Shi Feng stared at the items quietly arranged on the stone platform, his heart filled with indescribable shock.
Previously, there had only been one item available for exchange — the Sand of Time. Now, there were more than ten items up for grabs, each one no less valuable than the Sand of Time.
"Truly worthy of being a major shopkeeper in the City of the Abyss — to actually have even this." Shi Feng couldn't help but shift his gaze to an exquisite, ancient-looking piece of parchment.
The Sand of Time, while rare and precious, still gave players a reasonable chance of obtaining it. But the parchment on the stone table? Getting that would depend entirely on a player's luck.
And this parchment was nothing other than an Arcane Thruster Blueprint.
This was the kind of thing you could stumble upon but never seek out.
Every major guild would go crazy for it.
The Arcane Thruster's purpose was to increase a vessel's speed by 30%, and for players who operated on the seas, it was practically a god-tier item.
The sea was nothing like the mainland — not only was it vastly larger, but the infuriating part was that teleportation points were extremely scarce. To go anywhere for leveling, you basically had to travel there yourself. A 30% speed boost meant saving a tremendous amount of travel time. Moreover, sea monsters were abundant on the ocean. Ordinary small boats had virtually no chance of escaping a boss-level sea beast, but with an Arcane Thruster, there was a decent chance of getting away. With a regular speedboat, escape was almost guaranteed.
That was why players who operated at sea all loved Arcane Thrusters — even if they had to rent a cheaper vessel, they would still buy an Arcane Thruster.
The Arcane Thruster's only drawback was that it was a consumable — after a period of use, it would burn out. But for most players, this was acceptable. A single Arcane Thruster typically lasted 48 hours, though this depended on mana consumption. The smaller the vessel, the greater the consumption. A regular speedboat could use one for the full 48 hours, and smaller boats could use it for even longer.
However, Arcane Thrusters were far from cheap — one cost 1 gold and 50 silver at market price. Ordinary players simply couldn't afford them. Only the more capable adventuring parties used them, because their vessels were good enough that increased speed let them venture into more dangerous areas for greater returns, usually more than enough to recoup the cost of the thruster.
Shi Feng truly hadn't expected that Keti Green would be willing to offer such a precious blueprint for trade.
But the price was a bit steep.
A single Arcane Thruster Blueprint cost 1,000 Magic Crystals...
Even with the Philosopher's Stone to synthesize Magic Crystals, Shi Feng felt a pang of pain. It took fifty Magic Water Crystals to synthesize a single Magic Crystal, so 1,000 Magic Crystals meant 50,000 Magic Water Crystals. At current market prices, acquiring a single Magic Water Crystal quickly cost about 30 silver.
That meant buying a single blueprint would cost a full 15,000 gold, and 15,000 gold couldn't even be converted back into 50,000 Magic Water Crystals.
He had painstakingly accumulated a modest stock of Magic Water Crystals, but after spending a significant amount dealing with the Red City Guild plus his own personal consumption, at the very most he could afford only two blueprints.
This left Shi Feng at a loss for how to choose.
Magic Water Crystals were an essential resource for Zero Wing — without them, their war weapons were useless. If he exchanged everything for Arcane Thrusters in one go, he'd be in serious trouble if an unexpected situation arose. Just like what had happened when Stone Forest Town faced the Demon siege — insufficient preparation had made the battle extraordinarily difficult.
"Oh, I also have another item for sale." Keti Green noticed Shi Feng's hesitant expression and, with a slight smile, produced a dark gray bracelet, placing it directly on the stone platform. "This is also a treasure I happened to come across, but it's no longer of use to me. If you can offer the right price, it's yours."
"This is..." Shi Feng stared at the dark gray bracelet, his expression frozen in surprise.
The bracelet looked perfectly ordinary — just a string of dark gray stone beads — but the golden divine mark on his body told him that this was one of the Seven Supreme Treasures.