Two days later, Han Ming followed Xiao Qi and his party back to Bianhuang City. After arriving in the city, he determined that Xiao Qi's personal safety was no longer a problem. Han Ming deviated from the route and went to a small auction house to exchange magic crystals.
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There are several other small things that Myron gave him. These things are different from Xiaoqi's daggers that are useless. Instead, they are all top-quality weapons.
Although general grocery stores or magic equipment stores will sell magic crystals, the number of magic crystals in those places is too small, far from what Han Ming needs.
This is a small, inconspicuous auction house.
"Sir, how can I help you?"
A waiter from the auction house greeted Han Ming respectfully.
Han Ming looked around. The small auction house looked a little shabby. He didn't know how much water magic crystals were stored.
"Is there any water magic crystal?"
Han Ming asked straight to the point.
Magic crystals are sometimes more sought-after than gold coins. As long as there are magicians in the world, magic crystals will not depreciate in value. People say that antiques in prosperous times, rocks and gold are the most valuable and safest in chaotic times.
Things are gold, and in this world, the safest and most secure thing is magic crystal.
Almost all items consigned by auction houses and auctioned by yourself can be purchased with magic crystals, and then the magic crystals are sold at high prices. This is very common.
The waiter said respectfully: "Yes, I don't know how many you need."
Han Ming smiled and asked: "How many do you have?"
When the waiter heard this, he became more and more respectful, thinking to himself that this time he has a big buyer.
"To tell you the truth, you are right to come to our auction house for these water-type magic crystals. Apart from us, there are not many stocks anywhere else." The waiter obviously looked a little proud.
Han Ming smiled and said, "Just tell me how many."
The waiter said: "We currently have a storage capacity of 3,000 small water magic crystals."
Han Ming shook his head slightly: "Not enough."
"Three thousand are not enough!?" The waiter was shocked when he heard this. He originally thought that Han Ming would only need a few hundred at most. Normally, distinguished magicians rarely come to this place, and even if they do, they want to buy magic crystals.
At most, there are a hundred or so pills, and at most, three hundred pills are enough for magicians to use for two or three years.
He didn't know that Han Ming himself was a bottomless pit that consumed magic crystals. After all, there were several people like him who absorbed four or five small crystals every day. Ordinary magicians usually absorb one every three days, like Han Ming.
For those at a higher level, it’s probably one pill every two days, and when you practice quickly, it’s just one pill a day.
"Then...then we can temporarily transfer a batch from other stores, and we can collect about five thousand pills." The waiter said quickly, fearing that Han Ming, a big customer, would run away.
"Five thousand..." Han Ming thought about it and realized that it was almost enough. He would have to deal with the demon army in the future, and he didn't know when he would be able to return to the human world. After all, there was no harm in preparing more. According to his own ideas
, five thousand magic crystals should be enough for him to use for two to three years.
"Make a price." Han Ming said leisurely.
"Please wait a moment." The waiter smiled flatteringly at Han Ming and hurriedly opened the small door and went out.
After a while, the waiter led the way and led an old man into the room.
The old man introduced himself: "Hello, distinguished guest, I am the owner of this auction house. Do you want five thousand water magic crystals?"
Han Ming nodded slowly.
When the old man saw Han Ming's admission with his own eyes, he immediately became happy and said with a smile: "The price on the market, each magic crystal is eight gold coins to exchange for one water type magic crystal, wind type, earth type, and wood type magic crystal.
The magic crystal of the magic crystal is worth ten gold coins, while the magic crystal of the fire element is worth twelve gold coins. But you also know that some time ago, the demon army invaded the Monte Empire and robbed a large number of magic crystals stored in the Monte Empire.
Stone, which has led to the scarcity of magic crystal production. As you know, most magic crystals are produced in the Warcraft Forest and the Wild Forest, and the Monte Empire is now the world of the Demon World... You see..."
Han Ming nodded slightly and said: "Are you trying to say that as a result, the two major areas where magic crystals are produced are occupied by the demon world, and it will become more and more difficult for humans to obtain magic crystals? Tell me, how much do you want to pay?
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The old man smiled sheepishly and said: "You are really reasonable. In this case, I don't want more. Each water magic crystal is worth twelve gold coins, five thousand, for a total of sixty thousand gold coins."
When Han Ming heard this, he frowned slightly, but after thinking that what the old man said was indeed reasonable, he didn't make it any more difficult.
“What’s the hardest thing you have here?”
The old man was a little confused by Han Ming's sudden question, and replied in a daze: "Well, the table in front of you should be considered relatively hard. Its material comes from a kind of wild forest.
Agarwood is even harder than steel."
Han Ming smiled and nodded, taking out a fine dagger from the storage bag on his waist. He stood the dagger up and raised it to a height of about one finger's length from the table.
The old man and the waiter looked at Han Ming inexplicably, wondering what the generous young man in front of them was going to do.
Han Ming smiled slightly and said, "You guys have to watch."
After saying that, Han Ming gently released the dagger, and the dagger immediately fell vertically. When the blade of the dagger just touched the table, it made a pop sound, similar to the sound of a hot knife cutting into cheese. The entire dagger
The blade of the dagger was completely submerged into the table, leaving only the handle of the dagger still stuck on the table.
Hiss~~~~~~~~
The old man and the waiter took a breath of cold air at the same time.
"What a sharp dagger!!"
Before the old man could react, a middle-aged man strode in from the door. This man had a straight nose and a square mouth, a big face that was slightly red, and a fire-type magic energy slowly flowing from his body. He was obviously a fire-type man.
The magician.
"I want this dagger!"
The man snatched the dagger from Han Ming's hand.
"This... Lord Bolt... look..."
The owner of the auction house was obviously very afraid of the fire magician in front of him, but seeing that this sharp and top-quality dagger was obviously intended to be returned to him by Han Ming, he felt very unwilling.
The red-faced man glared and said angrily: "What do you, a businessman, do with such a high-quality treasure!? I am a magician, and the weakest part of a magician is close combat. Do you understand? With such a good weapon, it is equivalent to close combat.
I can also have the ability to protect myself.”
Han Ming chuckled and said: "My friend, how much do you want to pay for my dagger?"
The red-faced man glanced at Han Ming with disdain and thought, you are a useless water mage, but you dare to call me your friend. Then he said without mercy: "This dagger is good, I think it is only worth a thousand."
gold."
When the owner of the auction house heard this, he almost sat down on the ground in shock.
Han Ming laughed heartily and said: "Eighty thousand gold coins, one penny less, don't even think about taking it away."
"You might as well go and grab it!" The red-faced man was very angry when he heard this.
Han Ming ignored him and asked the old man with a smile: "Boss, do you accept 80,000 gold coins?"
The boss looked at the red-faced man in embarrassment and said softly: "I can collect it when the time comes...but I'm afraid..."
Han Ming shook his head slightly, took the dagger from the red-faced man, put it in the old man's hand, and said, "Don't worry, go collect the magic crystals I want. I'll wait for you here."
The old man looked embarrassed and looked at the red-faced man again, only to find that the red-faced man was glaring at him angrily at first, but the next moment, he rolled his eyes a few times and started laughing. He stopped embarrassing him.
He sat on the chair opposite Han Ming.
The old man breathed a sigh of relief and trotted out quickly.
In the living room, Han Ming drank tea leisurely with his eyes lowered. The red-faced man smiled coldly and glanced at Han Ming from time to time. The waiter stood beside him awkwardly, not daring to make a sound.
After a long time, the owner of the auction house led a group of servants to carry two large wooden boxes to the door.
Han Ming walked out with a smile, counted the magic crystals in the box, and put them all into the storage bag with satisfaction.
The red-faced man's eyes lit up when he saw Han Ming's storage bag.
"Dear guest, we have all the crystal stones you requested. I wonder if you are interested in visiting the auction items in our auction house."
Usually auction items are not displayed to private individuals and must go through procedures and be purchased from the auction house before they can be obtained. However, Han Ming is the God of Wealth in the eyes of this old man, so he uses this method to please Han Ming.
Han Ming wanted to refuse, but then he thought, maybe he should get one or two things to give to the little guy Xiaoqi, so he nodded and agreed.
The old man took Han Ming to a warehouse in the forest of handles, and the red-faced man also came over. The old man did not dare to refuse, so he could only pretend that he didn't see him.
This is a huge stone warehouse. The warehouse is divided into hundreds of small rooms. Each small room is made of flame stone, which is famous for its hardness. The small door of the room is also made of flame stone. At this time
The doors of these small private rooms are all tightly locked.
The old man took Han Ming and the red-faced man directly to a small private room at the end and opened the door with the key.
He was not worried at all that Han Ming and his two men would rob or rob with evil intentions. This was because the masters in the world obtained almost all the precious materials they needed from auction houses around the world. Some even stared at an auction item for as long as
Over the past few years, robbing auction houses has become a taboo in this world. If you dare to rob an auction house, there is no need for the auction house owner to take action himself. The masters in the world will work together to suppress you.
, to ensure that the auction house can continue to operate normally and provide all kinds of precious materials they need.
Pushing open the small door of the private room, the old man led Han Ming and Han Ming into the room with a smile. After greeting the two to sit down, the old man took down a few small wooden boxes from a wooden shelf.
These small wooden boxes had obviously not been touched for a long time, and the surfaces were covered with a thin layer of dust.
The old man blew away the dust in one breath, opened several boxes one after another, and said: "To be honest, I don't know the origin of these things. From the appearance and practical point of view, they really have no characteristics, but these
The things were excavated from the ghost town by some explorers, and they are very old. So they have been left here. If you two are interested in them, feel free to bid. If you don't like them, they will just treat them as entertainment.
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Han Ming smiled kindly and went to get a small wooden box in front of him. Unexpectedly, the red-faced man seemed to be against Han Ming and grabbed the small wooden box in his hand first. He took out a piece of parchment-like paper from inside.
Something with lots of small characters carved on it.
"Huh? How can this parchment be preserved for such a long time? It's really weird. What are the densely packed small characters on it? Why doesn't it look like our writing at all?"
The red-faced man turned the parchment over in his hands and fiddled with it for a long time. He couldn't figure out the reason, so he could only throw it back into the wooden box angrily.
Han Ming took out the parchment and looked through it for a while. Apart from the fact that the parchment-like thing was very old, he found nothing else. The words on it were also as the red-faced man said.
don't know.
"How much does this cost?"
Han Ming asked aloud.
The old man quickly and respectfully replied: "This thing, judging from its appearance, should be a large ancient document, and this is just a corner of it. But what it describes specifically, I don't know, and I really don't know.
To tell you the truth, a lot of documents like this have indeed been unearthed in the Northern League continent. Some of them have been deciphered by others. They are nothing more than some ancient historical records, or even the genealogy of a certain family, or some kind of ancient poetry. These few
Rare things are basically worthless. But there are a very small part of them that record some ancient magic skills or fighting spirit secret books. Then their value is difficult to estimate. Therefore, the value of this thing cannot be deciphered until it is deciphered.
, it’s really hard to say.”
"You can be considered sincere." Han Ming chuckled.
What the old man said is indeed correct. Han Ming once read descriptions of unearthed ancient documents from some books. The odds of buying this kind of thing are actually higher than gambling. After all, one of the thousand documents can contain records.
Magical fighting spirit is very remarkable. And a very important point is that even if you are lucky enough to buy an ancient secret book that records magic fighting spirit, it is very likely that you will never be able to use it in your lifetime.
Translate it. It's like holding it in your hand and you can only look at it, but you can't do anything about it. What's more, the small piece of thing in front of you is basically a fragment. Judging from its broken and missing corners, it is probably only the original intact one.