Niklas knocked gently on the attic window pane.
No one responded.
He gently pushed on the window, locked? How could this be difficult for a veteran thief. Niklas took out a piece of wire and scratched it a few times, the window opened and he jumped in noiselessly.
It was nothing more than a loft of less than fifteen feet, simply furnished with a bed, a table and a chair. There was a small chest under the bed, and above his head was the roof, all of which Nicholas had rummaged through countless times.
He swore that if this room really hid magical potions or gold coins, he would have found them long ago! But every time, he watched as Luna took out the hidden things from unexpected places, which made him gnash his teeth in hatred.
Picking up the pillow, he turned it inside out, and sure enough, there was only a note inside "Would I be stupid enough to still put it here?!"
"Damn it!"
Slammed the pillow on the bed, then immediately picked it up again, patted it down, and put it where it was. Sure enough, there was another note there "There were originally twelve hairs here arranged in a pentagon, are you sure you can recover them?"
"I'll kill you!" He endured the pain and pulled off twelve hairs, arranged them in a pentagon and put them there. "A professional thief must not destroy the scene, that's the principle!" He encouraged to himself.
He burrowed under the bed, pulled the box out, and then searched carefully under the bed. Nothing! The bedpan was knocked from block to block, still nothing! The case was opened and there were only a few books in it, still nothing! Where is it? He looked around.
"Hey Nick, still nothing?!" The sudden voice scared him and he took a big step back, hitting the wall hard. Luna, the watcher, was grinning and half-sitting on the edge of the bed, the handful of floating, floating stuff in her hand was the very hair he had pulled out.
His face reddened and he said, "Luna, when did you come back? I was helping you clean up your room."
Without waiting for Luna to speak, he hurriedly changed the topic and said, "You came back early today. I didn't help you to say goodbye to the meeting, so I came to look for you in advance. If you're free, let's go now?"
"Let's go," Luna said as she jumped off the bed and pulled out the suitcase under the bed. Nicholas watched with wide eyes as he opened the case and took out a book, removing a scrap of paper from it. "League stubs, cash on arrival."
Nicolas was truly speechless. The League of Traveling Merchants did have a gold coin access business, but very few people used it, and most people would find it extremely inconvenient, not to mention the fact that they would have to pay a prorated fee.
The two of them walked to a store in the alliance, Luna exchanged more than a thousand gold coins, loaded a big bag of gold coins, clanking in the backpack, listening to Nicolas' heart like fifty cats scratching the general hard. But Nicholas is very principle, not only did not go to hit the idea, along the way also slapped away the hands of several thieves.
To the street side alley, Nicolas did not know where to open a door, in the narrow dark hallway walking for a period of time. Luna walked in and saw a woman in black leather armor, lounging in a chair, sharpening her nails with a knife. Plump thighs wrapped tautly around the table, swaying with a wobble that instantly caught Luna's eye.
"I'm Black Lily, and as long as you have the money, I'll have what you want. Remember, I never take credit."
After saying that, she seemed to press something and another room opened up on the side. Black Lily continued to carve on her nails, no longer paying attention to the two of them.
"This is the Thieves Guild?" Luna asked with a face full of distrust, "You wouldn't have made a set up to trap me, would you?!"
"How could that be!" Nicholas' face was full of depression, "We're using the back door that leads to Boss Lily's place, the front door has too many secrets to show you."
"Then I'll take a look first." Luna walked into the house without comment.
But a moment later, he came out with a bit of mockery at the corner of his mouth, those who were unfamiliar with him thought he was smiling, only those who were familiar with him knew that his mean streak was back.
"Well? Anything you want?" Nicklas asked.
"Good stuff! Want it all!"
"Then you can't afford it, if you only choose one or two items, I can still make the decision to let you buy them! But if you want to buy more, then even if you have the money, you can't, I don't have that much face!"
"You can't? Looks like the dyes are worth a lot of money!" Luna pretended to be puzzled and said, then hemmed and hawed and sneered a few times, "Why don't you brush off the dye, and I'll cover it all for one copper coin! What do you think?"
Black Lily flopped out of her chair with a loud thud, her small knife falling to the side.
Nicholas was even more open-mouthed and didn't know what to say.Luna just wore a cold smile and didn't say anything. If this was a day ago, he was 80% going to fall for it, most of the things in there were made to look fake. Only nowadays, he valued it at level 8, and the forging process was as high as level 14, although he couldn't identify the specific contents, the material and craftsmanship of the equipment was still clear at a glance! These couldn't fool his eyes anymore going.
Black Lily rolled over and stood up, stepped forward and kicked at Nicholas, "Shit! This is the fat goat you're holding! You've disgraced my face!"
"This", you Nicholas didn't care that Luna was right next to him, and replied as he dodged Black Lily's punches and kicks, "I didn't know that Luna was so smart. Besides, wouldn't you dare to take a fat sheep that isn't up to par."
Luna watched with cold eyes for half a day and said impatiently, "Come on, none of them hit the vitals! Stop acting and show me the real thing."
Only then did the two part ways.
Black Lily cleared her throat and said, "Re-introducing myself, this is my brother Nicholas, I'm Black Lily."
"I'm Luna."
Black Lily led the two men as they pushed through another dark door, up and down the stairs a few times in the darkness, and then pushed through the door into a modest room. The front door to the room was locked, and it was lined with rows of shelves and barrels.
"Everything's in here, price with me." Black Lily pointed, and when she was done, she grabbed Nicholas by the ear and went out through a secret door that opened up from nowhere.
Luna tsked, this place is worthy of being a thieves' guild, the main door is not going through, there are secret doors everywhere, I don't know if this house is structurally stable, what if there's an earthquake?
He looked along the shelves, this time it was an eye opener. There were a lot of roadkill stuff, but there were also a lot of good stuff. Like enchanted leather armor, short swords, bows and crossbows, daggers, these were things commonly used by thieves, and all of them were fine products here. In addition, such as magic-breaking arrows, that is, there are not many sorcery grocery stores, the market is even more impossible to find, here actually also have.
As for the potions, even if, most of them were what he could configure, and some of them were still the goods that flowed out of his hands. He picked a bottle of the Thieves Guild's unique "King of Thieves" potion, this potion will make people become extremely flexible and sharp, specially used for breaking complex traps and locks, this thing can only be found in the Thieves Guild.
He carefully searched all the barrels from row to row, which contained either blades or projectiles, until he occasionally raised his eyes and found a book padded under one of the barrels! Holy shit, why is it here?
He went up and took it out with a lot of effort, patted off the dust and saw that it was indeed the "Quick Action Manual".
This book is written with some thieves' exercise methods, which is a common book for thieves. It was only later when the war became more and more brutal, the thieves guilds also improved their training methods, which were more formalized and adapted to the needs of killing, so these books were also eliminated.
However, what was not known was that there was a little secret hidden in some of the books published in the Year of Prosperity. That is, amongst the thousands of printed books, there was a truly magical book hidden, a book that would actually grow one's base attributes when activated with the right secret words!
Seeing Black Lily walk out, Nicholas followed behind with his head shagged.
Luna raised the book in her hand, "I'll take this!"
After saying that, she handed over the potion and the book. Black Lily casually put the potion aside and flipped the book carefully twice, looking at it without finding anything out she said, "The potion is 1500 gold, the book is ... our guild's secret training method, 3500 gold!"
"A total of 5000 gold? Oh." Luna smiled and patted Nicolas' shoulder, "Math is good, the calculation is quite accurate."
Then she said with a straight face, "Come on, I'm too lazy to bargain. To tell you the truth, I bought this potion just want to figure out the ingredients, if I can configure it, selling it to you is also considered a way to make money, you also have more extra money, this is considered a two-way street. This potion is more than 800 gold you keep it for yourself and mold, as for that book? 1 gold! This is the maximum price!"
It was also the first time for Black Lily to deal with someone like Luna, a moment of man and a moment of dog, said flip-flop, really can't understand. If you want to say flip-flop, this person is also a channel for goods, bringing in more than just 5000 gold coins! What's more, this person also brought 1,000 gold coins, even if you get the stubs of the Travelers Union, you can't get them out even if you're not the person himself.
He could only turn his head to look at Nicholas, who said, "Why are you looking at me? I've been fooled like a dog all day long, so I can only nod helplessly.
Black Lily slammed the table, "I see that you do not have much weapon protection! You take another ordinary blade, I count you a thousand!"
Luna didn't haggle any more, directly took out the bag of gold coins, took out 20 pieces and threw the whole bag on the table. Putting the potion and book in the bag, she turned around and took a thin sword from the shelf, waving it casually and said, "This is it."
Black Lily examined it again and again, and it was indeed an ordinary weapon, so she just dumped it on him and let Nicholas take him away.
Although he also made a few hundred gold coins, but his heart was as painless as if he was holding a stone on top of it, so he hurriedly rushed away.
Luna went back and threw away her things and went straight to the laboratory. In the apprentice laboratory turned a big circle, those people see him promoted, of course, to flatter a little. He also successfully got the developing potion and analyzing lens, busy up and down tossing most of the night, only to be considered to identify the book.
...
"Quick Action Manual"
The book provides the reader with many tips on movement and ways to harmonize the muscles in one's limbs. This book was very popular among the public, thieves used it to train the sensitivity of their hands, while warriors wanted to improve their weapon jabbing and blocking skills. But there's a little secret in this book: it can raise one's agility by 1 point. Unfortunately, after being used in this way, the manual disappears.
Datasheet:
Agility: permanent 1 point increase.
Special: this book disappears after use.
How to use: recite the initiation secret.
...
Luna spoke softly into the book "Act fast, first come, first served!"
The book spilled out into a sheet of light that flew up and melted into his body.
Luna only felt a warm and melting all over his body, his muscles were contracting and stretching in small increments, like countless small hands massaging his body, it was indescribably comfortable, and he only shouted.
"Wow ou! Ascending to Immortality!"