Chapter 207

Since learning about the Advanced Detection Spell from the elf elder Fiona, Jiang Li had been fixated on it, eager to obtain it at once.

Things like the Eye of Insight, the Eye of Prompting, even the Omniscient Eye—just hearing their names sounded complicated; if he could master even one of them, it would surely help greatly with the upcoming Eternal-class career transformation quest.

For others.

The Advanced Detection Spell is rare and hard to come by.

But for Jiang Li, it was not a rare treasure at all.

As long as he had enough skill books, he could continuously synthesize and upgrade their quality.

Although the Detection Spell is an innate starting skill for all practitioners, that doesn't mean there isn't a corresponding skill book for it.

On the contrary, the Detection Spell's skill book belongs to the lowest rank: Iron.

Although its drop rate and probability aren't high, among all practitioners, it's undoubtedly the most useless, the most worthless skill book—without exception.

And the reason is simple.

Everyone already knows the starting skill—what's the point of learning it again?

Therefore.

The Detection Spell skill book has no value.

Even scrap yards refuse to buy it; even using it to wipe your ass would feel too rough.

And this was exactly what Jiang Li worried about.

Because it's useless to practitioners, almost no one on the market sells it, and many practitioners, upon dropping a Detection Spell skill book from a monster, don't even bother picking it up—they just leave it on the ground.

Yet this time, his synthesis might require a huge quantity of Detection Spell skill books, which made Jiang Li anxious—but to his relief, shortly after leaving, he spotted his target at a corner stall.

The vendor was a young girl.

She looked about his age, likely also a new practitioner of this cohort.

"Hello, what do you need?" Seeing someone approach, the girl vendor's expression brightened—clearly, her business at the far corner wasn't doing well.

"I have a white-tier Warrior skill book here, and a wristguard—both have excellent attributes," the girl enthusiastically promoted to Jiang Li… these two items were the most impressive and valuable goods on her stall.

"Hmm…"

Yet.

Jiang Li's eyes turned to the upper right corner, where several dull white skill books lay.

The girl followed his gaze and froze—those… weren't those all Detection Spell skill books? Could it be… he wanted these?

But that was impossible.

Everyone has the starting skill—why would anyone buy a Detection Spell skill book for no reason?

And at this moment.

Jiang Li felt inner delight.

He hadn't expected to find three Detection Spell skill books at a single stall.

This quantity was far more than he'd imagined.

He'd thought he'd have to go through great trouble to find such useless skill books to others.

"Three is enough for one synthesis."

"Even a white-tier Detection Spell can be upgraded to green."

Jiang Li felt slightly excited.

But noticing the girl vendor's gaze, he quickly calmed himself, then lifted his head.

He pointed clearly at the Detection Spell skill books and said: "I'll take these."

"Huh?"

The girl vendor froze again.

Her face looked bewildered.

She seemed almost unable to believe it; she instinctively leaned forward and asked: "Classmate, look carefully—these are all Detection Spell skill books, they're useless…"

"Useless… then why are you displaying them?" Jiang Li didn't answer directly, but asked curiously.

"Uh… this…" The girl vendor hesitated, then admitted honestly: "Because my items are too few, the stall looks too dull and bare… so I put out a few Detection Spell skill books just to fill space."

"I see."

Jiang Li understood; once his doubt was cleared, he didn't hesitate: "I'll take these."

"Really? But…"

"It's fine."

"Then… alright." The girl vendor nodded reluctantly; she felt somehow unethical—knowing the skill books were useless, yet still selling them to him…

"Don't worry, I have a use for these skill books."

Jiang Li saw her expression and couldn't help but feel a mix of amusement and pity.

This was the first time he'd met such a kind… well, perhaps simply naive vendor—not only repeatedly urging the customer not to buy, but even worrying for the customer's sake, as if their roles had somehow reversed.

"Th… thank you."

After successfully transferring payment,

the girl vendor smiled, happily thanking Jiang Li.

Jiang Li smiled, turned to leave—then suddenly noticed the girl vendor had taken out a few more Detection Spell skill books and neatly placed them back in the same spot…