Chapter 62: Chance Encounter?
Each Scarlet Card could yield three items, and with the pleasant surprise of an Overlord Essence, Su Xiao’s hope for the Scarlet Cards was reignited.
However, after opening all three Scarlet Cards, he had secured his shampoo supply for the next six months.
Su Xiao suspected that contractors from the Apocalypse Paradise side had a habit of buying shampoo in bulk. Three Scarlet Cards, nine drawing chances, and six bottles of shampoo were pulled out.
“Meow, meow, meow!”
Beini tossed a bottle of shampoo, which slammed against the wall with a bang. In front of her, a small row of shampoo bottles was lined up.
A dog paw reached out and placed another bottle of shampoo in front of Beini, causing her to bristle with anger. This was what Bubu Wang had drawn.
“Did we just solo a shampoo factory or something?”
Baha kicked away the three bottles of shampoo in front of him. Clearly, contractors from the Apocalypse Paradise side used shampoo to fill their storage space, so they wouldn’t benefit the enemy after death. Contractors from the Reincarnation Paradise side did the same, but most chose dangerous items, unlike the Apocalypse Paradise side’s more refreshing approach.
After opening all 17 Scarlet Cards, aside from two Legendary-grade ores, the best reward was the Overlord Essence.
Su Xiao’s heart remained calm. Even if these Scarlet Cards yielded nothing, he had already made a fortune.
Storing the Overlord Essence in his storage space, Su Xiao prepared to sell some items first, then exchange for Overlord-grade equipment.
Beini was responsible for selling items, and this time, she was going to attend an auction organized by the Stone Fire Merchant Guild. She wasn’t there to buy anything.
Instead, Beini was there to collect data on equipment transaction volumes, recent demand trends among contractors, and real-time prices for various equipment grades.
Beini had sent over a dozen forms to the adventure group. Amu chose to ignore them. Bubu Wang glanced at them, basically couldn’t understand, and gave up. Baha’s head was buzzing from looking at them.
After reviewing the forms, Su Xiao felt it was unbelievable that Beini could lose money in business. This cat was flawless in timing and pricing when selling items, but when it came to buying, let’s not even mention it.
Beini handled all kinds of data reports clearly, but this cat loved risk investments and often lost so much she’d hide under the bed crying. No one was perfect—Beini was like this, Su Xiao was like this, and Bubu Wang, Baha, and Amu were the same.
“Meow~”
Beini went out looking beautiful to attend the auction.
Su Xiao glanced at Bubu Wang, then looked at Baha. As for Amu, that guy was happily eating.
“I can still join in the fun.”
Baha rarely went to the Trade Market, so he planned to go with Su Xiao to sell items. Bubu Wang went often; in Beini’s words, Bubu was a “voluntary” errand runner.
Bringing Bubu Wang and Baha, Su Xiao headed straight for the Trade Market. He hadn’t been there in a long time and wasn’t familiar with market prices.
In less than ten minutes, Su Xiao arrived at the Trade Market. The market was bustling with people and a bit noisy.
“Full-score white-quality firearm, 1200 Paradise Coins, don’t bother if you can’t afford it.”
“Buying Soul Crystals, unlimited quantity, permanent stall.”
“Looking to buy purple-quality melee weapons…”
Contractors of different ranks were shouting their wares or quietly negotiating prices. Some merchants who permanently set up stalls were tricking newcomers.
Su Xiao found a stall spot. He could now use stalls for free. Among the spoils from the Siren Star, only two skill scrolls needed to be sold: [Phantom Sound Technique (Epic)] and [Chaos Baptism (Legendary)].
[Phantom Sound Technique] was a Charm-type skill with strong control effects, similar to the illusion techniques from the Naruto World, but more domineering. Illusion techniques used chakra to interfere with the enemy’s five senses and disrupt their chakra, causing hallucinations.
Phantom Sound Technique, on the other hand, used sound conduction to directly damage the enemy’s brain tissue. During this process, the enemy would fall into hallucinations, possibly attacking teammates or doing even crazier things.
Besides these two scrolls, Su Xiao also planned to clear out his storage space. Some items of value but rarely used would be sold this time.
“Huh, this thing.”
Su Xiao took a scroll from his storage space. It was called [Sealing Scroll], obtained when he first entered the Holy Grail World after killing a Lancer.
[Sealing Scroll·None]
Quality: Light Gold
Type: Sealing Scroll (No ability sealed inside).
Effect: Can seal one ability. This ability can be stolen from a corpse within 10 minutes of death. The enemy must be a living being (abilities from energy beings like Heroic Spirits cannot be stolen). The corpse must maintain over 60% integrity.
Tip: The highest ability level that can be sealed is Dark Purple.
Tip: Sealing an ability consumes 800 Mana Points + Soul Crystal (Medium) × 3 + 10,000 Paradise Coins.
Rating: 280 points.
Introduction: An extremely precious sealing scroll, already unsealed.
The Sealing Scroll seemed great, but Su Xiao had tried many times and concluded that the abilities he wanted were too high in rank to seal, and sealing ones he didn’t want was a waste.
For this reason, the Sealing Scroll had been kept until now. Su Xiao felt it was actually quite useful, if only its quality could be higher.
Putting the [Sealing Scroll] away, if he ever obtained an item to upgrade its quality, this thing could definitely shine.
After searching his storage space, Su Xiao took out [Sacrificial Horn (No quality, no rating, special item)], [Filthy Blood (Bloodline Item)], and [Black Dragon Fang].
A total of five items. Among them, the one with the lowest quality and price was actually the Legendary-grade skill scroll [Chaos Baptism], which was a firearm-type skill.
As for pricing, Beini had already drafted it for Su Xiao. [Phantom Sound Technique] was priced at 1,670,000 Paradise Coins. Its buyer base was small, so the price couldn’t be too high. [Chaos Baptism] was priced at 970,000 Paradise Coins. Since many contractors used firearms, it wouldn’t be hard to sell.
As for items like [Sacrificial Horn], the cheapest was priced at over 3,000,000 Paradise Coins. The likelihood of selling these directly for Paradise Coins was low, and finding a buyer was entirely up to chance.
Just as the stall opened, a contractor passed by. After seeing the no-quality attribute of [Sacrificial Horn], he quickened his pace slightly. But upon seeing [Filthy Blood], he stepped back.
“Bro, any discount?”
“No.”
“Sorry to bother you.”
Within two minutes of setting up the stall, it was surrounded by contractors, most just watching. Su Xiao was long used to this.
After being surrounded for nearly half an hour, the contractors gradually dispersed.
“These… items… aren’t bad~”
A slow, lazy female voice came. Hearing the somewhat familiar voice, Su Xiao looked up and saw a woman wearing a purple witch hat—the Witch from the Traveling Group.
“Ten percent off… sell them all to me… how about it?”
The Witch seemed naturally alluring, but unfortunately, it had no effect on Su Xiao.
“These two, five percent off, that’s fine.”
“Not bad either.”
The Witch took out a Paradise Coin savings card worth 2,500,000 and transferred an additional 8,000 Paradise Coins to Su Xiao, buying [Phantom Sound Technique] and [Chaos Baptism] skill scrolls. Clearly, the Witch wasn’t using them herself but planned to resell them.
“Getting assassinated during teleportation… must have been very annoying.”
The Witch winked at Su Xiao, trying to maximize the effect of her Charm attribute.
“Oh?”
Su Xiao paused as he picked up the Sacrificial Horn.
“I want… this,” the Witch pointed at [Filthy Blood] and continued, “In exchange… I can tell you… some things.”
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