Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1628 Huge Disparity
As for the funding issue, even the floating city is already under construction, Xia Duo is afraid of spending more?
What's more, if the first order is negotiated, it means that Daxia Ling has established a relationship with Evereska. He is now spending money to import, and he may not be able to export to make money in the future.

Xia Duo has never forgotten what Said of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce said when he visited the Tower of Time some time ago-human magic items are very marketable in the world of elves!
It only needs to make some modifications in terms of appearance according to the local cultural atmosphere to satisfy the aesthetics of the elves.

……

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo has already come to the side of the sky garden, and he can put his hand into the river seven or eight steps forward. Of course, it is impossible for Xia Duo to do this kind of thing.

He continued to walk a few more steps, and stopped beside a white stone pillar. In fact, he could already smell the strong fragrance of sun roses at such a close distance.

If you distinguish carefully, you can even smell the fragrance of jasmine in the night sky.

However, Xia Duo is already very familiar with the scent of jasmine in the night sky, and now he pays more attention to the sun rose. Compared with the soothing effect of the jasmine scent in the night sky, the sun rose also has a magical effect.

Xia Duo just took a breath, and felt a lot more energetic, and even the inspiration was looming. Although he has not yet traded the [Light of Inspiration] potion from Hilda Lanna, but at this moment, he is very interested in that kind of medicine. The magic potion is a little more trustworthy.

Taking a few more deep breaths, the looming inspiration seemed to be separated by a layer of tulle, and it never emerged. Xia Duo couldn't help being a little disappointed, but he also looked forward to the [Light of Inspiration] potion.

"Could it be that the [Light of Inspiration] potion is made from sun roses?"

It's not impossible!
For a while, Xia Duo had some thoughts about Sun Rose again, lamenting that the family background of the elves is so thick, even if they fall, there are still so many good things!
He looked around and found that there was a bookstore on the outside of the riverside trail in the north. He hadn't noticed it when he came at night, but now that he saw it, he couldn't miss it.

"Maybe you can find books about Sun Rose."

After making a decision in his heart, Xia Duo walked there without hesitation. As soon as he reached the door, he saw a young elf in a light green robe stumbling out of it.

Xia Duo dodged to dodge, and at this time there were waves of childish voices in the bookstore——

"Druid, dirty, living in the fields, no wife!"

Accompanied by the sound of singing in unison, seven or eight elf children rushed out of the room with a thin bamboo branch in their hands.

Xia Duo evaded again, and then saw the group of little kids chasing the young elf who seemed to be a druid, jumping up and down, beating and singing, and performing a scene of bullying.

And the young elf dodged as much as possible, while speeding up his pace and running towards the south without any resistance in the middle.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo really didn't know what to say. He could tell that the seven or eight elf children should also be of common origin, and if there were no accidents among them, there would be at least one druid.

Not to mention that almost all the food for the entire Evereska is provided by druids. In Xia Duo's hometown, there are no wells for the river!

What is it called?It is simply "too anxious to meet each other"!
At the same time, this also gave Xia Duo a clearer understanding of the situation and status of druids in the elf society of the main plane.

Obviously on the projection plane, druids are not so bad, how come they are like this on the main plane?

Xia Duo vaguely had an answer in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out. In the end, he could only sigh wordlessly, and then turned and entered the bookstore.

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"Humanity?"

The owner of the bookstore is a male moon elf. He may have gotten used to the arrival of humans, so he didn't even move his body. He just glanced at Xia Duo and reminded:
"All the books here are protected by mystic locks. Don't touch them if you don't buy them, let alone hide them secretly. Tell me which one you need, and take it back to read after you buy it."

Being regarded as a potential thief again, Xia Duo didn't take it seriously, knowing that this was the general prejudice of the elves. Of course, there may have been humans stealing here some time ago.

He thought he was not on the same side as the Nether people, so he answered and walked inside. In the process, he asked Misuo about the bookstore's situation with the help of high-level authority.

Although there is no information about the store owner, he still found the permission settings for related services in the store.

The books inside are indeed protected by mystic locks as the shopkeeper said, but local residents are free to take and read them, or even borrow them.

As for human beings, they can't even touch them, and the alarm will be triggered if they touch them. If they don't buy them, maybe the patrol team will come the next moment.

Of course, with Xia Duo's current high-level authority, he can take it and read it at will, but he doesn't want to be so high-profile yet.

If the shopkeeper doesn't know the goods, maybe he will call the patrol team, which will be even more troublesome.

Xia Duo didn't want to be troublesome, so he didn't reveal the fact that he had high-level authority, but acted according to the pattern of ordinary tourists.

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Looking at the rows of bookshelves, Xia Duo quickly noticed that this bookstore was essentially more like a newsstand on the streets of his hometown. Most of the books here were not related to magic, or had no direct relationship.

Moreover, many of them are monthly or weekly publications, such as the "Mella Fashion Review" placed in the most conspicuous place at the door of the bookstore, which clearly marked "Naturalism Year June Issue" on the cover.

Others include "Craftsmen's Reference" for industry information, "Upper Style" for entertainment and gossip, "Garden Structure" for architecture, and so on.

Of course, there are still many regular books in the bookstore, such as "Botany" for Druids, "Encyclopedia of Natural History" similar to an encyclopedia, and even dictionaries.

It's just that the dictionaries here are not dictionaries of different languages, but dictionaries based on ancient elf languages ​​similar to the "Ancient Chinese Dictionary" in Xia Duo's hometown.

Although most of the books here have nothing to do with magic, Xia Duo values ​​them more. It's not that he doesn't value magic, but the magic of elves is only of reference value to humans, and he already knows enough.

On the contrary, these books on humanities and social sciences can better demonstrate the inherent cultural and spiritual characteristics of a civilization.

Of course, value does not mean buying, Xia Duo's value is more focused on "value".

The bookstore reminded him once again that there was a huge gap between Netheril and the world of elves, which could not be smoothed out by just one or two under-the-box strategic magic.

In order to develop material civilization, spiritual civilization must not be left behind either. We must grasp it with both hands and be tough!

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After shopping around in the bookstore twice, Xia Duo finally chose a druid-related "Sun Rose Seedling Technique" and several latest periodicals.

Among them, "Sun Rose Seedling Techniques" is the only book that Xia Duo found in this bookstore with "Sun Rose" in its name.

There may be others, but it's nearly impossible to find without digging through them.

Xia Duo thinks that in the future, he can specially arrange for people to regularly collect books in the elf world, especially periodicals, which will be very helpful for him to understand the latest situation in the elf world.

(End of this chapter)