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Chapter 67 Clues
Zag hesitated genuinely, saying, "I'm almost embarrassed to haggle over your offer."
Snowball crossed its arms and sneered, "Foolish dragonborn!"
Zag, on the other hand, automatically ignored Xueqiu's complaints.
His hesitation wasn't due to a pang of conscience that he shouldn't get something for free, but rather because he genuinely believed he could understand the manuscript!
This means that he can compare his current understanding of the [Blazing Sun Fire] technique with what he already knows, and then learn the contents of the manuscript on his own.
It's important to understand that while he can indeed learn any spell with a single glance, it doesn't mean he can summarize and synthesize the underlying principles into a coherent knowledge.
This led him to passively rely on cheat codes to learn spells, rather than truly understanding the mysteries of magic itself.
More importantly, it's hard to say whether there are risks involved in using a "golden touch" (a skill or method), but things "learned" in this way will never have one's own insights and explorations, and it will be difficult for one to create and delve into them on one's own.
The future of magic, or rather, the future of knowledge in all fields, must lie in exploration and creation.
Of course, the price of 10 gold pounds was indeed very tempting.
Hearing that the price of a spellbook at 10 gold pounds was being negotiated, Kovacs wasn't angry. He smiled and said, "This is an exclusive edition, the mage apprentice's notes from the Tower of Solitude. It contains some insights and techniques that are not to be shared with outsiders. 10 gold pounds is already very low. This is only a discounted price because you're that fat fox's big customer!"
"Okay... is this the only one? Do you have any books related to magic?"
Zag was still a little hesitant.
Ten gold pounds, or 200 shillings, could buy at least two months' worth of food—including Helford's!
Unexpectedly, as soon as the question was asked, Ecovacs, who was already prepared, took out a large pile of bound manuscripts from the box. They were all very simple "books" like "The Blazing Sun," without covers, with the pages simply sewn together with thread.
Many of the handwritings even look clearly from the same person!
"Here we have, 19 shillings a book, take your pick."
As he spoke, Kovacs laid out the manuscripts in a fan shape on the table.
Since there was no cover, Zag didn't know what was written inside, so he could only flip through the pages one by one, and even learned a spell in the process.
[Candlelight Technique] has been learned.
A very practical low-level spell that almost every mage knows—using magic to condense into a ball of light and release it. The ball of light will illuminate a small area like candlelight. The duration of the effect varies slightly depending on the user's ability, but it will never exceed two minutes. If it lasts longer, it will no longer be a "ball of light" but an unstable ball of magic with strong magical fluctuations, which will be somewhat dangerous.
This is the knowledge point that Zag saw in the spell manuscript describing the [Candlelight Spell] in his hand.
Snowball, however, looked down on these manuscripts and kept chattering: "Seriously, Stupid Dragon, you're not really going to buy this junk, are you? No way, no way!"
"These are definitely scraps of paper he pulled out of the Tower of Solitude's trash can! Look, these sheets even have wrinkles on them!"
"I'd rather not use this thing as a claw sharpening board even if it were free. You really want to buy it?"
Snowball's ramblings were naturally ignored, and Kovacs, seeing Zag intently examining one of the manuscripts, glanced at it curiously and exclaimed, "You're truly amazing! This is the only one in this batch of manuscripts that records the [Candlelight Spell], but because it's incomplete, I didn't sell it as a separate spellbook. So if you want to buy it, 19 shillings is a real bargain!"
Without realizing it, Ecovacs' tone towards Zag became more respectful.
Zag carefully selected the manuscripts, stacking them together with the previous book, "The Blazing Sun," and then said to Ecovacs, "Hmm, I'll take this one, and these few, plus 'The Blazing Sun.' Give me the best price."
Kovacs glanced at the book Zag had picked out and quickly replied, "35 gold pounds and 14 shillings, I'll round it down to 35 gold pounds."
Snowball grumbled discontentedly, "Why didn't they just make it up to 30 gold pounds...?"
"Good price, happy transaction."
Zag took out the money he had received from Rowan that morning, which he hadn't even had a chance to warm up yet, counted out 35 gold pounds, paid the bill, and then picked up the seven books, or rather, the seven manuscripts, with one hand.
Ecovacs smiled, his eyes narrowing, looking more like a fox than Fox next door: "It's a pleasure to do business with you."
Snowball flew around Zag's head in a huff, expressing its considerable possessiveness towards his savings: "You're insane! I can understand the 10-gold-pound copy of 'The Blazing Sun,' but the rest of those scraps of paper—are you crazy?! You're definitely insane! 35 gold pounds! How many dried fish could we buy with that! How much flour could we buy for Mrs. Marsh to make creamy fishbread!"
Zag couldn't retort, so he could only smile and look at Snowball. Snowball, enraged by the look, simply squatted on Zag's head and started yelling, "Stupid dragon! Don't forget that the money from selling those healing slime should all be mine! Without me, you wouldn't be able to get that tree spirit slime at all! How could you just take my money and use it to buy worthless paper! Stupid dragon! Meow!"
"Do you sell spellbooks? Or anything related to magic?"
"Hello, do you sell spellbooks?"
"Hello……"
With a snowball on his head that no one could see, Zag asked at several stalls before finally finding something worth stopping at a very simple stall.
"Yes, I have this. It's alchemy, and it contains several recipes. I just acquired it a couple of days ago!"
The stall owner was short and a bit chubby, with a friendly smile. He found a book for Zag that wasn't beautifully bound, but at least it wasn't as shabby as the manuscript he bought at Ecovacs.
Snowball remained perched atop Zag's head, looking down at the book the stall owner had brought out, and exclaimed, "《Healing Alchemy and Alchemy Recipes Explained》? What a rip-off! It's obviously a fake! There's no such thing as 'healing' in alchemy! Only a foolish Golden Palace would make that classification!"
As usual, Zag asked the stall owner, "May I take a look?"
The stall owner was fairly easygoing, replying, "Sure, but you can't see the recipes. You know, that's confidential, probably in the latter half of the book... Well, you can look at the table of contents to see what the recipes are!"
"Thank you for your generosity, I'll just take a look at the table of contents."
As he spoke, Zag opened the catalog.
Then, when he saw one of the entries, he froze on the spot, and the smile on his face vanished instantly.
"【The Blessing of the Sea God】?"
His tone contained doubt, but even more so, suppressed anger.
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【Candlelight】: 【Candlelight】 is an extremely simple illusion spell, not even worthy of being rated as an apprentice-level spell. It creates a floating ball of light by concentrating magical energy, illuminating a small area. The duration of its effect varies slightly depending on the user's ability.