"Gah~~~~" As the brass-colored metal handle automatically turned downwards, the brown-red wooden door with four pieces of crystal glass turned inward 90 degrees.
A wide semi-circular hall greeted Lant. There were four dark marble pillars on the black and white checkered floor, and the bookshelves on the fan-shaped walls extended from the ground to the roof.
"The old Master's Bookstore is really grand." Lant walked into the middle of the hall. There was a circle of hardcover books neatly stacked on the round table.
"Gawain the Returner?" Lant opened a book. Judging from the title, it was a legendary biography.
I turned to the translucent title page and entered Dou Qi. The page turned from translucent to a colorful painting. A knight with gray hair and silver armor raised his sword and looked into the distance.
I read two more pages, which were all about the travels and territory management of the knight and his friends.
Lant put the books back on the circular table, which was full of best-selling novels.
On the precious Sunday morning, Lant had already visited several bookstores, but he never saw the book he wanted: a book on magic knowledge.
The biographies of knights, wizards, lords, knights and elves, mages and mermaids, lords and succubi are all in the same routine. After a few glances, I lost interest in reading.
Lant couldn't find what he needed in several bookstores, so he went to the one that seemed to be the biggest and wanted to try his luck.
For Lant, what he needs to buy most now are books on magic fairies and magic knowledge. However, these two types of books are strictly monitored by the great nobles during their market circulation. The total amount that a viscount Lant can purchase is Very limited.
The third place is various materials for casting spells and drawing magic arrays. The fourth place is Warcraft meat. There is no consumption limit for these. Finally, there are grains, clothing and building materials that have nothing to do with magic. These materials are priced in silver coins and belong to bulk. thing.
Others, such as river ships, alchemy items, etc., just take them and buy them when you see them.
"Sir? What do you want to buy?" A demon-free man ran over from the corner. This was the first time that Lant saw a demon-free shopping guide in a demon-owning commercial street.
"Books about magic, not these biographies, but books that introduce magic knowledge." Looking at the magic-free man in front of him, Lant felt the other party's contempt.
"Sir, that kind of book is not easy to find, but you have come to us at the right time. Please come with me."
"What is this?" Following the shopping guide to a corner on the second floor, Lant saw a box of waste paper.
"Sir, you may not look at these books as old, but they are very useful magic books."
There were rust stains, water stains, insect infestations, creases, and curls. Lant looked at the "books" in this box and fished out one. Each of the dozen or so pages of parchment had been scrawled several times.
"How much does a copy like this cost?"
"These books have been continuously studied and summarized by several generations of magicians, and have condensed the wisdom of several generations. Each book only costs 20 gold coins."
"20 gold coins?" Rant's eyebrows twisted together, and he couldn't help but think, "If the barbarians had talents like you, they wouldn't come to the Dragon Kingdom to rob."
"Sir," although the Demonless Man quoted the robbery price, he was still very flattering, "I see that you have a noble status, sir. I wonder where you are as a lord?"
"Running Horse" Lant replied casually, and sifted through the "waste box" again, trying to find a relatively complete one.
"Oh, you are from the Eastern Kingdom?" The largest branch of the Benma family is an independent marquis on an island in the east of the empire. This marquis title has the right to run for the throne of the king of the Eastern Kingdom. When the shopping guide heard that Benma took it for granted that Lant came from there .
"No, northwest, Galloping Horse Plains" Lant announced his home address.
"Ah? Then, do you still need these books?" In the eyes of the clerk, there are no magicians on the Galloping Horse Plains, and there is no need for magic books at all.
"You are so lenient," Lant felt a little unhappy, and looked back at the clerk with a bit of anger in his eyes. “I’m a viscount, and I can’t even buy a book?
Who do you think you are here? Dare you ask me for my identity? "
"Of course not, sir, please wait a moment." The Demonless clerk, whose sweat pores were popping up, ran away quickly. When he went downstairs, Lant even heard a "pop".
After a while, a demon holder who looked like a mage apprentice came over. The apprentice looked very respectful but not panicked.
"Sir, I'm sorry to have our servants disturb you. Ours is Your Excellency Lanlong's store. It is also Your Majesty's request to ask the book buyers where they are. I was taking inventory at the back just now and was not able to come out to pick you up at the first time. Please forgive me."
"Don't you have any books with better quality here?" Lant held up a few pages of scraps of paper and looked at the mage apprentice.
"Sir, no more. Books with better quality will usually be given to the branches of the family." The mage apprentice saw some ferocious faces of Lant. It was not the first time for him to receive a noble, but it was the first time he felt the emotion. fear.
"But sir, I have an imperial edition of the Magic Apprentice Textbook here. The quality is slightly better than yours." After saying that, he took Lant down to the counter on the first floor and took out a book that seemed to have a slightly damaged cover. .
""Magic Knowledge"...Sixth Edition" After taking the book, Lant first saw the damaged cover and large water stains on the book.
"Imperial Capital Education Department, Printed in the Year 947 of the God-Emperor" After opening the book, what you see is a table of contents and chapters similar to the textbooks in your hometown. The content also includes drawings of magical plants and equipment.
The book has solid paper and fine printing. There is even a copyright page at the end, as well as the year and batch of printing. Only a very mature compilation and printing system can print such books in large quantities.
"How much"
"40 gold coins"
After a few minutes of silence, the mage did not give in. Lant estimated that this was the most sincerity given by the other party, so he could only happily pay the money and leave.
The price of 40 gold coins is enough to buy a small yard in a civilian area, or 1 or 2 days of food in the Rand territory.
Now he only bought an old textbook from decades ago. After running across the Galloping Horse Plains for two months and looting countless tribes, Lant encountered a real bandit who didn't even give him a chance to bargain.
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The commercial street in the royal capital is naturally more than twice the size of the market in Maned Wolf City, and the categories are also quite rich.
For example, the shop selling Warcraft meat alone occupies half of the street. The shops sell products based on elemental attributes, such as fire, ice, and life. There are very few earth-type creatures here. It is said that the nobles feel that eating them tastes disgusting. This made Rant, who had once regarded steel-bristle pigs and mudslide crocodiles as his only sources of Warcraft meat, helpless.
The same goes for magic equipment. Except for apprentice equipment stores, other stores are either based on occupation or attributes. There may be overlap in business between different equipment stores, but they all have their own characteristics.
The apprentice equipment store that Lant went to first mostly contained wooden swords and shields; the magician apprentices also had specimen display frames for level 0 and low-level magic plants, as well as some simple magic props and materials. The quality of the materials varied. , the prices are high and low, giving Rand the illusion of being at a flea market.
Not only the apprentice supplies store, Lant walked into every store in the commercial street and looked at them one by one. While looking at them, he could only sigh that the magic products are indeed very expensive.
The cheapest alchemical items with 1 magic pattern cost at least 2 gold coins; those with 2 magic patterns cost at least 5 gold coins.
Knight weapons or equipment made of ordinary materials usually start at 50 gold coins. The leather armor with iron armor plates worn by Lant before can be sold here for 120 gold coins; pure iron armor costs 250 gold coins; if it is a magic pattern weapon or equipment, it is even more expensive. .
At this moment, Lant really wanted to use the space ring to quietly conduct iron armor trade between Maned Wolf City and Dragon Fang City.
But in a magical world, breaking a promise will result in God's rejection. No matter how short of money Lant is, he can't engage in such small tricks.
Since it was not easy to make money from iron armor, Lant wanted to try to let Wendy open a magic item workshop to produce some relatively simple and rough magic equipment first, and then continue to expand production.
Walking on the commercial street, Lant was thinking about a plan to sell Wendy's labor force in exchange for money. If Lant were Viscount Bob or Baron Harker, then this plan would be perfect.
But now Lant is the largest force in the entire southern part of the Galloping Horse Plains. It is really shameful for Lant to rely on a few girls to feed and drink the entire territory of 4,000 people.
