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The map in Darko's hand was not detailed, and the parchment was even so old that it was about to rot, but he had the help of a locator and would not make a detour. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info traveled west, and soon he came across a town, which was the town of Mano. Only a dozen kilometers away, Yorktown is still a three-way territory, while Manotown is already the territory of the Sky Church. There are three mines in the vicinity, which makes it a slightly larger town, much larger than Yorktown, although inaccessible.

When Dacko arrived in the town of Mano, it was the middle of the afternoon and it was quite bustling with people. The streets of the town are lined with stalls with some excellent equipment and props, but Darko doesn't care, there won't be what he wants in the open market, and only the black market can buy good things. Compared to the quality of the goods on the black market, these goods are still a little mediocre during the day.

Darko had already learned from the dwarven blacksmith that the black market would not open until evening, so he was in no hurry and wandered around the town. He was going to buy some parchment and magic ink, and copy some scrolls to sell on the black market at night.

Manoth is a larger town, and even in the daytime market, you can buy more than Yorktown before. However, compared to the Academy of Magic, the magic materials sold here are still too basic.

For example, the ink used to copy the ice magic scroll is made by mixing the juices of eight plants with three ore powders, so that the ink can carry the magic of the ice type. The ink of the second-level magic scroll requires a more advanced magic plant than the first-level one, and the production process is more complicated. In the academy, you only need to buy the finished ink that the herbalist students have grinded, but there is no here, so you can only collect the materials yourself and grind the ink. Daktronics only knows a little common sense of making ink, and the proportions are difficult to control accurately, and the effect can be imagined. Parchment paper, on the other hand, is a commonly used material and can be bought in the town, but its craftsmanship and quality are much worse. The quality of the parchment and ink is closely related to the power and success rate of the magic scroll copied, which determines the growth of the inscriptionist.

It is only now that Darko has a deep understanding of what the Magic Academy under the Magic Guild has brought to the world. The Academy of Magic brings together a large number of magicians, with mages from different support classes providing a variety of semi-finished products, which are then made by other magicians. In the process of a magic item from raw materials to finished products, more than a dozen magicians have participated, and each magician is proficient in different auxiliary professions, which is the most important way to ensure the quality of magic items. Because of this, the Magic Guild has the confidence to hold a magic fair once a year.

Forced by the situation, Dakko had no choice but to be a full-time person for the time being. He scoured the markets throughout the town to buy several materials to make ink. The Mercury Plane is already rich in minerals, and the three ores are easy to buy, but they are in clumps rather than powders, and they need to be crushed by themselves. That's it, what makes Dakko even more speechless is that there is a kind of silver algae among the eight plants that cannot be bought in this market. Silver algae is a common magical creature in the sea, the ocean area of the Amelasia plane is very large, and naturally there are a large number of silver algae, but Dakko is now in the mercury plane where water is scarce, this creature has become a rare species, and there is no market in the entire town of Mano.

Dakko was helpless and wanted to give up his plan, but when he looked at the several materials he had already bought, he felt unwilling. He thought about it for a long time, and decided to take the risk and see if he could successfully transcribe the scroll with ink with one less raw material.

The next thing to do was to buy parchment, and Darko walked into a shop that sold magical equipment with a sense of resentment. It is said to be a magic equipment store, but in fact, it is just a shop that buys the magical beasts hunted by others and simply breaks them down into various materials. Items that require special craftsmanship are then resold to jewelry stores, weapon shops, and clothing stores, while simpler processes can be done yourself. There are three such unworthy shops in the town of Mano, and Daktronics enters the one that appears to be the largest.

Entering the store, Darko saw complete skins of various different monsters hanging on the walls. He looked over one by one and found that most of them were first- and second-order demonic beasts, and occasionally there was also a third-order demonic beast. To be able to hunt a third-order demonic beast, it must be that there is a high-level professional behind it, or a number of middle-level professionals supplying it, so Daktronics knows that the strength of this store cannot be underestimated.

The skins of demonic beasts below the third order were basically used to make parchment, and more than a dozen sheets were neatly laid out on the counter facing the door. The third order and above are more versatile, and can make equipment such as leather armor, bracers, and cloaks, so they are all hung with raw skin, and then processed differently according to different uses, and then the remaining scraps will be used to make parchment.

Dakko looked around, and finally landed his gaze on the parchment on the counter. As he approached, he saw a middle-aged man with a goatee sitting behind the stack of parchment, squinting slightly, working on a cut of animal skin.

The hides seemed to be shapeless and thick objects in his hands, and various arcane magic spells took turns acting on them without interruption, and in a short time they turned into a dull yellow parchment. Darko looked at his technique carefully, this kind of craftsmanship is actually not very good, there are many students in the magic academy who can reach such a level, but the point is that now this is the Mercury plane, after experiencing the blow of buying ink, Darko no longer has too much expectations for materials, and he suddenly feels better when he sees this.

The first-order parchment paper is made by soaking the animal skin in lime water, removing the body hair, scraping it thin on both sides, stretching, drying, and then polishing. In order to preserve the flexibility, magic conductivity and bearing capacity of parchment paper above the second order, more complex magical processes are required in the production process. The more sophisticated these magical techniques are, the more raw animal skins can be retained on the parchment, and the higher the quality will be, which can be used to show the skill level of a maker. For example, if Daktronics is used to make second-order parchment, only about 30% of the ingredients in it can be retained. And the goatee in front of him, the second-order parchment paper made can also retain more than 80% of the ingredients, which is the difference in professionalism.

Goatee laid the processed parchment paper on the counter, and when he looked up, he saw Darko, his beard suddenly curled, "What are you here for? Buy animal skins? Don't expect me to give you a low price, this is the price now! It used to be cheap because you could still sell meat before! Now there are only animal skins, if you don't buy it, you can get out!" The angry tone showed that he was the owner of the shop.

Before Darko could speak, he was robbed of white for a while, and he was at a loss for a while. Looking back at the skins hanging on the walls, I saw that there was indeed a price tag under each skin. In comparison, this price is indeed about 20% more expensive.

Dakko was scolded before he could buy anything, and he turned around and walked out, after all, this is not the only one in this town who sells parchment. As he went out, he met a young man walking in with a sad face, as if he had something on his mind, and almost collided with Darko. Darko dodged and walked out of the store, but heard the young man's voice coming from inside, "Boss, there's no way, all of us are going to help, and there's no way to deal with these numbers of demonic beasts before they decay." ”

When Darko heard this voice, he was a little puzzled for a moment, so he stood outside the door and did not go far, listening attentively. The boss's voice came from inside, "Bastards! Those fools only know how to kill the injured monster and bring it back, and it's going to rot now!"

The young man explained, "Those mercenaries and adventurers don't have any brains, this is also something that can't be helped, they will only work for a few dollars, who knows that the market will be saturated and the price will be reduced." ”

The boss said angrily, "I didn't mean that, you idiot! I said that the flesh of those monsters is going to rot! You bastard! You haven't experienced the hard times before! Thank God for having a soak of horse urine for you to drink!"

The young man was silent for a while, as if imagining the taste of horse urine, and after a while he said, "Boss, those demonic beasts can only peel off the skin, and the meat can't be made into jerky in time, and it can only rot." ”

"Bastard, tell me to figure it out, and you'll tell me this!"

"Meat!" Darko sensitively grasped the word, his mind racing as he sorted out the cause and effect.

The young man was very innocent, and muttered in a low voice, "It's a pity that I can't find an ice mage to seal it, I heard that they can use ice to seal the corpse, and it won't break for a year." ”

"You haven't even been out of the Mercury plane, you kid knows a!" the boss scolded, "The one you've heard of is called the Ice Cage, which can only be released by high-level mages of the ice system." Not to mention whether you can find a high-level magician to help, even if someone is really willing to use magic to seal the body of the demonic beast, but the magic volume of the ice cage is limited, and it is impossible to seal so many demonic beasts in it at one time, and the high-level magician can put a fourth-level magic and the mana will bottom out. ”

The young man was silent for a while, and then whispered, "I thought you magicians were omnipotent, but that's just the case. ”

"You know what a fart!" the boss's voice suddenly rose an octave, "Although the magician is not omnipotent, it is far from something you can despise!"

Darko froze, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and calmly walked into the store again, "I'm sorry, I just accidentally overheard your conversation at the door. Excuse me, where are the corpses of the monsters that can't be disposed of? I want to buy something. ”

Darko's entry made the boss a little strange, just now the man in the cloak was obviously angry with himself, how could he come back? Listening to Darko's words, the young man interjected first, "We have a lot of volume, if you only buy a little, you should go to another butcher shop to buy it, I don't have time to take you." ”

"Pure meat costs three hundred kilograms, I don't know what kind of monsters you have, and what is the quality of the meat?" Darko calculated the amount of food he needed according to his plan to hide in the mine for another seven months.

"On the body of 500 kilograms of wild yaks, there are about 120 kilograms of pure meat, but the crystal nuclei have been dug up, according to the market price of the second-order demonic beast, 30 gold coins will be sold to you. The young man was puzzled at first, but immediately answered Darko's question, "We have two wild yaks here that have a relatively large amount of meat, and some other monsters, such as sheep, bears and rotting wolves, are also edible, which is enough for your needs." ”

Darko nodded and asked, "How did these monsters appear so many at once?

The young man replied, "It was the collapse of the mine in the nearby Camel Mountain, which caused a large-scale landslide on the mountain. A lot of people died alone, some of the monsters were buried, and the rest of the injured ones were all hunted and brought back by mercenaries and adventurers, otherwise the price of meat would not have dropped so low now. ”

Darko's eyes lit up, although he still had some gold coins in his spatial ring, he needed to stay on the black market, and it was best to save some money on buying meat. So he tentatively said, "Give you a total of 100 gold coins, how about giving me all your demonic beasts that can't be sold, anyway, if you can't sell them in large quantities, they will rot, and I will charge more useful money." ”

The meat of Warcraft is much better than that of ordinary animals, and it contains a certain amount of magic power, which can increase the efficiency of mage's meditation when consumed, and is of great benefit to the rapid increase of level. Now that there is such an opportunity to buy Warcraft meat at a low price, Daktronics will certainly not let it go.

The young man showed a look of embarrassment, "Although that is the case, 100 gold coins to buy those demonic beasts is still too little." ”

"Take him. Darko was about to continue the bargain, but the boss, who had not spoken, spoke, "Except for what we can handle in time, sell everything else to him, just according to the price he said." ”

The young man was stunned, and wondered why the boss, who had always been slamming the door, wanted to make this deal, but he heard the boss continue, "Food is not easy to come by, and it is always good to waste a little." ”

The boss's words won Darko's approval, he could only eat half-full in the mine, and he had a deep understanding of the rarity of food, and couldn't help but feel much better for the boss's senses.

"Also, I need some second-level parchment, you seem to have a lot of them here. Darko gently stroked the spatial ring on his finger and pointed to the parchment being made next to him.

"Eight gold coins of second-grade parchment, this one has no bargain. When it came to the parchment he had made, the boss regained his tough face, like a cold and hard stone.

Having experienced Orlando's obsession with the value of copying works, Darko didn't care about it, and directly bought twenty pieces of second-grade parchment with cash, and then followed the young man in the direction of the slaughterhouse.

The slaughterhouse was in a clearing not far from the shop, and there were corpses of demonic beasts lying here and there, some of them in the form of half-flesh mud, apparently crushed to death in the landslide. Near the inside, several butchers wielded pig-killing knives, diligently skinning and harvesting materials, and the corpses of demonic beasts stripped of their fur and crystal nuclei were piled up like that, most of them were simply divided into several large pieces, each weighing about five kilograms.

The young man pointed to the pile of demonic beast corpses and asked with some confusion, "These are all meat that can be sold to you, how are you going to take them?"

Darko stepped forward and picked up the hind legs of a scorpion-tailed lizard and sniffed the smell, "These monsters are a bit much, but as long as the volume is not more than six cubic meters, I can take them." Dakko calculated the remaining space in the spatial ring and replied casually.

The young man had a strange look on his face, and finally nodded, "Then it's a deal." ”

Darko stepped forward, looked at the mountain of flesh in front of him, and looked delighted, then took out his wand and recited a spell in his heart. Immediately, pieces of solid ice appeared out of thin air, and each ice block froze a large piece of divided demonic beast meat.

"This is ......" the young man's eyes widened as he looked at the pile of animal carcasses that had been frozen in an instant, "Ice magic...... Is this the Ice Cage?" the young man was puzzled for a moment, then shook his head, "No, the Ice Cage's volume is much larger than this, and it can't be instantaneous......"

Darko looked back at the young man's expression and smiled, and the huge sleeve of the cloak flicked slightly, and the ten magic crystals were neatly stacked on the ground. Then his right hand reached out and grabbed at the pile of frozen monster corpses, and the pile of frozen meat had disappeared out of thin air.

"This ...... Could it be that ...... the magic crystal on the ground was not able to successfully divert the young man's attention, "how could he control the ice cage to such a point!How is it possible?" The young man's face turned pale, he didn't expect that this person hidden in the cloak was actually a mysterious powerhouse.

Darko released more than twenty shrunken versions of the Ice Cage, and with little mana left, he took out a bottle of powerful magic medicine and drank it. He was not flattered by the surprise of others, after all, not everywhere is like the Academy of Magic, there are magicians everywhere, and in the Mercury plane, magicians are a relatively rare profession.

Darko shrugged his shoulders and walked away as the youth watched.