diskusbooks Chapter 466: Blatant Moneymaking
Chapter 466: Blatant Moneymaking
This was the busiest time of the night in Orleans. Compared to Campbell County, which only recently had a night market, the nights in Orleans had always been as noisy as the days. Some shops on crowded streets would even stay open all night.
In the eyes of the gods, every corner of the city of Orleans is filled with a strong power of faith. This is the first time that Bai Hao can't help but feel happy. Orleans is truly worthy of being a city where 95% of the people believe in the Goddess of the Bright Moon.
Bai Hao didn't even dare to imagine what level of strength he would reach if he resonated with Orleans' power of faith and entered a near-god state.
Previously, Scott, who was far away in the Swart Empire, was in a city ruled by the Goddess of Life sect. The percentage of residents who believed in the Goddess of the Bright Moon was less than 40%. But even so, Bai Hao, who had entered a near-god state, could release an outrageous wide-area group healing technique and even set off fireworks for ten minutes.
In the stronghold of the Moon Goddess sect, in the city with the highest proportion of believers, Bai Hao even felt that if he entered the near-god state, he could reach the strength of Hilmeria, the legendary great elementalist who was closest to gods and demons!
Thinking of this, Bai Hao suddenly felt that there seemed to be no need for him to worry about Olivia's warning. However, to be on the safe side, he should stay in the headquarters church for a while. It is always better to be safe.
Bai Hao noticed that the streets of Orleans were illuminated by the simplest luminous magic stones, which had much higher manufacturing and maintenance costs than the magic heat-radiating lamps in his own Campbell Territory. It was foreseeable that it was inevitable for Orleans to replace them with heat-radiating lamps that were more cost-effective and more efficient.
Not only that, most of the city service facilities that use low-level magic technology as the core will definitely need to be updated in the future, and eventually replaced with magical equipment with life-saving magic stones as the core.
Helping to upgrade the municipal facilities of the entire Orleans is definitely a lucrative job. If the Campbell family can take on this big project, it is hard to imagine how much gold coins they can earn. I am afraid that even the warehouse in the Campbell Manor cannot hold all the money.
At present, in the entire Central Plains, it is obviously his Campbell family that masters the latest magic technology. In this way, the success of the bid will be a foregone conclusion. Bai Hao doesn't even think that any noble family is qualified to compete with his Campbell family.
The more Bai Hao thought about it, the more excited he became. After just a few minutes of flying over Orleans, he found a big deal that was sure to make money. However, Elsa was still leading troops to fight in the Central Plains countries, while Kulonan was busy developing the magic market in other noble territories of the Omo Empire.
Since the two leaders of the Campbell family are not available, he can only rely on himself. Bai Hao secretly made up his mind in the air that he would help the Campbell family to negotiate this deal while waiting for Olmia to come back.
Bai Hao firmly believed that because he was the most cutting-edge researcher in the field of life-saving magic, because he was the future heir of the Campbell family, and because of his status in the sect of the Bright Moon Goddess, he could easily negotiate this deal, unless the officials of the municipal departments of the Omo Empire were fools who had no desire to make progress.
But even if he is a fool, so what? As long as the Moon Goddess Sect puts a little pressure on him, Bai Hao believes that the noble lords in power in Orleans will immediately support him.
So there was no competition from the beginning. Bai Hao had already eaten up this plate of fat meat the moment he discovered it. This was a blatant way of making money!
High in the sky, Bai Hao looked around this historic city with great interest, the spacious and clean main streets, the highly developed public facilities, the colorful shop signs, the neat and beautiful green plants and nearly a thousand wizard towers that were 100 meters high.
What is completely different from other noble territories is that in Orleans, a city with a profound history, wizard towers are not only built in noble manors. You can see these wizard-only buildings on any ordinary street, and their number is as large as that of ordinary residential buildings.
Most of these majestic wizard towers were not built in the past hundred years, but were left over from ancient times thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.
Therefore, in Orleans you can fully see the evolution of the wizard tower architecture in the Central Plains over tens of thousands of years. Wizard towers from various periods in history coexist here.
In just a few minutes, Bai Hao had seen more than a dozen wizard towers of different styles. Their heights, shapes, and overall tones were all different. What amazed Bai Hao the most was that the building materials used in some of the wizard towers were very novel, all determined by their uses.
For example, the mage tower specially used by wood elemental mages is built entirely of wood. This is a special composite wood that even Bai Hao cannot recognize. It is not only fireproof and moisture-proof, but also as strong as bricks, stones and steel bars. It is covered with climbing plants and hanging flowers. It looks like a giant tree covered with symbiotic plants.
A steel tower made of various stainless metals fused together through a magic circle, a giant stone tower made of rock mud using a special method, and a complex bone tower made of animal remains such as tortoise shells, heads and horns...
Bai Hao was dazzled by the large number of wonderful wizard towers. Even through the vision of gods, it was difficult to understand their construction methods. Many ancient wizard towers could not even be replicated by current craftsmen. All of this made Bai Hao sigh at the exquisite construction skills of their predecessors.
Bai Hao had learned about Orleans through books. Historically, it was chosen as the capital by more than a dozen countries. Both above and below ground, and even the suburbs around the city had been highly developed and constructed. Orleans was truly a place where every inch of land was worth a lot of money.
The Cult of the Bright Moon Goddess is the largest landlord in Orleans, and even in the entire Omo Empire. The sect owns nearly one-tenth of the land in Orleans alone, which is nominally an asset of the Cult of the Bright Moon Goddess.
The churches, orphanages, prayer platforms, free clinics, orphanages and many street buildings named after the Goddess of the Bright Moon are all assets of the Bright Moon Sect. Of course, if you ask who these fixed assets belong to, it is naturally the current Saint of the Bright Moon Sect, Olmia.
If an academic organization were to compile a wealth ranking list, then Olmia would definitely be the undisputed richest person in Central Plains. And once Bai Hao becomes the Son of the Bright Moon, he will directly take over this huge wealth from Olmia.
The world is indeed unfair. Some people struggle all their lives but cannot become the richest man in a city, while Bai Hao is destined to be the richest man in the entire Central Plains since he was born.