Chapter 311: The Forest of Spine Thorns (Part II)
"This is the snake tailbone of the six-armed snake demon, and this is Medusa's snake tailbone. Although they look quite detailed, you can clearly tell the difference between the two. The shopkeeper continued to introduce Barrett to the bones that had been placed in different rooms.
"Why don't I see anything, is it the difference in size?"
"Uh...... , it should be said that the natural aura of the two is not the same. Gluckman picked up one of the snake tailbones and handed it to Barrett, "Feel it carefully, feel it with the fire of your soul." The snake tail bone of the six-armed snake demon has a very strong aura of abyss depravity, even if the corruption and death in the dark realm cannot cover it up, which shows that the six-armed snake demon must have been quite powerful before his death. You can even use this snake tailbone to summon a full six-armed snake demon, but you'll need to be prepared to face the latter's furious attacks. ”
Abyssal breath? Barrett concentrated all his energy and felt it carefully, and only then did he faintly notice a special feeling.
After becoming an undead, his perception was greatly reduced. The living and the dead have different ways of understanding the world, the living mainly use various sensory organs, supplemented by spiritual power, to explore the surroundings, while the undead use more soul fire in the skull.
However, Barrett does not know much about the various techniques used by the soul fire, does not know how to communicate with other undead spirits directly through the soul fire, and is not very sensitive to all living life breaths like other undead (devils and demons are also living creatures).
However, Barrett is not really dead, so he doesn't care about it, and most of the undead, especially the higher ones, seem to prefer to continue their habit of conversing through their voices.
"This skull with a golden crown is one of the three heads on the neck of some powerful skeleton master. This was sold to me by a corpse in District 2. Instead, the corpse took a pair of dreadclaw's hard, sharp chitin claws from me. Grachman continued, "To be honest, I took advantage of this deal. Even though the head was shattered, the claws of the Dreadclaw could not be compared to the noble head of the Lord of Bones. But the corpse demon didn't care. That's the way the deal is here, a lot of things don't have a uniform measurement of value, it's all about the satisfaction of both parties. ”
Barrett bent down to look at what appeared to be a broken piece of the head, and salivated at the golden crown on the skull, "Do you buy this thing separately?" he pointed to the crown.
"The crown and head of the Lord of Bones are one, and when separated, they lose their original value. The owner of the shop said, "This thing is very valuable in my heart, so your bid must satisfy me." Of course, the meaning of value is different, and it seems to me that a large piece of gold is not even worth more than a stone on the side of the road, because it comes from the main material plane and carries a little fragrant earth on it that has not yet decayed. ”
"No, I'm just asking. Barrett shook his head, "Next time I'll bring some dirt-stained stones to you for gold." Anyway, you and I are satisfied.
Later, under the guidance of the shopkeeper, he browsed the rows of vertebral spines, leg bones, hand bones and other parts belonging to different types of humanoids, as well as many strange parts belonging to other creatures. For example, the third hand on the chest of the three-armed troll, and the part where the centaur body is connected to the horse's body, etc......
The goods in this shop are as varied as its owner said. There were many undead species to which the bones belonged, and Barrett had never even heard the name, so he could tell the difference between the real and the fake.
Like Garcia's right hand, God knows if it belongs to Garcia himself, or if he is someone who can't even write his own name, or if Garcia is really a great writer, or if he is some adventurer who loves to read "Wood's Biography" as much as he does.
"Hey, what is this??", Barrett asked, pointing to an egg with a strange pattern on the ground.
"That's right, the silver dragon's dragon egg is nothing more than a dead one. There is little living in the Dark Realm. As he said this, Grackerman's left arm suddenly fell. "Oh, sorry, but this arm isn't actually mine, so it doesn't fit well. In fact, apart from this head accident, the rest of my body does not belong to me. I like to swap body parts from one body to another, and it makes me feel as if I've been reborn as a new, well, undead. When you think about it, it's not that interesting. ”
He picked up the arm on the ground, put it back in place, and continued, "Although the little guy inside the dragon egg has been formed, there is no way to hatch it. And because the time of death is too long, the corpses inside have slowly dried up and calcified. Gluckman touched the smooth surface of the egg, "You know, the eggshell and the completely shriveled baby dragon carcass inside are actually a type of bone, so I'm keeping it for my collection." ”
He tapped the dragon egg lightly with his finger bone, "If you have a mage friend who is proficient in necromantic magic, preferably from the necromantic faction, you can buy this dragon egg back, and then transform the corpse inside into a small bone dragon through the reincarnation ritual." Although this little guy doesn't have much combat power, it can be kept as a special pet, at least you don't need to feed it. ”
Barrett thought of the rather mischievous little bone dragon beside Quartermaster Nelson, presumably transformed from a dead dragon egg that had not hatched.
The little ghost would be quite interested in this kind of thing. Eve had always wanted to have a companion who could play with her often, and Barrett knew that it would be boring for her to be alone in the accessories, but the little bone dragon had no way to put it into the accessories, and the end result was to stay with her.
But Barrett himself didn't need this at all. If he feels lonely, he will go to the 'lovely man' to solve it, and he doesn't need to have a pet or anything. Besides, he didn't know any mage friends who were proficient in necromancy.
Our Death Knight hesitated for a long time, but finally shook his head, "Forget it, let's look at something else." ”
Barrett followed the shopkeeper from room to room, each with a different variety of goods. Eventually, he found something he was interested in - a crystal bone fragment!
It was almost identical to the special crystal bone piece he had found after he had killed the Garden of Bones, but it was a little smaller than his.
The description of this crystal bone fragment on the [Mission Log] is as follows:
[Soul of Bones: Rare magic material.] Certain kinds of undead creatures are born with something special. And the undead who have this special thing can slowly become stronger by devouring other undead, and even have the ability to change their form and reorganize their bodies at will.
The 'Soul of Bones' is the basis for the skeleton-like undead to progress, and the other types of undead have their own different things that can be used to advance. Mages generally believe that this type of special thing is a gift from the negative energy plane to the undead in the plane, and some mages believe that it is a balance of the multiverse against the low growth of the undead (almost equal to zero). Of course, there is also a more niche theory that this is the plane god of the negative energy plane trying to give birth to itself. 】
[Note: There was once a skeleton that could play dead, and it seems to have succeeded.] 】
"How do you sell this?" Barrett asked, picking up the crystal bone shard.
"Do you need this Advanced Key? I'll have to make it clear beforehand, this thing isn't useful to a Death Knight like you. "Of course, it didn't work for me. It can even be said that it is useless against the undead in the entire eternal body, because we are mage creatures, not natives of the plane itself. As for whether there will be exceptions, who knows, anything can happen in this multiverse. ”
"It's fine, I just wanted to see if I could make some gear out of this. It's just that I don't know if I can afford it. "Barrett wanted to add two crystal bone shards to the weapon he wanted to build, but he didn't know if it would be feasible. Anyway, in his opinion, dragon teeth and bones are actually not too much different, and they should be able to be used together. (Teeth aren't bones, but this book classifies chitin, bones, teeth, scales, turtle shells, and other things into one type of magical material.) )
"As I said before, everything here doesn't really have a price, because the undead don't need gold or magic stones. Grackerman spread his hands and replied, "So, this deal is as long as you and I are satisfied." It doesn't matter if you're providing a message, a story, or something. ”
I'm a newcomer to the news, and it's not that I can't tell a story, but Barrett is a little worried about how many stories he needs to tell in order to make the shopkeeper really satisfied.
Let's barter.
Barrett thought for a moment, flipped through his spatial ring, and then pulled out a white skull with a diamond-shaped red crystal embedded in his forehead.
The skull, with its pointed canine teeth and protruding jaws, was swapped from a Caveman clan when Barrett and the 'Good Helpers' team were venturing underground.
Everyone in the team was given something, and Barrett got this peculiar skull and a ring called the 'One Ring'.
"What is this, there is something peculiar in its appearance. Gluckman took it and looked it up and down, "It looks like an orc's head, but there is a crystal embedded in the forehead, and it seems that the marks are embedded in the forehead, which is interesting." ”
"Orcs indeed. Barry nodded, "To be exact, it should be the head of an orc caster." ”
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