378. Shining Sabre
This time, Surdak transported nearly 1,000 pounds of sulphur to the city of Highlandsa, and received nearly forty gold coins from the manager of the White Elephant Trading Firm Joy.
I didn't expect this batch of sulfur mines to be so valuable, the sulfur mines in the rocky area of Pubao Mountain can be mined for at least two months, and there is also a whole warehouse of inventory in the village, these sulfur mines need to be at least seven or eight thousand pounds, and these sulfur mines in the rocky area alone will bring nearly five hundred gold coins to the village.
Joy asked the waiter to put the whole piece of sulfur ore into a wooden box and store it in the warehouse of the trading house, and invited Surdak to the side of the rest area, where a female clerk in the trading house served Surdak a cup of black tea, and Joey said to Surdak with an excited face:
"Knight Surdak, if you still have a sulphur mine, you can send it to me at any time!"
This is the trading area of the White Elephant Trading Company, where many shippers trade goods with the staff of the trading house, and there are always people coming in and out of the warehouse, but they seem to be orderly and do not feel chaotic at all.
A waiter came over and asked Joey to sign a piece of parchment, and then hurried away, and Joey continued to say to Surdak: "The market of sulfur mines this year is much better than before, and at this time the shipment will make 30% more money than before, maybe after the spring, this price will fall back, if you have stockpiling in your hands, it is recommended that you can sell at this time." ”
Surdak nodded, and said to Joey, "I have arranged for the men to transport the brimstone mines to the city of Highlandsa one after another. By the way, Manager Joey, have I exchanged my batch of magic herbs? ”
Joey said with a wry smile: "Well, there are people who inquire about the news almost every day, but no one is willing to exchange magic herbs, this year, the war in front of everyone in the Green Empire is relatively tight, and the magic herbs have been controlled by the great nobles, and the circulation of magic herbs in the market is less than before, for the time being, I only heard that a batch of magic herbs will arrive in Highlandsa City in the near future, and the magician of Dale is ready to see if he can replace some of the magic herbs you need." ”
"Manager Joey, if you can, wants to revoke this commission." Surdak hesitated for a moment and said to Manager Joey.
Manager Joy looked at Surdak with a surprised expression, and then said: "These magic herbs have not been traded, and the revocation is very simple, but it requires the approval of the magician of Dale......
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Magician Daldala sat at the square table, his table was full of magical items that needed to be identified, he took off the monocle on the bridge of his nose, rubbed his head and eyebrows with his hands, and then asked Surdak who was sitting on the opposite chair, "Knight Surdak, are you ready to give up exchanging magic herbs?" ”
"Yes, Magician Dalle." Surdak smiled apologetically at the Magician of Dale.
"Don't have any psychological burden, this is a common thing in the business house." Magician Dale replied gently, and then asked Surdak, "So...... Do you want to get those magic herbs back, or do you want to exchange them for something else? ”
It was useless for this batch of magic herbs Surdak, and without thinking about it, he said, "Sell it, exchange it for some gold or something." ”
Magician Dalla rubbed his forehead again, and said to Surdak: "There are many things that cannot be purchased with gold coins, such as many rare magic items, if you are not short of gold coins for the time being, I advise you not to do this, it is easy for you to exchange magic herbs for gold coins, but if you want to buy magic herbs with gold coins, you can hardly buy any valuable magic grass in the magic market of Highlanda." ”
"You mean you want me to exchange some magic crystals?" Surdak asked.
Magician Dale shook his head and said to Surdak: "Recently, the value of the magic crystal has been depreciating, and there will be a certain downward trend in the future, and it is not a wise move to change the magic crystal. ”
Seeing that Surdak was a little confused, the magician of Dalle pushed a black devil skin bracer on the square table in front of Surdak, who was also the one who had stripped the black pattern of the demon skin on the battlefield, and recognized at a glance that this was a magic skin bracer made of demon skin, and there was even a trace of mana fluctuation on it.
"This is a bracer made of black devil skin?" Surdak asked.
Magician Dalla nodded and explained to Surdak, "Right now...... The market of magic items is constantly rising, I suggest that you can start with the primary magic potions, magic weapons, and magic pattern construction, and I will let you calculate the value of this batch of magic herbs. ”
After saying that, the Magician of Dahler glanced at Manager Joey who was standing aside.
Joey hurriedly flipped through the account book in his hand, found Surdak's registration page, and then quickly read out a set of data: "Thirteen Starlight Grass Plants are worth eighty silver coins each, three Demon Guts Grass are worth seventy-six silver coins each, seven Nightmare Vines are ninety-two silver coins each, and a whole bundle of White Ring Vines is twenty gold, and these magic grasses are worth thirty-nine gold coins if they are all exchanged for gold coins." ”
After hearing this, the magician of Dale nodded slightly, and said to Surdak: "You can almost buy a primary magic pattern structure, which is both valuable and practical. Now the price of magic potions has risen like crazy, at least three times compared to four years ago, and it is estimated that it is about to peak. ”
Thirty-nine gold coins could probably be exchanged for seven magic crystals in Surdak's opinion, and he asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that a magic pattern was worth hundreds of magic crystals?" How could I possibly afford it! ”
Hearing Surdak say this, the Magician of Dale smiled and said: "It seems that you must have some misunderstanding of the magic pattern construction, a hundred magic crystals can almost buy a complete set of primary magic pattern construction, the complete set of magic pattern construction has complementary attributes, and some even have the attributes of the set will be worth that price, please ask the inscription master to tailor the magic pattern construction will have a very high fit, and there will be a double premium." ”
"Actually, the primary magic pattern construction of the parts is not as expensive as you think, and a primary magic pattern construction is almost worth a dozen magic crystals. Joey, take the Surdak knight to the magic item trading area on the second floor, if you still insist on exchanging gold coins, it's not too late to change it then! ”
Dalle instructed Manager Joy on the side, and lowered his head after speaking. Put your monocle back on and start identifying the magical items on the table.
Manager Joey replied respectfully, "Okay." Lord Magician Dalle. ”
Joey walked downstairs with Surdak, and on the way, he even secretly looked at Surdak a few times, and asked tentatively, "Knight Surdak, you and Magician Dahler are old acquaintances?" ”
Surdak didn't understand why Joey asked like this, but nodded slightly and said, "Magician Dalla helped me twice before!" ”
Joey smiled kindly at Surdak.
The hall on the second floor of the White Elephant Trading House was full of various billboards, and when Surdak walked downstairs, there were already waiters in the trading house who were eliminating the trading information of Surdak's magical herbs one by one on the notice board, and the waiter's action immediately made some guests in the hall on the second floor commotion, and someone lowered his voice and said:
"Look, order 1579-1582 has been traded, I said that all the magic herbs are in demand this year, and it will ......rise in a few days."
"How much more can it go up, how much is a bottle of secondary healing potion now, how many people do you think on the battlefield can afford to drink potions?"
"This is the market, and no one can do anything." Someone whispered.
Surdak and Manager Joy walked through the corridor into a magic shop, the attendants in the magic shop saw Manager Joey, they didn't come over, this magic shop is very large, probably occupies more than half of the upper floor of the underground market, and the shop is full of magic items, this is bigger than any magic shop in Hylanza that Surdak has visited.
Surdak looked at the goods on the shelves on both sides of the store dizzily, and Manager Joy pointed to a row of light brown light leather armor on the shelves and said: "These are thorn-tailed crystal lion skin armor, each leather armor is engraved with magic patterns, it is the best-selling magic pattern structure of the trading house at present, and this one is engraved with the 'Elegant Wind' magic pattern, which can increase a certain speed." ”
Surdak remembers Darcy. Christie wore a leather armor of this style, so she asked curiously, "How many magic crystals do you need for this thorn-tailed crystal lion's magic pattern structure?" ”
"Twenty-three magic crystals will buy it." Joey replied without thinking.
A black line appeared on Surdak's forehead and asked Manager Joey, "Is there a cheaper one?" ”
Manager Joy patiently took out a pair of blue leather boots from the shelf, and introduced: "This is a blue deerskin boots, we like to call it deer boots, the blue deerskin itself has ice resistance, and the seal on it is an endurance magic pattern, which can increase running speed, many hunters will buy a pair of these running shoes, and if you wear them, it is said that you can catch up with wild boars in the woods......"
Seeing that Surdak was not interested, his eyes had already seen the magic scrolls on the other row of shelves, and Joey swallowed back the price just about to speak.
To be honest, Surdak didn't mean to look away, he was actually shocked by the magic scrolls on the wooden shelf, bundles of primary magic scrolls piled on the shelf, making the shelf look like a tall, thick wall stuffed with scrolls.
"Fire Gathering Magic Scroll, Water Gathering Magic Scroll, Hydrotherapy Magic Scroll, Fireball Magic Scroll, Magic Arrow, Ice Arrow, Wind Rush...... We have quite a wide range of magic scrolls here, but of these magic scrolls, only the first two are suitable for you. Joey said, pulling a fire-gathering scroll from the shelf.
Surdak didn't take it to check, this kind of magic scroll was not unusual, it could be found everywhere in the magic shops of Highlandsa City.
Surdak walked over to a metal plate engraved with runes, he had seen something like it.
Joey took the initiative to introduce: "This is the 'Fire Gathering Magic Rune Board', this kind of rune board consumes magic crystal fragments, as long as you buy one, you can use it for a long time, many young nobles no longer burn golden oak fruit in the fireplace at home, as long as you put a metal rune board in the fireplace, you can no longer worry about making a fire all winter." ”
"How much is this worth?" Surdak asked curiously:
"1 gold coin and 20 silver coins." Joey lowered his voice and said to Surdak.
"That's a good thing!" Although Surdak had no idea of buying it, he casually praised it.
Continuing to walk towards the magic shop, Surdak saw a neat row of wands hanging on the shelves, behind the wand were some bookshelves, on which were some magic books that were so thick that they could almost kill people, in fact, Surdak wanted to open a magician book to see what was in the book, and he actually wanted to make the magic book so thick.
In addition to wands and magic books, Surdak finally saw some books, looking at the classification on the shelves, it seems to be the art of war, swordsmanship, martial arts, shadow training, trap skills, marksmanship, archery, physical arts, etc., these books are placed on the shelves by category, Manager Joy introduced some skill books to Surdak like a few treasures, breaking the army tactics, fire fist, cross sword style, gun interception, chain archery and so on.
"The ones taught in the War College are always worse than the skills in these books."
Joy saw that Surdak had no intention of staying, so he continued to take him inside, there was a long row of counters inside, and there was a thick layer of felt on the counter, and on top of the felt were weapons of different shapes.
But when he saw these sophisticated magic weapons on the counter of the store, among these weapons, a saber exuded a faint magic fluctuation, Surdak stopped in front of the saber, the saber was very delicately made, the whole blade was full of streamlining, he picked up the blade from the counter with a cyan color. The demonic saber, glancing at Joey.
Joey didn't even say the name of the saber, so he had to look at the clerk behind the counter with an inquiring gaze.
The clerk leaned over and explained, "Manager, this saber is called 'Shine', and it's Lancelot. Master Clappen's recent creation, but although this knife is a magic weapon, it has a slight flaw...... That's why it's here! ”
"What's wrong with this saber?" Joey asked quietly.
"Manager Joey, the magic pattern circle on this saber is said to be 'Shimmer Illumination', and it has no other effect when used, the only effect is that you don't need to light a torch when you use it at night......" The clerk explained with an embarrassed face, "But it's not its fault, Lancelot. Master Clappen made it like this in order to cater to some nobles, but the gem base inlaid with the magic crystal fragments was broken when it was built, so this shining saber has no source of mana, so this saber can only be used by magicians to exert its magical effect, and I want to dispose of it cheaply......"