Chapter 25: Aokenli

Hogen City, City Square.

Hogen City's annual Trading Day is held in the City Square in the middle of the Awakening Month.

The specific time is from the 14th to the 16th day of the Awakening Month, for a total of three days.

Today is the first day of Trading Day.

After leaving Pierre's Grocery Store, Gao De immediately brought all his net worth to this place.

The City Square covers a large area and is a wide blue-brick square, now crowded with people.

Some of these people are civilians, some are small vendors, some are fallen family descendants, and some are servants under noble lords.

Now, these people of different identities are all like vendors, setting up small stalls around the City Square.

The things sold are even more strange, selling everything, and Gao De even saw someone selling a few strange-shaped stones picked up from the river.

In front of these colorful stalls, one or two people will occasionally lean forward to take a look, or ask two questions, but it is rare to be able to trade on the spot.

Seeing this situation, Gao De couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He came here for only one purpose: to pick up leaks and treasure hunt!

If you want to improve your strength, besides strengthening yourself, borrowing external objects is also a means.

But Gao De's current savings do not support him in purchasing external objects that can strengthen his own strength through formal channels, so he can only have a fluke mentality of picking up leaks.

Of course, in a small place like Hogen City, without certain channels and forces, it is highly likely that you can't buy any magic creations even if you have money.

Not like big cities, for Hogen City, magic alchemy creations are absolutely rare items! Gao De thought this way in his heart, his footsteps didn't stop, and he had already come to the middle of the square's open space.

At this time, the sky was a bit dim, but there were magic crystal lamps set up in the square, which were already lit up at this time, brightly lit.

And, with the lighting of the magic crystal lamps, the people in the square began to increase, and even the number of people setting up stalls increased slightly, which should be the "employees" who just "got off work" in the city.

Gao De and others, along the square, while walking slowly, while looking at the stalls one by one, trying to find some good treasure.

Among so many people in the square, he is definitely not the first to have this idea, and certainly not the only one.

It is obvious that picking up leaks does exist, and there is absolutely no shortage of deeds of some small person receiving an incredible thing at a street stall and making a fortune.

But the premise is to have enough luck and vision, and most people are generally empty-handed under normal circumstances.

And Gao De, did not have this luck.

He wandered around many stalls and still didn't see any "suspicious" items; they were mostly daily necessities like pottery jars and iron swords.

Until a stall surrounded by a dozen people attracted him.

After wandering for so long, this is the first time Gao De has seen such a lively stall.

Is it selling something good?

Gao De couldn't help but lean over.

The owner of the stall was a young man, wearing a slightly worn-out robe that could still see the fine materials, but the originally complex and exquisite patterns on the robe had been worn away and blurred.

It is highly likely to be a descendant of a fallen small family.

Gao De made a judgment for the first time, and then his eyes swept to the goods placed in front of the young man's stall.

Some finely crafted ornaments, a few old books, and some old small objects with traces of time.

And the reason why it attracted onlookers was because someone took a fancy to a strange copper object like ivory that was rusty.

"10 gold coins, not selling for one less!" The young stall owner shouted loudly. He picked up the ivory-like copper object and pointed to the mark on the top right corner: "See this mark? This is the mark of the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce!"

Gao De hadn't heard of the so-called Aokenli Chamber of Commerce, but his eyes still subconsciously looked at the mark.

It was a hexagram, and in the middle of the hexagram was a mysterious pictographic symbol.

It's just that, like the patterns on the young stall owner's robe, due to the wear and tear of time, it was blurred and could not see the specific appearance.

"Do you know the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce? The most famous magic alchemy creation chamber of commerce on the entire continent. Their magic alchemy products sell well on the entire continent and are in short supply. Without certain relationships, you can't buy them even if you have money!"

The young stall owner continued to boast: "Since my treasure has this logo, it is enough to prove that it is a magic alchemy creation of the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce..."

The "magic alchemy creation" that the young stall owner spoke of attracted more people's attention.

Magic user is synonymous with power, and things related to magic are undoubtedly absolute treasures, mysterious and powerful, how can they not attract attention? The middle-aged fat man who took a fancy to this copper object.

He was not bluffed by the young stall owner's words, and interrupted the young man's boasting slowly: "First of all, this mark is already blurred. With the current appearance, it cannot prove that this is definitely the mark of the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce."

"Secondly, even if this is the mark of the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce, it cannot prove anything."

"There are quite a few black-hearted merchants on the entire continent who forge their marks. In a place like Hogen City, the possibility of products from the Aokenli Chamber of Commerce appearing is not high. Anyway, I don't believe it."

"Finally," the middle-aged fat man curled his lips: "This thing can't be called a magic alchemy creation; it clearly doesn't have any magic power fluctuations. Either it is damaged and the magic power is lost, or it is not a magic item at all."

The young stall owner was not embarrassed because his bragging was poked by the middle-aged fat man, and still said reasonably: "It's just that the magic power is lost, but it is an incredible magic item itself."

"You just need to take it to a big city, find a repair craftsman to repair it, and then sell it, selling it for sixty or seventy Saint Xi En gold coins is absolutely no problem."

"If it weren't for an emergency, I wouldn't have taken it out to sell!"

The middle-aged man was clearly a knowledgeable person, pointing to the mark on the copper object: "Kid, don't treat me as ignorant. Looking at this wear and tear, I think it has been damaged for ten or twenty years. Whether it can be repaired is still hard to say."

"Even if it can be repaired, the repair fee for this degree of wear and tear must not be low, and how much power can be restored after repair is still unknown."

"I received it at a high price, and I have to run thousands of miles to a big city to find a skilled repair craftsman to gamble on a perfect repair. Do you think I'm a big head?"

"If there is really such a cheap good thing, why don't you do it yourself?" The fat man smiled, his tone was like sarcasm.

The surrounding crowd followed with happy laughter.

The young stall owner's face flushed red, "Then you say how much can you offer?"

"Two Saint Xi En gold coins." The fat man stretched out two fingers.

"How is it possible, just this material is worth two Saint Xi En gold coins!" The young stall owner was clearly unconvinced.

"That's also when it was just made. Now it's worn out like this, and the material is naturally not worth much." The fat man said the truth.

"Not selling, not selling, if you want to take advantage, go to other places, I don't welcome you here!"

The young stall owner was first squeezed by the fat man, and now he was cut by such a fierce price, plus he was unconvinced in his heart, so he simply got angry and started to drive away guests.

"Young people are just angry," the fat man was not in a hurry, smiled with his eyes narrowed: "It's okay, I'll go. You just see if there is any big head willing to pay this money. I will still come on the last day. If you haven't sold it by then and want to think it through, my offer is still valid."

"Even if it rots in my hands, I won't sell it to you!" The young stall owner said angrily.

The fat man shook his head and left with a smile.

Once the excitement was gone, the people who were originally surrounding it gradually dispersed.

To be honest, the things on the young stall owner's stall didn't have much appeal.

Without excitement to watch, everyone naturally had no interest in staying.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 26 =====