Speaking of selling skill orbs, actually, from the moment they entered the marketplace until now, they've passed quite a few stalls selling orbs.

But those stalls only had one, two, or at most three orbs, mixed among a bunch of miscellaneous materials, so the quantity was quite scarce and didn't seem very formal.

Due to the low drop rate of skill orbs, the quality of those orbs wasn't very good.

They were basically between F~D grade, and the effects were mediocre.

Especially for someone like Fu Erdai, who was financially well-off. He almost stopped to take a look at every stall with skill orbs he passed, but unfortunately, he never found anything satisfactory.

On the contrary, Wu Guinan had good luck as she found a D+ skill she liked and spent all her pocket savings on it.

However, this shop here was different. When the four walked in, they discovered that it only sold skill orbs and nothing else.

And the number was quite substantial too.

A quick glance revealed at least dozens of them.

Each one was locked in a glass box, with detailed skill information attached on the box.

"There are more orbs here than in the trading station product area!"

Wu Guinan exclaimed.

"Oh my, how many Crystal Coins would all this be worth?"

Ma He chimed in.

"Sorry, everyone."

"Looks like I'll be spending some time here."

The most excited one was Fu Erdai.

He absolutely had to thoroughly browse this shop today to see if there were any suitable skills for his firefly or his newly summoned beast.

As long as it's suitable, money is not a problem.

"Sigh..."

But Li Pu seemed a bit disappointed.

Despite so many orbs in front of him, he didn't appear very interested.

The opportunity was rare, but the key issue was, he had no money.

Even if Federation Coins could be used, it felt like skill orbs were something he couldn't afford at this point.

But seeing the other three starting to carefully browse the glass boxes, he could only follow along and look around idly.

Occasionally, customers came in and others left the store.

Li Pu casually scanned through about a dozen orbs, finding them not quite meeting his needs, but the quality was decent, with the worst being D grade.

He hadn't seen any E or F grades at all.

He found it a bit odd, feeling the business here seemed a bit slow.

So he turned his gaze towards the store's only staff member, the boss.

The boss was a plump middle-aged man, balding and smoking a pipe.

He was sitting behind the counter with his legs crossed, displaying a "you can look all you want, but I won't be waiting on you" attitude.

Just then, a summoner in his early twenties approached the counter.

"Hello, boss. May I ask the price of orb number 071?"

"I didn't see a price tag on your glass box."

This summoner was pretty courteous.

The boss, however, seemed a bit arrogant. He glanced at the visitor and then pointed to a stand by the counter with his eyes.

It was then that Li Pu realized that the orb prices were written on it.

However, after taking a closer look at a few lines, he frowned.

"What?!"

Sure enough, after reading the stand, the summoner exclaimed out loud.

"You don't accept Crystal Coins, and you don't take Federation Coins?"

"You only trade for cards of the same level??"

"Is this how you do business?"

This payment and transaction method was clearly unacceptable to people.

"If you don't want to buy, find somewhere else,"

said the boss, indifferently taking a puff from his pipe.

"Tsk!"

The summoner, without any cards on hand, had no choice but to turn and leave the shop.

The surrounding customers, having heard their conversation, dropped their initial interest in the orbs instantly.

A few stubborn ones went forward to inquire, but they were all rebuffed by the boss.

Seeing this scene, the crowd lost interest and left the shop one after another.

The boss maintained the same expression in light of this situation, as he had already gotten used to it.

The marketplace had been set up ahead of the competition, and these past few days had been like this, with hardly any successful business.

However, he wasn't worried, as he wasn't lacking money.

"Hey, why don't we just leave?"

"Right, right, just looking without buying is pointless."

At this point, only Li Pu and the other three were left in the shop, and Wu Guinan and Ma He had lost interest as well.

Wu Guinan hardly had any cards, and Ma He even less so, not even having unlocked a card interface yet.

Since they couldn't buy anything, they'd rather not look, lest they find a suitable skill orb but can't purchase it, only making their hearts itch.

"No rush, let's keep looking."

Fu Erdai remained unmoved.

He had cards, after all.

Not to exaggerate, but he had 95% of the species of magical beasts from the southern forest.

Of course, none of them were of BAS grade, just one or two of C grade at most.

More importantly, he could always buy cards if he needed them!

He had already encountered several stalls selling cards just a moment ago!

Although, in the middle of reselling, there would undoubtedly be some depreciation loss.

But if it was for a desired skill orb, he was willing to pay the price.

"Yes, let's keep looking."

Li Pu's attitude also shifted.

Not to mention higher ones; he did have some C-grade cards.

It all depended on the boss's requirements.

If it was just any random C-grade card, he could always combine two D-grade cards into one. He hadn't used today's [Card Making] chance yet.

The one calling the shots had spoken, so the two followers (or maybe?) had no choice but to continue browsing aimlessly in the shop.

The skill orbs in this shop, Li Pu noticed when he glanced at the numbers earlier, totaled 79.

In the first round, he browsed broadly.

The main purpose was to see if there were any skills with no racial, no attribute requirements, and belonging to the balanced type.

Indeed, it was the right skill suitable for his own use.

But unfortunately, there wasn't such a thing.

Now in the second round of browsing, he took a closer look.

[LV1 - Shield of the Wanderer (D)]

Active Effect: Generates a swirling gust of wind to block attacks for the user

Attribute Requirement: 1~10 Wind

Type Requirement: Wind Pursuer

Racial Requirement: None

The effect of skill number 1 looked decent.

Unfortunately, it wasn't compatible with the Scarecrow or Bubu at all.

Skill orbs aren't related items and can't utilize [Friend of Magical Beasts] to ignore learning conditions.

As for the ugly little wolf, there was no need to consider it for now.

After all, whether or when he'd be able to contract with it was still an unknown, and preparing now seemed too early.

"Let's look at the next one."

He moved a few steps and directed his gaze towards the description on the number 2 glass box.

[LV1 - Gluttonous Soul (C)]

Passive Effect: Doubles food intake, greatly increases eating speed

Attribute Requirement: 1~10 Devour

Type Requirement: None

Racial Requirement: Creatures with a mouth

"Ugh."

After reading this, Li Pu had only one comment.

An honorable C-grade skill, yet so unserious, and what kind of attribute is "Devour" anyway, never heard of it.

It was not even as good as the D-grade [Shield of the Wanderer] from earlier.

"Huh?"

However, when he looked at skill number 3, his eyes lit up.

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