The Emperor of the Empire and His Seven Female Knights

Chapter 1: Buying Equipment(1)

At this point in time, the bodies of the neighboring family of three should have already been sent to the nearby cemetery graveyard and prepared for burial at dusk.

According to the plot of the original game, Peggy crawled out late at night, so Askew wasn't in a hurry, since he had spiritually penetrated into the body of this confused NPC (which happened to interrupt the vampire's mind hypnosis of the original owner), of course, he had to cut off all of his own original social relationships first, before those vampires realized that something was wrong and looked for him.

The technology tree of this world is quite confusing and unbalanced, big cities already have satellites, cell phones, cars and subways, while remote villages still have to fetch their own water from wells. Developed areas already have electronic currency and stock exchange markets, but backward areas are still using gold, silver and copper coins and bartering.

Cold and hot weapons coexist side by side, science and technology and transcendence fight against each other, this is such a weird and antagonistic world.

Constantinople, where Asker is located, is one of the most developed cities in the world, so all public facilities are very complete.

He took the subway to the neighborhood high school and walked slowly into the classroom where it was his turn to teach today.

The tuition fee of this high school was not cheap, and most of the students were middle-class citizens' children, so the classroom order was quite good. Upon seeing the teacher come in, everyone unanimously quieted down.

Aske walked onto the podium, everyone opened their textbooks and prepared to take notes.

"Everyone close your textbooks, no need to take notes today." Aske said, "Today's assignment is to write a paper on a proposition of your choice on everything you have learned this semester."

He said aloud as his eyes scanned the class:

"Once you have chosen your topic, go to the library, gather your materials, and write a history paper to be turned in as this week's homework. Everyone study on your own for the next few days."

The students immediately cheered. Although they didn't know how to write a paper, self-study was cool! So with the students cheering, Askew schlepped out of the classroom and walked in the direction of the principal's office.

The door to the office was open, and inside the principal could be seen sitting in a reclining chair reading a newspaper. Askew pushed his way in and said bluntly, "Principal, I'm resigning."

The principal looked up and saw that this teacher who took the initiative to resign was the young master of the Achilles family. Normally, everyone knew that this history teacher was actually a nobleman and his family was also very rich, and didn't even care about this amount of salary from being a teacher, so the principal just nodded and didn't make much of an attempt to retain him, just saying:

"Okay, but please, Mr. Askew, you can work for another week, and wait until the school hires a new history teacher before you leave, okay?"

"No need." Ask said, "I've already given the students a week's worth of homework, and the rest of the week's history classes have been converted to self-study, and they'll be going to the library to prepare their papers."

The principal smiled bitterly, "It seems you are determined to leave. Well, are you planning on going back to running the family business?"

Ask shook his head and smiled, "No. I'm planning to sell the stores at hand and form an expedition to explore."

"Sell?" The principal was shocked.

He knew that the Achilles family had two stores in Constantinople, which were worth several hundred pounds just by themselves.

The pound here refers to the Solomon pound, originally a unit of weight, which later evolved into the largest monetary unit of the East Solomon Empire, a pound bill is equal to an ancient Sulerdes gold coin, and according to the purchase exchange rate in the game in his previous life, a gold coin costs roughly ten thousand yuan.

According to this calculation, today's Asker is a proper millionaire, and there is still no loan or debt of that kind.

Selling all his assets to form an expedition? This is the same as the reality of selling the house in the north and then go abroad as a mercenary, simply crazy ah.

However, it was a taboo to make shallow conversation, so the principal didn't say much, but just asked with a smile, ''If you want to sell your family's store, I know that there are a few buyers with a lot of money on my side who might be interested. Are you planning to entrust it to an agent or an auction house?"

"I intend to sell to the church." Ask said directly.

Constantinople's Orthodox Church has always been wealthy and generous, not pressurizing the price and not bargaining, plus the sale was for something like an inch of land like the Imperial Capital's land, so basically there was no other buyer that could compete with it. So the principal closed his mind as soon as he heard it, and could only sigh quietly and give Askew the formalities for leaving.

With his resignation complete, the next natural step was to buy all the equipment and arm himself.

As an e-campaigner + former professional player, Asker is naturally familiar with all kinds of pre-game strategies for climbing levels quickly.

What weapons to use what armor to wear, what quests to take what book, all have a clear and well thought out career plan, this aspect will not have any problem.

He walked out of the school and came to a nearby weapon store and said:

"I'm going to buy a sword."

"Young master Achilles wants to buy a sword?" The shopkeeper recognized that this was the young master of the Achilles family, and knowing that the other party had a lot of money, he wanted to sell the store's gorgeous ceremonial swords with diamonds and openwork, which were specially designed for the nobles, and said with a smile:

"You really have a good eye, we have all types of swords in our store. Recently just entered a batch of high-quality goods, said to be the precious relics of the ancient high elf empire, perhaps you will be interested ......."

"What material?" Asked Ask calmly, "If it's made of Meteorite Iron, Magic Copper, Secret Silver, Essence Gold, Lustre, Polar Ice, Bloodstained Steel, Chaos Rock, or Dragon Bone, I'll buy them all."

The shopkeeper almost fell to his knees when he heard the names of these materials and smiled, "Young master Achilles, how can my small store have those high end materials you mentioned?...... If it's Meteorite Iron and Magical Copper, I might be able to get them from the black market with a bit of effort. Secret silver and fine gold are under the control of the Imperial Army, and glaze and polar ice are priceless in the entire continent, so it's impossible for me to have them in this small store!"

"As for the Bloodline Steel, Chaos Rock, and Dragon Bone, aren't these the materials for divine weapons in legends? In reality, I'm afraid they don't exist at all."

"These materials don't exist, and you still dare to brag that you have everything?" Aske waved his hand breathlessly, "Forget it, bring out the best materials from your store and take a look. Don't fool me with those skeletonized pattern ones."

"Okay." The shopkeeper laughed bitterly in his heart, "We currently have two types of longswords in our store, iron and steel forged. The highest grade is Damascus Clouded Steel, using the most advanced chrome plating technology of the Holy See and Austrian quenching, the quality is absolutely excellent ......"

"What sword types are available?" Ask interrupted the shopkeeper's boasting.

"We have the military-standard Sparsian cavalry longsword, as well as the eastern-style Paramayne single-edged curved sword." The shopkeeper introduced attentively, "Of course, if young master thinks that these are not lethal enough, we also have western imported bastardized swords with thick spines and weighted balls at the end, which can easily sever even a person's collar bone with a single stroke of the sword ......"

"Just the single edged curved sword, get me one." Ask said, "And a short sword, an ancient Solomon's Elysian short sword with an open blade, don't bring me a fancy antique."

"I'll also need a ring piece of lock armor, with at least three layers of thick linen lining, and a coarse silk cotton armor over it for me, no fancy colors, any common dye will do."

"Good." The shopkeeper hurriedly let the hired man go inside to fetch the goods and said with a compensating smile, "Young Master Achilles are you being rewarded by the court to become a royal forbidden guard? Yesterday, a guard's son placed an order at the store, and the equipment you bought today is similar. However, he bought an extra nail hammer, which is used to break armor against heavily armored enemies, you see ......"

"No need." Ask said, "For breaking armor, it's still appropriate for firearms."

"That's right, that's right." The shopkeeper busily agreed, thinking how expensive guns were, a pistol would start at two or three pounds, with bullets, how could it be as convenient and cheap as a nail hammer to the brain.

The hired man soon fetched the appropriate goods. The shopkeeper waited for Aske to change into his armor, and then put on his cotton armor, which made him look heroic.

He hung his short sword on the buckle of his belt on his left side, and held the steel-forged single-edged curved sword in his right hand, casually waving it a few times, the blade pulling out a low whistling sound in the air.

"Not bad." Ask was more than satisfied with the sword.

The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and suddenly felt a bit timid for no reason. The movement of the guy in front of him swinging the sword reminded him of a few veterans he had once received last year, all of them of the murderous kind, and just standing in place gave him a shuddering, wanting to immediately turn and run away impulse.

"This, the ring-piece lock armor costs 5 pounds, the coarse silk cotton armor counts as 1 pound, and the two swords cost about 0.3 pounds, so I'll just erase it for you as change." The shopkeeper carefully said.

"Good." Ask pulled out his money pouch and took out a few bills and gave them to him.

He turned around and left the store, and the shopkeeper looked at his back with an inexplicable sense of celebration after the robbery.

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Q: Crossed into the game world, urgent question should first fight monsters to upgrade, or first do the task to make money?

A: Should buy equipment first ...... You can't possibly fight monsters with your bare hands, right? In this combat hardcore world, holding a weapon and bare hands are completely different.