Seven Legends and Seven Cups of Wine

Chapter 26 Seven Legends, Seven Cups of Wine (Please continue reading)

No one knows when the Shining Tavern began appearing in the kingdom's major cities. Not only in the Emerald Kingdom, but travelers have also discovered traces of the Shining Tavern in the other six kingdoms.

This is an organization that spans the entire continent, integrating multiple functions such as underground transactions and bounty commissions.

Of course, to ordinary people who are turned away by the exorbitant price of 1 gold coin for drinks, this is just a place for rich people, royal nobles, to indulge in pleasure. Everywhere you look, there are beautiful women dressed in revealing clothes, their waists swaying like water snakes. Many of them come from foreign lands and have a unique charm.

The tavern and the outside world are two separate worlds.

Li Wei had a great knight father, so he naturally knew about the Shining Tavern.

If he could, he wouldn't want to go in.

However, the jade merchants' association is out of stock now, so we can only try here.

"Give me a Lion King spirit."

With a pained expression, Li Wei took out a gold coin and handed it to the burly man who possessed the strength of a knight.

The fact that a knight-level expert could guard the entrance shows that Shining Tavern is no ordinary establishment.

This is a magical organization that seems to transcend the nobility, royalty, and even the authority of the church.

One gold coin can buy a cow, a fine knight's longsword, or have a high-ranking priest of the Holy Light Church in Icewind City perform a Holy Light Prayer for you.

But here, it's only worth a glass of wine.

Of course, this is also the admission ticket.

The burly man handed over a glass of wine that shimmered with a pale golden light.

"Drink it, and you can go in."

This is Lion King Spirit, dedicated to the legendary Lionheart Knight.

The entire Shining Tavern offers only seven types of drinks, rotating every seven days. Each drink serves as an entry ticket to the tavern and costs 1 gold coin. They are:

Lion King Spirits, Blood Wine, Hundred Flowers Wine, Snow Beer, Black Rum, Golden Spirits, Unnamed Wine.

There were no other wines available.

These seven wines are said to be in memory of seven legendary knights who died.

Lionheart Knight Rhine, Blood Knight Brad, Flower Knight Elena, Snowflake Knight Freyle, Black Knight Black, Golden Knight Grek, and the Thousand-Faced Knight Nameless, whose true name is unknown.

Therefore, many people speculate that the mastermind behind the Shining Tavern must be the legendary knight, which is why he was able to open taverns throughout the seven kingdoms and even set up black markets right under the noses of nobles and royalty in major cities.

Li Wei wasn't worried about the drinks being poisoned, after all, Shining Tavern had a very good reputation in the underworld.

After finishing my drinks, I stepped into the tavern, where a lively and bustling atmosphere greeted me.

The air was thick with the scent of hormones, mixed with a strong smell of alcohol.

At the bar, a glamorous female proprietress was sipping her "Hundred Flowers Wine" by herself.

Inside the tavern, many people wore masks like Li Wei, but there were also many skilled and daring individuals who showed their true faces.

The rude men played drinking games and flirted with the tavern's waitresses, only to be severely scolded by the proprietress, yet they dared not retaliate.

It's common knowledge that anyone who dares to lay a hand on the staff of Shining Tavern never ends well.

Li Wei made his way through the noisy crowd to a secluded, domed room behind the tavern.

This is where the tavern's trading market is located. In front of simple stalls, people are selling their goods, and there is a large wooden sign with various requests written in chalk.

These are all personal commissions; Shining Tavern is merely responsible for the platform.

The variety of content available has given rise to a profession that specializes in accepting commissions in exchange for bounties: bounty hunters.

Many wandering knights became bounty hunters.

Li Wei wandered around the market, and finally, with a delighted expression, stopped in front of a person wearing full-body armor.

On this person's stall, there was a small black bottle. Even with the lid on, the contents inside emitted a strange and captivating fragrance, a scent that Li Wei had smelled many times when his father was preparing secret medicines when he was a child.

Ambergris.

"200 gold coins a bottle, no bargaining." The man in armor was clearly a formal knight. Li Wei could feel the powerful aura emanating from him. Although he was not as powerful as Knight Fred, he was still as dazzling as a flame in front of him.

"Ambergris has always been priced at 100 gold coins per bottle, a stable price. How can you possibly sell it for 200?" Li Wei couldn't help but say.

The knight sneered, "You still want to buy ambergris for 100 gold coins? Think again. You can go to the Jade Merchant Guild and see if you can buy it. Right now, the royal white horse knight has practically monopolized all the ambergris in the entire kingdom's Jade Merchant Guild in order to become a legendary knight. There's basically no ambergris left on the market. Are you going to buy it or not? If not, don't block my business."

This knight was clearly not in a good mood. Li Wei thought to himself, no wonder the Jade Merchants' Guild was out of stock; it turned out that the White Horse Knight had bought them all.

White Horse Knight Li Wei naturally knew that he was known as the strongest genius of the Emerald Royal Family in a thousand years, and the number one person below the legendary knight.

Li Wei had no choice; he didn't want to wait for the price of ambergris to drop, who knew when that would take.

"Do you have a few bottles of ambergris here?" Li Wei asked.

"How much do you need?" the knight asked, looking at Levi.

"Two bottles." Li Wei had five hundred gold coins on him, which he had originally intended to use to buy ambergris. Even if it was expensive, he had to buy it.

Two bottles of ambergris, used to make the Black Serpent Elixir, should be enough for me to break through to the level of a formal knight.

"Alright, I didn't expect you to be so rich despite your mediocre strength. You must be a noble scion from the North." The knight said to himself.

However, since Li Wei didn't respond, the knight decided not to bother himself.

Li Wei took the two bottles of ambergris from the knight, checked that the goods were fine, and threw down four hundred gold coins, equivalent to more than five years' worth of his territory's fiscal revenue. His heart was bleeding.

"You got a good deal. If I didn't urgently need the money, I could have made at least a hundred gold coins by putting these two bottles of ambergris at the [Shining Auction] the day after tomorrow. If you need more ambergris in the future, you can find me at the Shining Tavern." After saying that, the knight hurriedly left with the gold coins.

Clearly, this guy has control over the acquisition channels for ambergris.

Having acquired the ambergris, Li Wei had achieved his most important goal for this trip. With over 100 gold coins left, he planned to buy a Bloodline Breathing Technique and test it at home to see if his proficiency panel could break through the bloodline restrictions, allowing him to cultivate the breathing techniques of other families.

After wandering around for a while, Li Wei couldn't find anyone selling the Breathing Technique, so he could only wait for the [Shining Auction] the day after tomorrow. This is a small auction held at the Shining Tavern on the last day of every month, where some precious items are auctioned off.

There must be a breathing technique. When Li Wei was a child, he attended the Shining Auction in Flower City with his father. At that auction, an extremely rare and excellent non-bloodline breathing technique was sold for a sky-high price of five thousand gold coins!

(End of this chapter)