Thirty thousand gold coins was not a small number, and the Great Magician had asked for a one-time payment on the same day. In such a hurry, no black market merchant could come up with so much money in one go, so in the end, the batch of materials was divided into four parts and bought by the four of them. In the end, Luo Bu got a total of three dragon crystals.
Although the dragon crystal had the word "dragon" in its name, it actually had nothing to do with dragons. It looked very similar to ordinary crystals in appearance, but the two were completely different in value. Dragon crystals were generally more circulated among high-grade mages, so some people called it magic currency. However, it was not a magic material, and so far, no one had found any other use for it other than as a medium of exchange.
Dragon crystals had only begun to circulate among mages about two hundred years ago. Some rare magic materials were often very valuable, and it was very troublesome to use gold coins for transactions that were often tens of thousands or even millions of gold coins. From counting to transportation and storage, it was inconvenient. Therefore, a long time ago, mages began to look for a substitute.
The Magician's Association had tried many things, and later, they even asked several masters to specially design a special magic device to be used as a special large amount of money in the magic world.
This kind of magic currency had a good effect when it was first promoted, and it was very popular among mages. Unfortunately, good times did not last long. Two months later, a series of problems broke out with the new currency, and the most fatal one was the appearance of imitations. The Magician's Association had foreseen this before, and they had encrypted several parts of the core structure. However, there were masters among the people, and imitations began to appear on the market after one and a half months. At first, it was rough, but it soon became so fake that it could be mistaken for the real one. In the end, even the Magician's Association could not tell which was the real one and which was the fake one.
Therefore, the Sorcerer's Association had no choice but to upgrade the existing structure and adopt more complicated encryption methods. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, the devil grows stronger. Three months later, the new version of the currency appeared unexpectedly again. The new currency that the Sorcerer's Association had been vigorously promoting suffered a heavy blow, and its value plummeted. Many Sorcerers cursed at the losses. The Sorcerer's Association had no choice but to summon people to redesign the new currency again. After repeating this a few times, the Sorcerers could not stand it anymore, and the Sorcerer's Association had no choice but to stop the new currency.
Later, the mages tried some other substitutes, but the effect was not very good. Finally, they set their eyes on dragon crystals. As a special kind of crystal in nature, until now, no one knew how it was formed. It seemed that dragon crystals could be found near volcanoes, on plains, by rivers, and in forests, but the number of dragon crystals was extremely small.
In the early years, some mages were very interested in this magical crystal, but later, after some research, they were disappointed to find that the crystal had almost no elemental affinity, which also made it impossible to be used as a magic material. The enthusiasm of the magic world soon faded.
But now, the Magician's Association planned to use it as a currency, not to use it as equipment, so naturally, it did not matter how strong its elemental affinity was. In fact, as long as one thought about it carefully, almost everyone would think that dragon crystals were the best choice as a magic currency.
First of all, dragon crystals were rare enough that there were very few of them in the natural world, and their structure was very unique, which made them relatively stable. Secondly, the weight of the same volume of dragon crystals was only one-tenth of the weight of a normal crystal, which made it convenient to carry around. In addition, dragon crystals were almost the same size, and at the same time, they were inseparable … These characteristics of dragon crystals were destined to be excellent magic currency.
The current value of a dragon crystal was roughly around ten thousand gold coins, and three dragon crystals were exactly thirty thousand gold coins. Luo Bu took the huge sum of money from the black market merchant, weighed it in his hand, and casually threw it into his pocket. His casual action caused the wealthy merchants to stare blankly.
One of the kind-hearted merchants couldn't help but warn him, telling him to be careful of the bandits nearby. He also said that if he needed guards, he could help him contact the nearby mercenary groups. Luo Bu shook his head and expressed his gratitude to the merchant. The bandits who could steal from him had to be at least Grade 7, and there were no such powerful fellows near the black market.
Archmage was not in a hurry to leave after getting the money. It turned out that shopping was not necessarily just a woman's hobby. In the past, when Rob had no money in his pocket, he liked to wander around, but now that he had money, he couldn't help but touch here and there.
This black market called Shitty Alley was quite famous in Gudilesi City. It had a history of more than a hundred years. It was located in an alley behind the Prancing Horse Tavern. The only entrance and exit of the alley was in the wine cellar of the Prancing Horse Tavern. Therefore, one had to pay the owner of the tavern, Dave, to go in and out of Shitty Alley. Fortunately, the fee was not expensive, only one copper coin.
This bustling alley did not exist on the map of the university town, but in fact, anyone who had lived in Gudilesi for a long time would know about it. This was the largest black market in the university town, where there were a wide variety of goods traded. Occasionally, some contraband goods would appear, but most of them were luxury goods smuggled from other races. This was also the bottom line of Shitty Alley — no dangerous goods in the real sense were traded here.
It was also because of this bottom line that Shitty Alley could continue to exist. The ruler of Gudilesi University showed his benevolent side, turning a blind eye to this underground trading center that had been evading taxes. As a black market, it was indeed not easy for Shitty Alley to exist in the same place for hundreds of years. This also proved that the Free city-state was indeed the most tolerant and open existence among the three major human forces.
Rob was now touring in Shitty Alley. He was still dressed like that night by the lake, tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of eyes. Saint Roland's Brotherhood Academy of Magic had a history of nearly 900 years in Gudilesi, and this was their home field. Archmage did not know what kind of power they had in this city, but since they could arm a golem with materials worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, they did not look like people without a background. It was not surprising that such a guy had a few friends in the black market. If he was not careful enough, he was likely to be discovered here. Rob would not make such a low-level mistake.
Archmage wandered for a while, and the result was a little disappointing. The famous Shitty Alley seemed to be very ordinary. Compared with the Eye of the Fairy, the magic items here were far inferior in both quantity and quality. After walking for so long, Rob did not see anything that caught his attention. He did not stop until he walked in front of a water tank.
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