"Oh my, I only have six thousand six hundred and forty nine left. You say I've got a big family and a big business, so many people to feed. Isn't this amount of spirit stones basically nothing?"
Ethan showed off a little.
At this point, Mr. White didn't want to talk. He just wanted to spit at Ethan.
(งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง³
But the money had already been paid.
There was no point wasting more time, so he simply took out the inventory machine. It looked a lot like the oldest metal typewriter on Earth, with many keys on it.
There was also a long printing rod, and a roll of parchment was stuck on it, just like a typewriter that prints one character each time you press a key.
If there was any difference, it was probably that on top of the typewriter there was a big horn shaped opening, facing upward.
If Ethan guessed correctly, that was probably where the spirit stones were loaded.
[Inventory Machine: Can be used to inventory spatial storage items such as backpacks, spatial rings, spatial pendants, spatial bracelets, and so on. It is a product formed from the combination of old era human technology and new world magic, and is very popular with banks and pawnshops.]
[PS: The only flaw is probably that it consumes too much energy. Each activation requires one hundred spirit stones as power. But once activated, it can inventory for a full hour, absolutely one hundred times more cost effective than hiring goblins or elves.]
Ethan watched as Mr. White poured one hundred spirit stones into the huge funnel on top of the inventory machine.
Then the inventory machine, which had looked like an antique just moments ago, suddenly lit up.
But it wasn't a blinding light.
Instead, the characters on each keycap lit up, and the typing rod lit up too. It looked just like a high tech keyboard, pretty cool.
Only when the inventory machine lit up did Ethan finally see clearly, the symbols on each keycap were actually the symbols from the alchemy formula. They couldn't really be called words, more like patterns.
For example, stars, moons, a three eyed evil god, infinity, wind, thunder, and each one corresponded exactly to the number area and letter area of the keyboard. The number area still used symbols, like the sun representing one, an eye representing three, and so on.
"Lord, please put both tail rings on top," Mr. White pointed at the funnel of the inventory machine.
Ethan frowned and glanced at it. The one hundred spirit stones that had just been poured in had already completely disappeared.
So he asked a little worried, "If I throw the tail rings in, they won't get swallowed too, right?"
"Don't worry. This inventory machine can't swallow spatial rings," Mr. White pointed inside the funnel, "Look, once you put in enough spirit stones to charge it, the innermost part of this funnel is already sealed. The spatial items you put in next will only be scanned and inventoried."
"I see!"
Ethan took a look, and it was true.
There was now a partition at the bottom of the funnel. He didn't know what material it was made of, but at least it ensured the tail rings wouldn't fall in.
After he put the two witch tail rings inside, a blue light lit up in the funnel.
Then the blue light moved up and down like a scanner, scanning the two witch tail rings. As the scanning continued, the typing rod began to move on its own without any wind.
Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!
It was just like someone was typing. Lines of letters began to appear rapidly on the parchment!
[Pigment Color Changing Technique (Gold) +1]
[Pigment Color Changing Technique (Silver) +1]
[Pigment Color Changing Technique (White) +1]
[Pigment…]
After twelve lines of pigment color changing techniques appeared in a row, other contents finally began to show up.
But when Ethan saw the pigment color changing techniques, he finally understood why his previous attempt to use the [Red Yellow Green Color Changing Technique] had failed.
Turns out he didn't have any pigment.
'Heh!'
[Unicorn Blood +10L]
[Black Fungus Mushroom +1003]
[Floating Spider Corpse +2]
[Poison Moss +287]
[Flickering Vermiculite +302]
[Rotten Fish Skeleton +2]
[Scarlet Poison Fly…]
Names of materials kept popping out one after another, but most of them looked like crafting materials, not things Ethan could use.
They all seemed pretty useless to him.
"This witch is actually from the potion branch," Mr. White, who had been a merchant for over a hundred years, was quite knowledgeable, "She has quite a lot of materials too."
"Potion branch? What's that good for?"
"Well… if you're not in the potion branch profession, it's actually hard for me to explain clearly," Mr. White stroked his chin, "Anyway, if you don't need them, you can sell them to me. I'll definitely buy them at market price. Don't worry, merchant credibility."
"Heh!"
Ethan complained silently in his heart.
'Credibility my foot. But I really have no use for these things, so it will still end up being up to this shady merchant.'
But when he thought about how he had just taken advantage of him for a million dragon coins, even if everything in the ring was given away for free, it would still be hard for Mr. White to break even.
Thinking like that, Ethan naturally felt better.
After the first tail ring was inventoried, most of it contained potion branch materials. Besides that, there were one hundred and eight spirit stones and five thousand one hundred and twenty three dragon coins. Nothing particularly valuable.
The spirit stones he had spent were instantly earned back.
The dragon coins were basically free money.
Although not much.
Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!
At this moment, the inventory of the second witch tail ring also began.
[Cursed Doll +1]
[Divine Wood Box +1]
[Obedience Talisman Paper +999]
[Gale Horseshoe Blueprint +1]
[Lightweight Saddle Blueprint +1]
[Mud Monster Mutation Experiment Notes +1]
[Enlargement Spell +1]
[Monster Rearing Notes +1]
[Shut Up Shredded Potatoes +10]
[Demon Bean Sprouts +25]
[Monster Earthworms +31]
[Fire Dragon Eggshell Fragments…]
Ethan glanced over it and found this tail ring a bit interesting.
The items inside, especially the blueprints, were very useful.
There was also a spell called Enlargement Spell, which looked… Even without reading the description yet, it obviously seemed like a good thing.
This was the tail ring that had contained the cursed doll. This Wild Witch seemed to specialize in cultivating all kinds of monsters.
"Oh, this Wild Witch is actually a monster breeder," Mr. White exclaimed, "Too bad she didn't find the right alliance. If someone like this were in Mist City, she'd probably be a highly paid and respected tamer."
"What a pity she became a Wild Witch and ended up like this."
"Sigh! Such a waste!"
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