Free Web NovelChapter 1275: Chapter 90: As Long As You’re Happy
More importantly, if you want to identify the [???], you need to sacrifice the Ice King Set. In this way, the appraisal fee becomes terrifyingly high.
Not paying this appraisal fee does not mean the [???] cannot be used, but its purpose remains unclear. Who knows what this thing is for?
The most frustrating part isn’t even the appraisal fee. Su Xiao strongly suspects that once this thing consumes the Ice King Set, it will create a set better than the Ice King Set.
Su Xiao went through a lot of trouble to get the Ice King Set and also had to pay a high price, only to get a Mage Lord’s dream set in the end. That’s the result he least wants to see, but of course, it’s just his suspicion.
After weighing the pros and cons, Su Xiao decided to keep the [???] in the storage space and not deal with it for now. However, he sensed that this thing is not of ice attribute.
Su Xiao got up and headed out of his exclusive room. He first went to the trading market and rented a stall for 90 hours. He placed the "Moon God Silver Ring (Suit 1/2)" on the stall with the price yet to be determined, marked as negotiable.
After doing all this, Su Xiao took out a medal from his storage space, preparing to meet an old acquaintance.
...
In a remote district of Reincarnation Paradise, this street has a relatively old style. Reincarnation Paradise has various styles of districts, including modern streets, biological modification streets, Mechanical Street, etc.
The street is paved with neat stone slabs, and most of the shops on the street are closed. The Contractors on the street are few, entering this district feels like entering a small town in ancient Europe.
Bang, bang, bang...
The sound of an iron hammer came from a shabby shop. Two Contractors stood in front of the shop. They seemed to want to enter the shop, but the owner’s temper was too bad, and he directly kicked them out.
"Don’t wait anymore, this dwarf’s temper is too bad, it’s impossible for him to help us with forging."
A young man with yellow hair, chewing gum, spoke, his expression slightly unhappy.
"Be patient, like Zhuge Liang visiting the thatched cottage three times. This Master is worth our time."
A burly man with a beard tidied his tie. His full beard and a neat suit seemed incongruous.
"Bro, Zhuge Liang wasn’t the one who visited the thatched cottage three times. Have you even read the Water Margin?"
The young man with yellow hair showed disdain. Although his brother’s strength is ’very strong,’ his refinement is clearly lacking, at least according to him.
"Nonsense, it was Zhuge Liang. Could it be Song Jiang? You coarse person, stand farther away from me."
The bearded man pushed his brother, who slanted his shoulder and laughed roguishly.
"If you say so, fine. As long as you’re happy, damn it..."
"Coarse!"
The bearded man, resembling Li Kui, tidied his beard. No matter how neatly he tried, his full beard remained in a ’willfully arranged’ state, as if it had its own ideas.
"Don’t block the door!"
A loud shout came from inside the shop, the hammering stopped, and a dwarf clad in metallic armor with four fine lines on his head walked out. Although not tall, his body was as solid as if forged from metal.
"I’m in a bad mood now, you two, get lost."
The dwarf glanced at the two in front of the shop. Just as he turned to go back inside, he saw a man walking from the east side of the street.
Seeing the man walking from afar, the dwarf clenched his fists, and the armor on his body rattled, a terrifying aura spreading out.
"You, scoundrel!"
The dwarf was clearly enraged, and the man walking from afar was Su Xiao.
Su Xiao came up to the dwarf, smiling.
"Reed, the scenery in the Void is quite nice, isn’t it?"
Indeed, this dwarf was Brother Reed, who had been tricked by Su Xiao from the World of Xiya into Reincarnation Paradise.
"Void..."
Brother Reed clenched his steel teeth tightly. If it weren’t for the Forbidden Weapon rule in Reincarnation Paradise, he would have smashed Su Xiao’s Heavenly Spirit Cover with a hammer long ago. Unfortunately, he couldn’t.
"What? You didn’t reach the Void?"
Su Xiao glanced up and down at Reed. Reed didn’t seem to have changed much, but the cracks on his head had healed somewhat, likely a benefit of entering Reincarnation Paradise.
"I..."
For a moment, Reed didn’t know what to say, or rather, it wasn’t really Su Xiao who brought him into Reincarnation Paradise.
The coordinates Su Xiao set were indeed the Void·Demon Castle, but Reed was intercepted midway and brought into Reincarnation Paradise instead.
As for resentment, Reed didn’t really resent Su Xiao. After entering Reincarnation Paradise, he immediately paid a price to consult its final destination. Reincarnation Paradise’s reply was the Void, letting Reed know that Su Xiao didn’t deceive him back then.
But Reed was extremely unhappy, because he guessed that Su Xiao might have known all along that he would be intercepted by Reincarnation Paradise.
Reed had a lot he wanted to say in anger, but didn’t know where to start. Curse Su Xiao for not keeping his promise? The truth is, Su Xiao kept his promise.
"Why are you here? To laugh at me?"
Reed took a deep breath, suppressing his anger.
"Just a greeting between old friends."
"..."
Brother Reed opened and closed his mouth, and a moment later, he turned to head back into the shabby shop, with Su Xiao following closely behind.
"Bro, this is our chance. That dwarf is a plot character from some world, and this guy is a Contractor. We could use him as a breakthrough point..."
The yellow-haired guy continued speaking until the bearded man placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Let’s go."
"Huh?"
The yellow-haired guy was bewildered. They had spent valuable stay time waiting here, and now they were giving up so easily?
"That madman is the Night of Beheading."
"!"
The yellow-haired guy’s facial muscles twitched. He had definitely heard of the Night of Beheading, a notorious figure in the Third tier, who had single-handedly wiped out a medium-sized adventure group.
"Then... should we come back tomorrow?"
"Yeah, let’s come early tomorrow. It’s better to avoid getting involved with such lunatics."
The yellow-haired guy and the bearded man quickly left. Inside the shop, Reed stood before a forging furnace, which was over ten meters high and extremely precise in its internal configuration, sending waves of heat outward.
Su Xiao looked at that forging furnace. Though it might not seem impressive, it was an S-Level forging furnace.
Having rented forging furnaces before, Su Xiao knew the price. The S-Level furnace’s rental cost was 400,000 Paradise coins per hour, and buying it was an absolute fortune.
The purchasing cost for a B-level furnace is 1.6 million Paradise coins, and the A-level is even more outrageous. As for the S-level, better to forget about it, as it’s practically a king’s ransom.
From the setup around this S-Level furnace, it seemed to have been placed here for a while, at least a few days. Reed definitely couldn’t afford the 400,000-per-hour rental cost.
That left only one possibility: this S-Level furnace belonged to Reed, likely a benefit he obtained in exchange when Reincarnation Paradise took him in.
Noticing Su Xiao’s gaze, Reed shot a glare at him, clearly meaning: ’This is my wife, and if you dare look at my wife again, I’ll kill you.’
With an S-Level furnace, Reed’s future status in Reincarnation Paradise would undoubtedly be significant, or rather, his forging talent was recognized by Reincarnation Paradise. Reed could now forge Legendary Gear, and his future potential was evident.
’Coincidentally,’ Su Xiao held a medal called Reed’s Medal, allowing him to have equipment crafted for free by Reed once every 15 natural days, exclusively for his use.
