Chapter 96: Working for Gems
"This, this..." Jin Coin pointed to the colorful magic crystals wrapped in magic circles with excitement and said, "How to sell these?"
A mummy wrapped in a zongzi-like body came over in a gold ornament. After hearing the words of the gold coins, the guy immediately said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Sorry, these are exhibits and are not sold."
"Don't sell?" Rose's voice directly increased by octave. "Why are you putting it here if you don't sell it?"
"This is to show customers that we have the ability to obtain these high-level magic gems, but because the price of this gem itself is very high and the difficulty of obtaining is very high, it is only for display and not for sale." Although the mummy's voice was not nice, he was still quite polite in his speech.
I guess these women are full of colorful magic crystals and are in a violent state. In order to avoid the misfortune of this polite mummy, I took the initiative to take over the negotiation work. "What position are you here? Is the highest person in charge here? I think the goods always have prices, as long as the price is reasonable. Although these things are rare, I think that since they are commodities, your general manager should have a psychological price. So, please introduce it to us. I think we can reach some consensus with him." As I said, I handed over a piece of black crystal without hesitation. This is not the scrap material that was eliminated from black crystal powder. This is a real high-purity black crystal, a very rare product, and the size of this piece is so large, it is definitely the best.
The mummy glanced at the black crystal in his hand, then covered his chest with one hand and said, "Please wait. Our general manager is receiving important guests, but I happened to have a good personal relationship with the general manager. So I think he will squeeze out time to talk to you in detail today."
"Thank you then."
It turns out that it is easy to do things with money. After the mummy received such a big gift from me, his efficiency of work naturally increased steadily. Although he said it was within today, in fact, the person in charge appeared in less than twenty minutes.
In fact, when I first saw this person in charge, I was shocked myself. Because this guy was actually a god. Unlike the high-level undead here, this guy was filled with surging dark divine power, which means that this is an evil god, and it is very powerful. Of course, we are not afraid of him. First, we are here to do business, as the owner, he has no reason to fight against customers. Second, what about this guy... Even if he really suddenly got angry, we have basically concentrated the highest combat power of our guild. Not to mention that this guy is just a powerful evil god, even the main god of a god clan, we have never forced him to fight.
As a god clan, the other party's sensing ability is also quite strong. Although we are all in non-combat mode now and the aura on our bodies is hidden, it will not work if it is too close. When the other party approaches us, they immediately notice the surging magic fluctuations on our bodies. This situation makes the other party pause for a moment, but they quickly react and accelerate and walk over.
"Sorry, you have been waiting for a long time." The other party had already come over and bowed slightly. He looked very polite, because of our customer identity and also because of our strength.
"No, we should be disturbed." Since they are polite, we should be more polite. I gave a false greeting with the other party and immediately got to the point. "Sorry to disturb you when you meet the guests, mainly because we like these colorful magic crystals, and it is said that these are not for sale. We really like these colorful magic crystals very much, and we also think that the goods always have prices, otherwise it will be meaningless if they are placed here even if they won't get moldy. So, I took the liberty to ask you to see you, hoping to discuss whether there is a possibility of purchasing. Of course, we can give an appropriate price, or if you feel that the currency is no longer enough to measure the price of these colorful magic crystals, then we can consider bartering or changing to other methods to pay. What do you think?"
After I said that, the other party looked at us, then looked at the colorful magic crystals over there, and then pondered for a few seconds before speaking: "As you said, the products are to be sold, and it will not produce any benefits when pressed on me. However, these... you say they are colorful magic crystals, which is a bit different from the name we call them here, but you are customers, so please refer to your name and call them these things for the time being. You want colorful magic crystals, but I can't sell them, but the purchase price of these colorful magic crystals is definitely not that cheap. I hope you can be mentally prepared for this."
"What's the price?" Rose asked.
The evil god paused for a moment before speaking: "I need you to pay two things to complete this transaction."
"What?"
"First of all, I need you to pay 10 million kilograms of high-energy crystals."
After the other party finished speaking, Christina and Zhenhong immediately put their heads over to know what the price actually represents. Rose reacted the fastest and whispered: "High-energy crystal is a magic crystal. If 10 million kilograms, the price of the white magic crystal has exceeded 100 million crystal coins, but this price is not high, and it can even be said to be a bit cheaper. The price of the colorful magic crystal is much more than that."
"But the other party's request is not only the same. The reason for the cheap price may be the result of the second requirement." Christina said.
We all know that what Christina said makes sense, but it would be too hasty to refuse without listening, so I could only ask loudly: "What is another request?"
The other party pointed at us. "You guys, help me get something, and pay it to me with the money after taking it back. These fifteen colorful magic crystals are yours."
"What kind of thing is it? Do you know the location? Are there any obstacles on the way?" I was not stupid. Just talking about taking things, but I know what it is. If you ask me to go up the mountain to pick a weed, it can be said that you are taking something. To get the divine power core of a certain god clan force is also considered taking something. Can these two things be the same? So I can't agree if I don't ask clearly.
The other party did not intend to hide anything, because even if it was concealed, it would make no sense. We would give up the task after we found the problem. There would be no benefit to him.
"This thing is very special. It is a magic item and should not be of use to you, but it means a lot to me. However, the problem is not about this thing. It is that the location of this thing is a bit bad. To get there, you need to face many dangerous creatures. Even if I go to get it, I can only ask you for help. If you can bring such things back, give me another 10 million kilograms of high-energy crystals. I promise to hand it over to you fifteen colorful magic crystals."
"I have seen black people, but I have never seen you as dark as black." Rose said: "A high-level evil god cannot guarantee that something that can be obtained safely. The creatures guarding it must be as powerful as the perverted level. Dealing with this kind of thing itself has exceeded the sum of the price of fifteen colorful magic crystals. You actually ask us to pay 10 million kilograms of high-energy crystals. This is simply blackmail."
I also said with a serious expression: "I don't think you seem to have any sincerity? The other party can make you feel very dangerous and dare not take action directly, that is, it means that it is not weaker than you. After we deal with things of that level, we have to give you money. If that is the case, we might as well rob you directly. Anyway, we will just kill an existence of your level, and the risks are the same for us."
Hearing our words, the evil god smiled and said, "This is just my initial price. If you think it's too high, can we discuss it again?"
"Discussion? What is the way to discuss?"
"You must help me get that thing. As for the other 10 million kilograms of high-energy crystals, it can be reduced by half, just five million kilograms."
When I heard the words of this evil god, my anger was completely rising. "It seems that you don't want to make sounds with us anymore. This price is just a trick. So, since that's the case, I think we need to find another way."
This time, I turned around and left immediately after I finished speaking. Although Christina and the others wanted the fifteen colorful magic crystals, they immediately turned around and followed me when they saw that we were really leaving. The evil god over there was also a little anxious when he saw that we were really leaving. The guy suddenly ran up and grabbed me and said, "Don't leave! Just kidding. Are you as for it? In this way, I won't cheat you, and tell you a real price. You must complete the things. Just give one million kilograms of magic crystals."
This time we didn't even pause at all and walked straight out. When the other party saw this attitude, they knew that we were really angry and immediately became anxious. The guy rushed up directly, then grabbed my wrist and said, "Okay, okay, no kidding. You don't need to give me the magic crystal, just help me get that thing back."
This time, it was a bit reliable, so I stopped and said, "Your sincerity worried me, so I only said that if you fool us again, there is no need to cooperate. First of all, we need to know what obstacles you will encounter along the way. If it is an obstacle caused by terrain or some natural phenomenon, we need to tell us where the danger exists. If it is a creature, we need to provide detailed information about these creatures. And, we need to know what you want us to take so that we can make an assessment. To be honest, I am really worried that the things you asked us to get are several times more expensive than the fifteen colorful magic crystals plus one. In that case, we will really lose a lot."
The guarantee agreement of the superior god, this kind of huge change in the agreement is that the evil god dares not disobey, because all existences below the superior god are fighting the five scums for the superior god. If anyone wants to destroy anyone who wants to kill him with just a sneeze, no one dares to resist the will of the superior god, unless you never contact the laws represented by the superior god. Unfortunately, the mother of the earth represents the law of the earth. Unless you are not close to the land in this life, don't expect to run away. It is obviously impossible not to get close to the land, because even the sea is actually carried by the earth, after all, the sea bed is also part of the earth.
Although I was surprised that I could actually use the agreement of the God of the Supreme One, this person had obviously figured it out. He had no intention of breach of contract, so after reading the content of the agreement I wrote, he signed his own name.
As the agreement took effect, the two sides officially entered a state of cooperation, and the other party quickly sent us the two experts who helped us.
The most powerful subordinates of this evil god are all creatures we are very familiar with. One of them is over 1.9 meters tall and covered with a thick black armor, which is like a can of iron. Those who don’t know think this is a robot. Of course, this guy has nothing to do with machines, because just by tapping his armor a little, you can hear a very crisp echo, and this sound means that the armor is empty.
Yes, this guy is a ghost knight, and a third-level ghost knight, a very perverted profession. Their body actually does not exist in the true sense. The outer layer of armor is their only existence in the material world. This armor not only has amazing defense, but also has its own repair function. Even if it is cut into pieces, it can be restored within a certain period of time. As for the source of driving force inside the armor, it depends entirely on black magic. To put it simply, the Ghost Knight is a pair of heavy plate armor driven by a ghost with black magic, but in fact there is nothing inside it.
For such an existence, it will obviously not work to attack him with ordinary weapons, because there is nothing in the armor. This set of grills is actually the same as the puppets of the puppet drama. It is an inanimate object that is manipulated by people. If you can't find the actor holding the puppet thread, attacking the puppet itself will certainly not work, especially the puppet can be repaired infinitely.
In fact, the spirit part of the Ghost Knight is hidden inside the armor, but it does not occupy the entire armor, and the specific position is not fixed. The spirit part of the Ghost Knight can shrink into a little soul fire as big as a fist. This soul fire can run freely inside the huge human-shaped armor. Therefore, unless you can see the exact position of the soul fire inside through this set of armor, and have sufficient reaction and control power to accurately hit the location of the soul fire. At the same time, you must have sufficient attack power to penetrate the armor, and finally have magic damage power to directly damage the spirit body. Otherwise, no factor is missing.
In fact, even if a mage is a headache to see the Ghost Knight, because although the Ghost Knight is immune to physical damage and will only be damaged by spells, they are wrapped in armor after all, so spell attacks must penetrate the armor to take effect. However, because of the characteristics of the soul fire itself, high temperature, freezing and shock damage are ineffective against the Ghost Knight. In addition, the Ghost Knight itself is also a high-wisdom existence. They know their weaknesses, so after becoming the Ghost Knight, they will try their best to find high-level armor as their carrier. Therefore, all the Ghost Knights' armor is high-end goods, which makes it extremely difficult to break through their magic protection, which makes the Ghost Knight super resistant to attacks. Not only is the defense amazing, but also the fatal thing is that many attacks are invalid on it, and the limited number of effective attacks are difficult to control. Anyway, it is very difficult to fight.
The ghost knight in front of him looked quite cool. He was wearing a black offer and the giant sword behind him with a slanted back. This guy had a human-shaped Tyrannosaurus, and just standing there, he felt a sense of oppression coming to his face.
In addition to this Ghost Knight, the evil god also introduced us to another of his subordinates. This guy who was like the canned one before happened to be turned upside down. The Ghost Knight could not see a trace of body on his body. Of course, he had no body himself. And the other person was - almost no cover.
This is a bone demon. If you don’t know this kind of creature, just think about the White Bone Demon in "Journey to the West". The Bone Demon is an evolutionary version of the White Bone Demon. They are all female, and each one is more beautiful than the other. Basically, the large branches in the dark camp are the most beautiful in their tribe. However, although the Bone Demons look very beautiful, they just look beautiful. If you are lucky enough to get in close contact with their bodies, you will find that their skin, which looks as pink and smooth as boiled eggs with a peeled shell, is actually very deceptive. Although the skin is indeed very smooth, they are not elastic at all. In fact, the hardness of this skin is comparable to that of magic weapons, and this is also one of the most difficult things for the Bone Demon. Imagine a group of beauties with similar hardness to your weapon and chopping against you in front of you, right?
Because the body is tough enough, bone demons rarely use weapons, and their weapons are their own bodies. As long as they close their fingers together, they can use their wrists as swords. There is no pressure to block swords with empty hands, and even heavy weapons will have little damage to them. As for magic, they must first hit them.
As long as you are a bone demon, you will be all highly mobile warriors without exception. You can't aim at it at all. Every time you suddenly appear from the direction you are least prepared for, and you will run away after a fight. A fatal blow is their usual method.
The bone demon in front of him is not only a great beauty, but also very exaggeratedly that she is actually a diamond-level bone demon, which is already the top among the bone demons. If it weren't for the lack of magical strike ability, the bone demon of this level and the gods would not suffer any major losses if they fought one-on-one.
"I have to say that your subordinates are really good."
"No, no, this one is my subordinate, as for this one..." The evil god looked at the beauty of bone demon and said, "She should be considered a temporary mercenary I hired. Like you, she wants my goods. I will ask her to work and pay the bill."
After the evil god finished speaking, we briefly communicated with the two guides. The ghost knight had a cold personality and felt like he was a dull gourd, and three sticks could not beat a single fart. We talked to him for a long time and knew that his name was ‘Eo Riggs’. In addition, we basically only learned some of his simple offensive and defensive attributes and combat methods.
Another beauty of the bone demon looks like a mature lady in her early thirties, and her personality is quite cold, giving people a cold feeling. She is serious and a standard iceberg beauty. Moreover, this person's height is 1.85 meters tall. Because the woman's body is relatively slender, as long as she doesn't stand together, she looks even taller than the 1.9 meters nine meters tall. Of course, although her personality is a little cold, this person is at least not an autistic person like Aioriguez, so there is no problem with normal communication. As long as you are not chatting and spanking with her, she will explain it to you in detail when talking and talking about serious matters, and will actively cooperate with you to discuss some combat matters. In short, it is the kind of cold personality, but very serious type.
Of course, we also learned the name of this beautiful bone demon during the communication process. The name of this Iceberg Royal Sister is Bing Xin, the same name as the pen name of a famous writer. However, I have to say that this name is really compatible with her temperament.
Speaking of which, although her personality is cold, Bing Xin is still very attractive. After all, her image is very good. Moreover, because of her special body, her dress is also very personal. Because the bone demon is full of demonized bones and does not have real skin or muscles, they actually do not need armor. It is precisely because of this reason that Bing Xin only wears a short set of tight leather armor. In fact, this leather armor is entirely because this thing is made of leather. In fact, I think it is more appropriate to call it a leather bikini. It has only two components, one is a pair of ultra-short hot pants that nod in total from the waist to the bottom of the legs. It can be said that the top is just barely reaching the waistline, and the bottom is the root of the thigh. Anyway, it will become a briefs.
The same is true for the upper body. It is basically a half-covered chest support, plus a circle of vest-shaped waist stretching downwards of about ten centimeters. Of course, this thing actually does not reach the waist, at most it covers the lower edge of the rib, and the abdomen is basically exposed outside.
The main reason for dressing like this is that the fighting style of the Bone Demon requires a large area of movement of the body. Although the Bone Demon's body is as hard as the magic figure. When others cut it up, they are as soft as noodles when they exercise. Therefore, in order to make certain difficult moves, these Bone Demon's outfits are usually as short as possible, so that there will be no excessive constraints and will not affect the range of movement of the body.
In addition, because the bone demons do not have internal organs, muscles, skin, etc., they have a strong ability to adapt to temperature. Their normal temperature adaptation range is between minus 200 degrees Celsius and above 850 degrees Celsius, and in most cases they do not need to face temperatures outside this range. Therefore, they do not need clothing to provide protection and insulation, so they naturally do not like clothing with large coverage areas.
In fact, some players once said in the forum that bone demons don’t like to wear long clothes, and they may also have the intention of loving beauty. After all, they are women, and it is normal to love beauty. Moreover, the layer of things on the bone demon’s body is actually bones rather than skin, so there are neither wrinkles nor small bumps on it, and the whiteness is moderate, which will not make you feel pale, but it is indeed very, very white. In short, the ultimate skin that women dream of is nothing more than that.
With such good skin, normal people will certainly not cover it up, so the legend that the bone demon loves beauty and likes to wear short armor has spread like this. As for whether it is true... no one has asked anyway.
I briefly discussed the route issue with Bing Xin and Ao Riggs. Of course, we were basically asking questions constantly, and Bing Xin kept answering us. Ao Riggs's human-shaped iron lump was basically like not being able to speak, and could only be used as a sculpture.
After understanding the task overview, we didn't waste time. After all, we are in a hurry to go out now, so we immediately started to take action after we mentioned it. Bing Xin herself was also hired, so she naturally didn't want to waste more time. Not to mention Ao Riggs, this guy is the subordinate of the evil god, so he naturally hopes that we can handle this task quickly.
The starting point of the mission is on the outskirts of this city, which is on the shore of Skeleton Lake. There is an entrance here, and you can enter a very long passage from here. However, we completed this passage in only ten minutes. The reason is that this is actually a slide and a water slide. After we went down from the entrance, we started to accelerate and rush out at least several kilometers away in ten minutes.
After completing this slide, we did not see a monster cave, but a pretty beautiful crystal cave. The four walls of this cave are full of colorful crystals. Unfortunately, these are ordinary crystals, without magic, and have no use. They basically have no meaning except for being used as decorations.
This crystal cave is quite large, with some strange glowing bodies in it, so the light in the cave is quite beautiful, but this cave is big but not long, so we passed by quickly. However, after we passed through the cave, Ao Riggs, who had not spoken much, took the initiative to speak for the first time.
"Be careful. There are skeleton demons living here."
The names of the Skeleton Bone Demon and the Bone Demon are very similar, but the relationship between the two is not very close. Although both are formed by bones, the Bone Demon is actually similar to a monster, while the Skeleton Bone Demon is close to the mutated skeleton soldiers.
As long as she doesn't say anything about bone demons like Bing Xin and doesn't make direct contact, it's basically difficult to distinguish her from normal people. But the skeleton demon is different. These guys are basically mutated skeleton soldiers. The difference between them and ordinary skeleton soldiers is that they will grow various strange structures. For example, there is a very common skeleton demon, which is a skeleton demon with wings on the back. These guys have winged bones on their backs, but they have no muscles and skin tissue. However, with such wings, they can fly. After all, this is a world of magic.
Generally speaking, the skeleton demons themselves are not scary because they are low-level undead creatures and have very low intelligence, which is about the level of a wild beast. They can basically be considered to have no high intelligence. However, there are two characteristics that these guys hate very much: one is combination regeneration, and the other is group living.
The ability to regenerate the combination is very awesome because this ability enriches their ability to combine bones at will. This is why the skeleton demons are mutated skeleton soldiers, because they will randomly combine their bodies and often make many strange shapes. But this is not the point. The point is that when you smash a group of skeleton demons in battle, their remaining bones will often reorganize new skeleton demons. Although some bones are damaged in battle after the combination, the number after the combination is definitely smaller and smaller, but this is a disguised rebirth. Therefore, it is often difficult to completely eliminate the skeleton demon army. After all, you need to kill them repeatedly many times to completely eliminate the skeleton demons.
As for the second attribute group living... this attribute is also very fatal. A single skeleton demon has a low level and an ordinary combat power. Most players can easily handle it. Even if ten skeleton demons act together, it is not a terrible combination. Generally, players can fight a skeleton demon alone, and they will not be in danger of their own life.
However, although the skeleton demons are very weak, their number is often quite scary. You are considered to be a small number of hundreds of thousands of people. Once they appear, it is normal to have tens of thousands of people. It is not surprising that dozens or millions of people. In this case, most players are exhausted to death because of their lack of strength.
Chapter completed!