The reality is often unexpected, on the last day of the stall rental period, the [Forbidden Stone] was sold out. And looking at the transaction records, these [Forbidden Stones] were all purchased by the same person, an eye demon named Harris.

The Eye Demons are one of the strange races of the Demon Race of the Hell Plane, and they resemble a group of eyes with tentacles. The Eye Demon has completely abandoned the physical powers that the Demon Clan is proud of, and has focused on developing their mental and magical abilities, which has made them even more bizarre and varied. Coupled with the innate strong spatial teleportation ability of all demon clans, the combat distance is widened, making every eye mage a difficult and terrifying opponent.

This eye demon named Harris only bought one [Forbidden Stone] at first, and I don't know if he did any tests after he went back, so he bought all the remaining three [Forbidden Stones] every once in a while, and left a message wanting to order more goods.

The communication between the two sides of the City of the End is also through the system of all things, and you only need to know the other party's citizen number to talk to each other, and Harris recorded his citizen number in the message.

Eventually, Ciri contacted Harris through the Everything System, which directly transmitted the other party's virtual image. Truth be told, it's the first time I've seen a real Eye Demon.

True to its name, the main body is made up of countless eyes that the faint of heart does not even dare to stare at them for too long. Even Ciri looked at Harris with an indescribable sense of weirdness.

"Mr. Harris, I saw your message. However, I'm sorry, the Forbidden Stone is out of stock, and it will take me a while to craft this magic item. I don't know if you'd like to wait. Ciri went straight to the point, not wanting to delay too much, even if he wasn't afraid of the Eye Demon, and he didn't want to stay with him for too long.

"This Terran Academy mage from the Colin plane, I learned your name from the System of Everything, Mr. Ciri. I can wait a while, I wonder how long it will take you to make how many Forbidden Stones. "Harris isn't as scary as he seems, and sometimes looks don't mean much, especially in the City of the End.

Ciri explained to Harris what was going on. Since he had to prepare for the academy promotion battle, the production speed was not very fast. Harris had heard of the competition for the academy promotion in the Colin plane, and he understood the situation. In the end, Harris decided to order ten [Forbidden Stones] first, deliver them after the end of the academy promotion battle, and pay half of the city points in advance.

Harris clearly wanted to continue working together, so he took the initiative to increase the price of the deal, and directly doubled it. Each [Forbidden Stone] was finally settled with 30 City Points, and ten [Forbidden Stone] Harris paid 150 City Points in advance.

For the efficacy of the [Forbidden Stone], even the unit price of 30 city points is not too high. However, new magic items are often difficult to price, and often go unappreciated, so it's good to be able to sell them at that price.

Harris directly transferred the 150 points advance payment directly to Ciri, and the entire transaction process will be supervised and executed by the Everything System, but the system will take a certain commission. This kind of small transaction is not much, and Harris generously directly bears all of it.

Ciri's plan to earn City Points went unexpectedly, and he soon earned enough City Points to pay for the entrance fee to DeWitt's Basic Course in Time Studies. However, he didn't have time to study yet, and everything would not be done until after the second academy promotion battle.

Ciri's first priority is now to update and enhance the performance of the fortress. The research on the [Level 3 Intelligent Core Sequence] is still progressing in an intense and orderly manner, but in order to add an auto-repair function to the [Fortress], Ciri needs some Shadow Magic Stones as backup materials.

Ciri has been searching for Shadow Orbs since deciding to add this feature to the Bastion, but it seems that Shadow Fiend is not very popular with the adventuring team, and no one is organizing a hunt for this creature anymore. Because their only loot, the Shadow Stone, is not popular due to its special nature, and is not worth the expense of the adventuring team.

Ciri had no choice but to pay for an adventurous team to go hunting.

The hiring target is the adventurous team within the Qinglin Mercenary Regiment who have experience in hunting, after all, they know the way well.

The deputy regiment commander, who was in charge of directing the battle last time, did not participate in the operation this time, and it seems that the influence of the shadow of the last operation on him has not completely dissipated. However, the members of the adventure team arranged by the Qinglin Mercenary Group for Xi Rui have all participated in the last encirclement and suppression, and with Xi Rui himself, an academic mage, there should be no problem in completing the hunt again.

Yes, Ciri herself is going to take part in this adventure. He hadn't really experienced a wild adventure yet, and this was a great opportunity. Moreover, without the help of the academy mage, the Qinglin Mercenary Group would have to go through complicated application procedures to reach the plane where the last Shadow Demon was located. That plane is closer to the shadow plane, and permission from the shadow plane manager is required to get there.

However, if there is a full-fledged citizen of the final city, there is no need to go through these complicated and lengthy links. The adventuring team led by Ciri has direct access to these planes without going through any organizational audits.

For this adventure, Ciri prepared the [Fortress] and some food, as well as a few [Imperial Time Acceleration Orbs] and [Forbidden Stones], and set out on the journey.

This time, the adventure team has the participation of Xi Rui, a formal academy mage, so most of the other members are responsible for assisting, and the whole team is not too big, only a dozen people. The leader of the other team is called Maria, a mature female warrior.

Maria has a very cheerful personality, usually doesn't put on a show, and is very familiar with all the team members. Maria is also very enthusiastic about Ciri as an employer, and from time to time she talks to Ciri about some interesting stories about academic mages.

The mercenary world has a lot of contact with academic mages, but it is generally trade, and academic mages are the largest customer group of mercenaries. However, the two sides rarely had the opportunity to meet directly, let alone venture together, so many mercenaries didn't really know much about academic mages.

The ones who have the most direct contact with the mercenaries are the combat mages, and there are some of the Qinglin mercenary groups, but they didn't follow this time. With Ciri, an academic mage, there is no need for them to intervene at all.

In fact, many mercenaries don't really understand academic mages, and most of them treat academic mages like aristocrats.

The combat effectiveness of the academic mage is not worse than that of the combat mage, but the emphasis of the two sides is different. Combat mages pay attention to combat awareness and their own strength, and do not like to rely on external objects, while academic mages pay attention to comprehensive strength, and often turn their strong financial resources and research results into combat effectiveness.