Blue Sword

"Are there any other recipes?" Asik continued to ask using the sound machine.

"I don't have the formula for Life I, but I have a clue." Compartment 10 replied, "40 pounds."

"Deal." Asik said.

The banknotes were swept away by the shadows, and after a while, another note came over.

"Please go to the house at No. 44 Dorok Road in the ghetto at 12 o'clock tonight. The Life I formula you want is there."

"Is this...an invitation letter?" Nora was a little hesitant.

"Well, I have a bit of an impression." Ask recalled that this seemed to be a side mission.

"Impression?" Nora was puzzled.

"It's okay, I'll go with you tonight." Ask said.

Nora immediately felt relieved and put the note away.

Ask asked again several times, but no one responded. Just when Medea and Paige were a little disappointed, the host suddenly spoke:

"Life Stealing I and Desire I are the potion sequences for the vampire route and the succubus route respectively. I happen to have them, but what price can you pay?"

"Cash?" Asked.

"Okay, a formula of 1,000 pounds." The host leaned back leisurely on the chair and supported his head with one hand. "Compared to the general price of the Sequence I formula, it is ten times more expensive. However, this is a seller's market, and I’m not short of money.”

"Perhaps we can use something else to replace the cash." Ask said in his heart, "If you want to use me as a fat sheep to slaughter, then don't blame me for cheating you once," "For example, secret information?"

"You can roughly write down the information you think is valuable." The host said, "If I agree and am willing to buy, then please add more detailed information to complete the transaction."

"Okay." Asik wrote a sentence on the paper and handed it to the shadow tentacle in front of him.

The host took the note and looked at it. It read:

The whereabouts of the Shadow Blade.

"Unexpectedly, he is also a historian." Through the transmission of the shadow tentacles, the host's undisguised voice sounded. It sounded like a middle-aged man in the prime of life. "If you are talking about the end of the Third Age, Bruno assassinated Caesar. I think I’m still interested in the Emperor’s sharp blade.”

"The clues about the Shadow Blade, whether true or false, should be worth 2,000 pounds." Ask replied.

"Yes, but the premise is that you can't fake it so much that I can see the flaws at a glance." The host replied, "Just write it."

All the girls couldn't understand what was going on, and they didn't dare to go over and take a look - after all, from the host's tone, everyone already knew that it was a very valuable weapon - the clues alone were worth 2,000 pounds, the value of the original body. How huge should it be? It is probably a precious item that can only be used by high-ranking people!

"It's written." Asik handed over the note. The shadow tentacles swept it away, and after a while, two pieces of paper were returned.

Did the other party pass the review? Are the clues Aske wrote true? Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"This is actually a loss, right?" Medea couldn't help but said out loud, "Two Sequence I formulas in exchange for a precious clue worth 2,000 pounds? I spent 500 pounds to buy it, and mixed in five or six extraordinary You’ll definitely be able to buy it at the gathering!”

"It's just a clue." Asik said easily, "Whether we can get it or not is another matter."

From his tone, it seems that it is not easy to get the Shadow Blade. Then everyone settled down and looked at the two pieces of paper in Aske's hand.

The recipe for Life Steal I is:

-Ingredient-

Golden striped leech meat paste (Mash_of_Golden_Leech)

-Subsidiary-

Fruit_of_Eden

A spoonful of Corfu olive oil (Olive_Oil_of_Corfu)

A little ferrous oxide powder (Podwer_of_Ferrous_Oxide)

-Processing-

Take one Eden fruit and place it in a stone bowl, mash it manually with a pestle and squeeze the juice (note: you cannot use any metal juicing equipment), filter out impurities, add a spoonful of Corfu olive oil, and stir clockwise evenly. . Add a little ferrous oxide powder and continue stirring counterclockwise. When the viscous liquid turns red, add golden striped leech meat paste and stir counterclockwise until it condenses into lumps before eating.

"Do you remember this recipe, Aske?" Peggy asked nervously.

"It should be true." Ask said, "Leech represents stealing, Eden fruit represents life, ferrous oxide represents blood, and olive oil represents flesh. It is correct in a mystical sense. Eden fruit and Corfu The olive oil is all produced in the Siris province, the golden-striped leech meat paste... I have clues, and I can figure it out later."

So Paige also breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone looked at another recipe of Desire I:

-Ingredient-

A geoduck of Bathnia Gulf (Panopea_Abrupta_of_Bathnia_Gulf)

-Subsidiary-

Two scoops of menarche of human virgin (Menophania_of_Human_Virgin)

Lithocarpus_Pachylepis_with_Purgatory_smell

75% medical alcohol 10 ml (Medical_Alcohol)

-Processing-

Crush the purgatory-stained geoduck, dissolve it in 10 ml of 75% medical alcohol, filter out impurities, add two tablespoons of human virgin menstruation, swirl to mix, pour evenly onto the surface of Basniya Bay geoducks, and gnaw on them Bite and chew before taking.

"If this formula is real." Nora pretended to be relaxed, "At least I can provide the auxiliary ingredient of medical alcohol."

"Basnia Bay geoduck?" Medea asked in distress, "What is that?"

"The Gulf of Basniya is in the Kalma Empire in the north." Ask said, "This geoduck is the most popular spiritual material in Constantinople. After being made into a potion, it has a strong stimulant for men. effect."

"So that's it." Medea's pretty face turned red, and she obviously understood what "adding to the fun" meant, "Then I'll leave it to our Captain Aske. I know Hou Linke, and I can find him after I go out. Ask the merchant from the Elania Plateau."

"It's up to you to figure out how to deal with menarche." Asik coughed and said.

"Of course, I can't let you provide it, can I?" Medea rolled her eyes at him with an angry look.

"Even if I have the will, I can't do it." Ask said.

The transactions at the gathering continued, and Democritus's classical mystical work "The Great System of the Universe" was sold one after another, a gold jewelry necklace said to bring good luck, and a pair of gold necklaces said to have been worn by the Queen of Pontus. , an exquisite crown containing clues to the "Storm III" potion formula.

It is worth mentioning that the transaction item taken out from a certain compartment was actually a clear and beautiful frontal photo of the Imperial Princess Theodora. This kind of ordinary item that has no spirituality at all was sold for a high price of 200 pounds. It was taken by the rich man No. 13 without blinking an eye. God knows if No. 13 is from the royal family, so he wants to recycle the photo of this princess. .

"I'm going to sell you some big news." When it was about to end, the voice in cubicle No. 4 said, "The price is 5 pounds per person, which is not expensive, but it is definitely worth the money. As a reminder, it is the same as everyone's The fate of the next few months, and even the fate of the entire empire, is closely related. Mr. Host, if there are compartments that are unwilling to buy, please use your shadow ability to block them."

"Okay." The host nodded slightly. Ever since the news of Asker selling him the Shadow Blade, the organizer seemed to be a little distracted, as if he wanted to end the party early.

"So, is there anyone who doesn't want to buy it?" the voice in cubicle No. 4 asked with a smile.

No one answered. The price of 5 pounds is actually not cheap, but since No. 4 said so, everyone is willing to buy it - mainly because previous transactions often cost several hundred pounds, so that everyone's psychological bottom line of consumption has been raised.

The host waved his hand impatiently, then stretched out countless tentacles from the shadow of the soles of his feet, rolled out 5-pound bills from each compartment, and flicked them roughly into compartment No. 4. Afterwards, there was no sound in cubicle No. 4 for a long time. It wasn’t until someone urged impatiently that No. 4’s voice sounded again:

"Sorry, sorry everyone, it took me a while to pick up the banknotes on the ground. The news I want to sell is that at two o'clock this afternoon, His Majesty the Emperor Constantine failed in his campaign against the Seljuk Empire in Anatolia. ——In the Battle of Manzikert, the Seljuk side set up a crescent formation to set up an ambush. The empire's armored holy cavalry and guerrilla cavalry were killed by the succubus troops' flame ability projection, and were angered and rushed into the ambush. "

"Immediately afterwards, in order to rescue this cavalry unit, the emperor ordered the large troops to go to the central position, and then they also fell into the encirclement of the Seljuks. The defection of the Cuman mercenaries was the last straw that crushed the imperial front. As of just this afternoon At 4 o'clock, the imperial army had declared a complete retreat in Manzikert, and a full-scale Seljuk invasion in Anatolia was inevitable."

There were many extraordinary beings who still did not understand the significance of this news, but there were also extraordinary beings who understood its importance and immediately asked through the loudspeaker:

"How many people escaped?"

"Where is His Majesty the Emperor? Escape or be captured?"

Compartment No. 4 replied with a wry smile:

"I don't know the more detailed information. After all, just when I learned the news, the vanguard of the empire's defeated army withdrew to Manzikert. However, everyone should know what the meaning behind this news means, right? Anatolia The peninsula is the vast majority of the empire's territory east of Constantinople. It is an important pillar of the empire in terms of resources, population, and soldiers. The defeat of the emperor's army in Manzikert led to the collapse of Anatolia. There is almost no defensive power left. And if Anatolia is lost, to what extent will the prices of various supplies in the imperial capital rise? There are also only one tenth of the imperial residents of Anatolia who fled westward to the imperial capital. What kind of social unrest will it bring to Constantinople?”

His two questions caused everyone present to fall silent. Especially Asker, who knew the main plot of the public beta stage, knew that this person's prediction was seriously optimistic. In fact, two months later, the Seljuk army pushed to the city of Nicaea and all of Anatolia was occupied. In another half month, the Seljuk navy began to transport troops across the Aegean Sea unscrupulously. The troops officially appeared on the Thracian plain west of Constantinople, cutting off Constantinople's connection with the west.

Two months later, Constantinople fell and the remaining princes and nobles fled to the province of Cyris. It only took a total of 5 months from the defeat of the Eastern Solomon Empire at Manzikert to the fall of the imperial capital and its demise.

This is also the reason why he sold the two shops left by his family and replaced them all with war equipment and supplies. The defeat of Manzikert alone caused the interruption of cross-border trade between the East and the West in Constantinople, and 70% to 80% of shops began to lose money. Two months later, the Seljuq army attacked the city of Nicaea. House prices in the city dropped to negative numbers, and no one wanted the land deeds and title certificates for free. War is coming, what's the point of everyone still guarding the houses in the imperial capital!

The party is over. According to the host's arrangement, each compartment was opened separately, and waiters in suits and leather shoes escorted everyone out in turn. This was also to prevent someone from ambush outside and ambush other extraordinary people attending the party.

The waiter who received Asker's guests, probably under the instructions of the host, sent the group directly to the Kinmen subway station down the mountain before leaving. When they got on the subway, everyone was thinking about the formula and became distracted for a while.

Back near the ancestral home, Asker took people to the blacksmith shop again, took off Eleanor's original armor, and ordered a new cotton armor robe to cover up the dark green of Eleanor's meteorite armor. color.

"Next, let's split up." Ask said to everyone, "Medea, Peggy, you go to the Eastern merchants in the city and try to buy a pair of shadow insect beast eyes and a thick scale tainted with the aura of purgatory. Here It’s 500 pounds of capital. Eleanor and Nora, you go to the Golden Horn Bay to find factories to buy artificial diamond powder and ferrous oxide powder. Industrial products are relatively cheap. I will give you 50 pounds of capital. I will take the remaining materials. Done."

"Please note that spiritual materials are the sales materials that the church focuses on monitoring. Be careful not to be discovered by traders controlled by the church's spies. Medea, you have the ability of Psychic I. Do a good job of testing before trading."

"Understood." Everyone knew that this was related to their own magic potion formula, so they all responded in unison.