Olsylvia Academy, East Campus, Olivia Wizard Academy’s Society Activity Area, Latimore Business District. In the shop hall of the Henrietta Magical Emporium.
With the guidance of Silver Dragon Princess Isabel, Bella and others were fortunate enough to enter into the Emporium’s inner section. If a shop completely followed the standard rules of business which the various empires of the human race alliance used, many of the magical emporiums would not be earning money.
According to the Kingdom of Arcana, the Aldridge Empire drew up the 《Law of Magic Artifact Transaction》. The selling of magic artifacts in the market was substantially restricted. For example, the sale of the magic scroll that had explosive power, and was easy enough to be used by children, was heavily restricted.
Under the Law of Magic Artifact Transaction, it was prohibited to sell offensive magic scrolls. Only defensive and status buffing magic scrolls could be sold. Even the escape and debuff magic scrolls were forbidden.
The magic scrolls in this Other World belonged to the category of dangerous goods. They were similar to the guns in the previous life. Every town in the Human Race Empire had a great array which prohibited magic use inside the safe region. It was used to guard against those “press” type mages who used magic to create trouble.
However, the Magic Prohibition Array could not restrict attacks that were released from magic scrolls. The array only targeted the mages and not magic artifacts. Therefore, it was also necessary to forbid the magic scrolls.
But, the ban was not strictly implemented. Just like in the previous world, in the Other World, “those above have policies while those below have their own countermeasures.” Each Emporium’s inner section took advantage of loopholes in the Law of Magic Artifact Transaction. The most ironic thing was, regardless of the magic scroll’s attribute, so long it was an auction transaction, it was considered legal. The revenue from auctioning the magic scrolls was the Magic Empire’s major source of revenue. Regarding this Law of Magic Artifact Transaction, those people who knew the inside story also knew that this was a trick to deceive the commoners.
In the inner section of Isabel’s shop, all sorts of magic scrolls were scattered around. The majority of the scrolls were offensive magic scrolls, and the prices were not cheap either. This shop might be setting the prices with gold coins, but a single scroll had a starting sales price of ten gold coins and that was the cheapest.
In the inner section, aside from the magic scrolls that were selling well were some other prohibited magic artifacts. For instance, books with some group attack magic techniques that most people weren’t allowed to easily learn. The books which recorded large-scale group attack magics were also classified as dangerous magic artifacts and had restrictions as far as a transaction went.
“Bella, this is a Hellfire Sea Scroll of the advanced magic fire attribute technique. Do you want to buy it? The original price is one hundred gold coins and I shall give you a friendly discount of 1%. What do you think?”
With friends like you, who needs enemies? Bella pinched the magic scroll in her hands and, with difficulty, resisted the urge to ridicule Isabel. In the folk legends, most of the Dragon Race had the trait of being greedy for money. It seemed like the legend was not fake.
There was no difference between a 1% discount and no discount since it would only be cheaper by one gold coin. How could it be any different from having no discount? Bella looked at the other people that had followed along. With regards to the price of merchandise over here, they had no objection at all. It was so difficult to comprehend the world of the mages, her line of thought simply was not able to keep up with them.
“I do not need scrolls, Isabel. Do you not have the book of Departed Spirits’ Overture over here?”
“The book Departed Spirits’ Overture is a prohibited item. That magic book is used to summon various kinds of departed spirits. I will not have it over here. The three goods that you are looking for basically are all contraband goods that are hard to get hold of.”
It was true that Isabel did not have the three magic artifacts that Bella wanted. From the start, it was likely that the person who had issued the mission was brainless. It was not easy to find artifacts that were not sold at all.
“Isabel, since you do not have the items that I want, I shall leave first”.
“Bella, do not hurry to leave. Stay for a while longer. I have a lot of fun things over here that you might be interested in.”
Seeing that Bella wanted to leave, Isabel felt anxious. She was afraid that Prince Lewis would come back halfway through storming off. If Bella left, Ariel would also leave. Without Ariel, if Lewis was to come back to harass her, then that would be troublesome.
Bella did not manage to leave as Isabel pulled her hand once again and refused to let her leave. The Dragon Race’s strength was much stronger than the normal human race. Unless Bella risked exposing her identity and used her strength as a Demon King, she would not be able to struggle free of Isabel’s hand.
“Lady boss, this is very incorrect. If I do not want to buy, you can’t sell with force, right!?”
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