Today is Tuesday, the day of Holy Prayer in the Church of the Dawn. Shad promised Bishop Owen and Priest Augustus that they would appear in the church to participate in activities in the afternoon and deliver a public speech. And besides that, he had other things to attend to.

Leaving Mia at home to look after the house, Xia De packed up the things in the basement and went out.

The trip in the morning is to go shopping.

The first stop was the Old John Antique Store. Papa John read the newspaper and waited for the guests as in the old days. Hearing the sound of the bell, he tilted his head from behind the newspaper and saw that it was Shad, and then he yawned and said:

"Are you here to buy something again today? Speaking of which, how is your exam week going? Louisa's ancient prose should have passed, right?"

Papa John is the black market shopkeeper who has the best relationship with Dr. Schneider's team.

"Passed, and my alchemy homework also passed. Dad, I'm going to spend a lot of money on things this time."

After waking up, strolling through the familiar Tobesk, away from the wet harbor city with pirates and murlocs, Shad was in a very good mood.

"You? A lot of money?"

Father John looked at him suspiciously, completely disbelieving this statement, as if he thought it was some kind of bargaining tactic.

So Shade reached into the inner pocket of his jacket, and grabbed out the 100 pound note tied with a strip; then reached into the outer right pocket of the jacket, grabbed the 100 pound note tied with a note; In the left pocket, another 100 pounds.

Currently, the largest banknote issued by the Kingdom has a face value of 50 pounds, but it is usually only used for settlement of bulk items, and it is rarely seen in the market. What Xia De took out were 5 pound notes, a total of 60:

"The 300-pound relic you mentioned was consigned by a friend to you, and I want it." (Chapter 99)

The old man looked at the money in surprise, then nodded:

"It has the function of extracting energy from the living body itself or similar entities and non-entities, and then pouring it into the user's body. This is the requirement, right? That thing is still there. If you want to buy it, I can give it to you right now. ...Although I knew last time that you met a wealthy female nobleman, I didn't expect..."

He didn't continue, but quickly put away the banknotes. Let Xia De wait for a while, and then he left for twenty minutes. When he came back, he held a long and thin thing wrapped in a cloth strip in his hand.

"Cane? Long sword?"

Xia De was looking forward to it.

"The cane is not so long. If it is a cold weapon, do you think it will only sell for 300 pounds? You should understand how expensive weapon relics are."

The old man said, put the thing on the counter, then walked quickly to the door of the store and locked the door.

Remove the cloth strip, and inside is a pair of fishing rods.

"A document-level relic [Soul Fishing Rod], the whole body is black, and the material of the fishing rod itself and the hook is similar to fine steel. It is stretchable, and it is 5.24 feet (about 1.6m) after being fully unfolded. The fishing line is transparent and the material is unknown. When using it Can be extended as needed."

The old man quickly took the fishing rod in his hand, and with a click, he pulled out the part of the fishing rod that was retracted inside, and then handed it to Xia De for him to check.

"[Soul Fishing Rod] Once you hook a living person, you can harvest the opponent's memory fragment. If the living person is still a ring warlock, you can get a part of his spirit, and there is a very small probability of directly obtaining the opponent's spirit rune, which perfectly meets your requirements. .As for the side effects..."

Seeing Xia De swinging the fishing rod back and forth to feel the feel, Papa John knocked on the table to make Xia De pay more attention:

"Fishing must be used to activate its function. And the other party must not lose the ability to move, and must actively take the bait. Once hooked, the fisherman must read the obtained memory and cannot refuse, and the obtained memory is a random segment. Make a choice. Using this method to read other people's memories for a long time, even a high-level magician will affect his own personality. What's more dangerous is that as long as he uses it more than 13 times, there is a chance that he will suddenly read to giant fishhooks falling from the sky."

"oh?"

Xia De looked at him in surprise:

"what is that?"

"I can't answer you, because people who see the fishhook will take the initiative to touch it, and then disappear. The news about the fishhook is what they say when they see the fishhook."

The old man shrugged:

"Probably some strange existence is fishing. Have you seen the line of Luwen on the fishing rod? It's the language of the Fourth Epoch. I happen to understand a little bit. The roughly translated meaning is—"

【We are fishermen, but we are also fish. 】

The price of this fishing rod is not negotiable, 300 pounds and must be paid in cash. Even if Xia De brought up the matter of the cane, Old John couldn't let it go, because it was consigned to him by a friend, and he didn't have the right to lower the price.

So after paying the money, Xia De's savings dropped from 900 pounds (note) to 600 pounds. Although his ability to make money has increased, unfortunately his expenses have also increased.

The fishing rod is for the possible divinity in the future, so this money cannot be saved anyway. After sending the fishing rod back home, Xia De wore a robe and a mask and went to the Black Raven Library.

The acquisition of the Whispering Spirit Rune [Greed] was something he did not expect, and the acquisition of the Spirit Rune meant that he could grasp the power in a new direction. Greed has little connection with time and silver moon at present, so Xia De only plans to learn one thaumaturgy related to it as usual. If you have the right thaumaturgy in the future, go get more greedy power.

Similar to [Gluttony], [Greed] is also a relatively common spiritual rune. Many ancient books and relics can allow ring warlocks to obtain runes of similar concepts.

Apart from daily necessities, emergency preparedness, repairs to the third floor of his home, and second-year tuition fees, Xia De still has about 200 pounds in gold. Compared with choosing the thaumaturgy of [Gluttony] for the first time, this time is really very generous.

In the dimly lit small room of the Black Raven library, Shade sat on the sofa and explained his request to the people behind the wall through the small hole in the wall. In order to prevent missing valuable thaumaturgy, it is also specially stated that the price can fluctuate slightly.

It took the library half an hour to give Xia De a list of 7 kinds of thaumaturgy, among which the whisper element spirit rune [Gluttony] can learn 6 of them.

The cheapest [Greedy Heart] is worth 15 pounds. This is a passive ability. After learning it, you can enhance your greedy desire. This is a thaumaturgy that cooperates with other thaumaturgies that require "greed" as a condition, and ordinary ring warlocks will definitely not learn it.

And the most expensive one is [Varda's Death Contract], which costs 350 pounds without study materials, and 1,200 pounds with materials. This is an active ability, using the "loan" relationship to sign a contract with other intelligent creatures by shaking hands. Once the contract is violated, the thaumaturgy will claim the life of the violator.

It sounds powerful, but thaumaturgy is useless compared to ring warlocks with higher levels, and it will be invalidated by text traps, and it will be invalidated by the death of the caster. It belongs to the precious "contract" type of thaumaturgy.

Xia De didn't choose the most expensive one, nor did he choose the cheapest one, and finally chose the thaumaturgy [Treasured Item] with a material value of 232 pounds.

This thaumaturgy is quite simple to explain, using one's own greed and cherishment of an item to endow it with extraordinary abilities.

The thaumaturgy itself is only useful for common items, and only one "treasure" can be selected at a time, which can be changed every moon phase cycle. And the power of thaumaturgy is limited by the degree of greed and cherishment of the item itself, as well as its own level.

The selection of different "treasures" by different ring warlocks will give different extraordinary abilities, but this ability will only be amplified according to the shape of the item. For example, shoes will allow the wearer to run faster or see higher, and eyes will enhance vision in the dark or enhance the field of vision, but it is absolutely impossible to choose a ring and suddenly the ring can shoot fireballs.

Judging from the records provided by the Black Raven Library, most of the ring warlocks who learned this thaumaturgy chose coins or banknotes as the target of the "treasures". Because greed for banknotes will never abate.

Of course, there are also some ring warlocks who choose special Rhodes cards as "treasures". As a result, the cards will have extraordinary abilities such as extremely fast flight or hardness and sharpness.

You must know that the [Original Balance] controlled by Xia De cannot be sharp enough to be used as a weapon.

Of course, this thaumaturgy also has very mild side effects.

First, greed for the same kind of selected "treasures" is amplified. Second, once the "treasure" chosen by oneself is lost, the user of thaumaturgy can no longer use thaumaturgy during the six-month cycle, and his "greedy" desire will be amplified during this period.

But this kind of side effect is acceptable, so Xia De chose to buy this thaumaturgy.

The exorbitant fees were paid and savings dropped to around £400. Xia De, who returned home, saw that it was not time for lunch, so he used materials such as "money grass", "horse dung stone", "greedy bones" and other materials to finish learning thaumaturgy.

However, there was a small problem when selecting "Treasures".

He took out all the cards, intending to select [Ancient Fairy Tale Match Girl]. But when the aura cast by thaumaturgy covered the cards, the one selected was actually the entire deck including [Origin·Silver Moon] but not [Origin·Balance].

[Foundation·Balance] cannot be selected, probably because it has been activated, and it is not an ordinary item. And the whole deck was selected, probably because of the increase in the thaumaturgy effect of the "divine afterglow" state.

Instead of being able to select multiple targets, he can think of a "group" as "one" target.

The evidence for this conjecture is that Shade felt that he could replace the cards with different cards into the deck, so that the replaced cards would lose their "selection" and the replaced cards would be "selected". Therefore, when Shad acquires a new special card, the new card does not have to wait for the next lunar cycle to be selected.

[You spent so much money on thaumaturgy, is it just to give the opponent more cards when playing cards? Outlander, you are a greedy man. 】

"Don't slander me."

Xia De hooked his fingers, and under the effect of [Treasures], fifty-four cards flew from the far end of the table to the table in front of him from top to bottom and stacked neatly.

Then Xia De took a newspaper and opened it, and then manipulated fifty-four cards to cut the newspaper.

The cost of more than 200 pounds is very worthwhile. In the afterglow state of divinity~lightnovelpub.net~ these cards are not sharp enough to crack bricks and stones, but they are enough to cut open human throats. Moreover, in the entire deck, the power gained by the special cards is much greater than that of ordinary cards due to the greed in Xia De's heart.

If he could replace the entire deck with special cards, the effect of thaumaturgy might be further enhanced.

When the cards started to fly, Miya hid behind Shad and looked at the scene. And when they landed on the table in front of Xia De again, the cat with wide-eyed eyes immediately walked out, jumped onto the table, and stretched out its claws curiously to touch the top one.

Although the cards have acquired sharp characteristics, using [Treasures] to manipulate the cards to fly is far inferior to Shad's direct manipulation of [Origin·Balance]. But compared to the spell [Moving Object] that can achieve a similar effect, the control of [Treasured Object] is more refined.

For example, suddenly there was a bad-hearted Xia De, and the card that made Mia keep slapping suddenly flew up. When Mia was chasing, she manipulated the cards to fly around on the table, making the cat waving its paws constantly.

"Meow~"

It stopped suddenly, pressed its small paws on Xia De's arm, and looked at Xia De with big amber eyes.

The stranger laughed and let the card stop in front of the cat, which stretched out its paw very satisfied.

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