Buying
Following Clark to the second floor of his store there was a small living room. After sitting down on a chair, Clark goes to another room but soon he returns holding a red blood sword. He places the sword in front of me. “This is a long sword that I made when I had finished my apprenticeship. Take a look if you can use it.”
Carefully and quickly I took the sword. Without any decoration on it, the sword was quite standard but what I didn’t know was the reason why the sword was emitting a red glow. Again I look the sword but this time I looked the attributes. Soulkeeper Blood Sucking Sword – Attack 25-40. Attack speed —— Fast. 15% blood sucking. Plus 1 agility. 1% chances of stunning. Indeed, this is a good sword! Especially the fast attack speed as well the blood sucking ability. In 《Zero》 the weapon speed attack is divided into five grades. The best is nimble, then fast and then ordinary, it continues with slow and last, extremely slow. The majority short weapons are ordinary, the long swords are slow. That a long sword has speed is already quite rare even more being fast! Not only this sword is fast it has a blood sucking ability and its ability to absorb is very extraordinary. This sword is really a treasure to the warrior profession! Afraid that I can’t use it I quickly look its requirements! It needs level 29, 370 of strength and lastly 170 of agility. Haha! I can use it. Right now I’m level 29, my strength is 13*29=377 and my agility is 6*29=74. Just recently I had reached both of them, simply my luck is the best!
Clark had thought that because I had stayed silent for a while I couldn’t find any words of comfort for what seemed like an ordinary weapon. “Boy (From the start we were friendly with each other because I’m a high charm character.) don’t be sad if you aren’t able to equip! That was my first attempt in which I was successful and even though the attributes were not bad, it’s a pity that you need great strength so a low level person wouldn’t be able to use it. And a high level person would use a high attack weapon so neither would use it. That’s why nobody takes interest in this weapon. I left it stored as commemorative of my first successful work!”
Just now I had remembered that I had forgot to answer to Clark. Hurriedly I answer him: “Oh! That’s right! I can use it, is indeed very good! How much for this sword?”
Hearing me saying I can use it, Clark happily responds: “I don’t need it any more, it’s going to cost you 7 gold coins. Now you have left 6 gold coins.”
I couldn’t reject either, I was very poor and I needed to buy medicine! Moreover, Clark wasn’t the type of person who would bother about it. At worst he would need only to take care of his business after this.
After I had equipped the sword, once again we were going back to the city to pick a shield. Taking a look at my body I had a variety of clothes and even though they were somewhat out of place, more or less I had my body all equipped. Just when I was looking at myself feeling good, Clark spoke: “All your equipment is rubbish, ah! Black, white and also red. What type of appearance is that?!”
“What are you saying? I still think that this is not so bad! At least I have the basic equipment!”
“You are saying that it’s not so bad? Where is your helmet? Your shoulder pads? You have neither armguards! You are missing a belt, an armor and a cloak! Of six rings you only have one! (In theory in 《Zero》, a person is able to equip ten rings, but only the index finger, middle fingers and ring finger of both hands can have effects. The rest are for decoration!)”
I interrupt him quickly: “I have another ring but I need to appraise it!”
“That is good but even if you have another you need another four more rings, ah! You still lack of an amulet and a bracelet. You can only have two bracelets but they can give you many attributes! Not to mention a head ornament, you don’t have one either?”
I’m confused! Originally I had believed that my equipment was not bad but I didn’t expect to be classified as a beggar!
“Forget about it! Although today I will lose money, I have to equip you, otherwise you will mess my reputation when other souls see you coming out from my store! Take everything off, I will handle your equipment and I’ll see what I can do!” Clark came to me wanting to help me change my clothes.
I ran away quickly: “No, no, no! How I can let you lose your money, I will return again to exchange my clothes when I level up!”
After thinking a bit Clark nodded. “You are right, nowadays everyone level up fast so you will exchange your equipment again in a little time, and that would be very troublesome. Ok! Tell me your basic attributes and I’ll prepare a level 200 Dark Knight set. Although you can level up until the level 1000 but after the level 200, the intensity of leveling up will become slow and steady. During this time you need to speed your leveling process!”
“Thank you very much.” While expressing my thanks, I hand over a copy of my basic attributes to Clark.
Just when I had left the shop, at the side of the door, Yao Wang who was already there hiding for a long time like a gust of wind dragged me. I don’t know from where he draws his great strength while being so thin! At last I found that his store was not so far, it was next to the store of Clark, separated by a few storefronts.
Yao Wang grins while showing me a stack of medicine.”Hehe, let me introduce you these medicines.” Then he takes a black pill. “This is called undead pill and although is black, its effect is miraculous!”
“What effect it have?”
“The main use is the recovering of blood. Each pill can recover 500 and not only that, compared with other places the speed of its effect is twice as fast. How about it? Is a good thing, right?
“It’s not expensive?” I believe firmly that good goods are not cheap without reason.
“Expensive? Certainly is not! If not, for what reason I would call it a bargain! I’m selling every package for one gold coin.”
“What? You want to rob me?” At once I went to the front of the store.
Faster than me, Yao Wang pulls me again inside of the store. “You don’t have to worry! Listen to me, let me finish and you will know that its not expensive!”
“Good. Speak!”
“Ok! First I need to tell you, every pack includes 10 pills. In other words, every pill cost 1 silver coin. But if you buy them in other places, one crimson bottle would cost you a silver coin but even so it will restore you 300 of blood and its speed cannot compare with mine. Yet you can still say that it’s expensive?”
After much said, I was thinking that was not only not expensive, it was really cheap! “It’s not expensive! It’s not expensive!”
After saying with a smile that was not expensive Yao Wang became more joyful. Immediately he bring out a big pile of undead pills saying: “This is a one-time offer, if you buy ten packs I will give you one more free of charge, how about it?”
“But I only have nine gold coins!”
“It doesn’t matter, I had said that I would give you twenty percent off. You just need to give me eight gold coins for the eleven packs!”
“Thank you very much!” I almost did not jump of happiness!
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