"I should change my plans."
Bloom stood in front of the central plaza where a store that sold the tickets stood in the opposite street.
"That increase in the ticket prices" he paused as he already amassed one hundred tickets to different towns before. "I should aim for the wealthiest places."
As he realized just now the more advanced the town was the higher the cost to move to it.
And as he was aiming to amass the gold coins in the shortest ti possible he needed to start considering his options here.
After all he had to search for distant places, far away from here and away from each other so a pattern wouldn't be noticed.
"Welco again," the NPC who he t before was standing there. "How can I serve you today?"
"I want to purchase the highest priced tickets," he said while adding, "do you have a list for that?"
"Sure," the NPC took out ten tickets where he landed them on the counter, "each one is considered a golden ticket in the market. Their towns are very prosperous and bustling with much activity compared to here," the NPC said as if he was acting as a propaganda man for these towns.
"How much?" Bloom asked.
"For which one?"
"All," Bloom said.
"Rich clients indeed are the best," the NPC laughed while Bloom exited his store.
"Five thousand gold coins for these ten tickets with the highest is equally the sa as here," he muttered before adding, "I'm curious what makes this one on par with here."
He stored all but kept one in his hand. The na of the town, the Regotas town, was written on one side of it. "But I need to think about sothing first."
He turned around and found this wasn't the right place to consider this matter so he headed directly towards the main hotel in the town.
And as he suspected, he was closely followed.
"Strange," he softly muttered, "or they were sent just before the sudden rise in the ticket prices?" he couldn't tell and he never cared.
He rented a room and when he entered it he started to touch a special place on his body. "My goodluck tattoo I should put you in use again," he muttered while thinking so deeply about whom he should turn into.
He couldn't use his initial identity for now, and the old Sunny was also obsolete by the punishnts he got from the curses.
He was pretty much sure he would et a shrine caravan or couple of them during his upcoming assaults. So he didn't need to use an identity that could raise red flags to anyone.
"Should I use his identity?" he suddenly thought of Dockrey and the thought itself made him laugh. "That would be fun, but I will add more to his fa and that's not good in the long run."
Despite it being really fun, he ditched the idea and started to consider other people he once saw and t. "Why not use my true identity but on a fake one?" he suddenly thought before laughing, "that would be more interesting. Having a player with the sa look as Bloom to do these attacks that would be much more hilarious."
Yet he finally chose a character of a middle aged man. He didn't think too much about it as he chose one that held so significance to him and others as well.
It was the CEO who supported him and was killed during the last assisanation. At least he thought this would be a stance showing his gratitude to him, and he hoped his soul would be content with his decision.
"Let's go then," after changing the shape of the man he used the ticket and the next mont he left the town and appeared in the plaza of another one.
Yet the mont he appeared he was attracted by many shining statues that were scattered all over the giant plaza.
"Damn! Is this a plaza or a palace throne hall?"
He stood there motionless while gazing at those golden statues. No one looked cheap and he was pretty sure that a single one of these pieces of art would be sold and solve his entire problem.
"Should I steal one then?" He seriously considered this as the temptation of these statues was really irresistible.
"Welco to Regatos town."
This sudden voice greatly startled him as he turned fast to spot an NPC wearing a shining outfit and looked strangely like a clown in these unmatched colors of his clothes.
"I'm Andy, you can consider the main one responsible for welcoming our guests," the NPC said before turning around, "pretty much amazing, right?"
Bloom didn't know if this NPC heard his thoughts before or not. "They are," he simply said.
"Our mayor is soone with great taste," the NPC said, "he loves to collect arts and antiques from everywhere. Pretty much obsessed with gathering anything rare and unique, but he also is famous for one more thing."
Bloom glanced in question and the man added:
"He doesn't tolerate any thief," the man said with a short laugh, "it's not a secret that to show up these beauties here he is too confident in his own security guards."
Bloom's heart fell in his feet as he was sure now this annoying NPC with that smug smile over his face already heard him from before.
"Now, you are warmly welcod as a friend. I hope you won't cross your line and try to touch any of our rare items of our mayor or else"
The NPC turned to point to a large group of a hundred heavily ard NPCs walking in patrol around the plaza.
"I'll make sure not to cause any trouble at all," Bloom lied with a very innocent smile that would rival those of kids. "but I want to ask about sothing you just ntioned."
"What is it?" The NPC seed not to believe Bloom's words while answering in a tone that showed how suspicious he was of him.
"You said your mayor loves rare items."
"Indeed, that's a given fact," Andy said like it was a known fact.
"Then what about things like this?" Bloom waved his hand and took out a scale of what he got from the last quest.
"This" the eyes of Andy narrowed in doubt before asking, "may I ask what a dirty piece of stone and dead at is?"
"It's not stone and dead at," Bloom calmly shook his head before storing the scale in his inventory, "it's a dragon scale, one that was killed long years ago."
The eyes of Andy widened as he controlled his excitent, "are you sure?" he said before hurriedly pausing as he recalled what he heard Bloom muttering softly from before, "y'know our mayor doesn't tolerate scamrs."
"I'm telling the truth," Bloom simply shrugged, "but if you don't believe then I have to go on my way and look for another one to value my scales."
"S- Scales?!!" Andy muttered in shock, "you have more like this scale?"
"All is available," Bloom cracked a wide smile, "but you need to show respect and appreciation first."
"My foolish eyes failed to recognize such a mighty and prestigious master the mont he stepped into our town I'm a damned man for not recognizing you lord."
The tone and attitude of Andy changed drastically but that didn't fool Bloom. "I an money gold coins and treasures," Bloom coldly said with a sneer.
"Oh," the tone and attitude of Andy changed slightly, "then you have to co with . We need to see our mayor."
"Lead the way."
Bloom simply followed the man to a big mansion that was literally on a size of four palaces together. "This is at least ten fold in size of Anna's mansion," he softly muttered and Andy ignored his remark.
During their walk here Bloom saw many statues and even paintings that looked fascinating. He didn't plan on doing anything with the rest of the dragon skeleton he had now but if he could gain a decent price for the scales then he wouldn't hesitate to sell so.
After all he had around a hundred of those scales stacked uselessly inside his inventory and only taking two slots there.
"We are here to see the king," Andy said when they reached the outer guard circle of the big mansion. Bloom noticed how this NPC called the mayor and he took note of it.
"He is quite busy," a guard harshly said, "what do you want him for? I'll deliver the ssage."
"I'm a potential seller of a great thing," Andy said in strange excitent.
"Really?" the guard shifted his eyes to Bloom, "this jerk?" the guard sneered and Bloom was enraged but he didn't speak or show it over his face.
"He" Andy felt disturbed instantly by this rude remark.
"Chill out buddy, he is a player," the guard said as if he was speaking about a beggar, "the higher the could bring is a piece of sh*t thinking it's a rare treasure."
The guards around laughed with him while Andy turned to glance with worried expression towards Bloom.
"Just give this thing to your mayor," Bloom decided to act, in the sa way as he was treated, "if he wants more then he have to co and look for ," he turned to leave before adding, "he has to co alone, and not send anyone else or I would leave here and he will miss this opportunity forever."
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