Broad World

Chapter 44: City of a Thousand Sails

After two days of sailor life, Henry and his party finally arrived in Luskan, the city of a thousand sails, with five ships. The two days made him suffer a lot. Every day, I use flying skills to help the sailors pull and furl the sails between the ships, lower the anchor and hang the side sails to change the wind direction of the mast, etc. Now that it was finally over, he stood on the boat and watched the fleet slowly sail towards the port. Captain Hawk is already a veritable admiral. He already owns five large ships, but what makes him regret is that there are only 21 sailors including the boss. He said to Henry standing at the bow: "We need a large number of sailors, otherwise it will be a big problem whether we can drive the ship back."

Henry gave a wry smile. "I completely agree with this. I will give you some gold coins to recruit some sailors later. But be careful of spies from various forces and pirate spies." Hawke smiled. "Don't worry, Mr. I have been traveling to Waterdeep City, Luskan and Baldur's Gate all year round. There are special channels here to hire some clean sailors. By the way, do you mind half-orcs and barbarians?" Henry He took out a money bag with about fifteen hundred gold coins and handed it to the captain. "As long as I observe discipline and pay attention to hygiene, I personally don't have any racial prejudice, even dark elves, beholders, and mind flayers are fine." Hawk laughed when he heard it. "My boss, I don't have such a great ability to get these monsters." After speaking, the two silently watched the approaching city.

There are more than 15,000 houses in Luskan City, and the city looks magnificent with its strong fortifications along the harbor. The city wall surrounds Luskan, and there are specially designed high and low watchtowers on it, and countless soldiers walk around on it. After a while, the Kung Fu port sent a small boat to pick them up. After learning that the group of people came to buy slaves, the port officials smiled happily. After paying the mooring fees for the five ships, all the ships docked. Due to the relatively small number of people on board, Captain Hawke ordered all sailors not to leave the ship, because there are still a large amount of spices, silk and a small amount of drugs seized from pirate ships on the Sword, and there are also a thousand sets of standard steel weapons and armor .

After getting off the ship, Hawke said to Henry: "My dear boss, I'm going to the Crooked Sword Tavern Hotel to hire some reliable sailors, and contact some channels to sell the drugs, spices and silks on the ship. Confirm the weapons And the armor to stay?" Henry looked at the surrounding environment. "Yes, we will have a large number of slaves to manage soon. These weapons and armor are just enough to equip an always good guard." The captain lit his pipe. "Okay then, you go to the city first and turn around to find me before nightfall. And be careful of thieves, prostitutes and beggars here, this city doesn't welcome outsiders." After finishing speaking, he walked towards the small path called Half Moon Street go.

After handing over all five ships to the boatswain and telling him not to let anyone aboard, Henry took Amy into this chaotic city. The streets of Luskan are lined with two- to three-story buildings closely connected together, most of which are crowded with people. There are countless sentries and watchtowers on the roof, and all kinds of dangerous and curious eyes shot at the two of them from these dark holes. Henry smiled and took Amy's hand and walked down the street. He saw many strange faces along the way. For example, the tauren with a big axe, the barbarians of the North with huge weapons, and a few half-orcs with green skin. "This is really a messy city!" He said emotionally to the girl beside him.

Suddenly a figure bumped from Amy's side and quickly wanted to get into the alley. Henry smiled and threw a freezing ray to make the thief fall to the ground. After walking over, he picked up the little guy who was less than one meter long. He took a closer look and found that it was a halfling. Grab Amy's stolen dimensional bag and throw it to the girl. "Be careful in this city. There may be more thieves here than there are merchants in Baldur's Gate." Amy lowered her head in shame and said thank you. After teaching his servant he turned to look at the halfling. "Alright little thief, since you've been caught, please introduce yourself. Otherwise, you should know the consequences of angering a mage." The halfling began to tremble with fright after hearing these words, he was too Know the consequences of angering a mage. The city is ruled by a well-known mage organization, the Arcane Brotherhood. He has personally seen the scene where angry members of the Brotherhood blow up a Thieves Guild with fireballs. The halfling said cautiously: "I'm sorry, Mr. Mage. My name is Jimmy, and I'm a thief under the command of Baram. Please don't kill me."

Henry touched his chin. "I don't need to kill you, but you have to contact Baram for me. Just say that there is a big client who wants to see him, and the specific business will be discussed after we meet." Jimmy heard that the mage in front of him did not intend to kill him. Immediately afterwards, his body stopped shaking, and he straightened his hair. "Dear Mr. Mage, I will take your words with you. But what the commander-in-chief handles is out of my control as a little thief." Henry nodded. "You just need to take my words with you, and you don't need to be responsible for the rest. If you have any news, come to the Curved Dagger Inn to find me at any time." After speaking, he put the halfling on the ground. The little man less than one meter bowed deeply to the two of them, then turned and ran away.

Seeing the fast halfling Henry smiled, he said to Amy: "See, this is the power of a spellcaster. You don't even need to use too many spells. Sometimes you just need to show your identity and use some wisdom. It can solve most problems." The girl lowered her head and pondered for a while. "I understand the master, and I will look at the problem from the perspective of a warlock in the future." He took Amy to look at the tower belonging to the Arcane Brotherhood from a distance, then visited the command area, and finally watched three sea bridges. Soon it was evening, and the two returned to the dock area. Walk into Half Moon Street, the last street of the pier, where homeless people and villains gather. Everyone stares at Henry and Amy maliciously. Henry gently raised his right index finger and said to the girl next to him, "Close your eyes." After speaking, a flash technique was activated, and a large number of malicious people around screamed and began to curse loudly and quickly fled here. Almost everyone knows that spellcasters are hard to mess with, whether they use divine spells or spells.

"We're here." Henry pointed to a small inn opposite, and a group of people at the door saw the mage who blinded their eyes just now, and quickly dispersed into the darkness, revealing the dilapidated signboard that read "Curved Short" sword. The corners of Amy's mouth turned up slightly when she saw the homeless man who had been staring at her obsessively just now, and now the girl finally realized that she was already a powerful warlock. The first thing you see when you walk into the hotel are women with heavy makeup and too much perfume. They are trying their best to find every man who can pay gold coins. A large number of sailors drank ale, cider, or expensive spirits here, and then hugged a woman and began to move. All kinds of sexual scenes made Amy unbearable.

Henry quickly found Captain Hawk who was talking to others in a quiet corner. He grabbed the girl's waist and hugged her in his arms so as to avoid all kinds of hands and feet stretching out to take advantage of her, and let go after he squeezed through the crowd. He said loudly to the table: "My dear captain, can't you find a better hotel. The environment here is really terrible." Hawke rushed to the person who was talking and said wait a moment He stood up and said to Henry: "Welcome my boss, you know that you can't hire sailors with a clean background elsewhere. And my previous shipping channels only show up here. Let me introduce you to each other." Said After that, he pulled Henry to the table. Then he said to the fat middle-aged man sitting on the chair: "Bruce, this is my new boss, Mr. Henry. He is not only a rich lord, but also a powerful mage. This boss is Bruce, my former boss." In and out channels."

The fat man stood up and offered a hand. "Hello, dear mage, I heard that you have a large amount of spices, silks and a small amount of drugs to sell?" Henry shook his fat palm. "I originally came here just to buy some slaves. You know that my territory is in need of a healthy labor force. But on the way there was a wave of pirates trying to rob my merchant ships. I taught them a lesson. I guess most pirates Now it's in the shark's belly. These things are the booty of the pirates, I don't think this will cause you any trouble?" Bruce shook his hand vigorously after sitting back on the chair. "No, of course not. This is Luskan! It doesn't matter whether you snatched it or got it by other means. About how many goods do you have?" Captain Hawke took over the topic at this time. "My dear friend Bruce, we have about 200 tons of various spices, 3,500 bolts of silk, and about 5 tons of drugs. Now you come to make a price."

Bruce lowered his head and began to calculate after a while he looked up. "I'll pay 100,000 gold coins for spices, 40,000 for silk, and 80,000 for drugs. But I can't pay so much cash at once and need to get some other goods to offset the account." Henry turned his head to look at his captain, and Hawke nodded slightly. "Okay, I agree with this price. But I only want healthy slaves for the goods to be offset." Henry said. Bruce laughed. "My dear friend, this is Luskan! There will never be a shortage of slaves, but we need to talk about the price first. The market price is eighty gold coins for a man aged sixteen to thirty-five, and for a woman aged sixteen to thirty. Fifty gold coins, those over 35 years old will be counted as seniors only need 35 gold coins, and children under 16 years old will only need 30 gold coins. I don't know if you are satisfied with this price. Henry nodded. "This price I am basically satisfied, so let's start mutual inspection and trading tomorrow. "Bruce said happily: "It's a pleasure talking to you about business, so we'll see you tomorrow." "After speaking, he turned around and left the hotel with the guards.

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