Chapter 29 The Book of Thousand Souls(1/2)
It was just after noon, and it was lunch time, but there were many people in the Magic Soul Market.
Renn opened his soul's eyes and looked around. He didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was shocked when he saw it.
Looking around, almost one-third of the people around are extraordinary people, and their souls have undergone transformation, like a cluster of unique light moving everywhere.
"Does Ronsander have so many extraordinary people?"
Ren couldn't help but sigh that birds of feathers gather together. The Demon Soul Market may be the place with the most extraordinary people in the entire city.
While he was walking around the market, he secretly observed for a while and saw many extraordinary professions.
Iron Guard, Shadow Warrior, Ranger and Gunner are the most, and more than 60% of the extraordinary are one of these four professions; then there are berserkers, fighters and demon hunters, these three professions are relatively fewer, accounting for about 20% of all; the smallest number are spell casters, including meddles, warlocks, mechanics and wizards, accounting for about 1.5%.
In addition, there are several extraordinary people from the church, such as the Holy Swordsman and the Earth nun belonging to the Imperial Tri-God Church. Ren also discovered a night watcher who believed in the goddess of the moon. Because of his curiosity, he secretly took a few more glances.
However, there are also extraordinary people who cannot confirm their profession. They may be some rare profession and are unknown to outsiders.
In just over an hour, he opened his eyes.
In addition to the extraordinary, Rennes also saw various demon souls, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, and more demon souls that could not be named and were born from where they felt like they had entered a zoo, dazzled him.
After seeing it a lot, Renn gradually discovered that the demon souls in the market, especially those who are still alive, are mostly monsters, and the levels are all primary and intermediate levels are rare.
Most of these initial monsters were not captured from the wild, but were artificially bred.
The Empire’s Demon Soul Breeding Farm is a very mature industry, mainly composed of various types of monsters, especially the demon souls of several common professions, which basically come out of the breeding farm.
For example, the "basalt rhinoceros" of the Iron Guard, the "Codyes Island Bear", the Gunner's "Night Owl", and the Ranger's "Long-armed Owl", have already formed a complete breeding process, from breeding to feeding, then cultivating and maturing, identifying elements, and finally sent to the market to slaughter and obtaining the demon soul. The whole process only takes five to seven years.
Because there is a stable source of goods, the prices of these magic souls are relatively cheap, and the prices of each merchant are between twenty and thirty golden shields.
Because of its rare nature, the prices of species other than Warcraft soar, usually above fifty gold shields.
According to the seller, these unusual demon souls usually come from the forest of death in the western part of the empire.
It was a huge primeval forest, located in a super-large basin with an area of two or three provinces. Three sides of the basin are surrounded by world mountains and plateaus. There is only a narrow plain to the east, which is more than two thousand miles long and leads to the abdomen of the empire.
Many extraordinary people will choose to go to the Death Forest when they go out to hunt demon souls for the first time, but of course they are just outside and will not go deep into the forest.
In the markets of various cities in the empire, most of the demon souls come from the forest of death.
The feathered snake I just saw was a soul hunting team that had worked hard to capture it from the forest of death and transported it back to Longshande.
In a magic soul store, Rennes wandered around casually.
This store is not large in size, has no living things, and only conducts soul stone transactions, so it is relatively neat and quiet.
Hundreds of soul stones are placed on several shelves for people to observe. These shelves are made of metal, and the lower part is firmly fixed to the ground. There are rune magic arrays on the surface of the shelves, which evaporate energy from time to time. It is obvious that the soul stones are protected by magic to avoid being stolen or stolen.
Each soul stone is about the size of a pigeon egg, and is in irregular polyhedral.
Soul stone is an alchemy product. The raw material is a kind of white crystal. It is transparent when there is no demon soul. It is no different from a glass ball.
After the demon soul is contained, the color of the soul stone will change with the demon soul inside, and it is colorful, like precious gems.
When you get close to the soul stone and observe carefully, you will see that it is like a ball of pigment inside, rolling and flowing constantly, showing the strange form of the demon soul and the flashing element runes.
It is through these chaotic forms and element runes that the soul analyzer distinguishes the situation of the demon soul.
With the help of the Eye of Soul, Renn can grasp the true information in the Soul Stone with just one glance.
These soul stones are identified by the soul analyzer and then set the price. Most of them are priced very accurately. If there are occasional slight mistakes, the gap with the real value will not be very large.
Although Rennes can also find bargains and earn some difference, he is far from comparable to the mid-level feather snake. In order to avoid attracting attention, he did not take action.
After reading the Soul Stone, there is a shelf next to it, without the protection of the rune array, and the books are all placed on it.
Renne glanced at him and a book caught his attention.
"Well? "A Brief Version of the Book of Thousand Souls."
It was said to be a brief version, but this book is as thick as a brick. Renn stepped forward and picked it up. It felt heavy and no lighter than a real brick.
He opened the pages of the book and the author was a legendary wizard named Temandora, and also a soul-taught master, who devoted his life to studying demon souls.
The Book of Thousand Souls written by the master records in detail the information of more than a thousand kinds of demon souls, including the classification, rank, habits, weaknesses, distribution areas of demon souls, possible elements, as well as the form, naming, function, strength, etc. The content in the book is extremely detailed, and each demon soul and element is equipped with exquisite illustrations, all hand-painted by Master Temandora.
"Damn, this is so awesome!"
Renne was overjoyed that this book was exactly what he needed.
He has the eyes of the soul, and can see through the information of the inside and outside of the soul, as well as the elements at a glance, but he does not know what these elements are called and cannot correspond to the elements known to people.
Renn looked through and read it hungrily, but he did not forget it. Every time he looked at a page, he would take a photo with his mobile phone to save it.
According to Master Temandora's research, the known demon souls in the world are divided into sixteen major categories.
The most numerous are not monsters, but insects, followed by fish, and monsters are only ranked third. Others include birds, plants, aquatic habitats, spirits, strange monsters, elements, undeads, human figures, giant monsters, demons, demons, dragon descendants, real dragons and other thirteen categories.
Under each major category, multiple subcategories are subdivided according to the differences, and there are hundreds of them together.
Rennes was amazed, this was simply a biology taxonomy.
Of course, if biology in previous lives is used as the standard, Master Temandora's classification is simply messy and unfounded.
However, this is a classification of demon souls, not biological classification, and there is no relationship between the two.
Renn saw the introduction of the feather snake in the book. When he compared it with each other, he immediately learned the names of the feather snake in the market, namely "air cutting", "cyclone technique" and "fast recovery". Needless to say, the wind element affinity.
The whole book has hundreds of pages, and it will take at least one day to read it.
Moreover, this is a brief version, and only introduces more than one hundred common demon souls in total, which is still far from the thousand demon souls mentioned in the title of the book.
Ren closed the book and went to the counter and asked, "Boss, how much does this book cost?"
The owner is a thin old man. He read the title of the book, "A Brief Version of the Book of Thousand Souls, 299 Copper Yuan."
That's three hundred!
Renn complained, but he didn't expect that the other world would also use this kind of price gap sales method, but he still honestly took out three hundred-copper dollar bills from his wallet.
A book is sold for 300 copper coins, which is also expensive enough. It is even more than robbery. However, knowledge is priceless, so he is willing to pay the money.
After taking a bronze liso retrieved by the shop owner, Renn asked again: "Is there a complete version of the Book of Thousand Souls?"
"The complete version has twelve volumes in total, and you have to buy it at a special bookstore or in a large library." The owner shook his head, looked at Renn, and explained: "The price of a complete set of Books of Thousand Souls is more than ten gold shields, so it is inconvenient to carry it. Few customers will buy it, so we don't have any inventory, sorry."
Renne imagined that twelve large books were stacked together and could fill a whole suitcase. It took a long time to browse it briefly. There were very few people who were patient to read it all, let alone spend money to buy it.
"Okay, thank you for your advice." Renn left with the book.
After walking around the market for a while, Renn felt that it was almost done and he was a little hungry, so he decided to go out of the market for lunch and go back.
Halfway through the way, someone on the side of the road shouted at the door of the store: "Gambling souls, gambling souls!"
"Today, a new batch of gold-eating ants were found in the store, all of which were alive, and each sold only one gold shield."
"Buy now and kill now. As long as you open up a force element, it is the best secondary soul. It can sell at least fifty gold shields. The number is not large. If you want to buy it, hurry up."
Renn stopped and was quite interested in this gambling soul. It sounded like the gambling stones in his previous life.
I just don’t know whether it is true or not. Is there any trick to deceive people?
He walked into the store and saw several large tables filled with glass jars. There were two or three hundred jars made of specially made thick glass. The bottle mouth was tightly covered, leaving only a small hole for ventilation.
There is a hideous ant in each glass jar, with dark black all over his body, faintly reflecting light, and his angular body seems to be made of iron, with its teeth and claws giving people a strong sense of power.
There is a thick translucent solution at the bottom of the glass jar, which should be a special potion. When the ants soaked in it, they became sour and weak. They used their forelimbs to scratch the glass with their forelimbs, making sharp and harsh sounds.
"Such a big ant!"
Rennes was startled. He remembered that the largest bull ant on earth seemed to be only three or four centimeters long.
Any of the gold-eating ants in front of me is more than ten centimeters long, and the largest one is more than twenty centimeters. They are also big and weigh at least hundreds of times that of bull ants. If they are bitten, they will probably tear off a large piece of flesh and even their fingers are pinched off.
If you are besieged by a group of gold-eating ants, the ending will definitely be tragic.
There were seven or eight customers in the store, all of whom were surrounded by glass jars and carefully observed them, choosing the ants they wanted to buy.
"Does this kind of gold-eating ants really eat metal?"
Renn asked, he had never seen ants before, nor did he see them in the Book of Thousand Souls.
"Of course." A middle-aged man who looked like a shop owner replied enthusiastically: "The gold-eating ants grew up eating iron ore. This batch of gold-eating ants killed three miners in the mine road in the north of the city a few days ago. The mine owner hired an intermediate alchemist to take action, and then packaged it to us. The whole nest was here, and no one of them ran away."
"Young man, do you want to buy a few and try your luck?" The owner's face was full of smiles.
Renne did not answer.
The owner thought he was hesitating and persuaded him endlessly: "Young man, don't underestimate the gold-eating ants. They are indeed weak, but they are also real insect monsters. There is a certain probability factor in the soul, and they are very practical 'power' elements!"
"Do you know how powerful an ant is? They can lift things hundreds of times their own weight. If placed on humans, this power is even more terrifying than giants, and has unlimited potential!"
"Every melee profession wants strength elements. It may not be good enough as the main soul, but it is perfect for using it as the secondary soul."
"Just just now, a customer bought a gold-eating ant containing the power element and sold fifty gold shields on the spot. If you don't believe it, you can ask everyone."
The shop owner pointed to several customers who were purchasing ants, and two or three customers echoed, testifying that the shop owner's words were true.
Renn spat in his heart, these people are obviously asking, are they so easy to cheat?
Maybe the gold-eating ants are really likely to give out the elements of strength, but the owner cannot believe the words in his mouth. He was tired of hearing the words about the power of ants in his previous life when he was in elementary school.
He had already opened the eyes of the soul and looked at them one by one.
To be continued...