Chapter 117: The Magic Nation and Discovery
The Kingdom of Dallas, one of the Seven Kingdoms of Mankind, is also known as the Magic Country, home to the headquarters of the Magic Guilds throughout Talumia. If you want to talk about national strength, the military strength of the Kingdom of Dallas can be regarded as the crown of the Seven Kingdoms, and it is a well-deserved first.
The reason why the Kingdom of Dallas is called the Kingdom of Magic, in addition to the headquarters of the Magic Guild is located in the royal capital, the country's own open magical atmosphere and the magicians who come from all over the world have confirmed the title of the Kingdom of Magic.
In other countries, even in Alka, the most open country of commerce, there are not many magicians on the streets. But in the capital of the Kingdom of Dallas, almost one out of every six or seven pedestrians on the streets is a magician, a staggering proportion.
The Kingdom of Dallas is a shrine for all the magicians in Talumia, where you can buy magic materials from all over the Big 6 at a cheap price, and as long as you have the money, there are all kinds of magic equipment you want. Even if you want to buy a piece of magic equipment up to level 9, it is not impossible to be in the royal capital of Dalaran, and there are many rare masterpieces in some of the large-scale auctions held here regularly, and even many top powerhouses of level 9 can find what they need in the auctions here.
In the history of the royal capital of Dallas, there have even been precedents for legendary items to be auctioned, and there have been more than a dozen times, which is enough to show the wealth and strength of the Kingdom of Dallas.
The kingdom of Dallas itself does not have a royal family, but is ruled by a council of mages made up of high-ranking mages. Although there are also nobles in this magical kingdom. But all those who were canonized as nobles were magicians. For these canonized magicians, the so-called title of nobility is just an additional title for the convenient management of the kingdom, and they pay more attention to their own magic level than the title of nobility.
In the Kingdom of Dallas. Generally speaking, even if a nobleman with a high title meets a nobleman with a low title, if the magician level of the nobleman with a high title is lower than that of the nobleman with a lower title, then the low-level mage will salute like a high-level mage. And this is simply unthinkable for a kingdom like the Kingdom of Gruni that follows an ancient and rigid aristocratic system.
Ever since Xu Yue entered the Emerald City, the capital of the Kingdom of Dallas, she has been dazzled by the magicians that can be seen almost everywhere on the street and the items from the dazzling array of magic shops in the shops on both sides. Here, even a shop that sells ordinary goods has a sign that has been enchanted, and even many large shops are in charge of receiving very valuable creatures such as magic golems.
After wandering around the street for a long time, Xu Yue directly found a hotel that looked more luxurious. The two first-level magic golems in the doorway looked like puzzles made of wood, but their movements were very nimble, and they were no worse than humans. Although there is some stiffness in the language. However, if it is used to receive guests, it will never make the other party feel shameless. In fact, in the royal capital of Dallas, if there are several magic puppets at the door of any store, it means that the store itself is strong. Of course, the consumption in this kind of shop pù is definitely not low.
"Welcome to the Dragon & Ale Inn, where you can enjoy the best service in town. The magic golem bowed respectfully by the door. Its voice, which looks like a person being smothered in water, makes it feel new. But it's not that awkward.
Walk in through a gate that is nearly three meters high. Inside is a spacious hall, the center of the hall with the power of magic to form a small waterfall, the four sprays of water fall directly on the ground that seems to be made of rocks, the end of the water waves over the entire hall of the ground is full of thirty centimeters, there are even a lot of beautiful fish swimming in the water, some beautiful aquatic plants grow in the water, some light fruits on the plants emit a little beautiful brilliance, the bottom of the water is beautifully decorated.
All the tables, chairs and guests in the hall are above the water. The water waves were like hard crystals, trampled under people's feet, but there was no ripple spreading. Everyone and everything seemed to be smoothly resting and walking on the water.
After Xu Yue saw the layout of the hall, he secretly praised the boss here for his ingenuity in the layout. The sight of people walking on the water in front of them obviously has a full impact on ordinary people, and this arrangement also makes people feel as if they are in a world of water. The mood feels natural and harmonious while relaxing. And this qiē is nothing more than a constant 'water walking' level of magic in the hall, with which anyone and object can stay on the surface of the water without worrying about the current under their feet getting their shoes wet or simply falling into the water.
Of course, even if the scenery in the hall is placed on Talamia's side, it is definitely a high-end atmosphere, but the gold coins required to build and maintain it are definitely a lot, and to maintain such a first-level magic array, it also requires at least three low-level magic crystals per day, which is not cheap for an inn.
"Mr. Mage, may I ask you if you need my help!"
Standing behind the counter in the hall turned out to be a very bewitching beauty, but the two small goat-like horns on the other party's head and the tail with a triangular tip flicked behind him indicated that it was actually a succubus. As a hellish race known as Talumia, succubi are not unfamiliar to people. Some warlocks who specialize in summoning often like to summon this beautiful infernal creature, but most of them are not used to fight, but to help warm their beds......
Compared to other demon races in Hell, succubi are easily accepted by humans due to their beautiful appearance and non-violent personality, and some magicians will also summon some succubi as their own 'assistants' in life. However, although succubi are not brutal, but as a hellish race, of course, they can't be kind and compassionate, these cunning hellish creatures like to rely on their beauty and the unique charm creatures of the race, after seducing some creatures, provoke a fight between these creatures, and then watch those creatures fight each other with malice.
Of course. Although succubi are not known for their combat ability in the hell race, they are not completely ineffective as succubies who can thrive in the abyss and hell and have a certain influence. In fact, compared to many humans, succubi's seductive abilities and whips in their hands and some of their own spells. When encountering human professionals of the same level, most of them will have the upper hand.
Succubi like this inn, which can only be released as a receptionist, are generally sent out to do things after being tamed or summoned to sign a strict magic contract, which is definitely quite a lot for an inn.
With a bit of novelty and appreciation, Xu Yue carefully observed the succubus in front of him, ignoring the other party's teasing eyes, he nodded with a smile and said, "Hello, may I ask what the best room here is like." ”
Seeing that the other party is not attracted to his own talent for seduction. The succubus was a little bored and half-lying on the counter, the choppy hemisphere pressed a deep career line on the top of the counter, and the eyes of the few men who walked by next to him suddenly froze here.
"Hello, handsome Mr. Mage. The best room in the inn is ten low-grade magic crystals a day. Of course, if you want to pay your bills in gold, you can do it, but it is 10% higher than the market price. The room is not only equipped with a full set of living utensils, but also a magic array that regulates the humidity and temperature of the air in the room, which is first-class in terms of comfort and cleanliness. Of course. If your need for service includes my words. I'm happy to help you too. After speaking, the succubus threw a wink at Xu Yue and said.
Even with Xu Yue's third-level magician's spiritual power, he couldn't be calm in the face of the teasing of this succubus's seductive talent. He shook his mental power slightly, sobered himself up for a while, and said, "I'm going to stay for two days, and besides, I heard that the inn can help you book tickets for magic airships to other places?"
"Of course, we have everything you need here, you just need to tell us where you want to go and when you want to travel, and we will book the relevant ferry tickets for you. Of course, we will charge a handling fee. The succubus said a little lazily. The tail behind her was a little lazily resting on her shoulders.
"Buy me a ticket to Red Leaf City in Zia Province of the Kingdom of Coles the next afternoon, and ask for the best cabin. Xu Yue took out a few intermediate magic crystals from the storage ring and put them on the counter and said.
The succubus smiled and said with a few intermediate magic crystals on the table with a scroll with a nimble tail, "Of course! This is the opening crystal for your room's magic lock, do you need anything else?"
When this succubus handed a thumb-sized gray crystal to Xu Yue's hand, he also used his little thumb to gently scratch the palm of his hand, and the obviously provocative movements combined with the succubus's talent almost made Xu Yue, a third-level mage, lose his mind, but fortunately, he quickly came to his senses.
"Please remember to ask the guy to bring me dinner to the room, there are no other requirements!" After speaking, Xu Yue didn't dare to look at this succubus who released this charming aura all the time, and walked quickly towards the room upstairs.
Seeing that Xu Yue was not attracted to herself, the succubus sat down a little boredly and turned her gaze to the next customer who was about to come to her. For a succubus like her, teasing the handsome guys among the guests is one of the few pleasures. Of course, if some of them are really attracted to herself and want to give birth to something, as a succubus, she is happy to enter each other's room at night.
The gray crystal in his hand was in the center of the door carved with exquisite patterns and magic patterns, and suddenly a red light flashed on the door, and then the door opened inward by itself.
As the best room in a high-end hotel with good strength, the layout of the room is really luxurious, even if it is not worse than Xu Yue's layout in the luxury villa on earth. The carpet made of magic silk spit out by the larvae of the giant demon moth, the sheets and bedding woven from the filaments of the finest afterglow grass, the bed made of dragon sleeping wood, the tables and chairs made of cool wood, etc., all show that such a superior room that requires ten magic crystals for a night is definitely worth the money.
The long journey made Xu Yue feel a little tired, he took off the magic robe on his body and put it aside, and then entered the bathroom similar to the Earth Hotel in the room to take a bath. However, the bathroom here is much more advanced than the earth, and it is a bathroom with a lot of convenient magic arrays. Not only can it make people float in the air as if they are weightless. The water dragon generated by the magic array at just the right temperature will automatically wrap around the person's whole body, washing away the dirt on the body while also playing a role similar to water massage.
The Kingdom of Coles, which Xu Yue was going to this time, was a medium-sized country. It's much smaller than the Seven Kingdoms of Mankind. The reason why he came to the king of the Kingdom of Dallas first was because it was the most accessible place in the whole of the 6th National University. Combining the most advanced magical technology, the magic airship can throw off any other vehicle in Talumia and several streets. If you take a carriage from the ground, I'm afraid it will take three or four months longer than making a magic airship. And the magic airship can only be reached in six or seven days. Of course, the price of this kind of magic airship is definitely not cheap, and each of the intermediate magic crystals that Xu Yue paid to the succubus before can be exchanged for a hundred low-level magic crystals, which is already a lot of money when exchanged for gold coins.
The reason why I had to book a ticket the day after tomorrow was because Xu Yue had really never been to any other human city except Komodo Town and Black Rock City since he came to Talumia Big 6. And for such a prosperous place as the Emerald City, the royal capital of the Kingdom of Dallas, it is really impossible to come here without shopping.
After taking a shower. The magic array in the bathroom automatically dispersed the excess water vapor on her body, and Xu Yue walked out of the bathroom refreshed. Half-lying on the soft bed, he fell into a deep sleep after his daily meditation.
Early the next morning. Xu Yue sat up from the bed in good spirits. After meditating for such a long time, his body itself became much stronger under the strengthening of the magic element, and the good and comfortable environment swept away the fatigue of his journey.
Still carefully using magic to change his appearance when he entered the hotel, he began his plan to go shopping today. This time I went shopping in the Emerald City. It's not just about visiting the royal capital of the Kingdom of Dallas. In addition, he wanted to take this opportunity to purchase a batch of magic materials and items.
As the center of the Magic Kingdom, the Emerald City sells much better magical materials and equipment in terms of price and variety than other places in Talumia's larger 6, where you can buy the same quality of magical materials for about two-thirds of the price in Black Rock City, which is also very attractive even for magicians who don't value gold.
In the two years that he planned to capture Walker County, Xu Yue updated the magic equipment on his body, and now as long as he is not directly facing a seventh-level powerhouse, if he wants to win against him, there are really few people who can do it. Even if he encounters a seventh-level powerhouse, he can escape safely with some killer skills. However, this does not mean that he has no need for other magic equipment, and no one will dislike the fact that he has many items to save his life and attack. And so he is, of course.
Before leaving, he waited for a large share of the pure container business from Ivo, which made his already somewhat dry wallet bulge again. For the magic equipment aspect. His needs were relatively small, but because he had been refining alchemy in the past two years, his demand for magical materials had gradually increased.
Instead of going directly to the larger shops, Xu Yue walked around the stalls on both sides of the street with great interest. The owners of these stalls are adventurers or lone magicians and the like, who have obtained some valuable materials or equipment from various ruins and quests, and do not want to sell them to the big shops and be driven down by the price, so they go to the street to set up their own stalls and sell them. Although this is a bit troublesome, when you encounter some customers who need it, the price of selling things is definitely higher than selling to those shops.
And for the people who come to these stalls to buy things, not only are there a wide variety of things on these stalls, but the prices they buy are also lower than those of the shops after the exploitation of the shops is reduced. What's even more exciting is that these stall people sell everything, and some of them don't even recognize the stall owners themselves. As a result, from time to time, people will buy some very rare but unrecognizable precious items at these stalls at low prices.
It is said that someone once bought a seemingly ordinary staff from a stall here, but after several twists and turns, it turned out that the staff was actually an ancient legendary equipment with sealing magic, which made everyone who knew the news at the time crazy, and a large number of people who wanted to make money flocked to the stalls here, wanting to find the dusty treasure from it. The end result is naturally tragic, and there are indeed dusty treasures here. But it's more of a scam that has been crafted by scammers. A lot of guys with a lot of money bought fakes made by the stall owner here, and in the end, a lot of money was thrown out and people laughed at.
In general, buying things at this kind of stall is all about personal vision and insight, if you really have confidence in what you have mastered. Coming here for a stroll may not be a bad thing.
As for the things on the stall, even if Xu Yue has learned a lot of knowledge in the past two years to make up for his shortcomings, it is obviously impossible to recognize everything here. Therefore, when he buys items, he basically buys those materials and items that he can recognize, and only buys some unknown items that he is very interested in and the price is not very pitiful.
After shopping around in the morning, he had already spent more than 100,000 gold coins. And his storage ring also has a lot of magic materials and a few magic items, of which there are only two magic items that he doesn't recognize. It was time for lunch. He looked around and planned to find a place to eat first, and then go directly to some big shops in the afternoon to buy some magic materials and items. The addiction of treasure hunting is over, and the next thing is to get down to business.
But just as he was about to get up and leave. Suddenly, he felt the storage ring on the finger of his right hand vibrate slightly, which made him ready to get up. Although the storage ring he bought was a very high-end one, it was just a large storage space, and it didn't have the ability to vibrate like a mobile phone.
Although I was puzzled. But Xu Yue didn't show the slightest discoloration on his face. He dismissed the idea of leaving immediately. Instead, he continued to squat in front of the stall, and under the cover of looking through the items on the stall, his spiritual power went directly into his storage ring.
There was a thousand cubic meters of space in his storage ring, which sounded very large, but in fact it was only ten meters of length, width and height, and there were already a lot of items piled up in this space at this time, which took up a quarter of the space. Most of the place was water and food, which he had prepared in case he was trapped in a desperate situation where he couldn't get out of a boundary gate. The others were some of his magic books, magic equipment, and various magic materials and potions.
After a careful search. What he was causing his storage ring to vibrate was an inconspicuous ring. The ring has a vivid carving in the shape of a dragon. At this time, the dragon-shaped carving that was supposed to be a dead thing seemed to come to life, constantly wandering around the ring of the ring. The dragon's eyes, which looked like rubies, burst of red light. When the red light in its eyes flickered, the storage ring would vibrate slightly, but fortunately, this vibration was very slight, except for him, the owner with the ring, no one else could feel this vibration at all, otherwise the seemingly shrewd stall owner would see that something was wrong, even if he was stupid.
Looking at this ring with a dragon-shaped carving, Xu Yue thought back to it for a while before remembering its origin. He bought this thing at an antique market on Earth about three years ago, and at that time, he bought it curiously because he was curious that there would be items with magical fluctuations on the earth, and for this reason, he also knew the foreign history professor named Wang Bin at the beginning, and he also had the idea of visiting the other party's collection, but because he was too busy in the past three years, he had no contact except for the first few times after talking to Guò a few times.
Xu Yue also has some speculations about this ring, whether it is from Wang Bin's introduction or the incomplete information stored in the ring, this thing is inseparable from the legend of King Arthur on Earth.
He wondered what caused such a strong reaction to the mysterious ring in Talumia, a place that had little connection to Earth, most likely caused by something near him, perhaps even at a stall in front of him.
He watched the ring's reaction as he rummaged through the stalls, and finally he had a goal in mind. However, he did not pick up the item directly, but picked up a few other items and put them down pretending to be dissatisfied, and finally picked up the item he liked on the stall and said to the stall owner: "What is the price of this item? It won't be as expensive as the previous ones?" (To be continued......
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