Before Lukan could answer, his sister Kemila had already come over enthusiastically.
"I know, I know, this is a soul stone."
"Soul Stone?"
There was a trace of doubt on Li Chuan's face.
Kemila immediately explained:
"The soul stone is a very precious crystal, and it is also one of the indispensable materials for enchanters to make magic items. It can also add power to magic weapons.
Yours is a small soul stone full of soul, generally worth 80 gold coins.
If you can find a very large soul stone, then just one piece can be sold for 1,200 gold coins."
"Then do you sell soul stones?"
When Li Chuan heard that it was a necessary material for making magic items, he immediately became interested.
Boss Lukan shrugged:
"This kind of thing is a rare item that ordinary people can't use at all, so I usually don't buy it here. If you want to buy it, go to a store in a big city like Xueman City.
Or go directly to the Winterhold Mage Academy, the magicians there have many."
Not to mention that ordinary people can't use it, even adventurers with lower levels can't use it either.
Because magic weapons that can be enchanted are not something that low-level adventurers can afford to buy and use, and in his small town, even low-level adventurers are very rare.
So naturally I won't spend a lot of money to buy some soul stones and eat them at the counter.
But soon he seemed to have thought of something again. He dug around in the cabinet at his feet and took out a soul stone that was about the same size as the soul stone in Li Chuan's hand, but was completely transparent in color.
"By the way, I almost forgot, this is the blank soul stone I received from an adventurer a few months ago. If you need it, I can sell it to you for 25 gold coins."
"Blank Soul Stone?"
Li Chuan picked up the soul stone and compared it with the one in his book. The blank soul stone obviously did not have any soul energy.
Although Lukan was puzzled that such a powerful adventurer like Li Chuan didn't know this common sense, he still patiently explained:
"When the soul stone is mined and manufactured, it is just an ordinary crystal. Only a mage can use a magic called a soul trap to extract the soul from an animal and put it into the soul stone.
Or if there is a weapon enchanted with Soul Trap magic, you can also extract the soul of the animal after killing it and put it into the soul stone.
So the price of blank soul stones is much cheaper."
"Okay, then I'll buy it."
Li Chuan took out 25 gold coins and put them on the table without hesitation.
Kemila, who was next to her, quickly picked up five gold coins and stuffed them into Li Chuan's hand. She turned to glare at Lukan and said:
"Brother, you said you would give him a 20% discount!"
"Okay, then it's 20% off."
Lukan twitched his mouth when he saw this, and put the 20 gold coins into the cabinet.
I really don’t want this sister!
"Thanks."
Li Chuan smiled at Camilla, then picked up the blank soul stone and left the trading house, entering the Sleeping Giant Hotel again.
He had booked a room in the hotel before, where he could just rest and read the books in his hands.
""Creation God and Alien God""
Half-reclining on the wooden bed made of soft animal fur, Li Chuan picked up the first book and quickly browsed it.
This is a book that tells the difference between gods and demons.
The general meaning is that ordinary people are easily confused about gods. In fact, gods are divided into two types.
One is the creation god, which is the god who created the world and participated in the creation of the world.
For example, Lorkhan, who is considered the main creator god, and most of the nine holy gods, some of them are mortal gods who ascended to the light world and became saints, and do not belong to the creator gods.
The other type is the alien gods, that is, demon gods, who did not participate in the creation of the world, such as Azura, Boethea, Karavicus Vile, Merunes Dagon, etc.
Of course, demon gods do not necessarily mean evil gods. Some of them are very evil, some are kind, and some are in between.
The book believes that the gods represent stillness and the demons represent change, so the gods can be killed. For example, when Lorkhan's body turned into two moons after his death, the demons can only be expelled but cannot be killed.
However, the things recorded in the book are not necessarily facts. Li Chuan feels that it can only be used as a reference.
After all, there are too many races in this world, and many things in history and mythology are very controversial.
Unfortunately, this book only introduced the differences between the gods and demons, and did not record some related deeds and abilities of the two, making it impossible for him to judge the extent of their strength.
If you really encounter it, you can decide whether you can handle it yourself.
After closing "Creation Gods and Alien Gods", he opened "War of the Dragons".
This book is quite interesting, and it also gave him a clearer understanding of dragons in this world.
To sum up, a man named Ysgramor took his people and fled from a place called Atmora to the continent of Tamriel.
He also brought the beliefs of that continent with him.
It is a kind of worship of animal gods. They worship eagles, wolves, snakes, moths, owls, whales, bears, foxes and dragons as gods.
After investigation by historians, those animals are actually an incarnation of the Holy Spirit today.
This reminded Li Chuan of the patterns on the stone walls he saw when he was exploring the Huangpu Tumulus during the day. They were indeed recordings of humans worshiping animals.
And the sculptures on those organs are also several of these animals.
The book mentioned that the most powerful gods among them were dragons, and later these giant dragons really appeared in Tamriel.
In order to sacrifice to the dragons, humans built temples and prepared tributes for them. The dragons also gave part of their power to some of the humans, and these humans were the dragon sacrifices.
Everything was harmonious at first, but then a certain dragon priest became ambitious and wanted to rule and enslave the entire human race by means of iron and blood, so he met with resistance.
Finally, the dragon was involved, and it turned into a war between the dragon and humans.
At first, humans were unable to compete with the powerful dragons and suffered heavy casualties. However, for some reason, some of the dragons turned to humans and taught humans how to use magic.
As a result, the balance of victory tilted in favor of humans. The dragon priests and a large number of dragons were killed, and a small number of dragons were driven away from humans.
Those loyal followers of dragons who survived built dragon tombs for the dead dragons, believing that the dragons would eventually return.
As for why a small number of giant dragons betray their own race and help humans.
According to the priests of the Nine Gods at the time, it was the great Time Dragon God Akatosh who personally intervened in the matter.
The time dragon god Akatosh is not introduced in detail in the book, but Li Chuan also knows something about it from Locke's memory. He is the main god among the nine holy spirits, the first god, and the legendary father of all dragons.