Green Monster Epic

Chapter 672: Crimson Wings

A local snake is, after all, a local snake; their access to information is indeed not bad.

Although the human youth before him was only in his early twenties, and his skill and strength were estimated to barely reach the level of a 7-8 grade rogue, through this exchange, Allen gained a rough understanding of Crystal Frost City.

The target Allen wanted to contact, the Eternal Truth Council, held a transcendent position in Crystal Frost City.

Although most mages were aloof and rarely interacted with ordinary people, the magic academies and science academies they established in Crystal Frost City indeed had a profound impact on the entire Ice and Snow Kingdom.

Within the kingdom, there were many institutions closely related to the Truth Council, or even created by the council itself, in addition to the magic academies and science academies mentioned earlier, there was also the Crimson Wings Merchant Guild mentioned by Adem, the kingdom's largest Truth Library, the Titan Foundry…

The legendary crystal expertise that Allen wanted to find actually had several paths to follow.

Excluding major forces such as the Adventurers Guild and the Assassins Guild, both the Crimson Wings Merchant Guild and the Magic Academy had the opportunity to allow Allen to come into contact with this expertise crystal.

In addition, Adem also gave Allen a detailed introduction to the top magic academies and science academies established by the Truth Council.

For example, the magic academy named 'Rising Sun' has always recruited students from outside.

As long as they can afford the expensive tuition and material fees for learning magic, all races with magical talent can come to the Rising Sun Magic Academy to enroll.

The Kingdom's Academy of Sciences, which specializes in researching various novel sciences and exploring the truth of the world, generally does not recruit students and teachers from outside because it cooperates with the royal family.

However, if someone is interested, they can also invest in a certain direction of research at the Academy of Sciences.

After the final research results are put into practical production, the benefits will be distributed according to the specific investment ratio.

For this reason, the Ice and Snow Kingdom has also formulated a law on patent inventions.

Unless authorized by the inventor, no other merchant guild may privately imitate production, and violators may even have their entire merchant guild confiscated and prohibited from doing business in the kingdom.

Of course, given the complex situation of the human kingdom and the lack of a unified regime, relying solely on the Ice and Snow Kingdom to promote this law would definitely reduce its effectiveness, but at least it can be regarded as a kind of progress, and a strong support and motivation for inventors with clever minds.

Therefore, after the promulgation of this law, various whimsical gadgets have emerged one after another in the Ice and Snow Kingdom.

The steam train that Allen saw before was just the most conspicuous invention among them.

Allen was now a little worried whether the funds he carried were qualified to make investments, at least in the name of investment, to see what stage the research in the Kingdom's Academy of Sciences had developed to.

Years ago, at an exchange meeting, Allen used the resources he had obtained from his adventures to collect dozens of alchemy books for the tribe, hoping to enable the tribe to make outstanding progress in alchemy.

However, Allen clearly underestimated the path of alchemy.

Even though the tribe had collected various alchemy books and inherited crystals for many years, and the goblins who studied this path were also very excellent, even now, the tribe could only make a little name for themselves in alchemy in the Northern Border area.

The path of alchemy involves too many categories, such as calipers that measure fine hair strands, such as balances that weigh accurately to milligrams…

The larger and more precise the creation, the more precise tools are needed to assist it.

Although many alchemy books record alchemy tools that the Green Field Tribe can now manufacture with their resources, most of them are outdated products.

Even if the tribe's alchemists produce a batch, it would be difficult to sell them, let alone make money.

Today's alchemy is constantly innovating and changing with each passing day.

Only wanting to rely on old and ancient books to learn and specialize, the opportunity to stand out is slim.

Allen had only heard before that the four major civilizations were constantly developing new alchemical creations, and at that time he was full of confidence that his tribe would be able to do it one day.

However, it was not until this time that he personally came to the Ice and Snow Kingdom and saw the various convenient tools that were gradually becoming popular among the people that he suddenly realized why the development of these four civilizations was always so much faster than their wilderness.

"Hello, brave warrior, do you need anything?"

The Crimson Wings Merchant Guild's facade was exceptionally conspicuous.

The building, constructed from gray-white marble square bricks, had a front door at the first-floor entrance that was five meters high and wide.

Except for those giant races that could not enter, any other race would not have any difficulty entering or exiting.

Entering directly from the front door, a dazzling array of goods were piled high on the exhibition stands, and in front of the exhibition stands were rows of neat glass counters, inside which were also placed some exquisite and small objects.

A delicate-looking and graceful young human woman, seeing Allen entering the hall, walked over with a smile and enthusiastically inquired about Allen's intentions.

"I want to sell something, please have your shop's person in charge come out."

Allen nodded slightly, and said with a calm expression.

"…Warrior, if you want to sell materials, I can also serve you."

Although Shama was only in her early twenties, as a salesperson in the merchant guild's main store, she had been doing it for 3-4 years and was used to seeing all kinds of adventurers showing off.

She just glanced at the adventurer in front of her, and saw that he didn't have much luggage behind him, and that double-edged battle axe looked a bit rough, and she knew that she had encountered the same guy again today.

However, after years of dealing with such adventurers, she had already summarized a lot of experience in dealing with these guys, so the enthusiastic smile on her face remained unchanged, but she politely rejected the other party's request.

Allen looked up and glanced at the human woman in front of him, but he didn't get angry.

He just reached into the dimensional bag made from the belly of the Void Spider and rummaged around, and when he took it out again, there were four sharp barbs in his hand that came from the early years of killing several assassination demons, and they were regenerated from their forearms.

"Then help me see, if your merchant guild buys these things, what kind of price would they be."

"Ah, warrior, please wait a moment, I will take you to a separate room upstairs to rest for a while, and then ask our merchant guild's appraisal master to appraise it carefully, we will definitely give you a suitable price."

Seeing Allen take out these nearly one-meter-long black bone spurs from the small luggage behind him as if by magic, although Shama didn't know the value of this material, she also understood that an adventurer who could own a dimensional bag would definitely not be weak.

Although she didn't know why this hobgoblin adventurer was dressed so shabbily, she just changed her face slightly, and then adjusted her mentality without causing Allen's resentment to make amends.

"I think, you should talk to your merchant guild's supervisor and ask him to come out to meet me."

Allen remained noncommittal, but only put forward his own suggestion.

"Okay, I'll take you upstairs first."

Now that the other party had proven his strength, Shama naturally knew what to do.

The second floor had no furnishings, instead resembling a typical restaurant, with the spacious floor divided into individual rooms. Allen's sharp eyes scanned the materials of these rooms, and he couldn't help but sigh at the Scarlet Wings Merchant Guild's wealth. Most of the room partitions were made of magical plant materials.

Shama quickly led Allen to a room and gently pushed it open, ushering Allen into what was clearly a private lounge set up to entertain distinguished guests.

"Please wait a moment, I'll go notify our manager on duty today, as well as the appraiser."

"Go ahead."

Allen nodded.

Although Allen's primary goal in coming to the guild was to search for the Dual-Minded legendary feat, after seeing the progress of alchemy in the Icewind Country, he had other ideas.

However, both his original goal and his suddenly emerging ideas would definitely require a great price to obtain.

And this time, Allen had only set out to attend the Alliance meeting, without preparing funds to purchase a legendary feat. Later, he accumulated resources by auditing the clan's properties in Mansa City, but the catering businesses in Mansa City had just sent a batch of funds back to the clan the previous year, and this year they had just reinvested and renovated the clan's stores. Most of the remaining funds had been converted into resources, so Allen hadn't been able to bring much disposable money with him.

It was laughable, really. Allen's personality didn't value material possessions, and the money earned by the clan was basically deposited directly into the public treasury. As the clan leader, Allen's dimensional bag only contained some precious materials and combat-useful items he had acquired over years of hard fighting. As for money, it was just two or three hundred gemstones of various colors. The actual number of gold coins in the dimensional bag didn't exceed one hundred.

He stored gemstones because they could potentially provide energy in combat, such as for some magical items he kept, which required gemstones for power. Otherwise, Allen wouldn't store many gemstones in his dimensional bag.

Now, if he wanted to purchase this high-value legendary crystal, Allen would have to sell the precious materials in his dimensional bag to raise enough funds.

As Allen sat at the square table, examining the warmly decorated room, the door suddenly opened again. Shama, who had led Allen upstairs earlier, now walked in with a human woman veiled in light纱, whose beautiful face was vaguely visible, and a middle-aged gnome.

"Hello, warrior, thank you for waiting."

The veiled human woman opened her cherry lips and spoke as if singing: "I am Germaine, the manager of the shops stationed in this building by the guild. Just call me Germaine."

"This is Master Karsten of our guild, who has deep experience with bone and mineral materials."

"Hello, Ms. Germaine."

Allen remained seated, not getting up, simply nodding as a greeting.

Germaine's eyes flickered. Just as Shama had judged Allen's worth, Germaine, as she scanned Allen's body, was indeed somewhat disappointed. However, considering that Shama had confirmed to her that the other party possessed a dimensional bag and had produced several bone materials that could trigger a response from a magic ring, she maintained a friendly attitude and didn't bother with Allen's seemingly pretentious behavior.

"These spines should be the barbs growing on the forearms of an Assassin Demon."

The gnome didn't seem to notice Allen's rudeness at all. As soon as he entered the room, his gaze was drawn to the four bone spines that Allen had lazily placed on the square table in front of him, without bothering to put them back into his dimensional bag.

Without waiting for an invitation, the gnome named Karsten went straight to the table, picked up a bone spine, and began to stroke it with his hand.

"The Assassin Demon's forearm barbs are as hard as iron, naturally carrying the aura of abyssal corruption. Anyone pierced by its barbs will, at best, be poisoned in battle and have their strength greatly reduced, and at worst, have their flesh corrupted by the abyss, dying in agony…"

"Assassin Demon barbs grow five centimeters every ten years. To grow to this length, its strength must be at least High-Tier peak…"

"I apologize, Master Karsten is just like that."

"It's okay."

After leading Germaine and Karsten into the room, Shama quietly left, remembering to close the door behind her, instantly separating the inside and outside into two different worlds.

"Are you planning to sell these materials directly, warrior, and exchange them for gold coins and jewelry, or do you want to exchange them for other useful items?"

Although Karsten had only roughly judged the source of the bone spines Allen provided, Germaine had already made a rough estimate of their value in her mind. She also looked at the ordinary-looking bearcat in front of her with some respect.

There was no other way. In order to conceal his most prominent physical characteristics, Allen had specially wrapped a heavy, ordinary set of armor over his black dragon scale armor, making his figure look as burly as an ordinary bearcat.

And since he had carried that battle axe all the way here, Allen felt it was a waste to just throw it away. After all, there were countless tribal warriors in the wilderness who dreamed of owning such a weapon.

Since he had to conceal his identity anyway, Allen was too lazy to fuss. He entered the Scarlet Wings Merchant Guild in this low-level warrior attire.

"I want to exchange for something, but I don't know if your guild has it?"

"Hehe he he."

Germaine raised her slender right hand to her veil, unable to help but giggle.

"As long as you can afford the price, warrior, our guild can help you find anything that exists in the world of Faerûn, except for items related to the gods."

"Is that so?"

Allen looked up, not quite believing her.

"Then please tell me, warrior, what do you want to exchange for?"

Germaine wasn't annoyed, she simply asked calmly.

"I want a Dual-Minded legendary feat crystal, I don't know if your guild has it?"

As soon as Allen said this, not only was the human female manager, Germaine, who was standing gracefully, shocked, but even the gnome, Karsten, who was carefully examining the material of the bone spines with a magnifying glass, was interrupted and looked up at Allen.

A book friend reminded me earlier that the feasibility of steam trains is not high. I am deeply awakened by this, which is indeed the case.

Given the chaotic situation in the wilderness and the fact that most small and medium-sized tribes still lack fine iron weapons, laying rails in the wilderness is indeed a fantasy.

Fortunately, I just want the protagonist to open his eyes, and I don't really want to do this, so it doesn't hinder the subsequent writing.

As for the book friend who said that there were alchemical books similar to steam airships exchanged at the exchange meeting before, I specifically went back and checked it. This is not the case. Only two sentences were mentioned at the exchange meeting, and the exchanged books were not related to this.

Thank you again to the book friends for filling in the gaps.