Chapter 14 Auction House

Walking into the teleportation point, Nie Yan teleported back to Calore City, turned into a small alley, and entered stealth mode. Confirming that no one was following behind him, he twisted and turned in the alley before finally arriving at Kady's blacksmith shop.

Having learned from past experience, he would absolutely not reveal the location of Kady's blacksmith shop.

Nie Yan transported the bat teeth he had acquired in batches and sold them to Kady.

More than two hundred and thirty stacks were sold for four silver coins. In just over half an hour, two silver coins had turned into four silver coins. In addition, he also obtained more than nine hundred experience points. Nie Yan checked his level and was already at 5%.

After handing over all the bat teeth, Nie Yan continued back to Modo Town to acquire more.

When the players saw Nie Yan arriving as promised, they were afraid he would leave again, and they all rushed up to trade.

Modo Town became exceptionally lively because of Nie Yan's actions.

"Everyone, don't worry. I'll finish buying this morning, and I'll be back around eight o'clock tonight to buy more," Nie Yan advertised to these players. If they grind monsters all day, they will surely get a lot of bat teeth by evening.

He quickly acquired more than two hundred stacks, and the trading volume gradually decreased. He acquired another hundred or so stacks intermittently. When Nie Yan saw that no one was coming, he teleported back to Calore City.

Two thieves were suspiciously following behind Nie Yan. Nie Yan had acquired so many bat teeth in one go, and he still seemed hungry for more. It was difficult not to attract attention.

Nie Yan noticed that someone was following him, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly. The thief who could track him hadn't been born yet.

Nie Yan turned into an alley and entered stealth mode, quickly disappearing.

When the two thieves came up to look, Nie Yan had vanished.

"Where did that guy go?"

"Can't find him."

"Bro, what do you think that guy is doing buying so many bat teeth?"

"Who the hell knows? It's definitely not for leveling up his blacksmithing skill. You don't need that many bat teeth to level up blacksmithing. He's going to buy more bat teeth this afternoon. Let's take another look then."

The two thieves stood by the corner of the wall and said a few words before turning and leaving.

Near the wall not far from the two thieves, a figure slowly emerged, it was Nie Yan who had disappeared into stealth. Nie Yan was no more than two yards away from the two thieves, but the two thieves hadn't noticed at all.

Looking at the backs of the two thieves as they left, Nie Yan smiled coldly. Wanting to pry into his secrets was simply wishful thinking. He wouldn't be so idiotic as to expose the advanced blacksmith Kady. He turned and entered the alley.

After trading all three hundred stacks of bat teeth to Kady, the money in Nie Yan's backpack turned into seven silver coins. So much money at the current level was considered a fortune.

Nie Yan also ran to Carter Town and Night Charm Town to buy bat teeth, then sold them to Kady, earning twenty-six silver coins.

Nie Yan experienced a phrase: money rolling in.

"Tsk tsk, this is awesome."

Early-stage money is crucial to a player's future development.

In his previous life, that paladin earned nearly ten gold coins from this transaction. Nie Yan initially found it incredible, but now he deeply understood. Those players knew that Nie Yan was buying bat teeth at a high price, so they would definitely not sell the bat teeth to the NPCs anymore. He could earn even more money in the future!

With money, he had more confidence. Nie Yan walked towards the largest auction house in Calore City. What was auctioned there were at least bronze-grade equipment and various rare skill books and materials. Those who traded there were mostly teams that frequently went to dungeons.

Nie Yan first bought ninety fine silks at a slightly lower price by the roadside and stored them in the warehouse for mission use, then stepped into the auction hall.

The largest auction house in Calore City was built quite magnificently. Dozens of tall pillars in the hall supported the huge roof. The entire hall was a hundred yards in radius and looked like a magnificent temple.

He had been here many times in his previous life. Nie Yan easily found a corner position in the auction hall and sat down, picked up the bidder, and looked at the prices of various commodities on the magic screen in front of the seat.

Turning the pages one by one, various commodities were categorized and listed on the magic screen, making it easy for players to find what they wanted.

Nie Yan clicked on the miscellaneous items option. What was sold here were things that were common to all professions, such as daggers, small round shields, backpacks, etc.

Each player could equip five backpacks. The space of the backpacks was divided into sixteen grids, twenty grids, twenty-four grids, twenty-eight grids, etc. The larger the space, the higher the price.

Each player had a basic twenty-grid backpack, and on the market, the price of a sixteen-grid backpack was as high as a dozen copper coins. As for a twenty-grid backpack, the price was even higher, but now, money was not a problem for Nie Yan.

Money spent could still be earned back. Letting it rot in your pocket was the most worthless thing to do.

Nie Yan wanted to use this money to equip himself with the most perfect equipment.

There were only eleven twenty-grid backpacks being auctioned in the huge auction house, and each auction price was about twenty copper coins. Nie Yan bid on four twenty-grid backpacks.

Driven by Nie Yan, the price of the twenty-grid backpacks slowly rose. He finally bought four twenty-grid backpacks at a price of twenty-two copper coins each.

"Tailors really make money," Nie Yan couldn't help thinking. But to be a successful crafting profession, you must have connections. Relying on a guild, letting the guild constantly provide materials, they can practice their crafting skills with peace of mind. Tailoring is the same. Although many combat players also learn crafting skills, they are ultimately not as good as those professional crafting players.

Nie Yan hadn't fallen to the point of becoming a crafting profession player.

After spending one and a half silver coins, Nie Yan opened the page specifically for selling thief items.

His eyes searched, looking for things of interest. As long as it was useful, he would buy it without hesitation, even if it was slightly more expensive.

+3 Agility Bronze Soft Leather Leggings, +2 Strength Bronze Azure Leather Armor, +2 Balance Bronze Horsehide Boots, +3 Strength Bronze Silver-edged Dagger. Nie Yan spent a high price to buy four level 0 bronze equipment, and his body was completely new. All bronze equipment. Each of these four pieces of equipment was enough to bankrupt an ordinary player. If he hadn't earned so much money from that mission, Nie Yan really wouldn't dare to spend money like this.

After changing into the equipment, he checked the weight, sixteen pounds, which was still in a light load state and did not affect his movements.

Nie Yan also bought three thief skill books. The first, a passive skill, Stealth Enhancement, gained an additional 3 points to stealth and concealment; the second, an attack skill, Stun, stunned the opponent head-on for 3 seconds, and would not wake up after being attacked, skill cooldown time 30 seconds; the third, Backstab, unexpectedly stunned the opponent behind the enemy, lasting six seconds, but would wake up after being attacked, skill cooldown time 60 seconds;

These three skill books were basic level 0 skills for thieves, but each had a market price of up to twenty copper coins. Thieves were very poor in the early stages, and they were a pair of unfortunate brothers with mages, because buying skill books almost exhausted their money.

Thieves cannot be without skill books, but each skill book is very expensive, they can only live a hard life, save money to buy skills, and sometimes have to wear tattered equipment. Those thieves who are relatively rich in reality have to spend money on trading platforms to buy.

Only after getting through this difficult period and buying skills, the power of the thief's strong control profession will truly be revealed.

Before his rebirth, Nie Yan also slowly endured it, but now, he easily crossed this threshold.

After learning the three skill books, the skill bar was much richer. Nie Yan pulled the skill book page to see if there were any other skill books for sale. A rare skill book came into Nie Yan's eyes.

Skill Book: Parry.

Skill description: Use a dagger to parry the enemy's physical attack.

Skill casting elements: Action (weapon required)

Skill cooldown time: Thirty seconds.

User limit: Thief, Warrior, Paladin, can be used by any camp.

Nie Yan would not forget this skill book that many melee professions dreamed of. It was a treasure for melee professions. No matter when, in battle or PK, a parry skill was almost a life-saving skill.

The Parry skill was dropped by demon-type monsters, and the probability was not higher than one in 100,000.

In his previous life, only one or two out of a hundred level 60 melee professions learned the Parry skill, and its value was only slightly lower than that of Vital Strike.

No matter what, buy it!

Nie Yan glanced at the auction price, two silver coins, and it was still rising, with a minimum increase of 50 copper coins each time.

Most of those bidding for rare skills were wealthy players, or team or guild leaders. Many times, they didn't care about a few silver coins for a skill book.

Two silver coins and fifty copper coins, three silver coins, three silver coins and fifty copper coins...

The hot auction of the Parry skill attracted the attention of the players.

"It's a rare skill!"

"No wonder it's so expensive."

Three silver coins, the income a team gets from clearing an ordinary level 3 dungeon, is only about three silver coins, and the highest is only five silver coins.

No one had raised the price for a long time. If no one raised the price in ten minutes, this Parry skill book would belong to the person bidding.

"Four silver coins." Nie Yan raised the price once. He was determined to get this Parry skill.

"Four silver coins and fifty copper coins." Someone, I don't know who, raised the price once.

Such a price had already made most players daunted.

At this time, it was a competition of who was more willing to spend money. "Five silver coins." Nie Yan raised the price again. Anyway, he still had many opportunities to make money, and he didn't care about so little money.

"Damn, who is so rich, is it worth it? It's just a Parry skill book."

The players were already discussing privately. It was terrifying for a thief skill book to be auctioned at such a price.

"There are so many rich people."

After a long time, no one raised the price. It seemed that guy was scared off by Nie Yan's bid. Ten minutes later, the Parry skill book entered Nie Yan's backpack.

After learning the Parry skill book, Nie Yan spent another thirty copper coins to buy a bottle of poison for thieves to apply to daggers, which could be used three times. After being poisoned, the opponent's defense -10%.

After completing the purchase, most of the equipment he had previously acquired was also sold, and Nie Yan had sixteen silver coins left in his backpack.

With so many new skills added, with Nie Yan's familiarity with thief skills, he didn't need to practice at all, and he could use these skills very skillfully. His strength had increased a lot at once.

Compared to when he first entered the game, Nie Yan was more confident. With his previous life's game experience, he could set a future development route and then follow this route.

Nie Yan used the silk in his backpack to make ten bandages for emergencies. He also bought some bread and other things that could be used to restore physical strength. And he prepared a backpack of low-level instant recovery potions and slow recovery potions.

Intermediate Combat Bandage Skill: Skill proficiency 10500.

Where to level up next? Nie Yan immediately came up with several leveling locations, all of which were suitable for thieves to level up.