The Truth of Magic

Chapter 401

Zhao Xu did not go directly to the Mage Association in Zhenyu City, but relied on his memory to head to the nearby magic material store first.

"Why is it called a black market?" Vivienne was still a little hard to understand.

"Because it can't be exposed to the sun. The source of those magic items is not very clear."

"Stealing? Cheating?" As a paladin, Vivienne couldn't help feeling uncomfortable when she heard this kind of behavior.

"There are all of them, but most of them are dug out from the ground." Zhao Xu gave Vivian an ambiguous look.

Vivian couldn't help but stop immediately.

Like Zhao Xu, she turned her head and looked around at the surrounding environment, her eyes above the veil were like cut autumn water.

"Tomb robbery and ruins?"

Speaking of Vivienne, she nodded her head, "The Northern Alliance is close to the Icefield Mountains. In my impression, there was indeed a mage alliance that spanned more than five hundred years, but it was shattered during the Great Cataclysm. That's true. Able to dig treasure out of the ground."

Zhao Xu didn't expect Vivian to have a good grasp of Arthur's geography and history.

He also guessed and retrieved this information by relying on his two major skills of knowledge (place) and knowledge (history), connected the whole context, and figured out a major reason for the emergence of the black market.

It stands to reason that succubi are generally proficient in only one knowledge skill, and can reach a level of more than ten levels, and they will not practice multiple knowledge skills like their mages.

Even someone like Zhao Xu, who is almost full of knowledge, is unique.

Fortunately, now that his intelligence is as high as 28 points, at least 9 of the skill points he will get from upgrading in the future will come from intelligence, which can already cover knowledge and skills to upgrade together.

"Let's go."

At this time, Zhao Xu had already walked to a material store with a clock flag hanging at the door. The storefront was so dilapidated that it hadn't been repaired for many years.

"There will be magic items in this kind of store?" Vivienne was a little unbelievable.

"This is a magic item worth tens of thousands at every turn. It will definitely not be placed here." Zhao Xu laughed.

"You have to go in first and prove that you are the buyer before they will take us to those underground houses."

"Then the chess piece of the mechanical clock means that this store is the entrance?" Vivian was a little confused.

"No, it means that the other party sells antiques and artworks, and these things are often sold together with magic items that can last for many epochs, basically through the same channel." Zhao Xu explained.

"antique?"

As Vivienne who has an endless life, it is somewhat difficult to understand the term "antique". For them, it is not a problem to store a random stone coin for thousands of years.

Especially the devils are likely to have dealt with a family spanning seven or eight generations from the beginning to the end, and they can even collect the souls of every generation of the other family.

"Antiques, you can understand them as works of art from the past. As for your stone brooms that haven't been worn out for thousands of years, they are called second-hand goods, which are different." Zhao Xu quickly corrected.

After speaking, he opened the curtain and walked into the material store.

Compared with the small storefront seen from the outside, after Zhao Xu entered at this moment, on the cabinet that touched the sky, rows and rows of glass bottles and jars were neatly stacked, inside which were stored all kinds of magic spells. Material.

Zhao Xu was no stranger to most of the materials because he had a full watch.

On the other side of the cabinet, there are many old and strange items, including simple long swords like noble swords, and scarred shields, as well as some magic tools, ornaments, bottles and jars, etc. There are all kinds of small samples, like a grocery store.

Sitting behind the counter was an old man wearing a fur hat. He had a thin face and leaned back on the armchair.

"buy what?"

"Look at the old guy." Zhao Xu replied with a code word.

"How many of those can you give?"

"Breaking a hundred is not a problem."

Only then did the old man's eyes light up, "So you can pick one from my cabinet?"

At this time, Zhao Xu was not far away from the cabinet, but he stopped and kept scanning the things on the cabinet.

"What? What quantifier? Why do you say that?" Vivienne asked. Ever since she came in, she had noticed that Zhao Xu's lines had completely changed.

"This is because I'm afraid that you laymen will interrupt when we exchange the price. There is no fixed price, and it even depends on the price of the magic item. There are 10,000 gold coins, and there are also 1 gold coins."

"The one in what I said just now refers to one hundred gold coins."

Vivienne nodded this time, and Zhao Xu said that he could break through a hundred, because the budget he brought this time was over ten thousand, and he also set the direction for the old man and others to lead the way.

Zhao Xu slowly approached and carefully observed the "goods" on the shelves, but he didn't reach out.

In fact, he can now cast the minute-level three-ring spell "Mysterious Vision". This spell can make him emit radar detection like "detection magic" all the time, and at the same time, the scale is even wider, reaching tens of meters away.

It's just that the spell cannot last for a reason that can be canceled.

But when he was at level 7, the second level ability of the guardian of spells was the spell of the same name as "arcane vision", so it was not a big problem.

"What does the old man mean by asking us to pick something?" Vivian asked curiously.

"Let's prove our ability. Buying something from him is the price he guarantees us to enter the black market. Otherwise, how can we outsiders enter so easily."

Zhao Xu made a special trip to the black market before he became the vice president of the Mage Association of Falling Star Town, because he was afraid that he would be delayed. His actions were too eye-catching, and he might be paid attention to and even missed.

"So we have to pick something that doesn't look expensive and won't suffer much?" Vivian immediately reacted.

"Yeah, we still have to pick the real thing," Zhao Xu said.

"If we miss the eyes, it means that we are novices who don't know how to do it at all. In this way, he will take us no matter whether we are right or wrong, but what we go to is a real black shop that is all fake and specializes in killing novices with bad eyesight." Zhao Xu Speaking of it, I still have lingering fears.

He had suffered this kind of loss in his previous life.

Fortunately, in this life, at worst, he just flipped the chessboard. But unless it was absolutely necessary, Zhao Xu would not do such a cheap thing.

If the skills are not as good as others, it is too difficult to afford to lose.

Seeing Zhao Xu concentrating on walking to the value and observing carefully, Vivian, who did not have the ability to practice valuation, was helpless.

She couldn't help but telepathically said: "You might as well let me negotiate with him."

Vivienne, who is naturally charismatic, is actually only in her early twelfth level of negotiation. What is really astonishingly high is her 19th level bluff and intimidation skills.

"Follow the rules, and you won't suffer from not having the rules," Zhao Xu said.

At this time, Vivienne from the "lawful good" camp looked at Zhao Xu from the "neutral good" camp, and no matter what she said, she was on the more orderly side.

Although she was a chaotic and evil little succubus before.

After Zhao Xu hesitated for a moment, he pointed to a book in the lower right corner, "How much does it cost?"

The old man smiled immediately. He almost choked while smoking his pipe, and said after a while, "That is a very ancient arcane book, worth 100 gold coins."

"Pass it to me?" Zhao Xu said.

At this time, he was clearly standing in front of the cabinet, but he was unmoved.

The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he stretched out his hand and leaned on his crutches, and moved over step by step.

During the whole process, his rhythm was very slow, as if he was worrying about the patience of the two of them.

But Zhao Xu kept waiting. Waited until the other party picked up the magic book and put it on a mahogany box covered with a layer of silk brocade.

He picked up the book with confidence.

"Afraid of accidents?" Vivienne already understood the meaning of Zhao Xu's actions.

"That is, who would be to blame if the whole book fell apart after I picked it up, including those jade stones, not to mention that I didn't even know the price just now."

Zhao Xu said.

In this business, sometimes it is a lifetime deal, and sometimes it is a one-time deal.

In his previous life, he also helped Zhang Qi and fooled fakes with egg whites.

"You humans are too complicated." Vivian commented. She couldn't help touching her waist, but it was empty. Only then did she realize that her holy avenger had been put back into the dimension bag together with the Mithril acceleration armor all over her body.

At this time, Zhao Xu patiently flipped through a few pages. After his own full-level ninth-level "spell recognition" was added to the ninth-level bonus of the intelligence attribute, he had a full 18th-level spell recognition, which can be said to be outstanding.

The current player is first.

In an instant, he saw something strange in this random magic book.

"I can see up to 70 copies of this book." Zhao Xu immediately gave his price expectantly.

Needless to say, at this time his "ge" means a gold coin.

"President, don't you want to cut a fortune?" Vivienne was a little hard to understand for a moment. In their abyss, a discount is the most basic courtesy.

"Here, if the price is more than half, it means that you think the other party is deliberately killing you, and he will drive you away in the next second." Zhao Xu said angrily.

For the prices of magic items and magic books, in the eyes of professionals like them, the price estimation error basically does not exceed 10%.

"Then what kind of book is this?" Vivian struggled to decipher the mysterious words on the cover.