64. Conch
Fisher is now taking Jasmine to the largest magic materials market in the entire St. Nari, where there are many magic materials sold by well-known magic companies, such as the magic companies under the Nari Development Company, and of course, there are also many retail investors who are self-employed.
Since the financier behind St. Nari University is the Nari Development Company, the school recommends Fisher to go to the Pioneer Company's magic shop to buy magic items, but Fisher feels that the quality of the magic materials there is relatively poor, and he has a better choice.
"Question, since the magic emblem can reverberate the world as long as it is engraved with magic power, then why do magicians still need to buy magic materials to assist in magic engraving?"
As he led Jasmine to the center of the market, Fisher suddenly asked.
"That's... There are two reasons for this. The first is that the magic of some magic is not enough to pry the echo by relying on magic and heraldry, and at this time, magic materials are needed to deepen the connection between the heraldry and the world; The second reason is that most of the magic that is induced by heraldic and magic cannot be preserved for a long time, and the effect cannot be long-lasting, so magic materials are needed to maintain the effectiveness and duration of the magic..."
Jasmine frantically recalled the memories in the books in her mind, which she had read in the books before, so she retold them all, and after speaking, she looked at Fisher a little nervously, looking nervous.
Before she landed, the people at the bottom of the sea basically did not use magic, and this was the first time she had systematically studied magic, because her mother had said that "humans are a race that is very good at using magic", and now it seems that this is true, so she entered St. Nari University with an open attitude to learn human magic, and at the same time to provide a reasonable identity for her mission.
Fisher nodded and added,
"You're right, in ancient times, humans and humans used magical materials to craft a variety of magical effects, known as relics. However, the art of making them has now been lost, and scholars can only deduce how they were made from the surviving relics. ”
After hearing this, Jasmine found out that she knew this knowledge point, because her aunt [Mu Rhino] would make relics!
As a child, she made many of these things for herself, but before she was a year old, her aunt left the trench and went above the sea, occasionally sending something over.
I heard my aunt say that all the craftsmanship of making relics in the world comes from a race far away from the ocean, and only Aunt Mu Xi likes to explore the world, so she learned this kind of production skill.
Jasmine was about to share, but suddenly remembered that she was a well-behaved human student now, what if Professor Fisher asked how she knew after saying it?
She didn't speak, but she didn't say words in her heart, as if she had been scratched by a cat's paw.
Fisher didn't notice her movements, and kept taking her through the streets, where there were not only vendors shouting and selling all kinds of wild magical items, but also food and small animals.
I forgot to mention that the full name of the magical market here is "Santa Narichi Goods Market", and it also sells plants, pets, and other goods, but magical items are the main goods, and most people come here for them.
"The best adult dragon blood and dragon scales! Gentlemen, don't miss it! ”
"The lily of the valley in the tomb of the underground mine, which can pull red leaves and magic crystal ore, can be packaged and sold! A large amount of delivery services are also contracted! ”
"Schwally's pet cat, well-behaved to hug and touch, the best choice for home pets!"
Jasmine looked at the little cat licking its fur on the side of the road, looked at its long, silky hair, and wanted to reach out and touch it for a while, to try what its feel like.
Fisher deliberately slowed her pace and made her look at everything around her.
Occasionally, subhuman slaves were sold here, and it didn't take long for Jasmine to see that there were several male cattle and dog breeds locked in cages on the side of the road.
This was the first time that Jasmine had walked out of the school building and seen so many things that she couldn't normally see. After seeing the chains that were attached to the subhumans' bodies, she pursed her lips and followed Fisher with some trepidation until they stopped in front of a tiny, tiny shop around the corner.
The shop was crammed between two walls, with an entrance less than half the size of the others, and a crooked sign hung on the door, called "Gina Wholesale Store". As the name suggests, this shop is mainly engaged in the wholesale of ordinary magical materials, and occasionally sells some high-end materials, but it is rare to see them.
The materials used in the magic class can be bought here, and it just so happens that Fisher has a relationship with the owner of this shop before, so he came to take care of her business this time.
"The Almighty Soldier King of the Female President"
"Here we are... The quality of the stores recommended by the school was not very good, so I looked for the stores that I had often worked with before, and entered... ”
"Enough! If you don't give, don't give! ”
Before Fisher's introduction was finished, the small door in front of him was suddenly knocked open, revealing a young girl with short hair and rather revealing clothes, the girl's face was full of annoyance, and after seeing Fisher outside, she was slightly stunned, and her annoyed expression was slightly restrained, and she said hello,
"Fisher..."
Fisher looked at the girl in front of him, nodded, and watched her leave his side and into the noisy street behind, where she soon disappeared.
"If you want to get out, get out of here, and if you don't come back, you will never come back... Oh, Fisher, it's you, I thought Meg wasn't gone yet..."
From the shop, a middle-aged woman with a big grin came out, wearing a large blue apron that fishermen used to peel fish scales, a glove on the left and right, carrying two strange roosters with slender colored feathers, and a cigarette in the corner of her mouth.
She smoked a cigarette, her fierce appearance changing a little after seeing Fisher, and greeted her with an indistinct accent.
This is Gina, the owner of this shop. The young girl who ran out just now was her daughter Meg, who was not yet an adult, and she was seventeen or eighteen years old.
"What's going on?"
Fisher was obviously asking Meg, who had run out earlier, and her face didn't look good.
"What else could it be... The rebellious girl doesn't go to school, goes out every day to fool around with the stinky boys, comes back to her innocent mother to ask for money after she has no money, and gets angry and runs away after being rejected. That guy always felt that there was some future for mixing with those gangsters, and those bastards would do nothing but cheat her body later! ”
When she talked about her daughter, she hated iron and steel, and she threw the two innocent roosters to the ground and put them in the cage at the door, looking like she was venting her anger with the rooster.
Fisher glanced at the street behind her, not involved in Gina's housework, although she remembered that Meg was quite well-behaved when she was a child, but not necessarily when she grew up, who knows what happened to her mood and experience when he didn't come.
Gina ignored the family topic that gave her a headache with a cigarette, turned her head to look at Jasmine, who was as well-behaved as a small animal behind Fisher, pointed at her with her head, and asked,
"By the way, why do you have the leisure to come to me, I heard that you went to the Southern Continent before? Who is this? ”
"For a little research project, now back ... I'm teaching magic at St. Nari's University, and this is my student, so I'm here to buy some magic materials for the class, probably a little redstone dust and light tassels or something, and I'll take a look at the others if there's anything else. ”
"St. Nari's University, that's a good school." Gina finished her cigarette and threw the cigarette butt on the street in front of the store, she looked at Jasmine and sighed,
"If that Meg guy could be half as well-behaved as you, I would be grateful to the Mother Goddess, I have donated so much to the church over the years, and she repays me like this, it's not interesting... Okay, come in, there's just some extra bulk cargo. ”
Fisher walked into this small shop, which was not visible from the outside, but the space inside was actually quite spacious. However, because Gina piled up too many magic materials in a small room, and there were no isolation measures, the smell inside was a little unpleasant.
After all, the materials of magic are not only the herbs that grow in the mountains and valleys, but also the dried feces left behind by the giant beasts.
There is a pink deer in the wild called "Sikorima", this creature only produces feces once a year, and cannot be domesticated, and will soon die of depression after being caught, but their feces are very valuable medicinal and magical items, and many high-level healing magic require it as a raw material.
By the way, the main ring magic material of the thirteen-ring magic [Resurrection] engraved by Hayson before is the feces of Sikorima.
Then every year, a whole bunch of [Material Hunters] follow Sikorima's ass, and every time it pouts their butts they wait for them to leave behind precious magic materials, but unfortunately most of them are waiting for gas.
Jasmine looked curiously at the countless magical materials around her, which she had never seen in the sea... Although she had seen a lot of the stranger materials.
Fisher packed a lot of materials that would be used in class later, and was just about to explain the purpose of these materials to Jasmine, when he saw Gina pushing a very strange-looking conch in front of Fisher.
"What is this?"
Gina sighed and said,
"Meg's means of asking for money, she said it was a magic material from the bottom of the sea, which she picked up next to the Coco River in St. Nari. I'm not sure, but it's a strange shell that I've never seen before. ”
Fisher set his eyes on the conch, which was in the shape of an extremely delicate spiral, and the whole conch was dark black, looking very hard, but it shimmered with strange fluorescence.
"This is a drill black snail, it's not a magic material, but it's very beautiful, and dense bubbles will gush out after blowing into it..."
Jasmine, who didn't know when she walked to Fisher's side, suddenly spoke, easily recognizing what was in front of her, and when Gina and Fisher looked at her, she blushed again and explained,
"I... My hometown is by the sea, so... So recognize this thing. ”
In fact, this kind of thing is only found in the deep sea, and the reason why this kind of sea shell is very hard is to resist the water pressure on the bottom of the sea, but it seems that Professor Fisher does not know about it.
Jasmine blames her mouth for not being able to hide secrets, and always revealing a lot of things that shouldn't be said.
"Heh, I also don't think this thing is like magic materials, that guy really came up with any way to cheat the old lady's money, damn it!"
This was evidently approved of Gina's remarks, and she looked at the conch viciously as if she were looking at Meg.
Immediately afterward, she began to curse at her uncompetitive daughter, which made Fisher smile bitterly.
But Jasmine was thinking at this moment, this conch was something from the deep sea, why did the human girl say that she had picked it up in the river of Nari?