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This time, Max brought a total of 431 slaves.

According to Max, he brought 439 people before coming.

It seems that a few people have completely stayed on the road.

This is normal, on such a long journey, losing fewer than ten people is a very good outcome.

And this is because Max brought people aged 15 to 30.

Otherwise, the number fallen would be even greater.

Max is a businessman, not a philanthropist, so naturally, he takes in only those valuable enough to become slaves.

As for the others, he can't care about them.

Among these slaves, there are 180 men, and the rest are women.

This is not because women have stronger life force than men, but because many men have become soldiers or were taken in on the way to Oak City.

After all, every man is a piece of labor.

What Luo De finds a bit unfortunate is that there's hardly any craftsmen among them.

Only five men who have worked stone, and one carpenter's apprentice; not a single blacksmith.

Women, however, all know how to weave.

Besides that, Max also brought Luo De over 400 pounds of ragged cloth.

These scraps were not intended for profit by Max, just collected along the way as he sold other goods.

Max's main profits still lie in daily items like honey, spices, and fabrics.

The remaining grain on Max's cart was 1300 pounds, which Luo De bought all.

This is one of the main reasons Max is happy to come to Luo De's territory.

Because whatever goods he brings, Luo De can basically take them all, and in exchange for salt and paper, he can turn them into shiny gold coins back home.

This time Max stayed in Shuangye Town for only two days, because if it gets any colder, he might not be able to leave.

Luo De provided Max with 20,000 sheets of new paper.

This is the last of the stock, as winter lowers efficiency and the production will greatly decrease.

Besides that, there were 6,000 pounds of salt, and this time no furs at all.

Everything sellable has been taken away by the Dawn Trading Company led by Linda, and the rest Luo De must keep for winter supplies.

After all, the extra slaves can't keep working in thin clothes.

This time, Max finally didn't take extra gold coins because he brought so many slaves, and even took out 20 gold coins from Luo De's pocket.

The key is the high price of slaves; even at half price, Luo De still paid 100 gold coins, plus spices and other goods so Max didn't need to take out gold coins.

Of course, the Flame Gems weren't counted.

As materials for Luo De's own power enhancement, the Flame Gems are calculated separately from the territory's goods.

And as soon as Max left, Luo De eagerly absorbed the energy from the Flame Gems.

This feeling fascinated Luo De.

Although the system still prompts "a small amount of flame energy," Luo De's starting point was low, and this Flame Gem directly doubled the blazing energy within Luo De's body.

It's worth mentioning that Luo De's body can indeed automatically absorb flame energy floating in the air, just very, very slowly.

The energy Luo De lost from releasing the Flaming Arrow took a full week to replenish.

Sounds about the same as the timeframe for Avril to summon her clone.

This also makes Luo De curious how long it takes Linda to recover after casting her spell.

And this time, after absorbing the energy of the second Flame Gem, the blazing energy in Luo De's body obviously became more active.

The more flame energy in the body, the faster Luo De feels his absorption speed has slightly increased.

More importantly, Luo De can now hold his finger in the flame for four or five seconds, which is quite an improvement.

Luo De feels there could be more ways to use this blazing energy, but natural absorption is too slow, so he can't experiment casually for now.

Luo De is waiting for news from the Dawn Society, hoping to get more answers regarding witches and wizards.

The rail laying in the mine is complete, and the carpenters and workers have returned to Frost Leaf Town under Guard Jess's escort.

Luo De led the craftsmen to start building the second windmill.

This is a big project, and Luo De and the carpenters spend their daytime on it.

Just two days passed when the patrol team in the southeast discovered traces of Wildmen near the Blade Mountain Range.

According to prior reports from Prophet Bai Shuang, it's identified as the Wolfhoof Tribe.

Luo De doesn't intend to enter the Blade Mountain Range to explore any Wilderness Tribe, but now that they've appeared, Luo De plans to take them in.

Luo De handed this matter over to Prophet Bai Shuang and Usi for handling, while having Guards lead 50 soldiers and 30 Wild Spear Throwers to assist.

A small tribe of one hundred isn't worthy of Luo De's personal involvement.

The key is Luo De can't worry about everything; otherwise, he'll exhaust himself sooner or later.

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"Come on, Ivan."

The man carrying firewood looked at his companion with some concern and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

The slave rations in Frost Leaf Town are quite good, as long as you work honestly, no one bothers you.

But unlike other places, all the slaves arriving at Frost Leaf Town are separated.

No matter if they come from the same tribe, same village, or even the same family, they won't work together.

Only after passing a three-month "assessment period" can families live together once a week; the rest of the time, they will be separated.

Another rule for slaves in Frost Leaf Town is "old leads the new."

This helps new slaves quickly adapt to Frost Leaf Town's environment and work.

The man carrying firewood was an old slave, and the person he was responsible for, Ivan, was a refugee who had just arrived not long ago.

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