418 Surprise Guess 2 (2/2)
Garen's expression didn't change as he and Kid followed Old Man into the hall behind the wall.
It was a large and dark brown hall shaped in a circle, the walls lined with a circle of round glass display cases, and with a cylindrical display in the center of the room as well.
In these glass display cases, there were many strangely-shaped items scattered sparsely, none of them very big. Some were like little boxes, some were like live specimens of unnatural living organisms, and some looked utterly normal, like a mineral stone.
There was also a smattering of people in the hall, standing in three groups. They looked to be like Garen and co, Guild customers brought here to choose Solidifying Tactics by the people from the Guild.
”This is the display hall for Solidifying Tactics, please go ahead and point out anything you two might like to me.” Old Man explained with a smile, ”I can provide you two with the highest discount of 20%.”
”Then I'll thank you for that.” Garen smiled slightly. ”Kid, you have money on your side?”
”No problem.” Kid replied nonchalantly.
”Then please assume I'm borrowing it from you first, I'll return it to you in a bit.” This time he was grateful to Kid, otherwise the War Chain's upgrading would prove to be a problem.”
”It's okay, I don't know how to use the money anyway.” Kid evidently really didn't care.
Garen nodded and didn't hold back anymore.
He walked to the counter and looked at them carefully, one by one.
As expected of the large kingdom capital's guild, it wasn't like Iron Tank City, where there were only a few choices of Solidifying Tactics. Here, they actually displayed them openly for everyone to choose, and a glance showed that there were no fewer than thirty items.
Garen followed the counter, checking them individually.
The Solidifying Tactics here were divided into three categories in total.
Self-strengthening types, Totem-strengthening types, and Special types.
Self-strengthening types meant they strengthened the totem user themselves, and this strengthening could affect the speed a Totem user can release a tactic, its powers, or how nimbly they can control a totem in battle and so on.
And totem-strengthening meant that the single totem would then be temporarily strengthened.
There were the most types in the last Special category, such as healing, scoping, night vision, underwater breathing, levitation, disguise, ice sealing and whatnot. These were all extra abilities for a totem.
Garen looked around him in a circle, but couldn't find the tactic he wanted. Although he knew the Eye of Isaiah that he had found was no ordinary tactic, but all these Solidifying Tactics didn't even come close, so Garen couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
Looking at the prices tags, these Solidifying Tactics were each worth ten thousand golden rumbs, which was equivalent to at least ten million copper rumbs, two or three of them were enough to buy a basic Level One War Chain.
As though seeing the look of disappointment on Gardens face, Old Man mused for a moment.
”How about this, other than the Solidifying Tactics our War Guild has, there are still some Solidifying Tactics we had planned to put up for auction, you can have an early look at them. See if there's anything you might want.”
”Sure.” Garen nodded.
Kid told him briefly how much he had in his own savings through the black box at his collar, he still had about twenty thousand golden rumbs. Added to the eighty thousand golden rumbs he had used earlier to upgrade to Level Four, he would have used a whole hundred thousand golden rumbs. That was a huge fee, even if the Trejons family sold off everything they had right now, they would only have at most forty or fifty thousand golden rumbs. This was including all of their solid assets and the land His Majesty the Emperor gave them, all of it added together.
Using so much of Kid's money this time, Garen felt a little ashamed, but now was the most crucial time, so he couldn't afford such concerns. There would be plenty of chances for him to return the favor later.
After waiting for a moment in the hall, Old Man sent someone to bring a catalog that he gave to Garen.
The catalog had the detailed information regarding five Solidifying Tactics, and was evidently the information for the auctions.
The first of these Solidifying Tactics was the Hand of Vandala.
It looked like a necklace pendant shaped like a golden palm. There weren't any special patterns on it.
It had a very simple effect. Aurification, it used a certain amount of Totem Light or totem power to turn a certain amount of a material into gold.
Although gold wasn't as precious as white silver here in this world, it was still a precious metal second only to white silver.
There were surely many totem users who would like this thing, but that definitely did not include Garen.
The second was called the Navy Blue Chain.
It also looked like a necklace, and was completely navy blue, with an irregular white stone suspended in the middle.
The effect of the Navy Blue Chain was Water-style Mist Territory, it could form a mist territory with a radius of twelve meters upon release, blocking the enemy's vision. The thickness of the mist depended on the strength of the totem user.
The third was called the Dematerialisation Badge.
Looking at this one, Garen's interest was slightly piqued.
It was just a picture that looked like a black flame.
Its effects were self-strengthening: upon activation, it could elementalize part of the totem user’s body, if the totem user was strong enough, they could totally use it to avoid a fatal blow, and they could use it to transmit across long distances as well. Of course, if it was a low-level totem user, it'd be impressive for them to elementalize even one fingernail.
The fourth and the fifth were both tactics used to strengthen totems. Garen gave them a glance, one was very effective with healing, the other could add the element of ice to the totem, allowing the enemy totem to take ice damage. Compared to regular strengthening tactics however, its effectiveness was a lot more overstated.
”How about this Dematerialisation Badge?” Garen pointed at the third Solidifying Tactic and asked.
”You have great taste, sir!” Old Man gave him a thumbs up. ”This Dematerialisation Badge was found by one of the Guild’s great fighters in a monster's lair, they snatched it from the hands of Obscuro. In order to obtain this Badge, two of our elite Form Two totem users were grievously injured. Although elementalization was a necessary route to success for high-level totem users, wouldn't it be an extra level of insurance to first have access to this technique using a Solidifying Tactic?”
”Cut the crap, and just tell me, how much does it cost?” Garen was lazy to listen to his preamble.
”This much.” Old Man held up four fingers. ”And this is after I gave you two a special eighty percent discount.”
”Forty thousand golden rumbs?!” Garen raised an eyebrow. He wanted to buy this mainly because he was interested in the elementalization, elementalization was something true totem users could use temporarily when Spiritualized. But the path Garen was pursuing didn't have anything to do with elementalization at all.
Although the Nine-Headed Hydra was powerful, in term of elementalization, and especially when.It came to the elementalization of the main body, it had no clue whatsoever. With this thing, perhaps he could peek at the secret high level totem users had for elementalization.