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Chapter 105
🕑 Added 2024-05-17 02:00:02 +0000 UTCAnton enjoyed perusing the content of the Adventurer’s Guild mission board. He saw someone from the guild posting his request in a prominent area as well and it was tagged as E class mission but the notice had a golden frame.
“What does a golden frame mean?” Anton asked the man who was posting the notice.
“It meant that it’s a mission that’s being recommended by the guild and that the reward would be attractive,” The man said.
Anton smiled when he heard that. After the notice was posted, he saw that a lot of adventurers gathered to check it out since it was only an E-class mission but had a golden frame.
When he was done checking out the notice board, Anton went to the table where the others were waiting and saw that a lot of adventurers were surrounding their group and learned that they were interested in Lunelle and talking to her to ask her out or something. Everyone was respectful though but more than likely, it was because of the presence of Devon and Budolf.
Anna was giggling at the men’s interest in Lunelle and Lunelle was blushing. Anton admitted that Lunelle was pretty especially after she started drinking and bathing in mana water.
“I’m ready to go,” Anton told everyone.
Lunelle stood up immediately and almost ran outside. Fenix and Anna giggled when they saw that and Devon laughed outright. When they arrived at the carriage Anton saw that the driver was different and when Budolf saw that he noticed, their guard explained that the driver was someone they hired on the city guard’s recommendation. Anton just nodded and climbed on the carriage followed by his sister, Lunelle, and Fenix.
“I recommend that we visit the Noble’s Bazaar. It’s a high-end bazaar-like street but it caters to the rich folks,” Fenix said.
“We can do that but let’s start with a bazaar or a marketplace that caters to poor to ordinary men first then once we're done with that place we then go to the high-end one,” Anton said.
Fenix said affirmative and went to the window that could be used to communicate with the carriage driver and told the man where their next destination was.
After several minutes, the carriage stopped, and the driver loudly informed them that they had arrived.
They all stepped out of the carriage and Anton saw they were on an entrance of a wide street made of cobblestones. The stalls were made of dilapidated wood and some of the merchants just laid their wares on blankets.
“If you’re carrying coin purses, you have to give them to someone who can keep them without a pickpocket stealing them,” Fenix advised everyone.
Anna and Lunelle gave their purses to Budolf and everyone knew that Anton had some sort of magical pocket. He wondered why the girls didn’t give their purses to him.
The first stall that they went to was some kind of miscellaneous stall since the merchant’s stall was filled with all sorts of things like jewelry, scarves, knives, toys, some sort of board games and playing cards, hand mirrors, and more. Anton whispered to everyone to recommend items that he could purchase that would be worth a lot of coins if it were repaired to perfection as if was just created and everyone nodded.
Anton gave another purse to Fenix filled with one hundred silver coins and told the guide to act as his finance manager. Fenix nodded and told him that it was not going to be a problem.
Looking at the items on the merchant stall, the merchant kept spouting nonsense about his items but nobody was listening to him. Everything looked interesting to Anton but unfortunately, he didn’t have any kind of remote identification spell. He would only know the details of an item once he stored it in his inventory and of course, he could not do that while the merchant’s eyes were on them.
On the first stall, they only purchased three items. Unfortunately for Devon, he was assigned to carry the items everyone had purchased. The next stall they went to was just a blanket on the ground but the items were interesting since they all looked very old like old jewelry boxes, antique dolls, ancient knives, and so forth and on since they all cost so cheap, Anton purchased many of the items to the delight of the merchant.
They went through to all the merchant’s stalls and the merchants learned that somebody rich was purchasing a lot of their items and that the buyer was not meticulous about buying anything that caught their fancy, even the most broken and dilapidated products.
Soon everyone was carrying a lot of bags and things they had purchased except for Anton. They needed to go back to the carriage to put the items that they had purchased there then went back on going through to all the merchant’s stalls.
They spent around three hours buying things from the bazaar and when they completed their shopping spree, it was already one in the afternoon and everyone was hungry. In the carriage, Anton kept all the things that they had purchased in his private stash inside the game and they went to a restaurant that Fenix recommended.
Fenix informed them that the restaurant was somewhere his uncle’s wizard friend always frequented and this would be the first time he would experience eating there since the restaurant was very expensive.
They did enjoy the food that was served to them but Fenix was right, it was very expensive and to Anna’s very vocal opinion, it was not worth it.
They did enjoy the food regardless if it were worth the coin or not and after eating, Anton decided to go back to their inn so he could rest. The actual reason was Anton was getting antsy about not entering the world of Diablo II and not increasing his strength.
Anna was still adamant about watching the theater and to be honest, Anton was interested in seeing it as well but he wanted to rest first before going to the theater. He also wanted to repair all the items that they purchased and they still had three more days in the city before they left.
Anton’s sister was disappointed to learn that they would be returning to the inn early but after he told her that he wanted to rest before going to the theater that night, the statement consoled the girl.
She then talked to Lunelle about what dress they would wear to the theater and Fenix expressed interest in going with them so Anton told the boy that he could go.
“I haven’t gone to the city theater yet since it cost a lot of coins and not only that they wouldn’t just let anyone enter it even though you have coins,” Fenix said.
“Oh, they’re discriminating against poor people?” Anton asked and the boy just nodded.
“Honestly, I just want to take a look to compare their actors to ours and see if there’s any difference,” Fenix added.
When they arrived at the inn the first thing that Anton did was to tell everyone that he would be meditating for a couple of hours and to not disturb him then he went directly to the bathroom to take a bath.
