Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#127 - Valley Black Market

"Where should I buy a map?"

"Hehe ~ Knight, although I don't know what the countries in your Eastern world are like, selling maps is illegal here. If you really want to slay a dragon...

The Lonely Mountain, where the Dwarven Kingdom's capital is located, is definitely visible if you just head west from the town. But if you want to buy some rare items along the way, the black market in this town is your best choice.

You might be able to buy a map there ~"

"Is that so? Thank you, Old Dick."

"You're welcome. I wish you a good journey. Also, do you really not need me, old man, to prepare some food for you? Considering your generosity."

"No need. By the way ~ have any dwarves passed through the town recently?"

"Indeed, a few dwarves have come through. They left towards the south of the town. Following that direction, you'll pass through a forest, and beyond that is a range of hills.

I heard that a group of hobbits is hidden deep in the hills, but very few people can find them."

......

Following the tip from the one-eyed tavern owner, Liang Yue quickly found the location of the town's black market.

Calling it a black market, it's actually more like a semi-public trading market, located outside the town, in a small valley in the woods.

The people coming and going are mostly townspeople, with only a few rangers or mercenaries passing through, each holding weapons in their hands.

Obviously, these shouldn't be clean goods. To a large extent, they might be stolen goods that can't be seen in the light~

Besides that, at a stall selling animal cubs, Liang Yue even saw two creatures in an iron cage that looked a bit like bald monkeys, shivering in the sunlight.

Thanks to the convenience of 《Language Mastery》, he could even understand their conversations.

According to the stall owner's introduction, these were actually a pair of goblins…

"Give me some of every kind of seed in your store."

In front of him was a traveling caravan composed of more than a dozen carriages, which seemed to specialize in grain trading, and might also carry some private goods.

Liang Yue roughly looked at the types of grains they were selling, and after confirming that some of the crops were ones he hadn't seen in reality...

He directly reached out and handed the boss of this caravan half a gold ingot with a smooth cut surface.

This was a sin he committed last night when testing his new weapon.

"Knight, this piece of gold is enough to buy half of our caravan's goods."

The boss was a well-groomed fat man, and the clothes on his body were obviously better than those of the townspeople. At this time, the man was holding half a gold ingot with both hands, his mouth almost reaching the roots of his ears, and then pretended to be reserved and said to him.

"Pack a small bag of each kind of seed. If there are any rare varieties, I will pay separately."

"As you wish, Knight! Our caravan travels all year round between several peace-loving races, and we basically have all the crop seeds that can be found on the market here!"

"Hmm? Since your caravan has been traveling all over the place, you should have a map, right?"

"Uh ~ this, we do have a map, but the price…"

......

Generally speaking, gold is indeed a precious metal.

But when there are too many of them, this precious metal completely becomes a pure forging material in Liang Yue's eyes.

Therefore, as long as it can help him complete the training task, he will not feel bad even if he spends more.

Furthermore, he is indeed going to slay a dragon this time, and as the last dragon in Middle-earth, Smaug's lair is now set in the treasure room of the dwarves' former capital palace.

There, piles of gold coins, gold ingots, gold and silver utensils, weapons and armor, gems, and even various metal ingots are simply countless.

Once successful, how much he wants to take is up to his own will?

"This breed of cattle doesn't seem to be very ordinary, pure white skin."

"These are authentic calves brought out from the Dwarven territory. I haven't heard of the specific breed, but their meat is particularly tender and juicy when they grow up.

Unfortunately, there was some turbulence on the road, and many died. Now there are only these five left."

"What about this sheep?"

"Although this kind of sheep is similar to mountain goats in terms of breed, this kind of sheep is actually a strong branch carefully selected by the dwarves after years of cultivation. Knight, you must have heard of it.

The dwarves have a kind of goat cavalry, which is raised from childhood with this kind of sheep."

"You can get even these important military mount cubs?"

"Hehe ~ I'm not afraid to tell you, since the Dwarven Kingdom fell, their clan has been having a very bad time. If they can't do business with us, they might starve to death a lot of people!"

"Well, then bring all these cattle and sheep over to me."

"No problem! Knight! Oh, by the way, our caravan also has the most authentic elven-made jewelry, do you want it ~"

"Not interested."

"Understood! You wait a moment!"

......

After paying the money and sending the purchased cattle, sheep, and various rare items into the stronghold world in front of this caravan and a group of people secretly watching...

Liang Yue slowly left the valley black market under the awe and shock of the surrounding people.

In this shopping trip, this guy also successfully achieved his previous goals.

Not only did he get a simple map of Middle-earth, but also, under his cost-no-object spending spree, he unexpectedly gained a batch of goods that he thought were very valuable.

For example, those not-so-ordinary cattle and sheep, Middle-earth's characteristic plant crop seeds, and a metal ingot called Mithril.

This Mithril is said to be a very rare associated metal, and it is generally difficult for ordinary people to obtain it. It is said that it is because its refining process is a bit special.

This metal itself has extremely excellent properties, and in some novel worlds, it can even be used to greatly increase the power of magic.

According to the normal plot development, the protagonist of this world, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, was once given a well-made Mithril breastplate by the dwarven prince Thorin in the dwarven capital, and its defensive power was very amazing.

Liang Yue also spent twice the weight of this Mithril ingot in gold to get it from an inconspicuous second-hand weapon merchant.

In addition, Liang Yue also purchased a batch of second-hand arrows with excellent production technology and three elegant standard elven longbows from the weapon merchant.

In addition, on the weapon merchant's stall, there were also several standard armors of the elven army.

However, those were obviously things taken off dead people, and Liang Yue was not interested.