Resia's caravan stayed in Eft for three days. They first advertised the business through a raffle, and then used consolation prizes to promote their own candies.
Demand cannot be created without demand. The residents of Shiraki County have rarely eaten such mellow and sweet candies. Now that they have tried it for the first time, they are naturally deeply impressed.
For many organisms, sugars can induce a sense of happiness and pleasure in the nervous system. This is a product of biological evolution. Even in the modern society that Loran Hill remembered, this was still the case. Amidst the competition for entertainment and delicious food, sweetened drinks like milk tea, cola, and scented tea still held a strong allure.
In today's world where entertainment is scarce, the happiness brought by sugar is rare, and of course it is not cheap. The raw materials and technology for making sugar have always been expensive.
Natural sources of sweetness are limited. Before their varieties were improved, many fruits weren't sweet, and extracting sugar from them was difficult. The most common sweetener was honey, but its yield was also low.
In the distant past, the discovery of the New World was largely for the sugarcane industry, which produced white gold and sugar.
It's hard to imagine what it was like to not be able to eat anything sweet all year round. With this expectation, candy and fairy tales were often linked in the past (like Halloween).
Therefore, in this era, sugar is still a delicacy that only a few people can enjoy.
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After the event, many residents in the city learned about the Lagetis Chamber of Commerce and bought some candies during the special offer. Although not much, they were kept at home and given to their children to taste, making them a rare gift.
"If you want to buy some later, you can go to the Kut Jewelry Store in the city. They have all kinds of candies on consignment there."
“Finally, welcome everyone to participate in this event!”
As the words fell, a light burst of fireworks rang out, ribbons, colorful papers, and some free candies fell from the sky, and then cheers came from the venue.
"marvelous!"
"It's delicious. I want more." said a child while holding a candy in his mouth.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Lecia smiled faintly, then got on a carriage beside her and drove out of the city gate with the team.
This event became quite famous. On the last day, the city's Commerce Bureau sent several people to inspect it, fearing that they would do something deceptive. Fortunately, everything went well in the end, so they were not stopped or intercepted.
Then continue to the next stop.
The newly refitted convoy unloaded a batch of candies and placed them on consignment at a jewelry store, then purchased a batch of high-quality birch wood and set off for the northern provinces.
The rolling plains are dotted with highlands, a narrow path stretches into the distance, and on the boundless wilderness, a convoy moves slowly forward in the morning light.
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Black Rock Principality.
Three airships came from one side of the sky and slowly landed outside a city in the mountains. Then, as the stairs descended, the soldiers unloaded boxes of heavy wooden boxes from the airships.
The long-awaited support for the 'Long Spear Faction' has finally arrived.
According to the treaty signed between Frost Rose and them, they will provide the Halberd Faction with the newest and most sophisticated weapons.
A spear was inserted into the gap of the wooden box, and then it was pressed hard. With a bang, wood chips flew up, and then the wooden board was pried open, revealing weapons wrapped in oil paper and straw inside.
This special weapon is matte black, slender in appearance and extremely heavy, but its surface is very smooth and feels like a carefully crafted work of art.
This is the result of Frost Rose, the Magic Crystal Spear.
In a meeting hall in the city.
Several mages shrouded in robes were communicating with these mercenary leaders.
"A total of 800 magic crystal guns, 2,000 muskets, 100,000 rounds of magic crystal ammunition, and 500,000 rounds of musket ammunition have been transported here."
"This is the first promised aid. If you can unify the entire territory, the second aid will arrive soon."
"Don't you even have artillery? What's the use of these? We'll be shot into hedgehogs by those arrows before we even get close." A mercenary captain complained nonchalantly.
The mages raised their eyes and looked at the big man who spoke unhappily, then they called over a soldier who came with the airship.
"Demonstrate to this group the power of the magic crystal gun."
"Yes, sir!" the soldier in a smart black uniform answered loudly.
Then he picked up a magic crystal gun, pulled the bolt skillfully, and loaded it, pressing a conical bullet with engraved patterns into it.
A group of people came outside and watched the soldier aim at an uninhabited boulder in the distance, about 300 meters away, with an X drawn on it.
As the soldier pulled the trigger, a gunshot rang out and the hard boulder in the distance exploded into pieces.
The surprised mercenary captains went to the stone and searched for a while before they found the broken stone with the X drawn on it. There was a sunken and cracked bullet mark here, and some white powder was still left in it.
"This is the power of the magic crystal gun." said the wizard on the side.
"In order to deal with the many extraordinary people in the Green Empire, we developed this weapon that ordinary people can also use."
"A Sequence 6 Transcendent might be difficult to hit, but a Sequence 4 or below would be severely injured by a single volley, rendering them incapable of combat. Even a Sequence 5 wouldn't dare easily expose themselves to a concentrated barrage of magic crystal spears. If they couldn't dodge, death would be the inevitable outcome."
"Perhaps you still hesitate, but we, the Frost Rose Alliance, will tell the world that a new force will revolutionize this world, and the seven nations of Snow Flower will unite under one banner. Victory over the Verdant Empire is our destiny and our future."
"Yes, that's exactly why we chose to unite."
After the inspection, the mercenary leaders also became serious. They had been traveling around for many years and naturally understood the confidence of the Frost Rose Alliance. With excellent technology and channels to obtain resources, the rise of this alliance became a foreseeable fact.
The battle in the mountains started again, but this time it was completely different from the previous ones.
Under the cover of a few scattered golems, the Long Spear Faction's army quickly approached the city gate. With the sound of neat gunshots, the smell of gunpowder filled the battlefield, and then a big hole was opened under the ancient and solid fortress.
Teams of armored soldiers wielding halberds filed in. These fully armed soldiers were like sharks entering a school of fish with nowhere to escape, wantonly surrounding and killing the vulnerable enemies in the city.
The defenders, lacking armor and with inadequately trained melee teams, could only flee in disarray, and even took the initiative to open the city gate on the west side and flee towards the grassland.
But soon, the enemies from the rear continued to attack. These light cavalrymen armed with long spears chased the fleeing enemies, knocked them to the ground one by one, and continued to clear and encircle these former defenders.
Since the Mercury Dynasty, Fengyan City, which had been isolated in the north for thousands of years, was finally destroyed by its own compatriots.
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