The Truth of Magic

221 The bronze Gryphon

zhao xu thought back to what he had been through, and he slowed down his pace as he walked forward.

The woman that Zhao Xu was familiar with was currently laying out her own alchemy items and was completely immersed in her little world.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Zhao Xu was used to this sort of style, he couldn’t imagine that this pair of siblings, who would both become high-ranking officials in Winterfell in the future, would end up having to run a stall in Arthur.

zhao xu knew that this woman’s in-game name was ran ran, and her real name was shen nian.

in his previous life, he was the second-in-command of winter city’s spell consultant team, and was considered the second-in-command of the winter city’s spellcaster management department.

Logically speaking, it should be around this time that she met her mentor from her previous life and successfully triggered the power of her bloodline, allowing her to level up quickly.

However, compared to Shen Nian, her older brother, Shen ze, who was called Rong Nian in the game, was more famous. In other words, he had an extremely high reputation in winter city.

From what Zhao Xu could remember, Shen had recently given up on being a Warlock and switched to the Paladin camp. as a result, during the training of paladins, he was selected by the ” holy guards ” of the god of justice and was directly selected as a key training target.

This was also the benefit of being affiliated with a powerful organization. As an organization, they had to constantly look for candidates and train them, which also allowed many selected players to complete the accumulation in advance.

then, in the future, among the forces on earth, they would take the initiative.

zhao xu had only gotten to know this pair of siblings when everyone had just transmigrated. at that time, everyone had been in chaos, and many families had been teleported to different places.

zhao xu happened to be protecting her parents who were in trouble, so he was given another chance to advance. this saved him from his previous laziness of slacking off for a few days.

In Zhao Xu’s previous life, as the sheriff of a small town, every time he had trouble coming to the nearest Big Town, winter city, to get some money, it was inevitable that he would have to trouble the siblings.

It was just that as the elder brother, Shen ze was a Saint Samurai. Naturally, it was impossible for him to have any control over the distribution of resources over the security officer of the most remote star Lake Town.

so whenever zhao xu wanted to go through the back door of winter city, he would mostly have to go through shen nian to communicate.

It could be said that in his previous life, he had also troubled this pair of brother and sister a lot.

when zhao xu was in the guard tower earlier, he could tell that the tower had definitely been renovated within 200 years because of his family’s brick-making skills.

Zhao Xu had asked Shen Nian to help him find the brick-making technique.

thinking about this, zhao xu started to think about why the mysterious tower had been rebuilt 200 years ago and why the notebook had appeared under the sand. all of these were still unsolved mysteries to him.

He would need to investigate the material evidence to analyze and deduce it in the future.

When Shen Nian saw Zhao Xu approaching, she quickly stood up and introduced him to the other alchemy items on sale in a gentle tone.

But Zhao Xu had crossed paths with this woman in front of him too many times.

He had long known that she was the kind of woman who looked extremely gentle on the surface but was actually cold on the inside. She didn’t care much about most things and focused more on her own small world.

even shen ze kept boasting to him about his sister’s excellent cooking, and zhao xu just couldn’t help but smile at this enthusiastic and helpful sister complex.

zhao xu didn’t say anything else. he didn’t even need to get involved. the other party would just wait for their own opportunity to come.

Of course, Zhao Xu didn’t have any thoughts of pretending.

Like a real customer, he raised a bottle of antidotes and started to observe.

the ‘poison resistance’ potion that shen nian had concocted using her alchemy skills was lighter in color than the usual dark green antidotes.

on the other hand, craftsmen who had studied alchemy had different methods of making them. many of them were laymen, so the antidotes sold in this grocery market were basically of different colors.

as a potion that specifically targeted poison, before the level 3 ” poison neutralization ” spell appeared, it was an item used by novice players to resist poison.

zhao xu, who had drunk a lot of antidotes, looked at the bottle in his hand very slowly. then, he gently opened the cap and sniffed it. he said to ran fei, ” there’s something wrong with your antidotes. ”

Then, Zhao Xu handed it over to ran Fei and asked him to study it carefully.

there’s no problem with this antidote. shen nianqing, who was the one who made it, started explaining to zhao xu, “but it’s true that it’s not as good as the official antidotes, so i’ll sell it to you at a discount of 45 gold coins from the original price of 50 gold coins.”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but laugh when he heard the price.

as expected, it was more interesting to find someone to discuss it with.

The prices were much cheaper than the materials sold in Arthur’s material shops. This was also the reason why the living Plaza attracted people’s attention.

“did you forget to add the winter grass?”

Zhao Xu thought about it for a while and decided that he should quickly tell Shen Nian the answer.

shen nian, who had been feeling a little confident, suddenly had a change in expression and she immediately took the “anti-poison” that zhao xu handed over.

The greatest effect of the poison resistance potion was that after drinking it, the target creature’s “strong immunity” could be directly increased by five levels when facing viruses, even if it was not immune to all poisons.

Without the winter grass, the antidotes that could have increased immunity might have become other poisonous potions.

in the end, shen nian’s face turned a little pale and she looked at zhao xu in disbelief. “how did you see through it with one look?”

zhao xu started to hesitate when he heard this question.

how did he know?

in his previous life, shen ze had told him about his sister’s embarrassing story.

At that time, Shen ze said that Shen Nian had been interrupted while she was making an alchemy product, so when she returned, she had forgotten to add the winter grass.

Naturally, an unlucky warrior in the future bought this bottle of Poison resistance and drank it, only to find out that it did not add points to himself, but instead reduced his attributes.

in the end, after a few hits, the soldiers who drank the anti-poison were directly declared dead.

later on, when the soldier came to settle the score, it was only thanks to shen ze’s initiative to offer compensation that the matter was settled.

zhao xu had just used the story that shen ze had told him to point out the other party’s problems so easily.

he had also successfully intimidated the other party.

“if you have the ability, you can make a color card according to the color of each finished product. over time, you will see the difference in the color card and understand what you are missing.”

zhao xu told her the method of using “shen nian” from his previous life. this way, he wouldn’t have to worry about the pressure from another source.

Sure enough, when Shen Nian heard about her method from her previous life, her eyes lit up and she fell into deep self-reflection.

zhao xu also picked up the other alchemy items.

“This is ‘blazing fire glue’, which is divided into two sections with 1-6 fire damage. According to the hint you gave me today, I can give you a half price discount.” Shen Nian said to Zhao Xu.

Half price was already close to the cost price, which was equivalent to not earning a single cent from him. He might even have to pay for a newbie like the other party. but zhao xu just shook his head and put it down gently.

It could see that the state of the blazing fire glue just now was very unstable, and it could self-destruct at any time.

When Shen ze complained to him back then, he had said that it was too little.

At this moment, Zhao Xu found it really hard to associate the woman in front of him with the heroic-looking Ran Li that came later.

However, for Shen Nian to make such a mistake, it also showed that the requirements for making alchemy items were extremely high.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu’s eyes fell on a bronze Gryphon statue.

he could not help but pick it up and observe it.

” this was given to me by an uncle at the stall next door. he was in a hurry to go home to get money for his child’s treatment, so he asked me to keep an eye on the stall for him. ”

“Who knew that the other party would disappear without a trace after lending me two bottles of antidotes, even abandoning his stall. These things were left behind by the other party as collateral. I heard that they were stolen from some mysterious tombs.”

When Zhao Xu heard this, he immediately understood.

At this time, the other party had fallen into the simplest and most primitive scam. He did not expect that the players had received this level of education in the first month of the game’s opening.

zhao xu didn’t think too much about it. he immediately used the golem goggles on his ear and cast a detection spell.

all of a sudden, the information about the bronze griffon was sent directly into zhao xu’s mind.

was it really a magic item?