nyslfriends #132 - The Spring of the Centaurs has arrived
#132 - The Spring of the Centaurs has arrived
"Although both dance and music are important in the 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance', since the piece is named after the rainbow feather dress, it's fitting that both the dancers and musicians perform wearing silk feather garments."
Except for Ophelia's elaborate dress, which was personally woven by Arachne, the other snake women's rainbow dresses were woven from silk by the merman weavers while they were learning from Iffley. After the weavers returned, they first used linen to learn garment making.
Only then did they turn the hard-won silk into rainbow dresses and give them to the snake women.
Actually, Ophelia and the snake women had long since learned the 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance', but because the dresses weren't ready, they had to wait for the weavers and carpenters.
Ophelia and the snake women were snake people, so their physical flexibility was naturally beyond question. The 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance' wasn't very difficult for them, and they mastered all the dance moves in three days.
The most difficult part was actually cultivating the ethereal and otherworldly aura of celestial maidens in these snake women who had lived in the rainforest since childhood and only knew how to kill.
This could only be polished little by little.
With Iffley and Arachne's guidance, the silk feather garments were steadily and surely progressing forward, despite the difficulty.
But the musical instruments stumped the merman carpenters.
Previously, they had only learned architectural woodworking techniques such as mortise and tenon joints from Attilan. They had absolutely no idea how to make musical instruments.
It was the satyr who personally stepped in and saved these poor carpenters.
The satyr had been resentful for not becoming the successor to the tribe's leader. After leaving the tribe, he used the panpipe-making techniques he had secretly learned from the leader to create a magical panpipe for himself.
Although his panpipe magic skills were not up to par, he also learned how to make musical instruments and, most importantly, how to tune them.
You can take a bamboo or wooden stick, hollow out the middle, and drill a few holes, and call it a flute or xiao, but the tone produced cannot be guaranteed at all.
Every step of the musical instrument-making process is actually to ensure that the tone produced by the instrument during performance is pleasant enough.
And the satyr happened to master this most important ability.
It can be said that the 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance' that everyone sees today is a masterpiece completed by Attilan providing the music and dance, Mape providing the instruments, and Iffley providing the costumes!
When these feather garments were made, Iffley did think they were beautiful, but she wasn't very moved until the feather garments were worn on the snake women, dancing gracefully with their lithe figures. Only then did Iffley finally understand the beauty of these feather garments.
"Do you think I would look good dancing in this kind of feather garment?"
Iffley's eyes lit up slightly.
"Of course, a great beauty like you would naturally be absolutely stunning dancing in a rainbow feather dress! I'll personally accompany you!"
The leopard woman joined in the fun, raising her hand.
"Me too! Me too! I definitely can't miss such beautiful clothes!"
Attilan smiled and shook his head:
"Actually, not only silk can be used to make beautiful clothes, but linen can also be used. Linen can also be dyed and embroidered to form beautiful patterns, but embroidery artisans are much more difficult to train than weavers."
"You may have to embroider yourselves. I can teach you the basic embroidery techniques."
The leopard woman blinked her eyes in confusion and asked:
"Embroidery? What is embroidery?"
"Don't worry, I will definitely give you the feather garments that belong to you, and I will guarantee that the quality of these feather garments is the best!"
Although these feather garments are worth a thousand gold pieces when sold in the Northern Lands, Attilan's friendship with these female druids is worth more than a thousand gold. He only needs to provide some food from the forest to Arachne.
And he can steadily obtain silk!
As for the value of the merman weavers' skills, it is not worth mentioning.
Therefore, the cost of making a feather garment is not high. The reason why a feather garment can sell for a thousand gold is that silk is a very rare material.
As long as Attilan takes out spider silk to sell, there will soon be mages who want to make money and conduct magical research, trying to decipher the silk-making process.
Attilan can make spiders work for him, and other mages can naturally use magic to control spiders to work for him. At most, it's just the difference between voluntary and forced.
For example, the drow elves who live in the underground city must have many spiders specifically responsible for spinning silk, and even powerful mages don't need to control the spiders. They can directly synthesize silk materials from spider silk in the laboratory using magic.
Those level of big shots probably don't look down on low-level industries like silk.
Isn't a bottle of magic potion that restores youth and vitality worth 100,000 gold coins to the king? Even if the effect only lasts for a year, or even half a year, the human kingdoms and grand dukes will definitely flock to it.
If it weren't for the druids having to maintain the balance of nature, the druids wouldn't be able to sell such potions that break the natural laws of life and death, at least not publicly.
Druids are the best at manipulating life force!
For druid big shots, they can handcraft anything they need. If they can't make it, gold coins probably won't be able to buy it.
For example, a master's life vitality potion can sell for 100,000 gold coins, but even if you have 100,000 gold coins, you may not be able to buy the vitality potion.
If Attilan's druid attainments weren't deep enough, with the talent of the ocean wyrm, creating this kind of potion that restores youth and vitality to the elderly would be easy.
He has this ability, but he doesn't have a way to monetize it yet.
It's just restoring youth and vitality, not extending the king's lifespan, so the king will die when he's supposed to die. The length isn't extended, but the quality of life goes up.
How many heroes and emperors are most afraid of the aging and powerlessness at the end of their lives.
100,000 gold is really not much.
If there were such a potion, exchanging for the satyr's Trina would be easy! No! Trina isn't worth that price!
Didn't that halfling say that human nobles call soy sauce black gold? Then use black gold to exchange for Mape's beloved Trina!
Mape also participated in today's performance. He led a group of unskilled musicians in playing the ethereal 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance' with his panpipe.
"Mape, forget about those musicians. I've thought of a way to rescue Trina."
As soon as Trina was mentioned, the satyr immediately dropped his little merman apprentice and ran over excitedly, asking:
"What way?"
"Soy sauce!"
The satyr frowned in confusion:
"Although soy sauce sells quite expensively, it's not worth the Grand Duke giving up such a useful shadow warrior like Trina, right?"
Attilan said in exasperation:
"I told you you're stupid, and you still don't admit it. Intermediate soy sauce is already so popular, can you imagine how sought after high-grade soy sauce would be? Eating high-grade soy sauce every day can really make you glow with health."
That's right, Attilan has already started the research and development of the life vitality potion, and some of the results have already been put into soy sauce. Pure soy sauce cannot guarantee that the secret recipe will not be seen through.
But if you add herbs specially cultivated by druids to it, the difficulty of cracking the recipe will increase tenfold, a hundredfold. This is also the result of Attilan learning from a certain black carbonated drink.
This cold medicine has maintained the secret recipe by relying on unanalyzable ingredients.
If soy sauce is just a condiment, then soy sauce will sooner or later be replaced by condiments researched by other pharmacists, so Attilan must add a little magical element to soy sauce.
"You take a vat of high-grade soy sauce and a caravan of intermediate soy sauce to the Grand Duke's territory to sell, and remember to bring iron-clad centaurs and iron-clad minotaurs."
"I don't trust this Grand Duke's integrity."
After trading with the dwarves last time, Attilan harvested a new 3,000 mu of black beans and traded with the dwarves for another 100 sets of minotaur armor. The iron material consumed by one set of minotaur armor is equivalent to three sets of centaur armor.
It's really too expensive to equip them.
If it weren't for the white bread, that is, steamed buns, made from a mixture of soybean flour and wheat flour, being unanimously welcomed by the dwarven merchants, and the dwarves taking the initiative to increase the purchase price of flour, Attilan would have to pay for all 100 sets in installments.
These dwarves are quite honest, and Attilan feels embarrassed to rip them off too much.
"A vat of soy sauce can exchange for Trina?"
"One vat certainly can't satisfy his appetite. This time, you're just showing your strength and letting him try the effects of soy sauce first. I remember you said that the Grand Duke is over forty years old, right?"
The satyr asked in confusion:
"What's wrong with being forty years old?"
"When a man reaches forty, his body completely goes downhill. It's common to feel powerless, but this soy sauce can make the Grand Duke regain the feeling of being twenty years old."
"You just tell him that if he exchanges for Trina, you'll give him a year of high-grade soy sauce for free, and after that, he only needs to get it for half price for ten years. He can sell the high-grade soy sauce to other nobles."
"With high-grade soy sauce, won't it be easier for him to unite the nobles to rebel against the king?"
High-grade soy sauce can allow the Grand Duke to form a new chain of benefits. As long as he can unite most of the nobles, the king is nothing in front of the noble group.
"I can rescue Trina! Wine Woman, is there a vat of high-grade soy sauce produced yet?"
The satyr hurriedly ran over.
"There are three whole vats of the latest formula high-grade soy sauce in the soy sauce room. You can go see for yourself. I wish you an early return with your beauty."
"I'll go prepare now and set off with the caravan tomorrow."
"Don't rush. Your mission this time is not just to sell soy sauce, but also silk. Two snake-person dancers will be traveling with you, and bring the little mermen to play musical instruments."
"They are now level 2 rogues, and they can play a significant role at critical moments. Of course, on the surface, they are just merman musicians."
The satyr excitedly gave a thumbs up.
"No wonder you wanted me to have them learn a musical instrument, the ocarina and flute, which are enough to play the 'Rainbow Feather Dress Dance' with my panpipe."
"This time, I must bring back Trina. No one can stop me!"