Zhao Xu didn't go directly to the Mage Association in Zhenyu City, but relied on his memory to go to the nearby magic material store first.

"Why is it called the black market?" Vivien was still a little incomprehensible.

"Because it can't be exposed to the sun. The origin of the magical items themselves is not very clear. ”

"Stealing? Cheating? Vivien, who was a holy warrior, couldn't help but feel a sense of discomfort in her heart when she heard this kind of behavior.

"All of them, but more often than not, dug out of the ground." Zhao Xu glanced at Vivian ambiguously.

Vivien couldn't help but stop.

Like Zhao Xu, she looked around at her surroundings, her eyes on the veil were like autumn water.

"Tomb robbery and ruins?"

Saying that, Vivien nodded to herself, "The Northern Alliance is close to the Icefield Mountains, and I have the impression that there was indeed a mage alliance that spanned more than five hundred years, but it was later shattered during the Cataclysm. ”

Zhao Xu didn't expect Vivian's Arthur's geography to be well mastered.

He also relied on his own knowledge (place) and knowledge (history) skills to guess and retrieve this information, connecting the entire context and deducing a major reason for the emergence of the black market.

It stands to reason that succubi are generally only proficient in one knowledge and skill, and they can reach the level of more than ten levels, and they will not practice multiple knowledge and skills like their mages.

Even someone like Zhao Xu who is almost a complete learner is unique.

Fortunately, now that Zhao Xu's intelligence is as high as 28 points, there are at least 9 points from intelligence in the skill points obtained by upgrading in the future, which can already cover knowledge and skills and upgrade together.

"Let's go."

At this time, Zhao Xu had already walked to a material store with a clock flag hanging at the door of the house, and the storefront was in tatters, and it had not been repaired for many years.

"There are magical items in this kind of shop?" Vivien was in disbelief.

"It's a magic item worth tens of thousands of dollars, so it won't be placed here." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"We have to go in first and prove that you're the buyer, and they'll take us to those underground houses."

"Then the chess piece of this mechanical clock means that this storefront is the entrance?" Vivien was a little confused.

"No, this means that the other party sells antique artworks and the like, and these things themselves are often mixed with magical items that can last for many epochs, basically the same channel." Zhao Xu explained.

"Antiques?"

As Vivien, who has an endless life, it is somewhat difficult to understand the term "antique", and for them, it is not a problem for them to store a random stone coin for thousands of years.

In particular, a certain devil is likely to have dealt with people from the beginning to the end of a family spanning seven or eight generations, and can even collect the souls of each generation of the other family.

"Antiques, you can understand as previous works of art. As for your stone brooms that have been used for thousands of years and have not been broken, they are called old goods, and they are different. Zhao Xu hurriedly corrected.

With that, he opened the curtain and walked into the material store.

Compared to the small storefront he saw outside, after Zhao Xu entered at this moment, on the cabinet that touched the sky, there were neatly stacked rows of glass bottles and jars, which contained all kinds of spell casting materials.

Zhao Xu is no stranger to most of them because he has a full watch.

On the other side of the cabinet are stacked with many old and strange items, including ancient long swords like aristocratic swords, scarred shields, and some magic weapons, ornaments, bottles and cans and other small samples.

Behind the counter was an old man in a fur hat, with thin cheeks and leaning back on a chair.

"What to buy?"

"Look at the old stuff." Zhao Xu replied with a code word.

"How many of those can you give?"

"It's not a problem to break 100."

The old man's eyes lit up at this time, "So you point to the goods on my counter and pick one piece?" ”

At this time, Zhao Xu was not far away from the cabinet, but he stopped and kept scanning the things on the cabinet.

"No? What is a quantifier? Vivien asked.

"This is for fear that when we exchange prices, you laymen will interject. It doesn't have a fixed price, and even depending on the price of the magic item, it can refer to 10,000 gold coins, and there are also 10,000 gold coins. ”

"The one I just said refers to a hundred gold coins."

Vivian nodded this time, Zhao Xu said that he could break a hundred, that is, the budget he brought this time exceeded 10,000, and it also delineated the direction for the old man and other places that would lead the way.

Zhao Xu slowly approached and carefully observed the "goods" on the shelves, but he did not stretch out his hand.

In fact, he can now cast the minute-level three-ring spell "Arcane Vision", which allows him to exude a detection radar like "detection magic" all the time, and at the same time, the scale is even wider, reaching tens of meters away.

It's just that the spell can't last because it can be dissolved.

However, when he is level 7, the level 2 ability of the Spell Guardian is the spell of the same name as "Arcane Vision", which is not a big problem.

"What does this old man mean?" Vivien asked curiously.

"Prove what we're capable of. Buying something from him is the price he guarantees us to enter the black market, otherwise how can we outsiders enter so easily. ”

Before Zhao Xu became the vice president of the Mage Association of Falling Star Town, he deliberately wanted to come to the black market, but he was afraid that he would be dragged behind, and his actions would be too eye-catching, and he was likely to be concerned about raising the price or even cutting it off.

"So we have to pick something that doesn't look expensive and can't afford to lose much?" Vivien reacted immediately.

"Yes, you have to pick the real thing." Zhao Xu said.

"If we miss an eye, it means that we are novices who don't know how to do it. In this way, whether we are going to him or not, we will go to the real black shop that specializes in all fakes and leaks. When Zhao Xu said it, he still had palpitations.

In his previous life, he had suffered this kind of loss.

Fortunately, in this life, he just lifted the chessboard if it was a big deal. However, unless it is absolutely necessary, Zhao Xu will not do such a cheap thing.

If your skills are not as good as others, then you will be willing to bow to the wind.

Seeing Zhao Xu's engrossed attention and the appearance of walking to the value to observe carefully, Vivian, who did not have the ability to practice valuation, was also helpless.

She couldn't help but telepathically say, "You might as well let me negotiate with him." ”

Vivien, who is naturally highly charismatic, is actually only in her early 12th order, and what is really surprisingly high is her 19th-level bluffing and intimidation skills.

"If everything goes according to the rules, you won't suffer losses without rules." Zhao Xu said.

At this time, Vivian from the "orderly and kind" camp looked at Zhao Xu from the "neutral and kind" camp, no matter how she looked at her, it looked like she was the more orderly party.

Although she was a chaotic and evil little succubus before.

After Zhao Xu hesitated for a moment, he directly pointed to a classic book in the lower right corner, "How much does this cost?" ”

The old man immediately smiled, he almost choked on his cigarette gun, and after a pause, he said, "It's a very old arcane book, worth 100 gold coins. ”

"Hand it to me?" Zhao Xu said.

At this time, he was clearly standing in front of the cabinet, but he was unmoved.

The old man's eyes suddenly shone brightly, and then he reached out and leaned on his crutches and moved over step by step.

His pace was very slow throughout the whole process, as if he was scorching the patience of the two of them.

But Zhao Xu had been waiting, knowing that the other party had picked up the magic book and placed it on a mahogany box covered with a layer of silk brocade.

Only then did Zhao Xu pick up the book with confidence.

"Afraid of something?" Vivian already somewhat understood the meaning of Zhao Xu's actions at this moment.

"That's right, if I pick it up, the whole book will be scattered, including the jade, not to mention that I didn't even know the price just now."

Zhao Xu said.

This line of work is sometimes a lifelong transaction, and sometimes it is a one-time transaction.

In his previous life, he also helped Zhang Qi and used egg whites to fool fakes.

"You humans, it's too complicated." Vivien commented, she couldn't help but touch her waist, but she felt empty, only to realize that his Holy Avenger had been put back into the dimensional bag along with the Mithril Acceleration Armor all over her body.

Zhao Xu patiently flipped a few pages at this time, and after his own full-level 9th-order "Spell Identification" was superimposed with a 9th-order bonus in terms of intelligence, a full 18th-order spell recognition could be regarded as outstanding.

The current player is number one.

In an instant, he saw something strange from this random magic book.

"I can see up to 70 of them." Zhao Xu gave his own price.

Needless to say, his "one" at this point means a gold coin.

"President, don't you cut a penny?" Vivien was a little incomprehensible for a moment, in their abyss, it was the most basic courtesy to meet and discount.

"Here, if you bargain more than half, it means that you think the other party is deliberately killing you, and the next second is that he will drive you away." Zhao Xu didn't have a good airway.

In the eyes of professionals like them, the price estimation error of magic items and magic books is basically no more than 10%.

"And what kind of book is this?" Vivien struggled to make out the mysterious text on the cover.