Chapter 40 (1/2)
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
‘Picking Something Others Ignored’?
Seeing Snow’s “no room for negotiation” attitude and looking at the big box full of equipment, Palin hesitated for a while, and finally, he couldn’t resist the temptation to pick something and paid ten gold coins.
Then, with the boss watching him, he began to choose from the items in the box.
As a mage who had worked in caravans, Palin was quite experienced in the identification of equipment. He searched extensively and quickly found a valuable thing.
It was a piece of armor that had mostly been ruined with only about one-third of the back complete. After examining it carefully, he felt that this leather armor seemed to be made of some kind of leather from a fire-resistant demon beast. Although it was only a small piece, it could be made into things like a fireproof chest shield, and, in the worst situation, a pair of fireproof gloves.
A pair of fireproof gloves was not even a piece of equipment with enchantment, but at least it was worth more than a hundred gold coins. He would just have to pay for the labor to make them.
This discovery made him energetic. He did not hurry to finish looking, but instead picked out this broken leather armor as his ultimate selection and continued to look for other items.
However, his luck seemed to have run out, and after a while, he still had not found a second valuable thing.
Finally, Palin could not help but whisper in his heart, “Your Majesty, in your opinion… What is the most valuable thing in this box?”
Sui Xiong had long been confident and smiled, “It depends on what kind of things you want.”
“Your Majesty… What do you mean?”
“There are many valuable things in this box, but the most valuable ones are not necessarily what you really need,” Sui Xiong said. “You should first think clearly about what you want most before you ask me.”
Palin was dumbfounded for a moment, and subconsciously said, “I want to get, of course, a piece of powerful equipment.”
“‘A piece of powerful equipment’? What makes a piece of equipment powerful?” Sui Xiong asked.
Palin was lost in thought.
As Sui Xiong said, how should one define a piece of powerful equipment? It shouldn’t solely be about the price, should it?
For example, for gamers, a top-level set of mouse and keyboard was certainly a piece of powerful equipment, and it would be even more powerful if the set was a set self-designed by a computer expert and had custom hotkeys on the keyboard that could fulfill many difficult techniques by only tapping the keys once.
When Sui Xiong was studying at college, a junior fellow student of his, who was with a very good computer technology but a very humble technique of playing games, raged after being defeated more than twenty times in a row by him in a brutal way. The fellow student then made a set of powerful equipment in less than one month, the keyboard of which had almost twenty keys, more than common keyboards that corresponded to a set of highly practical techniques. With this handy device, the fellow student, whose level of e-sports was far lower than Sui Xiong’s, defeated him forty or fifty times in a row. In addition, he also defeated all his schoolmates and became known as a peerless master among non-professional players in non-electronic sports areas.
If non-professional e-sports games didn’t allow the use of such a piece of foul equipment, perhaps the junior student could really enter the professional circle relying on this handy equipment of e-sport.
Of course, equipment that was powerful enough in practical combats didn’t exist in this box. But inferior things really could be found here…
Palin thought for a long time and finally came up with an idea of what he really wanted.
“Your Majesty, are there any magic books left in this box?” He asked.
“Of course. Check the bottom of the box. There is a half of a magic book in a worn out coat made of thick cloth. The spells therein are not at a low level, and at present, it might be a bit hard for you, but it might be quite suitable for Satan.”
“But I want to remind you that the spell recorded in this magic book is… very unusual, and it may be troublesome to you.”
Palin thought for a while and eventually made up his mind. He soon found the half of a magic book that remained according to Sui’s instructions.
For a spell-caster, magic books of precedent masters were a crystallization of experience and wisdom, a symbol of heritage, and an irresistible temptation. Even if there would be trouble, he could not resist the temptation of this treasure.
Its pages, made of the skin of demon beasts, were old, but the words were written in special ink and were still very clear. Many of these words were of an ancient elven language used by mages. It was complicated and long-winded but could clearly and accurately express the meaning, and ambiguous expressions were a rare occurrence. It was regarded as one of the languages that mages must learn.
To become a mage, one needed to understand a variety of languages. In addition to the common language of the continent, mages must know the ancient elven language that could accurately record things, the Dragon language that contained magic, the dwarven runes that could be directly used and released as a spell, and special languages that were needed when communicating with creatures in heaven and hell, as well as the mysterious language that mages often used internally. If these commonly used languages that mages must understand were listed out, they would number at least ten languages.
Even though Palin was just a little mage that had just entered the profession, the compulsory ancient elven language wasn’t difficult for him, and he could understand the contents of this magic book by just glancing at it.
Satan, who was born in a southern magic country and educated in the famous magic tower, understood a total of thirty-one different languages and was a versatile walking translator.
Palin only glanced at the book, and his eyes were fixed on it as if they were welded to it. He was unable to move them away.
“This is… unexpectedly… the Dragon Slaying Spell?!”