Chapter 50: The Demon King's Codex

"Flap! Flap!"

Jiang Ming patted his face to awaken himself from his anxious thoughts and reassured himself, 'With Chikage, my sister will be fine.'

In order to prevent himself from thinking too much, he took out the Reaper's Scythe and rushed towards the thousands of skeleton monsters.

Maybe it was because of his unsettled state of mind, he was soon overwhelmed by the thousands of skeleton monsters. He was killed in seconds, and his level dropped again by 1, falling from level 5 to level 4.

"Sh*t!"

After Jiang Ming was resurrected, he cursed out loud in anger.

Now, he just wanted to leave the Death Bell Tower immediately, but he couldn't do that. After his death, he would resurrect again within the Bell Tower. With his current level and attributes, let alone thousands of skeletons, he believed that he could not even deal with ten of them.

His attack had dropped from the original 100 to just 30, just barely sufficient to break the monster's defense.

Now, he couldn't wear any of his level 10 equipment on his body. If not for that the Reaper's Scythe and the Reaper's Boots were his personalised equipment, he probably won't be able to wear them too when his level dropped.

While he vented his emotions in anger, he was killed again and again by thousands of skeleton monsters, and finally, he was killed to level zero.

Ding~ System notification: Sorry, your level is 0 and you can't continue to pass this stage. You will be sent to a novice village now!

After he reached level zero, the system voice rang in his ears. As soon as the system voice rang out, before he could even react, he was surrounded by light and disappeared from the Death Bell Tower.

　　...

After the initial dizziness, Jiang Ming opened his eyes. He found that he was randomly teleported to 00981 Novice Village by the system.

"Isn't this the Novice Village where Money Lover got the Bone Fragment of the Demon Saint?" Jiang Ming was taken aback, recalling the transaction with Money Lover, and a smile appeared on his face. "It seems that I am destined to come to this Novice Village to get something I need."

After saying this, he began to look around the Novice Village. Although the number of players in novice villages had reduced, the number was still huge. Within his view, there were thousands of people walking in the Novice Village, and there were even some new players entering the game.

"Now that I have reached level 0, I need to first upgrade quickly, then go to Hidden Summit Cliff to find the stone platform Money Lover mentioned. After leaving the Novice Village, I'll return to the Death Bell Tower. By that time, I'll directly use the mysterious fruit to pass the second floor, so that I won't get killed to level 0 again. Fortunately, nothing was dropped when I died inside the Death Bell Tower. Otherwise, I'd have nothing left with me now."

Jiang Ming muttered to himself and walked out of the Novice Village.

"Look here! A newly dropped iron rank dual-attribute top-quality equipment, only 10 silver coins! You heard that right, it's just 10 silver coins! First come first served, come buy it quickly!"

"Selling iron ores, each set is worth 20 bronze coins. Building level 0-5 whiteboard equipment, private message me if you need it."

"Team up to kill level 10 magic wolf, lacking MT and DPS!"

　　...

This Novice Village was much more lively than his original Novice Village. Walking on the streets of the Novice Village, he heard shouts from everywhere, and from time to time, there were even sounds of cursing.

"Demon... Demon King's Codex, anyone interested to buy?"

Jiang Ming, who was originally uninterested in all these shouts, raised his brows when he heard a very melodious but shy shout, looking curiously in the direction where the sound came from.

He saw a delicate and pretty girl standing in front of a stall, lowering her head as she spoke timidly. If Jiang Ming hadn't passed by her stall just as she called out, he wouldn't be able to hear her melodious but shy shout in such a noisy street.

In addition to thinking that the voice of this girl who seemed to be only eighteen or nineteen years old was very special, he was more interested in what the girl was selling.

It could be said that he was very interested in all things related to the words "Demon King", "Demon Saint" and "Demon" now, because these things were likely to be necessary for him to complete the twelve-stage Demon Saint Inheritance Mission. Keeping these things in advance could reduce the time for searching, so that he would not fail to complete the missions and lose everything.

From time to time, players would approach the stall set up by the girl, but after seeing the items she sold, they would all turn around and leave without even inquiring about them. Occasionally, a few players would speak, but it was just to verbally molest the girl.

The girl's name was White Silk, a really beautiful name. She had already reached level 9, which was not bad.

After checking the girl's basic information, Jiang Ming stepped forward and looked at White Silk who also slightly raised her head and glanced at him. Then, he clicked on White Silk's booth to check the items.

There was only one item in the booth – a yellow notebook.

[Demon King's Codex]: Special item

Description: The Codex of the demon king - King Garuda, one of the twelve demon kings under the Demon Saint.

Price: 10 gold coins or 800 dragon coins

10 gold coins? This price was not low. No wonder so many players left without even asking after taking a look. It seemed that they all regarded White Silk as a black-hearted merchant who asked for high prices, trying to use her shy and pure appearance to win some of their pity.

If there were any other item that was placed on the booth, perhaps Jiang Ming would have the same thoughts as those players and he would also have left immediately. But for him, the prices of the Demon King's Codex sold by White Silk was barely acceptable.

"Can you make this thing cheaper?" Jiang Ming raised his head and glanced at White Silk, then pointed to the Demon King's Codex placed on the stall shelf and asked White Silk.

White Silk raised her head and looked at Jiang Ming who was the first player to bargain with her. She folded her arms and her face blushed. She then nodded and said, "Yes, I can. At least 9 gold coins and 99 silver coins."

'Only reducing the price by one silver coin?!'

Jiang Ming saw that White Silk changed the price to 9 gold and 99 silver, and he was speechless.

"Can you sell for 5 gold?" Jiang Ming stepped forward, approaching White Silk.

Feeling Jiang Ming's breath on her face, White Silk took a step back shyly and quickly shook her head. "No, I need money urgently, so I can't reduce the price by too much, or it won't be enough for my sister's tuition fee."

It turned out that she still had a younger sister to look after, and she was selling the Demon King's Codex at such a high price in order to earn her tuition fee. This reminded Jiang Ming of his own days when he had to earn tuition fees for his younger sister. 'We're in the same boat!'

Hearing that she shared the same predicament as himself, he did not hesitate anymore to buy the Demon King's Codex. He intended to purchase the Demon King's Codex either way, and he only bargained with her to save some money for himself. But now he knew that White Silk also had to make money for her sister. Since they shared the same boat, he stopped bargaining and directly bought it.

"Thank you!" Seeing Jiang Ming had bought it, an excited smile spread across White Silk's face, and she thanked Jiang Ming.

"By the way, excuse me, I wonder if you could tell me where did you get this Demon King's Codex?" Seeing White Silk closing the stall and preparing to leave, Jiang Ming hurriedly asked her.

White Silk glanced back at Jiang Ming, pondered for a while, and replied. "In Hidden Summit Cliff."

"It's Hidden Summit Cliff again! It seems that the Hidden Summit Cliff has a close relationship with the Demon Race, I must hurry in levelling up and go to the Hidden Summit Cliff myself!"

After Jiang Ming learned that the Demon King's Codex came from the Hidden Summit Cliff, he narrowed his eyes and thought to himself.

As he continued to walk out of the Novice Village, Jiang Ming took out the Demon King's Codex he just bought and started reading it...