Nova Roma

Chapter 69 - Breaking the local economy

In the meeting with the 3 consuls of the city together with Anubis and Zeus, it was agreed to allow Hellena to recruit what she wanted, without any kind of restriction it would only depend on her to manage to convince the beings that inhabited the city.

For this, he asked Anubis for money because he needed a large number of various items, but before starting his recruitment project he asked the consuls how to gain respect in the city and what the aspirations of his people were.

The answer was quite blunt, the force determines everything the stronger one is, the more respect he will have in the community and the aspirations are quite simple to live a comfortable and trouble-free life, Hellena thought for a moment about how she could achieve the ultimate show of power.

The first thing she did was analyze the elemental energy crystals that Anubis gave her, she realized that there are 5 colors of the Blue, White, Red, brown and golden crystals, each of these colors has a meaning:

Being Blue = Water, White = Air, Red = Fire, brown = Earth, Gold = Divine Energy.

Hellena was surprised by the golden elemental stone and looked at Anubis with curiosity "I understand that the elementary stones form naturally in places where the elements are concentrated but where crystallized divine energy is obtained and what is its exact value"

Anubis began to explain "Let’s start with the golden stones, as you know the gods are transcendent beings that can create things, the more power you have a greater manipulation of the space you have, the golden stone is a manifestation of the union of the 4 elements in a balanced environment, where they join in a symbiotic way to form divine energy.

This is different from that of us, let’s use your divine energy and that of Flavio as an example, your divine energy is red and gives off death while Flavio’s is golden and gives off calm, the divine energy is determined by your offspring and your character, Flavio and you complement each other perfectly by having opposite energies.

But the energy of the golden elemental stones is different is a manifestation without character, therefore, it is quite effective for alchemy because its power is effective both to control adverse reactions of any element as a source of energy for specific tools to work.

Now speaking of the cost the White elemental stone is the cheapest because the air is everywhere, followed by that of the earth, then there is the fire and finally the water elemental stone, since there are almost no aquifers in the New Tartar its purchasing power is superior, but not as much as the golden stone.

The exchange rate is as follows

1 Brown Elemental Stone (Earth) = 10 White Elemental Stones

1 Red Elemental Stone (fire) = 10 Brown Elemental Stones

1 Blue Elemental Stone (Water) = 10 Red Elemental Stones

1 Golden Elemental Stone (Divine Energy) = 10 Blue Elemental Stones

A family of 4 members can eat with 1 brown Elemental stone, this shows that the value of the elemental stones of divine energy is too expensive.

Hellena then knew what she could do, with the crystals that Anubis gave her she ordered to buy remains of crystals which, after being stripped of her energy, became transparent like glass, when the thousands of empty crystals she bought arrived she ordered the servants to abandon the room.

Anubis and Zeus were surprised by Hellena’s purchases, they expected her to buy other things, not empty glasses, but what she did after left them with his mouth open.

The colorless crystals in Hellena’s hand began to shine again but this time with Reddish Gold color.

"That is impossible, once used crystals can not store anything," Zeus said without believing that Hellena was managing to fill the crystals with her divine energy.

Hellena looked with a smile at the golden reddish crystal that she had in her hands when she began to fill the crystal with her divine energy she realized that she did not store anything therefore, I create a membrane inside the crystal which prevented the energy from coming out divine

Seeing that his experiment worked, she continued to fill the crystals with his divine energy, before the surprised look of Zeus and Anubis, after an hour Hellena had more than 5000 crystals with her divine energy, with her crystals she could break the economy of this region of the New Tartar, but that didn’t matter to her as long as she could get what she needed.

Anubis and Zeus wanted to ask the means by which she managed to make the crystals could store his divine energy, Hellena laughed at them "If you said it and other gods would do it and then really the economy will be reduced to the point that maybe the elemental stones they would cease to have value, since the stone of divine energy would be the only one used.

But we can make a deal once the crisis in the southern zone has been reduced and put under control I can teach you the method, I want to take full advantage of this bug in the financial system to stop that damn jungle "

After saying his plans, she left with Zeus and Anubis in search of a place where they would sell slaves to be able to transform the newly made crystals into materials for their cause.

The search was quite simple after leaving the palace of the consuls headed south where there is an exclusive slave market, the carriage trip took 10 minutes, this large city lives up to say it is the largest place in the second area of the Underworld.

Once in the slave market Hellena was surprised by the number of slaves that existed from children to women and men, it was triple the size of the slave market in Rome, but this was good for Hellena who could buy in bulk.

She went with Zeus and Anubis to a store where they were received as VIP customers, the shopkeeper a satyr received them in a large room

"Tell me how I can help such important celebrities"

Hellena went straight to the point "I want to know the costs of a slave from the lowest to the highest and how they control them"

The somewhat nervous satyr for the safety of Hellena began to speak "The cheapest slave we have costs 1 red stone while the most expensive slaves we have are the champions of the arena, our current champion is valued at 5 blue stones, to keep under control the slaves sign a contract that links them with their lives and prohibits them from harming their owners "

Hellena listened carefully to what the satyr said and when he finished speaking he took out an Elemental stone with his divine energy and placed it on the table "Tell me how much this Elemental stone is worth"

The satyr took it while checking it with a monocle "This is fantastic, this elementary stone is unique unlike elementary stones with divine energy is a reaction quite harmonious with the atmosphere of the New Tartar, I would say the price would be about 5 golden elementary stones "

The satyr put the stone back on the table and could see Hellena’s smile "If I want to buy all your slaves, how much would I have to pay?"

The satyr could feel the sweat crossing his forehead "I needed 10 of those golden-red stones and you would receive more than 25,000 slaves, but being a special stone I am sure you only have one ..."

Before he could continue speaking Hellena took out a small sack with 12 stones full of her divine energy "Here are the 10 stones you asked for and these 2 are for you to add to your treatment your slave keepers, if you help me get more slaves you can take a commission of 5 stones, what do you say? "

The satyr blinded by greed did not hesitate to accept the deal with Hellena, he was not afraid because the stones had pure energy and apart Anubis and Zeus were with the lady, it was time that he would occupy all his social potential to find what Hellena was looking for. ..