Castlevania of the Pigeons from Fairy Tail

Chapter 37: Merchants at Campfire

Kong Nori put away the Star Spirit and carefully maintained the appearance of a harmless girl in front of this group of humans, successfully passing the inspection.

A guard saw that she was beautiful, so he said to her: "You have two choices now. First, leave here and move on. But I advise you not to do that."

"Why?" Kongno asked, blinking his big eyes deliberately.

"Of course, it's because starting from the second level, elites as powerful as monsters will appear. They were once members of the Demon Heart, the Seven Families of Purgatory."

"If you run into them... hehe, then you'll be killed by them and sent back to the Dark Cemetery, losing all your accumulated relics and property."

"Even if you're extremely lucky and don't encounter a single elite defender's palace, you'll still have to face the boss of the second floor—the terrifying 'Hades' or Brunoth."

"Ever since Hades and Brunot became the leaders of the second level, I haven't heard of anyone successfully reaching the third level."

Kong No didn't try to be brave and say that he could force his way through. After all, they were Hades, Brunoth and the Seven Followers of Purgatory.

Although the Six Demon Generals have never fought against Hades, Brunoth, and the Seven Followers of Purgatory, it is certain that they are very powerful.

"You said there were two choices, what about the other one?"

"Second, of course, you must stay here at the campfire camp and stay with us. We have enough military force and resources to protect you from harm."

"Especially those crazy cultists who were preaching with a crackling voice. You should have experienced that on your way here, right?"

Kong Nai sneered in his heart, but did not show it on his face. He did not say what he was going to do. He made an excuse to walk around the campfire camp and walked away.

She finally had a place to spend her gold coins. She bought a bag from a vendor, and also bought some food and water, but she declined all the magic props and entertainment activities offered by the vendor.

She doesn't even look down on this kind of stuff.

After taking a look at the heavily guarded bonfire from afar, Kong Nai decided to leave.

She soon noticed that there were three forks in the road at the exit, and at the end of each fork was a door that could be used for any teleportation, all leading to unknown destinations.

This is a problem. The entire Castlevania must be very large, with complicated paths, so I and the other members of the Six Demon Generals never met each other from beginning to end.

Now there are three doors before me, how do I choose? Or is it that I can just pick randomly, and all choices are meaningless?
At this moment, she suddenly heard a voice coming from the side.

"Hello Stranger."

Konguo turned around and saw a man in a blue robe, a hood and a mask sitting on a carpet with a treasure chest next to him.

At first glance, she thought it was just another local vendor, but she soon noticed something was wrong.

The campfire camp was well-organized and had a separate business area. However, it seemed unusual that this strange businessman was able to break away from this order and sit here alone.

Kong Nai turned around and looked again, and then she discovered the second suspicious point, that is, the humans in the entire campfire camp seemed to be unable to see the merchant, and even her.

Either they were deliberately ignoring this place for some reason, or they really couldn't see the businessman and the humans he came into contact with.

The merchant didn't care about Kong Nai's long silence. Instead, he turned around, took the treasure chest next to him, slowly opened it, and said, "Would you like to buy something from me?"

Kongno was just wondering how much stuff such a small treasure chest could hold and how many good things could be in it, but he was immediately shocked by the contents of the treasure chest.

Inside the treasure chest, there were miniature items as big as badges, each of which was exquisite and revealed some kind of strange power.

Sora knew something was amiss and her interest was piqued. She half-knelt down, pointed at something in the treasure chest, and asked, "What is this?" This merchant was, of course, the Demon King Endymion.

Seeing Sora's curiosity, he, who had a bad character, explained:

"This is a map of the second floor of Castlevania. Hold it, and it will tell you what area you're about to be teleported to. It's currently on sale, only 100 gold coins."

Of course, Sora didn't believe the "discount" nonsense. She asked, "Try it and show me how useful it is."

"No problem." Endymion kindly reached out and picked up the map. As soon as the miniature map left the treasure chest, it immediately grew larger and became a roll of parchment.

Kong Nai couldn't help but marvel at it.

Endymion unfolded the parchment and saw a rather simple map with many icons on it, and lines connecting the icons.

"Look at this 'bonfire' sign. It's the bonfire campsite we're currently at. The three gates leading from here lead to the 'normal', 'elite', and 'event' palaces, respectively."

Kong Nai understood the bonfire camp, the palace of ordinary defenders, and the palace of elite defenders. She asked, "What is this event palace?"

Endymion took out a gold coin from his waist, threw it up, and then caught it casually:

"When you enter here, you will encounter different events, just like this gold coin. If it lands on the front, you will encounter a positive event. If it lands on the back, you will encounter a negative event."

“Of course, sometimes it’s a mixed bag.”

"That's all I can say. For the rest, you'll have to experience it yourself. This map only has a starting point and an end point, so you can roughly determine them."

Kong Nai looked at the parchment again and saw that the end of the map was indeed the palace guarded by the leader on the second floor, engraved with a leader's mark.

The starting point and the end point are indeed fixed.

Endymion rolled up the parchment and, without showing it to her, asked, "Are you buying it or not?"

"Are these the only brief information tips on the map?" Kong Nai asked.

"That's right, otherwise it wouldn't be sold for only 100 gold coins."

Kong Noi did not hesitate any longer. She had saved more than 300 gold coins, which was enough. So she paid 100 gold coins and bought the map of the second floor. Then she asked:

"What are these others?"

"This is the 'Magic Source Light Ball' that can forcibly activate your 'Second Source of Magic'. It's currently on sale for only 200 gold coins."

Kong Nai couldn't help but be surprised again.

The second magic source is a secret that many magicians have been longing for. It is equivalent to having an extra engine for the airship. When the magic power of the first magic source is exhausted, the magic power of the second magic source can be used.

You know, there is a gap between the Ten Holy Magicians and S-class magicians, and what makes the difference is whether or not they have a second source of magic. It can be seen that this expansion is not so easy to obtain.

However, in Castlevania, the method to unlock the second source of magic is actually sold as a "commodity"?

Simply incredible!

It only costs 200 gold coins... Kong Nai believed that the merchant in front of him was having a discount this time.

(End of this chapter)