Arcane Universe - Chapter85

Qiankun Pagoda replaced Feng Chou's field of vision with scanning vision. A new field of vision with a radius of twenty-seven or twenty-eight meters appeared in Feng Chou's mind.

Just behind him, at the edge of his field of vision, in the shadow of a building under the morning sun, a vague figure was marked by Qiankun Pagoda with a light red line.

Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that it should be a high-level Rogue. The other party was completely wrapped in shadows. Even Qiankun Pagoda's Quark Scan could not directly find him. He could only find his existence through the vibration of the ground, the footprints left behind, the disturbance of the air, and other indirect situations, and calculate his movements and behavior.

Under Feng Chou's inquiry, Qiankun Pagoda quickly gave the best way to get rid of him.

According to Qiankun Pagoda's plan, Feng Chou walked along the street while paying attention to the more prosperous shops on both sides of the street.

Soon he saw a shop with a lot of customers. It was a blacksmith shop.

Feng Chou seemed to have inadvertently walked into the shop and wandered around the shop. The Rogue who followed him did not follow the shop. He just chose a suitable place in a corner across the street, lurked, and waited quietly.

The Rogue did not expect Feng Chou to have found his trace. In the face of a level six or seven warrior, he had absolute confidence in his Sneak.

The weapons and armor sold in this blacksmith shop were quite good, and the more high-end secondary black steel armor occupied most of the shelves here.

Most of the people who walked into this blacksmith shop were mercenaries. Most of them were not here to buy equipment, but to repair their equipment.

It seemed that this was a shop with a good reputation.

Feng Chou walked to a fine medium armor and stopped in front of it. He seemed to be admiring the armor, but in fact, he used his body to block others' view. He took out a money bag from his arms, and then cast a level zero spell called "Mage's Hand."

An invisible hand grabbed a handful of gold coins from the money pouch, then stuck close to the ground and came to the front of the busiest counter, scattering dozens of gold coins from the money pouch.

The people who were hit by the gold coins were a little surprised at first, but then they started to scramble for them.

The attraction of gold coins was really extraordinary. Only three to five gold lion cubs were enough for a person to live a comfortable life in a city like Antalya for a month.

While everyone was distracted by Dollar, Feng Chou cast Invisibility on himself.

After turning invisible, Feng Chou ran towards the back door of the shop without hesitation.

After passing through the back door of the shop, Feng Chou arrived at a sizable forging workshop.

Here, more than a dozen blacksmiths were sweating profusely as they waved their sledgehammers. More than a dozen wind stoves were being blown by the bellows, spitting out foot-tall white flames, causing the workshop to heat up.

With the unique skills of a Rogue, Feng Chou lightly and quickly passed through the messy forging workshop, passed through a door, and came to another workshop.

Under Qiankun Pagoda's scan, he knew the terrain like the back of his hand.

The environment of this workshop was completely different from the forging workshop in front.

In the middle of the workshop, there were several machines that seemed to be wire drawing machines working. These machines did not need manpower, animal power, nor water power. They were obviously driven by magic power.

The wire drawing machines pulled the thicker wire through the wire drawing holes into a thinner wire.

Around the wire drawing machine, there were many workers working on the chain mail. Some of them used chisels to cut the iron wire wrapped around the steel rod in a straight line, and the coiled iron wire was cut into small independent rings.

Some people used a lever pressure mechanism to force multiple small rings through a hole that was large at the top and small at the bottom. In the process of the rings being squeezed through the conical hole, the diameter was squeezed even smaller, and the two ends overlapped.

Some people used rings to weave mail armor. They strung the rings together, and then used something like a pair of pliers to clamp the overlapping parts of the rings. Sparks flew, and the rings were completely welded together. This kind of welding did not even have weld marks, making the rings look as if they were originally one.

This pair of pliers was actually a kind of magic item. It was enchanted with alchemy welding magic and used magic gems as its energy source.

If the previous workshop looked like an ancient blacksmith shop, then the workshop at the back looked more like a modern production workshop.

Feng Chou did not have time to look at it. He quickly and silently passed through the workshop, and came to the backyard of the workshop.

There were several carriages parked in the backyard of the workshop, and opposite was the workshop's warehouse. The products produced in this workshop were not only for sale in this shop, but also for wholesale to other shops and even other towns in Antalya.

Just when Feng Chou threw out the gold coins and caused a commotion in the shop, the high-grade Rogue squatting across the street had already realized that something was wrong. He quickly rushed to the shop.

The Rogue passed through the chaotic crowd with amazing agility and went straight to the backyard of the workshop.

After Feng Chou rushed into the backyard, he turned and ran to the right side of the yard. There was a gate on the right side of the yard that led to the alley on the side of the shop. The carriages that came to the backyard of the shop usually went in and out of this alley, but at this time, the gate was closed.

As Feng Chou rushed towards the door, he flipped his hand and took out a scroll, casting a spell on himself.

This was a scroll of "Spider Walk".

Feng Chou was short of money, but that was only relative to the purpose he wanted to achieve. Compared to ordinary apprentices and even mages, he was actually quite well-off. During this time, he had prepared a lot of spell scrolls for himself that he thought would be useful.

Running to the wall, Feng Chou stepped on the wall and ran perpendicular to the wall.

Just a moment after Feng Chou jumped over the wall, the high-grade Rogue also rushed out of the back door of the workshop and came to the backyard of the shop.

This backyard was not like the front, where there was only one way to go. There were walls on the left and right, and roofs in the front and back.

The Rogue had to look down to identify the footprints.

Feng Chou only had the skills of a beginner Rogue. No matter how good his skills were, he could not be compared with a middle-grade Rogue. Therefore, the Rogue quickly found fresh footprints on the ground that were unique to low-grade Rogues.

Judging where Feng Chou went, the Rogue quickly ran to the right side of the yard.

He ran to a position about two meters away from the wall. His body suddenly curled into a ball, and then suddenly opened up. His whole body was like a spring that sprang up to the top of the wall.

In the process of crossing the top of the wall, the Rogue stretched out his hand and gently pushed against the top of the wall. His body adjusted his posture and fell in the best position.

The moment he landed, the Rogue's body curled up again, rolled around, and got up again.

The Rogue jumped over the four-meter-high wall without making a sound!