Starting with the sentries on the frontier

Chapter 66 You call this the healing system?

In short, I hope we can have a pleasant collaboration.

Zag made a polite remark, thus bringing this somewhat unsuccessful but still relatively smooth transaction to a temporary close.

Fox readily agreed: "Yes, I hope we can work together successfully."

Then, following the principle of using connections whenever possible, Zag asked Fox for information: "Well, as you can see, this is my first time in the East Port black market. I'd like to ask you if you sell spellbooks here? I mean... any spellbook will do."

"Bullshit! This is your first time in the black market! What do you mean, your first time in the East Coast Port's black market!"

Amidst Snowball's grumbling, Fox first glanced at a person strolling nearby—the very same person who had just been frantically pushing [The Pale King's Eternal Slumber] and [The Lullaby of the Primordial Tree] on Zag. Then, lowering his voice, he said, "Except for that guy, yes, the one in the grey cloak. You noticed his mage robes were wrong, didn't you? That guy's definitely a fake! I mean, aside from him, most people with a fixed stall here are trustworthy, and the prices in the Eastern Territory are probably the cheapest in the entire eastern region of the kingdom! Unless you include Seastone Harbor in the North, the goods here are definitely the cheapest!"

After saying that, he smacked his lips somewhat reluctantly and added in a lower voice, "Although I don't want to say it, you're my big customer, you know. Look, that guy who was arguing with me just now, that dead raven, you can just call him Kovacs! He has a few spellbooks. If you want anything else, you can 'order' from him, and he'll get it for you."

"Hmph, if even he can't do it, then probably no one in the entire Eastern Territory can!"

No, how would I know about the style of a mage's robe?

Zag looked at the mage robe that was almost identical to the one Flint was wearing and couldn't see anything wrong with it.

Of course, he didn't care if there were any problems, since he wasn't planning to buy those two books anyway, and he already had the two illusion spells from them. So he thanked Fox and then turned and went to the stall next door run by Ecovacs.

"I heard you have spellbooks here?"

Upon meeting, Zhage went straight to the point and asked.

"I have one. If you want more, I can help you find them," Ecovacs said with a smile, glancing past Zag at Fox before looking away and saying to Zag, "Of course, you'll have to pay a deposit before I can get them for you. As long as you have enough money, I can get most of the common ones for you."

Zag didn't respond to Kovacs's question, but instead asked, "Can I see the book you have? I'd like to know what kind of spellbook it is."

"It's a restoration spell, I guess you've heard of it, it's called [Sunfire]... but you'll have to wait a moment, I can't quite remember where I put it..."

As he spoke, Ecovacs pulled a huge box out from under the table and began rummaging through it.

While Ecovacs was looking for something, Zag looked around again.

By this time, the black market had grown considerably, with a rough count of forty or fifty people. But Zag also noticed that several stall owners were packing up their belongings, seemingly preparing to leave.

"The stall fee is 20 gold pounds per session if it is fixed, which is very expensive, so some people choose to share the stall for only a few hours, which saves a lot of money."

Kovacs had placed the spellbook on the table at some point and, following Zag's gaze, looked at the stall owners he was observing, explaining.

"But isn't the market just starting to get lively now? Renting only for the first few hours might be a bad deal?"

Ecovacs replied, "The prices vary greatly between the most popular time slots and the beginning of the slots, while the slots near the end are much cheaper, and sometimes you can even find deals for as low as 1 pound."

"One gold pound? Why?"

"The rule of the black market is that once you rent a stall, it belongs entirely to you when the market opens. So you can do whatever you want with it, even if you use it to sell cheese rolls. As a result, some lucky people who have already sold out will sublet their vacant stalls at extremely low prices, making it much cheaper. The cheapest I've seen is 1 gold pound, which isn't even enough to cover the entrance fee. It's a great deal, isn't it?"

Zag nodded: "A practical technique."

Then, he picked up the spellbook on the table and weighed it in his hand.

It's still very thin.

In fact, he thought all spellbooks should be as ancient and heavy as Flint's, and look powerful—not the kind of power that could kill people, but "power," a dominant, controlling, and manipulative power.

But this book is not only very thin, it doesn't even have a cover.

That's right. It's more like a notebook than a book, made up of handwritten manuscripts bound together. When Zag was flipping through it, he even saw the owner's doodles inside—a cute little smiley face sun.

I have learned 【Blazing Sun Fire】.

Healing spells are now available.

and many more……

"You call such a powerful spell 'healing'?!"

Zag looked back and forth through the manuscript in a daze.

In fact, since the spellbook was recorded in manuscript form, Zag was actually able to understand what was written on it, although he didn't understand the meaning of some of the technical terms.

But what puzzled him was not the contents of the manuscript, but the effect of the spell that he instantly grasped after learning it: to use the power of the blazing sun to harm undead creatures.

How can this be cured?!

If Zag can understand the manuscript, Xueqiu can understand it even better.

It then followed along with the book for a few pages with great interest, before exclaiming, "No problem! Almost all spells used against undead are classified as healing. Who cares if they actually 'heal'!"

Kovacs chuckled and replied, "Of course, the power of the sun itself falls under the category of 'healing,' after all, it's humans, not undead, who set the standards for magic. Unless you're undead, then the power of [Sunfire] is indeed comparable to a destructive spell, hmm... I don't think you're quite like that."

Although Zag had already learned [Blazing Sunfire], he still pretended to ask, "How much is this book?"

Kovacs replied, "Ten gold pounds if you want."

"Ten gold pounds!?"

Zag immediately became alert.

Flint's spellbook was offered at a "friendship price" of 600 shillings, which is 30 gold pounds!

But Snowball was already chattering excitedly: "Quick! Buy it! Buy it, Zag! This is a genuine spellbook! Even though it's handwritten, who cares! The content is the same anyway! And the higher the level of the spellbook, the more likely it is to be handwritten, it's just that this one is copied rather hastily! But it's cheap! Only 10 gold pounds! 10 gold pounds!"

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【Sun Fire】: 【Sun Fire】 is one of the most famous healing-type offensive spells. Although it is an apprentice-level spell, it is extremely powerful against undead creatures.