Chapter 20: Market
Ash entirely agrees with Robin.
So, he did not tell him about the mana-tree that will grow in the future because he thinks these things will be known later. Telling this does not make any difference here. But telling now can create uncertainty. Who knows what kind of spells people have in them in this world.
If someone kidnaps or captures any of his people and they can read or see their memory, they will really risk everything to get the mana-tree or sell this information to another city owner. That certainly creates unnecessary enemies for him because of his low-level mistake.
After a few seconds, Ash tries to see the mana-tree status.
A window pops up in front of him.
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Name: Mana tree (specialty)
Status: Occupied
Ability: Able to produce mana with different levels of trees
Level: 0 (growable)
Production: Mist mana level 0 * 3 per day
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After seeing the status of the mana-tree, there is a small smile on the face of Ash but very hard to notice by others.
Then he tries to see the status of Evan because he gave some mana cores for refining.
A new window pops up in front of him.
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Name: Evan (altar subject)
Age: 18
Status: Healthy
Abilities: None
Level: 0 (60/100 mana mist level 0)
Weapon: Low grade axe, low grade shield
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After seeing this, Ash was satisfied with Evan's growth.
Later, after a few talks with Ash and Robin, Ash said to Evan, "You should meet with Ram in the altar room and get some time for refining of mana-mist for your level growth, and I will try to find some pill for your breakthrough in your level."
Evan said, "Thank you, my lord."
Ash nodded with Evan and he said, "Best of luck for your breakthrough."
Evan said with smile on his face, "Thank you, my lord."
After that, Evan left to meet with Ram and talk about getting the altar for mana-mist refining. Ram nodded with him and he said, "I will provide an altar for your breakthrough and refining of mana-mist tomorrow because I need that much time to heal my serious injury. Otherwise, it will create problems tomorrow with fighting with monsters. So, I hope you can understand this."
And Evan said, "Okay, but remember what you told me today."
Ram said with smile, "Of course."
15 min later,
Evan meets with Ash and told him about Ram, and Ash nodded and did not say anything to Evan. After, Ash said to Evan, "You refine mana-mist from the mana-tree in the garden."
And,
Ash and Robin are going to the market building, and Ash asked him about the market, and Robin tells him some public knowledge about the market because sensitive news about the market-building he also doesn't know, so how can he tell this knowledge to Ash. And Ash also knows about this, therefore he did not ask secret knowledge about the market.
Ash said "Status window" in his mind.
And a new window opened in front of him.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and buildings becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (Woods*1000, Stone * 250, 50 mana core (level 0))
Production: Mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: Very small village
Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trades per day)
Blueprint: Low grade house (Stones * 100, Woods * 25)
Warehouse: Wood*39, Mana core level 0 *33, Mana core level 1 *0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produces level 0 mana * 3 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (700/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
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After that,
A few minutes later, he enters the market building.
A window pops up in front of him.
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Would you enter the market building?
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Ash said "Yes"
Again, a new window pops up in front of him.
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Would you like to allow your subject to enter the market-building?
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Ash said "Yes"
Then again, a new pop-up comes in front of him.
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List the names of subjects you want to allow in the market-building.
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Ash said "Allow all people in the market building." Ash takes this decision with serious consideration. He and Robin talked about the market-building in his former level-5 city where important people are allowed to trade in the market-building as a reward by the city owner. And Robin suggested him to follow this type of incentive model in the market-building.
But he did not like that suggestion because this type of model does not help his city become a behemoth city in this world. He feels a free trade model with five percent tax for sales (export tax) in the market-building and 10% tax for buying (import) from the market-building, this method will raise innovation and research in the city and fill his city's treasury more compared to a restricted mode of using a market-building by the people of the city. And this method can attract more people, and his new territory would become somewhat famous in the area.
After a few seconds, a new pop-up comes in front of him.
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Would you like to put some taxes in the market building?
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Ash said "Yes"
A new pop-up...
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Tell, how you want to tax people?
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Ash said "Put 5% tax on items that sell from the market-building and 10% tax on buying from here."
A new pop-up window comes in front of him.
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Do you want to trade using the text feature of the market-building?
Or 2) Trade with both parties' physical presence (extra mana charge because physical presence costs mana from the market-building and for recovering mana is necessary)
Or 3) Always ask people which feature they want to select.
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Ash said "Select option 3."
A new pop-up in front of him.
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Welcome to the market, would you like to use text or physical features for trade?
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Ash said "Go with text feature."
After that, Ash sees a new pop-up in front of him, where the main page is written. And up on the screen there is a search where you can search for any treasure and there is the name of the seller and city name and there is also an anonymous seller that is selling some higher-level practices and pills. And with the use of some money from the market-building, you can verify if their product is genuine or fake by the market, or if what they say about the product is true or false. And you can also identify higher level treasure that you do not know because of your level by paying some money to the market. The higher the level of the treasure you want to identify, the higher the price you need to pay the market-building.
It means if you get higher-level treasure or relic from anywhere, you can identify it with the help of the market, and you can sell it using anonymous identity. If you find the treasure useful, you can keep it and you can also use it because description and manual on how to use this treasure's knowledge also comes from the market-building when we buy the identify service of the market-building.
A few minutes later, Ash started to search for a treasure for Evan's breakthrough material from level 0 to level 1.
After 15 minutes of search, Ash finds the suitable pill for Evan.
Ash tries to see the status of the pill.
A few seconds later, a window pops up in front of him.
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Name: Red pill (consumable resource)
Status: Good (pill)
Ability: 99% breakthrough chance from level 0 to level 1
Level: 1
Description: Made by level 2 alchemist for breakthrough from level 0 to level 1 when he was teaching his student about making pills.
Price: 50* level 0 mana-core/mist
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After seeing the price, Ash said in his mind "Status window."
A window pops up in front of him.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and buildings becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (Woods*1000, Stone * 250, 50 mana core (level 0))
Production: Mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: Very small village
Tax (market): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark*1(active), Market (5 free trades per day)
Blueprint: Low grade house (Stones * 100, Woods * 25)
Warehouse: Wood*39, Mana core level 0 *33, Mana core level 1* 0, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1* 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produces level 0 mana * 3 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 mined /1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (700/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (2000/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
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