Chapter 427: The Scroll and the Box

Scanning the market, Leo could easily spot from the crowd which were ordinary people who had come here with a sense of curiosity, who were newcomers with extraordinary powers who knew nothing about the cruelty of the future, and who were veterans who truly understood the cruelty of the underworld.

Those ordinary people are in groups of three or five, and they will exclaim at every item they see on the stall, and then they will bargain with the stall owner regardless of whether the item is dangerous or not. There is no doubt that these people are deliberately attracted by the black market, these people have both money and a strong curiosity, and most things that are not dangerous, or of no value to the transcendent, will be sold to these people to keep the black market running on a daily basis.

Other nobles or other transcendents who had just gained their power, or who had been invited, wore hooded garments, or wore masks directly, or covered their bodies with cloaks to conceal certain changes in their bodies, but from the fact that they had stayed for a long time at almost every booth, pretending to ask about everything they were interested in. Although they have tried their best to disguise themselves to make themselves look like veterans, their newcomer status is extremely conspicuous in the eyes of the discerning people, so many people who set up stalls here will slaughter them as fat sheep.

As for those old people who already know a lot about the underground world, most of them will not use clothes or anything like that to cover their bodies and faces, because they know very well that there are some people who have the ability to ignore these covers, and most of them will use various disguised strange objects or special abilities to change their appearance in order to hide themselves, just like now Leo controls the muscles on his face and modifies his appearance.

This is obviously not the first time these veterans have come to the black market, they know very well that there may be good things in the stalls placed in the square, but more of them are some useless garbage and counterfeit crafts, so most of them walked around the market, did not find anything, and entered the shops carved out of the surrounding walls, with a very clear purpose, obviously they had already thought about what they wanted to buy before they came, and they also knew very well what the shops around them were selling.

Unlike the shops outside, the outside of the black market shops is all blocked by special steel plates, and there are no signs at the door, writing what is sold, and only when you enter the inside can you know what the goods here are, but it is not easy to get inside, at least it is much more difficult than the black market in Miria City.

It is clear that the Black Market of Port Set has an official wizard, and this wizard has arranged a Turing root that belongs to the wizards of the world of Veren at the entrance of all the shops with wizard runes composed of basic roots in the Gamorley language. Although this Turing root is simple and well-arranged, it is very useful to distinguish between those who have extraordinary powers and those who are just ordinary people.

As long as an ordinary person approaches this Turing root, then the mind will immediately be affected by the power of the root, lose perception of the outside world, and at the same time lose direction, and in this state, he will uncontrollably turn away from the entrance of the store.

Originally, this arrangement was to prevent ordinary people from entering the surrounding shops, because the things sold in those stores were not suitable for ordinary people, but the effect of these Turing roots attracted the attention of many ordinary people, after all, compared to the strange looking unknown items that have no power, this mysterious power that can be felt is more attractive to these ordinary people.

Therefore, at the door of almost every walled shop, you can see some ordinary people full of curiosity, who are constantly trying to get close to the entrance of the store, and then they are affected by the power, and they move away from the entrance, as if they will have this power when they are exposed to these powers, and every attempt will arouse their greater curiosity.

For the masters of the black market, the descendants of these powerful and wealthy merchants in Port Setup are all money bags for activities, attracting these people to the black market and arousing their curiosity, which is very much in line with the interests of the black market, after all, it is not enough to rely on the profits obtained from selling all kinds of strange and psionic items to the transcendental, and it is the bulk of the black market interests that the descendants of those powerful people sell contraband that cannot be found in the market to the city rulers.

Although there are a lot of people in this market, because the market area is very large, more than 100 people are scattered, but it seems a little empty and deserted.

When Leo arrived at the market, he didn't rush to the surrounding shops to see what good things were on sale, and he walked back and forth around the stalls in the square, just like other ordinary people who had just entered the place.

Through the spirit network, Leo knows very well that most of the people who set up stalls here are ordinary people, and most of the stalls are some handicrafts imitating wizards' strange things and some antiques with obvious religious characteristics, but this does not mean that there are no good things in them.

Leo stopped in front of a stall near the innermost part of the underground plaza, crouched down, and searched through the mess of funerary goods, picking out a beautifully carved stone box, which opened to reveal an antique knight's war chess.

Knight chess first appeared in the French Empire, but it was the Kingdom of England that really carried forward, and even the modern rules of knight chess were formulated by the War Chess Association of the Kingdom of England, because of this, knight chess was very popular in the Kingdom of England, and many nobles who were keen on war chess liked to take a pair of exquisite war chess as their own funeral goods, and now this knight chess in Leo's hand is the funeral goods of a nobleman.

However, this set of chess pieces is different from the popular game chess of Velun now, this set of chess pieces is a set of battle chess.

The flags of ordinary games are thirty fixed flags, with commanders, staff officers, knights, and attendants, and the number of pieces of each type is fixed. However, battle chess is different, there are a total of 78 kinds of chess pieces with different functions, and these chess pieces even include non-combat units such as catapults and porters, and anyone can select 30 chess pieces from these 78 kinds of chess pieces with different roles to form their own exclusive knights and fight.

In addition, the most peculiar rule of combat chess is that the types of chess pieces can be stacked, that is, if the person wishes, he can even form a knight order composed entirely of commanders.

There are too many types of chess pieces, complex rules, and too chaotic gameplay, so the War Chess Association of the Kingdom of England wants to change the rules of knight chess, simplify the rules and gameplay, and greatly reduce the number and types of knight chess, and finally form this more popular knight chess. And the ancient way of playing knight chess is now rarely played except for those who are really obsessed with knight chess.

The reason why Leo knows this kind of knightly chess is mainly because the old man Rembrandt is also one of the lovers of knight chess, and he is also the honorary president of the World Knight War Chess Association. When he was studying with the old man Rembrandt, he was pulled by the old man Rembrandt more than once to play this extremely complicated knightly war chess, and because he still had a second brain at that time, he easily won the old man Rembrandt again and again, and almost made the old man Rembrandt completely lose the desire to play knight chess.

At present, the battle chess in Leo's hand is formed according to the establishment of a regular knight order, each knight is equipped with two squire knights, exactly ten knights, but for some unknown reasons, this set of chess pieces has a lot fewer squires, only seven, and the surface of all seven has cracks, it looks like it will crack at any time.

Leo didn't pay attention to this set of battle chess because it was particularly beautifully made, but more because this set of mutilated battle chess was actually a set of wizard treasures, even if there was no spiritual network or spiritual vision, Leo could clearly feel the strong spiritual energy contained in this set of battle chess.

At the moment when he picked up the battle chess, he became more and more sure that this set of battle chess was not only a wizard's curiosity, but also a creation of the tower wizard, because through his ability to see, he could easily see through the Turing roots hidden under the camouflage ornament, and the arrangement and arrangement of these Turing roots made him think of the stone ball that trapped the True Eye, and many places of the two were figured out.

"How much does this set of battle chess cost?" After Leo determined the origin of this set of battle chess, even if he didn't know how to use this set of battle chess, he still decided to buy it, and it was worth spending a lot of money to take it down.

"Fifty gold shields. The stall owner is just an ordinary tomb robber, and he doesn't know the true value of this set of battle chess, but he has been setting up a stall in the black market all the year round, and he has already developed a discerning eye, Leo did not hide his emotions, so it was easy for the other party to capture Leo's idea, and then offered a price that he thought was the highest.

After getting the offer, Leo took out his wallet without thinking about it, took out a cash check for fifty gold guilders and handed it to the stall owner, and then turned around with a battle chess and walked towards the nearest store.

Leo's actions undoubtedly made the stall owner realize that his offer was too low, and greed drove him to stop Leo and not admit the transaction, but when he saw Leo pass through the door of the shop next to him very easily, and enter the inside of the store, the greed in his heart was instantly extinguished, because he knew very well who could and could not be provoked in this black market.

He didn't want to be like some hot-headed unlucky guy who would give up his life for provoking those mysterious people.

Leo didn't care about the stall owner's thoughts, and his attention was already attracted by the various items in the store as soon as he entered the store.

This shop is not selling wizarding curiosities, but a bookstore, a bookstore specializing in ancient parchment scrolls.

In the past, when paper did not exist, the people of the world of Velon mainly relied on parchment rolls as the carriers of civilization, and it was only after the invention of paper that the relatively bulky and expensive parchment rolls were gradually abandoned.

It's just that ordinary people have abandoned the parchment scroll, and for wizards, the parchment scroll or parchment scroll is still the vehicle they use to record witchcraft.

It is naturally impossible to have ancient parchment scrolls such as wizard's notes in this shop, but other parchment scrolls are also very attractive to Leo, because he has seen many ancient books that have disappeared from the market in the notes below some ancient parchment scrolls, these ancient books are from some ancient civilization tribes, some may just record some trivia trivia, but they may also record some useful content.

"Are there any parchment scrolls from those primitive tribes in the Moissanite wasteland?" Leo's gaze swept over the notes on all the parchment scrolls in the room, and he didn't find what he wanted, so he asked directly at a black-robed man standing next to the bookcase.

"Yes. The black-robed man replied simply.

"How many?" Leo asked, not paying attention to the tone of the other party's voice.

"Three volumes. The black-robed man was quick to respond.

"How much. ”

"A roll of three thousand gold guilders. ”

Hearing this price, Leo frowned, because this price should be the price of psionic items such as wizard strange things, and judging from the opening price of those psionic items outside, these three thousand gold shields are already very high.

Seeing Leo frowning, the black-robed man added, "It's the sacrificial scroll of the tribal priest." ”

Hearing the black-robed man's explanation, Leo's brows not only did not loosen, but wrinkled even tighter, because if it was really a sacrificial scroll owned by the priest of the wasteland tribe as the black-robed man said, then the price of three thousand gold guilders was too cheap, according to the information that Leo got from the old man Rembrandt, the price of the sacrificial scroll in the latest auction was as high as 60,000 gold flanges, and it was a gold flange that had not depreciated.

Perhaps sensing the doubts in Leo's heart, the black-robed man explained, "The scrolls are mutilated, and they have the power of a curse attached to them, and anyone who gets them will encounter some unavoidable disasters. ”

Hearing the black-robed man say this, Leo not only did not feel worried, but became more interested, so he said to the black-robed man, "Take it out! If the thing is true, I will ask for it." ”

Hearing this, the black-robed man turned around and walked to a bookcase, opened a drawer on the bookcase, took out an inconspicuous-looking box, and placed it in front of Leo.

Although the box looked ordinary, Leo's vision could see a large number of Turing roots on the surface of the box, and these Turing roots combined to form a forbidden magic array, sealing the contents of the box to death.

Judging from the combination of Turing roots, Leo easily judged that this box was probably also from the hand of the wizard on the black market, and the combination of Turing roots on the box was more numerous and clearer, which made Leo intrigued, so he asked, "Does it also include this box?"

The black-robed man didn't expect Leo to ask such a question, he was stunned for a moment, looked at the box, and finally did not change the price, nodded, and said, "Including this box." ”

When Leo heard this, he didn't open the box to check whether the sacrificial scroll inside really had curse power, so he directly signed a cash check for nine thousand gold guilders, handed it to the black-robed man, and put the box away.