Chapter 6 Goblin Grocery Store
The busy crowd, mostly vendors, but also some civilian adventurers in leather armor, the city guards patrolling the streets from time to time, the towering castle spires in the distance, and the majestic temple of the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture, which is not inferior to the lord's castle.
After getting out of the carriage and attaching the shop manager's fare, Donald sighed in front of the City Gate Street as he watched the scene that matched his memory, and then walked to the most prosperous business district of Boulder City according to the location in his memory.
The so-called commercial district is just a place named by Donald according to the custom of his previous life, in fact, it is located outside the castle of the lord of Boulder City and the mansions of large and small nobles, and between the city where those rich merchants lived, it is almost a bustling street of shops.
This shopping street is arguably the most affluent and prosperous area of Boulder City, with gorgeous shops specializing in aristocratic luxury goods, as well as shops selling other kinds of goods.
Although it is undoubtedly a few hundred years behind the bustling shopping street of his previous life, this is already the liveliest place Donald has seen in this world.
may be the reason why Donald followed the three Clintons, but they did not encounter any accidents and troubles along the way, and the scene of the nobles oppressing the common people in their impression did not happen. Although the steel armor and shield have been replaced, they are tall and strong, and the excellent long sword hanging from their waists is obviously not an ornament The three of Clinton are not comparable to ordinary warriors in terms of momentum, at least they have to go to the battlefield and kill many enemies to have their sense of battle, and ordinary people will take the initiative to retreat when they are in full swing, so as not to get into any trouble.
Donald turned a blind eye to the bustling shops and went straight to the shop at the end of the street closest to the aristocratic quarter.
I saw that the front door of this store was crowded, and I didn't see a single customer entering or leaving for a long time, which is undoubtedly an outlier in such a lively commercial street. However, people passing by here did not show any doubt, because this shop was the most mysterious goblin magic shop in Boulder City.
The magic shop sells magical items and materials that are said to be used by mages. Except for mages, only nobles and powerful professionals are eligible, and no one else is welcome to enter, and violators will be punished by mystical magic.
Of course, Donald knew that this was nothing more than a rumor among ordinary civilians who were afraid of mages and mystical magical items. In fact, this goblin shop, which only sells low-level alchemy items and low-level spell materials, is not as heavily guarded as it might seem.
Donald looked at the old façade, a dark gray wooden sign with a line of goblin writing crookedly that he didn't recognize, and without hesitation or hesitation, he pushed the door and strode into the store.
Entering the mysterious shop that people call it, Donald discovers that it is not as mysterious as it is rumored, just like a country grocery store. Wooden counters are placed on all three sides, except for the front, with only a gap in the middle for children under the age of 10. On the wall behind the counter are rows of wooden shelves filled with labeled clutter.
Of course, unlike your average grocery store, you'll find all sorts of quirky items here. Birds like feathers, bat's wings, toad skins, etc., are already very weird, and there are crystal bottles containing many unknown things, some of which can even make most ordinary people feel creepy at a glance.
However, Donald, who had seen a lot of knowledge in his previous life and had never seen any horror movies, was only a little strange about these things and did not have much fear.
Just as Donald was observing the situation in the store, a sharp voice came from behind.
"Where did the little ghost come from, Old Deli's grocery store is not something like you can come in casually, don't bother the great goblin merchant Old Deli to satisfy your curiosity, if you don't buy anything, get out of here!"
Donald looked down and saw a green head with yellow hair peeking out from under the counter at the back of the shop.
As if sensing that Donald's height advantage had taken a toll on his pride, the green-skinned creature climbed onto the wooden stool with some irritation, stood up to the height of Donald's chest, and then waved his hands as thin as chicken feet impatiently and said:
"Leave without buying anything, get out of Old Deli's shop, wasting Old Deli's time is a waste of money, unless you can afford enough Jinsol!"
Looking at it like this, if it weren't for the three tall men behind Donald, the goblin boss would probably have to drive people out if he left.
Rather than angry, Donald observed with interest the shopkeeper, who claimed to be a goblin merchant Old Deli.
The first time he saw a goblin creature, Donald's first impression was that he was short, thin, and ugly.
However, this kind of green-skinned little man is indeed a humanoid intelligent race in this world, they are different from their close relatives wild goblins and cavemen, compared to the wild goblins who only have primary wisdom and live a life of hairy and blood-drinking, and the underground cavemen who are naturally timid and cowardly, and have no other advantages except for being able to farm, the goblins have invented mechanical manufacturing and alchemy technology different from other races with their wisdom, and even created a strong goblin technological civilization in ancient times.
However, because their civilization violated the rules and restrictions of this world, it caused a worldwide disaster, which led to the fall of the huge goblin empire. Goblins who believed in their own wisdom and did not believe in gods were not blessed by the gods, and lost most of their population in the disaster, and only a small number of goblins in underground cities survived.
Moreover, the surviving goblins were rumored to have been punished by the gods because of the disaster, and a large part of them became wild goblins with low intelligence, and only a few still retained their wisdom and passed on some of the creations and technologies of the goblin civilization.
Since then, the goblins have generally become vassals of other powerful races, except for reclusive tribes. In addition to the proud elves, dwarves, orcs, and human forces all have affiliated goblin groups, providing them with alchemical items and magical goblin creations.
It is worth mentioning that after nearly a few hundred years of development, a unique profession has emerged among the existing goblins, and that is the goblin merchant.
As the most extensive commercial force in the world, the goblin merchants formed the Goblin Business Federation with themselves as individuals and tribes as the link, and spread the shops all over the settlements of almost all intelligent races, forming the prototype of a huge commercial network in this world. Some goblin merchants in the human realm even specialize in mages and nobles.
Goblin shops have brought a lot of convenience to the intelligent races, and the low-strength race of goblins itself has no threat to their own family, so the powerful races will allow the existence of goblin merchants. And with the protection of the Goblin Business Federation, few forces will offend these green-skinned dwarves, and if they offend them, they will no longer be able to buy any goods from the hands of the goblins.
Donald also has some understanding of the goblin merchant's shrewd philistine and greedy nature, so he is not the slightest weak, and his tone is calm with confidence and toughness.
"Goblin merchants are the most astute merchants, can't they even tell the difference between real customers and troublemakers?, then this goblin shop is so disappointing to me, you might just be a merchant dressed as a wild goblin!"
The goblin boss Old Deli roared angrily at some unintelligible goblin language.
Then he said aloud to Donald in a characteristic high-pitched voice in the lingua franca of mankind:
"Human, this is an insult to the great goblin merchant Old Deli, who has been running a shop in Boulder City for fifty years, several times older than you, but you can find any magical items that the Celtic Kingdom has!"
Donald was waiting for him to say this, and the simple radicalization method brought by the experience of his previous life was really effective in this world. Especially against races like goblins, who are ingenious and clever in dealing with people.
"So great goblin merchant, do you have a book here for a primer on mages?"
Donald's slightly skeptical tone made the goblin merchant feel insulted, and in order to prove the goblin merchant's greatness, old Deley screamed and laughed.
"Hahahaha! It turned out to be a mage apprentice, of course the great goblin merchant has a mage primer book, if you have thirty gold soles, you can take it!"
As he spoke, he took out a thick parchment, and in retaliation for the ridicule of the hateful human boy, the money-hungry old Deli raised the price by five goldsoles.
Donald, who didn't know this, even if he knew that he wouldn't care, readily took out thirty gold soles and bought the thick book bound in sheepskin. Declined the goblin merchant's other promotions, and simply browsed some of the spell items and props introduced by the other party, and found that the effect and power were not as powerful as the items in the Book of Truth, and the value was generally much higher.
Fifty Kinsols is already a great wealth for Donald, who has been poor for more than ten years. But if he wants to buy a lot of valuable magic items, this money is estimated to be used up by selling two of the most ordinary spell props that can only cast two tricks, and it is not enough for him to spend wantonly here.
And if you use these fifty gold soles to buy elemental crystals and then exchange them for similar items in the Book of Truth, you can summon at least five or more secondary magic items. It was a real magic item that was much more powerful than the apprentice-level magic items on the shelves in front of me.
The Book of Truth divides summoned items into three tiers based on the level of items in the game. Levels zero to level three are ordinary magic items, level four and above are legendary creations, and level seven and above are secondary artifacts.
Among them, ordinary magic items are divided into four levels: secondary, primary, intermediate, and advanced, which only correspond to items from zero to level 3 in the game, which are similar to but not exactly the same as the equipment level division in this world. As for the high-level items, they are not yet within the reach of Donald.
So Donald didn't buy anything else, because those things were useless to him. Soon, the group of four people left the goblin merchant's magic grocery store, and instead of hiring a carriage, they went directly to a secluded place outside the city, and summoned four war horses with four first-level demonic beast crystal nuclei.
Although the knights of the human race are a powerful class of fourth-level soldiers, if their war horses are not armored, they are just creatures equivalent to first-level wild monsters. The first-level magic crystal nucleus is no longer a luxury item for Donald, and there is nothing to worry about using one in a hurry!
As an aristocrat, even a broken aristocracy, Donald was trained in riding as a child. Although not very proficient, it is relatively easy to ride a horse on ordinary horseback.
The only drawback is that the war horse summoned by a magic core does not have a saddle, and after just half an hour, back outside Red Maple Town, Donald felt that his legs were hot and uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but curse that the scenes of riding horses and galloping in the TV movies in his previous life were all deceiving. Although he rode a horse faster than the carriage, his ass couldn't stand the torture.
As for Clinton and the other three, they obviously don't have any riding skills, but they all endure discomfort because they have a calm personality, and they all endure discomfort, and they don't have Donald's grinning appearance at all.
"It seems that the preparation of a good carriage should be on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise if you don't hire someone else's carriage, you will have to suffer this crime again!"
He led the war horse to the hidden red maple forest outside the town, and silently recycled the four war horses in his heart.
This was the message that the Book of Truth had transmitted to him through his mind, and through the application of the Book of Truth these days, Donald had become more and more proficient in using this artifact.
Normally, minions can be recovered by the Book of Truth when the summon time limit is not exhausted. Of course, the recovered energy and residual soul power will not be used to summon again, but can only be absorbed by the artifact itself, gradually increasing the power of the artifact, and repairing the damage suffered by the Book of Truth in the space storm.
As a high-level artifact, in addition to summoning, its own power should also be powerful, at least repair to a certain extent, after restoring to the power of the secondary artifact, the Book of Truth, under the effect of its rules and divine power, as the host and contractor of the artifact, ordinary attacks below the demigod can basically be completely ignored.
Of course, it takes a huge amount of energy to recover like this, and even a kingdom may not be able to afford it!
So when it was useless to summon creatures, but there was still time left, Donald tried to recover some energy as much as possible to speed up the recovery of the Book of Truth.