The second chapter goes bankrupt to buy equipment (2)
Hagia Sophia is the largest church in Constantinople and the headquarters of the Imperial Orthodox Church. There are many shops around it, which are basically the properties of the Orthodox Church and are personally run by the church deacons. Asker found a store that specializes in
A shop that makes alchemy items. I walked in and knocked on the counter.
"Hello, guest." Behind the counter, the church deacon in black robes nodded slightly to him, "What do you need to buy?"
"I have two shops that I hope to sell to the church," Aske said.
"Well, you are Asike from the Achilles family." The church deacon recognized his appearance.
After all, the parents of the original owner of Asker collected a large amount of money for the church basically every year before he disappeared. Therefore, the deacon is not unfamiliar with this young master of the Achilles family. "You plan to keep the two shops that your parents left behind."
Are they all sold to the church?”
"Yes." Ask said, "You make a price."
"I know the two shops in your home. They are both gold industries that make a lot of money every day." The church deacon said, "I will give you an estimate of 700 pounds for the pharmacy on Theo Cido Avenue; as for the Marina Tower
The nearby tavern, because the catering industry has not been booming recently, is therefore valued at 550 pounds..."
"But I still want to remind you, Mr. Achilles, these two properties were left to you by your parents. The monthly stable profit is about 10 pounds. If you are just short of money, you can apply for a mortgage from the Imperial Bank.
With the loan, there is absolutely no need to sell these two properties directly.”
"I understand what you mean," Ask lied, "but I'm going back to my hometown to get married, so I don't have time to collect rent from these two properties on a regular basis, so I still hope to cash it in directly."
The church deacon frowned. Go back to your hometown to get married? Aren't you a native of Constantinople, Asker? But looking at the other party's heavily armed appearance, the marriage must be a fake, and going out for adventure is probably the real thing.
After all, this is someone else's own career plan, so the deacon couldn't persuade him any more. He turned around and took out the real estate transaction template contract from the box on the shelf, put it on the counter and said:
"In this case, please fill in the name of the store sold on the contract and sign your name at the bottom of the contract. After we verify the status of your store, we can complete the transfer and pay you the money
Already."
If you were any other private buyer, before making a real estate transaction, you would definitely have to ask a lawyer to review the contract, verify your identity, check the property deeds, etc., and have the Orthodox Church notarize the entire process, which would take only a day or two.
indefinite.
This is also the reason why Asker chose to sell directly to the Orthodox Church: to save trouble.
After signing the contract, the church deacon stuffed the two documents into the fax machine and asked Aske to sit down in the store.
About half an hour later, the church deacon who had answered the phone came over and said:
"The property you want to sell has been verified and the transfer procedures have been completed. Do you need to directly transfer it to your bank card or pay in cash?"
"Cash it," Aske said.
The church deacon took out a wad of banknotes, counted them, and handed them to Asker.
The latter took the banknotes, but did not rush to put them into his wallet. Instead, he asked the deacon:
"Do you have any blank soul contract templates here? I'll buy two."
"Soul contract?" The church deacon was a little surprised, "Why do you want a soul contract?"
"Go back to your hometown, get married, and sign a loyalty agreement with your wife." Asker said nonsense.
The church deacon said oh, thinking that you nobles still know how to play.
The so-called soul contract is a kind of oath that is bound by extraordinary power and acts directly on the mental body.
For example, before a couple gets married, they write in their soul contract that they will never cheat after marriage. Once they sign the soul contract, their psychological consciousness will be extremely resistant to cheating. If they force themselves to break the contract, the final outcome will definitely be schizophrenia.
However, this soul contract is very expensive, the price is basically 100 pounds, and normal people cannot afford it.
Even the truly wealthy nobles would not waste money on this thing. They would only use it occasionally during marriages. It is what Asker calls a "loyalty agreement". Essentially, it is because they are worried that it will not be binding after marriage.
The other party caused his reputation to be ruined, so he had to rely on the power of the soul contract.
Having just received 1,250 pounds, he paid another 200 pounds in the blink of an eye. Asik didn't show any distress on his face. He just carefully put away the two soul contracts and asked with a smile:
"We have made such a big deal, how about adding a pistol to top it off?"
"Pistol?" The church deacon really believed that the other party was going to get married. How worried are you about your future wife?
Signing a loyalty agreement is not enough, but you also need to buy a pistol and carry it with you? Are you going to use it to kill the adulterer or your wife?
"Of course." The church deacon considered his words, "According to the above rules, I have the right to give you a 5% rebate for transactions with a price of more than 50 pounds. You can actually buy a semi-automatic rifle for 10 pounds, but you need to provide an automatic weapons authorization.
certificate."
"I don't have a license, so I'll just buy a pistol." Asker said, "Do you have a more powerful pistol here? It's best to have a large caliber and strong armor-piercing power.
"I must recommend the Imperial Eagle to you." The church deacon took out a black box from under the counter, "The caliber is 15.2mm. If coupled with a special super-heavy elephant bullet, the kinetic energy of the muzzle is more than 10,000 joules. Even the Titan can do it.
It was blown up from the front. In fact, we basically only sell this thing to the Kalmar Empire in the North, and they use it to hunt frost giants."
He opened the black box, revealing the silver revolver inside and a row of shiny metallic 15.2mm bullets, each of which was as long as an adult's hand.
"Very good." Ask said, "I want this gun, but do you have any other rapid-fire automatic pistols? It's best to bring a silencer."
"You should be talking about Aphrodite." The church deacon took out a box from the shelf next to it. "Just from the name, you can tell that it is specially made for the Province of Cyris. It is a small and flexible rapid-fire pistol.
"
"By God, I must be honest with you. This pistol was originally designed for female nobles of the empire. However, it has been sought after by mages since its release because its recoil is so small that even women and children can use it.
"
"If a pistol can achieve the effect of self-defense, why spend money to hire a mage to protect you? Of course, I recommend that you also buy this pistol and use it as an auxiliary gun for the Imperial Eagle."
"Then let's take these two." Ask said, "How much do they cost?"
"11 pounds." The church deacon replied, "The Imperial Eagle is 7 pounds, and Aphrodite is 4 pounds. Please forgive me for not exempting you from the fraction of 1 pound, because it is originally included in the rebate."
"I'll give you 20 pounds." Asik took out a banknote and said, "For the rest, help me exchange all of them for the appraisal aura scroll."
"Authentication of aura?" The church deacon said with a smile, "Wise choice, after all, if the adulterer has extraordinary power, even the Imperial Eagle cannot kill it with certainty... Well, please forgive me for being presumptuous, I just said
I was thinking about other things and made a slip of the tongue."
"Ah, please don't worry." Ask said, "There is no such thing as an adulterer."
"I understand, it's your wife, right? A partner with extraordinary power is the main cause of domestic violence after marriage. It's definitely worth your money to buy these two guns." The church deacon coughed and picked up the gun from the shelf.
He took two boxes and said, "I will give you two more boxes of bullets, one box is 15.2mm elephant hunting bullets, and the other box is 9mm standard bullets, as compensation for my rudeness just now."
"You are so polite, I forgive you." Asker took two pistols, loaded the aura scrolls and bullets, made a blessing gesture with the church deacon, and turned around to leave.
"Oh, love." Looking at Aske's leaving back, the church deacon sighed with emotion. He seemed to have seen a young aristocratic man with a rich net worth and a bright future turned into a trembling man holding a pistol and being beaten every day.
The poor husband whose wife insults him.
"Well, it's much more pleasing to the eye now." Asik passed by a store and looked at his appearance in the window. He was wearing armor and a sword, and had two pistols at his waist. He was fully armed, as if he had regained the player with full combat power in the past.
Feel.
The original NPC who traveled through time seemed to look a bit like himself before time traveling? Ask carefully looked at the appearance reflected in the window and found that except for the eye sockets being a bit deep, the cheekbones being a bit high, and the whole face being slightly more Western-like, the general facial features were
The composition is really very similar to myself in reality.
After all, the Solomon nation in the game also has black hair, brown eyes, and darker skin (compared to blond white people). At least the color tone is no different from the Chinese.
Maybe he had a soul and half a body, which led to the fusion of the original body and the NPC's body, and finally turned into this hybrid appearance? Asker shook his head and pushed these conjectures out of his mind, because they basically didn't
There will be answers.
Looking at his equipment again, Asker pondered. Although he is still level 0, "Iron and Fire" is not a game that only looks at level attributes. Tactical awareness and combat skills are equally important.
Under the current situation, Asker can be 100% sure that he can kill all the dozen vampires in his family.
But now is not the time, it’s time to go find Peggy.
Nearby cemetery at dusk.
"...The fire burned away her body, but her soul will find peace in the Lord's kingdom of heaven, Amen." The priest said in his final speech.
"...Amen." Everyone present chanted in unison. Those who came to attend the funeral were all neighbors who lived in the same block.
Ask swung the shovel and buried the last shovelful of earth on the coffin. According to imperial custom, those who buried the earth should be the closest relatives of the deceased, but Peggy's whole family was burned to death in the fire, so Ask offered to take over.
this task.
The neighbors who came to pay their respects also breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, no one dares to compete with you for a shovel despite your fierce appearance wearing armor, sword and gun!
The priest and the neighbors left, and Aske sat on the newly erected tombstone and yawned lazily.
"It seems like it's going to rain soon." He smelled the moist smell in the air and looked at the dark, overcast sky.
In the world of "Iron and Fire", level and attributes are two separate lines. Attributes come from extraordinary power, which can be obtained by killing monsters or taking spiritual substances and performing rituals. By the way, the English scientific name of extraordinary power
It is "Ethereal_Xeno_Power", the abbreviation is EXP, which is actually equivalent to experience points in the game.
After acquiring extraordinary strength, it can be transformed into two attributes through exercise or actual combat.
The first is physical strength, Stamina, which increases the explosive power, control, endurance and reaction speed of human muscles.
The second type is mental power, Magicka, which is used to improve the intelligence and willpower of the human brain. These two determine the "hardware" level of a character's combat effectiveness.
In addition to attributes, level is another system. All players and human NPCs are level 0 when they are born, and must be upgraded by ingesting specific drugs.
In the Eastern Solomon Empire, where magic and technology were developed, this drug was a blood potion; in the Western Solomon Empire (now extinct), which adhered to humanity's original technological system, and now the Holy See of Solomon, this drug was a genetic preparation.
In essence, spiritual substances are integrated into the human body, resulting in the transformation of extraordinary characteristics and the acquisition of certain special abilities.
If attribute improvement is a quantitative change in combat effectiveness, then level improvement is a qualitative change.
Peggy, who was turned into a vampire, naturally possesses the first extraordinary characteristic - Flesh I.
At this time, her level has been upgraded to 1, which has considerable bonuses to explosive power, control, endurance and reaction speed. At the same time, she has gained the ability to heal wounds quickly, and no longer has fatal parts except the heart and brain.
In the public beta plot stage, having such a companion can help Aske himself, which is not as simple as 1+1.