Chapter 2504: Trump Card

More and more contractors gathered around the stall. Seeing this scene, the black-mist stall owner changed the price of 【True Power · Plunder】, changing it to 5000 Soul Coins, and activated the auction mode.

This black-mist stall owner was very shrewd. Among the dozens of people in front of the stall, there were of course those he couldn't afford to offend, but judging from the many skill scrolls placed on his stall, the people behind him were also not easy to mess with.

The price of 【True Power · Plunder】 had just been changed, and people bid one after another, soaring from 5000 Soul Coins to 7900 before stopping.

At this time, Su Xiao had been squeezed out of the crowd. This was intentional, and no one paid attention to him anymore, which was good.

Su Xiao turned and left. He had only been promoted to the Seventh Tier not long ago. As for combat records like cleaning up Fei Shi, it was unlikely to spread. Those who witnessed this incident at the time were either Battle Angels or Pioneers.

Su Xiao gave up? Of course not. He was preparing to take out a trump card he had been operating for a long time. This trump card would likely help him take down 【True Power · Plunder】. He was determined to get this thing.

Judging from the current situation, the black-mist stall owner wouldn't sell 【True Power · Plunder】 in a short time. The other party would keep the buyers in suspense and wouldn't give up until the benefits were maximized.

After Su Xiao returned to the exclusive room, he walked quickly toward the alchemy laboratory. Half an hour later, he walked out of the alchemy laboratory, his attire completely changed.

At this time, Su Xiao was wearing a pale gold robe, wearing a hood, with a flame pattern on his back. Behind him followed Benny.

Benny's appearance also changed. Its fur grew longer, turning white, with pale gold at the tips, especially the fur under its belly, which hung down several centimeters long.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja stayed in the exclusive room. When Su Xiao left, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang even handed over an exquisite wooden box.

When Su Xiao was full of blood energy, when he traded with outsiders, it was inevitable that they would be wary, worrying that if the price was too black, Su Xiao would retaliate afterwards. Would Su Xiao? The answer was if he was blacked too miserably, he would. He wasn't a saint, so he wouldn't just let it go if he was targeted and blacked. If he was blacked to an ordinary degree, he wouldn't. He traded with black merchants occasionally.

After becoming the Saint Flame Alchemist, trading with others was much more convenient. In the outside world, the Saint Flame Alchemist was a somewhat lazy and casual person, even selling potions or acquiring materials, he let his cat do it.

The Saint Flame Alchemist had a characteristic: the price of the potions he sold was fixed. Even if his potions were hyped up to several times the price, the potions he sold himself didn't rise in price.

Su Xiao certainly knew that the potions he manufactured were hyped up to high prices. Did he not want to raise the price? Of course not. He was operating the identity of Saint Flame. Now, it was time to benefit from this identity of Saint Flame Alchemist.

Not only that, this trade could also test whether this identity of Saint Flame Alchemist had influence and popularity. If the effect in Reincarnation Paradise wasn't good, wanting to spread this reputation to the Void was dreaming. If the expected effect wasn't achieved, then he wouldn't operate it anymore, and from then on, there would be no more "fatherly prices" for permanent buff potions.

Moving quickly, Su Xiao returned to the trading street. Sure enough, the area near the stall was still crowded.

"Move aside, nothing to squeeze here, have you killed a Seventh Tier Lord-level unit?"

A bald man squeezed into the crowd. He had already prepared Soul Coins, but after squeezing near the stall, the price of 【True Power · Plunder】 had reached 8500 Soul Coins. He only got 8100 Soul Coins, and the extra 400 Soul Coins were like a mountain.

Su Xiao used the passage squeezed out by the bald man to reach the front of the stall. It was no longer crowded around, and five people stood in front of the stall. These were the five people who might take down 【True Power · Plunder】.

The black-mist stall owner behind the stall wiped the hot sweat from his forehead. The scene was more explosive than he imagined, drawing out five of the top Seventh Tier echelons. If Seventh Tier contractors were ranked by combat power, these five could all rank in the top 20, and some were even in the top 5.

The black-mist stall owner was having a headache when he suddenly noticed a person wearing a pale gold robe and a hood, with a cat squatting beside him.

A not-small wave appeared in the black-mist stall owner's heart. He tentatively asked: "This... sir? Is it the Saint Flame Alchemist?"

"Hmm."

Su Xiao, squatting in front of the stall, spoke. Under the robe, the micro-device attached to the side of his neck made his voice sound somewhat lazy.

The other five people in front of the stall immediately looked at Su Xiao. Their expressions were different. If it were in the past, they would choose to appropriately befriend the Saint Flame Alchemist. Permanent buff potions were good things.

In their view, if one could formulate permanent buff potions, then all kinds of functional potions, as well as recovery potions, would be easy to formulate, with no difficulty at all.

These five people didn't speak at this moment. Saint Flame appearing at this time was an opponent, an opponent competing for treasure.

The black-mist stall owner looked around, and finally asked for the temporary contact information of the people around. The buyers were among these people, and the others were just watching the fun.

The five people near Su Xiao also agreed with the black-mist stall owner's approach. Private trading was more stable. Although their strength was strong, they didn't want to buy 【True Power · Plunder】 on such an occasion.

The stall closed, and the contractors watching the fun around gradually dispersed.

"Mr. Saint Flame, follow me."

The black-mist stall owner spoke in a low voice, walking past Su Xiao. The other five people near the stall also followed a figure covered in black mist and walked away.

The seller of 【True Power · Plunder】 found six groups of buyers at the same time and sent six subordinates to negotiate prices separately. This way, he could falsely report the bids of other buyers to increase the price, and also ensure the secrecy of the transaction, striving not to offend anyone.

Su Xiao and the black-mist stall owner left the trading street and found a quiet cold drink shop, sitting opposite each other in the corner.

"Mr. Saint Flame, to tell you the truth, on the way here, my boss gave the lowest price, 4000 Soul Coins."

The black-mist stall owner opened his mouth and lowered the price by more than half. Su Xiao had already thought of what he would say later.

"However, as a return, all the potions you sell must be sold to us. You have to sign a contract, with a time limit of 20 world progresses."

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't consider this "sell-yourself contract."

"Of course, this is just our proposal. In fact, we hope Mr. Saint Flame joins us more. If you become one of us, everything is easy to talk about."

"Haven't considered it for the time being."

"What a pity. How much is Mr. Saint Flame prepared to offer? To tell the truth, we hope to reach a deal with you more. Compared to the reputation of the other five buyers, sorry, I shouldn't use the reputation of those people to compare with you, Mr. Saint Flame."

The black-mist stall owner laughed loudly. This wasn't polite talk. Reaching a deal with an alchemist was much better than reaching a deal with those strong people. As long as the alchemist wasn't blacked, whatever type of potion was needed later, one could fully order it from Su Xiao.

For a large group, befriending an alchemist was much better than befriending a strong person. Moreover, those five strong people weren't easy to befriend, and their reputation and credibility were not on the same dimension as the Saint Flame Alchemist.

"I have... only 2300 Soul Coins in my hand."

"This is a bit difficult to handle."

"Indeed, but some very good items can be discounted in this transaction."

Su Xiao took out several items from his storage space, namely 【Filthy Blood】, 【Ancient Clockwork Clock】, 【Main Mission Failure Exemption Certificate】, and 【Ancient God Soul Blood (???)】.

These items had been piled up in Su Xiao's storage space for a long time. 【Filthy Blood】 was a growth-type bloodline, while 【Ancient Clockwork Clock】 and 【Main Mission Failure Exemption Certificate】 looked high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade. One could forcibly escape from the world, and one could exempt the punishment of the main mission.

In reality, it wasn't like that at all. These were items Su Xiao obtained when he was at a low tier. They had been stored in his storage space for a long time. 【Ancient Clockwork Clock】 could at most forcibly escape from a Fifth Tier world. For Su Xiao now, this thing was flashy but useless.

【Main Mission Failure Exemption Certificate】 was also completely useless. When he was at tiers 1–4, this was a good thing for saving his life. After reaching tier 5, the exemption strength weakened. It could indeed exempt one execution, but it would also deduct 20% of all attributes.

After reaching tier 6, the exemption strength dropped again. After the mission failed, while exempting the execution, all attributes -50%. After reaching tier 7, this thing turned gray in Su Xiao's storage space and was in a completely unactivatable state. This meant that for Su Xiao, who had reached tier 7, this exemption certificate had completely failed.

As for 【Ancient God Soul Blood (???)】, this was a very high-tier thing, obtained after killing the Archbishop, but Su Xiao wouldn't forget how strange and powerful the Ancient God in that world was. That was almost an immortal god. Only the scattered Ancient God energy remained in the town of misfortune, but it made the strong people there gather the Ancient God energy unconsciously, thereby letting that Ancient God resurrect. To this day, Su Xiao didn't know the name of that Ancient God.

For this kind of item, Su Xiao adhered to the attitude of not easily parsing it. The more Ancient Gods he saw, the more he knew how powerful, strange, and terrifying Ancient Gods were.

And that kind of, the more one knew, the closer one was to them, the faster one would die, and the more miserable it would be. Gus, Dawn, and Laurent were all like this.

Su Xiao wouldn't feel that the Ancient God was weak because he killed a few Ancient Gods. Ancient Gods were basically the most powerful bosses in the world they were in. Except for the hybrid Ursula, when she saw the Iron Feather King, she was so scared she couldn't speak clearly. If it weren't for the fact that she was half an acquaintance with the Iron Feather King, she would definitely have died in the Serra territory.

Su Xiao took out these items, which was like dumping old items. These were items he completely didn't need, but at first glance, these items all looked high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade, very bluffing.

The black-mist stall owner was obviously bluffed, but after checking for a while, he understood in his heart. These items plus 2300 Soul Coins were far from enough.

"Mr. Saint Flame, I am very embarrassed."

Before the black-mist stall owner finished speaking, Su Xiao placed a wooden box on the table. In fact, for him, the wooden box itself cost more than what was inside, but in order to look high-end, he specially manufactured this wooden box with gold-quality materials.

The black-mist stall owner put on gloves, carefully opened the wooden box, and saw a wooden block the size of a fingernail. This wooden block was like warm jade, but it didn't have the cold touch of jade, leaning towards the warmth of wood, but its density was very high.

"Black Maple Tree?!"

The black-mist stall owner sat up straight. Try asking, where was the price of the Black Maple Tree the highest? The answer was the Void, where too many races needed this thing.

The black-mist stall owner was silent. He had heard of the Black Maple Tree, but this was the first time he had seen the branches of the Black Maple Tree with his own eyes. He really couldn't judge how much value the branches of the Black Maple Tree had.

"Wait a moment."

The black-mist stall owner seemed to contact someone. A moment later, he sighed with some regret.

"Mr. Saint Flame, what a pity, one party has already increased the price to 10,000 Soul Coins."

*Tap, tap, tap—*

Su Xiao placed five bottles of 【Tree of Life】 potions side by side on the table. The selling price of these five potions was actually only 50 Soul Coins, but taking them out at the same time was another meaning, representing that he was indeed the Saint Flame Alchemist, not someone else impersonating, and that he would have subsequent dealings with the team the black-mist stall owner belonged to.

"Deal."

The black-mist stall owner didn't mention that someone had increased the price to 10,000 Soul Coins. As for the source of the Black Maple Tree, he didn't care even more. He only knew that this thing was very valuable, and it was the first time it had appeared in Reincarnation Paradise a while ago, belonging to extremely scarce materials. Nothing else mattered.

Su Xiao weighed the gains and losses. 【Filthy Blood】 + 【Ancient Clockwork Clock】 + 【Main Mission Failure Exemption Certificate】 + 【Ancient God Soul Blood (???)】 could be worth 2000 Paradise Coins at most, among which the value of 【Ancient God Soul Blood (???)】 accounted for more than 70%.

Adding the 2300 Soul Coins he took out, Su Xiao spent 4300 Soul Coins and a small piece of Black Maple Tree branch that Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had gnawed on, and took down 【True Power · Plunder】. That's right, this piece of branch was gnawed by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang out of curiosity once, and as a result, it almost died. Since then, Su Xiao's team concluded that Black Maple Tree branches couldn't be eaten, but the leaves could be brewed as tea.

Besides these, Su Xiao also discovered that this identity of Saint Flame Alchemist was very easy to use and worth continuing to operate. As long as it was operated well, plus the disguise of Reincarnation Paradise, he felt that he could even use this identity to see the scenery of the Arcane Eternal Star.

Imagine, a large group of casters, welcoming a Law-Extinguishing Shadow with full faces of smiles, what a strange sight that would be.

【Hint: You have obtained "True Power · Plunder".】 ===== CHAPTER 2505 =====