Alison's magic shop.
Before leaving the city, Ringer decided to buy some equipment and props in case of emergency.
The entire box of treasures obtained from Crimson, converted into gold coins circulating in Castalon, amounted to more than 60,000 gold, so gold coins were not a problem.
The things in Alison's store seem to be a bit expensive, but they are still useful. The big black staff in Lanya's hand, Ringer's silver wand, storage ring, and magic book are all in Alison's store. Purchase here.
When Ringer just registered as an apprentice at the Dharma Conference two weeks ago, Alison, his senior sister, gave him some advice. Although it was not difficult to obtain information, it was still not enough for a new apprentice to have someone to guide him and explore on his own. the same.
For the expensive part, just thank her for her original suggestion.
Ringer has never been very sensitive to money. Whether it is gold coins from another world or money from the earth, he values the relationship between people more.
To him, even a small kindness is worth cherishing.
There were still no customers in the store. When the three of them entered the store, Alison, the owner, was sleeping on the counter.
The sound of wind chimes woke her from her sleep.
"Uh... welcome." She subconsciously shouted before she even opened her eyes.
"Junior Lin Ge, it's you."
Seeing Ringer, she immediately woke up.
"Haha, you have a cute little girl by your side."
Alison saw Diluco behind Ringer and smiled. The latter was looking curiously at the furnishings and props in the store.
"I'm planning to go out of town, so I came here to buy some things and make some preparations," Linge said.
"Leaving the city? Are you sure?" Alison looked surprised.
He is just an apprentice who has joined the Dharma Assembly for less than a month. Maybe he has not learned a few basic magics yet, and he wants to go out to fight against the undead?
"Junior, don't be impulsive. I heard that the fighting outside is very fierce. Even if you stay on the city wall, you may be shot by the skeleton archers' demon-breaking bone arrows. The situation outside the city is even more dangerous. You have to think clearly. "
Hearing Alison's admonishment, Ringer smiled.
If she were a pure profiteer, she would vigorously promote powerful equipment and props at this time instead of informing her of the dangers outside the city.
So she was standing in the position of a senior and spoke these words of advice out of concern for the younger generation.
"Senior, don't worry, I'm sensible, I'm not crazy about trying to be a hero."
Alison looked at him dubiously, seeing in him a calmness and confidence that was not reserved for an entry-level apprentice.
Could it be that he has mastered powerful magic? No way, he has only joined the puja for two weeks...
"And I met a powerful companion, she is waiting for me outside the city." Linge added.
"Well, since you know what you are doing, I won't be verbose, but I still hope you can be careful."... Otherwise, the customers I finally waited for will become undead, and who will buy from my store in the future? thing.
"Thank you for your concern, senior sister."
"what do you want to buy?"
"Magic Scroll."
Alison's eyes lit up. The scroll was not cheap. It seemed that Junior Ringer had become rich again recently.
Although I'm a little curious about how a magic apprentice like him can get so many gold coins to spend, but no matter what, just make money with gold coins.
"Which type do you want, offensive, defensive, or auxiliary?"
"I want them all."
Alison was startled, and then her charming big eyes curved into crescent moons, and the cheap junior in front of her became more and more sleepy.
It's a pity that there are too many girls around him, otherwise maybe I could try to seduce him...
"Wait a minute, I'll get it right away."
Soon, Alison returned to the counter holding a pile of dusty scrolls.
"This is a Holy Light Explosion Bomb, offensive type... This one is a sacred enchantment, which can apply divine blessing to the weapon, auxiliary type... The Light Sledgehammer, after using it, you can get a sledgehammer weapon made of the power of light. , lasts for one hour, has strong lethality against skeleton-like creatures, offensive type... holy wall technique, iron body, super hardening technique, these are defensive types..."
She picked up the scrolls one by one, wiping off the dust as she introduced them, and sorted them into three piles, stacking them neatly.
Looking at the three neat stacks of scrolls, Alison's worries about Ringer disappeared without a trace.
"With these scrolls, as long as you don't leave the protection of the sacred barrier, there is absolutely no problem in protecting yourself."
"Okay, I want them all."
Lin Ge waved his hand and put all the scrolls on the table into the ring, then turned to ask Diluco and Lanya: "Is there anything you want?"
Lanya shook her head, and Dilu Ke pointed to a blue staff on the shelf.
"I want that."
Alison took the staff and introduced it with a smile: "This is a staff engraved with healing runes. As long as you inject magic power, you can easily cast the advanced healing magic 'Water Goddess' Embrace' without learning it. As long as you have it It can become a very popular healing profession, and any team will be rushing to get it."
After listening to Alison's boastful introduction, Diluke's eyes brightened even more as he had no trading experience.
Although she didn't understand much, she always felt that it was very powerful.
"Linge, buy me this, and I'll squirt you more water in the future."
Alison was startled and looked at the two of them strangely.
Junior Lin Ge looks gentle on the outside, but is he a hidden pervert?
Lin Ge had no expression on his face. In fact, he felt very embarrassed, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he simply didn't explain it. He took the staff from Alison's hand and handed it to Diluco who was standing aside.
"Take it."
On the way here, she stared at Lanya's big staff many times, as if she was envious of it. Linge had planned to buy her a suitable staff.
She evolved from a water slime into a water elemental spirit, and can easily mobilize the water element. This water staff is suitable for her to use.
"I will continue to work hard to spray you with water in the future." Dilu Ke took the staff and said excitedly.
Alison's expression became even stranger.
Lin Ge coughed and asked:
"Is there a stronger staff that can be used as a melee weapon?"
Alison came back to her senses, put her index finger on her chin, and tilted her head to think.
"Ah, that."
She took a red staff from the corner of the store. It was more like a red stick than a staff. There were golden dragon patterns on the stick and a golden ball the size of a fist on each end.
Alison held the staff in both hands, her slender and white wrists trembling slightly.
Judging from the way she was struggling, it seemed like this staff was very heavy.
"I bought this from the East, but I haven't been able to sell it." Alison handed the staff to Ringer's hand and said while shaking her hand.
The staff is heavy and difficult to swing for ordinary mages. No wonder it cannot be sold, but it is just right for Ringer.
He stroked the golden dragon pattern on the staff with satisfaction.
"There is a group of monks in the East who believe in dragons. This is the staff they use. The monks there not only use magic, but are also very powerful in martial arts, so the staffs they use are also dual-purpose. These staffs have a special name called Moga Staff." Alison introduced.
Lin Ge also put away the staff and waved his hand, and a neat stack of gold coins appeared on the counter.
Each one is a gold coin of 100 gold, and 50 coins are stacked into one column, making a total of ten columns.
Fifty thousand gold.
Looking at the shiny gold coins on the counter, Alison was so happy that she almost fainted.
"Is this enough?"
Lin Ge bought a total of thirty-seven magic scrolls. If he paid according to the listed price, the cheapest one would cost 500 gold. Calculating these gold coins would definitely not be enough.
But that's just the price tag. According to what Lin Ge learned about the market situation, ordinary scrolls simply can't be sold that expensive.
Alison still couldn't take her eyes away from the gold coins in front of her. She counted her fingers and nodded: "Including the discount, that's enough!" When she nodded, her head shook up and down, but her eyes did not move, and they remained focused. A large pile of gold coins in front of you.
Ah, with this money, I can finally take the Magister Certification Examination.
Alison sat at the counter, feeling a tingling sensation all over her body.
But the premise is that Castalon is not captured by the undead army...
When she came to her senses, Lin Ge and others had already left.
She looked at the wind chimes shaking by the door. Amidst the sweet sound of the wind chimes, she put her hands together and intertwined her fingers in a praying gesture.
My lovely junior, you must come back safe and sound.
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In front of the city gate, the guards stopped the three people who wanted to leave the city.
"It is very dangerous outside the city. It is not recommended for a team of adventurers with insufficient strength to leave the city rashly."
The guard glanced at the apprentice badge on Lin's cloak and frowned.
It was the magic apprentice badge that Lin Ge got after registering at the puja. It was like a delicate silver coin with the image of the magic goddess Freya printed on it.
Lin Ge specially took out the badge and pinned it on his cloak. He thought that this way he would not be regarded as an ordinary person and could easily leave the city, but he did not expect to be regarded as a rookie who overestimates his abilities.
"Thanks for the reminder, uncle, but we are determined to leave the city."
"I hope you understand what you are doing." The middle-aged guard looked at Lanya and Diluco behind him. They were very beautiful, but they didn't seem to have much fighting ability.
He regarded Ringer as a dazed young man who wanted to be a hero in front of beautiful girls.
Needless to say, Linge had already heard the loud noise coming from outside the city, which was the roar of large-scale destructive magic.
"I know very well that we are not going to die, but to resist the attack of the undead."
The middle-aged guard sighed. "In that case, go ahead." He waved his hand and motioned to the soldiers in the corridor to open the small door.
He was just giving advice out of kindness, not trying to forcefully stop the three of them.
Since they insist on leaving the city, we can only let them go.
Walking out of the narrow corridor, the battlefield outside the city came into view.
The sacred barrier set up by the three major holy religions in the city was like a white light, covering an area of five kilometers outside the city.
Low-level undead will be purified if they break into the barrier, and high-level undead will be greatly reduced in strength if they are within the barrier.
This is Castalon's biggest reliance on resisting the undead army, but the daily consumption of magic power is extremely huge. In the central circle of the barrier located in the Cathedral of Holy Light, three hundred powerful magicians take turns to maintain the barrier. .
Through the light curtain, there is an endless sea of bones outside, with a tall bone tower standing in the distance.
The air was filled with chaotic magic flow, and the roar of warriors came from the front line.
The battle mainly takes place near the edge of the barrier, with the backbone of the force on the front lines resisting the tide of white undead.
There is a simple camp at the rear, where injured warriors receive treatment and mages who have exhausted their magic power recover their magic and spiritual power. Everyone in the camp looks extremely tired.
A vibrant figure appeared in Linge's field of vision.
"You are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time." Celia ran to Linge, put her hands on her hips and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone.
She calculated exactly when Ringer would get off work and waited near the city gate in advance, but he only came out now.
She had already recovered the energy she had expended in the previous battle. She wanted to return to the front line to fight, but she was afraid that Linger would not be able to find her when he came out.
The waiting time made her whole body itchy, especially her fists.
"Sorry, I went to buy some equipment and scrolls. How is the situation outside now?"
"Similar to the previous two days, those skeleton soldiers seem to be endless, constantly crawling out from under those bone towers. The killed humans will be transformed into one of them immediately, and the situation is not optimistic.
If the great mages in the city don't think of a way and continue to delay, the situation will only get worse. If these undead are really allowed to rush into the city, this free city will become a city of the undead. "
Celia's tone was solemn, full of worries about the future of the city.
"Be careful of the sniping attacks from the skeleton elves. They have retained their superb archery skills and specialize in shooting at the mages behind them, or they can shoot cold arrows at the strong. If you attract their attention, you don't know when a bone arrow will fly towards you. Come." Celia reminded on the way to the front of the battlefield.
As she spoke, she pointed to her chest. Linger looked over and saw an inconspicuous hole in the center of the leather armor on her chest.
"When I was fighting a golden skeleton, a skeleton elf fired a cold arrow. The bone arrow passed through the golden skeleton's ribs and flew straight towards my chest. That's when I had to face the golden skeleton's attack. I couldn't. When I couldn’t avoid the awkward moment when I had to separate my hands, luckily I clamped it with my chest muscles.”
Celia thought of the scene at that time and still couldn't help but sweat for herself at that time.
Fortunately, she has perfect control over her body. If it had been anyone else, she would have been shot through by that arrow.
Lanya took advantage of Celia walking in front and whispered to Linge: "Linge, didn't you join the underground camp? What if an undead recognizes you in public?"
"Don't worry, I have hidden my aura. Except for Elvi, ordinary undead cannot recognize me."
"I can rest assured that."
Arriving at the edge of the barrier, Celia pounced out again, taking out a pair of sacredly strengthened finger tigers, cleaning up the skeleton soldiers approaching her while looking for a powerful opponent.
Lin Ge and others stayed in the barrier as magicians. Dilu Ke waved the newly purchased staff and treated the wounded nearby, receiving grateful looks.
Linge took out the Moga Staff to add status to Celia outside, and always pay attention to her surroundings.
Lanya clenched the staff in her hand and took a deep breath.
"With so many skeletons, you don't need to aim, just release them from a distance."
