With 100 gold, one could have bought more than ten slaves.
The cheapest slaves were the coolies, who were either Beastmen or Half Beastmen used for mine digging or manual labour.
These coolies were not sold separately but sold per cages.
One cage of 100 slaves, just for 500 gold.
"Are there any Golden Elves?" After walking a few rounds, Yue Yang finally stopped in front of the asked the fat frog merchant who attempted to promote his Half Elf to him.
"Shhh!" The fat frog merchant shushed him. "You know the goods well, but Golden Elves were extremely hard to get. Maybe you didn't know that they were very stubborn and would not leave the forest they were inhabiting in easily, hence, making hunting them extremely difficult. To make matter worse, when one Golden Elf was caught, all the other villagers will go after and kill the hunter. They would not stop until they die. The Golden Elves had always been a subject of interest to the VIPs, but demand had always been greater than supply. Who doesn't want to earn that money? It's just that it's really too hard to get them! I've been a merchant for over hundred years and I was only involved in trafficking them twice. The last time I done it, I was kidnapping a young Golden Elf, but I was attacked by a Golden Elf that was thousands of years old. I almost die from fright, so I could only let that little prize go... Boy, it was a little prize worth more than 50,000 gold! If it's grown up, people would even be willing to pay more than 100,000 gold for it! "
"Really?" Yue Yang replied disinterestedly as he prepared to leave.
"Wait, although I don't have a Golden Elf, I still have other beauties from different races, including virgins. Do you want to take a look at some of my goods? I'm sure that you will find one that satisfies you. Our Golden Toad Guild was one of the largest Merchant Guild in the Sixth Floor of Tong Tian Tower, ranked 95 out of ten thousand other Merchant Guilds. I'm sure that you have heard of us." The fat frog persuaded, afraid that Yue Yang would run off. For him to be able to ask about the Golden Elf, he must be rich right ?
Moreover, he was wearing was a Gold-ranked equipment mask, and cladded in the Wyvern Armor. This was something a normal adventurer would not possess.
Yue Yang wasn't interested in buying a slave nor was he interested in doing something so troublesome as upholding his sense of justice and free all the slaves here. That was a task for the next dimension traveller, he had no time for that .
These slaves had already been domesticated, they had already lost the ability to survive independently.
If they were to be freed, they might die of starvation without the support of their masters.
Actually Yue Yang's real intention was to enter the Thunder Fortress, if not for it he wouldn't have even spoke with the fat frog merchant.
"I want to enter the Thunder Fortress to get some stuff, if it's within your ability then name me a price." Yue Yang's tone was akin to those serial killers who wished to seek refuge with Chong Ni.
"Ahem, it's not that I'm doubting your strength, but entering the Thunder Fortress is a little... if you don't have a guarantor, it will be very hard... I click well with you and want to help you, but..." The fat frog merchant was a little hesitant because if Yue Yang were to get caught, it may implicate him. It would still be alright if Yue Yang just wanted to buy the banned Thunder Ore from the Thunder Fortress , but if he turned out to be a spy from the Warrior Guild, the fat frog merchant was afraid that he would get into trouble too.
"1000 gold." Yue Yang stated his price.
"What... What did you say? 1000... I want to help but my hands were tied, I..." The fat frog merchant gulped on his saliva. He wanted to earn the money, but was afraid that he would lose his life before he could even spend them.
"2000 gold." Like a vicious devil, Yue Yang kept tempting the merchant with money.
"I really can't..." The fat frog merchant decided that if Yue Yang offered an additional 100 gold, he would relent.
" If you can't then never mind." Yue Yang turned and left.
"Hey, wait! ", the fat frog merchant almost wanted to slap himself. Why was he so stupid? He could only earn a profit of 200 gold from the sale of the Half Elf beauty, but now he could earn 2000 gold right away without any capital. How could he simply reject it? You silly, you must have employed Golems as your personal bodyguards for so long that your brains had turned into stone too, the fat frog merchant thought to himself.
When it was night time, the fat frog brought Yue Yang through the heavily guarded Teleportation Circle and headed towards the Thunder Fortress.
The Thunder Fortress was in an independent dimension, and the space it occupied was not very vast, approximately only the size of five White Stone City in the Da Xia Empire. Yue Yang guessed that it was even smaller than Hong Kong. The Thunder Fortress was surrounded in volcanoes, and the lava from the volcanoes accumulated to form a gigantic lake. In the middle of the lava lake laid a funnel shaped giant island which was wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, just like a spinning top (a.k.a beyblades) positioned in the centre of the boiling lava lake.
This was the Thunder Fortress.
Of course, only Chong Ni's palace was situated at the top, normal Dragon Hunters, robbers and bandits could only live in caves.
As for merchants and slaves, they had to live underground.
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