Seeing this list, Lin Xun finally sighed to himself that the Dark Market Warehouse truly deserved to be called a hidden shop. The variety of goods inside was astonishing.
His pouch was empty of Spirit Essence after buying the fish, so acquiring everything on this list was out of the question.
Unlessā¦
[The Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchant saw the dangerous glint in your eyes. He reached into the cabinet behind him and took out an ofuda charm, openly displaying it for you to see.]
[Absolute Barrier Seal of the Ten Directions (Legendary Item): A powerful talisman inscribed by a top-tier onmyoji. Its surface bears tadpole-like blood-red script. Though thin as paper, it emanates immense and unmatched magical power. Using this item will erect the Ten Directions Absolute Barrier in your designated area, blocking all attacks from the outside.]
[Once you finish inspecting the ofuda, he flicks it back into the cabinet and once again carefully inquires what items you wish to purchase.]
āThis merchant is seriously rolling in wealthā¦ā
Lin Xun had not expected that such a humble shopkeeper would possess such a formidable defensive item.
A one-use legendary defense item had absurd power. Consumables of this tier were vastly superior to skills or equipment of the same rank.
He silently admitted he had no confidence in killing this merchant and looting for free under the sealās protection.
And judging by the merchantās demeanor, this was probably not the only such item he owned.
āThis hellish game really leaves no loopholesā¦ I wonder if Iāll ever get the chance to finish this merchant off later.ā
Lin Xun checked the list again. Before long, his gaze locked onto one item, Little Demon Shikigami Bell.
This special equipment could summon eighteen special summons without conflicting with the Valkyrie or the Three-Headed Lion.
In the game, there was also a special class called Summoner. According to the available information, this class could ignore summon conflicts and call forth two or more summons at once.
Even so, Summoners still had limits on how many creatures they could summon at the same time. There was no such thing as simply waving a hand and conjuring an endless army.
The number limit was only one factor. The second was that reviving summons still required the expenditure of Soul Strengthā¦
If an Apostle specialized in the Summoner path were to see this equipment, which needed no Soul Strength and did not occupy any summoning slots, they would undoubtedly buy it without hesitation.
Lin Xun was not a full-time Summoner, but whether he used the bell himself or sold it in the Library, it would yield no small profit.
Since he lacked enough Spirit Essence, he could only leave the hidden shop for now.
Lin Xun returned to the port and teleported back to the Library.
He put all the fish from his inventory up on the Book of Trade. The suggested price for the fish, originally sixty thousand Spirit Essence, was immediately doubled by the hellish gameās pricing system.
After a momentās thought, Lin Xun raised the price even higher.
The fish had barely been listed when the Book of Trade began transmitting transaction notifications nonstop.
In just two short hours, all sixty fish sold out, yielding a total of 150,000 Spirit Essence.
āTruly a business of ten-thousandfold returnsā¦ā
These temporary attribute-boosting items had always sold well in the Library.
Many Apostles would get stuck in a chapter simply because their own stats werenāt strong enough, always falling just short of defeating the boss.
Using a few such items could greatly improve their chances of success. No wonder these consumables were so popular.
If Lin Xun hadnāt been in urgent need of Spirit Essence, he probably could have raised the price even further and still found buyers.
A portion of the knowledge-related equipment heād listed in the Book of Trade also sold off.
His Spirit Essence balance immediately climbed to 170,000, fully recovering his funds.
Lin Xun returned to the chapter and entered the hidden shop named Dark Market Warehouse once more.
Before long, he had purchased the Little Demon Shikigami Bell.
He also bought ten sticks of Offering Purple-Red Incense. Although he hadnāt yet chosen a faction or pledged allegiance, it didnāt hurt to have some preparations ready.
After all, the more Devotion, the better. As for faction reputationā¦
After spending a huge sum of 100,000, the Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchantās attitude improved dramatically, entirely different from when heād treated him as a ninja dog.
[The Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchant repeatedly apologized to you, explaining sincerely that he did not look down on ninjas. When the shop first opened, the sign had only read āCommoners Forbidden Entry.ā]
[It was only because of an incident the previous day that he had the sign re-engraved to add an extra line.]
[The Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchant began recounting the story in detail. Before long, you understood the cause and effectā¦]
[The Dark Market Warehouse had two barriers. One was set at the entrance to block riffraff from entering. The other was placed in front of the counter to protect the merchant himself.]
[The merchant slept inside the shop every day. With the two barriers guarding it, no theft had ever occurred since the day the store was established.]
[He had always believed that theft was something that had never happened before, and would never happen in the futureā¦]
[But just the day before, an item in the shop had been stolen, a beautiful jade known as Dragon Jade.]
[If not for the note the thief left behind on the counter, he wouldnāt even have realized that Dragon Jade had been taken.]
[This jade had quite an extraordinary origin. It was the very gemstone once set into the pommel of the legendary Dragon Sword Masamune.]
[The jade contained boundless power and was originally one with the Dragon Sword Masamuneā¦]
[The story of Dragon Jade went back more than ten years. One day, an old man wearing a bamboo hat came to the shop, saying he urgently needed a large sum of money to repair his ancestral home, and so he pledged this jade he had acquired by chance.]
[The well-read merchant recognized the jade at a glance as Dragon Jade. True to his reputation for fair dealing, he truthfully told the old man of the jadeās provenance. When the old man heard, he was overjoyed and traded it for a great sum of money.]
[After that, the merchant never saw the old man again, until this morning, when he discovered the jade had been stolen. He was so shocked and furious that he expended a top-tier onmyojiās Remnant Light Mirror to view the scene of the theft during the night.]
[In the mirror image, he saw that same old man again, wearing the bamboo hat and clad in a tight-fitting ninja uniform, rifling through the cabinets.]
[And he himself, lying asleep in the nearby chair, hadnāt sensed a thing. The two sturdy barriers had been effortlessly dispelled by the old manās mere touch, falling silent as if they were courtesans in a pleasure quarter inviting anyone to enter.]
[The old ninja ignored all the other treasures and took only the Dragon Jade. He even tidied the overturned cabinets before leaving a note on the counter.]
[It read: āBorrowing Dragon Jade for a time. It will be returned within a month at most. Should the term expire and the jade not be returned, someone will come to compensate you in coin.ā]
[This morning, the theft became the talk of the marketplace. Enraged, the merchant added the new line about āninja dogsā to the signboard.]
āSo that old ninja is the Ninja Master, isnāt he?ā
The Ninja Master had not only retrieved the Dragon Sword Masamune from the hidden rear mountain of Tisi Island but had also reclaimed the Dragon Jade he had pawned with the merchant.
He even left the phrase āshould the term expire and the jade not be returned.ā It seemed that the expedition to the No-Illusions Shrine was truly fraught with danger.
[You ask the Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchant where the old ninja had gone.]
[He shakes his head and says bluntly that if he knew the old manās whereabouts, he would have already taken his charms to demand the return of Dragon Jade, instead of staying here to mind the shop.]
[You wave farewell to the Fire-Worshipping Warehouse Merchant and leave the Dark Market Warehouseā¦]