Chapter 12: The Magic Shop
After bidding farewell to Audrey, Ma Xiaojun decided to follow Alexander to the magic shop on the second floor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Since coming to Atlantis Castle, Ma Xiaojun has never been to the second floor, and he has no idea how many floors this castle has. However, Alexander did not know about this, because he had only been to the second floor, and the upper floors were not clear, not that he did not want to go up, but that he could not find the stairs at all.
Along the way, through Alexander's side knocks, Ma Xiaojun gained a more detailed understanding of the world.
The Danube City, where the castle is located, is one of the thousands of cities on the western continent, and the interesting thing is that there is no concept of a country in this world, or there is no concept of a great country, and it is all small cities with a population of less than 100,000.
As for the castle of Atlantis, according to Alexander, the history is extremely long, and the age of its initial establishment is not even known, anyway, not only the Danube, but even in the surrounding hundreds of cities, there are still various legends about the castle.
Ma Xiaojun knows that this is a magical world, but in fact, the number of magicians here is actually very rare, and the only magic he has seen so far is the magic spell before he came to the stage, although this is only a very rudimentary spell, but in the eyes of Ma Xiaojun from the earth, it is also magical enough, and he became interested for a while, and asked Alexander:
"Xiaoshan, do you know what it takes to become a magician?"
Xiaoshan was the eastern name given to him by Ma Xiaojun at Alexander's repeated requests.
"You want to be a magician?" Alexander stopped abruptly, turned back and said, "You're the poet of the year now, wouldn't it be good to be a mentor to the Bards Guild in this capacity?" Although the magician is beautiful, it is a hard and tiring profession. β
Ma Xiaojun shook his head, he naturally wouldn't be a poet mentor, otherwise he wouldn't have refused before, but he couldn't explain these to Alexander, so he continued to ask: "No, I'm just curious, you tell me about it." β
"Actually, it's quite easy, as long as you have passed the demon spirit test and have a demon spirit, you can practice magic and become a magician...... Alexander shook his head and explained.
From Alexander's mouth, I learned that most people in the Western Continent have demon spirits, but the cultivation is not only hard, but if there is no support from various resources, it is basically difficult to achieve something, so the number of real magicians is pitiful.
So even if there is a similar need, people generally choose to go to the magic shop and buy some spell scrolls or magic arrays and the like, which is much simpler, maybe a person who has been practicing for decades may not be able to release the simplest magic.
Hearing Alexander say this, Ma Xiaojun aroused a strong interest in the magic shop, which really needs to be seen well.
After walking through the trading hall and along a long corridor for almost ten minutes, a spiral staircase appeared in front of the two, and Ma Xiaojun just wanted to go upstairs, but was stopped by the manservant who was guarding the staircase.
Alexander glanced at Ma Xiaojun and whispered, "You have to pay an entrance fee of 200 gold coins upstairs." β
What, it costs money to go upstairs? Or 200 gold coins?
Ma Xiaojun had the feeling of walking into a black shop, but his curiosity still overcame the pain, he took out his money bag and counted 200 gold coins.
The servant took the gold coin, took out two wooden cards, and said with a blank face, "Valid for the day." β
200 gold coins for two wooden cards, only more than 500 gold coins left in the money bag, and I don't know if there are enough to buy things when I go downstairs? Ma Xiaojun, who has been a little wealthy recently, suddenly feels that he is still a poor bastard!
After going upstairs, Ma Xiaojun found that he had guessed correctly, he couldn't buy anything on the second floor.
It's not because there aren't enough gold coins, it's because people don't accept gold coins at all!
The first thing the two of them walked into was a spell scroll shop, and there was a large banner hanging outside the store: This store only accepts crystal nuclei of level 3 and above magical beasts.
The crystal nucleus is a kind of magical energy inside the head of a demonic beast, which is Alexander's explanation to Ma Xiaojun.
After entering the store, Ma Xiaojun found that the price was marked under each scroll, but the crystal nucleus was used as a monetary unit, such as the magic spell scroll, and the price below was a third-level Warcraft crystal nucleus.
Where to get the Warcraft crystal nucleus, it's just bluffing!
I visited several stores one after another, in addition to the scroll shop, there are also formation shops, magic jewelry stores, etc., each store receives different things, some collect Warcraft crystal nuclei, some collect Warcraft blood, some collect magic scriptures, and some other messy names that can't be understood.
Ma Xiaojun was even more painful, he hadn't even seen these things before, he knew that he wouldn't be able to come up, and he wasted 200 gold coins in vain!
"Ma, look there, there's a family that collects wine."
Looking in the direction Alexander was pointing, it was a dilapidated house, not even a decent faΓ§ade, except for a large flag at the door, which read: "I have a story, do you have wine?" β
"Are you sure this is a store and not the residence of a single old man who likes to chatter?" Ma Xiaojun was a little embarrassed, after all, he had already eaten several closed soups, and now he just wanted to go downstairs to the tavern and move the Golden Fruit Wine to the earth to sell it for some money. I haven't done anything in the past few days, but I have made myself ambitious, and I haven't been out of the stall to sell barbecue for several days, so it's not okay to be ambitious.
No matter what, after going back, he still made up his barbecue stall in a down-to-earth manner, and Ma Xiaojun secretly made up his mind.
"It's definitely a store, it's not cheap, no one wants to spend a lot of money just to live here, in fact, it's full of shops." Alexander dragged Ma Xiaojun forward, and said as he walked, "You can always get wine, there is any wine in the tavern downstairs, as long as you are willing to spend money." β
"Then let's go check it out." That being said, Ma Xiaojun is not optimistic, he also knows the urine nature of the store here, and it is estimated that the wine that the store wants will not be ordinary wine, if he has to ask for some wine made of rare fruits or magic fruits, he will definitely have nowhere to get it.
When I got closer, I found that the door of the house was closed, and even layers of cobwebs had formed on the lintel, as if it had been abandoned for a long time.
"Hey, anyone?" Undaunted, Alexander stepped forward and knocked on the door, only to have a large piece of lime fall from the doorframe and smash it on his hat,
"Ahem, damn it, it's an abandoned house." Alexander dusted off his hat, and the lime raised made him cough.
Ma Xiaojun was still reluctant to taste it when he saw a lump of poop, and he should be talking about people like Alexander.
This time, though, Alexander seemed to have tasted it right, and a hoarse voice came from inside the door:
"Do you have any wine?"