Volume 2 Chapter 85 Buying a Horse

There are horses on the polar continent, as well as a variety of other pack animals, such as the toucan, which many knights like to use as mounts, and the thick-skinned yak used by the Sarante chariot to drag wagons. Compared to horses, which are less adaptable to the environment and more troublesome to raise, the former two are more common pack animals on the polar continents.

The toucan is dexterous, fast, and the beak also has a lot of attack power, but the disadvantage is that there is almost no defense, and the environmental specialization is too obvious, and a species of toucan can only move in areas with the same temperature in the living environment, and there are more than ten species of all toucan species.

Thick-skinned yaks have excellent defense, thick skin is heat-resistant and cold-resistant, full of strength and endurance, mild and very easy to domesticate, the disadvantage is that the amount of food is huge, even if they do not do any work, the daily food consumption is more than five times that of normal horses, and they are very timid, very easy to be frightened, fortunately, they are so timid that they will only kneel and tremble after being frightened, not like other cattle will run around and cause destruction.

Although the beast market in the snowfield town is only a part of the South Market, it is really not small. Due to the harsh environment of the tundra and snowfield, most mercenaries and hunters cannot carry the harvest back to the town on their own, so the pack beast is still a best-selling consumable in the snowfield town. That's right, it's consumables, in addition to being used as a means of transportation, mercenaries will choose to abandon the pack beast to attract attention when they encounter an irresistible threat, such as a large carnivorous wurm, and the harsh environment of the frozen snow can sometimes lead to the death of some pack beasts, so the replacement speed of the pack beast is already equivalent to the level of consumables. Of course, there are also specialized mercenaries and hunters who make a living by catching tundra beasts suitable as pack animals.

However, even if the consumption of pack beasts is very huge, the pack beast market itself will not be too lively, after all, natural disasters will not happen every day. And the time when Shi Leiyin and the others arrived in the snow town was a period of time when the environment of the frozen soil and snow field was getting better, and the relative beast market was also in an off-season.

The advantage of the off-season for buyers is that few people will compete for goods, and sellers will open lower prices. The disadvantage is that the total amount of goods is small, and the inventory is the majority. When this situation is transferred to the pack beast market, it is reflected in the overall quality of the pack beast is not very good.

Shi Leiyin had originally planned to buy a few snowfield toucans to use as pack animals. This toucan, with snow-white feathers on both feet, can tow a twelve-person truck with only four feet, and is very disciplined, usually resting as long as the reins are untied to forage for food, as soon as the signal is given, it will gather quickly, is the most suitable for the lily of the valley to use on the next journey.

However, it backfired, and in the entire pack beast market, Shi Leiyin only found two snow toucans, and one of them was older, not to mention pulling a cart, it was good to be able to run well.

Liao is better than nothing, Shi Leiyin spent fifteen gold coins to buy the relatively healthy and strong snow toucan, considering that Zird will enter the frozen snow field with him to find the lake of ice spirits, this snow toucan can be used as a good mount. The worst can also be a source of food and high-quality genes for himself, Shi Leiyin thought maliciously.

The pack beast market is very large, but the actual stalls are not so many, the outdoor fence of the pack beasts occupies a large part of the market, and because of the off-season, there are few pack beasts in the fence. After buying the snowfield toucan, which was a mount and a food stockpile, Shi Leiyin went straight to the beast dealer that sold thick-skinned yaks.

The price of the thick-skinned yak is more expensive than the snowy toucan, almost thirty gold coins each, but Shi Leiyin's purpose is not to be a thick-skinned yak. After a trip to the Coldwind Canyon, Shrayin knew that this beast of burden, which was more timid than a mouse, was definitely not a beast of burden for use in a dangerous place like the frozen snowfield.

Shi Leiyin's real target is the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon that the merchant keeps in captivity. This is a very thin bloodline ancient wurm, inherited the ancient wurm extremely strong **, although it is a herbivore, the character of the herbivore dragon is very irritable, because of poor eyesight, the herbivore will attack all the creatures that are close to him and are considered a threat, and the rhinoceros on the earth where Shi Leiyin originally lived is very similar. However, the ice armor herbivorous dragon is also a kind of relatively easy to be tamed in the herbivorous dragon group, the young dragon of this herbivorous dragon has a habit of recognizing relatives close to birds, as long as it has lived with humans since childhood, it will not judge humanoid creatures as threatening targets, and it is easy to be domesticated into pack beasts. Shi Leiyin had tried to enter the range of judgment known to him when he had passed through the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon Fence before, and the two Ice Armored Herbivorous Dragons did not show any offensive tendencies, and had obviously been domesticated.

The strength, endurance, and speed of the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon are not as good as the thick-skinned yak, and only the head and shoulders armor can be comparable to the thick-skinned yak in terms of defense. Therefore, purely from the perspective of pack beasts, the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragons can only be regarded as medium to upper-average, but they can ignore the pressure of large carnivorous wurms or high-level demonic beasts, and they will not be easily frightened and their short-term explosive power makes them one of the best pack beasts in the tundra and snowfield.

Coincidentally, when Shi Leiyin found the owner of the business, several people were also discussing with the boss to buy the Ice Armor Herbivorous Dragon, and these people Shi Leiyin also knew that it was the hunter foursome who had abused the Ice Tooth Dragon with four people before.

However, although this hunter quartet can take out an eleventh-level Gu Yalong with a heavy lift, they have nothing to do with this business owner, for no other reason, and they are shy. The grinning hammer hunter became a little daughter-in-law at this time, and she didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, and the long ** person and the crossbow ** person were also watching anxiously from the side. Although the long knife hunter is not very communicative, he can finally find a bargain with the boss.

Shi Leiyin knew the specific situation after a little listening to it, and the hunter quartet planned to buy four ice-armored herbivorous dragons, with four pairs of matching saddles. The price offered by the boss is 28 gold coins for the ice armor herbivorous dragon, and a pair of 2 gold coins for the saddle, a total of 120 gold coins, and a day's food, grass and water. Although this condition and price are not cheap, they are also fair, and if it is not the off-season, you will definitely not want to buy it at this price. However, the foursome obviously didn't have that many gold coins on hand, and the difference was a bit outrageous, only ninety-five gold coins and eighty silver coins. The Knife Hunter held a vial of blood and a pack of heart, flesh, tendons and bones in his hand, and Shi Leiyin recognized at a glance that it was the so-called material they had obtained when they hunted the Ice Tooth Dragon before, and for Shi Leiyin, it was also part of the essence of the Ice Tooth Dragon. The meaning of the long knife hunter is that the insufficient price difference will be temporarily replaced with the materials of these eleventh level ancient wurm, and they will be redeemed at a higher price when they return from the frozen snow field in two weeks.

The eleventh-level Warcraft or Gu Yalong's body part is naturally more valuable, but in the eyes of this beast merchant, it is far from worth the difference, although the beast merchant can feel that those blood parts are indeed from the more powerful Warcraft, but he doesn't believe that it is the eleventh-level Warcraft, because no matter how the four hunters look at it, they only have ten-level strength at most, and the tenth-level assassin can kill the eleventh-level swordsman, but the twelfth-level swordsman may not be able to easily kill the eleventh-level Warcraft, let alone ** Ancient wurm known for its strength.

However, believing it or not, the beast merchant did not directly say his opinion, but only emphasized that he only accepted gold coin transactions, and said that since the hunters said that these things were worth more than the twenty-five gold coins, they could go to the market north and sell these wurm flesh, and he could keep the four ice-armored herbivorous dragons for them for the time being.