Chapter 148: Chapter 10: Adventure
Daoye Mountain, as the largest Hunter Soldier Guard City in the Southern Border of Great Zhou, is located right next to the neighboring country, Hou Qin.
In the Five Great Vassal States of the Wuji Continent, Hou Qin and Great Zhou are both Martial Arts Countries, and currently, both countries have Martial Saint Level experts stationed within.
As such, the two countries often face off against each other. Although there hasn’t been any war or conflict in the diplomatic sense, minor skirmishes and border bandit incidents occur frequently.
To stabilize the border, the Hunting Soldier Guard City was established. On one hand, the hunters accept various missions to subdue bandits, and on the other hand, internal conflicts among the hunters are settled in the arena.
Consequently, the Southern Border beca relatively stable, but it also led to an unavoidable consequence; neither Great Zhou nor Hou Qin intervened in the managent of the Hunter Soldier Guard City.
In front of the bloodthirsty and bellicose hunters, the officials and border military could only turn a blind eye. The public security within the Hunter Soldier Guard City is entirely controlled by the Hunter Soldier Guard Team organized by the Hunter Soldier Branch.
When Yun Sheng bid farewell to Feng Kuo and was walking to the market with Little Black, she encountered nurous hunters and rchants from Hou Qin along the way.
It was easy to distinguish whether soone was from Hou Qin or not.
The citizens of Great Zhou, similar to the Asian countries like Z in Yun Sheng’s previous life, all have yellow skin and black hair, and their body types are relatively moderate.
People from Hou Qin, on the other hand, resemble the populations of North Caucasus more, with brown hair, blue eyes, high nose bridges, tall stature, pale skin, and deep facial features.
After Yun Sheng entered the market, she imdiately put on the Illusion Power Earring to disguise her appearance.
She currently had ten thousand gold coins that she won from the Wanlong Gambling House, plus so money she made from selling dicine earlier, which added up to a modest savings.
As she passed by a Magic Scroll Shop, Yun Sheng walked in, intending to see if there were any learnable magic scrolls.
Yun Sheng planned, after helping Feng Kuo and others pass the Hunter Soldier Team exam, to return to Yujing City to enhance her Mage level. She had already learned Fire Middle-level Magic and Earth Magic, and if possible, she wanted to learn the remaining Wind and Water Interdiate Magic as well.
The layout of the Magic Scroll Shop was very similar to a regular bookstore, except that the shelves were lined with magic scrolls made from various animal hides.
Upon seeing a custor, a Mage ca forward to greet her. Judging by the badge on his chest, he was a Great Demon Level Mage.
Upon hearing that Yun Sheng wanted to buy Interdiate Water and Wind Magic Scrolls, the Mage took a few more glances at Yun Sheng. Despite the Illusion Power Earring, it was not difficult to discern from her voice and the Magic Warrior Badge on her that she was a young, newly promoted Magician.
"Honorable guest, the price of Interdiate Magic Scrolls is not cheap. Just one Interdiate Water Magic Scroll of Water Mist Eye with a bewitching effect costs as high as nine thousand gold coins," the scroll shop owner kindly reminded Yun Sheng.
He noticed that although Yun Sheng was young, her speech and deanor were very composed, and she had a small dog by her side.
That small dog was clearly not an ordinary wild beast, but a Battle Pet.
Only soone with so background could afford to keep a Battle Pet.
Nine thousand gold coins!
This price really took Yun Sheng by surprise, as she thought she was already a little rich lady, but the price of just one magic scroll was so expensive.
Yun Sheng did not know that the crafting of Interdiate Magic Scrolls is quite complex.
It requires using the skin of a Middle-level or higher Demon Beast, coupled with special Beast Blood, and refined through a special thod, hence the naturally high price.
"Then one Interdiate Water Magic scroll, preferably one with so defensive capabilities," Yun Sheng had no choice but to settle for less as she had already been blessed by the Wind Elf, so she had no significant issues with movent and evasion.
Yun Sheng once heard her instructor occasionally ntion the cultivation of Multi-elent Magic Souls during magic lessons, emphasizing balance without bias toward any single elent, otherwise a mage’s overall strength would be like a barrel lacking one plank, forever inadequate.
However, the cultivation of multi-elent magic, while sounding simple, is actually quite difficult to implent.
This is also why, although mages with Multi-elent Magic Souls have innate advantages, most specialize in a particular type of magic. Currently, among Yun Sheng’s five major magic attributes, Fire Magic is the strongest, followed by the recently learned Dark Thorn, then Earth and Wind Magic, with Water Magic being the weakest.
But Yun Sheng was not interested in buying the Water Mist Eye, which confuses the enemy, because she already had Little Black.
With Little Black’s "Swallowing Sky" combat skill, the screen goes completely black, which is far more effective than any Water Mist.
"Or how about a Blizzard, which is an Interdiate Water Magic for large-scale attacks," the scroll rchant continued to recomnd enthusiastically.
However, Yun Sheng shook her head, large-scale attack magic sounds impressive, but with her current magic power, she fears it would exhaust her magic power completely after just one use.
During combat, there’s no ti for her to recover using ditation Water.
In the end, Yun Sheng chose an Interdiate Magic called Water Binding.
This Interdiate Magic transforms water magic elents into snake-like magic vapor, binding the enemy’s movent.
"The Interdiate Magic Water Binding scroll costs ten thousand gold coins, but if you buy it now, I can offer you a discount, at nine thousand five hundred gold coins," the mage made a sale, smiling from ear to ear.
Yun Sheng cringed at the expense but still pulled out the Imperial Purple Gold Card and paid.
While waiting for the rchant to process Yun Sheng’s transaction, a man who had been browsing magic scrolls nearby approached.
He directly asked, "Sir, do you buy magic scrolls here?"
The rchant looked up at him, noticing imdiately that the man was not a mage but a villager from a nearby village.
"Yes, what type of magic scrolls? Are they Beginner or Interdiate level magic scrolls?" the rchant asked, following usual practice.
But the man scratched his head and said vaguely, "I’m not sure what it is, you have a look, see what scroll it is."
Hearing this, the rchant was displeased, "Man, let
be clear, I don’t accept scrolls of unclear origin."
The implication was that he suspected the man’s scroll to be of dubious origin, especially since the man was neither a mage nor a martial artist—where would he have gotten a magic scroll from?
"Sir, rest assured, I found this scroll when I was tidying up the family ancestral house. We are too poor to even lift the pot lid, so I brought it to sell," the man said, and handed the magic scroll to the rchant.
Yun Sheng took back her Imperial Purple Gold Card and wasn’t in a hurry to leave, she also glanced at the young man’s magic scroll.
It seed to be an unnad magic scroll.
But as an experienced magic scroll rchant, the rchant still checked the young man’s scroll.
After checking, he shook his head, "This magic scroll isn’t worth much, it’s just the most basic Earth Magic, Earth Spur. One hundred gold coins, take it or leave it."
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