Unlike the Holy Alliance, the trade policy of the Free City-State has always been relatively open and is very popular with merchants. This can be seen from the number of ships moored at the pier. The University Town of Goodris has a total of six marinas. Even so, there are still new ships that do not need to queue up to be unable to enter the port. There are only two marinas in the Port of Setvia, one of which is still in a semi-aborized state most of the time, and the ships moored at the port are sparse.

In the past, the docks in Goodries University Town were very lively, with loading and unloading, ships set sail and return to port. However, the weather was not good today, and there were many fewer ships leaving the port. Many cargo ships decided to wait and see for a long time before setting sail after the fog was dissipated. Because they were worried about an accident, the captain of Rob and his ship ordered the sail to lower the sails early and use oars to row to reduce the speed of the ship and reduce the risk of collision with other ships.

Fortunately, the Marian Lighthouse is erected on the coastline of Goodries University Town.

Lighthouses in ordinary ports are generally illuminated by charcoal fire, and the range of views can be provided is limited. In the extreme weather like today, the light generated by burning charcoal is difficult to penetrate the fog.

In order to overcome this problem, the dwarf specially developed a new type of oil lamp, using whale oil instead of charcoal as the main fuel, and the flames generated during combustion are purer and the lighting effect is better. Even on heavy rainy nights, ships several nautical miles apart can see the light from the lighthouse.

The dwarves proudly called their lighthouse artificial Wagra. Wagra means bright moon in the dwarf language, but compared with the Marian Big Lighthouse in Goodris University Town, the artificial Wagra that the dwarves are proud of instantly turned into an artificial firefly.

Quote the original words of a traveler who has visited the University Town of Goodries - "The Marian Lighthouse is a unique miracle in the history of navigation, another incredible product of human magic civilization. Anyone who sees it at first sight will not have any other emotions except shock. Its light shines everywhere in the strait, and even crosses the strait to the dwarfs's Port of Podoli. Any light source looks dimly and colorless in front of it. I even suspect that you can see it anywhere on the sea. To be honest, I actually don't understand why those magicians made this thing so bright, tmd, when the beam of light hits towards me, I feel that my eyes are going to be blinded!"

The Marian Lighthouse has a history of more than 1,200 years, and its existence was earlier than the emergence of the Liberal City State. At that time, the Marian Lighthouse was not called its current name. It was just an ordinary small lighthouse next to the Goodris University Town. Its main function was to provide positioning and rescue for nearby fishermen to go to sea.

Before the magician appeared, Goodris University Town was not as large as it is today. However, the free and relaxed environment and rich academic atmosphere attracted many scholars, painters and musicians to live and study here. However, due to the innate conditions of the city, there were almost no specialties that could be shown, and there were no resources for mining around it.

Therefore, this cultural port city was not highly valued by merchants at that time, and there were not many merchant ships. This situation continued until Roland founded the Magic Academy. More and more people with magical talents gathered from all over the world to Goodris University Town. The large influx of population caused the output of the university town itself to be unable to keep up, which indirectly provided business opportunities for merchants.

So in the following period, merchant ships began to transport ships of goods to Goodries University Town, in exchange for bags of gold coins. On the other hand, the surge in population also brought more employment opportunities. Magicians, like ordinary people, also had to eat, entertain and consume. At the same time, if they did experiments, they also needed to use a lot of materials.

Although merchants can bring goods from other places to sell, transportation costs need to be taken into account by land or sea. In exchange for more profits, more and more merchants have begun to consider setting up workshops locally for some goods that can be produced locally, which has also revitalized the economy of the university town to a certain extent.

The real rise of Goodris University Town to become the largest port on the southern coast was after the emergence of magic weapons, or more accurately, the second type of magic weapons that can be used by ordinary people. Magic, the originally elusive power, was gradually mastered by humans, and it opened its mysterious veil bit by bit.

The emergence of non-combat magic weapons like magic lamps is a milestone event of great significance in the history of magic, which means that magic begins to enter the lives of ordinary people.

Of course, until today, most of the people who can use this type of magic weapon are still nobles, but this does not prevent the second type of magic weapon from becoming the most popular product in the entire Dawn Continent.

Even though the human race later listed magic weapons as strategic items and was strictly prohibited from being out of stock, due to the huge potential profits behind it, it still cannot help but secretly smuggle the acquired magic weapons to the dwarves and elves.

Especially in recent decades, the Continent of Morning has ushered in a rare period of peace. Time has eliminated the hatred and trauma brought by war. Interactions and exchanges between various races have become more and more frequent, and underground activities such as smuggling have become increasingly rampant. Sometimes, in order to make up for some of the trade deficits and control the outflow of gold, rulers will indulge this part of gray trade to a certain extent.

In short, the emergence of a number of magical items, including magic scrolls, made Goodris University Town successfully transform from a pure commodity consumption market into a two-way trading port with both commodity input and commodity output, and eventually became the economic and cultural center of the Free City-State.

At this point, the small lighthouse was not enough to see, so someone later proposed to expand and transform the lighthouse, and invited a magician to participate, mainly responsible for solving the problem of light sources. The magician did not disappoint everyone. After countless experiments, he finally created a new magic light source with strong brightness and penetration. On this basis, people built the first generation of Marian Lighthouse.

However, probably because the Marian Lighthouse had a strong presence in the darkness, it was destroyed not long after the Second Magic War broke out and was summoned by the giant war puppet summoned by the dwarves with alchemy.

After the war, led by the Society of Magicians, local nobles and merchants contributed money and efforts to rebuilt the Marian Lighthouse on the original site.

In fact, the new Marian Lighthouse has almost nothing in common except the same name as the old one. This time, the Magician Association gathered the wisdom of a group of top magicians and developed an unparalleled super light source. The brightness of this super light source finally reached an extremely terrifying level with the addition of hundreds of magic arrays, directly penetrated the entire strait, and shot the dwarf on the opposite side was confused.

But in most cases, well, the Marian Lighthouse is indeed a bit too bright, and has even affected the sleep of residents in several nearby towns, including Goodries University Town.

After all, no one wants a small sun to hang outside their windows every night, so the Magicians Association later had to make a second transformation for it.

Now the lighting brightness of the Marian Lighthouse will change with distance. Once it enters within ten nautical miles of Goodris University Town, the brightness of the Marian Lighthouse will weaken, and the closer it is, the lower the brightness, and in the end it will only have the brightness of an ordinary lighthouse. On the contrary, the Marian Lighthouse can still guide passing ships ten nautical miles away.

In addition, in order to avoid the previous incidents being repeated again, the magicians also built a complete defense system for the Marian Lighthouse, which is enough to withstand the bombardment of masters of super magician level all day long. Today, the Marian Lighthouse has become a heavy defensive shield on the coastline of Goodries University Town.
Chapter completed!