, “Fair enough, I agree. Tomorrow, Mr. Zhao can get the things that you requested. However, currently we don’t have the ti to collect more magic beasts as well as plants for mister. The ti is too short, moreover, during winter plants would wither, we can only wait for next year.”
Zhao Hai faintly smiles, “That’s fine, the elder can send so people to collect during these days. In a few days my second batch of grain will arrive, then we could trade, withered plants are okay, as long as it hasn’t withered for more than one month.”
The elder nodded, “Very well, we’ll try our best. Mister can return, if West Wonder King agrees to et mister tomorrow, I’ll imdiately inform you.” Zhao Hai expressed his gratitude, then turned to leave.
Looking at Zhao Hai going out, Beta couldn’t help but say to the elder, “Elder, why did you agree to trade him our fighting bulls? What if he studies them what do we do?”
The elder showed a faint smile, “Nothing, rest assured, humans have spent all these years researching about our soul beasts without much result. And do you think that if we don’t give them so beasts, they wouldn’t have any way to procure them elsewhere? If they really are to be greedy, then why not trade our soul beasts to bring more food for ourselves?”
Beta nodded, not saying anything, the elder turned to Beta, “You go take so people from the tribe and go search for so strange plants. If anyone were to spot so magic beasts, make sure to bring them alive.” Beta complied, then turned to leave.
Zhao Hai went to his tent while assessing his conversation with the elder. But fortunately, there are no flaws in his part, he acted like any common rchant.
He just deliberately asked the elder for their magic beasts because he is very clear that he can’t be too low-key. Human rchants tend to act high-profile towards the beastn, so he should be the sa from ti to ti. The opposite would cause other people to have suspicions. After all, spies would tend to be low-key, trying not to stir up trouble as much as possible, on the contrary, if you were to act high-profile, no one would suspect you.
Zhao Hai also would not be too high-profile, but he also couldn’t be a pushover. So he asked the elder for the tribe’s companion soul beast as well as so special magic plants , which could be be interpreted as a lofty request. At the sa ti, he also disclosed to the elder that he couldn’t get these things at another place.
Zhao Hai knows very clear, that West Wonder King isn’t most afraid of Wales. In his opinion, Herculean Bull tribe was already ruined. Wales is a prince of a declining tribe, they wouldn’t even dare return to the Cow-headed beastman domain. West Wonder King fears the grudge held by the Fighting Bull chieftain.
And Zhao Hai, by requesting for fighting bulls and wild blood cows, gave clues to the elder that he is not related to the chieftain of the Fighting Bull Tribe.
Strictly speaking, West Wonder King’s tribe is a branch family of the Fighting Bull tribe so they also use the sa bulls as the main tribe. Their beasts, the fighting bulls, have bodies filled with short black hairs, a very violent ox-headed bull. The bull’s height is nearly three ters, they cannot use magic but they have great strength, ranked in the top ten among the cow-headed domain. Moreover, they also have a special ability, Rage!
Rage can be considered as a very strange ability, because of their fury, their strength and defensive ability would greatly explode. No matter what level the opposing beast is, they would still dare to charge. This point is what excels them compare to other magic beasts.
Ranks of magic beasts are very strict, like the fighting bulls which can be considered as sixth rank magic beasts. Ordinary sixth rank beasts, when they et eighth ranked beasts, would be immobilized, thus letting the eight rank easily slaughter them. But the fighting bulls are different, they are not afraid, whether it be eight rank or ninth rank beasts, as long as they are in a state of rage, they’d dare to make the first move and charge.
The wild blood cows, are a dark-type magic beast. They place only at the fifth rank, only five levels. They can perform simple blood magic, but this beast actually is most suited for the fighting bull clan.
The na wild blood actually doesn’t conform to the cow’s nature because of its two blood magics, one is Quick Recovery and the other is Gloom.
These two magic belongs to Support-type magic, Quick Recovery can be cast on sobody to quicken their wound healing my many folds, so being dozens of tis faster. Gloom is a ntal type black magic, once used, the target would beco absolutely rational, like a puppet, and seemingly forgetting what anger is.
These two magics fit the Fighting Bulls perfectly. Regarding the Fighting Bulls’ temper, with which single word can cause a fight, and their mounts would be similar, once the rage skill is used, it would be in a state of extre anger, no matter if ally or foe, it would only know to charge, which in a battlefield is very fearful.
But the two skills of the wild blood cow happens to suppress this enraged state. So the Fighting Bulls absorb the wild blood cow’s soul and train in their skills. After practicing in these skills their beastly souls would obtain two new abilities, which is to quickly recover wounds as well as make them retain a calm condition, not only them, but also to their mounts.
Their na of wild blood cows beca so because they are completely blood red. Normally with black and white eyes, their eye color would turn red once in battle, like a violent man when he is angry, therefore it was given its na of wild blood.
Before, the Fighting Bull tribe is only an ordinary tribe within the cow-headed race. Their temperant is too bad along with their very disobedient mounts, they couldn’t control their temper which wouldn’t differentiate between friend or foe. Because of these qualities, they were not very well-liked among the cow-headed race.
Afterwards, after generations of effort, they finally were able to find soul beasts most suitable for them, which multiplied their battle effectiveness my many folds. Now they are famous within the cow-headed race as strong warriors.
The human race, all these years, has had researched beastn soul beasts as well as beast relatives. They want to discover a way to crack this thod that gave beastn imnse strength. But till now they still haven’t succeeded. The Beastn are still using soul beasts but humans are still using battle qi.
Humans have always coveted this thod of obtaining strength from the beastn for a long ti. If they were to discover how these beastn managed to have companion beasts, this would greatly increase the might of their cavalry. If they were to know how to use soul beasts, then their battle power would also increase greatly. But unfortunately, just as the beastn said, these two abilities were given to them by the Beast God. With the exception of the beastn, no other race could use these abilities.
Zhao Hai also knows that, before, so human rchants would purchase soul beasts as well as unique beasts from the beastn and then bring them back to Human territory to do research on. But unfortunately, most of these beasts would die of illness. Even if its alive, the humans still couldn’t find anything in their research.
Because of this point did Zhao Hai propose to the elder his purchase of their fighting bulls and wild blood cows. This is because he knows the elder will sell, in addition it would eliminate so of the elder’s wariness of him.
As he returned to his tent, Zhao Hai imdiately turned on the monitor. The words Beta and the elder has said right after he left gave him relief. He has now found out that the elder’s wariness of him has basically disappeared.
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