black market
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Night fell, and what Daktronics had been waiting for finally arrived. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info is still a high-sounding normal street during the day, and at night it is full of all kinds of precious items, and all kinds of prohibited goods of unknown origin are dazzling. People from several settlements near the town of Mano, and even from distant towns, come here to visit the area. The modest streets of Mano Town are a little crowded under the flow of people, and the huge contrast between day and night makes it difficult for Dakko to accept for a while. This is the property of the underworld in Mano Town, but Darko knows from the communication of the people around him that the whole is actually secretly controlled by the Sky Church.
Darko walked around the town of Mano at night, and several huge torches had been lit throughout the town, and from time to time there were shirtless men walking along the road, with a mighty image, and they all had the strength of a trainee samurai. In a low-level plane like Mercury, it is already quite a big deal to be able to use trainee warriors to patrol, and it is in this way that Mano Town uses this to ensure the fairness of the transaction, after all, it is common for people to kill people and sell goods in a chaotic plane like Mercury, and only strong force can be used as a guarantee of fair trade. In addition, Daktronics also felt the slightest fluctuation and peeping of mental power. It is a place to sell contraband, and most of the prohibited goods are actually inseparable from the major forces. If the underworld in Mano Town can be opened here, there must be high-level professionals, including magicians, to maintain order.
The trading area is so large that it occupies almost the entire street of Mano, where all kinds of people with hidden faces roam around, but they are in good order. The town is divided into several sections according to the specified location, and it is divided into several areas according to the type of goods. The edge area is full of weapons, equipment, jewelry, etc., and the central area has a high platform, which is a place for the slave trade.
In order to hide his eyes, Darko did not go to the slave trading area in the center to see the excitement, he just looked for items of interest to him on the periphery. Daktronics saw those things that were not seen in the light of day, but at this moment, they were openly displayed and clearly marked with prices. A few people stopped in front of the stall, as if they had a favorite item. Many more are wandering around, looking for something they like.
Selling things is also very simple, you only need to pay a fee of five silver coins, and you can set up a one-meter-square stall in the town. Darko has a lot of good things on his body now, not only the treasures found at the magic fair, but also the locator and space belt obtained on Vitk4. But Darko is an inscriptionist, and the concept that time is money is especially evident in the inscriptionist, so Darko has no interest in wasting time setting up a stall.
In the highest-level Mercury plane, where only high-level equipment has a higher level, the effect of high-grade equipment on combat effectiveness is more obvious. There is such a trend, and many excellent and even sophisticated weapons and equipment are sold here, which obviously does not match the average level here. However, it also needs to be backed up by corresponding strength, otherwise expensive equipment can only hasten one's death.
Many of the stolen items in the Amycian plane cannot be sold because of the forces behind them, and the chaotic Mercury plane is obviously very suitable for selling the stolen goods. Darko felt that this trip was really an eye-opener for him, and he found a lot of black goods, some of which he would even covet. The full body armor of the Templars of the Earth Church, the armor-breaking spear for the War Church, the leaves of the Tree of Life of the Church of Life, and the exclusive weapons and armor with the marks of the major families. With a basic magical education, Darko was shocked to recognize the real thing.
Darko's original idea was to copy a few more second-level scrolls and put them on it for sale, but when he arrived, he immediately decided to sell all the stolen goods he had obtained in exchange for money, because the items here were all expensive and required a lot of money, and obviously they could not be purchased by selling those hastily copied magic scrolls.
Among them, there are many high-end equipment, and even if some equipment looks ordinary, it is also the best equipment with hidden mysteries. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Darko spun around and experimented everywhere with his pupil of cause and effect.
Darko soon discovers that the Pupil of Cause and Effect doesn't work for every high-tier piece of equipment. Although some equipment is of the highest choice in terms of materials and processes, it is not rare and has no special functions, and there are few or even no causal connections on such equipment. On the contrary, some low-level items that are close to natural formation have fewer artificial traces on them, but there are more causal connections. At this time, Darko was in front of a stall, carefully observing a snake ring formed by a demonic snake.
The Demon Snake is a first-order magical beast that lives in shallow temperate water, and is able to suck the blood of other magical beasts or humans, and absorb the magic power contained therein. The demon-loving snake is only the thickness of a finger, but it is a social creature, gathering a large number of demon-loving snakes at the water's edge, even if it is a fourth-order demonic beast, if it is not careful, it will be sucked into a dry corpse. Whenever the temperature drops, other monsters migrate seasonally, and demonic snakes will go months without monsters to feed, at which point they will bury themselves in the river mud and go into a dormant state. However, sometimes the temperature rises unusually high, making it impossible for some snakes to go to sleep and find no food. When the spirit of the demonic snake that enters this state falls into a state of chaos, it will begin to kill each other, and very few will even devour its own tail, until it is in a ring of ten centimeters before completely dying. This is the cause of the snake ring, a snake that devours itself is called a single snake ring, and two snakes that devour each other is called a double snake ring. The mana in the body of the demonic snake that has become a snake ring will always remain circulating and will not dissipate, and after it is dried, it will become a natural magic item. When worn as a bracelet, it increases the caster's spell damage and spell power, and shortens spell duration. Darko has the ability to chant silently, and it can be paired with the snake ring.
Snake rings are difficult to form, and only one snake ring may appear in thousands of demonic snakes, so there are fewer of them. However, after all, the demon-loving snake is only a first-order demonic beast, and the snake ring it forms does not have a high amplitude of magical blessings, so few people pay attention to it. But now the snake ring that Darko is seeing is a superlative, the head of the two demonic snakes is facing the head of the snake, and they have a piece of snake body in their mouths at the same time, and they actually devour the third snake at the same time, so that the whole body of the third demonic snake is in the belly of their two snakes. But this is not the most attractive, the left side of the body of a demonic snake actually sticks out of another snake head, is a rare deformed two-headed demonic snake, the other head of this two-headed demonic snake is holding the tail of a demonic snake on the right, and the tail of the two-headed demonic snake on the left is connected to the mouth of the two snakes facing each other, apparently its tail was swallowed by the third demonic snake, and the third demonic snake was swallowed by the two snakes outside. Such a complex relationship makes the three snakes form a bizarre double chain structure, but their blessing effect on magic is by no means one plus one equals two. When Dakko was copying the inscriptions, he was often exposed to problems about the flow of magic circuits, so he quickly calculated that this superb snake was at least nine times more effective than ordinary snake rings! Generally speaking, the magic blessing is doubled, but the price is not doubled, but tripled! This makes the price of the higher-level magic items more outrageous, and even can only be exchanged for credits and divine graces, and gold coins cannot be bought.
Darko originally wore the tattered bracelets that Phyllis had given him on his wrists, but the two bracelets had been damaged in the Undead Hell and the battle with the Orcs, respectively, and now he had a Stability Band in his right hand and an ornament on his left hand.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man with a dark face, he saw that Darko was hiding in a cloak, his identity was unknown, but he didn't try it at all, and said bluntly, "Two hundred gold coins, if you can't get it, give me a bastard as soon as possible." ”
"Two hundred gold coins isn't too expensive, considering that gold is restricted in magic trading, but it's a pity I don't have that much cash. Darko shrugged, slightly helpless.
When the stall owner heard Darko's first half of the sentence, there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes, and when he heard it, he pulled his face down again, and was about to drive Darko away, but he heard Darko continue, "I can't take out so much cash, I don't know if you are willing to accept it with barter?"
"Magic scroll?" the stall owner took the scroll handed over by Darko, carefully observed and felt the magic in it, "Kid has some ability, this scroll does not have the mark of the church, do you know the inscriptionist?"
Darko didn't answer, just looked at each other with a smile like this, and the stall owner also knew that this kind of thing was not suitable for careful questioning, so he snorted, "The second-level frost armor scroll, not bad thing, just use five of these scrolls to exchange for snake rings." ”
"This snake ring is only equivalent to excellent level jewelry, and it is no problem to exchange it for two hundred gold coins, but it should not be so expensive to trade magic items as well. Darko shook his head and said, "What's more, your snake ring was picked up, but my scroll needs to be copied with a pen, which is completely incomparable, and I will give you three at most." ”
"I risked my life picking this thing up, and I almost fell into the swamp. The stall owner snorted, "The magic blessing of this snake ring is equivalent to an excellent level of jewelry, but compared to those gold-plated and diamond-encrusted jewelry, the snake ring is much lighter, and it means a lot to magicians." Four, it can't be any lower!"
"Three, that's a fair price. ”
"Four! Your scrolls are not of very high quality, I'm afraid you cut corners. ”
Darko didn't expect any stall owner to see the flaws in his magic scroll, so he had to give up, "Then four scrolls, deal." ”
The stall owner immediately nodded in agreement. Judging from the market price, the excellent-grade jewelry can probably be exchanged for three second-level scrolls, and he exchanged it for four at a time, which is already earned.
After the transaction, Darko put the snake ring directly on his left wrist and quickly left the stall. This is the case of the so-called magic items that have no price, and it is not possible to buy excellent jewelry for 20 credits, but it cannot be bought at the price of 200 gold coins, and it is precisely because of the rarity of magic items that the credits and divine graces that can be purchased smoothly have become a higher level of currency. It stands to reason that since Dakko and the stall owner decided to barter, they should trade at the normal price. In fact, Dakko lost money on this deal, the price of the snake ring could reach about twenty credits, and the four second-level scrolls were already thirty percent more than this price.