The Truth of Magic

Chapter 400 Black Market

Zhao Xu took out a letter with a red mud seal directly from his arms, revealing the magic mark on it.

"Mystra Mage Association, dispatched and dispatched." As he spoke, he showed off his mage badge by the way.

"Hand it over and have a look." The captain of the guard said with a heavy face.

As the guard at the gate of the city, he himself has received training in document interpretation, and he can roughly recognize the seals of general official documents.

But this kind of thing related to magic forces couldn't help but be careless.

He even considered whether to ask the mage who was resting in the attic next to the city gate to come over to identify it.

Zhao Xu's letter itself was not forged, so he handed it over generously.

And after the guard looked at it several times, he still didn't have the guts to open the red mud for inspection, so he let the two of them back into the city.

The two people in front of them are dressed in traditional mage clothes, wrapping themselves tightly, as if the exposed skin would be scalded by the air.

If they hadn't received an order to strictly investigate in the early morning, he would not dare to ask too many questions about these spellcasters, and would let them go directly.

Really annoyed those noble mages, the city guards would not take the initiative to stand up for a little guy like him.

This is also the survival experience of the majority of Northern Alliance guards.

"Just because we are dressed like this, we don't care about it at all?"

If it was an abyss of incomparable chaos, Vivienne would not be surprised to encounter such a situation, as there was no order at all in the abyss itself.

But now, just because both of them were wearing robes dressed as mages, and handed out a letter at the same time, it was beyond her expectation that they could pass the level so easily.

The "culprit" who made the whole town tense was standing in front of this guard.

"That's natural. At that time, we had been restrained from using the melee ability. At best, the opponent thought that it was attacked by another or even a small team of outstanding fighters. It might even be some kind of mysterious monster."

"Naturally, there is no doubt about our two sorcerers," Zhao Xu explained.

In the battle last night, it could be said that both Zhao Xu and Vivienne were almost exhausted.

Those cavalry were not at all the ordinary stragglers and bandits they encountered.

Completely from the regular army, from the unified training, to the momentum and combat skills of the collective charge.

Zhao Xu was sure at a glance that the other party was definitely from the regular army of the Northern Alliance.

Although it was not the most elite group of brilliant knights guarding the capital, Zhao Xu also recognized the similarities in their training.

It meant that he had made a lot of trouble. Thinking that he still had to work in the Mage Association of the Northern Alliance, Zhao Xu felt that it was better for him to hide it honestly.

And the other party clearly saw that he and others could fly without wings, and they were probably the three-ring mages, so they refused to talk about it, and it was completely as if they were going to destroy them to death.

It is clear that the skeleton-like corpse hanging from the sky in the lair, and the five brass treasure chests in total, involved a lot.

Enough to make them suppress the fear of the mage in their hearts.

Especially the last two youths from extraordinary backgrounds sacrificed several powerful magic items.

So Zhao Xu didn't want to cause trouble, so he took the three treasure boxes recovered by the other party.

He did not take away the remaining magic items used by the other party.

Sometimes, if you take away the magic items of some adventurers from rich families, if you don't get rid of them in time, it is very likely that they will be traced afterwards.

At this moment, Zhao Xu couldn't help but look back at the blue sky in the distance.

"Is there anything unusual?" At this time, Vivienne was also wearing a slender robe, and she deliberately covered her cloak with a scarf to hide her seductive appearance.

A charisma value close to 30 points combined with an appearance that conforms to human aesthetics is completely killing everyone, and it can only be covered up in this way at present.

"It's nothing." Zhao Xu smiled.

In my impression, in the next few years in Zhenyu City, there will only be one big event.

It shouldn't really have something to do with the "sacred breath" that destroyed the entire Dusk Forest five years later, right?

Suddenly Zhao Xu had a headache. He was not around at the time, and he didn't know much about the falling object that fell from the sky and destroyed the entire forest and several small towns.

I just heard that countless adventurers flocked to explore the mysterious fortress that fell from the sky to the ground.

"Vivian, do you really want to?" Zhao Xu asked.

Vivian shook her head immediately, "I have my own restrictions on the use of magic items, and I can only use those very special equipment."

Among the five brass treasure chests, Zhao opened the "Strength Rune Staff" first.

The second treasure chest he opened was the "Monk Belt".

As for the remaining three treasure chests, the arcane runes involved were much more complicated, and Zhao Xu's three-ring "dispelling magic" was not powerful enough to be dispelled by force.

For a while, he could only rely on the powerful mental arithmetic ability of 28 intelligence to crack the arcane code above.

However, Zhao Xu had estimated the amount of calculations, and it would not take a few days to open it and take out the contents.

And the "monk belt" in the second treasure chest looks very ordinary, just a thick rope.

It didn't feel like it was tied to Zhao Xu's underwear, and it didn't have the cool feeling of the magic item itself.

Moreover, the market price of this magic item is only about 13,000 gold coins, so it is not that rare treasure.

Wearing a monk's belt can strengthen the monk's ability.

People like Zhao Xu who didn't have a monk level could strengthen their defensive perception and dodge ability like a level 5 monk, and at the same time get decent unarmed damage.

As a typical representative of unarmed combat, monks have a unique sixth sense to dodge attacks.

It is reflected in the fact that the perception adjustment value can be superimposed on the defense like agility.

At this moment, he was walking on the street, and he seemed to be able to see the rhythm of pedestrians' movements in his mind.

Zhao Xu's defensive ability on the character card panel has also been improved by level 2 (perception), reaching level 20.

They are Tier 10 (Basic), Tier 6 Armor (Advanced Mage Armor), Tier 1 Dexterity, Tier 2 Luck (Strength Rune Staff), Tier 2 Perception (Monk Belt), and -1 (Defect).

If he piled up the shield technique on himself, he could raise it to level 24.

It's just that after Zhao Xu saw Vivian's "+2 Floating Mirror Reflection" big steel shield, he realized something he had neglected.

Armor can't be worn because of the arcane spell failure chance.

But it's not a loss for him to carry a shield like this.

Because it can be superimposed with enchanting effects, especially as long as it is combined with the "floating" effect with a value of +2, he can free his hands without affecting the casting action, and the rest can naturally be combined with other enchantments.

An adventurer who assembles two round shields cannot improve his defense much because of the burden, but it means that he has an additional defensive shield that can be enchanted, which naturally has additional enchanting effects.

Vivian's side can reverse the spell effect "Mirror Reflection" enchantment once a day. As long as you have money, no one will suffer a loss if you wear it.

Even if one is not paying attention, it can reflect the "finger of death" and kill the enemy mage.

"President, where should we go now? Are we going directly to Winter City?" Vivienne asked.

"No, let's go to the black market." Zhao Xu smiled.

"black market?"

In his previous life, Zhao Xu was not wealthy, and he hadn't visited the famous "black market" in Zhenyu City, which was said to include countless underground transactions of magic items.

This time it was rare, so he naturally wanted to purchase a few pieces.

By assisting the temple to trap the succubus and helping Wang Ningwei and Aswig escape from the demiplane, he did get a wealth of gold coins.

In addition, when Antinoya saw the trip, she also gave him a living allowance for the members of the "Final Scroll" and a "consolation money" for her sympathy for Zhao Xu's poverty.

It's not a big problem for Zhao Xu to buy one or two magic items now.

"Go to the black market to see if there are any magic items suitable for you," Zhao Xu said.

"The fight last night?" Vivian blamed herself slightly.

"It's okay, I really need to add some magic equipment."

Zhao Xu sighed. He had already realized that Vivian, as a succubus, was not a natural fighter like other demons.

Her attack methods are limited, and the spell-like abilities she masters are all auxiliary, so "suggestion" and "advanced teleportation" are still somewhat useful.

The rare supernatural ability of oneself can absorb the "energy absorption" ability of other people's level, and it also relies on "kissing" or "forced grapple".

Now Vivian, as a noble paladin, naturally couldn't make such a move.

This ability also becomes half useless.

And Zhao Xu's own spell position was also a big problem.

After the strength is high, he, the player with the most spell slots, can't keep up at this time.

That's why when he went to battle that lair yesterday, he had no choice but to convert his spell ability into melee ability.

When he went to the black market this time, he also wanted to see if he could find the "Sorcerer's Ring".

This magic item could double the innate spell slot of a certain ring of the mage, just as Zhao Xu sold the invisible ring in exchange for the ownership of the mage tower, and his finger was empty.

"I'll take you to the black market later, and you will communicate with me through a spiritual connection, so as not to speak," Zhao Xu ordered.

"Okay." Vivian immediately entered the rhythm.

"There are so many rules in that broken place." Zhao Xu sneered, "I'll talk to you slowly later."

In his previous life, Zhao Xu learned the rules of the vast northern alliance black market, but in the end he didn't use it, which was also a kind of black humor.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little headache.

From his parents to Zheng Xinyun, Wang Ningwei, Aisweixi, Zhang Qi and others, once he encounters a suitable magic item, he has to pay attention to find one for the other party.

It's a pity that the capital he harvested from the mithril mine in Falling Star Lake is still stored in the church in Winter City at this time, and has not yet been officially collected.

Zhao Xu, who originally belonged to the top few wealthy players among the players, suddenly felt the ruthlessness of life.