The Truth of Magic

Chapter 402 Sacred Breath

Seeing that Zhao Xu had paid back the price, the old man nodded silently.

According to the rules of this business, there is no way to not buy after bargaining.

This already means that 70% to 80% of his business has been completed today.

The old man rolled his eyes lightly, "If you do this, I will lose my money. How about it, just treat it as my first opening today, 90, you can take it if you can accept it."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu could only grin.

A group of underground forces who raised funds to do business without money, and plan to eat from the ground, actually told him that they would lose money?

"Eighty, one price." Zhao Xu insisted.

At this time, the old man also saw the firmness in his eyes, but gently put down another ancient book in his hand, and said, "Deal."

Zhao Xu also took out eight platinum coins directly from his pocket, and placed them one by one on the wooden table that had almost faded in paint.

The old man glanced lightly, but did not go forward to tidy it up, "Then you take that magic book. At three o'clock in the morning tonight, at my door, only the two of you can come, and you can't bring more. "

"good."

Zhao Xu readily agreed, and at the same time put the magic book in his pocket with one hand, and then walked out of the somewhat dilapidated door.

"correct."

Suddenly the old man stopped the two of them again. At this time, Zhao Xu was just about to step out of the threshold, but he hadn't fully walked out yet.

"Although you should know, I'd like to reiterate the rules of this industry with you. Once the goods are out of the house, they will not be returned or exchanged."

"It's natural."

After Zhao Xu finished speaking, he walked out without looking back.

"If this book is fake, we can't settle accounts with him?"

As a paladin, Vivienne found it difficult to understand that there would be no refund or exchange.

"This is the kind of broken rules in this industry. If you regard it as a fake, you can only pretend to pay the tuition yourself."

"I think the demon clan must like this kind of transaction very much." Vivian agreed.

"That's mainly because others dare not turn around and trouble the demons."

"It's the easiest thing to return if you find a fake one. The rest are returned if they're damaged, or even faked." Zhao Xu explained the reason for this rule.

"Then what is the book in your hand doing?"

At this time, Vivian and Zhao Xu were walking on the side of the alley, and the arcade above covered the early morning sun in winter.

"It's just a very ordinary magic notebook."

"It records an immature experimental idea of ​​a four-ring mage. According to the practice of stone skin technique by mage Druan seven hundred years ago, this kind of idea has been rejected," Zhao Xu explained. road.

Stone skin is a spell that costs 250 gold coins and can absorb hundreds of points of damage. It is a well-known life-saving spell in the fourth circle of mages.

Although the foundation of magic has become more and more solid, many mages can only do corner repairs.

But it itself is built under a self-consistent and complete logic, or in other words, the civilization of magic has been improving.

This is also the reason why some ancient magic handwriting is uneven. They can be preserved and handed down because they have gone through a layer of natural screening.

Most of the useless ones cannot be preserved at all, and have long been abandoned or even burned.

Even if it is handed down, those magic notebooks can easily only record some kind of false conjectures about spells, which would greatly reduce the significance of being an antique.

Unless it was the notebook that recorded the final structure of spells after Magic Duncan invented the "Spell Disintegration Technique", it would not be surprising to sell tens of millions of gold coins because of its historical significance.

Including the "Road to the Arcane" written by Antinoya himself, it is even more inestimable.

At this time, Vivian couldn't help showing a disappointed look, "Doesn't this mean that this notebook has to be greatly discounted?"

"Do you think, otherwise, how could we make a deal with eighty gold coins?" Zhao Xu smiled, "But we definitely can't lose money. The paper used in this book is exquisite. After copying the magic itself, it automatically has a special mysterious magic power .”

"So it can be used as an incomplete version of the spell book, and it will definitely work if you sell it for 200 gold coins."

That's why Zhao Xu took a fancy to this magic book.

He didn't care about the artistic value of the arcane text recorded in it or its status in the history of magic civilization.

It is completely based on the actual value after dismantling.

Others thought that he wanted to buy the real but worthless bead that was just beautiful, but in fact, what he wanted to buy was the box that used expensive materials to store the bead.

But at this moment in the magic material shop, the old man who was still very old immediately stood up vigorously.

He took out the booklet in his pocket and began to describe the ins and outs of the two of them in detail, as well as the entire transaction history as a file.

The black market can survive in the alliance for a hundred years, so it naturally has its own reason for survival.

At the same time, I couldn't help but sighed, "My eyes are not bad, I jumped to the real magic tome, the question is how can the really valuable magic tome be reduced to sell here. Forget it, that book is second-hand Fifty gold coins can still be sold, and even if you meet someone you like, you can sell it for seventy or eighty gold coins, so it counts as your pass."  

In the early hours of the morning, the entire street was empty. Even though the Northern Alliance was one of the few forces that did not set up a curfew at night, there was still no one staying at this moment.

When they sneaked in the shadows along the way, and finally arrived at the magic material shop agreed during the day, they found that a carriage had stopped there.

"It smells a little weird," Vivienne complained. In the abyss, she was used to smelling all kinds of scorching and bitter smells like garbage incineration.

It was the first time that the stench of garbage was smelled from a carriage.

"It used to be related to transportation, otherwise it would be very obvious for a carriage to wander on the road in the middle of the night." Zhao Xu said, pulling the curtain of the car and sitting in the carriage without distraction.

"Then let's go?" the groom who was driving asked after seeing that the two had reached a tacit agreement after a slight disagreement.

"Yes." Zhao Xu replied.

Next, Zhao Xu noticed that the carriage driver deliberately led them around a few times before driving in the right direction to the right route.

This kind of cover-up is naturally meaningless to the two mages.

It was not until more than 20 minutes later that Zhao Xu realized that the speed of the carriage had slowed down. When he got out of the carriage again, he found that he had entered some kind of warehouse.

There were also more than a dozen carriages parked beside them, obviously they were not the only ones.

"My name is Sarazi, and I will be your guide from now on. Any transactions you make must go through me." The young coachman under thirty years old said.

Immediately, he led the two of them to the corner of the warehouse, where the cover on the ground had been opened, revealing a bright and bright underground passage.

Zhao Xu nodded secretly. It would be too fake to say that a large space was dug under the ground of Zhenyu City, but the town manager didn't know about it.

It fully explained that this business can be regarded as a government-private partnership.

Next, Zhao Xu and Vivian also followed the guides assigned to them, walking underground.

No one could have imagined that a huge black market for magic items and antiques was secretly hidden in what was supposed to be the city's sewers.

The air in the underground passage is not turbid, and the ventilation is good.

Zhao Xu was thinking about how he would break through here once a battle broke out.

"First of all, I have to remind you of one thing. All the 'objects' here that claim to be 'magic items' have been certified to emit magic aura. Unless they are damaged and cannot be emitted, they will be dealt with on the spot. Prompt," Sarazi said.

Zhao Xu's expression froze slightly.

From this point of view, the magic items under the ground are probably of high grade.

However, most of the magic items that can normally emit magical aura, after being identified by the identification technique, are sold with a clear price.

Except for a few who deliberately tampered with it, forged magical auras or even alienated identification techniques, there were such things, but not many.

Buying these also loses the fun of "Taobao", and it is more of a simple purchase.

The more challenging ones are those "magic items" that have lost part of their effectiveness due to the long time. Even if they detect magic auras on them, they are always ineffective.

And this kind of magic item is also the eyes of the most discerning buyers.

Suddenly.

Vivian's footsteps froze.

With a hint of hesitation, she looked at Zhao Xu for a while, and then activated her telepathic ability to communicate with him.

"President, I just received a 'instruction' from Ms. May."

Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows a little. He didn't expect that Vivienne and the other party would still maintain this level of contact, even through sound transmission.

"The general content of the 'revelation' is that the century-old seal of the 'sacred breath' has been touched, and the executor of the evil ritual is about to drop it from the sky in a few hours."

"What Ms. May means is that if we want to, we can gaze at the sky at dawn, wait for the disaster to come, and then go to the local area to find the opportunity of destiny."

"At that time, the meteor fell from the sky, and it will destroy everything, and it will also bring new opportunities."

Holy breath!

This Zhao Xu just jokingly recalled it the day before yesterday. In his impression, five years later in Zhenyu City, that major disaster event that resounded through the alliance and even the surrounding countries!

The meteor that fell that day unexpectedly arrived tomorrow?

In an instant, Zhao Xu's mind flashed back to the image of himself breaking into the mysterious lair and getting the brass treasure chest.

There is also an evil ritual there, could it have something to do with it?

At this moment, Zhao Xu's mind was clear.

According to what Wu Yue said, the sacred breath, a mysterious object comparable to an artifact, is probably sealed in the sky.

If his guess is correct, that evil ritual is the way to obtain the sacred breath.

only.

spoiled by him.

Perhaps in the previous life, it was also destroyed, the difference is only that the time node is five years later.

Then the master of the ceremony, after losing the way to ascend to the sky, dropped it into the world, intending to obtain it by another way.

On the one hand, the adventurers who heard the news were the enemies of the mastermind behind the scenes.

On the one hand, they are also free cannon fodder for rushing ahead to clear the trap.

It's just that time is extremely tight now.

Even according to Vivienne, it happened shortly after dawn.

An artifact beyond the artifact, Lux herself could not show herself too much before Zhao Xu's peak.

Therefore, "Holy Breath", another extremely mysterious artifact in the legend, said to be able to reverse the effect of the area, must greatly supplement his strength.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu's eyes became firm.

He glanced directly at the item and equipment slots in his character card panel.

Limited Equipment Slots——

Head: Intelligence Hood (Intelligence +6, 36000 gold coins)

Eyes: Warcraft goggles (detect magic to spell recognition, 1500 gold coins)

Neck: Time Retrospective Amulet (Rewind 1 round of time, 40000 gold coins)

Shoulders: Stellar Cloak (immune to non-magical attacks, 132000 gold coins)

Inner body: linen shirt (regular shirt, 1 gold coin)

Outer body (armor): Mage Robe (ordinary robe, 5 gold coins)

Waist: Monk Belt (defense perception bonus and unarmed damage ability, 12000 gold coins)

Hands: none (fist gloves can be equipped)

Arms: None (Wristguards can be equipped)

Feet: Teleportation Boots (movement power for short-distance transmission, 5000 gold coins)

Fingers: Ring of Silence (Silence effect and restricted spells silently cast, 4000 gold coins)

Unlimited Equipment Slots:

Legendary Necromancer (four powerful necromancy spells, 1,505,312 gold)

Rune Staff of Strength (some spells and double damage, 59300 gold coins)

Greater Metamagic Rod of Instantaneous Spells (3 instant spells, 170,000 gp)

Orange Prismatic Ion Stone (caster level +1, 30000 gp)

Inhibiting Skin (minimizes damage, 10000 gp)

Auto-Scribe Quill (Auto-Scribe Scroll, 1750 gp)

Howard Convenience Bag (space backpack, 7500 gold coins)

Zhao Xu took a look, and before he knew it, he had a total of 14 pieces of equipment, worth as much as 1.86 million gold coins.

Although most of them were 1.5 million Necromancer Staff and 170,000 Advanced Instant Scepter, the rest he actually got about 200,000 gold coins from Antinoya.

But to be honest, when Frank, the nine-ring mage, gave him the staff, he only gave him thirty hairs, which logically cost 40% off a million gold coins. That's how it returned to the original price of 50 rounds of 150 gold coins.

It is equivalent to the fragments of the god of death charging him with at least 500,000 gold coins.

But Zhao Xu still clearly noticed that the five positions of his inner body, outer body, hands, arms, and fingers were still empty.

If he made up his mind, he would intervene in the sudden outbreak of the battle for "Holy Breath".

Then he might have to quickly buy these magic items tonight and complete the breakthrough from 0 to 1 first.

In his previous life, he was not in the Northern Alliance when the explosion occurred, so the news that the falling meteor was actually a sacred breath was only heard later.

But now, with the mastermind behind the scenes wanting to obtain the sacred breath that has been sealed, it means that this news cannot be concealed at all.

Even though Ms. May was thousands of miles away, relying on her own arrangements, she realized that the sacred breath had changed, so she told them in advance that they could cut off their beards.

There are probably not a few other forces who want to intervene.

Zhao Xu made up his mind immediately.

He had to make a big purchase tonight, before the new wave of price increases for magic items after the appearance of the Holy Breath, and buy the few missing magic items for himself first.

"Take me directly to the most expensive place," Zhao Xu ordered.

Sleepy and sleepy, there is one chapter left tomorrow, and one of the previous four shifts was missed, so tomorrow is five shifts. Let's put the words here first, and let's get on the combat power list. At the same time, those who have extra monthly tickets can also support the author.