[Normal POV]
Soon enough my food ca and I devoured it with gusto. The special was a stew made with the battle boar at I brought back a while ago alongside various dungeon grown vegetables. No one other than the ladies at the hostess, my familia and Hephaestus knew about the at to begin with so the dish was extrely popular if only because no one could identify what the at was. The flavor was also extrely good so there was that too. The stew was only made once a week though as the stock of at wasn't nearly enough for daily expenditure.-
Mama Mia had offered quite the sum for regular shipnts of at but I had declined. I didn't mind grabbing so when I had an opportunity but didn't want to have an obligation to do so. She was good natured about it though and simply said she'd buy any of it I brought up with . Freezing enchantnts were a thing after all so while the at wouldn't constantly stay fresh it still stored easily enough. Once I was done with my al I said my farewells to Hroldar and the others before taking a stroll through the active streets of the city.-
Adventurers moved about chatting or with clear purpose while rchants hawked their wares loudly. There were normal citizens too who were just living their lives like normal. I knew that most of these people were either born here or ca in hopes of becoming a successful rchant or adventurer. The latter two of those weren't all that delusional as this place did allow for such dreams to be achieved far easier than in most other places in the world. The catch was that competition was fierce in the rchant side of things and being an adventurer was just flat out dangerous to begin with.-
Even worse was that without sufficient capital or visible strength getting started was quite difficult. Orario was the beating heart of power in this world and that ant you couldn't run get rich quick sches here without getting tossed out or straight up disappearing if you chose the wrong target. As for being an adventurer that was just as tough without any visible strength or recomndations. Most small familias were either new or like that for a good reason. Either way not typically the best start to ones journey as an adventurer.-
Forget trying to get into the larger famous familias too as those either weren't recruiting or flat out didn't bother with random applicants unless they were special sohow. I shook my head at this and made my way to the market to grab so supplies for my journey and check for last minute goodies. The market was bustling as people went about their mid to late day shopping of produce or simply browsed the goods laid out from those trying their luck at rcantile. These people were the few that managed to make a connection to so familia or even an adventurer of so skill to get goods straight from the dungeon.-
Most of the stuff was worth very little in truth, scraps at best. Still it was these things that gave newcors a small chance to get stable footing so it was an unspoken agreent that no one was to chase these little fellows off. I myself purchased various fruits and vegetables to be dried into fruit leather or vegetable powder. I also bought a good amount of jerky for the road as well. -
While I was idly walking through the market looking at the things set out for sale I froze in my tracks at the small dirty blanket stall of soone clearly new to the city. I ignored all the other small bits that weren't worth my attention and focused my gaze on the ivory broken claw sitting on it in the center.
"That claw there, how much?" I asked seriously.
The young man sitting there looked at in surprise.
"Er.. a thousand? No! Two thousand!" he said said hurriedly though clearly unsure.
I took off my coin bag from my waist and tossed it to him "That's a more fair amount, i'll be taking this now." I said as I grabbed the claw piece before leaving in a hurry.
My bag had well over half a million valis in it but I wasn't wrong when I said that it was a more fair paynt for this claw fragnt. Why you may ask? Because this thing was radiating an intense amount of cursed energy. Whatever this ca from was powerful and extrely feared or a re fragnt of one of it's claws wouldn't have such an effect. As I attempted to use my technique on it my eyes bulged in shock as there was no reaction at all. -
To be more precise the innate resistance of this re fragnt was so high my technique rolled right off of it harmlessly. I could only think of a single creature that was ever known to hold that sort of power and my heartbeat grew rapid at the idea, The one eyed black dragon. A beast of such calamitous power that even the full force of both the Zeus and Hera familias which consisted of dozens of level sevens, eights and even a single nine failed to strike down but were instead wiped out themselves.-
No one knew for sure but many agreed that the beast had to have been at least a level nine monster rex, perhaps even on the verge of godhood. It was no wonder a re fragnt of one of it's claws likely broken off during the battle would have such power and cursed energy. Finding this fragnt was a stroke of grand luck even if to the average person it appeared to be a rather hard piece of junk. To this was not just a supre crafting material but also a taste of how powerful that dragon really was.-
'I can't wait to kill that dragon.' I thought with an eager grin as I headed ho.
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