Chapter Twenty-Eight: Troll Treasure
I moved up to level 7, but unfortunately I didn't get to learn a new specialty, and I only had a few skill points to distribute.
Luckily, the baby troll didn't fall directly opposite the cave entrance, which was underground, heading straight up to the top of the vault. So don't worry about the flame burning the baby troll attracting uninvited guests, I have time to do a careful search.
Trolls are clearly not creatures interested in wealth. I found only 99 gold, 63 silver, and 61 copper coins in the largest cave connected to the entrance, along with 3 gems valued at 50 gold each, scattered among the fragments of clothing and the bones of the victims scattered throughout the cave. In addition, there were two daggers stuck in the walls of the cave, a short sword, a scimitar and a long sword, which of course had to be pulled out and put away.
The smaller caverns connected to the largest cave in the middle are presumably separate rooms for members of the Troll Clan. However, there is nothing to be gained in it. Until they entered the largest room, which was not as empty as the others, with a tattered and dirty animal skin on the floor, and a few clumps of dry lichen. Well, these things...... Of course I'm not interested.
This should be the room of the troll clan leader, so it can't be all this garbage, right? I glanced around and saw a big rock in the corner that was a little abrupt, so I went over and moved it away. Damn, it's really heavy! However, it can still be pushed away reluctantly.
There is a hole in the back of the large rock that contains 3 potions, a wand, and ...... How many tiny skulls? It looks like a rodent, really......
The potion and wand were accepted, and the rat's skull was left for it.
When I was about to leave, I found that the entrance to the cave dug by the trolls was exquisite, 3 meters high from the ground, and the trolls with a height of nearly 3 meters could reach out of the cave as soon as they stretched out their hands, and they went out after holding it up, but it was difficult for other creatures to get out. Luckily, I had a lizard, and I climbed the wall of the cave and got out of the hole.
Then I went to find other troll lairs, because it was already known that trolls would cover the entrance to the underground, so just look at the large blanket woven from the branches and leaves of the underground plants with a radius of more than two meters, and it would be easy to find.
After a few laps around the barren vault, I found a total of 9 troll nests, each in a similar condition to the first one I found. There were one or two underage trolls left behind, but I was alert beforehand, so I wouldn't be caught off guard again. With me and the riding lizard, dealing with one or two underage trolls is a breeze. With my newfound "dodge" and "nimble movement" specialties, baby trolls were basically unable to attack me, and occasionally scratched a few times, but I was also blocked by the +1 Mithril cuirass I was wearing.
However, the riding lizard suffered some injuries, which made me feel quite distressed. I fed it a bottle of the potion that Yichen had given me to heal minor injuries, and then I saw that the lighter wounds on the lizard's body that had been scratched by the troll baby's claws were gradually healing, but some of the more serious wounds were only half healed. I had to feed it the remaining bottle of the potion for minor injuries, and the lizard rider fully recovered. This potion is good, but the effect is still worse. A bottle of healing potion for minor injuries is only worth 50 gold coins, if you can carry ten bottles of eight bottles with you......
Originally, the five classes of Priest, Druid, Ranger, Poet, and Paladin could make healing potions as long as they learned the "Potion Concoction" specialty, but unfortunately the Dark Elves only had the Priest and Ranger to choose from these five classes.
For the priest, it is a first-level magic to treat minor injuries, but for the ranger, it is a second-level spell, and it takes level 8 to use, and the cost of making potions is higher than that of pure spell professions, not to mention that no player can reach level 8 now, even if it is an NPC, how can a level 8 ranger spend a day to create a bottle of the same effect, but the manufacturing cost is several times higher than the price of the potion made by the priest.
As for the Priest, a Level 1 Priest who has learned the "Concoction Potion" specialty can create a potion to heal minor injuries. However, Rose's NPC priests seem to use spells as a way to show their power and maintain their status, and rarely consider making potions for others to use. The player makes a potion and sells it to the NPC shop at half price, but it loses money. Most low-level players rarely encounter dangerous things, and if they do encounter danger, they can't be saved by a bottle of healing potions for minor injuries; Second, the price of 50 gold coins is not something that low-level players can afford. So it's hard to sell to players.
Therefore, the potion of minor injuries, which should have been an ordinary and visible thing, has become a rare thing in Demon Blade City that even those who have money and can't find a place to buy it. Well, I think that when the level of the later players increases, the demand for these potions will increase significantly. Perhaps they should be reminded that they should find some female players who are priests to make potions to heal minor injuries, and they can make a fortune by accumulating them. That way, I can also carry a ten-eight-bottle ......
A total of 1,024 gold, 563 silver, and 623 copper coins were found in the 9 troll lairs, with an average estimate of 28 gems for 50 gold each, 32 potions, 42 weapons, and 7 wands...... The harvest was not unsubstantial, but there were too many objects, although even my own weight did not exceed the light weight of the lizard rider of 135 kilograms, which did not affect the running speed of the lizard, nor did it affect the ability of the lizard to fly over the wall. The problem is, there isn't so much room for those 42 weapons of all kinds, which you can't carry or hold. I had to leave behind the low-value ordinary weapons through valuation, leaving only 18 pieces with a high valuation, estimated to be magic weapons. The remaining 18 weapons were wrapped in skins found in the trolls' caves and tied tightly behind the saddle with ropes.
On the way back, because of the experience of coming, it was easy to avoid the dangerous creatures on the road one by one.
Seeing that I had already stepped into the patrol range of the outer patrol of Demon Blade City, I relaxed my tense spirit all the way, and began to think about how much more I could gain from this loot after repaying my cousin's loan.
I borrowed 2,500 gold from my cousin, sold any two magic weapons, and added 500 gold coins.
Well, the potion can be identified by asking the commandment to help identify it. Wands and magic weapons require the purchase of an identification scroll, and then find any mage to use the identification. A single appraisal can only identify one characteristic of a magic item, so a valuable magic item with several attributes will have to be performed several times to fully understand its capabilities. In other words, 7 wands and 18 magic weapons don't necessarily require just 25 Appraisal Scrolls, but 1 Appraisal Scroll costs 125 gold coins, and 25 scrolls cost 3125 gold coins, not to mention that it may cost more than 25 scrolls...... Even though I know that the more magic items I have to consume to identify the more magic items will be valuable, it is still distressing to think about it......
Suddenly, without warning, the lizard stopped, and I woke up from the struggle with the gold coins in my mind. I was obsessed with calculating the gains and losses that prevented me from noticing the warning signs of danger......