The old man nodded silently when he saw Zhao Xu paying back the price.
The rules of this business are that there is no way to make a counter-offer and not buy.
This already means that he has completed 70% to 80% of his business today.
The old man rolled his eyes lightly, "If you do this, I will lose my money. Let's just treat it as my first opening today. 90 pieces, 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 capital and dug food 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 determination in his eyes, and he just gently put down the other book in his hand and said, "Deal."
Zhao Xu also took out eight platinum coins directly from his pocket and lined them up one by one on the wooden table whose paint had almost fallen off.
The old man glanced at it lightly, but did not step forward to clean it up. "Then take that magic book. At three o'clock tonight, at three o'clock in the morning, only two of you can come to my door, and you can't bring more. "
"good."
Zhao Xu readily agreed, and at the same time he put the magic book in his pocket and walked out of the somewhat dilapidated door.
"correct."
Suddenly, the old man stopped the two of them again. At this time, Zhao Xugang was about to step out of the threshold, but had not yet fully stepped out.
"Although you should know, I would like to reiterate to you the rules of this business. Once the goods are shipped out, 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 the score with him?"
As a paladin, Vivian found it hard to understand that she would not return or exchange her items.
"This industry is so rule-breaking. If you regard it as a fake, you can only treat it as paying your own tuition."
"I think the demon clan must like this kind of transaction very much." Vivian agreed.
"The main reason is that others don't dare to come back and cause trouble for the demons."
"If you find a fake product and return it, that's the easiest thing to do. Others have to return it if it's damaged, or even if it's counterfeited and then return the fake product." Zhao Xu explained the reason for the formation of this rule.
"Then what is the use of this book in your hand, President?"
Vivian and Zhao Xu were walking on one side of the alley. The arcade above blocked the early morning sun in winter.
"It's just a very ordinary magic notebook."
"What is recorded in it is an immature experimental idea of a fourth-ring mage. According to the Stone Skin Technique, Master Drouin's practice seven hundred years ago has already rejected this type of idea." Zhao Xu explained. road.
Stoneskin is a spell that costs 250 gold coins and can absorb hundreds of points of damage. It is a famous life-saving spell in the fourth level of the mage.
Although the foundation of magic has become increasingly solid, many mages can only make minor repairs.
But it itself is based on a self-consistent and complete logic, or in other words, the civilization of magic has been progressing.
This is also the reason why some ancient magic handwritings are of mixed quality. They can be preserved and passed down because they have gone through a layer of natural screening.
The vast majority of useless ones cannot be preserved at all, and have long been abandoned or even burned.
Even if they are handed down, those magic notebooks can easily just record some wrong magic conjecture that has been falsified, which greatly reduces the significance of even being an antique.
Unless it's the legendary notebook in which Mordenkainen invented the "Spell Disintegration" and recorded the final structure of the spell, it's because of its great historical significance and it wouldn't be surprising to sell it for tens of millions of gold coins.
Including the "Path of Arcane" written by Antinoya himself, it is even more difficult to estimate.
At this time, Vivian couldn't help but look disappointed, "Doesn't this mean that this notebook will be greatly discounted?"
"Do you think otherwise we could have closed the deal with eighty gold coins?" Zhao Xu said with a smile, "But we will definitely not lose money. The paper used in this book is very sophisticated. After copying the magic, it will automatically possess special mysterious magic power. .”
"So it can be used as a broken version of the spell book. It can definitely be sold for 200 gold coins."
This was the reason why Zhao Xu took a fancy to this magic book.
He was not at all interested in the artistic value of the arcane text recorded in it or its status in the history of magical civilization.
It is completely based on the actual value after disassembly.
Others thought he wanted to buy the real but not valuable, just beautiful beads. In fact, what he wanted to buy was the box made of precious materials to store the beads.
But now in the magic material store, the old man who was still looking old immediately stood up vigorously.
He took out the booklet in his pocket and began to describe in detail the ins and outs of the two people, as well as the entire transaction history as a record.
The black market can survive in the alliance for hundreds of years, and it naturally has its own reasons for survival.
At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh, "My eyesight is not bad. I jumped to the real magic book. The question is, how can a truly valuable magic book be reduced to being sold here. Forget it, that book is a second-hand goods. You can still sell it for fifty gold coins, and even if you find someone you like, you can sell it for seventy or eighty gold coins, so you can pass the test."
In the early hours of the morning, the entire street was deserted. Even though the Northern Alliance was one of the few forces that did not set 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 materials store they agreed on during the day, they found that a carriage had already stopped there.
"The smell is a bit weird," Vivian complained. She was naturally used to smelling all kinds of burnt, bitter smells like burning garbage in the abyss.
This was the first time I smelled the stench of garbage from a carriage.
"It was related to transportation before, otherwise it would be obvious for a carriage to wander on the road in the middle of the night." Zhao Xu said as he opened the curtain without any distractions and got into the carriage.
"Are we leaving then?" The groom driving the car asked after seeing that the two had a slight disagreement and then reached a tacit understanding.
"Okay." Zhao Xu responded.
Next, Zhao Xu realized that the carriage driver deliberately took them for a few turns before driving in the right direction and on the right route.
This kind of blinding method naturally has no meaning at all to the two mages.
It wasn't until more than twenty minutes later that Zhao Xu noticed that the carriage had slowed down. When he got off the carriage again, he realized that he had entered a place similar to a warehouse.
There were also a dozen carriages parked nearby, and obviously they were not the only ones.
"My name is Sarachi, and I will be your leader. Any transactions you make will have to go through me." said the young coachman who was less than thirty years old.
He immediately led the two of them to the corner of the warehouse, where the cover on the floor had been opened, revealing a bright underground passage.
Zhao Xu nodded secretly. It would be too false to say that a large space was excavated underground in Zhenyu City and the town manager didn't know about it.
It completely shows that this industry can be regarded as a government-private partnership.
Next, Zhao Xu and Vivian also followed the guides assigned to them and walked 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 tunnel is not turbid and the ventilation is good.
Zhao Xu was thinking about how he would break through once a battle broke out.
"First of all, I have to remind you one thing. All the 'objects' here that are claimed to be 'magic items' have been identified as being able to emit magic aura. Unless they are damaged and unable to emit, we will fight with you on the spot. Tip,” Salazi said.
Zhao Xu looked slightly stern.
It seems that the magic items under the ground are probably of high quality.
But speaking of it, most of the magic items that can normally emit magic aura are sold with a clear price tag after being identified by appraisal techniques.
Except for a few who deliberately manipulated their magic auras to forge or even modify the identification technique, there were some, but not many.
Buying these also loses the fun of "Taobao", and it is more of a simple purchase.
What's even more challenging are those "magic items" that have lost some of their effectiveness over time. Even if they detect magic auras against them, they always work sometimes.
And this kind of magic item is also the most discerning among buyers.
Suddenly.
Vivian's steps froze.
She looked at Zhao Xu for a moment with a hint of wanting to give up, and then turned on her telepathy to communicate with him.
"President, I just received the 'instruction' from Ms. May."
Zhao Xu raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect that Vivian and the other party actually maintained this level of contact, and even communicated thousands of miles.
"The approximate content of the 'Oracle' is that the century-old seal of the 'Holy Breath' has been touched, and the performer of the evil ritual will lower it from the sky in a few hours."
"What Lady May means is that if we are willing, we can gaze at the sky at dawn, wait for disaster to strike, and then go to the local area to find opportunities for destiny."
"At that time, meteors will fall from the sky and destroy everything. They will also bring new opportunities."
Holy Breath!
Zhao Xu jokingly recalled the incident five years after Zhenyu City, which was a major disaster that resounded throughout the alliance and even the surrounding countries!
The meteor that fell that day was advanced to tomorrow
For a moment, Zhao Xu's mind flashed back to the scene of him breaking into the mysterious lair and getting the brass treasure chest.
There are also evil rituals there, could it have something to do with it
At this moment, Zhao Xu's mind was clear.
According to what May said, the sacred breath, a mysterious object comparable to an artifact, is probably sealed in the sky.
If his conjecture is correct, that evil ritual is the way to obtain the sacred breath.
only.
Destroyed by him.
Perhaps in the previous life, it was also destroyed, the only difference was that the time point was five years later.
Then the master of the ritual, after losing the way to reach heaven, dropped it into the earth, intending to obtain it in another way.
On the one hand, the adventurers who came after hearing the news were the enemies of the mastermind behind the scenes.
On the one hand, they are also free cannon fodder who rushes ahead to avoid traps.
It's just that time is extremely tight now.
Even according to Vivian, it happened shortly after dawn.
An artifact that transcends artifacts, Lux itself was unable to show much of herself before Zhao Xu peaked.
Therefore, "Holy Breath", another extremely mysterious artifact in the legend that is said to be able to reverse regional effects, will definitely be able to greatly supplement his strength.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu's eyes became determined.
He glanced directly at the item and equipment slots in his character card panel.
Limited Equipment Slot—
Head: Intelligence turban (Intelligence +6, 36,000 gold coins)
Eyes: Machine Man Goggles (Detect Magic to Spell Identification, 1500 gold coins)
Neck: Time Rewind Talisman (rewind 1 round of time, 40,000 gold coins)
Shoulders: Star Cloak (immune to non-magical attacks, 132,000 gold coins)
Inner body: linen shirt (ordinary shirt, 1 gold coin)
Outer body (armor): Mage robe (ordinary robe, 5 gold coins)
Waist: Monk Belt (defense perception bonus and unarmed damage ability, 12,000 gold coins)
Hands: None (can be equipped with gloves)
Arms: None (can be equipped with wrist guards)
Feet: Teleportation boots (movement power for short-distance teleportation, 5000 gold coins)
Finger: Silence Ring (silence effect and restricted spells, 4000 gold coins)
Unlimited equipment slots:
Legendary Necromancy Staff (four powerful necromancy spells, 1,505,312 gold coins)
Rune Staff of Power (some spells and double damage, 59,300 gold coins)
Advanced Super Magic Quick-cast Scepter (3 spells quick-cast, 170,000 gold coins)
Orange Prismatic Ion Stone (caster level +1, 30,000 gold coins)
Energy-suppressing skin (minimize damage, 10,000 gold coins)
Automatic scribe quill (automatic transcription scroll, 1750 gold coins)
Howard's 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 up to 1.86 million gold coins.
Although the bulk of it was the 1.5 million Necromantic Staff and the 170,000 Advanced Instant Scepter, the rest he actually got from Antinoya was about 200,000 gold coins.
But to be honest, when Frank, the nine-ring mage, gave him the staff, he only had 30 hairs. Logically speaking, it was worth about 40 million gold coins at a 40% discount. Zhao Xu relied on the fragments of the Death Godhead to charge it. Only then did it return to the original price of 50 rounds of 150 gold coins.
It was equivalent to charging him at least 500,000 gold coins with the fragments of the God of Death.
But Zhao Xu still clearly noticed at this moment that his inner body, outer body, hands, arms, and fingers were still empty.
If he makes up his mind, he will intervene in the sudden battle for "Holy Breath".
Then he may have to quickly purchase these magic items tonight to complete the breakthrough from 0 to 1 first.
In his previous life, he was not in the Northern Alliance when the outbreak occurred, so the news that the meteor crash was actually the breath of the Holy Spirit was only heard later.
But now, when there is a person behind the scenes who wants to get the sacred breath that has been sealed, it means that the news cannot be concealed at all.
Even though Ms. May was thousands of miles away, she relied on her own arrangements to realize that there had been a change in the sacred breath, so she told them in advance that they could cut off the Hu.
There are probably not a few other forces who want to intervene.
Zhao Xu immediately made up his mind.
He had to make a big purchase tonight, and buy the missing magic items for himself before the new wave of price increases for magic items after the appearance of Holy Breath.
"Take me directly to the most expensive place." Zhao Xu ordered.
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