"Are there any other recipes?" Ask continued using the sound machine.
"I don't have the formula for Life I, but I have a clue." Compartment 10 replied, "40 pounds."
"Deal." Asik said.
The banknotes were swept away by the shadows, and after a while, another note came over.
"Please go to the slums at 12 o'clock tonight, the house at No. 44 Dorok Road, where you will find the Life I formula."
"Is this...an invitation letter?" Nora was a little hesitant.
"It seems to be a clue to start a certain side mission." Aske recalled.
"Side mission?" Nora was puzzled.
"It's okay, I'll go with you tonight." Ask said.
Nora immediately felt relieved and put the note away.
Ask asked again several times, but no one responded. Just when Medea and Peggy were a little disappointed, the host suddenly spoke:
"Life Stealing I and Desire I are the potion sequences for the vampire route and the succubus route respectively. I have them, but what price can you pay?"
"Cash?" Asker asked.
"Okay, a formula of 1,000 pounds." The host leaned back leisurely on the chair, supporting his head with one hand, "Compared to the general price of the Sequence I formula, it is ten times more expensive. However, this is a seller's market, and
I'm not short of money."
"Perhaps we can use something else to replace the cash." Asker said euphemistically, "like confidential information?"
"You can roughly write down the information you think is valuable." The host said, "If I agree and am willing to buy, then please add more detailed information to complete the transaction."
"Okay." Asik wrote a sentence on the paper and handed it to the shadow tentacle in front of him.
The host took the note and looked at it, it read:
The whereabouts of the Shadow Blade.
"Unexpectedly, he is also a historian." Through the transmission of the shadow tentacles, the host's undisguised voice sounded. It sounded like a middle-aged man in the prime of life. "If you are talking about the end of the Third Age, Bruno assassinated Caesar.
I think I'm still interested in the Emperor's sharp blade."
"The clues about the Shadow Blade, whether they are true or false, should be worth 2,000 pounds." Ask replied.
"Yes, but the premise is that you can't fake it so much that I can see the flaws at a glance." The host replied, "Just write it."
All the girls didn't understand what they heard, and they didn't dare to go over and take a look - after all, from the host's tone, everyone already knew that it was a very valuable weapon - the clues alone were worth 2,000 pounds, the value of the original body.
How huge is it? It must be a precious item that can only be used by high-ranking people!
"It's written." Asik handed the note over. The shadow tentacles swept it away, and after a while, two pieces of paper were returned.
Did the other party pass the review? Is the clue Aske wrote true? Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
"This is actually a loss," Medea couldn't help but said out loud, "Two Sequence I formulas in exchange for a precious clue worth 2,000 pounds? I spent 500 pounds to buy it, and mixed in five or six extraordinary
You will definitely be able to buy it at the gathering of readers!”
"It's just a clue." Ask said easily, "Whether we can get it or not is another matter."
From his tone, it seemed that it was not easy to get the Shadow Blade. So everyone calmed down and looked at the two pieces of paper in Asker's hand.
The recipe for Life Steal I is:
-Ingredient-
Golden striped leech meat paste (Mash_of_Golden_Leech)
-Subsidiary-
Fruit_of_Eden
A spoonful of Corfu olive oil (Olive_Oil_of_Corfu)
A little ferrous oxide powder (Podwer_of_Ferroferric_Oxide)
-Processing-
Take one Eden fruit and place it in a stone bowl, mash it manually with a pestle and squeeze the juice (note: you cannot use any metal juicing equipment), filter out the impurities, add a spoonful of Corfu olive oil, and stir evenly clockwise.
.Add a little ferrous oxide powder and continue stirring counterclockwise. When the viscous liquid turns red, add golden striped leech meat paste and stir counterclockwise until it condenses into lumps before eating.
"Do you remember this recipe, Aske?" Peggy asked nervously.
"It should be true." Ask said, "Leech represents stealing, Eden fruit represents life, ferrous oxide represents blood, and olive oil represents flesh. From a mystical sense, it is correct. Eden fruit and Corfu island
The olive oil is all produced in the Siris province, the golden-striped leech meat paste... I have clues, and I can figure it out later."
So Paige also breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone looked at another recipe of Desire I:
-Ingredient-
A geoduck of Bathnia Gulf (Panopea_Abrupta_of_Bathnia_Gulf)
-Subsidiary-
Two scoops of menarche of human virgin (Menophania_of_Human_Virgin)
Lithocarpus_Pachylepis_with_Purgatory_smell
75% medical alcohol 10 ml (Medical_Alcohol)
-Processing-
Crush the purgatory-stained geoduck, dissolve it in 10 ml of 75% medical alcohol, filter out the impurities, add two tablespoons of human virginity, swirl to mix, pour evenly onto the surface of Basniya Bay geoducks, and chew them
Bite and chew before taking.
"If this formula is real," Nora pretended to be relaxed, "at least I can provide the auxiliary ingredient of medical alcohol."
"Basnia Bay geoduck?" Medea asked in distress, "What is that?"
"The Bay of Basniya is in the Kalma Empire in the north." Ask said, "This geoduck is the most popular spiritual material in Constantinople. After being made into a potion, it has a strong stimulating effect on men.
effect."
"So that's it." Medea's pretty face turned red, and she obviously understood what "adding to the fun" meant, "Then I'll leave it to our Captain Asker. I know Hou Linke, and I can find him after I go out.
Ask a merchant from the Ilanian Plateau."
"It's up to you to figure out how to deal with menarche." Ask coughed and said.
"Of course, I can't let you provide it, can I?" Medea rolled her eyes at him with an angry look.
"Even if I have the will, I can't do it," Aske said.
The transactions at the gathering continued, and Democritus's classical mystical work "The Great System of the Universe" was sold one after another, a gold jewelry necklace said to bring good luck, and a pair of gold necklaces said to have been worn by the Queen of Pontus.
, an exquisite crown containing clues to the "Storm III" potion formula.
It is worth mentioning that the transaction item taken out of a certain compartment was actually a clear and beautiful photo of the imperial princess Theodora. This ordinary item with no spirituality at all was sold for a high price of 200 pounds. It was sold by 13
The rich man No. 13 took the photo without blinking an eye. Who knows if No. 13 was from the royal family, so he wanted to recycle the photo of the princess.
"I'm going to sell you a big piece of news." When it was about to end, the voice in cubicle No. 4 said, "The price is 5 pounds per person, which is not expensive, but it is definitely worth the money. Just a reminder, it is the same as everyone's
The fate of the next few months, and even the fate of the entire empire, is closely related. Mr. Host, if there are compartments that you are unwilling to buy, please use your shadow ability to block them."
"Okay." The host nodded slightly. Ever since the news that Asker sold him the Shadow Blade, the organizer seemed to be a little distracted, as if he wanted to end the party early.
"So, is there anyone who doesn't want to buy it?" the voice in cubicle No. 4 asked with a smile.
No one answered. The price of 5 pounds is actually not cheap, but since No. 4 said so, everyone is willing to buy it and listen to it. The main reason is that the previous transactions were often several hundred pounds, so that everyone’s psychological consumption bottom line was affected.
Raised.
The host waved his hand impatiently, then stretched out countless tentacles from the shadow of the soles of his feet, rolled out 5-pound bills from each compartment, and flicked them roughly into compartment No. 4. Then, compartment No. 4
There was no sound for a long time. It wasn't until someone urged impatiently that No. 4's voice sounded again:
"Sorry, sorry everyone, it took me a while to pick up the banknotes on the ground. The news I want to sell is that at two o'clock this afternoon, His Majesty the Emperor Constantine failed in his campaign against the Seljuk Empire in Anatolia.
——In the Battle of Manzikert, the Seljuk side set up a crescent formation to set up an ambush. The empire's armored holy cavalry and guerrilla cavalry encountered the succubus troops' fire ability projection and killed them, so they were enraged and rushed into the ambush.
"
"Immediately afterwards, in order to rescue this cavalry unit, the emperor ordered the large troops to go to the central position, and then they also fell into the encirclement of the Seljuk people. The defection of the Cuman mercenaries was the last straw that crushed the imperial front. As of just this afternoon
At 4 o'clock, the imperial army had declared a complete retreat in Manzikert, and a full-scale invasion of the Seljuks in Anatolia was inevitable."
There were many extraordinary beings who still did not understand the significance of this news, but there were also extraordinary beings who understood its importance and immediately asked through the loudspeaker:
"How many people escaped?"
"Where is His Majesty the Emperor? Escaped or captured?"
Compartment No. 4 replied with a wry smile:
"I don't know the more detailed news. After all, just when I learned the news, the vanguard of the empire's defeated army withdrew to Manzikert. However, everyone should know the meaning behind this news, right? Anatolia
The peninsula is the vast majority of the empire's territory east of Constantinople. It is an important pillar of the empire in terms of resources, population, and soldiers. The defeat of the emperor's army in Manzikert led to the collapse of Anatolia.
There is almost no defensive power left. And if Anatolia is lost, to what extent will the prices of various materials in the imperial capital rise? There are also imperial residents of Anatolia, even if only one tenth of them fled westward to the imperial capital.
What kind of social unrest will it bring to Constantinople?"
His two questions caused everyone present to fall silent. Especially Asker, who knew the main plot of the public beta stage, knew that this person's prediction was seriously optimistic. In fact, the Seljuk army was pushed to the battlefield two months later.
The city of Nicaea and all of Anatolia were occupied. In another half month, the Seljuk navy began to transport troops across the Aegean Sea unscrupulously. The troops officially appeared on the Thracian plain west of Constantinople, cutting off
established Constantinople's ties with the West.
Two months later, the city of Constantinople was destroyed, and the remaining princes and nobles fled to the province of Cyris. The Eastern Solomon Empire was defeated in Manzikert and declared destroyed after the fall of the imperial capital. It only took 5 months in total.
time.
This is also the reason why he sold the two shops left by his family and replaced them all with war equipment and supplies. The defeat of Manzikert alone led to the interruption of the east-west transnational trade in Constantinople.
All the shops in the city began to lose money. Two months later, the Seljuk army attacked the city of Nicaea. House prices in the city fell into negative numbers. No one wanted the land deeds and certificates for free. When the war came, everyone still guarded the imperial capital.
What’s the point of a house?
The party was over. According to the host's arrangement, each compartment was opened separately, and waiters in suits and leather shoes escorted everyone out in turn. This was also to prevent anyone from ambush outside and ambush other extraordinary people attending the party.
The waiter who received Asker's people, probably under the instructions of the host, sent the group directly to the Kinmen subway station down the mountain before leaving. After getting on the subway, everyone was thinking about the formula and became distracted for a while.
Back near the ancestral home, Asker took people to the blacksmith shop again, took off Eleanor's original armor, and ordered a new cotton armor robe to cover up the dark green of Eleanor's iron armor.
Color.
"Next, let's split up." Asik said to everyone, "Medea, Peggy, you go to the Eastern merchants in the city and try to buy a pair of shadow insect beast eyes and a Thick Scale Ke stained with the aura of purgatory. Here
It’s 500 pounds of capital. Eleanor and Nora, you go to the Golden Horn Bay to find factories to buy artificial diamond powder and ferrous oxide powder. Industrial products are relatively cheap. I will give you 50 pounds of capital. I will take the remaining materials.
Done."
"Please note that spiritual materials are the sales materials that the church focuses on monitoring. Be careful not to be discovered by traders controlled by the church's spies. Medea, you have the ability of Psychic I. Do a good job of testing before trading."
"Understood." Everyone knew that this was related to their own potion formula, so they all responded in unison.