by Zhuang Bifan
Instantly, Lin Li could not help but feel somewhat uncertain.
"What is Uriel Forging Workshop?"
"It is also an equipment store specializing in all sorts of armor. It is only two streets away from here…"
"And then?"
"And then, they have the backing of the Marathon Family…"
"The Marathon Family…" Lin Li rolled his eyes. Boss Buck's luck was chasing up to his. Just by selling two pieces of armor, he could also provoke the Marathon Family. Thinking about the influence of the Marathon Family, Lin Li could not help but worry about Boss Buck. "Would there be any trouble?"
"It is nothing big, they just belong to the Marathon Family in name. However, in reality, they are under the management of a few businessmen that are not locals…" Boss Buck shook his head; he seemed to be somewhat down. "But, this time, I would have to spend quite a bit of money…"
Lin Li nodded his head, and did not continue asking. He waved his hand in annoyance at those two. "If there is nothing else, you can leave."
"Thank you… Thank you, Mr. Mage…"
They trembled in fear for a long time before finally hearing Lin Li say those words. At that moment, they did not dare to hesitate. Instantly, they ran away without leaving a trace.
"Sorry to trouble you, Mage Felic…"
"It's nothing…" Lin Li smiled, and did not say anything more. He could help Buck till this point, whereas for the future, Buck was definitely mentally prepared. There was no need for Lin Li to help him.
After Lin Li went back into the room, he concocted some star ink again.
He spent about half an hour on the mageweath for the two sets of armor. By the time he came out of the room, Boss Buck had just cleaned up the mess on the floor.
Just as he was about to start a conversation with Buck, he saw Sean's silhouette appear at the corner of the street.
This kid is finally back…
"Sean, here!" Lin Li stood at the entrance, and shouted from afar, "How was it, everything settled?"
"Everything has been settled, Mr Felic."
"That's good. This set of armor is for you, keep it safe. Get ready, and then we will leave." Lin Lin Li nodded, and placed a set of armor in his hands. Then, he turned around and bid farewell to Boss Buck, whom he had inconvenienced this morning. "Boss Buck, I really inconvenienced you today."
"It's nothing. You're welcome to come again, Mage Felic."
After they left the store, Lin Li went to rent a car from the car rental. On the way there, he also went to Azalez's house, and delivered ten pieces of Eternal Adamantine that he had promised him yesterday.
After everything had been done, Lin Li drove the carriage and left Alanna heading towards the Fire Plume Ridge…
…
The distance between the Fire Plume Ridge and Alanna was about half a day's journey. Setting off from Alanna, they'd pass by Blackhills Town and follow the outskirts of the Forest of Whispers heading southwards. If the carriage was fast enough, it would only take a maximum of two hours before they started to feel the temperatures of the Fire Plume Ridge.
The location of Blackhills Town was very advantageous. It was right next to the low-level adventurer's haven, the Forest of Whispers, and in close proximity of the Fire Plume Ridge, which was full of materials. The travelling adventurers and traders had given the inns overwhelming patronage.
Within a radius of 100 miles, the Fire Plume Ridge should be the area that had the rarest materials in the highest abundance.
It was only extreme environments such as the Fire Plume Ridge's one that could produce rare materials in high quantities. All sorts of rare herbs and ores, as well as magical beast hides, that were sold for high price could be found here. Most of the adventurers that could explore here had some backing from their families.
The Fire Plume Ridge did not only produce black lotus. In it, there were some rare materials that could even make Lin Li excited. For example, the Infernal Magic Iron, the best material for creating fire-attribute magical weapons, could be found deep in magma. This was not something common. Just any piece of Infernal Magic Iron could be forged into a magical equipment that was incomparable in power. The magical strength contained within was at least at the level of a Magic Shooter. The magical gemstones were also of top quality. Just any one of them would be stronger than Andoine's Crystal of Eternity.
If they were lucky, they could even find the Flame's Heart. That was the purest essence of fire. Whether it was for forging or for magical enchantments, it was the best of the best. With just a bit of the Flame's Heart, one could bestow equipment with powerful fire abilities.
With the rarity of the Infernal Magic Iron, Lin Li could not help but be excited.
When he was in the Endless World, he could be said to be the ric.h.e.s.t person. He had several private mineral veins, but he drooled over the Infernal Magic Iron. The requirements for mining such a rare magical metal were too difficult. An average person would not even have the chance to discover it, so how could they have the ability to mine it?
However…
The things that could not be done in the Endless World had a chance of succeeding in Anril…
Before leaving for the Fire Plume Ridge, Lin Li specially went to the Omniscient Tower to find information related to it.
Who knew that with this search, he found traces of a clue.
It was the diary of an archmage. According to the memories of this archmage from three hundred years ago, he followed a team of adventurers to the peak of the Fire Plume Ridge when he was younger, and challenged a level-16 Ore Devouring Beast.
Frankly, from Lin Li's view, there was nothing much about the fight. The archmage only had the strength of level-12 at that time. When facing the level-16 magical beast, he'd only showed his face before rocks rolling down from the summit broke his leg. The whole battle had nothing to do with him, and he relied on his powerful teammates to survive.
However, within these few phrases, Lin Li found two interesting points.
According to the memories of the archmage, the Ore Devouring Beast's body would be covered in magma when it appeared. Just a slight shake would cause fill the sky with a rain of fire.
This was an important point. A creature like the Ore Devouring Beast did not require severe living conditions. It could walk in the searing heat, or rest in a cool cave. The only important condition was that their living environment required rare mineral veins. The stronger the elemental strength contained within these mineral veins, the stronger the Ore Devouring Beast.
The body full of magma also meant that the Ore Devouring Beast lived within the magma.
Furthermore…
The memories of that Archmage also hinted that the Ore Devouring Beast had also summoned a Meteor Shower.
This was an equally important point. The strength of Ore Devouring Beast came from the rare ores that it devoured. If it consumed Ice Crystal Metal, it would have magical elements of the ice attribute in its body. The spells that it used would also be something like Crystal Nova.
Since it unleashed Meteor Shower, the rare mineral veins that it devoured would naturally contain magical elements of the fire attribute.
An Ore Devouring Beast that lived in the magma and devoured a rare fire-attributed mineral vein. All of the signs hinted that the Fire Plume Ridge had a high possibility of containing an Infernal Magic Iron mineral vein.
When the carriage entered Blackhills Town, it was close to dusk. Lin Li looked at the sky, and decided to stay at the town for a night first.
The Fire Plume Ridge was unlike the Forest of Whispers. There was no knowing what trouble might arise if they headed over at night..
"Two rooms." Lin Li stopped the carriage, and brought Sean into an inn that was rather clean. When he asked for the rooms, he even emphasized it once more. "It must be two rooms!"
The experience at Blackhills Town previously had terrified him.
In Lin Li's mind, Sean's snoring had already surpassed the realm
of noise. It was a torture that could not be tolerated by humans. Lin Li could even bet that if a dragon were to share a room with Sean, it would also not be able tolerate the torturous sound.
Luckily, this inn's business was not as good as the previous one's. Lin Li managed to get two rooms without a problem.
"Oh, yes. Please bring us some food later," Lin Li instructed a maid before entering the room.
"Yes, Mr Mage."
Lin Li remembered something when the maid addressed him as "Mr.Mage".
It seemed that the leather armor that was painstakingly made had not been worn yet…
After returning to the room, Lin Li opened up the Ring of Endless Storm, and retrieved the leather armor that he had crafted in the day.
Speaking of which, this was the first time that Lin Li had worn something else other than robes ever since he had came to Anril.
When he transmigrated, he was already wearing the Robe of Wrath, and had already been wearing it for almost half a year. From the Sunset Mountains to Jarrosus, and from Jarrosus to Alanna, all the way till some time ago, when he changed into the Robe of the Void.
Lin Li, who'd got used to wearing robes, felt somewhat uncomfortable after wearing the leather armor…
"You're… You're Mr Felic?" Sean had a shock when he was having dinner.
"Duh…" Lin Li wanted to smash a plate on this fella's head. He merely changed clothes, was there a need to exaggerate it?
This time, he might have misunderstood Sean.
Lin Li was clad in a suit of tight-fitting red leather armor, with sharp daggers on his leather boots, a crossbow on his back, and a quiver at his waist. There were two Vampiric Fang Bolts amongst them. By walking around with this image, who would have imagined that this guy was a mage that wore a robe and carried a magic staff if he did not say it himself?
After being tossed around for half a day in the carriage, Lin Li felt exhausted. He dismissed Sean to the room after having dinner. He closed his door, and prepared to have a good sleep to rejuvenate himself so that he could take a good look at the Fire Plume Ridge to see if there were really that many rare materials for him to gather…
Just when he had laid his head on the pillow, there was clear "PAK" coming from downstairs…
"F*ck…" When Lin Li head this sound, he immediately felt like smashing his head against the wall. The last time when he was at Blackhills Town, it was also a slap that made him not have a good sleep. He really felt like blasting a fireball through the floor and asking those fellas: "Are you f*cking gonna let me sleep?"
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Chapter 172 - Exchanging With Lives
"It's the middle of the night, are you gonna let me sleep…"
Lin Li opened the window in a depressed manner, and saw that there were a few carriages that stopped outside the front of the inn. A group of fellas wielding their weapons came down from the carriages one after another. There were more than ten people in this group, and they looked threatening and malicious. Even if Lin Li was blind, he knew that they were not here to stay at the inn.
What made Lin Li feel odd was that these people were not bandits, though they were also looking malicious and using weapons. Lin Li could distinguish who was a bandit and who was an adventurer.
The leather armor on these people were inscribed with a pair of interlocking swords as their logo. This should be the logo of a certain group of mercenary corp. It was like Silver Hand that had a sword and the Ruby Moon Mercenary Corps that used a red crescent. As for which group this was, Lin Li had no clue yet…
And the last person that came down from the carriage was even a mage.
Lin Li was shocked. A mercenary corp that had mages was uncommon…
Within Alanna city, the prowess of a mercenary corps was usually determined by the number of mages they had. Why was Elijah doing well? It was because he had a team of more than ten mages that had powerful magic strength under him. Some of them were even archmages. Elijah relied on this strength to barge his way through into the top ten mercenary corps in Alanna.
At this time, Lin Li had no choice but to admit that this was not a weak mercenary corp.
The boss of this inn was really unlucky. He was slapped till he could not even differentiate his directions. Half of his face was swollen; it was like a bun was shoved into his face. When he spoke, it was as if there was air leaking out. "You… What do you want?"
"It's none of your business, scram!" The one that struck him was a young bandit that looked fierce and tough. Before the inn's boss could finish speaking, he was kicked, and sprawled on the floor.
"Brothers!" The bandit kicked the boss, and turned back, pointing at an inn. "Whoever catches that woman, I will let him have some fun first!"
"Ok!" The bandit's words of incitement were like throwing a piece of meat in the middle of a pack of wolves. The group of adventurers' eyes immediately turned red, and they rushed into the inn growling and snarling, fearing to be the last.
The trampling footsteps came from the bottom. Lin Li released Warlock's Eyes and sent them to watch the events in the corridor. At the same time, his gaze was set upon the mage that was at the entrance of the inn.
The mage was in his forties. His face was so pale that it did not have the color of blood. It looked like he was a zombie that had just crawled out from the graveyard. His body was emitting an evil yet cold aura. This feeling naturally made Lin Li remember the undead creatures at the Shadowglen…
But, most importantly, based on what Lin Li saw, the mage was at least level-14. He was at the border of entering the realm of archmages.
Lin Li thought for a long while, but he could not recall which mercenary corps in Alanna city had the strength to recruit a person that was so close to the level of an Archmage.
Just when Lin Li was pondering, a group of adventurers had rushed to the second floor.
From the Warlock's Eyes vision, Lin Li could clearly see that there a total of nineteen adventurers. There were ten warriors, six thieves, and three archers. If the mage that was downstairs was included, it would be exactly twenty people.
The thief that struck was the leader of this group of people. He was holding a dagger in each of his hands, and when he came upstairs, his whole body gave off a murderous aura.
"Bam!" When the thief came up to the second floor, he immediately kicked open the door that was next to stairs.
"What you are doing!?" A trader was staying inside that room. When the thief kicked the door, there was a scream coming from the room.
"Shut up! If you wanna live, then continue sleeping!"
After threatening the trader fiercely, the thief then signaled to his underlings. "Continue searching, you must find that woman!"
"Yes!" With the command from thief, a group of adventurers became even more outrageous, kicking the doors. They did not care what the other party was doing, they just unsheathed their weapons and chased those people out.
"Seems like I won't get to sleep tonight…" Lin Li sighed; he looked rather annoyed.
By judging the situation, it was a matter of time before it was his turn…
As he had expected, a big mustached man kicked open his door in the next moment.
This big mustached man was tall and buff. He held an axe in each of his hands. His tanned face was filled with killing intent. He looked as though he was fiercer than Sean, the human magical beast.
The big mustached man raised both axes when he just came in. "Get out!"
"Oh…"
Lin Li did not resist. Since he'd already been woken up by them, he might as well take a look at what was going on.
As he followed the man with a big mustache out of the room, he saw that most of the guests of the inn had already been chased out. The majority of them were still thin pyjamas. With the addition of fear, all of their faces were as pale as a sheet of paper. They were trembling in the corridor as though they had malaria…
The inn was in a mess. A group of malicious adventurers were chasing people
out of their rooms. That violent manner made it seem like they were not chasing humans, but draught animals. There was some resistance, which was met with beatings. Within a few seconds, some of the people had already been hurt.
The thief stood at the corridor, and silently stared at the crowd.
"Mr Felic…" Sean was also chased out. Even though he had the power of a level-ten warrior, he would not make a move without Lin Li's orders. He was being escorted by two archers, walking out of the room. His voice carried a hint of request for instructions.
"No rush, we'll see how it is first." Lin Li smiled; it was as though he did not pay attention to those adventurers beside him.
In fact, he had no need to pay attention to them.
Among the people that came today, excluding that weird mage, most of them had the strength of around level-ten, including that thief. They might not be able to beat Sean, much less if Lin Li were take action.
"Shut up!" Just when the two of them had spoken a few words, a warrior that was at the side recklessly shoved Lin Li. If this scene was to be seen by Mason, he would be so terrified that he would have cold sweat…
Anyway, Lin Li's feelings were those of curiosity. He actually did not lose his temper after being shoved by the warrior, which was rare. He just conscientiously embraced his head and stood at the side with Sean.
"Captain, we only found these few!"
This carpet sweeping method of searching came to an end quickly. The voices came from one of the rooms. Lin Li curiously raised his head and looked over. He saw a group of people being dragged, and one of them looked familiar…
With just a glance, Lin Li had shock. Within the group of people that was dragged out, there actually was Hank's silhouette…
"Release me, you bunch of morons!"
After hearing this indistinct voice, Lin Li knew that he did not recognize the wrong person. It really was Hank! Why was this person speaking indistinctly? This was because some of his teeth were knocked out by a few bandits when he'd stayed Blackhills Town the last time.
Lin Li was astonished for a moment.
Even though Hank's strength was nothing much, he was still a member of the Silver Hand. Within Alanna, Silver Hand was a mercenary corps that was at least in the top three. Everyone was of the same profession, so how could this bandit not know it, and how could he be so daring to actually lay his hands on someone from the Silver Hand? From the looks of it, it seemed like he did not only want to lay his hands on Hank. Just now, wasn't this guy shouting that he wanted to catch a woman?
