Chapter 24: Aini's Family (Part I)
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There are many types of gemstones, many of which are extremely similar in appearance, and this young man with a sickly face can see at a glance that this finger-sized fragment is fluorite, and his eyes can be called poisonous.
"How many do you have?" the boy looked up at Salin, who instantly regained his composure.
"How much do you want?"
The boy frowned slightly when he heard Salin's words. Then he walked out of the counter, closed the door of the shop, hung a sign at the door that was closed, and then returned to Salin and said, "Mr. Mage, if you have a lot of fluorite, you will be in trouble. I'm a very small branch here, I can't eat it, and if you sell it to someone else, you can't guarantee safety. ”
"Safe?" Salin also frowned, looking at the boy calmly.
"You're a Scorpian, aren't you?"
"Hmm. ”
"You can hear it by listening to the accent. You may not know much about it, but the weapons shops of the Qin Yin Empire are all controlled by big families, and the three most famous weapons shops account for 80% of the total trading volume. The strength is great,* such a thing is inevitable, and the small arms act to survive, and the means are not bad at all. You are a foreigner, this fluorite can be sold for about 2,000 gold coins after processing, and the weapon line will cost forty percent of the gross profit, so it stands to reason that you should be given 1,200 gold coins. But it's nice to have 500 gold coins in your hand. ”
Salin smiled and asked, "What if you take it?"
"Even if I plan to make you a friend, I can only give you 1,000 gold coins. The boy replied calmly.
"Why?"
"Mr. Mage, do you want to make me a friend?" the young man smiled, kindly and a little cunningly.
Salin tapped his fingers on the glass of the counter, and did not rush to answer, looking at the magic dagger in the counter with a distracted look. Although this young man has a sick face, his temperament is definitely not from an ordinary family. If he could make friends, Saleen certainly wouldn't mind shipping it to the teenagers.
"Mr. Mage!"
"Huh?"
"Have you figured it out?"
Salin made a serious look of thought, and only after a while did he say, "You can call me Salin." Saleen Metatrin. ”
The boy smiled brightly and said, "My name is Ani." Ernie Clyde. After he finished saying his name, he saw that Salin did not react with any surprise, and confirmed that Salin did not know anything about the Qin Yin Empire. In the Qin Yin Empire, there is no one who does not know the Clyde family.
What a simple boy! The two of them thought to themselves.
"Who are these two?" asked Ani politely, he could tell from Sarin's equipment that although Saleen was a low-level magician, his status was not necessarily low, at least he had a good teacher, and maybe a strong inheritance. The white crystal ring worth tens of thousands of gold coins on Sarin's finger was not something that all magicians could afford, and Sarin's magic robe was the same, with three constants of magic, which was more than a mage of his level could have.
Sika, who was sitting next to Salin, didn't speak, and Salin and Aini had been talking in Qin Yin, which she couldn't understand. Neris lingered in front of the shelves and didn't look back.
"It's Shika, that's Neris. Saleen defused Aini's embarrassment. "They don't know Qin Yin. ”
"Come to the back, cough ......" Ani coughed as she covered her mouth. He coughed so hard that the skin on his face turned red, reminding Salin of his paleness. I don't know if that guy left the Swamp of Chaos.
The room in the back was larger than the storefront, and to Salin's surprise, the huge table in the middle of the room, somewhat similar to Jason's, was filled with magic utensils. Is Aini an alchemist?
The room smelled of sulfur and neutralized a rare spice, rosemary.
Ani walked into the room, coughing even harder, his waist bent deeply, his shoulders shrinking in pain. Saleen took an empty metal cup from the table and made a water of repair, half of which he put into the metal cup and half for his left hand to absorb.
"Thank you. Ani straightened up and saw Saleen's move. He took the metal cup and drank it down.
"Neris, don't move!" Salin saw Neris pick up a metal machine on the table, as if she wanted to take a bite and taste it. The metal machine was assembled from hundreds of tiny parts, more than a foot tall, like a Clark magic brick.
"Shika!"
Saleen stopped Neris from doing so, and Sika picked up a crystal beaker filled with a suspicious green liquid. The green liquid is viscous and has granular gelatin, like fish eggs.
"Captain, it's Garomon!" Schika reluctantly put down the crystal beaker.
"Uh......" Salin couldn't hold it anymore and said to Aini embarrassedly, "Sorry, they haven't been out." ”
Ani waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's all for me to relieve boredom, it's not worth much." Salin, come and sit. ”
Aini led Salin to the corner, and there was a low table in the corner, and two people sat on the ground, and there were only two cushions on the ground, but they were hooked by Yunjin.
"How long have you been injured?" Salin could tell at this time that Aini was not sick, but seriously injured.
"Five or six years. Ani smiled reluctantly, diverted the subject, and said, "Salin, how many gems do you have? Do me a favor and wait until I've raised enough money......"
Saleen stretched his left hand out of his sleeve and placed it on the low table.
Aini smiled bitterly and said, "It turns out that you also need money urgently. ”
Salin's hand can recover slowly if he is only treated with the Water of Repair, but it will take a lot of time. If he could buy high-grade magic potions, this time would be shortened, and it would not even affect his promotion.
"How much can you give?" Salin and Ani shared the same illness, and they also had the intention of making friends in their hearts. He has no relatives in the Qin Yin Empire, this Aini, who seems to be a member of a big family, and in this remote and small place, it is a good opportunity to make friends. Salin had the instincts of a businessman and had not lost his innocence, and he had no reason to refuse Ani's friendship.
Aini was also a little moved, bowed his head and calculated, and replied: "The money I can use privately is only 60,000 gold coins." ”
Salin also calculated in his heart, 60,000 gold coins is not a small amount of money, but his hand needs to be used every day, and high-grade magic potions are thousands of gold coins, after curing this hand, I am afraid that he will have nothing left. I also have to buy magic cores and magic materials, and the daily consumption is not less than a hundred gold coins.
"Do you have a good pharmacist in your family?" Salin asked another question.
Aini's heart was relieved, and he also had an epiphany, and said with a smile: "My uncle is a senior pharmacist, but he is not in Phoenix. Your hurt ......"
"I have something to go to Kushui County, if I stop by, it doesn't matter. Saleen had decided to deal with the Clyde family for a long time, and was talking speculatively, when Neris picked up the crystal beaker that Sika had put down, poked her tongue into the beaker, and licked it.
"Nellis!"
"It's okay, it's really okay, the Garo eggs aren't poisonous. Ani also found it funny, Salen, a magician of his age, walked alone with two stunning beauties, and was only a first-class magician, his teacher was relieved. Fortunately, Salin met himself this time, and if he had colluded with the thieves with weapons, he wouldn't know how to die.
Saleen had a headache, not because he was afraid that Nellis would be poisoned, but because he was afraid that he would lose money if he broke something. Sika was better, and after putting down the crystal beaker, he didn't move, and sat obediently on the side.
"Aini, I have 60,000 gold worth of gems that I can give you. But I see that your injuries can't be solved by magic potions, if you want to make me a friend, just let me know, maybe I can help. ”
"You can't help, it's a curse. ”
"Curse spell?" Salin was surprised, this is a type of divine art, although the name is evil, it is actually a rare skill of the Holy See.
"Salin, let me tell you the truth, I am also a descendant of the Clyde family, originally in the Duchy of Garudan, and have a great future. I was a high-level magic apprentice when I was 8 years old, and a third-level magician when I was 12 years old. Everyone thought that I would be able to become a great magician at the age of 15, and I would inevitably be transferred back to the Qin Yin Empire and enter the core of the family. But in the winter of that year, I saved a mercenary, and how did I know that this mercenary was the one who was hunted down by the Inquisition, and as a result, I offended the Holy See and was secretly cursed. ”
Aini's expression was a little gloomy, and he continued, "You probably also know that the person who can curse a third-level magician without being noticed is at least a person at the level of a deacon or above in the Holy See. My parents went to great lengths to do this, and although they didn't catch the man who cursed me, they killed all the hidden missionaries in that city. Because of the abuse of the family's power and huge losses, my parents were recalled to the Qin Yin Empire and were not allowed to leave the family for half a step from now on. Although I didn't make any mistakes, I also had no future, and the magic strings disappeared day by day, and sooner or later I would become a waste, and I would be sent to this remote area to manage a shop. ”
Salin was greatly stimulated when he heard this, the Clyde family is very strong, and they dare to do something to the people of the Holy See. Although the Principality of Garudan was attached to the Qin Yin Empire, the Holy See could not intervene directly. But the Inquisition is not something that anyone dares to provoke, and those madmen have no scruples about doing things.
"If my curse can be resolved, the family will not give up on me and let me retire here. When Aini said the word pension, there was a little more resentment on his young face.
"Have you found a solution?" Salin wondered, what was the point of making more money if the Clyde family couldn't lift Aini's curse.
"There are two ways, the first is to kill the person who gave me the curse, but there is a vast sea of people, and this person is a professional above level seven, and the hope is almost equal to zero. The second option......"
Aini looked into Sarin's eyes and said, "Now that the magic string is gone, I might as well go and learn necromantic magic." ”
He carefully observed Salin's reaction, the reputation of undead magic was not good, and even in the Qin Yin Empire, few people were willing to learn it.
"It's a tough road...... Salin let out a long sigh, remembering the time when he was worried about the magic strings, and he somewhat understood Aini's thoughts. At that time, he was willing to pay any price to be able to obtain the power of magic.
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