The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Chapter 1919 Bone City Market

"No, it will cost thirty bone coins. You should know that I am the only place in the whole Bone City that has the brain stone of the long-bearded monster." A Samlan merchant tapped the jar in front of him with his fingers that were constantly oozing with mucus, and then said confidently: "If you don't believe me, you can go somewhere else to have a look. I believe you will come here in the end, and then it won't be solved by thirty bone coins."

Leo looked at Samlan, who had a lion's head, an octopus-like body, and countless tentacles, and then looked at the water ball wrapped around Samlan's body. Without bargaining, he took out thirty bone coins, took the jar full of the brain stone of the long-bearded monster on the table, turned around and left the stall, and walked towards other stalls.

After Leo walked towards the Bone City for about seven or eight days, the Abyss races and the tribes of the Fallen World settled here became more and more numerous. Their tribes and settlements were no longer as scattered as before, and it took several days to see them. Their settlements were more like well-divided suburbs outside the city, close to each other, and some were even separated by a street.

In addition, there were many more Order Guards composed of Abyss Serpents patrolling this area, and these Order Guards also built large barracks here. Each barracks was composed of tens of thousands of Serpent Guards, and many of them had reached the level of Level 5 Psychics. From all indications, these Serpents could also obtain the blessing of the Law of Order from the golden light covering the entire land. In this way, even if their combat effectiveness could not be compared with that of Demigods, it was definitely not much different.

It is precisely because of the existence of these snake guards that even though there are tens of millions of Abyss races and Fallen World races living here, the social order can still remain relatively stable, and it will not be full of chaos, fighting and death like other areas in the Abyss. If it were not for the obvious presence of the Abyss power around, and the various Abyss races full of pollution everywhere, people might have the illusion that this place is no longer in the Abyss.

Because there are a large number of Abyss races and Fallen World races living here, there are also spontaneously formed market-like areas here. Products from various regions of the Abyss can basically be found here, and the people who bring these goods here are some Abyss races in the Abyss who like commercial transactions, just like Samlan who traded with Leo just now.

Samlan is an Abyss creature with a lion head and an octopus body. It is also a very prosperous Abyss middle race in the Abyss. They are mainly attached to an Abyss upper race called Stone Spirit.

This kind of stone spirit is produced by a unique spirit-infused rock in the abyss. It can connect with other stone spirits from birth and learn combat skills directly from other stone spirits. As the stone spirit grows up, it can even borrow the power of other stone spirits. When it grows into a stone spirit king, it can integrate all the stone spirits connected to it and become a stone spirit demon.

So the stone spirit is actually a rare group abyss creature. Even if the power of a single stone spirit is not particularly strong, once a conflict occurs with one of the stone spirits, it will need to face a group of stone spirits. The number of such a group of stone spirits is thousands when it is small, and even millions when it is large. In the end, even if these stone spirits are defeated, they will not get any benefits, but only a pile of broken stones. Therefore, few abyss creatures in the abyss will provoke stone spirits.

The reason why Samlan is attached to the stone spirit is mainly because the stone spirit can provide them with stable things. Samlan is very special. They don’t need to eat anything. They only need to absorb the spiritual power emitted from other life forms. The spiritual connection between stone spirits can stably produce a large amount of spiritual power emitted, which is the most stable food source for Samlan.

So in the early days, Samlan had thought about enslaving the stone spirits and producing food for them, but in the end, he was almost wiped out by several stone spirit demons. In the end, he had to sign the Abyss Contract and become a subordinate race of the stone spirits, using their talent for business to trade bone coins for the stone spirits in Bone City.

Leo was not surprised that there would be currency in Bone City. In fact, when he learned that those Shudanians went to Bone City to trade redstone, he had already guessed that Bone City would issue its own currency. After all, currency can also be said to be a product of order rules. Since the Order Serpent wants to promote order in the Abyss, then currency that assists various commercial activities is naturally the best weapon.

However, what Leo did not expect was that the currency of Bone City could not be regarded as just currency, but more like a strange item in the Abyss.

The material used to make this currency called bone coin is the thoroughly purified bones of the Abyss Superior. From the outside, this bone coin looks like a crystal clear gem, and there is a trace of the power of the law of order in the bone coin. This is the only criterion for distinguishing the authenticity of the bone coin.

For most of the abyss races, the value of bone coins is almost the same as that of stones on the roadside, or even lower than those stones. At least those stones will not hurt them, because the order laws in the bone coins will hurt them. If they hold the bone coins for a long time, their palms will feel pain like being branded, and even the patterns on the bone coins will be permanently branded on their hands, so most of them will carry the bone coins in bags to avoid direct contact.

For the Stone Spirits, the power of the law of order contained in the bone coins can strengthen the spiritual connection between the Stone Spirits, and can play a very important auxiliary role in the process of the Stone Spirits evolving into the Stone Spirit King, so they let their vassal race Samlan constantly trade bone coins from the Bone City.

All of Leo's bone coins came from the Abyss races and Abyss creatures that he had killed before. At that time, he didn't know what they were, but he felt that the power of the law of order contained in these bone fragments was novel. Later, he learned that these were the unique currency of the Bone City. He was a little annoyed because he lost a lot of these bone coins on the way, leaving only some bone coins with better appearance, and the number was not large, only more than 200 pieces.

When passing by a market, he saw the Abyss races using that kind of bone coins for trading, so he was curious about these things that were used as commodities, so he also had the idea of ​​entering the market to buy something, so he stopped for a while and strolled around in this market. Because there were a large number of Order Snake Guards responsible for the order in the market, even if the market was full of various forms and extremely dangerous Abyss creatures, it could still maintain superficial order and safety.

Not long after entering the market, Leo took a fancy to a product, or the only product he knew. This product is called brain stone, which is produced from the brain of an abyss creature called longbeard monster.

Longbeard monster is a parasitic creature in the abyss. It has no wisdom itself, but has very powerful mental abilities. Once prey approaches them, they will use their mental abilities to control the prey, and then parasitize on the prey and gain wisdom from the prey's brain.

After killing the longbeard monster, a special stone can be removed from its brain. Although this stone is the core of the longbeard monster's mental ability, it does not have any power itself. For most abyss creatures, this stone can be burned to produce a kind of smoke, and this smoke will make people who smell it enter a state of calmness that cannot be described in words.

However, for Leo, this brain stone has another function, which is to make wizard potions specifically for enhancing spiritual power.

However, what puzzled Leo was that the formula of this mental potion did not come from the abyss knowledge in his mind, but appeared out of thin air after seeing the brain stone, as if the memory related to it had been sealed before, and suddenly awakened just now.

Although he was puzzled by the memory related to the formula, this was not a good place for him to think about his own problems, so he bought the brain stone and kept it, and then continued to walk around the market as planned.

After that, he bought a few more items, all of which were related to wizard potions without exception, and they were all the same as the previous brain stone. After seeing those items, a potion formula related to them instantly appeared in his mind.

After walking around and finding that there was nothing else worth paying attention to, Leo prepared to leave this market and go to the next market.

But then a commotion in the market attracted his attention. He saw that many people who were trading in the market stopped trading and began to move towards the largest skeleton tent in the market.

Leo remembered that the curtain of the skeleton tent was down, and he didn't see any goods. But now it seems to be open for business, which makes him very curious. What is sold there that attracts the abyss races in the market.

He walked over there with curiosity, but when he got there, it was already crowded with various abyss races, and even many abyss races were suspended in the air.

Leo also flew into the air, and his flying action made the surrounding abyss races look sideways, and some abyss creatures felt offended and seemed to want to do something, but before they could do anything, Leo guided the power of the demigod abyss vines with his fingers to cover the surroundings, scaring all the abyss creatures flying in the air to fall to the ground, and no one dared to fly in the air like him, which made Leo particularly eye-catching.

However, Leo's attention was now on the abyss creature sitting in the tent. This abyss creature looked very much like the evil creatures in other worlds. It was skinny and bony, and it felt like a layer of bones wrapped in skin. A large number of bones protruded outward, looking like a pile of sharp blades. There were seven or eight pairs of horns on the huge head that was completely disproportionate to the body. Each pair of horns was densely engraved with a large number of blasphemous words from the will of the abyss. If you stare at it for a long time, your mind will quickly wear out, and eventually it will be polluted by the blasphemous words and become a madman who has lost his mind.

"Quado Demon? It's actually a Quado Demon!" Leo quickly recognized the origin of this abyss creature and couldn't help whispering.

When the Abyss mentions trading, the first thing that comes to mind for all Abyss creatures is not the Abyss races with trading talents like Samlan, but the Abyss aliens like the Quador. It can be said that all things involving trading in the entire Abyss are related to the Quador. They are also the direct or indirect providers of all goods in the Abyss. Almost more than 90% of the commercial activities in the entire Abyss are supported by the Quador tribe.

Compared with the middle races like Samlan, the Quador has a much higher status in the Abyss. Their bloodline is very ancient, so ancient that they were born in the Abyss before the Abyss Serpent appeared.

They are extremely long-lived, or immortal, as long as they don't encounter any accidents, they can live forever. It is said that among their tribes, there are still the first batch of Quado demons born in the abyss. Because of this, they have mastered most of the secret knowledge in the abyss, including the core secrets of some of the abyss superior races.

Perhaps it is precisely because they have eternal life and a lot of secret knowledge that their power is weakened to the extreme. In a sense, Quado demons are also the weakest tribe among all the abyss superior races.

They are not good at strength, but they have taken a different approach and regard trading as their foundation and self-protection ability. The goods they trade can be ordinary items or some wishes. As long as they can take out items that make them excited, they can trade anything. It is said that they once traded an elderly abyss superior who was powerful enough to compete with the lord of the abyss.

The reason why they have such an exaggerated trading ability is entirely because they are the only one among all the abyss races that can communicate directly with the abyss and obtain trading objects directly from the abyss through trading, as if they are the embodiment of the abyss trading law.

Many abyss races covet this exaggerated trading ability, but now no abyss superior race dares to capture the Quado Demon and enslave him to serve them, because the last abyss superior race that did so has been directly wiped out by the abyss, and what the Quado Demon did was just to use the oldest Quado Demon as a trading object and reached a deal with the abyss will to wipe out an abyss superior race.

The strong revenge of the Quado Demon is their best protective color. As long as they cannot kill all the Quado Demons in the abyss at the same time, no abyss race dares to risk the entire race being wiped out by the abyss and attack the Quado Demon. The Quado Demon also knows their position very well. They have always made deals with various abyss races and never intervened in various struggles and fights in the abyss.

For ordinary abyss creatures, encountering a Quado Demon is an opportunity. As long as they can offer a trading item that makes the Quado Demon excited, the abyss creature may receive a blessing of the abyss will from the Quado Demon, which is enough for ordinary abyss creatures to complete a bloodline evolution. This is also the reason why such a big commotion was caused in the market just now.

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