"I've never seen or heard of you before in the Purple leaves city" The player continued. "I know all the Nobles in the city but you're not among them. You must be a new Noble Player"
"Yes, I am"
"Which Guild are you from?"
"I'm a Rogue player"
"Name?"
"Won't say" He replied.
"No problem" The player said. He could sense that Xuanyuan was an expert due to his Noble status. It was not wise to get on the bad side of a Noble so soon...
"If you'll excuse me..." Xuanyuan said and walked ahead as it was his turned to enter the city.
After spending a minute with the Guards, he crossed the city gates and entered Purple leaves city.
Purple leaves city was a big city but it was still a tad inferior to Jade spear city before it's Promotion. But either way, it was still a top tier city where many players reside.
Once Xuanyuan entered the city, he was greeted by the sight of players and NPCs going around doing their own things. Some set up stalls while some hawked their wares around hoping to makes sales as soon as possible.
Xuanyuan walked around for a while but since there was nothing that caught his interest, he boarded a carriage and headed towards the City's trading centre...
"Mr Noble!" He suddenly heard a familiar voice while he was in the carriage. He turned to see who it was and it was none other than the player he'd met at the City gates.
"We meet again" The level 54 Assassin began. "I'm Grim reaper"
"The Grim reaper?!" The other players in the carriage nearly jumped out of fright. Even Xuanyuan could feel his heart racing. After alL, who wants to meet the Grim reaper, Angel of Death?
"Don't misunderstand, Grim reaper is only my in-game ID!" Grim reaper explained.
"Okay" Xuanyuan replied.
"I believe we meet again by fate" Grim reaper said. "I see you're headed to the Trade centre, why don't I show you around? Perhaps I might lead you to what you're looking for"
"I'm not really looking for anything in particular but I'll buy combat techniques I can find" Xuanyuan said after contemplating for a while.
"You're lucky to have met me! I know where they sell the best combat techniques available in this city. Just follow me" Grim reaper said.
"I'll have to trouble you then" Xuanyuan replied. Although Grim reaper seemed suspicious, he could sense the sincerity in his voice. And even if that was fake, there's no harm since no one could pose any threat to him anyway...
Then they didn't speak to each other until the carriage dropped them at the Trade centre.
"This way" Grim reaper as he led Xuanyuan towards the store where he could find combat techniques.
On the way, Xuanyuan around glanced around looking at the various stalls where skill books, weapons and equipments and other Magical items were sold, but none of them really caught his interest so he just continued following Grim reaper.
"It's here" Grim reaper said as they arrived in front of a three storeyed building at the centre of the Trade centre. A wooden plaque was hanged at its entrance bearing 'Myriads bazaar'. This stall was quite popular as it had branches in many famous cities including Jade spear Holy city. It was regarded as one of the best stores in Red Sea Kingdom where one could find rare skill books famous combat techniques.
The Myriads bazaar had three floors but players could only access the first floor currently. But even the first floor housed many Tier and Tier 2 Skill books. One could even find some rare Tier 3 Skill books. Apart from skill books, one could also find tablets recording powerful Magic arrays, weapons and equipments and even combat techniques. No one had ever stepped onto the second floor but they knew the items for sale in the second floor would be even better than those on the first floor.
Xuanyuan followed Grim reaper into the building. and was astounded by the sight of various items neatly arranged in shelves in the building. Different kinds of an item are grouped in sections making it very easy to find what one is looking for. No wonder the store was called the 'Myriads bazaar', it truly deserved the name...
Xuanyuan didn't idle around looking at other items, he went directly to the section of Combat techniques. There were only about a hundred tablets recording combat techniques and they were arranged according to how they worked. There are offensive, defensive, footwork and movement combat techniques. Xuanyuan browsed through the offensive techniques first before looking at the other techniques.
He found out that the majority of the combat techniques were of Common and Bronze rank. No Silver ranked Combat techniques recorded.
Meanwhile, the power of a combat technique determines how powerful it is. While Common and Bronze also grants powerful abilities, they are nowhere comparable to higher ranked Combat techniques especially the Gold ranked Combat techniques rumored to grants its user the power to transcend Tiers once mastered.
It should be known that Transcending tiers is quite difficult in the Realm of spirituality as increase in tiers came with improvement in Physique, attributes and abilities making it very difficult to transcend. This was even more eminent at higher Tiers where a Tier 4 Emperor could single handedly destroy an army of Tier 3 Kings rendering Zerg tactics useless. To fight an Emperor as a Tier 3 King requires strong powers beyond what a Tier 3 King can ever hope to exert.
But once a Gold Combat technique is mastered it was possible for a King to fight an Emperor and for an Emperor to fight a Saint. This was why they were highly sought after by players and NPCs. But this Gold combat techniques are exceedingly rare so much that their rarity rivals even Legendary items. In fact, one wouldn't necessarily trade a Gold combat technique for a Legendary item...