SWDnovel Chapter 68 My name is "Zag Liam"
Chapter 68 My name is "Zag Liam"
Snowball licked its paws: "【Blessing of the Sea God】!? Isn't that the alchemical potion that unscrupulous alchemist made that supposedly turns people into werewolves?"
Zag suddenly looked up at the stall owner, his tone serious: "Where did you get this book from?"
The stall owner frowned, somewhat displeased with Zag's tone, but still answered his question: "An alchemist sold it to me a few months ago. What do you mean by this?"
Zag realized he might have been a little too excited, so he took a deep breath, forced a smile, and explained, "Sorry, I just got a little excited to find out the owner of this book is an old acquaintance of mine. I owe him some gold pounds and was worried about not being able to find him... By the way, when did he come to the black market? Has he been around recently?"
"That was several months ago. I haven't seen him since. Besides, everyone who comes to the black market wears a concealment necklace. He might have already changed to a new one... Wait, that looks like him!"
As the stall owner spoke, he pointed to a figure in the crowd.
"I'll go take a look!"
Snowball darted out immediately, taking advantage of the fact that no one could see it, and disappeared into the crowd.
Zag followed the stall owner's finger and looked in the direction he was pointing, only to see a completely unfamiliar face—
This is not surprising, as the concealed necklace blessed by Agora can change the wearer's appearance and even voice to a certain extent, so the appearance of the person that Zag saw was probably not the person's original appearance.
Even before entering the black market, Zag himself had already transformed into a short, thin young man, as thin as a stick, after wearing a concealment necklace. His hair had also changed from reddish-brown to a dark brown with an olive-green tinge, making it impossible for anyone to recognize his original appearance.
So Zag didn't alert the other party. Instead, he thanked the stall owner, left the stall, and walked with the crowd, secretly observing the other party.
"Fox! That old fox!"
Unexpectedly, the man seemed to be very familiar with Fox, and went directly to Fox to do business.
"Any new magical creature corpses recently? You know, alchemical research is incredibly taxing on these!"
Fox replied, "No, you bought up the entire black market stock last month, how come it's still not enough?"
"I'm currently conducting an important study, and the loss rate is too high. To be honest, even with that much stock, it's all been lost. Sigh! Alchemy research is just too expensive!"
The man spoke in an exaggerated tone, gesturing wildly, and even sighed, as if he were genuinely worried about the matter.
Seeing this, Zag was almost certain that this person must be Peter!
That is, the culprit who turned Rosa's father and Ranmir into werewolves!
There's no reason why, that's just how he felt!
Ask your intuition!
Snowball flew back at some point, hooked a claw onto the fabric on Zag's shoulder, and slid its rear end onto it. Then it said, "He's wearing the Concealment Necklace blessed by the Mother Goddess. I can't smell the scent of his soul... But what's certain is that his spirituality is good, but the magical fluctuations on his body are average. He's probably not a mage, at least not a novice mage, or not even at the level of a novice mage. He might actually be an alchemist... Hmm, hard to say, really hard to say..."
Very well, even Hakimi can let us down at crucial moments.
Zag felt quite frustrated.
"Sigh, these days, nothing is easy!"
Meanwhile, Fox was still chatting with "Peter," even trying to sell him the business deal he'd just made with Zag: "Next time, next time I might get a batch of werewolf fur. Didn't you buy some last time? Do you want some more this time?"
Peter said, "I need the fur of the original werewolf, not the fur of ordinary werewolves. I can have as much ordinary werewolf fur as I want. I mean, ordinary werewolves are quite common; you can just put up a few requests at the guild outposts and get a whole bunch. But the fur of the original werewolf is not easy to come by!"
"Yes, yes, that's right, I was referring to the original werewolf's fur!"
"I definitely want it! Hmm, since you don't have anything I need here today, I'll come back and take another look—don't forget the original werewolf's fur! I'll give you a price you'll be happy with!"
"No problem! I'm always available! You're one of my biggest clients!"
Seeing that "Peter" and Fox had finished speaking and were about to leave the black market, Zag became anxious.
He no longer cared whether he had lost out on the entrance fee to the black market, and quickly followed after him, pretending that he had also finished buying things, and left the black market one after the other with "Peter".
Even as the two were climbing the ladder from the cellar, "Peter" kindly helped Zag up, and after noticing the manuscript in his arms, he struck up a conversation with him: "No offense intended, but it seems... you're a mage? Did you come specifically to buy these manuscripts? I don't see you're wearing a mage's robe?"
His tone was gentle and his attitude friendly. If it weren't for the grudge between Rosa and her father and Lanmir, Zag would never have imagined that the person in front of him had done such a vicious thing.
Snowball had clearly formed a united front with Zag at this point, and it also disliked "Peter" very much.
"Hypocrisy! Even with the Mother Goddess's concealment magic blocking my view, I can still smell the stench emanating from the hypocritical soul of Modo! Disgusting!"
Her little mouth looked like it had been coated with honey.
"Yes, I am a mage." After saying that, Zag felt that his words were a bit too stiff, so he added, "I'm from the Dawn Mage Tower. I happened to see the apprentice manuscripts that came out of the Tower of Solitude, so I bought them to take a look."
Peter raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Then why don't you just go to the Tower of Solitude? I thought the mages from the Dawn Mage Tower had a pretty good relationship with the Tower of Solitude?"
"Hmm... they're all good, but I'm the exception..."
Zha Ge gave a vague answer.
You can't exactly say you just made it up, can you?
Besides the Golden Palace, all he knew about was the Dawn Mage Tower and the Tower of Solitude!
Or perhaps it's the magic tower of the Kingdom of Lunaran. Given my appearance, I couldn't possibly be a pure-blooded elf of Lunaran, could I? If it's from the Golden Palace, that would be even more ridiculous—
Claiming to be a police officer in front of criminals is like declaring war on them!
"Oh...it's alright. Magic is always a matter of luck. If you're interested, perhaps we can exchange ideas. Let me formally introduce myself. I'm an alchemist named 'Zag,' 'Zag Liam.' Nice to meet you."
"Peter," no, it should be "Zag Liam," made Zag pause for a moment.
He panicked for a moment, thinking the other person had discovered him, but...
Unexpectedly, after noticing that something was wrong with Zag, the kid calmly asked, "What's wrong?"
Zha Ge's heart immediately turned red.
You're really daring, kid!
Snowball was equally furious: "Bullshit! I'll bite you to death!"
To stop the impulsive Snowball, Zag quickly grabbed Snowball's tail while scratching his head, and then pretended that the manuscript in his arms was too heavy and he needed to use both hands to hold it. He successfully pressed Snowball down between the manuscript and his chest while changing his posture of holding the book.
Then, drawing on his lifelong acting skills, he smiled and replied with an acting ability that could definitely win an Oscar: "It's nothing, I just felt that the name 'Liam' sounded familiar."
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[Snowball's Rant]: Meow! I'm not only going to bite that damned, disgusting, hypocritical alchemist to death, I'm going to bite that stupid dragonborn Zag to death too! Meow!!!