Illyrio’s mansion featured blue tiles and white walls, complete with walls covered in creeping ivy and flower beds that bloomed year-round.
This estate was not only pleasing to the eye, but it also employed dozens of servants who worked here to provide the master with as comfortable a life as possible.
Shamira accompanied Aegon for breakfast, but she remained silent, her expression somewhat stiff.
Previously, Aegon had not only sold his own seldom-worn clothes, but he had also sold some of Shamira’s clothes and incense.
Although everything a servant owned belonged to the master, Shamira harbored deep resentment in her heart toward his near-inhuman decision, and thus expressed her dissatisfaction during the meal by eating mostly bread and very few side dishes.
Knowing that he had gone a bit too far, Aegon took out a pearl necklace and placed it in front of her.
“I was indeed a bit short on money recently, take this for now.”
Aegon always kept in mind that ‘power is only valid within seven steps’, and he could not humiliate those around him at will, otherwise the possibility of a backlash was very high.
He had also crashed and burned when playing the game “Cultivation Plan”.
If one truly wanted to flaunt a master’s might, they had to send her away as soon as possible, otherwise it would be planting a landmine for oneself.
The pristine pearls emitted a hazy, gentle white light.
Shamira’s eyes were unable to tear away for a moment, and although she knew Aegon was expressing an apology, she still said somewhat coyly:
“Master, since you bought this necklace, it is yours.
It’s better to keep it by your side and give it to me when you want me to wear it.”
Shamira was undoubtedly expressing her dissatisfaction; although her allowance was given by Aegon, she had saved up for a long time just to buy the incense.
The person who trained them back then had said that refusing things given by the master was a ‘risky move’; if used poorly, it would anger the master and get one driven away, but if used well, it would only make the master like you more.
In Shamira’s view, Aegon’s temper had always been pretty good, so she decided to give it a try.
However, Aegon’s expression changed, and with a smack, he slammed his table knife onto the ceramic plate, the harsh sound making her heart tremble——
‘It’s over, am I going to be driven out?’
‘Will he give me away to someone else?’
‘Will he send me to the army camp for those smelly soldiers to enjoy?!’
Shamira was extremely nervous for a moment, her heartbeat accelerating wildly in a short span of time, almost making her want to vomit.
“What yours or mine!
Even you belong to me!” With that, Aegon overbearingly placed the necklace around her neck.
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Southern suburbs of Pentos.
Aegon kicked a murky salt crystal on the ground and looked at this vast expanse of wasteland, which had no other advantages besides being flat; this was precisely the plot of land he intended to buy.
This wasteland was located in the southeastern suburbs of Pentos, covering an area of nearly two hundred square kilometers, and adding a patch of hills to the east, it should total two hundred and fifty square kilometers.
Roughly the size of forty football fields.
Just like armies, the system had a whole set of indicators for evaluating territories.
The sources of territory were similarly diverse; one could rely on plunder, inheritance, or marriage alliance.
Even leasing was acceptable, as long as one ensured absolute dominion over this land for a certain period of time, it could be recognized.
And the time limit was at least half a year.
The evaluation criteria included area, importance, population, prosperity, and so on.
Depending on the territory’s rating, the rewards players could obtain varied greatly.
Territory, castle, city, city-state, country.
If a player could acquire territory above the city level, the game would reward an entire mineral vein.
When a player owned a country, the game would even directly reward an entire high-quality gold vein.
After all, real-world resources were also indispensable assistance for striving for hegemony.
However, compared to armies, getting a territory recognized was much simpler.
As long as the area was large enough and the expected occupation time was long enough, the territory’s recognition could be obtained, and Aegon could obtain rewards based on this.
Now Aegon still had some money in his hands, so he intended to buy this land first as his first territory and claim the rewards first.
From certain perspectives, he was also considered to be exploiting a loophole.
“Little Master, are you really going to buy this land?
It looks like nothing can be done with it.” Although Belwas was only a gladiator, following Illyrio all these years had broadened his horizons somewhat.
The land right now, the part near the sea, had long been converted into a port and split off.
As for the land itself, it was extremely barren, and the ubiquitous salt chunks underfoot meant that no crops could grow here at all, with even weeds growing sparsely.
As for its location, it was somewhat far from the main city of Pentos.
If one wanted to build houses, they simply would not sell out.
Although Illyrio had given Aegon a large sum of money, he had also instructed Belwas not to let Aegon spend it recklessly, or at least not to let him get cheated. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
“Rest assured, Belwas, I have my plans; this land will definitely not lose money.”
In other people’s eyes, this land was completely worthless junk land.
But based on his observations during this period, Aegon had already planned out a fantastic use for it.
If used well, this place would turn into a goose that laid golden eggs.
That was to build a Racetrack on this land; horse racing with gambling and betting characteristics seemed to have no one involved in Pentos or even the entire Free Cities, which could be said to be a completely blue ocean.
In other words, Aegon intended to open a casino here; if one could lose money running a casino, they might as well go home and wait for death sooner or later.
As for Shamira, she completely didn’t care what this land was bought for; she only felt that Aegon must have his reasons for doing this.
The words Aegon said to her in the morning still lingered in her ears, and her eyes always sparkled when looking at Aegon; in short, whatever the young master said now, she thought it was right.
The three of Aegon waited for about two or three quarters of an hour, when they saw several servants carrying a sedan chair arriving at the agreed-upon place.
According to the rules, in Pentos, only those who held the status of Magister were qualified to ride in a sedan chair.
This showed that the person coming to negotiate the deal with Aegon was at least a Magister.
A man around forty years old stepped down from the red sedan chair.
That man had brown hair, a thin face, his back held very straight, and his neck stretched out long, making him look just like a proud rooster.
He spotted the flashily-dressed Aegon at a glance, knowing that this young boy was his buyer; as for Belwas and Shamira on the side, he didn’t even look at them.
And Aegon had also learned about the other party in advance.
Although he was a Magister, his family had already fallen into decline, maintaining a facade of prestige despite being broke.
Just maintaining the dignity of a Magister had already exhausted him.
Even so, he still put on an affected and pretentious posture, wanting to sell this junk land for as high a price as possible.
Therefore, as soon as he spoke, he quoted an unacceptable price: a full ten thousand Pentoshi gold coins.
“Magister, please do not joke.
Look at this land of yours, aside from being flat, what other use does it have?
It cannot grow crops, nor does it look like it conceals any mineral veins, and the only area capable of building a port was already split off and sold by you.
Buying it is simply for the convenience of walking horses in the future.”
Aegon’s take-it-or-leave-it posture made the other party realize that this might be his only opportunity to unload this plot of land.