Chapter 17
He walked to the door of Lilia's room, knocked on the door and reminded her, "Lilia, I have to go out to do something. I will be back at the latest in the evening. Don't run around."
After explaining everything, Mo Cheng left the tavern with his suitcase. The suitcase that came with him seemed to have undergone the same changes as his clothes. Living as a savage in the forest for nearly a month had caused the suitcase to suffer huge impacts and dents several times, but it always recovered quickly.
Mo Cheng had thought about the upper limit of the experiment, but he quickly gave up the idea. The suitcase and the things inside were the few things he brought from his hometown, and they were of great significance.
After leaving the hotel, Mo Cheng did not rush to the place he remembered. Instead, he observed the street. After a while, he chose to walk into a blacksmith shop with several high-quality weapons hanging at the door.
Ordinary, excellent, epic, legendary. The quality of weapons in the early stage of [Foreign Land] is very simple. Ordinary ones need no further explanation. Excellent ones are military-grade weapons that only elite armies are equipped with. Starting from excellent ones, they are magic weapons with constant magic properties.
As for epics and legends, Mo Cheng never thought about seeing them in the blacksmith shop.
Excellent weapons are the pinnacle of a blacksmith's craft. The excellent weapons hanging outside this blacksmith's shop as a signboard may be the product of this blacksmith's shop for several months or even years.
Walking into the blacksmith shop, the first thing that greeted Mo Cheng was a rolling wave of heat. An apprentice was constantly hammering the iron blank, trying to forge out the impurities.
Where the weapons were hung, there were several customers looking at the goods.
"Hit harder! Hit harder! How can you be a blacksmith with this much strength?"
The burly boss noticed a customer coming in, and kept looking at Mo Cheng, who was dressed in a priest's uniform , "Customer, if you want magic-related items, you have to go to the Gilded Rose on the other street. We only have simple weapons here."
He wondered if Mo Cheng had come to the wrong place. Although there were paladins in the Church of Light who could use sledgehammers to smash people's brains out, Mo Cheng's body was not particularly strong. He didn't look like one of the paladins who could kill a wild boar with their muscles.
Mo Cheng placed several steel wolf fangs on the table, "Steel wolf fangs, do you want them?"
The boss picked up a wolf tooth and observed, "It's not damaged or broken, and it's not the tooth of an old steel wolf. It was collected no more than a month ago, and it's of very high quality. Do you plan to sell it?"
Mo Cheng nodded, "How much do you want?"
"If you have five, I will buy them at one gold griffin each. If you have twenty, I will buy them at five gold griffins each, and I will also help you strengthen your equipment once for free. If you have less than five, I won't buy them. It would be a waste if you can't collect enough in a short time."
The number of Steel Wolf Fangs is useless if it is too small, and after the Steel Wolf dies, the activity of the teeth can only be maintained for two or three months . Once that time has passed, the effect is greatly reduced and they can only be used as defective products.
Only when a certain number of fangs are reached will the blacksmith shop spend money to purchase them. And this number often depends on the blacksmith's skill level and how many wolf teeth are needed to make a good weapon.
Each country in [Foreign Land] has its own coinage system. The basic currencies of the Principality of Aundair are the bronze eagle, silver lion, and golden griffin.
The currency exchange rate changes frequently, but the currencies used by ordinary people are mostly copper, silver, and gold. The purchasing power of a golden griffin in Hesen Town is about five hundred to one thousand in Mo Cheng's hometown.
Because it is located on the border of the Principality of Aundair and there seem to be rumors of conflicts with neighboring countries, it is normal for prices in this area to fluctuate greatly.
There are also currencies that are more valuable than the Golden Griffin, which are used for large transactions and are related to magic.
"Twenty wolf fangs, count them. No need for free enhancement, just pick me an ordinary weapon."
Mo Cheng did not bargain. The price offered by the boss was not high, but it was within the average. If he really bargained, he could only increase or decrease the price in silver coins. Although the Steel Wolf Pack was the overlord of the jungle, if they were to leave the jungle and face the bombardment of spellcasters or the charge of cavalry groups on the plains, they would be reduced to meat paste.
If there was a wolf king leading a group of more than 10,000 wolves, it would pose a serious threat to Hesen Town. But that was impossible, as the resources of the Hean Forest could not support a group of tens of thousands of steel wolves.
The money and goods were paid, and the one hundred gold griffins were quite heavy, but this weight was nothing to Mo Cheng. At the same time, in his other hand, he also held a one-handed sword with a scabbard, which was a gift from the boss.
"By the way." As they were about to leave the blacksmith shop, Mo Cheng turned around and asked, "What's your price for the Steel Wolf King's teeth?"
"No." The boss shook his head. "My skills are not good enough to use the teeth of the Steel Wolf King. The teeth of the Wolf King are several levels stronger than those of ordinary Steel Wolf. They are enough to be one of the main materials of excellent weapons. It would be a waste for me to keep them."
"I used to be an apprentice in Haytham City. I saw the price of buying Wolf King's teeth at that time. One tooth cost at least 500 gold griffins." The boss shrugged helplessly, "I don't have that much money."
Seeing that the boss didn't have the money to buy the company, Mo Cheng had no choice but to leave.
The teeth of the Steel Wolf King are the main material for making weapons. At the very least, they can obtain the two characteristics of [Sharp] and [Armor-Breaking]. There is also a high probability that the weapon can obtain abilities such as [Wolf Howl] and [Wolf King's Momentum].
Seeing Mo Cheng leaving, the boss showed a trace of regret in his eyes. He knew that Mo Cheng had the wolf king's tooth in his hand. But as he said, the boss was not able to forge the wolf king's tooth. For a blacksmith, it was like winning a lottery ticket worth 5 million but not being able to cash the prize.
When the boss turned around and was about to ask his apprentice to hammer , he glanced and found that several people who had been looking at the weapons on the rack but not buying anything had left at some point.
The boss's face suddenly changed and he wanted to catch up with Mo Cheng, but as soon as he stepped out of the door, he could no longer see Mo Cheng.
The boss had no choice but to shake his head and return to the blacksmith shop. "The Bloodfang brat wants to bully outsiders for money again."
The boss knew what kind of people those Bloodfang minions who often came here to look at weapons but had no money to buy were. He also knew that they would probably go back to get people and then ambush the priest to rob him.
In response, the boss could only sigh helplessly, "I hope you have better luck and don't really run into that guy."
Although the other party tried his best to hide it, the experienced boss could still see that the smell of blood was hard to conceal and the large number of steel wolf fangs that showed they were picked within two months all showed the danger of the other party.
"The people of Bloodfang wouldn't be so stupid as to rob a butcher with that much blood, right?"
On the other side, Mo Cheng, who had just got some money and greatly relieved his financial pressure, walked out of Hesen Town humming a song.
Although the pursuers sent by Viscount Joestar had some money on them, and Lilia also had the savings accumulated by her brother as a mercenary, the total amount of the two was not much.
The former was because he would not carry too much money on him for a hunting mission, and in order not to cause trouble, he did not even take the ring from the spellcaster. In this remote place, it would take a lot of time to find a suitable way to sell the stolen magic equipment.
Although my brother had some savings from being a mercenary, it was not much. The rewards and dangers of mercenary work were always equal. Even if he got a large commission, there would not be much left after paying for healing, supplies, and Lilia's tuition.
