Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lich Shop
After getting their weapons, Acoste and Ling fell asleep on the stone wall with a blanket, such is the adventure life in the wild, many times the adventurers eat cold food and sleep on natural beds, if they catch a cold or fever in the harsh adventure environment, there is a high chance of death without a priest or a teammate who has specialized in medical skills. Some people may think that sleeping on the cold stone wall can't sleep at all, but when you fight for a day and a night without closing your eyes, no difficult conditions can resist the attack of tiredness.
They had a peaceful night in Acoste, after all, they had not offended the goddess of doom, Bensaba, and it was impossible for them to be in trouble all the time for a week and hover on the line of life and death.
The next day, everyone gathered up the camp and walked out, and now the heavy snow had stopped outside, and the long-lost sun shone on the snow-covered earth and reflected a charming color, and Acoste knew that it was very rare to encounter this weather in the high mountains, and they quickly marched westward, trying to reach Ascatra before the sun set today.
Along the way, Acoste and the others did not encounter trouble, but they were all defused by them without danger, and the most dangerous time they even encountered the dragon that the tavern taverns often said, the white dragon. But fortunately, Yacoste they have already experienced the sharpness of the silver dragon Mirimu, and after feeling the familiar coercion, they quickly found a hidden place, so that they would not be able to pass the immunity of Longwei and become a live target in place, the giant beast with a body length of dozens of meters hovered a few times in the air and left, before flying away, the white dragon raised his head to the sky and roared, and the dragon roar fell on Yacoste's ears like a thunderbolt on the flat ground The eardrum buzzed, This made Acoste realize the gap between himself and the creatures at the top of the food chain in this world.
After the white dragon flew away, Yacoste they didn't dare to stay for a moment, quickly left the place and rushed down the mountain, before the sun set, a huge silhouette of the city that could not see the edge appeared in their sight, on the other side of the city is an endless sea of swords, and countless merchants in the caravan are like ants moving from the huge gate of the city to the other side of the field of vision, Yacoste They couldn't help but shed tears, we finally found the big army.
The rest of the matter is much simpler, Acoste and they inserted into a caravan, pretending to be a member of the merchant guards, although the underground world here has been invaded by the shadow thieves, but the shadow thieves have not completely become the king of the underground world of Ascatitra, the local indigenous thieves' union and Am's council are all difficulties for the shadow thieves to overcome, plus the shadow thieves were hit hard in Waterdeep City and were expelled in their own strength is not complete, they simply do not have enough manpower to control the entire Ascala, Otherwise, the Shadow Thief would not have had to send a priest of the Lady of Illness to cooperate in destroying Psul's granary. Wai Ling and Li Qing had already gathered the necessary information from a scout, so it shouldn't be too easy for everyone to find a side door to enter.
As soon as they entered the city, Acoste felt a strong atmosphere of gold coins, which was definitely an atmosphere that they could not feel at Baldur's Gate, there were a large number of merchants and adventurers gathered on the streets, and although the vast majority of these races were humans, there were also many half-orcs, the minotaurs swaggered down the streets, but they did not encounter a trace of discrimination from the surrounding crowd, on the streets of Askatra, the Ammen almost wrapped their heads with silk scarves with their hands, and wore gorgeous clothes similar to robes, And almost every one of them is a shrewd businessman, and within a few minutes of their entry into Askatla, dozens of waves of people have already sold them or asked if they sell goods, which makes Acoste and the others truly understand the aphorism that describes Ascatla: "Except for magical items and time, everything else is just a matter of price." ”
After getting rid of several waves of merchants, Acoste and they came to the bridge area of the city, which is the area where the middle class of Ascatra lives, and a large number of Ams who have achieved a small career live here, of course, the most important thing is that the shadow thieves do not seem to have penetrated here, and now the power of the shadow thieves has all pounced on the port area and the city gate area, after finding a tavern called Causeway Bay to eat casually and book a room, they quickly walked to the south of the bridge area, there is a huge shopping mall, Waujin Mall, The upper and lower floors are about the size of a small town, and this is the only place where Amm can sell magical items, and due to Am's aversion to spells, all people in the city will be arrested for casting spells or selling magical items except for the Masked Mage Guild. However, this is an exception, as far as Acoste knows, the gold lord behind this place seems to have a lot to do with the goddess of wealth and trade, Wokin, so the kingdom of Am, which is dominated by commerce, is naturally difficult to bear them.
As soon as you enter the mall, there are all kinds of cries of selling, and some merchants even place a few bewitching women with only a few strips of cloth covering their bodies at the door in order to increase the attractiveness of their shops, and if you buy and sell more than 3,000 gold coins in their shop, these beauties from Karinshan can be given back as a filler. You must know that the slave trade is explicitly forbidden in Am's laws, but it is not a single fart in front of a merchant who only has gold coins in his eyes.
Acoste They went around a few shops on the first floor, but they didn't see any magic items suitable for them, and finally Acoste had to bribe a human merchant who looked like an old fritter with gold coins, and under his guidance, Acoste They found a mysterious shop on the third floor, the entrance of this shop was actually hidden under a wine barrel placed on the side of the road, if you don't know the door, I'm afraid you will never find this magic shop.
"Tsk, a couple of new guests. You can pick whatever you want here, but the total price of the things that everyone buys here is not allowed to exceed 15,000 gold coins, which is the rule. As soon as they climbed down the stairs, a gloomy voice came, and they were startled when they saw it, because the voice that came out was not a living person, it was a lich with red soul light in his eyes and a rich negative energy!
Fortunately, the lich ignored the crowd, and after explaining the precautions, he looked at the books on his bone fingers, and Acoste breathed a sigh of relief, and began to pick up a dazzling array of magical items by himself.
After seeing a few good things, Acoste's eyes instantly became hot, and sure enough, the things in the lich's hands were all high-quality, but the cheapest item was also priced at 7,8,000 gold coins, if they followed the rules, they could only buy two things, but there were more than 100,000 oceans in Acoste's backpack, and Acoste encountered the dilemma of having money but nowhere to spend it for the first time.
As for negotiating with the lich, forget it, Acoste didn't want to try the taste of being thrown on his body in an instant by the malicious transformation technique, the human immobilization technique, the finger of death, and the captivity technique, they chose six magic items in reluctance, after delivering 90,000 gold coins, Acoste They left the mysterious shop opened by the lich, the most important thing to be an adventurer is not to be too greedy, how many adventurers have died on this greedy word, these few magic items are enough to help them rise to a new level.