Chapter 177: [Stars Ancient Gold] and [Son of Earth]
Translator: Udong Editor: EbonyFrost/Udong
Chapter 178: [Stars Ancient Gold] and [Son of Earth]
When the caravans approached a forked road, Fatty Leong who had already jumped onto the leading caravan pointed at the path on the right, and the caravans continued moving forward slowly.
"Why are we talking the small path?" Abela frowned and pouted. She said very unhappily. "The bigger and smoother road was right there, and you chose this one! Fatty Leong, do you know that your caravans are very uncomfortable to sit on? Now it’s even more bumps."
Qian Jin glanced through the rchandise in the caravans and was sure that this Fatty Leong wasn’t doing honest business. From the marks on the map, the bigger road was the only path to the closest town, and the smaller path was leading to a forr demon village!
The reason it was a forr village was because the demons in that village all moved to the town on the map, and that was why this small path of full of grass and weeds.
The series of caravans full of rchandise were heading to a village where no demon lived and was not a proper town. The intent was obvious, the fatty Leong wanted to dodge the scouts and undercover warriors of the Zence Empire!
What kind of transactions required hiding from scouts and undercovers of the Zence Empire? Prohibited goods of course!
Duren Burg and Fanta Kunge both looked at Qian Jin with a smile. They were trying to find a way to escape from the caravans and the monitoring of the demons after entering the town and head to the mission location, but now it seed like it wouldn’t require that much effort. Since Boss Leong had secrets that he couldn’t share with people, he led the caravans towards the direction where the Dark Group was very active.
It was already midnight when the caravans arrived at the abandoned village. The dark clouds had covered up the half moon and shining stars in the sky. It created complete darkness in the world.
Standing at the entrance of the village, everyone felt a chill going up their spines as if a bunch of undead would rush out of the village. There were only the crackling noises coming from the torch that was burning pine oil, and these torches lit up the areas around the caravans.
Boss Leong took a deep breath and said with a rare excited tone, "Co on, let’s go in!"
The noises of the wooden wheels rolling on the ground were the only sounds that were resonating in this quiet abandoned village, and the noise sounded extra scary in this atmosphere.
When the caravans were about to reach the center of the village, three dog barks sounded from afar, to be more accurate, they were three imitation dog barks.
The rcenaries drew out their weapons under pressure and looked around with their guards up. They were trying to find the precise location of where the noise ca from.
"Don’t worry. Those demons didn’t pull out their weapons." Qian Jin’s deep voice attracted the curious looks from the rcenaries. "In this pitch dark night, he is able to see that far and deep into the darkness?" they thought.
Zachery on the other hand stared at Qian Jin in shock. "What is this kid made out of? I, a Demon Capturer, didn’t even see the shadows of the demons, how did he see them?" he thought to himself.
Boss Leong didn’t pay attention to Qian Jin as he also imitated three dog barks. More than a dozen torches instantly lit up cross the road, and more than thirty Belia Demons showed themselves. The demon who was leading them was a Man Demon!
Compared with the Belia Demons who were big and tough, Man Demons were shorter. This Man Demon was about a hundred and eighty centiters tall. The crystal like blue colored skin was one of the main characteristics of Man Demons, and their red fire like hair was also eye-catching.
"Trading with Man Demons?" Qian Jin for the first ti praised Boss Leong’s courage. Man Demons were was one of the top seven species of demons were not famous for their battle abilities, they were known for their greed!
In the Zence Empire, people won’t use the phrase "you are too greedy" to describe a greedy person, they would say, "Are you a Man Demon?"
Man Demons were the definition of greed for a long ti. They were sly and powerful, and they were one of the least creditable species. During one of the battles between the Zence Empire and the Demon Empire, the emperor of the Zence Empire had bribed one of the high-level Man Demon generals and caused the loss of the battle and almost the collapse the Demon Empire.
After that, the Demon King during that ti chopped the heads off of three Man Demon Generals. However, until this day, the incidents of Man Demons turning traitor during battle and helping the Zence Empire was a common occurrence.
[If there were enough benefits, even the Demon King’s head was tradable!]
This was one of the old sayings that were passed down at to all Man Demons. The only thing was that there hadn’t been a Man Demon who dared to try to chop the Demon King’s head off. Lucifer Bloodline was one of the ultimate supre bloodlines in the Demon Empire; unless so demon wanted the Demon King to wipe off his or her entire race, none of them were interested in chopping the Demon King’s head.
"Mr. Bosc, I’m very glad to see you here." Boss Leong opened his arms as he walked forward.
"Bosc?" Qian Jin paid attention to the Man Demon who also walked towards Boss Leong. The family na of Bosc in the Man Demon species was the family na of Lucifer at the entire Demon Empire; it was the royal family na for all Man Demons.
Although not every Man Demon who had the family na of Bosc was a royal, this family na was very honorable to all Man Demons.
"Boss Leong, I’m glad to see you here as well." Bosc laughed as he opened his arms. His eagle nose made him look very sinister.
The warm hug between the two made it look like the Zence Empire and the Demon Empire were signing a permanent peace agreent.
After the simple, warm, yet fake greeting, Bosc asked with his hoarse voice as he smiled, "Do you have the stuff that I need?" Two of his bucktooth showed as he said that.
"Of course!" Boss Leong patted his chest as he laughed as well, "I guarded this set of rchandise myself. I believe that the second set of rchandises would be fully prepared by my n after I return to the Zence Empire. Does Mr. Bosc have the stuff that I need?"
Bosc raised his long and blue arms and snapped his fingers. A chest on the carriage behind his was opened slowly under a torch. Gold bars that were fifteen centiters long and three centiters thick filled up the chest. Under the lights, they shone brightly. It might be due to the number of gold bars or the reflecting ability of gold itself, they were so shiny that people felt like their eyes were getting pierced.
Boss Leong stared at the gold bars in fascination. He quickly ran up to the chest and grabbed onto a gold bar as he bite onto it forcefully; two light teeth marks were left on the gold bar.
Man Demons’ greed was renowned, so Boss Leong had to be more careful. His hands continued grabbing up gold bars, and his teeth continued biting on them to make sure that these gold bars were real. He counted non-stop, "One, two, three... five... ten... fifteen..."
After the second chest on the carriage was opened, Qian Jin saw a full chest of gold bars. "What did this fatty Leong smuggle out of the Zence Empire? What prohibited goods are in here? It didn’t matter if it was the Zence Empire, the Demon Empire, or the Barbarian Empire, each one of these gold bars was equal to a hundred gold coins!" Qian Jin started to suspect.
Every one of these chests had a total of 100 gold bars! So they were equivalent of more than ten thousand gold coins! Five chests full of gold bars would an that Boss Leong was getting five hundred gold bars!
"What’s being traded?" Everyone was thinking about this question: "What is Boss Leong selling?"
"What do you think? Boss Leong?" Bosc smiled like a gentleman, but his eagle nose destroyed this presence completely.
"Great! Great! They’re all real!" Boss Leong turned around and headed back to his caravans excitedly and pulled a rectangular wooden chest off of the horse carriage that Zachery was sitting on. He opened the lock on the chest with a key with his shaky hands, and a few human head sized coconuts appeared.
"This..." Bosc’s smile froze on his face. A vicious light flashed in his eyes continuously as he said coldly, "Boss Leong, are you playing with ?"
"Wait a second." Boss Leong grabbed a hamr from the carriage and smashed onto the coconuts and broke the outer layer. As the coconut water leaked out, a fist-sized spherical tal that gave off a gold light appeared in front of everyone.
"What’s this?" The rcenaries looked at each other as they tried to figure out the answer to this. "What’s this tal? Why is it worth hiding? And why is it that expensive?" They thought.
"Stars Ancient tal!" Qian Jin’s pupils imdiately contracted. He moved a little closer quietly to make sure he was seeing the right thing. It was a magic tal – Stars Ancient tal!
During the two years that he was learning from Blake in Endless World, he read a lot of books while he wasn’t spending ti practicing his forging skills. Especially after he went out to find ores and tals in Four Season Valley, he read a lot of books on tal and mining.
The special effect of tals like Stars Ancient tal had on warriors was mind-blowing. Although Qian Jin only read about it once, he couldn’t forget the description of it at all.
Stars Ancient tal was a reactive magic tal and had a special cleanse effect. If this demon could find a Rune Artist and a Forge Master, the Rune Artist can engrave special runes onto armors and lt the Stars Ancient tal and spread it on the runes and the armor with the help of a Forge Master. The end result would be that the user of this armor would be resistant to curse magic spells; low-level spells like Exhaustion Spell and Slow Spell would be completely useless.
If a runemaster had the assistance of a Forge Grandmaster and a Magic Empowernt Specialist, or a Magic Forge Master used the Stars Ancient tal as the main body of an armor, the resistance towards curse type spells would be even more significant!
On the Human-Demon Battlefront, there was never a one on one situation, it didn’t matter if the person was a warrior or a mage. Any kind of attack could pop out of anywhere. If a warrior was battling with a demon warrior and got hit by a Slow Spell, then this warrior would have a tragic ending.
The sa thing went the other way around. If a demon warrior got hit by the spell, he or she would return to the stars as well.
"Fifty thousand gold coins for a Stars Ancient Gold? That’s still a little pricey..." Qian Jin thought to himself. Although this tal was rare and prohibited, it should only be valued around twenty thousand gold coins.
Bam! Another coconut was broke open, and Qian Jin finally understood why Bosc would pay Boss Leong fifty thousand gold coins. After all, there was a Son of Earth gem on top of the Stars Ancient tal.
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